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Nissan and Waseda University testing jointly developed recycling process for electrified vehicle motors

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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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Nissan Universal Motoring Motors

General Motors China and Shanghai Jiao Tong University to collaborate on vehicle sharing with Chevy EN-V 2.0

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NOVEMBER 21, 2014

General Motors China has signed a memorandum of understanding with Shanghai Jiao Tong University to collaborate on a vehicle sharing program featuring the Chevrolet EN-V 2.0 ( earlier post ) starting next year. is the next generation of GM’s original Electric Networked-Vehicle (EN-V), which made its global debut at Expo 2010 in Shanghai.

General Motors

General Motors Universal China Motoring

MIT/UC Davis professors challenge claims that ethanol production decreased gasoline prices in 2010 and 2011

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JULY 17, 2012

Knittel/Smith results for implied gasoline price effects from elimination of ethanol for 2010 using Du/Hayes model and pooled-sample estimates. in 2010 and 2011, respectively. in 2010 and 2011, respectively. Smith is an Associate Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Davis.

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Davis MIT Gasoline 2010

Kyoto University team proposes selective dismantling to increase recycling potential of precious metals from end-of-life vehicles

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 30, 2018

Researchers at Kyoto University in Japan are proposing the selective dismantling of certain components from end-of-life vehicles (ELVs) to increase the recycling potential of precious metals (PMs). In the automotive industry, PMs are extensively used in certain components (e.g.

Nickel Metal Hydride

Nickel Metal Hydride Universal Japan Vehicles

DENSO and Nagoya University jointly develop in-vehicle battery-based energy management system for house and car; field testing begins

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Global automotive supplier DENSO and Nagoya University have developed an in-vehicle battery-based energy management system (EMS) which uses forecasting models of household electricity demand and vehicle use to reduce electricity costs. Earlier post.). Electric (Battery) Plug-ins Smart charging V2X'

Universal

Universal Battery Batteries Energy

Safety of flying and driving after the attacks of 9/11 revisited

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Specifically, of interest here is the number of fatalities in each of the two transportation modes during a 10-year period from 2010 through 2019. Motor-vehicle fatalities, 2010-2019. air-carrier fatalities, 2010-2019. This very brief note takes an updated quick look at the latest available data. The raw data came from the U.S.

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2001 2003 2010 2019

Study finds global emissions of several banned ozone-destroying CFCs are increasing

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APRIL 10, 2023

The research, published in Nature Geoscience and led by the University of Bristol and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), puts the rise in part down to the chemicals, known as chlorofluorocarbons or CFCs, being used to make other ozone-friendly alternatives to CFCs. —Dr Western Resources Western, L.M., Vollmer, M.K.,

Ozone

Ozone Emissions Global Switzerland

ICCT report assesses domestic fuel efficiency performance of US airlines for 2010; Alaska Airlines on top, Allegiant on the bottom

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Relative fuel efficiency for the domestic operations of the 15 largest US airlines in 2010 across each carrier’s entire network (higher score means greater efficiency). In 2010, aviation accounted for about 7.5% United Airlines (eighth), with a fuel efficiency score of 1.00, was equal to the average for 2010 US domestic operations.

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2010 Alaska Fuel Miles

Shared micromobility trips grew by 62% in 2019 due to jump in scooter trips

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NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Data collection by the National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO) began in 2010 and included only bike trips until 2018. Data does not include private or closed campus systems like those operating on university campuses. More detail is in the source report.

2019

2019 2018 2010 Universal

Gasoline consumption per capita in 2020 was on par with that in 1965

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DECEMBER 8, 2021

Michael Sivak is the managing director of Sivak Applied Research and the former director of Sustainable Worldwide Transportation at the University of Michigan. (The maximum—136,468 million gallons—was reached in 2014.). Total consumption (millions of gallons). Total consumption (millions of gallons).

2020

2020 Gasoline 2019 2000

Study estimates ~4M children worldwide develop asthma each year because of NO2 air pollution

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APRIL 11, 2019

About 4 million children worldwide develop asthma each year because of inhaling nitrogen dioxide (NO 2 ) air pollution, according to an open-access study published in The Lancet Planetary Health by researchers at the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health (Milken Institute SPH).

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Pollution United Arab Emirates South Korea Las Vegas

Making driving less energy-intensive than flying

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JANUARY 9, 2014

Energy intensities of flying (blue) and driving (green), 1970-2010. Currently, the energy intensity (BTU per person mile) of driving is 57% greater than that of flying, according to a new analysis by Dr. Michael Sivak, Director, Sustainable Worldwide Transportation at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI).

Energy

Energy Fuel Economy Personal Economy

ChargePoint reports 35% increase in in-network charging stations on college campuses

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

There are currently 1,134 charging spots at colleges and universities on the ChargePoint network, up about 35%, with just 838 at this time last year. On-campus EV charging is still relatively new, with the first ChargePoint station installed at the end of 2010 at Pasadena City College. Towson University, Maryland: 36.

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Davis Charging Maryland Massachusetts

New photocatalytic system converts carbon dioxide to valuable fuel more efficiently than natural photosynthesis

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AUGUST 13, 2023

A joint research team from City University of Hong Kong (CityU) and collaborators have developed a stable artificial photocatalytic system that is more efficient than natural photosynthesis. Photo credit: (left) Professor Ye Ruquan’s research group / City University of Hong Kong and (right) Biophysical Journal, 99:67-75, 2010.

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Convert Carbon Fuel Water

Nissan says it will have first commercially-viable autonomous drive vehicles by 2020; across the range in 2 vehicle generations

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AUGUST 28, 2013

Nissan said that its engineers have been carrying out intensive research on the technology for years, alongside teams from universities including MIT, Stanford, Oxford, Carnegie Mellon and the University of Tokyo. In 2007 I pledged that—by 2010—Nissan would mass-market a zero-emission vehicle. Nissan Motor Co.,

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Nissan 2020 Commercial Vehicles

Ames Lab team to head new $120M Critical Materials Institute; addressing shortages in rare earth metals and other materials

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JANUARY 9, 2013

University and research partners include Brown University, the Colorado School of Mines, Purdue University, Rutgers University, University of California-Davis, Iowa State University, and Florida Industrial and Phosphate Research Institute. SpinTek Filtration, Inc.; Advanced Recovery; Cytec, Inc.;

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Universal Idaho Iowa Davis

AlexNet Source Code Is Now Open Source

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MARCH 21, 2025

It was developed in 2012 by then University of Toronto graduate students Alex Krizhevsky and Ilya Sutskever and their faculty advisor, Geoffrey Hinton. at the University of Edinburgh in 1978, Hinton had become a postdoctoral fellow at UCSD, where he collaborated with David Rumelhart and Ronald Williams. What Is AlexNet?

Google

Google 2012 Universal San Diego

Study finds that increased vehicle travel and decreased occupancy have undercut the impact of improving fuel economy over last 40 years

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MARCH 6, 2013

From 1970 to 2010, vehicle distance travelled in the US increased by 155% (from 1.674 trillion km to 4.260 trillion km); however, because vehicle load (i.e., occupants carried) decreased by 27% (from 1.9 persons), the occupant distance travelled increased by 84% (from 3.182 to 5.867 trillion km).

Fuel Economy

Fuel Economy Economy Fuel North America

Williams Advanced Engineering’s simulator technology to help in trial of driverless cars

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Williams Advanced Engineering has been commercializing this technology since 2010, with previous projects including the development of road safety simulators to improve driving standards in Qatar.

Qatar

Qatar 2002 Fusion Universal

GM and Shanghai Jiao Tong University begin vehicle sharing pilot program with EN-V 2.0 fleet

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MAY 27, 2015

General Motors and Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) have begun a two-year vehicle sharing pilot program in Shanghai featuring 16 Chevrolet EN-V 2.0 ( earlier post ) electric concept vehicles. is the second generation of the Electric Networked-Vehicle demonstrated at Expo 2010 in Shanghai. Earlier post.) The EN-V 2.0

GM

GM Universal Fleet Vehicles

SwRI and USTA researchers to develop a novel catalyst for low-temperature SCR

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JUNE 24, 2014

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) announced funding for a new joint research projects to advance clean emission technologies. Funding through the organizations’ Connecting through Research Partnerships (“Connect”) program has been granted for $125,000 for this project.

San Antonio

San Antonio Exhaust Clean Emissions Fuel Economy

NOAA, partners find about 98% decline in VOCs concentrations in LA Basin over last 50 years despite 3x increase in use of gasoline and diesel

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AUGUST 9, 2012

A scatter plot of CO, as a tracer for pollution, versus CO 2 , as a tracer for the amount of combustion, for 2002 and 2010. Even though the CO 2 enhancements over background were comparable in the two years, about 25 ppm in 2002 and 35 ppm in 2010, the ?CO/?CO2 CO2 ratio for this flight track segment decreased from 24.5

Los Angeles

Los Angeles Gasoline Ozone 2002

Aqueous hybrid-ion battery company Aquion completes $55M financing round

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JANUARY 31, 2014

Aquion spun out of Carnegie Mellon University in 2010. Aquion’s initial manufacturing line is capable of producing over 200 megawatt hours per year when operating at full capacity. The 350,000 square-foot facility is sized for five manufacturing lines, enabling Aquion to scale production. Aquion Technical Presentation.

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Financing Hybrid Companies Energy Storage

Study projects global carbon footprint from ICT will be equivalent to half of transportation’s current level by 2040

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MARCH 6, 2018

in 2007 to exceed 14% of the 2016-level worldwide GHGE by 2040, accounting for more than half of the current relative contribution of the whole transportation sector, according to a new study from McMaster University in Canada. In absolute terms, it shows an almost 3-fold increase from 159 to 495 Mt-CO 2 -eq in the 10-year span.

Carbon

Carbon Global 2020 2018

Study finds changes in air pollution due to EV adoption are not distributed equally

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MAY 7, 2023

A team of researchers from the University of California, Berkeley; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; and University of Miami has analyzed the implications of California’s Clean Vehicle Rebate Project (CVRP) for emissions of greenhouse gases and criteria air pollutants, both in aggregate and in their distribution.

Pollution

Pollution Los Angeles North Carolina California

Researchers demonstrate electrochemical synthesis of ammonia from air and water under mild conditions

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2013

Researchers from the University of Strathclyde and the University of St. Globally 131 million tons of ammonia were produced in 2010. Globally 245 million tons of CO 2 were released by the ammonia industry in 2010 equivalent to about 50% of the UK CO 2 emissions (495.8 tons of CO 2 is released per ton of ammonia produced.

Water

Water 2010 Energy Storage Mariner

1.4MW Direct Fuel Cell co-generation plant now in operation at Cal State San Bernardino

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Electricity generated by the fuel cell is going straight into the Edison grid, and the university will be able to utilize the waste heat it produces to preheat the campus heating system, resulting in an estimated annual savings of $120,000 from avoided natural gas costs.

Fuel

Fuel Grid Gas-Electric Waste

Chevy buying carbon credits from US colleges; new formula helps fund campus energy-efficient projects

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Chevrolet is investing in clean energy efficiency initiatives of US colleges and universities through its voluntary carbon-reduction initiative. Such funding enables universities to reduce their impact and save money on utility bills while engaging and educating students in their efforts. Ball State University in Muncie, Ind.

Carbon

Carbon Energy Buy Chevrolet

New study finds GHG emissions from palm oil production significantly underestimated; palm oil biofuels could be more climate-damaging than oil sands fuels

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APRIL 27, 2012

Mha (20%) of the peatlands of Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo in 2010, surpassing the area of Belgium and causing an annual carbon emission from peat decomposition of 230–310 Mt CO 2 e. 2012), Extent of industrial plantations on Southeast Asian peatlands in 2010 with analysis of historical expansion and future projections.

Oil-Sands

Oil-Sands Oil Emissions Climate

Study casting doubt on GHG benefits of corn stover ethanol draws sharp criticism by other researchers; Liska responds

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OCTOBER 30, 2014

The study led by University of Nebraska-Lincoln assistant professor Adam Liska, funded through a three-year, $500,000-grant from the US Department of Energy, used carbon dioxide measurements taken from 2001 to 2010 to validate a soil carbon model that was built using data from 36 field studies across North America. Adler and Stephen J.

Climate Change

Climate Change Nebraska Climate Carbon

Lockheed Martin invests $4M in Forge Hydrocarbons; lipid to hydrocarbons technology

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Canada-based Forge Hydrocarbons Corporation, a spin-off from the University of Alberta ( earlier post ), has received a US$4-million from Lockheed Martin under the Industrial and Technological Benefits (ITB) Policy. Lockheed Martin also delivers continued In-Service Support for the CC-130J fleet.

Canada

Canada Universal Oil Fuel

ECS announces 2023-2024 ECS Toyota Young Investigator Fellowship recipients

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AUGUST 16, 2023

Dr. Bai received his BS in Materials Chemistry from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2010 and MS in Materials Science in 2012 from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. Yadong Yin at the University of California, Riverside, in 2017. Yuzhang Li, University of California, Los Angeles.

Toyota

Toyota Li-ion Los Angeles San Francisco

USDA awards nearly $10M for research on using beetle-killed trees as feedstock for on-site thermochemical conversion technologies

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NOVEMBER 6, 2013

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) awarded nearly $10 million to a consortium of academic, industry and government organizations led by Colorado State University (CSU) and their partners to research using insect-killed trees in the Rockies as a sustainable feedstock for bioenergy.

Conversion

Conversion Montana Colorado Wyoming

Researchers show oil palm plantation expansion a significant source of CO2; projected to contribute more than all of Canada’s current fossil fuel emissions by 2020

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OCTOBER 8, 2012

Its expanding production is driving rainforest destruction and massive carbon dioxide emissions, according to a new study led by researchers at Stanford and Yale universities. The study's researchers generated the first comprehensive maps of oil palm plantation expansion from 1990 to 2010.

Oil

Oil 2020 Emissions Indonesia

Women are more likely to telecommute than men

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DECEMBER 16, 2019

The examined data were from 2010 through 2018, in two-year increments. in 2010 to 5.3% Thus, 23% more workers telecommuted in 2018 than in 2010. Michael Sivak is the managing director of Sivak Applied Research and the former director of Sustainable Worldwide Transportation at the University of Michigan. is 123% of 4.3.).

2018

2018 2010 Michigan United States

Autonomous driving visionary Dr. Lawrence Burns joining Neural Propulsion Systems as Executive Advisor; L4/L5 autonomous driving

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

After leaving GM in 2009, Dr. Burns was a Professor of Engineering Practice at the University of Michigan (2011-2015), and Director of the Program for Sustainable Mobility at Columbia University (2010-2014). in Mechanical Engineering from General Motors Institute (now Kettering University), an M.S. He received a B.S.

Fusion

Fusion General Motors Michigan Universal

10-year study shows how air pollution fosters heart disease; accelerated plaque build-up in arteries

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MAY 25, 2016

Repeated scans were done for nearly all participants between 2002 and 2005; for a subset of participants between 2005 and 2007; and for half of all participants between 2010 and 2012. and NO x between 1999 and 2012. (As As noted above, the participants in this MESA-Air study experienced concentrations between 9.2 Kaufman, Joel D et al.

Pollution

Pollution Los Angeles Building Universal

Study finds pollution emitted near equator has biggest impact on global ozone

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NOVEMBER 9, 2016

West said that China’s emissions increased more than India’s and Southeast Asia’s from 1980 to 2010, but Southeast Asia and India, despite their lower growth in emissions during this period, appear to have contributed more to the total global ozone increase due to their proximity to the equator. Cooper, co-author. Yuqiang Zhang, Owen R.

Ozone

Ozone Pollution Global North Carolina

World Environment Center awarding 30th Anniversary Gold Medal Award for sustainable development to Volkswagen Group

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DECEMBER 19, 2013

Volkswagen’s Gold Medal submission was evaluated through a global competition with companies in multiple business sectors by WEC’s independent Gold Medal Jury chaired by Dr. Joel Abrams, Professor Emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh.

Environment

Environment 2014 Washington Corporation

SMART: working for a systems-based approach to sustainable mobility; Alcoa Foundation support for practical solutions in Beijing and Detroit

Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2013

In a white paper published in 2010, SMART Managing Director Susan Zielinski noted: Recognizing that no single solution will save the day for transportation in this rapidly urbanizing and increasingly complex world, a groundswell of transportation innovation is arising worldwide. Zielinski, S.

Detroit

Detroit Sustainable Transportation Transportation Connect

Cornell spin-off lithium-sulfur battery company NOHMs to locate in Lexington, KY

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2013

NOHMs, a spin-off from Cornell University, will utilize the Kentucky-Argonne Battery Manufacturing Research and Development Center and the University of Kentucky’s Spindletop Administration Building. Founded in October 2010, NOHMs Technologies has developed a battery that is based on lithium-sulfur chemistry.

Lithium Sulfur

Lithium Sulfur Companies Lithium Ion Kentucky

Production of crude oil as a percentage of proved reserves: Recent worldwide and US trends

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JANUARY 24, 2022

Michael Sivak is the managing director of Sivak Applied Research and the former director of Sustainable Worldwide Transportation at the University of Michigan. Production as % of reserves. Between 1980 and 2020, production of crude oil as a percentage of proved reserves of crude oil decreased for both the United States (from 10.1%

Oil

Oil Production United States 2020

BMW Group opens new Additive Manufacturing Campus

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JUNE 28, 2020

Access to the latest technologies is gained through long-standing partnerships with leading manufacturers and universities, and by successfully scouting for industry newcomers. Another 50 systems are in operation at production sites around the world. Applications in series production.

BMW

BMW Manufacturer Industrial Parts

DuPont selects Murex as marketing partner for cellulosic ethanol from Nevada, Iowa plant

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

Producing stover-based ethanol used in many vehicles at the University of Tennessee. In addition to Murex’s strong presence in the domestic ethanol market, the company has been the largest exporter of domestically produced ethanol since 2010. This optimized conversion process is being deployed in the facility in Nevada, Iowa.

Iowa

Iowa Nevada Market Tennessee

Nissan and Waseda University testing jointly developed recycling process for electrified vehicle motors

General Motors China and Shanghai Jiao Tong University to collaborate on vehicle sharing with Chevy EN-V 2.0

MIT/UC Davis professors challenge claims that ethanol production decreased gasoline prices in 2010 and 2011

Kyoto University team proposes selective dismantling to increase recycling potential of precious metals from end-of-life vehicles

DENSO and Nagoya University jointly develop in-vehicle battery-based energy management system for house and car; field testing begins

Safety of flying and driving after the attacks of 9/11 revisited

Study finds global emissions of several banned ozone-destroying CFCs are increasing

ICCT report assesses domestic fuel efficiency performance of US airlines for 2010; Alaska Airlines on top, Allegiant on the bottom

Shared micromobility trips grew by 62% in 2019 due to jump in scooter trips

Gasoline consumption per capita in 2020 was on par with that in 1965

Study estimates ~4M children worldwide develop asthma each year because of NO2 air pollution

Making driving less energy-intensive than flying

ChargePoint reports 35% increase in in-network charging stations on college campuses

New photocatalytic system converts carbon dioxide to valuable fuel more efficiently than natural photosynthesis

Nissan says it will have first commercially-viable autonomous drive vehicles by 2020; across the range in 2 vehicle generations

Ames Lab team to head new $120M Critical Materials Institute; addressing shortages in rare earth metals and other materials

AlexNet Source Code Is Now Open Source

Study finds that increased vehicle travel and decreased occupancy have undercut the impact of improving fuel economy over last 40 years

Williams Advanced Engineering’s simulator technology to help in trial of driverless cars

GM and Shanghai Jiao Tong University begin vehicle sharing pilot program with EN-V 2.0 fleet

SwRI and USTA researchers to develop a novel catalyst for low-temperature SCR

NOAA, partners find about 98% decline in VOCs concentrations in LA Basin over last 50 years despite 3x increase in use of gasoline and diesel

Aqueous hybrid-ion battery company Aquion completes $55M financing round

Study projects global carbon footprint from ICT will be equivalent to half of transportation’s current level by 2040

Study finds changes in air pollution due to EV adoption are not distributed equally

Researchers demonstrate electrochemical synthesis of ammonia from air and water under mild conditions

1.4MW Direct Fuel Cell co-generation plant now in operation at Cal State San Bernardino

Chevy buying carbon credits from US colleges; new formula helps fund campus energy-efficient projects

New study finds GHG emissions from palm oil production significantly underestimated; palm oil biofuels could be more climate-damaging than oil sands fuels

Study casting doubt on GHG benefits of corn stover ethanol draws sharp criticism by other researchers; Liska responds

Lockheed Martin invests $4M in Forge Hydrocarbons; lipid to hydrocarbons technology

ECS announces 2023-2024 ECS Toyota Young Investigator Fellowship recipients

USDA awards nearly $10M for research on using beetle-killed trees as feedstock for on-site thermochemical conversion technologies

Researchers show oil palm plantation expansion a significant source of CO2; projected to contribute more than all of Canada’s current fossil fuel emissions by 2020

Women are more likely to telecommute than men

Autonomous driving visionary Dr. Lawrence Burns joining Neural Propulsion Systems as Executive Advisor; L4/L5 autonomous driving

10-year study shows how air pollution fosters heart disease; accelerated plaque build-up in arteries

Study finds pollution emitted near equator has biggest impact on global ozone

World Environment Center awarding 30th Anniversary Gold Medal Award for sustainable development to Volkswagen Group

SMART: working for a systems-based approach to sustainable mobility; Alcoa Foundation support for practical solutions in Beijing and Detroit

Cornell spin-off lithium-sulfur battery company NOHMs to locate in Lexington, KY

Production of crude oil as a percentage of proved reserves: Recent worldwide and US trends

BMW Group opens new Additive Manufacturing Campus

DuPont selects Murex as marketing partner for cellulosic ethanol from Nevada, Iowa plant

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