Cars That Think

JANUARY 29, 2025

After graduating with a bachelors degree in biomedical and electrical engineering in 2000 from Johns Hopkins University , in Baltimore, he joined PCTest Engineering Laboratory , in Columbia, Md. From testing engineer to startup founder Liu is no stranger to technical standards and regulations.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 31, 2025

To make a correction to a map, these civil engineering professors at Ohio State University recommend the following steps: With a smooth, sharp knife pick the ink from the paper. By 1937, discussions of electric erasers were part of the library science curriculum at Columbia University. Consider the careful technique Roscoe C.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

ASAP ] from [ Carnegie Mellon University ] and [ Nvidia ] Big News: Swiss-Mile is now RIVR! Were thrilled to unveil our new identity as RIVR, reflecting our evolution from a university spin-off to a global leader in Physical AI and robotics. RIVR ] Robotics is one of the best ways to reduce worker exposure to safety risks.

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Cars That Think

MAY 13, 2025

PEM can quickly ramp up and down in response to variable energy sources like wind and solar power, but it requires iridium, which is in limited supply. AEM technology has not yet been proven at commercial scale for continuous industrial hydrogen supply. However, these demonstrations remain limited in scale and maturity.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 17, 2025

The cutting edge of robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) doesnt occur just at NASA, or one of the top university labs, but instead is increasingly being developed in the warehouses of the e-commerce company Amazon. Warehouses, the backbone of the global supply chain, are undergoing a transformation driven by technological innovation.

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Cars That Think

JULY 9, 2025

For IoT, power efficiency is critical,” says Eric Klumperink, associate professor of IC design at the University of Twente in Enschede, Netherlands. Araei says the team aims next to work on eliminating a need for a battery or other dedicated power supply. “Is Araei asks.

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Cars That Think

MAY 29, 2025

When the platform for a prototype floating offshore wind turbine arrived at a dock in Searsport, Maine, on April 11, engineers at the University of Maine were ready to add a tower and a turbine and set it afloat in the Gulf of Maine. But on the very same day, university officials received a letter from the U.S. million grant.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 21, 2025

In 1985, he had established a multidisciplinary research program at the University of California, Los Angeles, to develop chips for digital broadband. UCLA Takes Holdand Never Lets Go Samueli eventually applied to UCLAa university with a good electrical engineering program and affordable tuition that was close to home.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 10, 2025

dollar, said Michael Melvin, the executive director of the master of quantitative finance program at the University of California San Diego. But retaliatory tariffs from other countries could neutralize the effect on the dollar, according to the Budget Lab at Yale University, a nonpartisan policy research center.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

AC (alternating current) is whats supplied to your home or what flows through a commercial electrical outletor the destination chargers that you might plug into for a few hours, or overnight. Most AC charging comes via the round J1772 charge portthe J plug thats become near-universal over the past 15 years in EVs and plug-in hybrids.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 20, 2025

But based on conversations with students, PAE Consultings Hershberg says that university programs rarely highlight career paths in this sector. Closing the Talent Gap Some universities are stepping up to address the skills shortage. Were just not seeing the talent pool at that graduation level, Hershberg says.

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EV Central

MARCH 12, 2025

Lets talk Tesla Teslas dramatic sales drop has been the talk of the town and the EV universe. We knew the supply of EVs would increase and there are now 88 models supplied to the Australian market. And medium passenger cars are dominated by EVs.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 7, 2025

Proposals are also in place to increase the markets competitiveness and supply-chain resilience, especially when it comes to battery manufacturing. The three carmakers have supply chains that stretch across North America. In addition, the Commission also wants to grow the level of skilled workers in the industry.

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Cars That Think

MAY 28, 2025

Last week, the federal government terminated hundreds of research grants to Harvard University professors from a broad range of fields of study. This comes on the heels of a conflict between Harvard, among other universities, and the Trump administration. In such environments, computing cant simply be an add-on.

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Teslarati

MARCH 12, 2025

When you hurt an American company, especially a company like this that supplies so many jobs that others are unable to do. Theyre the same guys that screw around with our schools and universities, the same garbage. When you do that, those people are gonna go through a big problem when we catch them. We have a lot of cameras up.

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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.

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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.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2021

In a perspective piece in the journal Joule , researchers at the University of Michigan lay out the main questions facing lithium-metal, solid-state batteries. Lithium-ion batteries enabled the earliest EVs and they remain the most common power supply for the latest models coming off assembly lines.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Universal Hydrogen closed a $62-million new funding round; the oversubscribed round was completed less than six months after the company’s Series A ( earlier post ), bringing total raised to $85 million. Full-scale prototype of Universal Hydrogen's gaseous hydrogen module, with one capsule removed.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Universal Hydrogen was granted a special airworthiness certificate in the experimental category by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to proceed with the first flight of its hydrogen-powered regional aircraft. —Paul Eremenko, co-founder and CEO of Universal Hydrogen Air New Zealand.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

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. Nissan Motor Co., The testing is aimed at enabling practical application of the new process by the mid-2020s.

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Innovation News Network

JUNE 18, 2025

University of York study reveals dangerously high levels of forever chemicals contaminating UK rivers, raising urgent environmental concerns. The post Record forever chemicals pollution found in 98% of UK rivers appeared first on Innovation News Network.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2021

Universal Hydrogen, magniX, Plug Power and AeroTEC have established a Hydrogen Aviation Test and Service Center at Grant County International Airport in Moses Lake, Washington. Universal Hydrogen’s Dash-8 conversion will be the first commercially-relevant hydrogen-powered aircraft, serving 41 to 60 passengers on routes up to 1,000 kilometers.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2022

E) will award $39 million in funding to 16 projects across 12 states to develop market-ready technologies that will increase domestic supplies of critical elements required for the clean energy transition. The projects selected projects as part of the MINER program are: University of Texas at Arlington. Columbia University.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Half of the current supply of cobalt is incorporated into cathodes for lithium-ion batteries, and many of those batteries are used in consumer electronics and electric vehicles. They estimated supply from scheduled and unscheduled production as well as secondary production to range from 320 to 460 ktonnes. Xinkai Fu, Danielle N.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2021

The University of British Columbia’s (UBC) Advanced Materials for Energy Storage Lab, under the leadership of Dr. Jian Liu, is the project’s research lead during the initial stages. Flake graphite accounts for approximately 40% of global natural graphite supply.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2020

Partners in this project of the Federal Ministry of Transport and the German National Organization for Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technology (NOW - Nationale Organisation für Wasserstoff- und Brennstoffzellentechnologie) are the car manufacturer BMW, the University of Siegen and other suppliers.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2021

The US Department of Energy (DOE) will award up to $30 million to support scientific research that will ensure US businesses can reliably tap into a domestic supply of critical elements and minerals—specifically rare earth elements (REE) and platinum group elements (PGE)—needed to produce clean energy technologies. (

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Universal Hydrogen Co. ACIA expects to place 10 firm orders for Universal Hydrogen’s ATR 72 conversion kits with additional purchase rights for 20 more conversion kits of various turboprop types. The conversion consists of a fuel cell electric powertrain that replaces the existing turboprop engines.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2022

Aemetis announced that its Universal Biofuels subsidiary in India, owner and operator of a biodiesel plant located near the Port of Kakinada on India’s east coast, was selected by the three government-controlled oil marketing companies (OMCs) and a major oil refiner to supply approximately 8,000,000 gallons of biodiesel over the next two months.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Decarbonizing hydrogen supply is critical to initiate uptake in these new sectors, and an industry-standard emissions measurement and verification process is key to providing the market transparency that facilitates new supply agreements.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2020

A consortium comprising Engie Solutions, Siemens Gas and Power, Centrax, Arttic, German Aerospace Center (DLR) and four European universities is implementing the HYFLEXPOWER project funded by the European Commission under the Horizon 2020 Framework Program for Research and Innovation (Grant Agreement 884229).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2021

The Volvo Cars Tech Fund and Volta Energy Technologies join existing investors Anzu Partners and the University of Minnesota. Niron says that its technology delivers magnets that are less expensive, more sustainable, globally available, and made from abundant input materials not subject to supply constraints or price instability.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2022

The Audi Environmental Foundation, a subsidiary of AUDI AG founded in 2009, has joined forces with the Freiberg University of Mining and Technology to research new ways of mining high-tech elements. According to Recknagel, this strengthens import independence, thus increasing supply security.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2022

WMG at the University of Warwick (UK) has provided knowledge and expertise in developing a UK-focused, cost-effective production and supply chain for RIFT (Reduced Induction Field Torque) Technology’s development of RIFT-10—a design for electric motors drives that reduces copper and magnet weight reduction by around 50% and lowers cost by 75%.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

in close collaboration with GTI and The University of Texas at Austin, has launched a US Department of Energy project, Demonstration and Framework for H2@Scale in Texas and Beyond. The team will assess available resources, prospective hydrogen users, and delivery infrastructure, such as existing pipelines that supply hydrogen to refineries.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

The government of the state of Victoria in Australia is providing more than $1 million in funding to CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, that will enable it to partner with Swinburne University of Technology to establish the Victorian Hydrogen Hub (VH2). Hydrogen Industry Mission. Missions are currently being developed.

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