Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 3, 2021
Nissan Motor Co., and Waseda University have started testing in Japan of a jointly developed recycling process that efficiently recovers high-purity rare-earth compounds from electrified vehicle motor magnets. In March 2020 the collaboration successfully developed a pyrometallurgy process that does not require motor disassembly.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 29, 2021
QM Power and the SPARK Lab at University of Kentucky shared the combined results of a large-scale, multi-objective design optimization study, and lab testing of a prototype motor designed to meet the 2025 power density goals set by the US Department of Energy (DOE). Exploded view of the proposed PM motor.
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Green Car Congress
JULY 15, 2021
Universal Hydrogen ( earlier post ) has signed LOIs with Icelandair Group (Iceland), Air Nostrum (Spain), and Ravn Air (Alaska) for aftermarket conversion of aircraft to hydrogen propulsion and for the supply of green hydrogen fuel using Universal Hydrogen’s modular capsules. Icelandair. Icelandair.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
ATLIS Motor Vehicles, Inc. and Clemson University have partnered to advance development of electric-vehicle batteries that charge faster, last longer and can be scaled to fit a variety of vehicle classes. The CNI is located at the Clemson University Advanced Materials Research Laboratory in Anderson County.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 3, 2023
Universal Hydrogen has flown a 40-passenger regional airliner using hydrogen fuel cell propulsion. In this first test flight, one of the airplane’s turbine engines was replaced with Universal Hydrogen’s fuel cell-electric, megawatt-class powertrain. The other remained a conventional engine for safety of flight.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 15, 2023
Aisin Corporation is developing an ultrahigh-efficiency motor using NANOMET jointly with Tohoku Magnet Institute (TMI), in which Aisin invested in June last year. It is sold exclusively by TMI, a spin-out from Tohoku University. A prototype was exhibited at the Automotive Engineering Exposition 2023, in Yokohama in May.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 19, 2018
Technology developed by Nissan for the battery-electric Nissan LEAF will be used in an electric bus project led by a team from Kumamoto University, that starts testing next month in Japan, with the goal of making zero-emission public transit more widespread and affordable. —Toshiro Matsuda, Kumamoto University project leader.
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