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SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Start-up Liquid Light, a developer of process technology to make major chemicals from low-cost, globally-abundant carbon dioxide ( earlier post ), has closed a $15-million Series B financing. New investors include Sustainable Conversion Ventures, which focuses on renewable fuels and chemicals investments.

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JULY 11, 2017

Diesel vehicles have had a rough time penetrating the US light-duty vehicle market, reflecting outdated negative perceptions, higher fuel prices for diesel than for gasoline, the cost of complying with stringent US emission standards, and rapidly improving gasoline engines. —Isenstadt and German (2017). Background.

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JULY 26, 2022

Efficiency improvements and carbon emissions reduction in energy conversion and storage technologies. This technology can drive down cell cost, increase throughput, enhance properties, and improve manufacturing energy efficiency. Carbon Nanospike Based Photoelectrochemical CO2 Conversion. Develop a new integrated macro?micro?nano

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JULY 21, 2021

Low Total Cost of Hydrogen by Exploiting Offshore Wind and PEM Electrolysis Synergies. Enabling high energy density lithium metal batteries improves the range and cost of batteries and could facilitate widespread adoption of electric vehicles, key to EERE’s goal of decarbonizing the transportation sector. million each.

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APRIL 8, 2010

Researchers from BASF, Energie Baden-Württemberg AG (EnBW), Heidelberg University and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) are seeking to develop a process for the photocatalytic conversion of CO 2 into methanol for use in fuel cells or internal combustion engines. million) over two years. million) over two years.

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JUNE 23, 2015

IH 2 technology is a continuous catalytic thermochemical process which converts a broad range of forestry/agricultural residues and municipal wastes directly into renewable hydrocarbon transportation fuels and/or blend stocks. The IH 2 technology is an efficient conversion route for lignocellulosic biomass. Earlier post.).

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NOVEMBER 26, 2010

Pyrolysis bio-oils are produced by the thermal decomposition of biomass by heating in the absence of oxygen at more than 500 °C; fast pyrolysis of biomass is much less expensive than biomass conversion technologies based on gasification or fermentation processes. Credit: Science , Vispute et al. Click to enlarge.

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APRIL 5, 2016

Altex Technologies has selected Unitel to provide engineering services to design and build a pilot system that will produce 1 BPD of synthetic gasoline from biomass (Biomass Conversion to Synthetic Gasoline System, BCSGS). lower cost) and gasification/F-T processes (e.g., —US 9199889. —Serge Randhava, CEO of Unitel.

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JUNE 23, 2014

Cost of the new engine relative to gasoline baseline. So far this year, the team has integrated the T2B2 aftertreatment in the dynamometer environment and is in the process of convert the demonstration vehicle to the T2B2 configuration. Earlier post.). l/100 km), and as such would not meet the GHG requirement of 28 mpg (8.4

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JUNE 23, 2022

Monthly data from the EIA shows that crude oil is 60% of the price of gasoline, 17% is refining costs, 12% is federal and state taxes, and 11% is distribution and marketing. Refined product prices are set by the marginal supply costs of bringing the incremental barrels of products to market. Other important suppliers to the US.,

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2012

Gareth Shaw, PetroSA’s business development manager for GTL, said his company was proposing the building the plant at a cost of around $4 billion. PetroSA is also the developer of conversion of olefins to distillate (COD) technology. PetroSA operates a GTL plant at Mossel Bay; part of the technology is under license from SASOL.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2012

The market for electric vehicle inverters, including converters, for both hybrid and pure electric vehicles—land, water and air—will grow to $18 billion in 2023 according to a new report from IDTechEx, “ Inverters for Electric Vehicles 2013-2023 ”. There is no real possibility of dominance by one provider, the company suggests.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Water oxidation (2H 2 O → O 2 + 4 e- + 4H + ) is a key step for converting solar energy into chemical fuels. For use in photoelectric synthesis cells, in which chemical conversions are driven by light, the oxides are typically electrodeposited onto ITO substrates. times more light. —Chen et al.

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Cars That Think

MAY 24, 2022

Anyone who has ever paid attention to how an incandescent lightbulb works knows that a significant amount of the energy aimed at creating light is lost as heat. The same is true in reverse, when solar panels lose some of the energy in photons as heat instead of it all being converted into electrons.

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JUNE 8, 2016

While 700 bar compressed hydrogen storage provides a near-term commercialization pathway, the performance of this storage technology falls short of the DOE onboard FCEV hydrogen storage targets, particularly for volumetric hydrogen energy density and system cost. The conversion process of PAN precursor to CF is also energy intensive.

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JUNE 24, 2013

The lower-weight body design—light-weight composite materials save 600 lbs (272 kg) of weight per vehicle—along with the engine, allows every Reach to significantly reduce fuel consumption and exhaust emissions compared to conventional walk-in vans. The Reach van, with its four-cylinder, 3.0-liter

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JUNE 19, 2012

Fast pyrolysis—the rapid heating of biomass to intermediate temperatures (400-600 °C) in the absence of oxygen and the rapid cooling of the resulting vapors to bio-oil—is an efficient method to convert all fractions of biomass, including lignin, into a liquid product: pyrolysis oil. Catalysts, noted Iisa et al.

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APRIL 14, 2017

The maximum theoretical efficiency of a solar cell is limited by how much photon energy can be converted into usable electrical energy, with photon energy in excess of the semiconductor absorption band edge lost to heat. Light is absorbed at the photoanode within the QD layer producing free electrons and holes. —Matthew Beard.

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MARCH 2, 2017

The customized e-NV200 offers taxi drivers a similar total cost of ownership to a hybrid taxi, but with the range of an internal combustion engine. Symbio currently has several hundred converted Renault Kangoo ZE Maxi light electric commercial vehicles equipped with a 22 kWh battery pack and 5 kW hydrogen fuel range extender with 2.08

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Porsche 914 EV Conversion

FEBRUARY 9, 2008

Many things have passed through my mind over the past year and a half while converting this vehicle. Here goes (in no particular order): Things That Went Well During the Conversion The 914 AC kit from Electro Automotive is a good one. If you do your own conversion, tap into all these resources whenever you have an issue.

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AUGUST 10, 2011

This project will optimize fuel-based control of novel combustion strategies in light- and heavy-duty vehicles to enable diesel-like efficiencies with ultra-low engine-out emissions. Light-weighting materials. Increased availability of low cost carbon fiber can enable vehicle weight reduction and improvement in fuel economy.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Featuring the industry’s lowest device capacitance for any given current rating, which enhances overall system efficiency at higher switching frequencies and under light load conditions, the new thinQ! diodes help reduce overall power converter system costs.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2020

On the way there, I made a pit stop at a gas station to buy a bottle of champagne as a gift, hoping to start out a conversation with a stranger on the right foot. The cost of that usually starting just below $1,000 or changing the faulty modules (28 modules in a pack) individually that is much cheaper. Code P0016.

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JANUARY 24, 2015

This FOA also includes demonstration topic areas that will help to accelerate adoption of hydrogen and fuel cell technologies with specific interest in mobile hydrogen refuelers; fuel cell powered range extenders for light duty hybrid electric vehicles; and a Communities of Excellence topic featuring hydrogen and fuel cell technologies.

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JANUARY 18, 2014

As described in multiple DOE reports, the main barriers to widespread PEV commercialization are the cost; performance and life; and abuse tolerance of high?energy Specifically: the current cost of high?energy The additional content which includes the motor, inverter, converter, and on?board energy batteries. energy lithium?ion

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Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2010

Researchers at Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) have developed a tungsten oxide (WO 3 ) photocatalyst that provides a significantly higher quantum yield under visible light than conventional photocatalysts. Fe 2+ ions were stoichiometrically generated in the reaction.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

light-to-electricity efficiency, respectively, and when illuminated with 1 sun of AM 1.5 silicon-based light absorbers and earth-abundant catalysts, the. aligned with the low-cost systems engineering and. simulated sunlight. constructing a simple, stand-alone device composed of. solar-to-fuels systems.

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JULY 28, 2010

billion in rebates to buyers of natural gas-powered vehicles, from light- to heavy-duty; and $400 million to support the deployment of plug-in vehicles in targeted communities. Division B of the bill outlines two major transportation-related initiatives to reduce oil consumption and enhance energy security, including up to $3.8

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2013

The CEMI announcement was made at the ribbon cutting of the Department’s Carbon Fiber Technology Facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, a new advanced manufacturing facility to reduce the cost of carbon fiber. Preliminary estimates suggest a 20-40% reduction in both cradle to grave energy usage and cost compared to current production technologies.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2011

Technologies for low-cost production of advanced biofuels are limited by the small amount of available energy captured by photosynthesis and the inefficient processes used to convert plant matter to fuel. PETRO aims to create plants that capture more energy from sunlight and convert that energy directly into fuels.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2016

Big Delta will demonstrate that the new process at the core of its manufacturing technology is scalable, reliable and significantly reduces the cost of manufacturing high-performance Li-ion cells. iBeam Materials seeks to disrupt the Lighting, Display and Wearable Electronics industries by creating new game-changing LED products.

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DIY Electric Car

NOVEMBER 16, 2013

My plan is to convert this ride into an EV. The quadrunner has been stripped of everything ICE, and I have retained what electrical will be needed for lights etc. Should I look for a straight axle with chain conversion? But the cost of a motor and controller is going to be the biggest expense. Motor was lost long ago.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2013

Developing cost-effective technologies to improve new vehicle fuel efficiency and achieve or exceed corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) standards of 144 gCO 2 /mi (61.6 mpg) for light trucks by 2025 (54.5 mpg light duty average, or 4.3 Some specific goals include: Cutting battery costs from their current $500/kWh to $125/kWh.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2012

Polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) are being developed worldwide as clean energy conversion devices. Long-Lived, High-Energy-Density and Low-Cost Lithium-Ion Batteries for Automotive, Grid Energy and Medical. These university-industry partnerships will receive almost $34 million in total project support.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2009

ARPA-E is seeking new ways to make liquid transportation fuels—without using petroleum or biomass—by using microorganisms to harness chemical or electrical energy to convert carbon dioxide into liquid fuels. ARPA-E’s objective is to fund high-risk, high reward research efforts that will promote leadership in this emerging EV battery market.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Stationary Fuel Cells and Hybrid Transit Buses Incremental Costs: The purchase of diesel-electric hybrid transit buses and stationary fuel cells for use in the statewide bus system in Connecticut. Hybrid Electric Buses Incremental Costs: For the incremental cost of making transit buses hybrid electric.

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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. Harvesting Infrared Light to Improve Photosynthetic Biomass Production - $1,347,122. Select OPEN 2021 projects include: Synteris.

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