Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University may have found a way to revitalize rechargeable lithium batteries, potentially boosting the range of electric vehicles and battery life in next-gen electronic devices. —Yi Cui.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2012

Most current split-cycle designs use a gas crossover passage or intermediate chamber to connect discrete cylinder pairs. The vertical purple part located between the two engine sides is the custom designed connecting plate that hosts the crossover valve. Crossover valve and cylinder connecting plate. Click to enlarge.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 8, 2024

Richards-Kortum is a professor of bioengineering at Rice University , in Houston, and codirector of the Rice360 Institute for Global Health Technologies , which is developing affordable medical equipment for underresourced hospitals. Before, I had no idea that college professors did something called research. After earning her Ph.D.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2012

Ultimately, the lab will create an “innovation network” connecting Ford’s Advanced Design Studio in Irvine, Calif., and Ford employees working with connectivity platform partner Microsoft Corp. An open attitude to new ideas is critical to solving the transportation, environmental and societal challenges we expect in the future.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 15, 2021

A team at the University of Oregon is working to give bicyclists smoother rides by allowing them to communicate with traffic signals via a mobile app. The latest report to come out of this multi-project research effort introduces machine-learning algorithms to work with their mobile app FastTrack.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

9 Universities and Labs: Colorado School of Mines; Michigan State University; Michigan Tech University; The Ohio State University; University of Kentucky; University of Michigan; University of Notre Dame; University of Tennessee; Wayne State University. ThermoCalc; TIMET; Trumpf, Inc.;

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

At CES 2015 in January, Ford CEO Mark Fields announced “Ford Smart Mobility”—a plan to use innovation to take Ford to the next level in connectivity, mobility, autonomous vehicles, the customer experience and big data. Big Data Connected vehicles Mobility services Sensors Urban mobility' Earlier post.) Shoup, Donald.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2022

Battery researchers at the University of Eastern Finland have developed a self-standing mesoporous silicon (Si) film anode for lithium-ion batteries. This film electrode does not need carbon additives and binders to connect particles as do typical slurry-based electrodes, but it still exhibits excellent battery performance.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2019

The Mobility Center is envisioned as a public-private partnership of governmental entities, leading universities, electric utilities, technology and automotive companies, and venture capitalists. The Mobility Center will build on the ATOS model by providing a full life cycle suite of services from idea all the way to market.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2014

Lithium-ion batteries could benefit from a theoretical model created at Rice University and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory that predicts how carbon-based anodes will perform. The descriptor connects to properties that may be quite complex. It doesn’t exactly tell you how strong the person will be, but it gives you some idea.

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Get Electric Vehicle

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Here is a collection of the project ideas related to the electric vehicle. We have published a video “ Top 75 electric vehicle related project ideas ” on our YouTube channel “ Get Electric Vehicle ” Now, here is a collection of the comments and responses to those comments in that video. Thank you.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2019

The new initiative started with a hackathon which took place on 10-11 December, on the Campus of XU Exponential University in Potsdam, Germany, in order to adapt the “Tuban Xiong” app to the requirements of the German market. Five teams created five completely new and different ideas.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Basically, the idea is to control a variety of vehicle functions on a uniform, centralized computer platform instead of providing every system with its own hardware and software as today. Connected vehicles Controls and controllers Driver Assistance Systems Electric (Battery) V2X' Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2019

Hongjie Dai and his research lab at Stanford University have developed a prototype that can generate hydrogen fuel from seawater. Water splitting with electricity—electrolysis—is a simple and old idea: a power source connects to two electrodes placed in water. Image credit: Courtesy of H. —Hongjie Dai.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2013

The reviewers were Giuseppe Levi, Bologna University; Evelyn Foschi, Bologna; Torbjörn Hartman, Bo Höistad, Roland Pettersson and Lars Tegnér, Uppsala University; and Hanno Essén, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. The original idea behind Rossi’s invention goes back to experiments done in the nineties by S.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Volkswagen Group Research, together with the German Post Office (Deutsche Post AG) and the University of Art at Braunschweig formed a think tank on future transport and mobility issues. These research activities led to the eT! vehicle concept for the delivery and logistics field.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2016

The move is part of an expansion of an innovative program designed to drive the future of mobility, announced the University of Michigan Center for Entrepreneurship, in partnership with the U-M Mobility Transformation Center. The students help bring connected and driverless innovations closer to market.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2010

University of South Florida researchers say they have definitively connected clouds of degraded underwater oil found in the northern Gulf of Mexico to the Deepwater Horizon well (MC252) through Compound-Specific Isotope Analysis (CSIA). What we have learned completely changes the idea of what an oil spill is. David Hollander.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2018

The selected organizations (and project descriptions) from this first call selection are: University of Connecticut. Penn State University. The proposed idea is to build a small scale process simulator, with both machinery and software components, which mimics aspects of a smart manufacturing system for educational purposes.

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Cars That Think

JULY 8, 2022

It’s an ideal location for JWST to observe the universe without obstruction and with minimal orbital adjustments. Menzel can remember, for instance, ideas for laser-based optical systems that were invariably rejected. “I It’s a point of gravitational equilibrium located about 1.5

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2009

A conference, “Against the Deluge: Storm Surge Barriers to Protect New York City”, was held at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University in Brooklyn on 30-31 March. The concept would allow for a road to run along the top of the causeway connecting the two states.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 4, 2019

Through this topic area, the DOE Vehicle Technologies Office (VTO) will select “seedling” projects for innovative, new ideas that accelerate the development of advanced motor designs and materials in support of the goals of the Electric Drive Technologies (EDT) Consortium, a multi-disciplinary team of national labs and universities.

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Cars That Think

JULY 30, 2021

Just about every device you own is probably available with Internet connectivity. needs Internet connectivity is up for debate. Connectivity usually comes at a premium, and it also usually involves buying a brand new whatever it is, because new hardware and software and services are required. Or, that was the idea, anyway.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Among other things, the idea is to modify the materials used for marker posts and guardrails so that they reflect radar waves better than at present—from a greater distance, and in snow and rain too. The “Car2Infrastructure” communication project connects the car with variable message road signs that are online.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 5, 2024

One way to think of neural networks is by analogy with neurons, or nodes, and synapses, or connections between those nodes. In traditional neural networks, called multi-layer perceptrons (MLPs) each synapse learns a weight—a number that determines how strong the connection is between those two neurons.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 27, 2018

The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and Tongji University in Shanghai are researching standardizable methods for joint technology development in dispersed locations. The spatial separation of the developers makes the use of the latest technologies and faster data connections necessary.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2013

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have developed a new type of high-power integrated motor drive and battery charger for electric vehicles. In essence, the proposed system uses the motor as a grid-connected generator with extra terminals. Source: Chalmers. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2017

Renault Innovation Lab – Le Square has been designed as an experimental laboratory, open to its business environment and close to the Renault and Renault-Nissan Alliance teams to make the proliferation of ideas easier. It looked towards the ecosystem of worldwide startups and the Californian universities of Stanford and Berkeley.

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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. Earlier post.). GM President Dan Ammann. Residential.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2017

Solaria Labs was established to help solve unmet consumer needs, foster new ideas and attract talent in a startup environment. The lab has partnered with universities, including MIT AgeLab, to fund research and participate in relevant discoveries on new trends.

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Cars That Think

JULY 1, 2024

The achievement required a specialized amputation surgery combined with a non-invasive surface electrode connection to a robotic prosthetic lower leg. The procedure involves connecting pairs of muscles (in the case of below-the-knee amputation, two pairs), as well as the introduction of proprietary synthetic elements.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2019

Teijin will additionally apply expertise it has developed in supporting the Kogakuin University Solar Team’s participation in the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge. Teijin says that AEV has developed innovative ideas and construction methods that are not offered by major OEMs.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2012

The NSF/DOE Partnership in Advanced Combustion Engines is soliciting transformative ideas in several targeted areas with the potential to enable an increase in the efficiency of internal combustion engines while minimizing the energy penalty of meeting emissions regulations.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2014

To reveal the connections, Brookhaven’s Jillian Fan and other team members used a series of genetic tricks to systematically disable a range of enzymes to see whether and how each had an effect in regulating the various biochemical conversions. —John Shanklin.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2014

A smarter, more connected mobility landscape will encourage efficiency, increase safety, reduce traffic congestion and contribute to environmental improvements as well as shaping personal mobility in a more effective way. Connected vehicles Personal Transit Sustainability Urban mobility'

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2015

Potentially unsafe mental distractions for drivers can persist for as long as 27 seconds after dialing, changing music or sending a text using voice commands, according to a pair of new studies for the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety by University of Utah researchers. The Mazda 6’s Connect system rated very highly distracting (4.6).

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Part of the problem is that robots, generally, just do whatever they’ve been programmed to do, and for a human, there’s typically no feeling that the robot is in the slightest bit interested in making any sort of non-functional connection.

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