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. Image credit: Roksana Rashid, McGill University.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Partners from Germany and Finland in the SOLETAIR project are building a compact pilot plant for the production of gasoline, diesel and kerosene from solar energy, regenerative hydrogen and carbon dioxide. An electrolysis unit developed by Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) produces the required hydrogen by means of solar power.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2020

Rice University researchers have created an efficient, low-cost device that splits water to produce hydrogen fuel. 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.

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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. Researchers around the world are working on the development of solar fuel technology. This involves generating sustainable fuels using only sunlight, CO 2 and water.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2019

A cheaper, cleaner and more sustainable way of making hydrogen fuel from water using sunlight is closer with new research from the University of Bath’s Centre for Sustainable Chemical Technologies. 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.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2020

Researchers at Linköping University, Sweden, are attempting to convert carbon dioxide to fuel using energy from sunlight. Jianwu Sun and his colleagues at Linköping University are attempting to imitate photosynthesis to capture carbon dioxide from air and to convert it to chemical fuels, such as methane, ethanol and methanol.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Researchers at Washington University in St. A team of biologists and engineers modified Rhodopseudomonas palustris TIE-1 (TIE-1) so that it can produce a biofuel using only three renewable and naturally abundant source ingredients: carbon dioxide, solar panel-generated electricity and light. —Wei Bai. Ranaivoarisoa, T.O.,

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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

AUGUST 24, 2020

Researchers at the University of Cambridge, with colleagues at the University of Tokyo, have developed a standalone device that converts sunlight, carbon dioxide and water into formic acid, a carbon-neutral fuel, without requiring any additional components or electricity. Qian Wang et al.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2020

SunHydrogen , the developer of a technology to produce renewable hydrogen using sunlight and water, has extended its sponsored research agreement with the University of Iowa through 31 August 2020. The University of Iowa has been a key and productive partner in the development of our GEN 1 panels.

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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

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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Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2018

Researchers from Nanjing University have developed a new method for the extraction of lithium metal from seawater using solar-powered electrolysis with a NASICON solid-state electrolyte as the selective membrane. Schematic Diagram of the Solar-Powered Lithium Extraction Device. (A)

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The Purdue University researchers who created the world’s whitest paint ( earlier post ) have developed a new formulation that is thinner and lighter—ideal for radiating heat away from cars, trains and airplanes. This new paint achieves nearly the same benchmark of solar reflectance (97.9%) with just a single 150-micron layer of paint.

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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 22, 2023

Synhelion and its partner the University of Florida announced that their joint project has been awarded US$2.7 million from the US Department of Energy Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO). Close-up of Synhelion’s proprietary solar receiver, which delivers high-temperature process heat beyond 1,500 °C.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

in close collaboration with GTI and The University of Texas at Austin, has launched a US Department of Energy project, Demonstration and Framework for H2@Scale in Texas and Beyond. Frontier Energy, Inc., The project is supported by DOE’s Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office within the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2023

A joint research team from City University of Hong Kong (CityU) and collaborators have developed a stable artificial photocatalytic system that is more efficient than natural photosynthesis. Photo credit: (left) Professor Ye Ruquan’s research group / City University of Hong Kong and (right) Biophysical Journal, 99:67-75, 2010.

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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. Zepler Institute, University of Southampton. Computerized tomography of a MOFC, showing buildup of TiO 2 (light blue particles) in the triangular channels.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 29, 2023

Two Nissan LEAF electric vehicles (EVs) at the Plymouth State University (PSU) provided 1 MWh of energy to the PSU’s ALLWell Center, offsetting some of the building’s electricity needs, over a six-month period. The university controls whether to discharge by parking the EVs and plugging them into the Fermata Energy bidirectional charger.

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The Driven EV News

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Australian university says it could support 100 per cent EVs, and deliver charging at a nominal fee, and lower its electricity bill if it doubled the amount of solar on campus. The post Australian university says it can support 100 pct EVs and cheap charging with more solar appeared first on The Driven.

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Electrek

JUNE 21, 2023

Rutgers University is going to install 16 solar carports that total 14.5 more… The post Rutgers University is still a trailblazer in parking lot solar appeared first on Electrek. megawatts (MW) in parking lots across its five campuses.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 15, 2020

Researchers at the University of Michigan, McGill University and McMaster University have developed a binary copper?iron The work, presented in a paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), offers a unique, highly efficient, and inexpensive route for solar fuels synthesis. 1 under air mass 1.5

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2023

A team from Hamad Bin Khalifa University in Qatar has comprehensively reviewed various ammonia decomposition techniques to produce clean hydrogen by recovering the boil-off ammonia while integrating solar energy infrastructures onboard a ship for electricity and heat requirements. The review paper is published in the journal Fuel.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 17, 2022

A team of Dutch university students has radically redesigned the RV with solar power and an aerodynamic shape. As detailed recently on "Fully Charged Show," The Stella Vita is an electric RV with fold-out solar panels designed by Solar Team Eindhoven, a team of engineering students at the Eindhoven University of Technology.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Researchers from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in China and George Washington University in the US report in a new paper in the ACS journal Accounts of Chemical Research that a range of important carbon nanomaterials can be produced at high yield by molten carbonate electrolysis. 2019.11.019. doi: 10.1021/acs.accounts.9b00405.

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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 21, 2023

The German Research Foundation (DFG) is funding a new Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) at the University of Bayreuth. The CRC MultiTrans pools expertise in natural sciences and engineering spanning nine research disciplines at the University of Bayreuth.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JULY 21, 2024

For the first time since 2018, the University of Michigan solar car team will stake their claim as one of the nation’s best Sporting a brand new roll cage, the University of Michigan solar car team’s latest vehicle will speed down parts of the Oregon Trail and seven other national historic.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Michigan State University introduced an electric autonomous bus that will serve students, staff and faculty beginning early 2022 as part of the campus’ smart mobility ecosystem. Hope, which houses the largest solar carport array in North America. The bus’s 2.5-mile

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Electrek

MARCH 14, 2025

If the world covered every suitable roof with solar panels, it could supply 2/3 of humanitys total electricity consumption allowing the globe to transition completely off of fossil electricity generation, according to a new study out of the University of Sussex.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2018

Researchers at the University of Exeter (UK) have developed a novel p-type LaFeO 3 photoelectrode using an inexpensive and scalable spray pyrolysis method. A promising way of storing solar energy is via chemical fuels, in particular hydrogen as it is considered as a future energy carrier. —Pawar and Tahir. Govinder S.

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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. —co-corresponding author Kyoung-Shin Choi, University of Wisconsin-Madison. —Mingzhao Liu. —Mingzhao Liu.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2021

Toyota Research Institute (TRI) is committing another $36 million to its Accelerated Materials Design and Discovery (AMDD) collaborative university research program over the next four years. The total scope of the initial investment was $35 million over four years with multiple university partners. University of Michigan.

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CleanTechnica EVs

DECEMBER 2, 2022

What is the best way to field test printed solar panels? After 20 years in development in the lab at the University of Newcastle, it was decided to invite Stuart McBain to drive 18,000 km around the coast of Australia for 3 months and really put them to the test. Stuart was the obvious choice […].

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2014

The home, located on the West Village campus of the University of California, Davis, is capable of producing more energy on-site from renewable sources than it consumes annually, including enough energy to power a Honda Fit EV for daily commuting. Electric (Battery) Smart charging Solar Sustainability'

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Cars That Think

JUNE 13, 2024

The show highlighted rooftop solar panels in Germany, explaining that the panels generated electricity to power the buildings and even earned the owners money by letting them sell extra energy back to the electricity company. Invented in 1983, PERCs are used today in nearly 90 percent of solar panels on the market.

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