Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Five of the 28 innovations will help protect the grid from wildfires/PSPSs, four of these five will provide climate and weather risk prediction to electric infrastructure and services, and one is a hard tech innovation to reinforce transmission lines. Leap Photovoltaics Inc.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2017

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside’s Bourns College of Engineering have used waste glass bottles and a low-cost chemical process to fabricate nanosilicon anodes for high-performance lithium-ion batteries. The UCR Office of Technology Commercialization has filed a patent application for the inventions above.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2021

Clean Energy Ventures , a $110-million venture capital firm investing in early-stage climate tech startups, is leading the investments in two battery startups: one in the upstream ( N th Cycle ) and one in the downstream ( Volexion ). million in funding from investors led by climate tech venture capital firm Clean Energy Ventures.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2018

After decades of stagnation and decline, the United States has re-emerged as a low-cost location for chemicals production thanks to the shale gas revolution, and is now home to around 40% of the global ethane-based petrochemical production capacity. The dynamism of the petrochemical industry is also driving new trends around the world.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2011

at Harsco’s world headquarters in Pennsylvania, taps into Harsco’s leadership serving the worldwide steel industry, in combination with LanzaTech’s proprietary bioenergy technologies for reducing the carbon footprint of integrated steelmaking operations by converting waste gas to ethanol and high value chemicals.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2012

The program, created by Assembly Bill 118, provides approximately $100 million annually to encourage the development and use of new vehicle technologies and alternative fuels to help the state fulfill its pioneering climate change policies. The award recipients are: CALSTART, Inc. SacPort Biofuels Corp.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2020

AOI 02: Low Cost Electric Traction Drive Systems Using No Heavy Rare Earth Materials. Low Cost, High-Performance, Heavy Rare Earth-Free 3-In-1 Electric Drive Unit. Low-Cost Rare-Earth Free Electric Drivetrain Enabled by Novel Permanent Magnets, Inverter, Integrated Design and Advanced Thermal Management.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2023

ARPA-E selected the following 12 teams from universities, national laboratories and the private sector to address and remove key technology barriers to EV adoption by developing next-generation battery technologies: 24M Technologies will develop low-cost and fast-charging sodium metal batteries with good low-temperature performance for EVs.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2014

Other projects focus on advancing lightweight materials research to help electric vehicles increase their range and reduce battery needs, and developing advanced climate control technologies that reduce energy used for passenger comfort and increase the drive range of plug-in electric vehicles. Description. Alcoa, Inc. 1,500,000 (DOE/Army).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2014

The Advanced Research In Dry cooling (ARID) program ( DE-FOA-0001197 ) aims to develop low-cost, highly efficient and scalable dry-cooling technologies for thermoelectric power plants. Dry-cooling systems—which use air to cool and transfer waste heat—are an appealing and potentially transformational alternative.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Technical targets in the Blueprint fall into four areas: battery R&D; electric drive system R&D; vehicle lightweighting; and advanced climate control technologies. Some specific goals for 2022 include: Cutting battery costs from their current $500/kWh to $125/kWh. Climate control technologies. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2011

Waste Heat Capture (2). In this topic, ARPA-E seeks to develop a new generation of ultra-high energy density, low-cost battery technologies for long electric range plug in hybrid electric vehicles and electric vehicles (EVs). Conventional Energy (0). Energy Storage (29). Grid (non-storage) (0). Industrial Efficiency (2).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

wasted energy in plants into energy-dense fuel molecules. High Performance, Low Cost Superconducting Wires and Coils. for High Power Wind Generators The University of Houston will develop a new, low-cost. American Superconductor will develop a new, low-cost. light energy. Lawrence Berkeley.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The selected projects will focus on technologies such as revolutionizing fuel cells for light- and heavy-duty vehicles, and technologies to generate less nuclear waste and reduce the cost of fuel. Select OPEN 2021 projects include: Synteris. Stanford University. The Ohio State University. University of Washington. Pratt & Whitney.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

The H2@Scale initiative will develop and enable the deployment of transformational technologies that produce and utilize green, low-cost hydrogen to achieve an economically competitive, deeply decarbonized future energy system across sectors. Click to enlarge. Increased energy system resiliency and flexibility.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2015

The projects are funded through ARPA-E’s two newest programs, Advanced Research In Dry cooling (ARID) and Accelerating Low-cost Plasma Heating and Assembly (ALPHA), which both seek to develop low-cost technology solutions. These projects have been selected for negotiation of awards; final award amounts may vary.

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Creative Greenius

MARCH 8, 2009

In a deal brokered by the city’s newly commissioned Citizens Environmental Task Force, Exxon/Mobil, owners of the Exxon/Mobil Refinery in the City of Torrance agreed today to fund a bond that will make low cost financing of solar energy systems for home and apartment owners. 4. Waste & Recycling.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

One uses smart biodigesters to better manage waste in Colombia’s rural areas. The other is focused on helping Turkish olive farmers protect their trees from climate change effects by providing them with a warning system that can identify growing problems. Vivian Estefanía Beltrán , a Ph.D.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2009

Increasing population, heightened per capita water demands, regional droughts, and concerns over climate change have combined to make water issues even more pressing. Develop cost-effective, environmentally responsible alternatives for supplying water for ice road/pad building.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2010

If we can again succeed like that, in a decade, we’ll look back and know that we got a great deal: safer, healthier, better lives, an economy no longer held hostage to petro-dictatorships and blindered, monopolistic companies, and a significant response to climate change. Over time, we can conserve by reducing the miles we drive.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2015

This quality control device will help to drive down the costs of fuel cells by reducing waste and improving the process efficiency of roll-to-roll manufacturing of polymer electrolyte membranes. High Loading Lithium-Ion Electrode Architecture for Low Cost Electric Vehicle Batteries Ballast Energy, Inc. 149,871.44.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 4, 2010

However, he adds, due to fluctuations in petroleum prices and recognition of dwindling reserves, trade imbalances, and political considerations, “ it is now possible to consider production of these inexpensive chemicals from low-cost starting materials such as starch, sucrose, or cellulosic biomass (e.g.,

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2013

Technical targets for the DOE plug-in vehicle program fall into four areas: battery R&D; electric drive system R&D; vehicle lightweighting; and advanced climate control technologies. Some specific goals include: Cutting battery costs from their current $500/kWh to $125/kWh. Advanced climate control auxiliary load reduction.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2015

Design, Deployment, and Validation of Advanced, Low-cost Mobile Hydrogen Refuelers. America’s Climate Communities of Excellence. The long-term goal of hydrogen production and delivery R&D is a high-volume hydrogen cost of. Subtopic 2a: Design, Deployment, and Validation of Advanced, Low-cost Mobile Hydrogen Refuelers.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2016

coal, biomass, or waste—is heated in the absence of molecular oxygen to produce a solid containing char and ash and volatile gases. lower cost) and gasification/F-T processes (e.g., In a patent application published 1 December 2015, Altex described the basic approach for its synthetic fuels processes. —US 9199889.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2023

plans to develop a novel membrane system from Osmoses’ proprietary polymer composition that can produce enriched oxygen from air for integration into modular gasification systems for low-cost hydrogen production. The team intends to demonstrate high-purity (greater than 98% by volume, preferably above 99.5%

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2012

Some specific improvements which are of interest, but are not limited to, include: new low-cost materials, improvements in manufacturing processes, speed or yield, improved cell/pack design minimizing inactive material, significant improvement in specific energy (Wh/kg) or energy density (Wh/L), and improved safety. Advanced Materials.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2015

For 2015, EPA announced a new award category for a green chemistry technology that has a “Specific Environmental Benefit: Climate Change.” Algenol, For Specific Environmental Benefit: Climate Change Award. This has led to improved biofuel productivity, higher economic returns, minimal waste production, and a lower carbon footprint.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2015

Areas of emphasis could include, but are not limited to, development of microbial strains or co-cultures with improved hydrogen yields; reactor designs to improve hydrogen production yields or reduce costs (e.g., Fuel Cell Technologies R&D: Low Platinum Group Metal Catalysts and Supports. 2 to 5 awards between $1M and $3M.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

will demonstrate its low-cost ICE-31 solvent with enhanced stability technology on a flue gas slipstream at Los Medanos Energy Center, a commercially dispatched natural gas combined-cycle power plant in Pittsburg, CA. plans to determine the cost-effectiveness of a low vacuum swing adsorption process for DAC. Susteon Inc.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2013

Advanced Climate Control Auxiliary Load Reduction. Further, alloying or coating pathways towards low-cost, effective passive films, have not been sufficiently explored in a sound and scientific way. AOI 11: Advanced Climate Control Auxiliary Load Reduction. Computer Aided Engineering for Electric Drive Batteries.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Each jelly-roll cell packs in more active battery material, and less wasted space in metal casing. That chemistry, once dismissed for its puny energy density, is suddenly prized for low cost, long life and reassuring safety; especially for entry-priced models. Yet this "bigger can" brings big benefits.

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Cars That Think

MAY 9, 2024

The thousands of rocket launches needed to loft and maintain these space power stations would dump lots of soot, carbon dioxide, and other pollutants into the stratosphere, with uncertain climate impacts. But that might be mitigated, in theory, if space solar displaced fossil fuels and helped the world transition to clean electricity.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 8, 2025

1,453) Make use of your food waste with Govees Smart Electric Composter at $300 Through its official Amazon storefront, Govee is offering a lightning deal on its latest Smart Electric Composter that is down at $299.98 . $1,653) XP 3.0 Black Standard e-bike, 20 to 28 MPH for 45-mile range: $999 ($1,453) XP Step-Thru 3.0 1,453) XP Step-Thru 3.0

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 26, 2023

Simple, effective solutions that can help lessen the impact of climate change already exist. The IEEE Life Fellow spoke during a session addressing the role of technology in delivering an equitable, sustainable, and low-carbon resilient world. Some of them still need to be implemented, though, while others need to be improved.

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APRIL 16, 2009

BYD makes about 80% of Motorolas RAZR handsets, as well as batteries for iPods and iPhones and low-cost computers, including the model distributed by Nicholas Negropontes One Laptop per Child nonprofit based in Cambridge, Mass. operations are small - about 20 people work in a sales and marketing outpost in Elk Grove Village, Ill.,

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2013

The facility will create biodiesel from renewable waste-based materials such as used cooking oil from restaurants. based in West Sacramento, was awarded $94,959 to determine the feasibility of using a catalyst to transform food waste into fuel in a single unit, thus simplifying production and lowering costs. C/e Solutions, Inc.

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