Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), with colleagues from Oregon State University, have developed PNNL a durable, inexpensive molybdenum-phosphide catalyst that efficiently converts wastewater and seawater into hydrogen. Like seawater, the MoP catalyst material is widely available, and therefore, cheap.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2021

In an open-access study published in the journal Sustainable Cities and Society , Francesco Orsi, of the Landscape Architecture and Spatial Planning Group, Wageningen University & Research, the Netherlands, suggests that widespread adoption of electric vehicles may have a negative impact on land use. —Orsi (2021). 2020.102680.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2022

Using an inexpensive polymer called melamine, researchers from UC Berkeley, Texas A&M and Stanford have created a cheap, easy and energy-efficient way to capture carbon dioxide from smokestacks. The low cost of porous melamine means that the material could be deployed widely.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2012

75% of the total production costs. Hence, in order to reduce the cost of biodiesel production, using cheaper feedstocks such as waste oil or low-quality oil has been proposed. Illustration of non-catalytic biodiesel conversion Credit: ACS, Kwon et al. Click to enlarge. L –1 —lower than those of all current biodiesel feedstocks.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2010

The average cost to trial participants for recharging at home is between 25p and £1 (US$0.40 The data analyzed by Aston University combines and compares the behavior patterns of 25 Mitsubishi i-MiEV drivers over two consecutive quarters. The low cost of ‘refuelling’ in relatively short periods of time reinforce this.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Nevertheless, because of the scarcity and cost of Pt, a more abundant alternative is needed for cost-effective implementation. Molly is dirt cheap and abundant. —co-author Jeff Brinker, Sandia Fellow and University of New Mexico professor. —Stan Chou. People want a non-platinum catalyst. —Bryan Kaehr.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Researchers at The Ohio State University have developed a novel strategy to improve the efficiency and performance of non-aqueous lithium-oxygen (Li-air) batteries. The state of the art is to use a solar panel to capture the light, and then use a cheap battery to store the energy. Any time you can do that, you reduce cost.

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Baua Electric

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Elon Musk is claiming that Tesla Robotaxi will be as cheap as the bus, which “won’t be needed” when it “rolls out unsupervised full self-driving.” The study came to the conclusion that autonomous rides in a Tesla Model 3 would cost about $0.663 per mile. Does the math work? FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2009

Electricity is a cheap entity—not a commodity, but is its fundamentally very cheap. maintain a system as well as maintain and recover and investment on it that is fundamentally very cheap. Director, Manufacturing Research Center, Western Michigan University. Assistant Professor, Michigan State University.

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Cars That Think

JULY 30, 2021

KAIST/Korea Polytechnic University The paper doesn't directly address the cost of the MHD, and with three motors and some other electronics in it, it's not likely to be super cheap. I'd expect it to cost at least USD $100, although perhaps it could get somewhat cheaper in volume.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2015

Although cellulosic biomass such as corn stover, wheat straw and bagasse (the fibrous remains after sugar is extracted from sugarcane or sorghum) is abundant and cheap, because of recalcitrance—a plant’s resistance to releasing sugars for conversion to alcohol—it is much more difficult to utilize than corn.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2014

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside’s Bourns College of Engineering have synthesized a porous nano-silicon material from beach sand (SiO 2 ) via a highly scalable heat scavenger-assisted magnesiothermic—i.e., using a combination of heat and magnesium—reduction. Favors et al. Click to enlarge. …we

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2015

Reduction in annual generation cost and external emissions costs due to controlled charging compared to uncontrolled charging ($2010). Stacked bars show the change in generation cost combined with the median damages by pollutant assuming the 2010 social cost of carbon given by the Office of Management and Budget ($31 in $2010).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2015

Researchers at Rutgers University have developed a new noble metal-free catalyst—Ni 5 P 4 (nickel-5 phosphide-4)—performing on par with platinum for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) in both strong acid and base. —Professor Martha Greenblatt, co-corresponding author.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 28, 2023

Inspired by the high-speed maneuvering of cheetahs, roboticists at the University of Cape Town, in South Africa , have started experimenting with the old-school sibling of hydraulic actuators—pneumatics. University of Cape Town, South Africa With a boom for support, the 7-kilogram Kemba is able to repeatedly jump to 0.5

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2017

A team of scientists from Penn State and Florida State University have developed a lower cost and industrially scalable catalyst consisting of synthesized stacked graphene and W x Mo 1–x S 2 alloy phases that produces pure hydrogen through a low-energy water-splitting process.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

"They're pointing to a legitimate problem," says Lee Reiners , executive director of the Global Financial Markets Center at Duke University. Lee Reiners, Duke University The coin at the heart of the proposal is controlled by a consortium of companies called the Diem (formerly Libra) Association , of which Facebook is a member.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 12, 2024

Putting a data center right next to a power plant so that it can draw electricity from it directly, rather than from the grid, is becoming more common as data centers seek out cheap, steady, carbon-free power. Proposals for co-locating data centers next to nuclear power have popped up in New Jersey , Texas, Ohio , and elsewhere.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 5, 2023

Moore is best known for his 1965 prediction, which would become known as Moore’s Law : the observation that the number of transistors on an integrated circuit would grow exponentially while the retail cost of computers would decrease. His projection came true over the decade that followed. After earning his Ph.D.,

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Plug In Partners

JANUARY 26, 2006

In the 1990s, as a mechanical-engineering professor at the University of California here, Dr. Frank produced another shocker. That was the Explorer's downfall last year in an annual contest held by the Department of Energy to see which American university could build the most efficient-running car. It had gobs of torque," he recalls.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

SOURCE: GARTNER Fortunately, we have access to an information storage technology that is cheap, readily available, and stable at room temperature for millennia: DNA , the material of genes. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. In a few years your hard drive may be full of such squishy stuff.

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EV Info

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Or in other words we are reliant on Putin to keep the light on and at his mercy on the cost of the gas. Right now, production is low in Russia, so the cost has increased. The unit cost of Gas in the UK is 4 times the price of US Gas. – Why, simple the US embraced Fracking to produce bountifully supplies of cheap gas.

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JULY 1, 2024

It offers similar performance, but manganese is very cheap, and it operates at a higher voltage, which enables a significant increase in energy density. 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.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Doctors at UPMC, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, have developed a new method that uses three distinct, relatively new, technologies, whole genome sequencing surveillance, and machine learning, and electronic health records to identify undetected outbreaks and their transmission routes.

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Green Charging

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

We do not want to waste money on cheap, low-quality commodities. This type is widely becoming accepted as the universal charger type. Ultimately, this will reduce the cost of EV related products. Since we live in a world of scarce resources, it pays to be more economical. We want to save money. Get a free EV charger quote now >.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 16, 2022

And so the cost of that right now is really, really high. Like the marine cloud brightening effort, I know that’s going on at the University of Washington and Xerox PARC, and they’ve got some cool on the ground experiments. Absolutely, but it’s not necessarily cheap and easy to do in an absolute sense. Wanser: Yes.

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Plug In India

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Read the C&EN research here Lithium right now is very expensive and Sodium is quite cheap. Also sodium is universally available. If the batteries were 30-40% cheaper, that would reduce the costs of EV’s. So there are lots of advantages for sodium-Ion batteries. First Sodium-Ion EV in 2023?

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Baua Electric

JULY 1, 2024

It offers similar performance, but manganese is very cheap, and it operates at a higher voltage, which enables a significant increase in energy density. 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.

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Baua Electric

JULY 9, 2024

Gordon, chairman of the department of health, human performance and recreation at Baylor University in Wako, Texas, largely because of the difference in the amount of muscle mass. But handcycles aren’t cheap. They can cost $10,000 to $15,000 or more.

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My Electric Car

AUGUST 21, 2020

In addition, it is subject to similar refining, storage and distribution costs currently associated with petrol and diesel, including upstream CO2 emissions where the electricity required is usually generated from fossil fuels. Hence its supply would not be cheap, renewable nor sustainable in the long term.

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Charged EVs

APRIL 19, 2023

Washington state has an abundance of power very cheap from all the hydro. I watched the BMW i3s at Delaware University [an early V2X pilot], and my mind was blown. Charged : For a fleet going electric using your service, are they looking at a cost per mile that’s equivalent to diesel, or does it depend? His name is Tom Gage.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The train ride from the village where he grew up to Central South Industrial University of Technology, where he earned his chemistry degree, took him by Yellow Mountain, a popular destination for hikers and tourists, but he has never visited there. "I didnt go then because we had no money," he says. Electric cars will be one answer.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2019

Researchers at the University of Waterloo (Canada), with a colleague in Sweden, have used a power management strategy greatly to extend the durability of onboard fuel cells in a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle: an increase of 1.8, times, respectively, for an urban, highway and a combined urban-highway driving cycle. —Zhang et al.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2019

In their commentary, Andreas Goldthau (Royal Holloway University of London), Kirsten Westphal (German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP)), Morgan Bazilian (Colorado School of Mines) & Michael Bradshaw (University of Warwick) present four geopolitical scenarios to illustrate how varied the transition could be by 2030.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 30, 2024

They all follow a universal template that Qoori developed to optimize the construction of the company’s ever-larger centers. Accenture, a consultancy, estimates that outfitting the whole industry for carbon capture could cost up to $900 billion. million square feet) of floor space. billion ($1.6

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 23, 2023

EVs ain’t cheap Price is another EV purchase risk that is comparable to EV range. How long GM will be able to keep that price in the face of battery cost increases and inflationary pressure, is anyone’s guess. Buying a new car is the second most expensive purchase a consumer makes behind buying a house.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2009

Dr. Don Paul is the Executive Director, University of Southern California Energy Institute and a former vice president and chief technology officer of Chevron. In general, the sponsor’s goal is to use as much cheap debt financing and as little equity as possible to complete the deal. Energy Markets in a State of Change.

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