Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) have demonstrated the first visible-light photoelectrochemical system for water splitting using TiO 2 enhanced with cobalt. The proposed approach is simple and represents a stepping stone in the quest to achieve affordable water splitting to produce hydrogen. —Prof.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2015

are now collaborating to enhance Cooperative-Intelligent Transportation Systems (C-ITS) applications in powered two-wheelers (PTWs) and are working together to establish a Connected Motorcycle Consortium. The three companies have already gained experience with connected vehicle technology in several European field tests.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

BMW is showcasing new solutions for the “connected car” under the BMW ConnectedDrive banner at the IFA 2015 show in Berlin (4–9 September 2015), one of the world’s leading consumer electronics and home appliance fairs. One of the company’s focal points at the IFA are a pair of apps designed for operating functions inside connected houses.

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The Truth About Cars

JANUARY 2, 2024

Rivian has filed a patent for a full-size spare wheel mount designed to accommodate additional components that can enhance the capabilities of the all-electric R1S SUV. Undermining that premise is the fact that Rivian wants the storage container to be connected to the infotainment system.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 27, 2021

FlagshipONE will be connected to Övik Energi’s combined heat and power (CHP) plant Hörneborgsverket in Örnsköldsvik, in the north of Sweden. The new facility will upcycle carbon dioxide emissions and combine this with green hydrogen, made from renewable electricity and water to produce eMethanol.

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EVolution

MARCH 16, 2021

The Zappi is designed to integrate with home battery systems like the Tesla Powerwall, units that charge and store power from your renewable sources; however, a few things must be done to seamlessly integrate your Zappi and control your power usage and priority. Let’s break it down and explore charging from a home battery.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2022

Featuring a patented design, the new spring won over the automaker due primarily to its significant weight advantage in the unsprung mass as well as its performance. Because they connect the wheels to the chassis, suspension springs play a vital role in influencing a vehicle’s safety and how it handles.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2014

The US Department of Energy (DOE) released a new report that frames an integrated challenge and opportunity space around the water-energy nexus for DOE and its partners and lays the foundation for future efforts. Present day water and energy systems are tightly intertwined. Source: DOE. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Faithful in its design and technology to its concept predecessor, revealed earlier this year ( earlier post ), the production-ready bZ4X is the first model to be developed by Toyota entirely as a BEV. This completely new platform has the flexibility to be used for potential future bZ models and is designed for production at scale.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

The new module has a wide voltage range (400 to 750 V) and can be directly connected to an existing electrical instrument provided with a motor, inverter, and battery, etc., Schematic example of connecting the FC module to an external device. In addition, the system’s modularization greatly improves convenience.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2022

It will be the first in its segment to offer best-in-class connected features as standard across all trims, that are usually offered in more premium cars. is based on the Ziptron technology—Tata Motors’ in-house developed globally competitive high voltage architecture designed for unique Indian driving and weather conditions.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 4, 2022

AT&T named him chief scientist, and in that position he worked on developing architecture and protocols for a large-scale Internet so that customers could connect to it from their homes. His research interests included the design and fabrication of neuromorphic devices and circuits, flash memories, and silicon quantum devices.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2021

As Ford continues the most profound transformation in our history with electrification, connectivity and automation, advancing our collaboration with the University of Michigan will help us accelerate superior experiences for our customers while modernizing our business. Self-driving vehicles and their role in the future of cities.

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Clean Fleet Report

APRIL 10, 2024

As these incidents become increasingly prevalent, EV manufacturers and stakeholders must design resilient systems and frameworks to withstand such events, especially in disaster-prone areas. Charger compatibility is also a huge concern as software connections can vary significantly by vehicle and charging equipment type.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2012

Aisin Seki electric water cooling pump installed in engine (red circle). Cars traditionally use mechanical water cooling pumps, which have a flow rate dependent on the engine speed. Electric cooling pumps offer greater control over the water flow allowing significant fuel economies. © Aisin Seiki. Click to enlarge. Background.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 13, 2024

I just splash water on my face in the morning and I use Environ Retinol Serum 1. At night I splash my face with water and use three pumps of the Environ moisturizer again. In such references, the London-based designer says, “there’s a balance of practicality and romanticism that I’m also trying to create within the collection.”

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2023

Porsche and the Frauscher Shipyard in Austria are developing an electric yacht—the Frauscher x Porsche 850 Fantom Air—that is intended to set standards on the water with its typical Porsche E-Performance. Porsche has optimized and further developed its drive technology designed for road vehicles for use on the water.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2020

the developer of a technology to produce renewable hydrogen using sunlight and water ( earlier post ), is working with Suzhou GH New Energy Co. The panel has a modular design that can be scaled up for a larger panel with the ability to change out individual cells. HyperSolar, Inc., —Tim Young, CEO of HyperSolar. ZL201580026002.0

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Researchers at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) have determined that biochar, a substance produced from plant matter, is a safe, effective and inexpensive method to treat flowback water following hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. —Maoqi Feng, SwRI.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2022

Leclanché SA has completed development of a third-generation marine battery system designed to support the needs of ship builders in producing 100% electric and hybrid marine vessels. The system will begin shipping in 2023 and has already been specified in several major design wins including Scandlines’ 10MWh PR24 zero-emission freight ferry.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

A team from UCLA and colleagues from Tarbiat Modares University and Shahed University in Iran have devised an integrated solar-powered system for both electrochemical energy storage and water electrolysis. A paper on their work is published in the journal Energy Storage Materials. Wh kg −1 with specific power of 37.9

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The system pierces the housing, applying the water exactly where it is needed: to cool the cells and modules in the battery housing. The system consists of two main components, an extinguishing unit and a control unit, connected to each other with hoses. The water fills the battery housing completely and thus ensures efficient cooling.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Miles of fabrics are immersed in gigantic “washing machines” full of dye and water. Alchemie’s machines dye cotton using 95 percent less water and 70 percent less energy. They dye polyester using 95 percent less water and 85 percent less energy. They dye polyester using 95 percent less water and 85 percent less energy.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2021

of hydrogen is currently produced via water electrolysis and only a fraction of this production is powered by renewable energy. The solar-grid scenario assumed that the hydrogen site is connected to the regional grid—the North West Interconnected System (NWIS) of Western Australia. According to the IEA, less than 0.1%

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

While most oil spills in US waters are small, spilled crude oil can still cause damage to sensitive areas such as beaches, mangroves and wetlands. Bolted connections have accelerated the rate of pipeline accidents that result in leakage, according to the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Elon Musk used Tesla’s much-anticipated Battery Day presentation not to disclose some super cell, but to outline an aggressive, comprehensive and radically innovative approach to battery design, manufacturing and vehicle integration that he projected will result in a 56% reduction in cost/kWh and a $25,000 electric vehicle in about three years.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2023

The new ELT3000 PLUS is specifically designed for leak testing ready-filled lithium-ion and sodium-ion battery cells by direct detection of electrolyte solvent leaking into a vacuum chamber. Testing systems can be designed to operate at the battery cell manufacturer’s line speed to keep pace with cell production.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Top-fired and available in two different design pressures, the Aalborg OL is a vertical, two-drum cylindrical boiler. Straight tubes connect the water and steam drums directly, which ensures safe circulation with no risk of overheating and subsequent tube burnout. Source: Alfa Laval. Source: Alfa Laval.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2022

C and boast 97% design efficiency. We’re delighted to deliver power-conversion technology designed specifically to meet the demands of commercial vehicle electrical systems. Additionally, the HPLB terminals are waterproof up to one meter deep and strong enough to withstand high-pressure water spray.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 14, 2023

Gravel roads will connect to all Project infrastructure and will extend from the Greater Mooses Tooth 2 (GMT-2) development southwest toward the Project area. President Biden will also take action to designate approximately 2.8

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

SHARKS teams will develop new economically competitive Hydrokinetic Turbines (HKT) designs for tidal and riverine currents. SHARKS teams will address this barrier by designing new, efficient HKT systems that utilize America’s tidal, riverine, and ocean resources to develop economically attractive energy generation opportunities.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2016

As the V OC of the presented c-Si cells is only ∼600 mV, four cells need to be connected in series to achieve stable water splitting performance. We demonstrate in this study that, thanks to their high V OC , three series-connected SHJ cells can already stably drive the water splitting reaction at unprecedented SHE.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

It will carry up to 42 cars and 300 passengers and speeds of up to twelve knots and connect the mainland port city of Millhaven, Ontario with Stella on Amherst Island. The BESS, which will be charged by the harbor grid, is connected to the ferry charger via 1800 kW DC-DC converters. MWh Leclanché Battery System.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2023

These actions do not affect the hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicle (FCEV) currently in production as the truck’s battery pack has a different design. on 23 June 2023.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2021

NuScale Power and Prodigy Clean Energy , a Canadian company that designs and develops marine nuclear plants, announced a second Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to support business development opportunities for a marine-deployed nuclear generating station powered by the NuScale Small Modular Reactor (SMR).

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Cars That Think

JUNE 4, 2024

Research groups from major chipmakers and universities demonstrated a variety of hard-fought improvements, with a few—including from Imec , Intel , and Sony —showing results that could lead to a record density of connections between 3D stacked chips of around 7 million links in a square millimeter of silicon.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2016

US President Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau jointly announced sweeping restrictions to offshore oil and gas leasing in the US and Canadian Arctic waters. Obama designated the vast majority of US waters in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas as indefinitely off limits to offshore oil and gas leasing. It’s uncharted waters.”.

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