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AUGUST 30, 2019

Data from the LA Basin mapping project are available on the NIST website. The Los Angeles megacity—the third-largest metropolitan area in the world—occupies 4,850 square miles and houses more than 18.5 million people. Other cities Gurney has mapped to this degree are Indianapolis, Salt Lake City and Baltimore. Gurney, K.

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APRIL 14, 2016

The California Energy Commission approved nearly $9 million in grants for the installation of DC fast chargers along major state freeways and highways to allow electric vehicle drivers to travel from San Diego to the Oregon border without worrying about running out of energy. The grants went to four companies—Chargepoint Inc.;

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NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Of those selected, approximately 43% of OPEN 2018 projects will be led by universities, 35% by small businesses, and the remainder by large businesses, non-profit organizations or federally funded research and development centers (FFRDCs). University of California, San Diego. University of Delaware.

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AUGUST 26, 2010

NASA has awarded a Phase II Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) contract to NEI Corporation and the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) to develop and implement high energy density cathode materials for Li-ion batteries. NEI is the prime contractor and UC San Diego is the subcontractor.

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MAY 11, 2016

The Consortium for Algal Biofuel Commercialization (CAB-Comm), led by the University of California, San Diego, has released its final report , detailing the accomplishments and contributions achieved in its six years of operation. Earlier post.)

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2011

The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, will this month launch a pre-production phase of Gordon, the first high-performance supercomputer to use large amounts of flash-based SSD (solid state drive) memory. —SDSC Director Michael Norman.

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JANUARY 10, 2013

The California Energy Commission (CEC) approved funding to advance further the development of its pioneering 42 MW peak microgrid and expand electric vehicle charging at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). million award to increase its previously awarded funding of $1,394,298 for the university’s microgrid.

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OCTOBER 27, 2014

The prototype currently reaches the same voltage as a commercially available AA battery. million to four separate projects (led by Stanford University, UC San Diego, Arizona State University, and Penn State) to develop multifunctional structural batteries for vehicles as part of its RANGE program for transformative EV storage.

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APRIL 23, 2023

Jens Schwamborn , a Professor of Cellular and Developmental Biology at the University of Luxembourg, is using organoids to study the development of neurological disorders like Parkinson’s disease. While similar organoid-on-chip computing systems are not yet available, the OI team is optimistic about their rate of progress.

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AUGUST 7, 2017

Engineers at Stanford University and the University of California San Diego (UCSD) have developed a monocentric lens with multiple sensors using microlens arrays, allowing light field (LF) capture with an unprecedented field of view (FOV)—a camera that generates four-dimensional images and can capture 138 degrees of information.

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AUGUST 22, 2013

For example, the University of California, San Diego will receive approximately $3.5 University of Houston. The University of Houston (UH) will develop a battery using a novel water-based, lithium-ion chemistry that makes use of sustainable, low-cost, high-energy, organic materials. Princeton University.

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DECEMBER 12, 2018

Under current policies, home energy storage systems would also often increase carbon emissions, according to a study by a team of researchers at the University of California San Diego published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology. —Ryan Hanna, postdoc at the School of Global Policy and Strategy.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 8, 2012

New battery charge estimation algorithms developed by engineers at the University of California (UC), San Diego, are on the verge of vastly improve the capabilities of current lithium-ion batteries.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2016

A new report from the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) reviews the major advantages and disadvantages associated with battery-electric vehicles (BEVs) and fuel-cell vehicles (FCVs). For example, in the San Diego, California territory of SDG&E, optimal time of use residential EV charging rates range from $0.19/kWh

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Toyota’s CSRC is partnering with Indiana University-Purdue to develop standardized test protocols for pedestrian pre-collision systems, including mannequins of different shapes and sizes that mimic real-world walking speeds and angles.

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JULY 1, 2019

First, very long flights tend to provide more passenger space (even flying economy class), resulting in fewer passengers per available space. Michael Sivak is the managing director of Sivak Applied Research and the former director of Sustainable Worldwide Transportation at the University of Michigan.

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JUNE 11, 2010

The California Center for Sustainable Energy (CCSE) will lead a joint research study of how the useful lifespan of electric vehicle batteries could be extended by repurposing them as household electric storage devices with a $992,000 grant from the University of California. of Monrovia, Calif.; Flux Power of Vista, Calif.; A total of $3.7

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JUNE 12, 2015

CSE and KnGrid will be working with other experts in vehicle-grid integration and utility operations, including RWE-Effizienz, University of California San Diego, Strategen Consulting and Energy Solutions, with additional support from Siemens, CAISO and BMW.

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JULY 30, 2014

The team was led by Forman Williams, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of California, San Diego. Results were analyzed by a team of scientists from UC San Diego, the University of Connecticut, NASA, Princeton, the University of South Carolina, UC Davis, and Cornell.

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Cars That Think

MAY 3, 2022

The IEEE senior member, who is a physics professor at the University of Manchester , England, is overseeing the anniversary celebrations. The event is available on demand via IEEE.tv. The session also is available on demand. The talks are available on demand. The next event is scheduled for 1 July.

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JANUARY 10, 2014

Smart Parking combines the parking habits of a driver with the availability of nearby parking spots—parking structures as well as metered street parking—to help identify parking spots in a destination area and provide navigation to that location. Earlier post.).

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AUGUST 6, 2014

The Intelligent Urban Mobility initiative is a multiyear project in collaboration with UC San Diego, University of Southern California, UC Berkeley PATH, and the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI), with the goal of developing the technologies for the future connected urban vehicle.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Iowa State University. Iowa State University will develop a new process to create glassy solid electrolytes (GSEs) that allow for long lifecycle batteries, an important goal for the energy storage community. Pennsylvania State University. University of Colorado Boulder. University of Colorado Boulder.

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JUNE 24, 2015

Most batteries will become available for second use at the end of the expected PEV service life of approximately 15 years. For B2U, NREL’s repurposing cost calculator is available for free to download , enabling users to explore the effects of different repurposing strategies and assumptions on economics.

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MAY 23, 2024

So it’s surprising to learn that she almost dropped out in her first year of the engineering program at the University of California, Berkeley. “By Strouse is now a math professor at the Institut de Matheématique at the University of Bordeaux, in France. My heart is so much in the university; I can’t imagine ever leaving academia.”

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JUNE 21, 2016

The system utilizes BMW i3 high-voltage batteries and can be expanded to incorporate second-life batteries as they become available in the market. BMW i has worked with universities, national laboratories, utilities and industry partners to maximize residential energy efficiency.

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AUGUST 8, 2012

An additional 23 stations in areas such as Pasadena and Sacramento will connect these clusters into a regional network and include major destinations such as Napa, Santa Barbara and San Diego. This multi-pronged approach established the minimum number stations needed to provide convenient and reliable fueling for early FCEV customers.

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JULY 27, 2012

Oak Ridge National Laboratories, German Aerospace Center and San Diego State University will develop a novel external gas turbine combustor, which can be integrated with a hybrid CSP gas turbine power plant, said Dr. Brun. SwRI and industry collaborators Solar Turbines Inc.,

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MAY 23, 2024

So it’s surprising to learn that she almost dropped out in her first year of the engineering program at the University of California, Berkeley. “By Strouse is now a math professor at the Institut de Matheématique at the University of Bordeaux, in France. My heart is so much in the university; I can’t imagine ever leaving academia.”

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Charged EVs

JULY 1, 2024

There are 50 Wildcat people now working on this project exclusively, and we’ve got a partnership with McGill University, with a really sharp team led by Professor Jinhyuk Lee. From a performance standpoint, it’s made from mostly abundant and available low-cost materials. We see DRX as a breakthrough for the battery industry.

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AUGUST 1, 2017

Scientists at Rice University and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have predicted and created new two-dimensional electrocatalysts—low-cost, layered transition-metal dichalcogenides (MX 2 ) based on molybdenum and tungsten—to extract hydrogen from water with high performance and low cost. —co-author Jun Lou.

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JUNE 5, 2014

million to four separate projects (led by Stanford University, UC San Diego, Arizona State University, and Penn State) to develop multifunctional structural batteries for vehicles as part of its RANGE program for transformative EV storage. These are a trunk lid and a plenum cover, tested within the Volvo S80.

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JULY 2, 2010

Aptera, Aptera 2e (San Diego, CA) Battery Electric. Western Washington University, Viking 45 (Bellingham, WA) Gas/Electric Hybrid. Western Washington University, Viking 45 (Bellingham, WA) Gas/Electric Hybrid. Team standings and vehicle performance details are available at [link].

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DECEMBER 18, 2015

Sandia National Laboratories and Arizona State University (ASU) have teamed up to improve computational models of algae growth in raceway ponds that can predict performance, improve pond design and operation and discover ways to improve algae yield outdoors. — Ron Pate.

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MAY 19, 2024

Nearly every day since she was a child, Alex Leow, a psychiatrist and computer scientist at the University of Illinois Chicago, has played the piano. Leow suspects that fewer than a dozen are currently available to consumers.) Some days she plays well, and other days her tempo lags and her fingers hit the wrong keys.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 30, 2024

Anything single-use is problematic,” wrote Willy Legrand, a sustainable hospitality expert and a professor at the IU International University of Applied Sciences in Bad Honnef, Germany, in an email. She added that the comfort and hygiene associated with slippers has become a universal luxury standard today. In a 2018 study, Chekitan S.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2015

Leichter at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego, and a team led by Douglas C. The kelp will be processed into biocrude and further to hydrocarbons ready for commercial refineries. Our collaborators in this effort include a team led by Professor James J.

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