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Auto X Prize wins $5.5 million from DOE for its own prize-giving contest

While the Automotive X Prize's raison d'être is to give out money to the best high-mileage vehicles and business plans in the $10 million contest, as the saying goes, it takes money to give out money. To that end, the AXP announced today that it has received $5.5 million from the U.S. Department of Energy. The funding is part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and is intended to "to support the X PRIZE Foundation's work to inspire a new generation of energy efficient vehicles" through technical assistance and outreach ... Read more →

DOE announces $786 million for third-generation biofuels Sebastian Blanco

Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced a huge, $786.5 million program to speed development and commercialization of biofuels today. The money comes from the American Recovery and ...

DOE's alternative fuel national locator map now available Sebastian Blanco

The U.S. Department of Energy today took the wraps off of an online Alternative Fuel Station Locator that should make it a bit easier to find the right fuel if you need something other than gasoline ...

DOE finds $130m for your advanced fuel cell tech Sebastian Blanco

The U.S. Department of Energy has found some money behind the grant funding couch - $130 million to be exact - and wants to hand it over to people working on developing advanced fuel cell ...

The numbers are in: 6.48 billion gallons of ethanol made in the U.S. in 2007 Sebastian Blanco

Photo by MikeGroft. Licensed under Creative Commons license 2.0. The weekly email from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) arrived today and ...

EDTA Conference: kick off session is 99 percent unbelievably upbeat 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

EDTA president Brian Wynne officially opened this week's conference with a moment of silence for David Hermance, an engineer for Toyota who recently died while flying his plane off the coast of California. After that quiet moment, the message from Wynne and all of the other speakers at this ...

National rundown of waste-to-energy projects in America, courtesy of EERE 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

You through with that? If so, there's an energy producer out there who could use it. The Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) has provided us all with a write up of the many projects in the United States that turn waste products into energy. You can read the details here, or just ...

DOE verdict: Ethanol is net energy positive 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

AutoWeek reports that in an attempt to silence ethanol critics the Department of Energy (DOE) points to a study done by Argonne National Laboratory and officially stated that ethanol yields more energy than is used to produce it. More specifically, the study calculates that it takes 740,000 British ...

32 operational hydrogen fueling stations open in America, more planned 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

Like I said, it must be hydrogen week around here. The U.S. Department of Energy's Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy subsection sent out an email yesterday announcing, among other things, that there are now 32 hydrogen fueling stations open in America, and 19 more are on the way. The growing ...


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