Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2022

Rolls-Royce and Pratt & Whitney have signed a joint agreement with Virginia Tech for pre-competitive research focused on the impact of environmental contaminants on aeroengine operation and testing. —Changmin Son, the Rolls-Royce Commonwealth Professor at Virginia Tech.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2022

The Ohio State University finished in second place and University of Alabama came in third. Last month, DOE, GM, and MathWorks launched the next Advanced Vehicle Technology Competition, the EcoCAR Electric Vehicle (EV) Challenge , with the announcement of the 15 North American universities selected to participate.

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Cars That Think

MAY 13, 2023

Universities and community colleges are revamping their semiconductor-related curricula and forging strategic partnerships with one another and with industry to train the staff needed to run U.S. Intel arrives at Ohio State Ohio State University is using its chip-fabrication facility to train future engineers and technicians.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2021

GM’s BrightDrop ( earlier post ) is collaborating with the University of Washington’s Urban Freight Lab (UFL), The City of Seattle, and tech and delivery companies, AxleHire, Coaster Cycles and REEF, to launch one of the nation’s first zero operating-emissions, last-mile neighborhood delivery hubs.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2018

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded Virginia Tech a $3 million grant for research on electric vehicle charging infrastructure cybersecurity as part of a larger $80 million investment by the department on advanced technologies research ( earlier post ). —Jonathan Petit, senior director of research at OnBoard Security.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 1, 2019

New research from Rice University and Texas Tech University has found that drivers often fail to spot hazards missed by automated vehicles, and it only gets worse the longer drivers ride in them. —Eric Greenlee, assistant professor of psychological sciences at Texas Tech and lead author.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2020

The polymers were designed and tested at Georgia Tech, then converted to 200-nanometer-thick films and incorporated into membrane modules at Imperial. Finn, Chair of the School of Chemistry & Biochemistry at Georgia Tech and a joint lead of the study. —M.G. —Andrew Livingston, professor of chemical engineering at Imperial.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2012

million to establish a multidisciplinary program of transportation research, education, and technology transfer for a Tier 1 University Transportation Center to be headquartered at the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute. The 22 centers selected are all consortia, involving a total of 121 different universities.

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Innovation News Network

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The University of Bristol is set to host Isambard-AI, a high-powered AI supercomputer supported by substantial government investment. The post Bristol leads UK’s tech revolution with powerful AI supercomputer appeared first on Innovation News Network.

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EV Obssesion

JUNE 21, 2021

DETROIT – BrightDrop has collaborated with the University of Washington’s Urban Freight Lab (UFL), The City of Seattle, and tech and delivery companies, AxleHire, Coaster Cycles and REEF, to launch one of the nation’s first zero operating-emissions, last-mile neighborhood delivery hubs.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 29, 2024

“If they can actually drill a 10 km hole using high-powered microwaves, that will be a significant engineering achievement,” says Jefferson Tester , who studies geothermal energy extraction in subsurface rock reservoirs at Cornell University.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 9, 2024

No matter where professionals are in their tech career—whether just starting out or well established—it’s never a bad time for them to reassess their skills to ensure they are aligned with market needs. Jamieson, who helped found EPICS at Purdue University , and other project leaders will share their experiences. on 16 April.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

Stanford University. Stanford University will explore a technical solution based on LENR-active nanoparticles and gaseous deuterium. Texas Tech University. Texas Tech will also provide advanced detection of nuclear reaction products as a resource for ARPA-E LENR Exploratory Topic teams.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2017

At WCX 17: SAE World Congress Experience, SAE International and General Motors announced the eight North American universities which will compete in the upcoming AutoDrive Challenge. The participating universities are: Kettering University. Michigan State University. Michigan Tech. North Carolina A&T University.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 6, 2021

JD Power’s 2021 China Tech Experience Index Study has rendered some rather surprising results. As per the results of the study, American EV maker Tesla was dubbed as the company with the 2nd-best in-vehicle tech among mass-market electric cars in China. Tesla, on the other hand, adopts a more universal approach to tech.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2023

OXCCU, a company spun-out from the University of Oxford in 2021 that is focused on converting carbon dioxide and hydrogen into industrial and consumer products ( earlier post ), completed an £18-million (US$22.8 Trafigura, TechEnergy Ventures and Doral Energy-Tech Ventures also participated in the financing.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Louisiana-based Jupiter Fuels, a new sister development company of ASI, has licensed nano-engineered Fischer-Tropsch catalyst technologies from Louisiana Tech University. ASI research teams are exploring other nanoscience breakthroughs from the research at Louisiana Tech University.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Auburn University researchers are leading a $2-million US Department of Energy Co-Optima project ( earlier post ) that will evaluate renewable butyl acetate (BA) as a bio-based fuel additive that can be blended with diesel fuel to reduce soot and greenhouse gas emissions and yield cleaner engine operation in cold-weather conditions.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2011

The team from Virginia Tech University received top honors as overall winners of EcoCAR: The NeXt Challenge after designing and building an extended-range electric vehicle (EREV) using E85 (ethanol). Taking second place, also with an E85 EREV, was Ohio State University.

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Teslarati

JUNE 3, 2021

A team of battery researchers at Canada’s Dalhousie University are the recipients of a $6 million grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC). Tesla renews contract with Jeff Dahn’s battery team at Dalhousie University. The NSERC will give the team, headed by Dr. Jeff Dahn, $2.9

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

A new program at the University of Michigan will award funds for researchers to accelerate advanced transportation technologies. The committee includes advanced transportation business and market experts, venture capitalists and university leaders. Hamid Servati, president, Servo Tech Engineering.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2019

If ship hulls were coated with special bo-inspired high-tech air trapping materials, up to 1% of global CO 2 emissions could be avoided according to a new study by researchers from the University of Bonn together with colleagues from St. Novel high-tech coatings may offer a solution. Dr. Wilhelm Barthlott/University of Bonn.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 20, 2024

Employing silicon photonics technology, which combines a universal semiconductor material with the speed of photos, the SteerLight LiDAR senses the surrounding environment in three dimensions with higher resolution and precision, and at a lower volume production cost, than currently available LiDAR systems.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 26, 2021

Researchers at the Chalmers University of Technology claim to have produced a working "structural battery" that can both hold a charge and, as the name says, act as part of a vehicle's structure. Technology that allows vehicle body shells to serve as batteries may be a step closer to reality.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 1, 2022

This finding and more (see below) highlights how the chip shortage will alter technology—and tech jobs—for years to come. Russ stresses that tech workers shouldn’t view the crunch as a temporary problem to work around when designing. In the past, design was separate from procurement. microcontroller units, or MCUs), Avnet found.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) has launched an interdisciplinary research institute to promote a technologically advanced and globally competitive manufacturing base in the United States. GTMI will focus on the complete innovation value chain—from raw and recycled resources to prototypes and finished products.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 17, 2023

As a member of the Kappa Sigma chapter at Boston University , he learned leadership and communications skills while accepting different roles. He spent his summer this year as a graduate research intern at the Georgia Tech Research Institute, in Atlanta.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The Phase 1 semifinalists are: Boston University – Pober-Strauss. George Washington University – Ellexco. Oregon State University – Espiku. Rice University – LiSED. Texas Tech University – Tech Desal. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign – SelectPureLi. University of Miami – Miami Solution.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

Virginia Tech will host a university-wide competition for students to design on-demand, remote-controlled 3-D printed aircraft and ground vehicles. Undergraduate and graduate students, individually or in groups, are invited to participate from across the university, no matter their course of study.

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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. As part of ARPA-E’s REACT program, the University of Minnesota (UMN) developed an early stage prototype of an iron-nitride permanent magnet material. million in new financing. Background.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 18, 2012

Volkswagen Group of America Electronics Research Laboratory (ERL) and Plug and Play Tech Center have launched the Volkswagen ERL Technology Accelerator Powered by Plug and Play. —Plug and Play Tech Center Founder and CEO, Saeed Amidi. Plug and Play Tech Center is an accelerator specializing in growing technology startups.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The US Department of Energy (DOE), General Motors and MathWorks launched the EcoCAR Mobility Challenge, the latest DOE-sponsored Advanced Vehicle Technology Competition ( AVTC ), revealed the 12 competing universities and named the Chevrolet Blazer as the vehicle platform selected for the competition. Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 31, 2022

What are today’s tech leaders concerned about? The tech leaders also are trying to find enough technologists to fill job openings. The proliferation could cause data centers and the cloud to become more vulnerable to attacks, the tech leaders said. Tech companies are facing a labor shortage.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JANUARY 23, 2022

Since June 2020, a team from the Australian National University in Canberra has been investigating the possible integration of electric vehicles into the grid. Known as REVS (Realizing Electric Vehicle-to-Grid Services), the trial is implementing vehicle-to-grid technology in a fleet of 51 Nissan Leafs in Canberra.

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Electrek

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

During a “Uni Wheel Tech Day” event held in Seoul earlier today, Hyundai Motor and Kia Corporation presented a potentially game-changing approach to the design of an EV’s drivetrain. The Universal Wheel Drive system, or “Uni Wheel” for short, moves main components to the wheel hub, creating additional space in a given vehicle’s interior.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2023

Today, more than 3,200 designers and engineers, NEV and software specialists are creating leading-edge innovations in close collaboration with Chinese tech players, start-ups, local partners as well as academia. Within the last three years, we have tripled our forces in China. China is the place to be.

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The Truth About Cars

APRIL 15, 2024

This week we sit down with Cody Stolle, research assistant professor at the University of Nebraska Lincoln and the assistant director at the Midwest Roadside Safety Facility, to discuss a lesser-known problem with EVs and road safety. Between travel and some tech issues, we were unable to post on Friday like usual).

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