Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2020

Italy-based Snam, a global energy infrastructure company, and RINA, a global testing, inspection, certification and engineering consultancy services firm, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate in the hydrogen sector, in order to realize the significant potential of hydrogen as a fundamental energy carrier.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2021

Southwest Research Institute and The University of Texas at San Antonio (USTA) are collaborating to combine two catalytic processes into a single reactor, with the overall goal of recycling carbon from COCO 2 2 to produce low-cost hydrocarbon fuels.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The transportation sector is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States, accounting for about 28% of total carbon emissions. Like bioenergy, hydrogen sits at the center of NREL’s strategy for a transportation system decoupled from carbon emissions.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2020

This has resulted in a growing demand for a technology that can convert surplus renewable energy into hydrogen and transport the hydrogen to the target destination for utilization. Hydrogen gas, however, cannot be transported in large amounts due to the limitations in the amount that can be stored per unit volume.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2023

The ORR is the chemical reaction in the process that converts hydrogen and oxygen into water and electricity in a fuel cell and it limits the efficiency of the process. Hydrogen is considered a promising energy source for low-carbon and sustainable mobility.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

But, in many high-use areas and remote locations, upgrading grid connections to meet future charging demand is not practical or commercially viable. Low-cost ceramics enable temperatures beyond the limitations of metals to deliver fuel efficiencies of power plants in small-scale distributed power.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 11, 2020

A portfolio of options is available for a lower-carbon energy future, but “not every option in the portfolio is suitable everywhere,” Medlock wrote. For instance, certain regions are favorable for a build-out of intermittent renewable resources that can leverage transmission connections to large hydropower resources for load stability.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2017

The projects moving forward are part of ARPA-E’s Next-Generation Energy Technologies for Connected and Autonomous On-Road Vehicles (NEXTCAR) ( earlier post ) and Renewable Energy to Fuels Through Utilization of Energy-Dense Liquids (REFUEL) ( earlier post ) programs. Additional awardees are expected to move forward in the coming weeks.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2017

Researchers in the Rice University lab of chemist James Tour have produced dual-surface laser-induced graphene (LIG) electrodes on opposing faces of a plastic sheet that split water into hydrogen on one side and oxygen on the other side. A paper on the work is published in the journal ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2015

Researchers at Stanford University have developed a new low-voltage, single-catalyst water splitter that continuously generates hydrogen and oxygen. Currently, the state-of-the-art catalysts to split water are IrO 2 and Pt for oxygen evolution reaction (OER) and hydrogen evolution reaction (HER), respectively, with ~1.5 V

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2010

A graphene-oxide framework (GOF), formed of layers of graphene connected by boron-carboxylic “pillars.” GOFs such as this one are just beginning to be explored as a potential storage medium for hydrogen and other gases. In most storage materials, the lower the temperature, the more hydrogen uptake normally occurs. Credit: NIST.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2010

ARPA-E’s first solicitation awarded $151 million to 37 projects aimed at transformational innovations in energy storage, biofuels, carbon capture, renewable power, building efficiency, vehicles, and other areas. Novel Biological Conversion of Hydrogen and Carbon Dioxide Directly into Biodiesel. Earlier post.) Electrofuels.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2016

The JV, named Area 2 Energy, holds producing natural gas assets in Southern Alberta currently has 300 producing Natural Gas Wells connected to the pipeline with purchase and significant established operator contracts already in place. The shallow gas play produces an average of 1.1 million cubic feet per day by September 2016.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2020

Low-Cost Retrofit Kit for Integral Reciprocating Compressors to Reduce Emissions and Enhance Efficiency. The University of Oklahoma (Norman, OK) plans to develop, build, and validate a low-cost, field-installable, remotely-controlled natural gas compressor retrofit kit.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

The DOE Fuel Cell Technologies Office also issued a separate solicitation for work a broader range of hydrogen production technologies. ( Of interest are innovative materials and catalyst systems and processes capable of solar hydrogen production rates equal to or greater than 100 J/s-m 2. DE-FOA-0000826 ).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2020

With battery storage able to provide a unique role in balancing a renewable electricity grid, Toby Gill, CEO of Intelligent Power Generation, asks could innovations in green hydrogen and biofuel technologies contribute to a more optimized and economical energy mix? A line of electricity pylons in the UK countryside.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

A motor-generator integrated on each engine crankshaft will provide independent control to each piston and eliminate all torque transmitted across the mechanical crankshaft connection, thus reducing engine size, mass, cost, friction, and noise. Other transportation projects awarded OPEN funds are: Advanced Magnet Lab, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2010

They stress the importance of the scientific developments being connected to vehicle developers who understand implementation realities. geometric loadings of commercially optimized Pt/carbon black cathode catalysts, costing several thousands of dollars per vehicle. Wagner et al. Wagner et al. Fuel cells. Wagner et al.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Dr. Maruyama is a materials scientist, and his research focuses on carbon nanotubes and making research go faster. One is to get low-cost scientific tools like the 3D printer. Is that the 3D printer system or is that a— Maruyama: So we started with our system to grow carbon nanotubes. So there’s two models.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2015

The papers provide technical details on the high performance fuel-cell (FC) stack; specific insights into FC separator, and stack manifold; the newly developed boost converter; and the new high-pressure hydrogen storage system with innovative carbon fiber windings. Catalyst activity was boosted by a factor of 1.8

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2011

The agency has now set up a feature on its website, “ Fostering Applicant Connections ” to try to connect its “Encouraged Applicants” that were not selected for an award and potential investors, partners and customers. Carbon Capture (7). Building Efficiency (9). Conventional Energy (0).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 27, 2015

The resulting catalyst offers a carbon nanonetwork architecture made of microporous nanofibers decorated by uniformly distributed high-density active sites. The high price of platinum—the predominant electrocatalyst in fuel cells—is a major cost barrier for large-scale implementation of polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Researchers from Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Korea Institute of Energy Research (KIER), and Brookhaven National Laboratory have discovered a new family of non-precious metal catalysts based on ordered mesoporous porphyrinic carbons (M-OMPC) with high surface areas and tunable pore structures. Cheon et al.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2016

Secretary Moniz also announced that two innovative projects at CALSTART and the National Association of Regional Councils will receive $3 million to develop systems that help companies combine their purchasing of advanced vehicles, components, and infrastructure to reduce incremental cost and achieve economies of scale.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2016

Big Delta will demonstrate that the new process at the core of its manufacturing technology is scalable, reliable and significantly reduces the cost of manufacturing high-performance Li-ion cells. Connected Signals, working with ANL. Transient Plasma Systems, working with ANL. Sustainable Innovations, working with LANL. Description.

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Cars That Think

MAY 9, 2024

The accelerating buildout of solar farms on Earth is already hitting speed bumps, including public pushback against the large tracts of land required and a ballooning backlog of requests for new transmission lines and grid connections. These rectennas would then convert the signal to usable DC electricity.

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Drive Electric

MAY 16, 2023

Council alignment, network connections). There are barriers to private investment which are delaying the roll-out of public charging, with respect to connections to networks. But this needs to be achieved at a level of granularity that is of use for connection seekers.) Vision 4.1 Outcome 1 6.1 If not, please explain why.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

The combination of harvesting whole forests and burning long-sequestered carbon sources such as coal or oil has impaired the Earth’s carbon cycle at an increasing pace. To restore balance we must protect the oxygen-producing biomass of Earth and reduce the amount of carbon emissions. But use of petroleum will continue.

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Get Electric Vehicle

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The idea here is that you can connect your EV to the power grid and flow power from your EV to the Grid. Simulation of the vehicle to a grid-connected system at a private charging station and finding how to flatten the load curve. Carbon footprint from EV and IC engine vehicles 4. A BMS with low cost, high efficiency, etc.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2016

Section 1413 of the FAST Act requires that the Secretary of Transportation designates national EV charging, hydrogen, propane, and natural gas fueling corridors, and the nomination process will ensure that the corridors proposed for designation will create a national network of alternative fuel facilities.

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APRIL 21, 2009

Continues promotion and development of hydrogen as long-term strategy. Company says its focusing on gasoline and hydrogen. Blue Concept PHEV Van with diesel or hydrogen fuel cells and rooftop photovoltaic. The F6 DM uses ferrous batteries, with no lithium content, that BYD says are high-energy density and low cost.

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