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Somebody give that guy a ride in a Tesla.

Commented 3 days ago on Experts’ view on future transportation fuels at Green Car Congress

LG batteries in an Indian (Tata) owned car built by a Canadian company (Magna International) in Austria. Are there any British parts in it?

Commented Oct 24, 2018 on Continental providing next-generation power electronics for Jaguar’s I-PACE at Green Car Congress

Battery charge controllers are designed specifically for the chemistry of the original battery and may not work with these new cells in your Fusion.

Commented Oct 24, 2018 on LG Chem invests in Enevate; silicon-dominant Li-ion battery technology at Green Car Congress

Better way to reduce NO emissions. Build EVs.

Commented Oct 16, 2018 on Tohoku team finds swirling ammonia in combustion chambers can help reduce NO emissions at Green Car Congress

Interesting to see how much they can cut costs for the final product.

Commented Oct 11, 2018 on NC State team develop medium voltage fast charger; up to 350 kW in next version at Green Car Congress

Autonomous driving can soon take a great leap with all-optical defractive deep neural network technology. https://www.photonicsspectra-digital.com/photonicsspectra/october_2018/MobilePagedReplica.action?pm=2&folio=26#pg26

Commented Oct 5, 2018 on Volkswagen and Siemens partnering on traffic light V2X tests using WLANp in Wolfsburg at Green Car Congress

It is not necessary to generate ALL the U.S. electrical energy from wind power. Much of it can come from hydro, solar, geothermal and of course offshore wind. They are modelling an extreme case.

Commented Oct 5, 2018 on Harvard team finds large-scale US wind power would cause warming that would take roughly a century to offset at Green Car Congress

"Mazda expects that by 2030, internal combustion engines combined with some form of electrification will account for 95% of the vehicles it produces and battery electric vehicles will account for 5%." No wonder they have never become a serious company, overtaken by Subaru.

Commented Oct 2, 2018 on Mazda to develop BEV and EREV with rotary engine range extender at Green Car Congress

These vehicles tend to follow predetermined routes. Hotel to airport, school routes, etc. If they are sitting for a time, plug them in to a charger. Air condition all you want.

Commented Sep 25, 2018 on Lightning Systems debuts new all-electric Ford E-450 shuttle bus and cutaway models at Green Car Congress

This will fortunately have other applications. Fuel cells have a very limited use.

Commented Sep 25, 2018 on Dalhousie-led team develops single-atom platinum-gold catalyst; nearly 100-fold increases in efficiency at Green Car Congress

The efficiency of electrolysis is about 75%. So you lose 25% of your power there. Then the efficiency of conversion back to electricity by a fuel cell is about 60% Another 40% lost. Now, you have to get the hydrogen to the fueling station. Either by installing underground pipe or by trucking it. More efficiency loss. How was the electricity for electrolysis generated? Same way as if you put it directly in a battery at 95% efficiency. Range for a BEV in a city is no problem at all. FC vehicles output air, and WATER. Lots of WATER. Perfect for streets in cold countries in winter.

Commented Sep 21, 2018 on Hyundai Motor enters MoU with H2 Energy for 1,000 heavy-duty fuel-cell trucks and renewable hydrogen at Green Car Congress

Renewable natural gas? It's mostly methane, 25x worse than CO2. How does that help the environment? There are leaks everywhere in the system from production to transportation to storage and dispersal.

Commented Sep 18, 2018 on SoCalGas to offer renewable natural gas at its fueling stations for the first time at Green Car Congress

"It will take many years to go from 1X to 5X" Battery range is already good enough for the large majority of users. We only need to get to 2X to make them good for everyone. That and lower price and faster charging. All those things are happening fast. Not decades. More like 5 years. Tesla already has semis that will get over 600 miles before requiring 30 min. to charge up another 400 miles. The new chargers coming out are capable of 359Kw and more meaning as soon as the cars are capable it will take 15 min to charge.

Commented Sep 18, 2018 on Volkswagen launches “Electric for All” campaign, demos rolling chassis of MEB at Green Car Congress

Forget floor height. Just pull a car loaded with batteries. Arrive at destination and switch to a car with fresh batteries. All charging is done offline.

Commented Sep 13, 2018 on Bombardier Transportation presents a new battery-operated train at Green Car Congress

I want an Eveready Bunny car. Small, cheap, and keeps on going and going and going.....

Commented Sep 12, 2018 on New Mercedes-Benz GLE features 48V active suspension system at Green Car Congress

Engineer-poet. If you don't like it, become an early adopter.

Commented Sep 10, 2018 on New California program to make clean cars affordable for lower-income residents at Green Car Congress

These baffles work no matter the drive train.

Commented Sep 4, 2018 on SmartTruck steps up CFD simulations at ORNL for EPA certification at Green Car Congress

If the manufacturing cost is reasonable this could well begin life as a stationary storage battery. With that kind of density they should be saving on the expensive components. At 150C you also have the cogen capabilities of heating water.

Commented Aug 27, 2018 on U Waterloo team shows four-electron conversion for Li-O2 batteries for high energy density; inorganic molten salt electrolyte, high temperature at Green Car Congress

All U.S. consumption does not need to be stored, there are other sources of storage than battery, most of the batteries going into cars and trucks can be V2G attached to be part of that storage.

Commented Aug 21, 2018 on GlobalData: Global lithium production to triple over the next four years at Green Car Congress

Now, what happens to charge times at say, -30C?

Commented Aug 16, 2018 on U Mich team demonstrates high current densities and extended cycling with solid electrolyte at Green Car Congress

"The U.S. hasn’t been able to persuade Iran’s biggest oil customer China to reduce oil purchases" Maybe if Trump wasn't attacking China with tariffs.....

Commented Aug 15, 2018 on Saudi Arabia And Iran Reignite The Oil Price War at Green Car Congress

"Imagine pricing the left lane of regularly congested, multi-lane roads. A lower traffic volume on the left lane would be the result. This in turn means that the flow of traffic on the right-hand lane also increases. That way, everyone benefits." I'm not seeing how people in the right lane benefit.....anyone?

Commented Aug 3, 2018 on Economists propose use of dynamic road fees for traffic control at Green Car Congress

Actually the really poor can't afford cars and the less poor only drive very small cars. It's the middle income that drive more miles in larger vehicles. Besides there are tax deductions that can remedy that. I think 5 years will get us EVs that are cheaper than ICEs.

Commented Aug 2, 2018 on US EPA and DOT propose freezing light-duty fuel economy, GHG standards at 2020 level for MY 2021-2026 vehicles; 43.7 mpg for cars; 50-state solution at Green Car Congress

You have that backwards. Building a battery for pacemakers is highly more critical than necessary than for EVs. It makes no sense to wait for that level of acceptance in order to use them in cars. Use the automotive market to prove and improve the batteries before using them in pacemakers.

Commented Jul 31, 2018 on CMU-led team develops method of aerosol jet 3D printing battery electrode materials for exceptionally high capacity batteries at Green Car Congress

China has a huge aluminum industry. They are a big part of the reason The U.S. industry has been hollowed out. https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/05/08/cheap-chinese-aluminum-is-a-national-security-threat/

Commented Jul 28, 2018 on Novelis to acquire downstream aluminum producer Aleris for ~$2.6B; meeting automotive demand, expanding into aerospace at Green Car Congress