Electric Auto Association

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Gerhardt had joined with Ed Benjamin of the Light Electric Vehicle Association (LEVA) to offer training programs—and certification— to aspiring ebike mechanics. Ten years later, 11 TEVA of NC members, representing 1 out of every 10 people in the chapter, had followed Gerhardt into becoming Certified Light EV Technical instructors.

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The Truth About Cars

MAY 1, 2024

Entitled “Ford University,” the program has been under development for roughly a year and looks to be composed of instructional videos that can be accessed over the internet. & We're rolling out Ford University to Ford dealers across the United States starting May 1, with plans to expand further. .&

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2021

Within this insertion framework, only one lithium-ion can be stored per metal ion. Lithium-rich cathodes, however, can store much more. Credit: Carnegie Mellon University and Northeastern University. Researchers attribute this to the anionic redox mechanism—in this case, oxygen redox. Reconstructed 2D-EMD map.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

A new study, led by academics at St John’s College, University of Cambridge, has used semi-artificial photosynthesis to explore new ways to produce and store solar energy. Their method also managed to absorb more solar light than natural photosynthesis. —Katarzyna Sokó?, first author and PhD student at St John’s College.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2021

Now, a study by researchers at the US Department of Energy (DOE) Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation (CABBI) has found that energy sorghum ( Sorghum bicolor ) behaves more like miscanthus in the way it efficiently captures light and uses water to produce abundant biomass. Energy sorghum falls somewhere in between.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

This collaborative work between researchers from the University of Southern Denmark and VISTEC introduces a biomorphic soft robotic skin for a hexapod robot platform, featuring a central pattern generator–based neural controller for generating respiratory-like motions on the skin. Flexiv ] Interesting HRI with the flashing light on Spot here.

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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

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Under the FOCUS program, projects will develop advanced solar converters that turn sunlight into electricity for immediate use, while also producing heat that can be stored at low cost for later use as well as innovative storage systems that accept both heat and electricity from variable solar sources. Arizona State University.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2021

Among the advantages of aluminum is that it is abundant in the earth’s crust, it is trivalent and light, and it therefore has a high capacity to store more energy than many other metals. —lead author Jingxu (Kent) Zheng, currently a postdoc at MIT. However, aluminum can be tricky to integrate into a battery’s electrodes.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology, University of Tsukuba, and colleagues in Japan report a promising hydrogen carrier in the form of hydrogen boride nanosheets. This material, which has only recently begun to be explored, could go on to be used as safe, light-weight, high-capacity hydrogen storage materials.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2019

Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and the University of Arkansas have developed a highly efficient catalyst for extracting electrical energy from ethanol. The catalyst developed by Wang’s group reveals that breaking those bonds at the right time is the key to unlocking that stored energy.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

In a study published in the journal Angewandte Chemie , Monash University and CSIRO scientists report the discovery of a photosensitive metal organic framework (MOF)—a class of materials known for their exceptional capacity to store gases. The MOF we discovered had a particular affinity for carbon dioxide.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2018

The University of Bristol is leading a US$1.4-million A low-density gas, hydrogen is challenging to store on-board a vehicle. million (£947,336) project— NanoComposites for Active Gas Encapsulation (nanoCAGE) —which will deliver smart composite materials to address the problem of safe and efficient hydrogen storage.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2020

While there is global potential to generate renewable energy at costs already competitive with fossil fuels, a means of storing and transporting this energy at a very large scale is a roadblock to large-scale investment, development and deployment. Total NH 3 production is shown as a dotted orange curve.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The funded projects include: University of Wisconsin Madison for “Efficiency Mixing Controlled Compression Ignition Combustion of Propane DME Blends”. in Darrien, Illinois, for a project entitled “High Pressure Fast Response Direct Injection System for Liquified Gas Fuels Use in Light-Duty Engines”. WM International Engineering L.L.C.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2018

has been awarded a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)- ENGAGE grant with Dr. Heather Andreas , an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Dalhousie University. Nova Scotia-based Elcora Advanced Materials Corp. Dr. Andreas has worked on carbon-based supercapacitors (SCs) for more than 14 years.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 9, 2021

It was the first time this approach—known as “scientific machine learning”—has been applied to battery cycling, said Will Chueh, an associate professor at Stanford University and investigator with the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory who led the study. Resources.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 30, 2021

As the pandemic continued to grind on, it was actually comforting to know that smart people in the energy sector were working hard to keep the lights on, advance the technology, and improve people’s lives. No battery is perfect, however, so engineers keep pushing for new and improved ways to store those electrons.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 12, 2023

Nanosys’s eyesafe blue quantum dots Nanosys , the manufacturer of quantum-dot films used in television displays from several major manufacturers, is aiming to dial down viewers’ exposure to blue light without sacrificing picture quality, by adding a blue quantum dot to its current red-and-green quantum-dot array.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2019

We are suggesting a new approach where we stitch together biological and non-biological electrochemical engineering to create a new method to store energy. Natural photosynthesis already offers an example for storing solar energy at a huge scale, and turning it into biofuels in a closed carbon loop.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 30, 2018

A Northwestern University research team has found ways to stabilize a promising new high capacity cathode material—Li 4 Mn 2 O 5. The transition metal, typically cobalt, effectively stores and releases electrical energy when lithium ions move from the anode to the cathode and back. Click to enlarge.

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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. Researchers have now developed a battery system based on a hybrid cell, which not only stores and provides electricity but also produces valuable chemicals in a flow system.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

On the rooftop of a quiet building, a set of panels cools the rooms within and keeps the lights on, removing heat and generating electricity using the coldness of the sky. Yes, it’s far away, but distance doesn’t prevent its use, particularly when we consider just how cold the vast empty space of the universe is—approximately 3 kelvins.

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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. Therefore Honda Smart Home minimizes the use of blue light at night.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2015

A team at McGill University in Canada has developed a reversible hydrogen storage/release system based on the metal-catalyzed hydrogenation and photo-induced dehydrogenation of organic cyclic hydrocarbons at room temperature. under visible light illumination (420–600 nm) without any other energy input. —Li et al.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 6, 2022

Photos have become the universal form of casual conversation,” he said in a 2018 interview with The Institute. Smith at Bell Labs , consist of a sensor that converts an incoming two-dimensional light pattern into an electrical signal that in turn becomes an image. Although the CCDs could capture an image, they couldn’t store it.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2012

The Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), which coordinates the Alliance, and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) are pooling their competences in this network together with other Helmholtz centers and universities in Europe. Liquid metals can store energy in large quantities and dissipate heat effectively.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2016

UTA and the University of Utah received a $5.4-million Three of these will be used on route 2 in Salt Lake City and two that will serve the University of Utah campus (also in Salt Lake City). The NMC Li-ion battery pack in the electric Xcelsior stores up to 300 kWh, powering a 160 kW Siemens electric drive system. Earlier post.)

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Schoolchildren didn’t have access to the Internet or reliable electric lighting for studying after dark. The effect that access to reliable electricity has had on the village is amazing,” says Morgan Kiani , an engineering professor at Texas Christian University , in Fort Worth. kWh battery bank of 16 200-amp batteries and a voltmeter.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2016

The research teams include experts from universities and other national labs. A longtime user of NERSC supercomputers, Louie has a dual appointment as Senior Faculty Scientist in the Materials Sciences Division at Berkeley Lab and Professor of Physics at the University of California, Berkeley. Chelikowsky, University of Texas, Austin.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed an ultrafast high-contrast camera that could help self-driving cars and drones see better in extreme road conditions and in bad weather. The CeleX sensor allows pixel-parallel image processing at the focal plane and event-driven readout.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2013

Researchers from the University of Minnesota report finding a new strain of cold-tolerant, lipid-producing yellow-green algae— heterococcus sp. DN1 was found to grow at temperatures approaching freezing and to accumulate large intracellular stores of lipids. DN1 —in the snow fields of the Rocky Mountains.

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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.

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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). University of California, San Diego. University of Delaware.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2014

Johnson Matthey’s new CSC stores HC and NO x at low temperatures with very high storage efficiencies, and also converts a significant portion of the stored HC/NO x during the warm-up period before the rest of the HC/NO x is thermally released from the catalyst. Earlier post.). Exhaust system configuration.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2015

Scientists at the Helmholtz Center for Materials and Energy (HZB) in collaboration with the School of Chemistry and ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science at Monash University, Australia, have precisely characterized the electronic states of a manganese (Mn) water-splitting catalyst for artificial photosynthesis.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2020

DERConnect will address an outstanding national need for large-scale testing capabilities across universities, national labs, industry, utility companies and Independent System Operators to validate future technologies for autonomous energy grids in real-word scenarios. We will be replicating the entire California power grid on one campus.

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