Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Lux Research has investigated the trends of corporate financing of alternative fuels from oil majors, based on a non-exhaustive database of more than 1,000 deals and partnership engagements from 2000 through September, 2014. Additionally, ExxonMobil recently teamed up with Iowa State University to research pyrolysis.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 31, 2014

A study led by a team from Peking University has estimated that global black carbon (BC) emissions increased from 5.3 After 2000, BC emissions from this sector in China remained roughly stable, but the increase in other developing countries was accelerated. Black carbon emissions and BC emissions intensity per year. Click to enlarge.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 22, 2023

Singh says his current job of securing government funding and establishing relationships with university groups is necessary in research areas where the company lacks the expertise, time, and resources. This institution became the Madan Mohan Malaviya University of Technology in 2013). Watch this video of a 944K in action.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2012

Historical analysis shows strong acceleration of plantation development in recent years: 70% of all industrial plantations have been established since 2000 and only 4% of the current plantation area existed in 1990. Tropical peatlands cover more than 25 Mha in Southeast Asia and are estimated to contain around 70 Gt of carbon. Chris Malins.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2015

the charge air was heated by a manifold charge cooler heated by the engine coolant; and a test gasoline fuel with a research octane number of 85 was used for all the experiments conducted. During the transition and steady-state HCCI operation, they maintained the normalized air-to-fuel ratio between 1.0

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2014

While natural gas can reduce greenhouse emissions when it is substituted for higher-emission energy sources, abundant shale gas is not likely to substantially alter total emissions without policies targeted at greenhouse gas reduction, according to a new study by two researchers at Duke University.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2013

Relative changes in vehicle energy efficiency (VEE) (km/MJ) on ethanol/gasoline blends over those on gasoline for different blending levels. Several recent highly cited LCAs that have incorporated vehicle efficiency differences between gasoline and ethanol/gasoline blends could potentially be misleading. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

A team at the University of Kansas has demonstrated the feasibility of an integrated wastewater algae-to-biocrude process using hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) that can sustainably cultivate algal biomass for biofuel production. Flow diagram of the solvent extraction and product recovery method used. Credit: ACS, Roberts et al. carbon, 10.1%

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Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

It occurred in the wake of the California electricity crisis of 2000 and 2001, when mismanaged deregulation, market manipulation, and environmental catastrophe combined to unhinge the power grid. In the early years of the automobile, battery-powered electric cars were competitive with cars fueled by gasoline and other types of propulsion.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2014

GDCI engine was significantly better than advanced production spark injection gasoline engines, and comparable to very efficient hybrid vehicle engines at their best efficiency conditions (214 g/kWh). This early work established that gasoline-like fuels with high resistance to autoignition are preferred for PPCI. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Reviewers included Dr. Martin Patel of Utrecht University and Michael Levy of the American Chemistry Council. bushels per acre, which represents a 12% increase over the data (1998-2000 average) used in the current US LCI database; Each bushel of soybeans harvested reduces greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) equivalents) by 32.6

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EV Connect

JULY 8, 2021

Since commissioning these additional stations, Union has had over 2000 charge sessions from 130 users, providing 48,000 eMiles and avoiding over 1,000 gallons of gasoline (10 mTCO2e)! Says Dranoff, “So I think being able to complete that loop and install EV charging, incentivizes people to make the leap to EV adoption.”

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 4, 2016

Researchers from the University of Illinois and colleagues in China investigating the performance, combustion and emission characteristics of a port fuel-injection SI engine fueled with isopropanol-n-butanol-ethanol (IBE)-gasoline blends have concluded that an IBE30 blend could be a good alternative to gasoline. —Li et al.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2011

Given the median biofuels forecast of 13 billion gallons of gasoline equivalent (GGE) in 2050, it is necessary to place a high priority on electrification of the transportation sector, if large reductions are to be attained by 2050.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Operating range of 2-stroke CAI fueled with gasoline, E10 and E85. Accordingly, the processes have been extensively researched over the last decade and adopted on prototype gasoline engines (e.g., Zhang et al. 2013a) Click to enlarge. Controlled autoignition (e.g., Controlled autoignition (e.g., GM’s ongoing work, earlier post ).

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Electric Auto Association

JANUARY 5, 2023

Wright also developed the Wrightspeed X1 , an EV sports car known for beating gasoline-powered sports cars in a drag race.“I He was pontificating on an all-electric composite Hypercar using rechargeable batteries back in 2000. Eventually moving to Alameda, California, the manufacturer was later renamed REVO Powertrains.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2014

Ford’s approach to the project was to engineer a comprehensive suite of gasoline engine systems technologies, including: Aggressive engine downsizing in a mid-sized sedan from a large V-6 to a small I-4. 20 bar BMEP @ 2000 - 4500 rpm. 1, and the engine is designed to run on 98 RON gasoline. Earlier post.). The approach.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Scientist have confirmed that unlike gasoline cars, plug-ins will get cleaner as they get older -- because our power grid is getting cleaner. The comparison keeps being raised, though studies are conclusive: The "well-to-wheel" emissions of electric vehicles are lower than those from gasoline internal combustion vehicles.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Will we have a universal standard for charging? They know it will take a little bit longer than a gasoline car because your gasoline stop. Like gasoline cars, the EPA range rating, which is sort of the one that everybody quotes, has two parts. We live in a townhouse in a row of townhouses. What exactly is fast charging?

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Will we have a universal standard for charging? They know it will take a little bit longer than a gasoline car because your gasoline stop. Like gasoline cars, the EPA range rating, which is sort of the one that everybody quotes, has two parts. We live in a townhouse in a row of townhouses. What exactly is fast charging?

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Plug In Partners

JANUARY 24, 2006

Such a vehicle could reduce gasoline consumption for the average American by 50 percent to 70 percent and reduce automobile emissions well in excess of emissions that might result from the additional use of power plants. consumers purchased more than 200,000 hybrid vehicles, which have grown from two models in 2000 to 11 models today.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

The Tucson Fuel Cell begins mass production for the US market in February 2014 at Ulsan—the plant that also manufactures the Tucson gasoline-powered CUV. Manufacturing the Tucson Fuel Cell at the same plant allows Hyundai to leverage both the high quality and cost-efficiency of its popular gasoline-powered Tucson platform.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2015

Researchers at the Skoltech Center for Electrochemical Energy Storage (CEES), a partnership between the MIT Materials Processing Center and Lomonosov Moscow State University, are focusing on the development of higher capacity batteries. He leads the research team at Moscow State.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2011

A team from the University of California, Berkeley concludes that reducing demand for light-duty vehicle (LDV) travel will likely be essential to meeting the international greenhouse gas emission and climate targets for the year 2050. L/100 km); or gasoline-fueled vehicles achieving in excess of 1,000 mpg (0.24 Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2010

Papers came from research teams including: the University of Michigan and GM R&D; Robert Bosch GmbH; Sandia National Laboratories; and MIT. At 2000 rpm it is possible to achieve up to almost 7 bar BMEP with the series turbocharged setup, using two small turbos. Boosted HCCI with Regular Gasoline. HCCI Combustion.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2009

Researchers at the University of California San Francisco have engineered the industrial yeast S. ZSM-5 and SAPO-34) have been used to convert methyl halides to products including gasoline, olefins, aromatics, alcohols and ethers. bio-gasoline—in a two-step process. cerevisiae uses to produce methyl halides. Redeker, N.-Y.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2009

Comparison of fuel consumption of Omnivore, homogeneous Gasoline Direct Injection (GDI) and Spray-Guided GDI engines. The first testing phase of Lotus Engineering’s Omnivore variable compression ratio, flex-fuel direct injection two-stroke engine ( earlier post ) has been successfully completed on gasoline. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 18, 2011

Johnson said that currently, Achates can deliver a 12-16% reduction in fuel consumption compared to the best diesel, and about 50% against gasoline, and with a cost and size reduction. A common-rail fuel injection system supports injection pressures up to 2000 bar, and can deliver multiple injection events per engine cycle.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

By about 2000, BYD had become one of the worlds largest manufacturers of cellphone batteries. BYD has also begun selling a plug-in electric car with a backup gasoline engine, a move putting it ahead of GM, Nissan, and Toyota. "I didnt go then because we had no money," he says. tons of carbon dioxide.

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