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Jan 19 | News
Former Secretary of Defense William Perry lists biomass, plug-in hybrid cars, nuclear power, more natural gas, and energy efficiency as the only potential near-term answers to easing the United States' emissions of greenhouse gases and addiction to oil. Of these items, what is the most important?
10/17/2011 | News
Purdue
University will lead a
new effort aimed at cutting fuel consumption in half for commercial
vehicles by
perfecting hybrid technologies for the world's burgeoning bus and truck
fleets.
5/9/2011 | News
China’s
output of so-called “green” technologies has grown by a 77% a year,
reflecting the country’s pace of growth. On a political level, China has
made a conscious decision to capture and develop markets in renewable
energy and other clean technologies. The U.S. is also growing in this
sector, but not nearly as quickly.
5/5/2011 | News
It may be hard to believe, but the beloved gasoline engine that
powers
more than 200 million cars across America every day didn't get its
status because it's the most efficient engine. Diesel engines can be
more than
twice as efficient, but they spew soot and pollutants into the air. Could researchers at Argonne
National
Laboratory engineer a union between the two—combining the best of both?
2/7/2011 | News
Every time a car brakes, energy
is generated. At present this energy is not used, but new research shows
that
it is possible to save it for later use in the form of compressed air.
It can
then provide extra power to the engine when the car is started and save
fuel by
avoiding idle operation when the car is at a standstill.
1/20/2011 | News
Engine experts and
biofuels researchers at Sandia National Laboratories are working on a
project
that aims to modify an endophytic fungus so that it will produce
fuel-type
hydrocarbons for transportation purposes.
9/17/2010 | News
The
steel frame “Very Light Car No. 98” gets its name from aluminum parts
and a tiny motor that keeps weight down to 830 pounds. This virtue
helped Edison2’s car beat out hybrids and electric vehicles to capture
half the X Prize Foundation’s prize money for developing a highly
efficient, production-ready vehicles.
8/13/2010 | News
A team of MIT students has been working
on testing a rapid-recharging system that could help to change public
perceptions about electric vehicles and their practicality. They have
already
done extensive testing of the system with an individual battery cell and
with a
motorcycle they converted to all-electric operation, and in coming
months they
hope to be able to demonstrate the system on a full-sized sedan they
converted.
7/1/2010 | News
A team of Argonne National Laboratory researchers are celebrating the recent approval of SAE J1711, the revised recommended practice for figuring out the fuel economy and exhaust emissions test procedures of hybrid and plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEVs). The Argonne engineers primarily revised the test procedures to better evaluate PHEV technologies.
12/14/2009 | News
More than 200 plug-in hybrid electric vehicles are racking up the miles at Idaho National Lab in an effort to find the weak spots that rear their head during real-world evaluations. Results, which are being shared with industry and were produced by more than 75 testing partners, are now available online.
