Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Hydrokinetic energy is an abundant renewable resource that can boost grid resiliency and reduce infrastructure vulnerability, but it is currently a cost prohibitive option compared to other energy generating sources. The University of Michigan proposes the RAFT concept as a solution for hydrokinetic energy harvesting.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2021

These conductivity-enhanced materials have the potential to lower the costs and impacts of adding renewables and electric cars to the grid, maximize next-generation energy storage technologies, and support electrification for energy-intensive sectors.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2021

These new SCALEUP teams are receiving funding to support the scaling of high-risk and potentially disruptive new electric vehicle battery, data center efficiency, grid modernization, emissions mitigation, and storage technologies. This project will demonstrate that the IM PE can be a low-cost component in safe, solid-state Li-ion batteries.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2017

a leading provider of LiDAR sensors and smart sensing solutions, are collaborating to design an automotive headlight concept with built-in Quanergy S3 solid state LiDAR sensors ( earlier post ). Koito Manufacturing Co., the largest global maker of automotive headlights, and Quanergy Systems, Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

DOE’s Coal FIRST (Flexible, Innovative, Resilient, Small, Transformative) initiative is intended to develop the coal plant of the future needed to provide secure and reliable power to the US grid. Evaluation of potential future power plant concept designs assisted in defining the R&D sought under this FOA.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2023

Projects from this solicitation, which will be implemented over the next 1–3 years, will focus on lowering the cost of heliostats and heliostat technologies and creating new market opportunities for the heliostat industry. Low-cost heliostats offer significant renewable energy potential.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

million to develop an advanced smart charging technology that maintains plug-in electric vehicle consumer needs while reducing charging loads, to achieve electricity grid benefits. The proposed project addresses the problem of access and signals/controls for local data streams in order to control electricity systems loads for grid management.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

Preliminary analysis performed by the national laboratories on the H2@Scale concept indicated that nearly a 50% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions is possible by 2050 via such large-scale hydrogen production and use. commercial viability of fuel cell vehicle technology has been demonstrated (commercial vehicles being sold).

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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. Points plotted here show the highest efficiency reported in five-year intervals.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Under the agreement, Anglo American Platinum has committed to fund development and testing of the planned home generator product, which will be capable of providing primary power to homes in remote African communities that are without access to the electrical grid.

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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

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Specifically, the project will demonstrate a 50-kW capacitive wireless charging system with 150 kW/m 2 power transfer density and 95% efficiency, while meeting fringing-field safety standards and increasing grid reliability by minimizing power pulsations. Stanford University. The Ohio State University. University of Washington.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2011

The new research and development funding will support four areas of investment, including improving the efficiency and performance of solar cells; developing new installation—or balance of systems—technologies; advancing solar energy grid integration; and researching new materials and processes for solar PV technologies.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2011

Yet-Ming Chiang (co-founder of A123 Systems), report on their development of a new energy storage concept—a semi-solid flow cell (SSFC) combining the high energy density of rechargeable batteries with the flexible and scalable architecture of fuel cells and flow batteries—in a paper published in the journal Advanced Energy Materials.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 18, 2018

The EMN consortia have been established to make unique, world-class capabilities at the national laboratories more accessible to industry, facilitating collaborations that will expedite the development and manufacturing of advanced materials for commercial markets. Topic 3: Innovative Concepts. A/mg PGM at 0.1

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Cars That Think

APRIL 15, 2022

As the pressure to decarbonize electricity grids mounts, so does the need to have long-term storage options for power generated from renewables. While rechargeable batteries are the solution of choice for consumer-level use, they are impractical for grid-scale consideration. A long road, in other words, lies ahead.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 14, 2022

Thermal energy storage is a known low-cost, low-risk approach for storing solar energy in the form of heat,” adds Codd. to test the concept for the first time. Therefore, regardless of the conversion technology, at large scales solar infrastructure has to be low cost per unit area.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Low-cost electric traction drive systems using no heavy rare earth materials. The objective of this potential area of interest is to research, develop, and test a heavy rare earth mineral free advanced motor and inverter drive system that costs ? construction, mining, forestry, etc.). Technology integration.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Ecolectro is developing alkaline exchange ionomers (AEIs) to enable low-cost fuel cell and electrolyzer technologies. Ecolectro’s AEIs would be resilient to the harsh operating conditions present in existing alkaline exchange membranes that prevent their widespread adoption in commercial applications. University of Delaware.

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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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Li-ion Ni-Li Vehicles Grid 150

Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2011

Electrochemical behavior of the proof-of-concept battery. note that an aqueous cathode has a low viscosity and can be easily circulated in a flow-through configuration at room temperature. However, the capacity of an aqueous cathode is small.requiring the concept to be extended to a flow-through mode for the cathode.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Jayme Thornton PPPL researchers say their simpler machine demonstrates a way to build stellarators far more cheaply and quickly, allowing researchers to easily test new concepts for future fusion power plants. Even the strongest permanent magnets wouldn’t be capable of confining plasma robustly enough to produce commercial-scale fusion power.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2013

That is about three times as much power per square centimeter as other membrane-less system—a power density that is an order of magnitude higher than that of many lithium-ion batteries and other commercial and experimental energy-storage systems. Batteries Power Generation Smart Grid' —Braff et al. Braff, Martin Z.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The new ARPA-E selections focus on accelerating innovations in clean technology while increasing US competitiveness in rare earth alternatives and breakthroughs in biofuels, thermal storage, grid controls, and solar power electronics. High Performance, Low Cost Superconducting Wires and Coils. National Renewable. Corporation).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding $57 million, including nearly $11 million under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, to support clean energy technology commercialization projects for 33 small businesses across the country. DOE Funding: $3,000,000. DOE Funding: $3,000,000. Strategic Polymer Sciences, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2009

The scalable nature of nuclear plants built around the B&W mPower reactor would provide customers with practical power increments of 125 MWe to meet local energy needs within power grid and plant site constraints. A planned five-year operating cycle without refueling is intended to provide a low-cost approach to plant operations.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 15, 2014

in the past few years important factors have emerged that are re-accelerating the commercialization of hydrogen and fuel cell technologies. Low-cost shale gas has improved the prospects for natural gas-derived hydrogen, especially in the United States, where it is a major force in the resurgence of federal interest in hydrogen energy.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2014

Area Of Interest (AOI) 1: Development of Low-Cost, High-Strength Automotive Aluminum Sheet. This AOI is to address two major technical gaps in the performance of automotive aluminum alloys: Low strength among cost competitive automotive sheet alloys such as 5xxx and 6xxx series. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2020

These projects will work to develop digital twin technology to reduce O&M costs in the next generation of nuclear power plants. Advanced nuclear reactors have the potential to provide reliable and low-cost clean power to millions of American homes.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2010

The purpose of this Phase III program is for the grantee to pursue commercial applications of work that derives from, extends, or logically concludes effort(s) performed under prior (Phase I/II) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) or Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) funding agreements. Buildings Technologies.

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Fuel Motors Motor Motoring 210

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2009

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). Batteries for Electrical Energy Storage in Transportation (BEEST).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2017

The new pump could facilitate high efficiency, low-cost thermal storage, providing a new way to store renewable energy generated by wind and solar power, and facilitate an improved process for generating hydrogen directly from fuels such as methane without producing carbon dioxide. . … —Amy et al.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2013

Further, alloying or coating pathways towards low-cost, effective passive films, have not been sufficiently explored in a sound and scientific way. Magnesium (AZ or AM series commercial alloy). A current baseline shall be established, including the assembly mass, material composition, material properties, and cost.

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Li-ion Fuel Vehicles Lithium Ion 240

Green Car Congress

MAY 22, 2012

Deepflex researchers will design concepts for light-weight, flexible risers that allow for safe installation, will be capable of faster and easier repair than conventional risers and provide a stronger product that is less apt to rupture. Low Cost Flexible Production System for Remote Ultra-Deepwater Gulf of Mexico Field Development.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

At present, PHEV technology alone is equipped to improve the current electric grid. The car can refuel during periods of low demand on the grid, and if equipped with a bi-directional charger, can actually replenish the grid with excess energy gleaned from a renewable resource. Appendix D: Vehicle Driving Statistics.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

The projects were selected through a merit-based process from thousands of concept papers and hundreds of full applications. sunlight through low-cost, plastic light-guiding sheets and then. gas, the first step in the commercial process of converting natural. If successful, the new crop would have a lower cost of.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2011

Imagine the change to this outlook if these companies were required to provide 20 percent of the power they generated from an alternative energy source in order to provide any power to the grid. The market would focus, consolidate and find some very innovative ways to produce low-cost clean energy. cents/ kWh in Hawaii to 5.61

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