Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2013

Researchers with the Energy Biosciences Institute, University of California, Berkeley have provided insight into how multiple cellulase enzymes attack cellulose, potentially yielding a way to improve the collective catalytic activity of enzyme cocktails that can boost the yields of sugars for making fuels. Source: Berkeley Lab.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

A new study led by researchers from Stanford University and the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has provided insight into a phenomenon that both helps and hurts Li-ion battery performance. —Hong et al.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2020

Over the past year, the Volvo LIGHTS team worked with Southern California Edison (the local utility) and San Bernardino County (Authority Having Jurisdiction, or AHJ) to install the high-power infrastructure. The Volvo LIGHTS project has provided valuable insight into how to build realistic project timelines.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Volvo Cars is partnering with Waycare Technologies to enable data from Volvo’s Hazard Light Alert and Slippery Road Alert to be shared anonymously with transportation municipalities and the popular Waze navigation app. Waycare is also able to share synthesized data with the Waze navigation app in areas where this feature has been enabled.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2022

Lightning eMotors has launched Lightning Insights , a significant extension of its telematics system built for monitoring and managing Lightning fleet assets in real-time. Lightning Insights is available for both existing and new Lightning eMotors vehicles through a subscription-based model.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2019

StreetScooter has presented the next generation of its successful all-electric light commercial vehicles (eLCVs): the WORK and WORK L. StreetScooter is a well-known early bird in the electric light commercial vehicle sector. We have incorporated those insights into a new design for our success models, the WORK and WORK L.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

However, the document not only provides a detailed look at the finances of the company, it also provides a quick recap of recent technology developments and some insight into the company’s immediate research priorities. Details of the offering—i.e., number of shares and price range—are yet to be determined.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 9, 2021

Then they took particles to Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s Advanced Light Source to be examined with scanning X-ray transmission microscopy, which homes in on individual particles. An animation shows two contrasting views of how electrode particles release their stored lithium ions during battery charging. Resources.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2021

Levelized cost of driving (LCOD) across powertrains for light-duty SUV, MY 2025. The report covers light-duty passenger vehicles as well as medium-/heavy-duty commercial vehicles: semi-tractors; medium-duty vans and pickups; transit buses; box, utility aerial and dump trucks; and garbage trucks.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2014

In-use testing of three light duty diesel vehicles—certified to US-EPA Tier2-Bin5 and California LEV-II ULEV emissions limits— found a wide variation in real world emissions performance relative to the regulatory limits. Kappanna (2014) “ In-use emissions testing of light-duty diesel vehicles in the US ”. diesels and one 3.0L

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2014

While the fuel cell was running, they applied high-brilliance X-rays produced by Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source to illuminate the routes the oxygen ions took in the catalyst.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

With data from V2X, cities and fleet operators can gain valuable insights to improve road safety and traffic efficiency. The highly optimized V2X software stack and safety application suite designed by Commsignia fits light vehicles and provides secure direct communication between road users and the infrastructure.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Recent advancements in experimental tools and multiscale modeling are starting to provide insight into the embrittlement process. APT combines a field ion microscope with a mass spectrometer to enable 3D imaging and chemical composition measurements at the atomic scale, even for light elements such as hydrogen.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 5, 2025

At the time, about a decade ago, I was helping to refine a system for fabricating chips using extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light. To produce EUV light, we would focus an intense laser pulse onto 30-micrometer-wide droplets of tin flying through a chamber filled with low-density hydrogen.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Geographers from Dartmouth College and the University of Sheffield have provided new insight into the economic geography of commuter megaregions in the US by using an empirical approach that combines visual interpretation with statistical analysis.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2018

Engineers at the University of California San Diego have shed new light on the atomic-level mechanism of the sulfur embrittlement of nickel, a classic problem that has puzzled the scientific community for nearly a century. —Jian Luo. —Jian Luo.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2019

This is a groundbreaking achievement that is sure to bring unprecedented insights into how these highly porous structures carry out their exceptional functions, and it demonstrates the power of cryo-EM for solving a particularly difficult problem in MOF chemistry.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

and shared a few of their insights. . “Biggest issue they need to address is the failure of the software to slow the car in advance of speed limit changes, traffic lights, and hard turns. Testers will probably be sharing their insights in the following week or so. . gets green light for all testers with v10.12.2

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

The team set up Cyanothece 51142 in a bioreactor, limited the supply of nitrogen, and kept the lights on 24 hours a day for several weeks. The team used an array of high-tech equipment to yield sophisticated minute-by-minute profiles of the organism as it converted light energy to hydrogen.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2011

The optimized photo-electrochemical water splitting device uses light absorbers made of silicon arranged in closely packed pillars, dotted with tiny clusters of the new molybdenum sulfide catalyst. When they exposed the pillars to light, hydrogen gas bubbled up—as quickly as if they’d used platinum. Image courtesy of Christian D.

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 17, 2022

A recent interview at CarBuzz with Mike Sweers, executive chief engineer for the Toyota Tundra, Sequoia, Tacoma, and 4Runner programs at Toyota Motor North America, gives us some insight into Toyota’s thinking not only on electric trucks, but electric vehicles in general.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2023

—Joanna Buttler, Head of Autonomous Technology Group at Daimler Truck AG Algolux has been consistently recognized for excellence in its field and has been named to the 2021 CB Insights AI 100 List of the world’s most innovative artificial intelligence startups.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 31, 2021

Day or night operation: the bus is fully capable of operating day or night, regardless of lighting or weather events, based on its defined Operational Design Domain (ODD). These features will also assist in improving bus depot safety, efficiency and space usage through features such as self-parking, fueling and cleaning.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2018

Rice University nanoscientists have demonstrated a new catalyst that can convert ammonia into hydrogen fuel at ambient pressure using only light energy, mainly due to a plasmonic effect that makes the catalyst more efficient. And the main catalytic effect came from the near-field induced by the antenna when it absorbs light.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 31, 2022

Tesla owners are coordinating light shows for the holidays. One of the new features is an improvement to its light show with the Model X. Tesla took the feature even further by allowing owners to schedule a light show up to ten minutes in advance. “Even if the light shows were a tad off. pic.twitter.com/2MATg1vzja.

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Green Fleet Magazine

JULY 23, 2024

Automatically collecting richer, more accurate data from tires yields insights that reduce costs and improve safety. How does smart tire technology return an ROI for fleets without big tire budgets?

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Researchers from ETH Zurich and the Paul Scherrer Institute have visualized and quantified the origins and evolution of this electrochemical and mechanical degradation of Li-ion batteries during battery operation using high-resolution 3D movies recorded using using x-ray tomography at the Swiss Light Source. X-Ray Tomography Group at PSI.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 25, 2021

The authors also provide new insight into how electrons and charge carriers called “holes” contribute to degradation in artificial photosynthesis. Electron microscopy experiments at the Molecular Foundry confirmed that cuprous oxide quickly oxidizes or corrodes within minutes of exposure to light and water. Zheng, F.,

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Cars That Think

MAY 5, 2025

But information in a recent presentation shared on Chinese social media gives us new insight into early mission plans. One is navigating through the dense clouds, typically opaque to visible light. As is typical for Chinese space missions, few details were made public. with the rocket needing to enter a precise orbit.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

A Tesla Cybertruck owner from Austin, Texas recently shared a number of insights following a demo drive of the new Model Y. That being said, the Tesla owner noted that the single turn stalk felt almost cheap , perhaps because it was extremely light. Tesla recently started offering demo drives of the revamped all-electric crossover.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Vanns, who now works at Disney -owned Industrial Light & Magic , in London, was an avid cinephile growing up. The approach simulates the physics of light more faithfully than other approaches do, leading to scenes with more realistic and dynamic lighting. Their software is still being used today.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2021

To collect data during the demonstration period to provide insights into the performance, operations, and costs of this technology. This is approximately equivalent to the same amount of fuel used each year by 20,000 light-duty vehicles. To build the locomotive and demonstrate its operations in a real-world environment.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2014

Light-Material Interactions in Energy Conversion (LMI). Tailor the morphology, complex dielectric structure, and electronic properties of matter so as to sculpt the flow of sunlight and heat, enabling light conversion to electrical energy with unprecedented efficiency. FY 2014 EFRC Awards. Lead organization. EFRC Objective.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Congress participants can also experience for themselves Honda’s ITS equipped Insight hybrid and an ITS Honda motorcycle (NC700X) by participating in the joint Car2Car and Testfeld Telematic Consortium demonstration around Vienna. Honda Motor Co.,

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2017

The team will specifically target bacteria that are able to increase biomass yield under high light and temperature stress conditions, which occur in desert environments such as Arizona, where plenty of sunlight and useable land exists and could one day support viable algal biofuel production facilities.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2013

legal light-duty vehicles from 1984 to present. Data has been collected for 23 light-duty vehicles at ORNL’s vehicle research laboratory and a valuable data set for 51 vehicles was loaned to ORNL by Chrysler, LLC under a non-disclosure agreement. drop in fuel economy due to traveling 80 mph rather than 70 mph. Footnotes. [ Thomas, H-L.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2023

Longstanding collaborations between SLAC and Stanford researchers have already produced many important insights into how batteries work and how to make them smaller, lighter, safer and more powerful. Major funding for battery research at SLAC comes from the DOE Office of Science and Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.

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