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This news will provoke what. For me it show that actual batteries for cars are subpar costly and weak devises, so im not interrested to buy a plug-in prius, leaf, volt, tesla, imiev, renauld fluence, bmw i3 i4 and i8, via motor truck, toyota rav4, ford c max, any hybrid, portable computer, small battery flashlight, small digital camera, small watchs, chrismas battery toys to give at chrismas, lighthing electric motorcycles, coda cars, byd cars, gasoline car with ac delco or energizer battery.
I prefer to postpone any battery expences till this battery that cost fewer and is 2x the capacity hit the market.
Toyota researchers show superior performance for tin anode for Mg-ion batteries with conventional electrolytes
Researchers at the Toyota Research Institute of North America (TRINA) have developed an insertion-type tin (Sn) anode material for use in a magnesium-ion (Mg-ion) battery (earlier post) that shows superior operating voltages and capacity. In a paper accepted for publication in the RSC journal C...
This won't help fuel consumption as air and gasoline do not change and we cannot do any change on it. They cannot use more monitoring for the combustion as it is already well controlled by the previous generation of micro controllers. The micro controller is not a tool for more mpg. All it will do is drive the cost down for the micro controller, use less electricity so you will save one dollar each year and less weight so you will save another dollar each year on fuel costs.
Freescale announces new high-end powertrain microcontroller; 3x performance of prior high-end unit
Freescale Semiconductor announced the new 32-bit Qorivva MPC5777M multicore microcontroller (MCU), the latest advancement in its Qorivva product line. (Earlier post.) This advanced MCU family will help automakers worldwide address regional automotive fuel economy and safety trends by enabling a...
If it's cheap, recharge fast, last long and offer a real long range, then im interrested to buy. I will take a month or two of vacation and i will drive from montreal to winnipeg, calgary, vancouver, mount rushmore, las vegas, san francisco, los-angeles, new orleans, florida, new york and then back to montreal .
Binder-free 3D silicon-nickel electrodes for Li-ion batteries show high capacity and cycling stability
Cycling characteristics of 700 nm 3D(Si,Ni) at 1C showing a reversible specific capacity of 1,650 mAh/g after 120 cycles of charge/discharge. Credit: ACS, Gowda et al. Click to enlarge. Researchers from Rice University and Applied Materials have developed another approach to delivering the ...
Im not sure i will be interrested to have that on my car. Usually i prefer to have myself all the control of the brakes and accelerator and direction. You never know if these systems will trigger suddently for no reasons and someone will hit you from behing if the car brake by itself.
Toyota Motor introducing three new automated driver assistance safety systems; begins operations at new ITS Proving Ground
TMC says that its PCS is effective at higher speeds. Click to enlarge. Toyota Motor Corporation has developed and will deploy in select upcoming vehicles three new automated driver assistance/safety systems: a Pre-Collision System (PCS) with collision avoidance that is effective at higher s...
Im interrested to buy, is it clear now... Put a local hydrogen station near where i live and put a hydrogen car for sale near where i live, it's not complicated to understand. these car manufacturers are still selling costly polluting gasoline car actually. Postpone all expenditure toward new gasoline car till they put for sale hydrogen cars, no more waiting.
Rochester researchers demonstrate robust photogeneration of hydrogen in water using semiconductor nanocrystals and a nickel catalyst
Researchers at the University of Rochester (New York) have developed a robust and highly active system for solar hydrogen generation in water using semiconductor nanocrystals (NCs) and a nickel catalyst. The system uses no precious metals, and is based on light absorption and photoinduced elect...
Im interrested to buy, is it clear now... Put a local hydrogen station near where i live and put a hydrogen car for sale near where i live, it's not complicated to understand. these car manufacturers are still selling costly polluting gasoline car actually. Postpone all expenditure toward new gasoline car till they put for sale hydrogen cars, no more waiting.
€3.9M European project to develop automotive fuel cell MEAs with ultra-low platinum loadings
ITM Power announced it received confirmation of a €3.9 million (US$4.96 million) grant award to a consortium to develop Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) Fuel Cell Membrane Electrode Assemblies (MEAs) with ultra-low platinum loadings for automotive applications. ITM Power’s share of this award is ...
It's been 100th time that i say that im interrested to buy a gallon of synthetic gasoline or butanol near where i live at a price lower then actual petrol gasoline. Please wake-up and start commercialisation now. We need that to lower the price of gasoline and also to reduce pollution. This is serious stuff. Im sure that it's cheaper and better then petroleum, why not start selling it. This is a message for goverments, all car business, investor, green crowd, bloggers, motorists, car guys, racers, mechanics, store merchants, journalists, united nations, g8, cytizens, artists, writers, etc.
New fast hydrothermal process converts 65% of wet algae feedstock sample to biocrude in one minute
Biocrude from Nannochloropsis. Credit: Savage Lab. Click to enlarge. A team led by Prof. Phillip Savage at the University of Michigan has found that with appropriate parameters, hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) can convert 65% of wet algae (a Nannochloropsis species) into biocrude in one min...
Im interrested to buy synthetic gasoline of 87 octans if they put this for sale near where i live at an inferior price then the actual 87 octans gasoline made from crude petroleum actually sold near where i live.
Researchers significantly boost yield of isobutanol from engineered yeast using new synthesis pathway located in the cytosol
A team at the Institute of Molecular Biosciences, Goethe-University Frankfurt led by Prof. Dr. Eckhard Boles, has developed a new synthesis pathway for engineering the industrial yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae to improve the production of isobutanol via fermentation. The work, noted Boles, is b...
All these 2 researchers did was to do enthusiastic pr for keeping their jobs. Why not increase the performance of the gasoline itself instead of increasing the performance of the ice itself. Do you think seriously that you will magically do more mpg with the same gasoline that didn't change since 100 years. Also if ever they find a way to increase gasoline power it will probably be incompatible with actual ice and it will then take another ice engine to be compatible. So again, like battery chargers, numerous complicated infrastructure.
One thing that they discovered to be better was hydrogen fuelcell, so im ordering this product to buy right now and save money on gasoline ice studies. Put hydrogen fuelcell cars and trucks on the market now and nationalize any car compagnies that wouldn't comply to this, and start building efficient hydrogen stations or put the hydrogen gas maker directly into the hydrogen car. Ask this to these 2 researchers and they will say as the other paid researchers that they are near to find a miracle with gasoline ice. Their jobs is more to do pr for the actual ice then to find a miracle increase in mpg for real. If these researchers were working in a private labs and if they were paid only if they find a solution to sell, then these researchers will be poor and they will change their domain of researchs toward hydrogen instead that is more promising.
High Performance Computing key enabler for accelerating development of high efficiency engines
Increasing complexity of vehicle design is driving the need for better simulation and more powerful computers. Wagner and Pannala. Click to enlarge. The complexity of new and future vehicles—driven by the need for increasing fuel efficiency and decreasing emissions with ever-changing drive-c...
Unfortunatelly, building a gasoline engine that is tune for high mpg cost more and it put more stress on the crankshaft, transmission gears, pistons, connecting rods, etc. As soon as a sensor goes bad or the engine wearout a little bit , then things goes bad even more. I suspect that the engine controller can retard the timing of the ignition and enrich the air-fuel ratio as the engine get old to lower the combustion temperature and help the engine cope with the harsh climate and always changing speeds.
The more i drive new cars the more i notice hiccups on acceleration, vibration, difficult start on stop signs, difficulty to maintain constant speed on highway, difficulty in ajusting the gas pedal on downhill or uphill, difficult gear change and harsh gear change in transmissions, imprecise gas pedal, some lean surge in traffic.
I decided then to keep my 2005 dodge neon until it goes to the extrem of his live and avoid buying a newer car badly tune for high mpg reasons and that cost a lot. Even my 2005 neon is badly tune but i noticed newer cars are even worst.
Now the market is this. Costly and polluting gasoline with vibrating and harsh cars and overprice and under-performing electric cars with very difficult and long recharge time.
Hyundai/Kia to correct overstated fuel economy claims of MY 2012 and 2013 models as result of EPA investigation
Hyundai Motor America and Kia Motors America will reduce their fuel economy (mpg) ratings for a number of 2011-13 model year models in showrooms after EPA testing found discrepancies between agency results and data submitted by the company. The changes affect the fuel economy ratings for approx...
Im 51 years old and it's the 100th new engine discovery i heard since im 8 years old. Please put one of these improved gasoline engine into a car and do multiple test runs on the highway, in hills, in town and on the highway at 70 mph for hours and hours and ten or twenty tousand miles before bashing my ears with el-cheapo pr propanganda.
Pinnacle Engine pre-production prototype opposed piston engine shows about 27% fuel consumption improvement across different scooter cycles compared to conventional engine
Fuel mass flow comparison shows Pinnacle engine ahead at just about all points in the map. Click to enlarge. A 110cc pre-production prototype of a Pinnace Engine 4-stroke opposed piston scooter engine (earlier post) showed approximately a 27% improvement in fuel consumption across different...
Im interrested to buy more then ever. Im awaiting to buy a used hydrogen vehicle in 2022 approx.
New platinum-cobalt nanocatlysts for fuel cells greatly enhance activity and stability and cut costs
A research team at the Energy Materials Center at Cornell (EMC2) is developing platinum-cobalt nanoparticles with a platinum enriched shell that show improved catalytic activity for the oxygen reduction reaction in fuel-cell applications. The new class of Pt–Co nanocatalysts—composed of ordered ...
Im interrested to buy at 1.50$/gallon if it's not made with foods.
Cool Planet projects production of carbon-negative high-octane biogasoline for $1.50 per gallon
Cool Planet’s process relies on three core elements: novel biomass fractionation, advanced catalysis, and a char-to-soil enhancer. Source: Cool Planet. Click to enlarge. Cool Planet Energy Systems projects that using its patented mechanical process and novel scaling approach (earlier post),...
I hope it's true and it look really promising. With that, windmills and solar panels, will find a good match because it will be less costly and more efficient to stock electricity for cars and homes. Bev drivers will like to recharge with solar and wind, less pollution and more free electricity.
CalBattery reports full cell testing on GEN3 Si-graphene anode material shows 525 Wh/kg; triple capacity while lowering battery cost up to 70%
According to independent test results in full cell Li-ion batteries (LIBs), California Lithium Battery’s (CalBattery) new GEN3 silicon-graphene composite anode materials, used with advanced cathode and electrolyte materials, show an energy density of 525 Wh/kg and specific anode capacity of 1,2...
Im interrested to buy if it's less costly then conventionnal metals and cheaper and if it don't rust. I won't buy new products if it's not better then what it replace and if it's not cheaper. This might push the price of steel down so it will push the price of that plastic down too. We need some competition in the market with a larger choice of products and technologies.
TenCate and BASF enter strategic alliance for thermoplastic automotive composites for high-volume production
TenCate Advanced Composites and BASF have entered into a strategic alliance to cooperate on the development, production and commercialization of thermoplastic composite materials suitable for high-volume vehicle production. The main goal of this partnership is to offer car manufacturers custom...
This is an engine that must have 2 crankshafts instead of one so this is costly and complicated. I think that it will fail unfortunatly even if i would like to have a 27% improvement in fuel economy. This is too big a construction, this is weaker and can fail easilly on the real road because it has 2 crankshafts so it's less strong mechanically. I checked their film on youtube and the prototype just run on a dyno and it haven't been tested in a vehicle on the road.
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Pinnacle Engine pre-production prototype opposed piston engine shows about 27% fuel consumption improvement across different scooter cycles compared to conventional engine
Fuel mass flow comparison shows Pinnacle engine ahead at just about all points in the map. Click to enlarge. A 110cc pre-production prototype of a Pinnace Engine 4-stroke opposed piston scooter engine (earlier post) showed approximately a 27% improvement in fuel consumption across different...
I won't buy a regular lithium ion battery. I will wait till this cell hit the market and then i will look at it.
New full concentration gradient high-energy cathode material from Hanyang and Argonne suited for EV batteries
Schematic diagram of the FCG lithium transition-metal oxide particle with the nickel concentration decreasing from the center towards the outer layer and the concentration of manganese increasing accordingly. Sun et al. Click to enlarge. A team from Hanyang University (Korea) and the US Dep...
Are they the ones that will start to sell synthetic gasoline one day. It's been the 100th time that i heard something like that. It's the time to start as nat gas prices are low and gasoline price are high so the profit can be huge. Why this article still show experiment results instead of commercial results. Wake me up when someone start selling a new product and i will buy thereafter. We are late on commercialisation.
Calysta Energy engineering organisms to convert methane to low-cost liquid hydrocarbons; BioGTL process
Calysta is using its proprietary BioGTL biological gas-to-liquids platform to convert natural gas to liquid hydrocarbons. Click to enlarge. Start-up Calysta Energy plans to use methane as a feedstock for engineered organisms to produce liquid hydrocarbon fuels and high value chemicals that ...
Is it a never ending story or what. As soon as they improve some parameters then there is drawbacks like this one where they found 300% volume change and loss of electrical contact.
If it continue like that, i might never buy for myself an electrical car. I will be born under the ice car era and die without driving and owning a car powered by clean efficient more torquey electricity.
Actually costs and specifications for electric car are simply not there yet. The range at minimum should be for 12 hours of driving without interruption. Now , even with a tesla at 110 000$ the range is barrelly 3 hours. With results like that serious buyers will never buy electric cars or trucks like tAXI DRIVERS, truckers, racers, long distance tourists, blue collar workers. In 2022, when i'll be ready to change my actual car, there won't be anything new on the market and i will still rely on a small well maintain gasoline car.
Each and all of these new technologies are costly, underperforming and to date no profits have been made.
Batteries, biofuels, synthetic fuels, chimical fuels like hydrogen or synthetic natural gas, windmills power accumulation, etc, all of these new things are a huge dissapointment with less then promising results. I was betting on hydrogen in the past, but since months they seam to get to a dead end with that and they don't speak anymore about hydrogen. In the future they will stop battery, fuels and hydrogen and every researchs because they never find anything worth commercialising.
New spin-casting technique for high-performance silicon nanoparticle/graphene materials for Li-ion electrodes
A binder-free silicon nanoparticles/graphene electrode exhibits a high capacity, a superior rate capability, and strong cycle life. Credit Zhou et al. Click to enlarge. A team at the Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), Chinese Academy of Sciences reports a new metho...
Im interrested to buy, with the money they save in that process compare to conventionnal refined petroleum, the price should be around half the price of actual diesel/kerosene. Im there interrested to buy a discounted airplane flight ticket to las vegas and also they can ships goods in grocery stores with a rebate on transport costs. With this stuff, they can make butanol and im interrested to buy a gallon of it for my car at around 2$/gallon.
Aemetis expands license agreement with Chevron Lummus Global for renewable jet and diesel fuel technology
Aemetis, Inc., an advanced fuels and renewable chemical company, signed an expanded, global license agreement with Chevron Lummus Global (CLG) for the production of renewable jet and diesel fuel by the conversion of existing biofuels and petroleum refineries. (Earlier post.) The expanded lice...
I think that the compagnies using co2, water and electricity as a feedstock have a higher potential for success and high production rate then the ones using food or waisted matters as feedstock. I won't buy any new biofuel from anyone if it's not cheaper and less polluting . Im currently on the market to find butanol at a cheaper price then the actual gasoline sold everywhere made from costly feedstock with hard refining consuming and waisting plenty of energy and rejecting polluting co2, carbon monoxide, acids, sulfur, etc.
California Energy Commission selects 7 biofuel companies for almost $27M in funding
The California Energy Commission (CEC) has selected seven companies as proposed recipients for $26,896,373 in Round 2 of awards from a solicitation released under the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program (ARFVTP) to provide funding for the development of new, California...
What, they cannot build a cheap, efficient, long lasting hydrogen fuelcell even with this new catalyst. This gang will never start producing and selling hydrogen fuelcell cars and suvs in 2015 as they said they will be doing. after 17 hours of testing the fuelcell was at 70%, LOL.
The honda clarity have a better fuelcell then these researchers because it run fine since years, it must be way better then this one. I hope honda stick with his promise and start the commercialisation of fuelcell in 2015.
Cobalt/cobalt oxide/graphene catalyst shows comparable activity and better stability as fuel cell catalyst than platinum
Left: CoO shell is shown in green, Co core in black. Right: Nanoparticles of cobalt attach themselves to a graphene substrate in a single layer. Credit: Sun Lab/Brown University. Click to enlarge. Chemists at Brown University have engineered a cobalt/cobalt oxide/graphene catalyst for the ...
Why not feed biofuel production with this system and recirculate it back at the input. That way we make biofuels and produce electricity and heat(hot water for heating in winter)from coal that not just act as an energy scource for electricity but as feedstock for biofuels too like green algae farming or methanol etc.
The future is systems with fuel recirculation for the production of energy needs and abuse too, because just think of corvettes and suv's and personnal motorcycles and watercrafts.
Modified SOFC anodes allow operation at lower temperatures with carbon-containing gases; potential for much more efficient and cleaner generation of electricity from coal
Terminal voltages measured at 750 °C as a function of time for the cells with (blue line) and without (red line) BaO/Ni interfaces operated at a constant current density of 500 mA cm-2 with wet CO (with ~3 v% H2O) as the fuel. Yang et al. Click to enlarge. Using barium oxide nanoparticles, a...
This is a poor website overall. The solution is not to pay 6 000$ more for cars with less drivability like suggested by this website. The solution is audi windmill e-gas and hydrogen put in car that cost less. It cost less because you can keep your car longer because it wear less and also it don't pollute so no need to change for a new car.
NRC report finds significant number of near-term technologies could greatly reduce fuel consumption in passenger cars
Various combinations of commercially available technologies could greatly reduce fuel consumption in passenger cars, sport-utility vehicles, minivans, and other light-duty vehicles over the next 15 years without compromising vehicle performance or safety, according to a newly published report by...
This is THE SOLUTION to fuel problems and pollution and costs for all the time to come. Nobody in this incompetant website approve audi for the simple reason that they need stupid problems like gasoline cars with pollution and high fuel cost to have something to chat about, if audi resolve the problem then the problem for incompetants is finding some subject to expose their poor science knowledge.
Audi unveils e-gas project: synthetic methane from the methanation of green hydrogen; series production of CNG models in 2013 powered by e-gas
Audi A3 TCNG for e-gas project. Click to enlarge. Starting in 2013, Audi will begin series production of TCNG models whose engines—derived from TFSI units—will be powered by e-gas: synthetic methane produced via the methanation of hydrogen produced by electrolysis using renewable electricity...
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