Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

But we do actually need that energy to be generated,” says Alper Bozkurt, who with Veena Misra codirects the Center for Advanced Self-Powered Systems of Integrated Sensors and Technologies (ASSIST) at North Carolina State University. Solar won’t work for nocturnal animals or creatures in low-light environments.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2014

The Global Climate and Energy Project (GCEP) at Stanford University has awarded $10.5 Photo-electrochemically rechargeable zinc-air batteries. The goal of this project is to develop a hybrid perovskite-silicon solar cell that significantly improves the light-to-energy conversion efficiency of conventional cells.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Of those selected, approximately 43% of OPEN 2018 projects will be led by universities, 35% by small businesses, and the remainder by large businesses, non-profit organizations or federally funded research and development centers (FFRDCs). Novel Polymer-enhanced Rechargeable Aluminum-Alkaline Battery Technology – $2,000,000.

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Engine San Diego Polymer Lithium Ion 247

Green Car Congress

APRIL 4, 2017

MIT’s Martin Bazant, joined by colleagues at Stanford University and Purdue University, will lead an effort to develop a novel, data-driven design of lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries. Also funded as part of the $35-million TRI program are: The University of Buffalo ($2.4 The University of Michigan ($2.4 Other awards.

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MIT Batteries Battery Li-ion 150

Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2014

The home, located on the West Village campus of the University of California, Davis, is capable of producing more energy on-site from renewable sources than it consumes annually, including enough energy to power a Honda Fit EV for daily commuting. Advanced lighting. Honda Smart Home is expected to generate a surplus of 2.6

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Cars That Think

MARCH 23, 2022

A planned network of landing spots will let eVTOLs recharge their batteries between flights, keeping people above the hustle and bustle (and traffic tie-ups) that come standard with taking private cars or taxis on city streets. A camera recorded the near-infrared light. Brandon Martin/Rice University.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

We are working with government research teams and universities in the US and Europe to develop the technology that will usher in the next generation of advanced lead batteries. Lead batteries currently account for 75% of worldwide rechargeable battery energy storage. Alistair Davidson, Director of the Consortium for Battery Innovation.

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Batteries Battery Energy Storage Re-Charge 223

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2018

Chemists from the University of Waterloo have successfully resolved two of the most challenging issues surrounding lithium-oxygen batteries, and in the process created a working battery with near 100% coulombic efficiency. —Linda Nazar, Canada Research Chair of Solid State Energy Materials and senior author. —Xia et al.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2017

Researchers at Yale University developed an ultrathin functionalized dendrimer–graphene oxide composite film that can be applied to virtually any sulfur cathode in a Li-sulfur (Li-S) battery system to alleviate capacity fading over battery cycling without compromising the energy or power density of the entire battery. Click to enlarge.

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Batteries Battery Lithium Sulfur Recharge 170

Charged EVs

DECEMBER 21, 2022

To figure out how to make electric trucks work in practice, the manufacturer, the state of California, and a wide array of partners—more than a dozen all told—launched the Volvo LIGHTS (Low Impact Green Heavy Transport Solutions) project in 2019 to test its first electric Class 8 tractors with multiple Southern California operators.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2016

A team at the Ohio State University has developed a membrane that regulates bi-directional ion transport across it as a function of its redox state and that could be used as a programmable smart membrane separator in future supercapacitors and redox flow batteries. plugin EVs to Tesla’s 85 kWh battery pack). —Herya and Sundaresan.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2019

Assessments of GHG emissions from light-duty vehicles should take a cradle-to-grave life cycle perspective and capture important regional effects. We report the first regionally explicit (county-level) life cycle assessment of the use of lightweighting and electrification for light-duty vehicles in the U.S. Field, III, Robert D.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2018

AFV Push’ imagines a future where policy and social nudges lead consumers to be less risk averse, allowing low carbon vehicles and their requisite refueling and recharging infrastructure become the norm. ‘No Share of EDVs in 2050. They modeled two different future scenarios for alternative-fuel vehicle policy worldwide to 2050.

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Carbon Market Alternative Fuels Vehicles 231

Cars That Think

JANUARY 3, 2023

Carbon nanotubes for touch-free presence sensing Somalytics claims its paper-based, carbon-nanotube sensors, developed by University of Washington researchers in collaboration with CoMotion , can detect the presence of human tissue up to 20 centimeters away. It claims a two-and-a-half-year battery life with no recharging.

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Las Vegas Recharge Connect Connected 103

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Now, team of researchers at the University of Maryland Energy Research Center and A. This is a revolutionary advancement in the field of solid-state batteries—particularly in light of recent battery fires, from Boeing 787s to hoverboards to Samsung smartphones. Lithium-ion battery pioneer John B. Goodenough, Virginia H.

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Li-ion Lithium Ion Batteries Battery 150

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Organic materials for batteries have received much attention because of their beneficial properties such as light weight, flexibility and availability from easily accessible natural sources. Credit: ACS, Nokami et al. Click to enlarge.

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Li-ion Charging Batteries Battery 287

Driivz

AUGUST 30, 2023

Businesses, hospitals, and universities that offer workplace EV charging can attract and retain employees , while retail districts and shopping centers can attract tenants and increase customer traffic. Installing and operating EV charging stations offers businesses and owners of commercial and industrial buildings a winning proposition.

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Cars That Think

JULY 8, 2023

All over the world, startup companies, government agencies, universities, and airlines are collaborating to launch an entirely new category of aviation based on electric aircraft capable of both vertical takeoff and efficient horizontal flight. Nothing like this has ever been attempted on a large scale. Mass), Amherst.

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Electric Auto Association

MAY 1, 2022

We used that backdrop to talk about some ideas we’ve had to improve and advance EV infrastructure and recharging solutions, and to end range anxiety.” “Our event took place on the site of the 1904 World’s Fair,” explained GEVA’s Dan Howard. “We

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

million in funding to a team that includes 24M, Sepion Technologies , Berkeley Lab, and Carnegie Mellon University. Sepion Technologies’ vision is to develop ultra-light, high-power density Li-sulfur batteries for aviation. The materials design enables up to 5x the area capacity of standard Li-ion. Click to enlarge.

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Li-ion Lithium Ion Energy Polymer 150

Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2013

The site is on the campus of the University of California, Davis; the building process will be documented and shared through the Honda Smart Home US website. It is expected to produce more energy than it consumes, using less than half of the energy of a similarly sized new home in the Davis area for heating, cooling, and lighting.

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Honda Ford Davis Grid 341

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

A team from the China University of Geosciences has taken a novel approach to stabilizing Lithium-sulfur batteries by functionalizing the carbon-sulfur cathode with DNA. Rechargeable lithium/sulfur battery promises an appealing candidate for energy storage to power portable devices and electric vehicles. Click to enlarge.

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Lithium Sulfur Batteries Battery Carbon 150

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

Among the electrochemical processes, the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) on water oxidation is efficiency-limiting for direct solar and electrolytic water splitting (H 2 O → H 2 + ½ O 2 ), rechargeable metal-air batteries (M x O 2 → M x + O 2 ) and regenerative fuel cells. —Grimaud et al. “We in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

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MIT Fuel Water Batteries 218

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Using a neutron beam, chemists and engineers at The Ohio State University have been able to track the flow of lithium atoms into and out of an anode in real time as a Li-ion battery charged and discharged. They may also be less prone to overheating. where they were assisted by the facility scientist, R. and Co, A.

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Ohio Li-ion Lithium Ion Batteries 218

Cars That Think

OCTOBER 2, 2022

In 2012, with California in the midst of a severe drought, Schneider, then a mechanical engineering graduate student at Stanford University , once again tossed out a “cool idea.” “I’m always, ‘Wouldn’t it be cool if this or that,’” he says, “and people would humor me.” Oasense co-founders [from left] Ted Li, Evan Schneider, and Chih-Wei Tang.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 15, 2016

Such a large-scale replacement would be sufficient to meet the nation’s stated near-term emissions-reduction targets for personal vehicles’ share of the transportation sector—a sector that accounts for about a third of the nation’s overall greenhouse gas emissions, with a majority of emissions from privately owned, light-duty vehicles.

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MIT Personal Energy Vehicles 150

Cars That Think

JUNE 29, 2023

The entire fusion process is about as dramatic as flipping a light switch, and Sutherland walks us right up to the small reactor shortly afterwards one such operation. Fusing together ions of some light elements in a gaseous plasma can release a bunch of energy if—and it’s a big if—you can overcome their mutual electrostatic repulsion.

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EV Info

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Hydrogen is the most abundant chemical substance in the universe, constituting roughly 75% of all normal matter. It’s a tiny light atom that easily escapes confinement. Liquified hydrogen may be as light as petrol or kerosene, but keeping it at -257C requires much heavier apparatus. This is classified as carbon free hydrogen.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2023

Rechargeable batteries store electricity in their electrode materials, while redox flow batteries use chemicals stored in tanks attached to the electrodes. A rechargeable biomass battery was designed to integrate electricity storage/generation and electrosynthesis of useful chemicals from furfural in one system. Resources Li, J.,

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2012

Fast recharge of the battery during these micro-cycles under a broad range of real world usage conditions, like temperature and driving profiles, is a pre-requisite for consistently high availability of stop/start and other essential functions for the customer.

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Fusion Low Cost Ford Lead Acid 257

Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2010

The largest supplier of electric light commercial vehicles (LCVs) to a major UK Government programme, Smith is supplying 47 of its Smith Edison vans into Phase One of the LCVPP. Edison can typically achieve 80 miles on a full charge, and can be fully recharged in as little as three hours.

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Kansas City Fleet Kansas Lithium Ion 186

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2011

The project plans to develop a solid-state grid-scale prototype for advanced lithium-ion rechargeable batteries that addresses the safety, cost, lifetime and energy density issues associated with lithium-ion batteries. Commissioners approved $600,000 to Seeo Inc. This technology would increase efficiency and lower production costs.

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Li-ion Grid Energy California 186

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Researchers at The Ohio State University have developed a novel strategy to improve the efficiency and performance of non-aqueous lithium-oxygen (Li-air) batteries. The state of the art is to use a solar panel to capture the light, and then use a cheap battery to store the energy. Their hybrid design uses only three. —YiYing Wu.

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Solar Li-ion Batteries Battery 262

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2009

These projects put more than 9,000 alternative fuel and energy-efficient light-, medium- and heavy-duty vehicles on the road, and establish 542 refueling locations across the country. The program includes the installation of 10 alternative fuel refueling sites (two B20, one Electric Recharging, and seven CNG).

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Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

Photo-illustration: Max-o-matic; photo source: M&N/Alamy Some operators of early direct-current power plants at the turn of the 20th century solved the problem of uneven power output from their generators by employing large banks of rechargeable lead-acid batteries, which served as a kind of buffer to balance the flow of electrons.

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Grid Power Powered Vehicles 136

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2014

Researchers from the University of Cambridge, in association with Boeing, have successfully tested a light aircraft powered by a parallel hybrid-electric propulsion system, in which an electric motor and gasoline engine work together to drive the propeller. Hybrid in flight. Click to enlarge.

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Light Hybrid Fuel Gasoline-Electric 277

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2012

Wireless Charging enables the customer the ability to have “transparent” recharging of plug-in electric vehicle—EV, combustion engine (IC) PHEV, fuel cell (FC) PHEV—through a seamless connection to the EVSE charger and automated charging process. Source: J2954. Click to enlarge.

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