CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 31, 2023

SCANIA recently began tests on a solar-powered truck, a 560-horsepower plug-in hybrid truck with 100 square meters of solar panels wrapping a trailer. This unique setup now being tested on public roads in Sweden is a result of a two-year research collaboration between Scania and industry and academic partners.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2021

Researchers at Monash University in Australia have conducted a lifecycle analysis and net energy analysis (LCA/NEA) of a hypothetical large-scale solar-electrolysis plant for the production of green hydrogen. of hydrogen is currently produced via water electrolysis and only a fraction of this production is powered by renewable energy.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 29, 2023

Two Nissan LEAF electric vehicles (EVs) at the Plymouth State University (PSU) provided 1 MWh of energy to the PSU’s ALLWell Center, offsetting some of the building’s electricity needs, over a six-month period. The university controls whether to discharge by parking the EVs and plugging them into the Fermata Energy bidirectional charger.

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Innovation News Network

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

University of South Australia researchers have unveiled that using solar panels can help reduce the costs of EV charging. The post Addressing EV charging costs with solar power appeared first on Innovation News Network.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

The Spallation Neutron Source ( earlier post ) at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory set a world record when its linear accelerator reached an operating power of 1.55 A megawatt is a unit of measure of the beam power of a particle accelerator. megawatts, which improves on the facility’s original design capability.

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Electrek

AUGUST 11, 2023

University of Seville scientists have invented a solar-powered bus stop that can lower the temperature by 20C to keep pedestrians cool. more… The post This solar-powered bus stop cools off pedestrians in extreme heat appeared first on Electrek.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 28, 2022

If you’ve ever read about or followed solar car racing, you figure out pretty quick that it’s not like other races. The challenge is how fast the vehicles can go powered only by the sun on their backs, and with today’s solar technology, […].

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 22, 2023

With AI now the technology of the moment in Silicon Valley, researchers have applied it to the problem of solar power for EVs, using a virtual model to govern when power from a solar array is used to drive motors or charge battery packs.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2020

Rice University researchers have created an efficient, low-cost device that splits water to produce hydrogen fuel. The platform developed by the Brown School of Engineering lab of Rice materials scientist Jun Lou integrates catalytic electrodes and perovskite solar cells that, when triggered by sunlight, produce electricity.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 8, 2017

The SOLETAIR project ( earlier post ) has produced its first 200 liters of synthetic fuel from solar energy and the air’s carbon dioxide via Fischer-Tropsch synthesis. An electrolysis unit developed by Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) uses solar power to produce the required hydrogen.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 17, 2022

A team of Dutch university students has radically redesigned the RV with solar power and an aerodynamic shape. As detailed recently on "Fully Charged Show," The Stella Vita is an electric RV with fold-out solar panels designed by Solar Team Eindhoven, a team of engineering students at the Eindhoven University of Technology.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Researchers from Japan’s NIMS (National Institute for Materials Science), the University of Tokyo and Hiroshima University have jointly conducted a techno-economic analysis for hydrogen production from photovoltaic power generation (PV) utilizing a battery-assisted electrolyzer. 2018.11.119 ).

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Innovation News Network

JULY 22, 2022

Researchers from the Chemnitz University of Technology analyse performance-limiting mechanisms to reduce power loss in organic solar cells. Conventional solar cells based, for instance, on silicon, which is a well-known semiconductor material, are already highly developed and in widespread use.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2023

The Sparc Green Hydrogen process combines concentrated solar (CS) with photocatalytic water splitting. The company’s key development allows for reduced photocatalyst use and integration with existing concentrated solar systems. The facility is home to Australia’s largest solar thermal research hub.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2013

The Solar Team Eindhoven’s Stella, the first solar?powered powered family car ( earlier post ), is the winner of the Cruiser class of the World Solar Challenge 2013. Eindhoven University of Technology / Bart van Overbeeke. Eindhoven University of Technology / Bart van Overbeeke. On the road in Australia.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

A team of students from the Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University is helping to improve the air quality for nomadic communities in Mongolia. The Project Koyash team at ASU designed a solar-powered air-filtration system that autonomously cleans polluted air in less than an hour.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 4, 2013

The Solar Team Eindhoven (STE) of Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) presented the world’s first solar-powered family car. This is the car being entered by the student team in the Cruiser class of the World Solar Challenge that starts in Australia in October 2013. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2022

The US Department of Energy (DOE) launched the Cadmium Telluride Accelerator Consortium (CTAC) —a $20-million initiative designed to make cadmium telluride (CdTe) solar cells less expensive, more efficient and develop new markets for solar cell products. efficiency in converting sunlight into electricity. competitiveness.

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CleanTechnica EVs

DECEMBER 2, 2022

What is the best way to field test printed solar panels? After 20 years in development in the lab at the University of Newcastle, it was decided to invite Stuart McBain to drive 18,000 km around the coast of Australia for 3 months and really put them to the test. Stuart was the obvious choice […].

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

For decades, solar-powered vehicles have been a cool challenge for university teams and backyard tinkerers, and occasionally the subject of slapstick comedy. Recent moves in the industry to make serious solar cars are now getting to the point where even mainstream news sources are picking […].

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CleanTechnica EVs

JANUARY 17, 2022

The race is on to build the solar-powered Evs of the future, and it looks like graphene and TMDs could get the ball rolling.

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Innovation News Network

OCTOBER 4, 2022

University of Houston researchers have developed a solar energy harvesting system that has the potential to generate solar power 24/7. The post Novel solar energy harvesting system breaks efficiency record appeared first on Innovation News Network.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2019

The states of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, North and South Dakota, Nebraska and Kansas are home to a quarter of the US population and consume 30% of electric power generated in the US. As a consequence, the Midwestern states have some of the highest levels of renewable energy on their grids.

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CleanTechnica EVs

DECEMBER 19, 2022

While the students from the University of New South Wales wait for the ratification of their recent Guinness World Record attempt for the fastest solar electric car over a distance of 1000 km (620 miles), let’s have a look at the background. The Sunswift 7 car was the culmination of thousands of hours of work […].

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

But we have demonstrated that by directly using power generated by the cold universe, we can chill water to cool buildings by as much as 5 ºC during the day without electricity and light the night without wires or batteries. Edmon de Haro With so much energy available from heat, we’ve ignored another source of power: cold.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 19, 2024

Photo: CSIRO Researchers led by Australia’s national science agency had an efficiency breakthrough with roll-to-roll flexible printed perovskite solar cells. Printed solar cells are highly efficient, flexible, and decreasing in cost. Printed solar cells are highly efficient, flexible, and decreasing in cost.

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CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Meet Stella Vita, a solar-powered tiny house on wheels.

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CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The world’s first off-road solar car, Stella Terra, operates more efficiently than initially calculated with a range of approximately 550 kilometers, depending on the terrain.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Partners from Germany and Finland in the SOLETAIR project are building a compact pilot plant for the production of gasoline, diesel and kerosene from solar energy, regenerative hydrogen and carbon dioxide. An electrolysis unit developed by Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) produces the required hydrogen by means of solar power.

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Teslarati

APRIL 20, 2022

A team of scientists from the University of Newcastle in Australia will be using a Tesla Model 3 as a means to test printed solar panels that they believe could be the next big thing in affordable, sustainable solutions. The printed solar panels would be rolled out beside the Tesla Model 3 to soak up the sunlight.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2022

To generate the renewable electricity needed to feed production of green hydrogen, Cepsa will develop a 3GW portfolio of wind and solar energy projects with an additional €2-billion investment. It also has one of the highest wind and solar photovoltaic power generation and production capacity in Europe, and at the lowest cost.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

Researchers at Stanford, with colleagues at University College Cork in Ireland, have shown how to increase the power of corrosion-resistant solar cells, setting a record for solar energy output under water. Four years ago, McIntyre's lab made solar cells resistant to corrosion in water. —Scheuermann et al.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 13, 2022

EOS Linx, an EV charging company known for its solar-assisted EV charging stations, is about to majorly expand at Texas convenience stores by partnering with the Lone Star Business Association Cooperative (LSBAC), a network of gas/convenience stores in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and north-central Texas.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2017

According to a new study led by a team at Duke University, airborne particulate matter and dust are cutting solar photovoltaic energy output by more than 25% in certain parts of the world, with roughly equal contributions from ambient PM and PM deposited on photovoltaic surfaces. Credit: ACS, Bergin et al. Click to enlarge.

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Electrek

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Twenty-two students at the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands built a solar camper van and drove it 2,000 km (1,242 miles) across Europe using only sun power. more… The post A student-built solar camper van completes a 2,000 km trip across Europe appeared first on Electrek.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 1, 2022

Students at University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) recently gained experience with solar technology and EVs by building a charging station for one of the school’s vehicles which is used to deliver food and reduce food waste. The little car even has a name: Gemma, but we’ll get to why that is in a minute. “To To […].

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2012

Separately, AECOM Technology Corporation and REC Solar unveiled a 1.16 MW installation at the California State University, Fullerton (CSUF) campus. The three solar systems are installed on the rooftops of two CSU Fullerton buildings and a parking structure carport under contract to AECOM. The funding, approved Jan.

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