Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Kia Motors and Hyundai Motor plan to introduce solar roof charging technology on selected Hyundai Motor Group vehicles. The solar charging technology is being developed to support the vehicle’s main power source, improving mileage and reducing CO 2 emissions.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2018

Researchers at the University of Twente’s MESA+ research institute have made significant efficiency improvements to the technology used to generate solar fuels. They fabricated a highly efficient photocathode by spatially and functionally decoupling light absorption and catalytic activity. — Vijselaar et al. Although 10.8%

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Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2022

Researchers from the University of Michigan and McGill University in Canada report photochemical syngas synthesis using a core/shell Au@Cr 2 O 3 dual cocatalyst in coordination with multistacked InGaN/GaN nanowires (NWs) with the sole inputs of CO 2 , water, and solar light. under concentrated solar light illumination.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2018

A research team led by Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute Of Science And Technology (DGIST) Professor Jong-Sung Yu in Korea, with colleagues at UC Berkeley and Xi’an Jiaotong University in China, has successfully developed a new catalyst synthesis method that can efficiently decompose water into oxygen and hydrogen using solar light.

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Charged EVs

OCTOBER 25, 2024

The PairTree is an off-grid EV charger with solar, storage and two Level 2 EV chargers that can be set up in a day. These factors determine the best mix of solar, storage and grid power for a particular project. PairTree is an off-grid EV charger featuring a pop-up solar canopy, a 42.4 How much power is available at the site?

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2021

Teijin and its joint development partner Applied Electric Vehicles have developed a polycarbonate solar roof for future mobility applications. The new solar roof uses Teijin’s Panlite polycarbonate resin glazing for its surface. Solar roof. Blanc Robot with solar roof.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

DE-FOA-0002254 ) The funding will support the establishment of one large or possibly two smaller DOE Energy Innovation Hubs: integrated multidisciplinary, multi-institutional research teams aimed at accelerating the fundamental scientific breakthroughs needed to enable solar fuel production.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2019

By using light-activated quantum dots to fire particular enzymes within microbial cells, the researchers were able to create “living factories” that eat CO 2 and convert it into products such as biodegradable plastic, gasoline, ammonia and biodiesel. Therefore, these resting cells function as nano-microbial factories powered by light.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2020

The platform developed by the Brown School of Engineering lab of Rice materials scientist Jun Lou integrates catalytic electrodes and perovskite solar cells that, when triggered by sunlight, produce electricity. Perovskites are crystals with cubelike lattices that are known to harvest light. Illustration by Jia Liang. —Jia Liang.

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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. At the anode, water oxidation occurs, whereby O 2 is produced by drawing energy from light waves. high-energy light.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Sourcing aluminum produced using solar power for our in-house component production lowers our CO 2 emissions significantly. The light metal foundry began sourcing aluminum produced using solar power in 2021. Last year, employees at the light metal foundry produced around 3.3 Green power is also used to produce it.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2014

The home’s occupant will be able to use less than half of the energy of a similarly sized new home in the Davis area for heating, cooling and lighting. Among the technologies and green building concepts showcased in the Honda Smart Home US are: Solar photovoltaics (PV). Advanced lighting.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

The Dutch Institute for Fundamental Energy Research ( DIFFER ) is partnering with Toyota Motor Europe (TME) to develop a device that absorbs water vapor, and splits it into hydrogen and oxygen directly using solar energy. In this project, DIFFER and TME are exploring an innovative way to produce hydrogen directly out of humid air.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2022

This new paint achieves nearly the same benchmark of solar reflectance (97.9%) with just a single 150-micron layer of paint. This is thin and light enough for its radiant cooling effects to be applied to vehicles such as cars, trains and airplanes. However, it is difficult to achieve high solar reflectance with thin layers.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2019

Most solar cells currently on the market are made of silicon; these are expensive to make and require a lot of very pure silicon to manufacture. Perovskite solar cells, using materials with the same 3D structure as calcium titanium oxide, are cheaper to make, thinner and can be easily printed onto surfaces. —Poli et al.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Volvo Buses is participating in a research project in which used electric bus batteries are used as solar energy storage units. Batteries from electric bus route 55 in Gothenburg, Sweden are being used for solar energy storage in a second-life application. IRIS is a Light House project, financed by EU HORIZON 2020.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Furthermore, the maximum efficiency of solar energy conversion by photosynthesis is 5%, while typical solar panel efficiency reaches 20%. an and Park (2020) “Light-Independent Biological Conversion of CO 2 ,” Joule doi: 10.1016/ j.joule.2020.08.007. Acetogenic microbes (e.g., ljungdahlii, and M. an and Park. 2020.08.007.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2020

Researchers at the University of Southampton have transformed optical fibers into photocatalytic microreactors that convert water into hydrogen fuel using solar energy. Computerized tomography of a MOFC, showing buildup of TiO 2 (light blue particles) in the triangular channels. Zepler Institute, University of Southampton.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Electricity generated by solar panels installed across nine thousand square metres of roofing at Asko’s regional warehouse is being used to split water, producing emissions-free hydrogen fuel and oxygen. Battery power is in fact a more economical solution for light goods transport in urban areas.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2023

The Sparc Green Hydrogen process combines concentrated solar (CS) with photocatalytic water splitting. The company’s key development allows for reduced photocatalyst use and integration with existing concentrated solar systems. The facility is home to Australia’s largest solar thermal research hub.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

An illustration of the light-powered, one-step remediation process for hydrogen sulfide gas made possible by a gold photocatalyst created at Rice University. Each island was a gold nanoparticle about 10 billionths of a meter across that would interact strongly with a specific wavelength of visible light. —Naomi Halas.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2023

Researchers from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and their Canadian partners have designed a low-cost photoreactor design for solar-driven synthesis. Until now, however, the technology has mainly been found in the laboratory because the costs of producing solar hydrogen were simply too high. Joule doi: 10.1016/j.joule.2023.05.006

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Electrek

DECEMBER 6, 2024

The USs largest proposed solar and storage project, the 2.4 gigawatt (GW) Sunstone Solar, just got the go-ahead from Oregon regulators.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Tesla has donated some solar lighting to a park near its Gigafactory outside of Berlin, Germany, expected to offer the Grünheide location more light at three popular attractions amongst youth. The site is home to a youth club, and Director Martin Wiegold notes that the lights will let kids use the park for longer hours.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Using these electric vehicles as a means of buffer storage allows the potential of wind farms and solar plants for carbon-neutral energy generation to be exploited to an even greater degree.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2022

Motor gasoline meets on-road passenger light-duty vehicle (LDV) travel demand, while diesel consumption meets our assumed increases in medium- and heavy-duty freight truck travel. Onsite electricity generation, primarily from solar photovoltaics (PV), grows faster than purchased grid electricity for buildings through 2050. Source: U.S.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2023

The new system mimics a natural chloroplast to convert carbon dioxide in water into methane, very efficiently using light. It mimics the structure of a purple bacteria’s light-harvesting chromatophores (i.e. Formation of a hydrogen-bond enhanced nanomicelle and its hydrogen production and carbon dioxide reduction under solar energy.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 2, 2020

The highest reported solar to hydrogen (STH) conversion efficiency for such a system composed of polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) electrolyzers powered by an InGaP/GaAs/GaInNAsSb triple-junction solar cell was 30%, tested over 48 h. Despite the high efficiency, the device’s complexity and cost makes its upscale potential impractical.

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Charged EVs

JANUARY 24, 2025

The New Terminal One will have what its creators have said is the largest solar array at any US airport, which will power a fleet of electric vehicles used at the terminal both landside and airside. Construction of the massive array, consisting of more than 13,000 solar panels on the terminals roof, began in 2024.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2023

Researchers from Tokyo Tech have developed a tin-based metal–organic framework (MOF) that can photocatalytically reduce carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) into formate under visible light. A popular method for carrying out such conversions is to use visible light for driving the photoreduction of CO 2 via photocatalysts. 202305923

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Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2022

To overcome these issues, there is strong demand for the development of a competitive next-generation solar water-splitting system with high added value that can produce other useful chemicals at the same time as hydrogen. 2022) “Binary dopant segregation enables hematite-based heterostructures for highly efficient solar H 2 O 2 synthesis.”

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2022

The US Department of Energy (DOE) launched the Cadmium Telluride Accelerator Consortium (CTAC) —a $20-million initiative designed to make cadmium telluride (CdTe) solar cells less expensive, more efficient and develop new markets for solar cell products. efficiency in converting sunlight into electricity. competitiveness.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2018

A promising way of storing solar energy is via chemical fuels, in particular hydrogen as it is considered as a future energy carrier. The greatest challenge is to develop a suitable technology for large scale and cost effective solar fuel production to compete with fossil fuel. —Pawar and Tahir. Govinder S. Pawar & Asif A.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 18, 2024

Cyclum utilizes RNG-fueled microturbines to generate clean green electricity, making the truck stops carbon negative at less cost & space of electric grid or solar power Cyclum Renewables, a pioneering force in building Renewable fueled truck stops with Traditional & Transitional Fuels, is revolutionizing the future of electric vehicle (EV).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

Scientists have demonstrated that modifying the topmost layer of atoms on the surface of electrodes can have a remarkable impact on the activity of solar water splitting. Many times, particles of light (photons) do not provide enough energy for water splitting, so an external voltage is needed to help perform the chemistry.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Scientists from the US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) are providing researchers with a guide to how best to measure the efficiency of producing hydrogen directly from solar power. NREL set the first record for STH efficiency exceeding 10% (12.4%

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Wind-and-solar towers offer an alternative for keeping the load from charging stations light. Tesla Model 3 owners might soon get a new aftermarket wireless charging option. And Toyota is including free fast-charging for a year for bZ4X drivers. This and more, here at Green Car Reports.

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