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VIDEO: Argonne National Lab developing Omnivorous Engine

Gasoline, ethanol, methanol, butanol, natural gas... there are a ton of choices when deciding on what fuel is best suited for automotive use, and each of them offer at least some reason to recommend them over another. Which to choose? Here's a better question: What if you didn't have to choose just one fuel? That's the goal of the so-called omnivorous engine. Not long ago, Lotus Engineering made headlines at the Geneva Motor Show when it showed off its flex-fuel Omnivore engine concept, and now word comes from the Argonne National Lab ... Read more →

Universities in Kentucky partner with Argonne National Lab for battery research Jeremy Korzeniewski

Today, the Commonwealth of Kentucky, the University of Kentucky, the University of Louisville and Argonne National Laboratory have announced a partnership to develop advanced battery technology for ...

A Voltron for lithium batteries? 14 companies, Argonne National Lab join forces Sebastian Blanco

Perhaps a flock-like approach to building lithium batteries for vehicles is what it'll take. A new alliance has been formed between the Argonne National Laboratory and 14 US companies to try and ...

U.S. taxpayer-funded battery technology licensed to Japanese company for Canadian production Sam Abuelsamid

My friend Lou Ann Hammond sat down with Don Hillebrand of the Argonne National Lab following last week's unveiling of the Chevy Volt. Argonne has developed some very promising lithium ion battery ...

BMW's hydrogen V12 engine: only a fraction of SULEV emissions levels Jeremy Korzeniewski

There are many hurdles standing in the way of hydrogen becoming widespread as an energy carrier for our vehicles, either by the direct burning of it in internal combustion engines or in fuel cells. ...

Argonne National lab develops new catalyst for steam reformation 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

A research team at Argonne national lab has developed a new type of catalyst for use in steam reformation of natural gas that produces hydrogen. The new nickel-based catalyst has the metal grains in small particles spread out more evenly over the metal oxide substrate rather than the large clumps ...

EDTA Conference: Who Killed the Plug-in Hybrid? 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

AutoblogGreen readers got a preview of Don Hillebrand's Thursday speech at the EDTA Conference on Wednesday. Hillebrand, director of the Center for Transportation Research at Argonne National Laboratory, had his presentation set and ready to go when I spoke with him early in the week, but by the ...

Argonne National Lab develops materials that could drastically lower the cost of new fuels 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

Scientists at the Argonne National Lab operated by the Department of Energy have developed new metal alloys that could drastically reduce the cost of producing new fuels, like hydrogen. Currently production equipment used to produce fuels like hydrogen, methanol and ammonia are subject to a form of ...


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