Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Chicago O’Hare would demand the equivalent of 719 tonnes of liquid hydrogen per day. Only a few hundred airports support flights that travel more than 4,800 kilometers globally.) Chicago O’Hare, for instance, would demand the equivalent of 719 tonnes of liquid hydrogen per day. The first challenge is hydrogen production.

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Green Car Congress

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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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 20, 2013

A new Chicago-based research center using advanced computational methods to understand the rapid growth of cities will receive a $500,000 grant from the John D. We’re seeing accelerated urbanization globally, outpacing traditional tools and methods of urban design and operation. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

The University of Illinois at Chicago has received a $1.44-million The global market for 2D materials is expected to reach $390 million within a decade. During the four year grant cycle, Salehi-Khojin and Klie will be assisted by researchers at Washington University of St. This will be revolutionary.

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APRIL 30, 2019

In contrast, the global experiences from carbon markets and taxes make clear that much less expensive ways to reduce CO 2 are available right now. —co-author Michael Greenstone, the Milton Friedman Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and director of the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC).

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 24, 2019

The first poll, from the University of Chicago Energy. After a year of record fires in California and floods in Texas and on the East Coast, more Americans are taking climate change seriously—and significant portions are willing to take financial steps to combat it.

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Cars That Think

JULY 14, 2022

IEEE BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING AWARD Sponsors: the IEEE Circuits and Systems , Engineering in Medicine and Biology , and Signal Processing societies NIRMALA (NIMMI) RAMANUJAM Duke University Durham, N.C. For more globally accessible technology for women's health related to cancer screening, diagnosis, and treatment.” IEEE JAMES L.

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Baua Electric

AUGUST 8, 2024

Some of those deals include plans for commercial eVTOL air taxi operations with United Airlines in Chicago and, most recently, Southwest Airlines in California , including Los Angeles. That’s on top of established cooperation agreements for international eVTOL travel networks in regions like the United Arab Emirates and South Korea.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2017

Breathing vanadium-rich aerosols has unknown but potentially adverse health impacts, according to the researchers, who note that the human impacts on the global vanadium cycle parallel impacts on the global cycles for lead and mercury. For example, one of North America’s largest coke refineries is on the southeast side of Chicago.

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Cars That Think

MAY 1, 2024

The other would show the Ptolemaic, or geocentric, sky, with the viewer fully immersed in the view, as if standing on the surface of the Earth, seemingly at the center of the universe. The first planetarium in the western hemisphere opened in Chicago in May 1930. Today more than 4,000 planetariums are in operation globally.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2011

The following are the winning submissions: Matthew Henchey and Tejswaroop Geetla, University of Buffalo, Emergency Response Application of DSRC Technology. Venkatesan Ekambaram, Kannan Ramchandran and Raja Sengupta, University of California Berkeley, Robust GPS: Enhancing Accuracy and Security Using DSRC.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2018

The Anthropocene Institute addresses global resource and energy issues, including ocean conservation, through technology and policy development, This technology is so important because, despite the industry’s best intentions, oil spills continue to happen, and existing cleanup methods are surprisingly inadequate.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 31, 2021

To surmount these shortcomings, researchers at the Tian Research Lab at the University of Chicago have been working on a carbon-based nanomaterial that is more biocompatible, electrically efficient, and non-toxic. A paper describing their work was published in 2020, and in August 2021, they took out a patent for the technology.

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JANUARY 13, 2011

Participants in the project include Cargill, Johnston Timber, Aquaflow, Blue Marble Energy, National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Michigan Technological University. GTI Biorenewables: Vision, Challenges, Programs, and Status (presentation Chicago Chapter AIChE 15 September 2009). CRI/Criterion Inc., Integrated Hydropyrolysis and.

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Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 31, 2023

According to Navigant Research, global revenue generated by ride-hailing services is expected to grow to almost $1.2 as well as 600 universities throughout the country. German executives see an increased global interest in using cars as a service, with consumers and fleet managers paying by the minute, hour, and day.

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Cars That Think

JULY 30, 2023

Global sales top US $45 billion a year, on their way to more than $100 billion in the coming decade. It was manufactured in small volumes by Exxon, appeared at an electric vehicle show in Chicago in 1977, and served briefly as a coin cell battery. Goodenough at the University of Oxford was the next scientist to pick up the baton.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

In a speech at the National Press Club, US Energy Secretary Steven Chu said that the success of China and other countries in clean energy industries represents a new “Sputnik Moment” for the United States, and will require a similar mobilization of innovation to enable the US to compete in the global race for the jobs of the future.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Electric vehicles charged in coal-heavy regions can create more human health and environmental damages from life cycle air emissions than gasoline vehicles, according to a new consequential life cycle analysis by researchers from Carnegie Mellon University.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2016

Texas A&M University will lead the Gulf Coast center—a region anchored in the chemical, oil and gas sectors—and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) will lead the Northeast center, where glass, ceramic and microelectronic manufacturing has a strong presence. Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute (Chicago, IL).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 18, 2022

In an open-access report in the journal Environmental Pollution , researchers from UCLA and the University of Chicago estimate that California’s wildfire carbon dioxide equivalent (CO 2 e) emissions from 2020 (~127 mmt CO 2 e ) are approximately two times higher than California’s total greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions since 2003.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2009

Without decisive action, climate change this century is likely to accelerate at a much faster pace and cause more environmental damage than predicted, according to Professor Chris Field of Stanford University, and a leading member of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Chris Field.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Fossil fuel-driven particulate air pollution cuts global average life expectancy by 1.8 years per person, according to a new pollution index and accompanying report produced by the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC). Seventy-five percent of the global population, or 5.5

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2013

SMART is focusing on global urban regions, and has identified five “themes” that fill unaddressed gaps and guide and inform the program’s collaborative research, pilot projects, and education activities. The initiative, which funds 10 global sustainability research projects in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Russia and the United States.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2016

The global Maven team includes more than 40 dedicated employees from the connected car technology industry as well as ride- and car-sharing professionals from Google, Zipcar and Sidecar. initially focusing on serving faculty and students at the University of Michigan. Residential. Peer-to-Peer.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2009

Companies and universities in Michigan are receiving more than $1 billion of the grants. Construction of US manufacturing capabilities to produce the second-generation GM global rear-wheel electric drive system. Manufacturing: Elkhart County, IN; Deployment: Portland, Chicago, and Sacramento. West Virginia University (NAFTC).

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Plug In Partners

JUNE 27, 2006

Fleet Orders · Minnesota Department of Natural Resources – 1,800 · City of Chicago - 850 vehicles · Shohomish County, WA - 300 · City of Seattle - 410 · Kansas City, MO - 120 · Capital Metro (Transit agency in Austin) - 165 · ABC Lawn and Pest Control (Austin) - 150 Cities Cities continue to join the Plug-In Partners coalition.

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Cars That Think

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. Globally, one in 8 people live with a mental illness, including 40 million with bipolar disorder. Over the years, she noticed a pattern: How well she plays depends on her mood.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 29, 2022

Quantum technology relies on quantum effects that can arise because the universe can become a fuzzy place at its very smallest levels. DETECTING COVID: Another promising quantum sensor could lead to faster, cheaper and more accurate tests for the SARS-CoV-2 virus behind the global pandemic.

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AUGUST 17, 2015

Predicted Land Use Change emissions by different studies over time. Source: ERC. Click to enlarge. Technology Innovation at the Biorefinery.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

He credited their winged invention as “the World Wide Web of that era,” one that shifted the world into a global perspective. It was at the university’s flight-instruction program that he met Stu Moment, who would later become his business partner. Players piloted a Cessna 182 in four real-world areas, including Chicago and Seattle.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

University of Michigan professor emeritus John Leslie King , who has long studied the auto industry. Global EV Outlook 2021, IEA, Paris shows 2020 EV sales in the first column; in the second column, projected sales under current climate mitigation policies; in the third column, projected sales under accelerated climate mitigation policies.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

As University of Michigan professor emeritus and student of system-human interactions John Leslie King observes “People find ways to use systems for their own benefit not anticipated by designers and developers. Trying to predict where EV policy decisions having global ramifications might eventually lead is nigh impossible.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 1, 2023

It started out as a means of running Amazon’s own platform and has since grown into a company that offers similar services to other companies and even university researchers. dollars (or other currencies, as Amazon is a global business) on demand. Netflix is AWS’s largest customer. Keeping its entire reserve in U.S.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 17, 2023

By some estimates, upwards to 80,000 auto workers and a similar number in the auto supply chain have already been laid off globally to support the EV transition. By some estimates , upwards to 80,000 auto workers and a similar number in the auto supply chain have already been laid off globally to support the EV transition.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Hybrid Electric Vehicle Technologies www.hevt.com Chicago, IL converts Ford F-150 pickup trucks. Hybrid Center at the University of California-Davis : under Prof. About CalCars Plug-In Hybrids FAQ How to Get a PHEV Where PHEVs are Carmakers Say. We believe both NiMH and Li-Ion are ready. Frank has formed Efficient Drivetrains, Inc.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Our PRIUS+ Project Photos PHEV Resources Global Warming Take Action News and Events Contact Us Where Plug-In Hybrid Conversions (mostly Priuses) Are This is a mirror of the map at Googles RechargeIt site (including icons for YouTube videos on both PHEVs and EVs). Argonne National Labs PHEV Prius by Hybrids Plus , July 2007, (Chicago IL).

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APRIL 21, 2009

Our PRIUS+ Project Photos PHEV Resources Global Warming Take Action News and Events Contact Us How Carmakers are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity If you ask, "have major auto-makers come around on PHEVs?", About CalCars Plug-In Hybrids FAQ How to Get a PHEV Where PHEVs are Carmakers Say. todays answer is "Yes -- but not yet."

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