Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2010

McPhy Energy , a French company founded in January 2008 with the mission to industrialize and commercialize a new magnesium hydride solid state storage system for hydrogen, recently closed its second round of funding worth €13.7 million (US$17.3 McPhy’s technology addresses the merchant hydrogen and renewable energy markets.

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Electric Vehicles India

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Japan, and Europe markets. In the latter part of the 1990s, we started working on the application of fuel cells into passenger vehicles before other manufacturers and in 2002, we simultaneously introduced the world’s first FCEV in Japan and the United States. We introduced the FCX Clarity sedan in 2008.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2009

of Japan in 2008. BASF plans to commercialize these new cathode materials for transportation and other applications. In some formulations, the Argonne NMC materials can provide an initial capacity of > 250 mAh g -1 when discharged between 5 and 2.0V and a rechargeable capacity of up to 250 mAh g -1 over the same window.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Nissan, which began development of fuel cell vehicle technology in 1996, has previously used FCVs in demonstration fleets in Japan and in California through the California Fuel Cell Partnership (CaFCP), but this is Nissan’s first commercial FCV lease in North America. Earlier post.) The new fuel cell stack. Click to enlarge.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 5, 2023

The IEEE Fellow was awarded the 2008 IEEE Medal of Honor for “pioneering technical roles in integrated-circuit processing, and leadership in the development of MOS memory, the microprocessor computer, and the semiconductor industry.” The company created the first commercially available microprocessor, the 4004 , in 1971.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 2, 2009

The company first launched its diesel boxer engine in Europe in 2008 and has sold more than 30,000 models. With new emission regulations to take effect in Japan from 2010, Subaru is hoping to improve its diesel before offering it in the home market. Currently, the diesel version of the car accounts for 54.1

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

A study by Ricardo Strategic Consulting has concluded that while sluggish automotive demand in Europe, Japan and North America will be balanced by the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) markets through 2020, thereafter the ‘Rising-15’ nations become the engine for profitable growth—assuming political stability. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 25, 2009

Panasonic holds 337 patents in Japan and 136 in other countries including pending applications on the new battery cells. In 2008 Panasonic developed compact fuel cell stacks by reviewing the structure of its connecting parts. Ah cell, which has 30% greater capacity compared to the 2.9 Panasonic 18650 Li-ion Cells. Ah (current) 3.4

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 15, 2014

in the past few years important factors have emerged that are re-accelerating the commercialization of hydrogen and fuel cell technologies. A few regions (notably California, Japan and Germany) have committed significant funds to support the next crucial steps forward on infrastructure build-out. —“The Hydrogen Transition”.

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Cars That Think

JULY 13, 2023

He probably is best known for developing the lithium cobalt oxide cathode in 1980—which became the foundation for Sony’s first commercial lithium-ion battery in 1991. It later became the chemistry of choice for early electric cars including the 2008 Tesla Roadster. National Medal of Science from President Barack Obama.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 1, 2011

Slower than expected sales of hybrids everywhere in the world but Japan in 2010. In the US hybrids fell from about 3% of total sales in 2008-09 to 2.2% Fuel standards in Europe, Japan and Canada that will require widespread adoption of electrics. An explosion of hybrid sales in Japan. He also believes that sub-1.6L

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2010

Sanyo Electric has completed installation of two Solar Parking Lots for hybrid bikes, incorporating solar panels and lithium-ion battery systems, and also provided 100 electric hybrid “eneloop bikes”, in Setagaya, Tokyo Japan. Each Solar Parking Lot holds 40 eneloop bikes. The eneloop bike. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2010

This project is part of a global Toyota project involving 600 Prius Plug-in Hybrid Vehicles that will also be deployed in Japan, the US, Canada and Australia. In the context of the EDF-Toyota partnership, European road trials of Plug-in Hybrid Vehicles started in France in the autumn of 2007 and were expanded to the UK in 2008.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 20, 2024

The IMO’s previous goal was a 50 percent reduction by 2050 in comparison with 2008 levels. Based on the number of players in the United States that are quite far advanced in their development, like TerraPower, my rough guess is that in 10 years we will see the first commercial civilian vessel with [next-generation] nuclear power,” says Lien.

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Cars That Think

JULY 30, 2023

Goodenough wrote to battery companies in the United States, United Kingdom, and the European mainland in hopes of finding a corporate partner, he recalled in his 2008 memoir, Witness to Grace. Like many universities of the day, it did not concern itself with intellectual property, believing such matters to be confined to the commercial world.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2015

Commercial automotive hydrogen storage technologies occupy the extremes of this phase diagram. The DOE Hydrogen Program conducted a technical assessment of cryo-compressed hydrogen storage for vehicular applications during 2006-2008. From a 2010 paper by BMW and Lawrence Livermore researchers describing CCH 2 technology.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

The loss is driven by the severe downturn in the global economy in the second half of calendar year 2008 and, in particular, the negative impact of the strong yen, the sharp decline in consumer confidence in all major markets and product mix deterioration, the company said. compared with last year. Inventory will be tightly controlled.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2010

Toyota aims at the commercialization of fuel cell vehicles around 2015. We firmly believe that fuel cell hybrid vehicles will play a major role in reducing emissions and achieving sustainable mobility, alongside petrol and plug-in hybrids and pure electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2009

To achieve that goal, Petrobras anticipates building a new plant in Northern Brazil; the Candeias (state of Bahia) plant will be duplicated; and the experimental plants in Guamaré, in the state of Rio Grande do Norte, will be adapted for commercial production. Furthermore, the possibility of acquiring two new plants is under consideration.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2009

The testing included several commercial airplane engine types using blends of up to 50% petroleum-based Jet A/Jet A-1 fuel and 50% sustainable biofuels. Other general findings included: Bio-SPK fuel blends used in the test flight program met or exceeded all technical parameters for commercial jet aviation fuel. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2009

Five new airlines have been accepted as members of the Sustainable Aviation Fuel Users Group ( SAFUG ), an airline-led industry working group focused on accelerating the development and commercialization of sustainable aviation fuels: Alaska Airlines, British Airways, Cathay Pacific, TUIfly and Virgin Blue. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2009

The process is based on UOP’s Ecofining process, which utilizes conventional refinery hydroprocessing technology and which is commercially available for the production of renewable diesel produced from biofeedstocks. Earlier post.). UOP’s Renewable Jet Process Chemistry. Source: Boeing. Click to enlarge.

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AUGUST 10, 2021

Currently, India is importing 100% of lithium-ion batteries from China, Europe, the US and Japan. In 2008, on 27 June 2018, Exide Industries Ltd announced its joint venture (JV) agreement with Leclanché to build lithium-ion batteries and energy storage solutions to power the growth of India’s electric vehicle market.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2009

The testing included several commercial airplane engine types using blends of up to 50% petroleum-based Jet A/Jet A-1 fuel and 50% sustainable biofuels. Billy Glover, managing director of Environmental Strategy for Boeing Commercial Airplanes. They will not require any changes to existing commercial jet engines. Earlier post.).

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Cars That Think

MARCH 3, 2023

After graduating with a master’s degree in telecommunications and computer science in 2008 from the Wrocław University of Science and Technology , in Poland, Zakrzewska initially didn’t know what type of career to pursue. “I in Atsugi, Japan. She has been granted several patents, which have been commercialized.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2011

And I’m directing the Navy and the Departments of Energy and Agriculture to work with the private sector to create advanced biofuels that can power not just fighter jets, but trucks and commercial airliners. Now, in light of ongoing events in Japan, I want to say another word about nuclear power.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2009

By the fourth quarter of 2009, the company expects to begin selling c-Zone utility EVs for commercial and government applications as well the e-Zone City Drive EVs. The company has also announced a joint venture with PUES Corporation (Japan) for the development and production of inverters and new technology in-wheel motors.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

DECEMBER 23, 2008

companies are losing a race to commercialize the technology to rivals in Asia and Europe. LA Times, December 20, 2008. December 20, 2008 U.S. battery manufacturers are taking steps to raise the industry’s profile, a move that backers hope will speed commercialization of high-tech, American-made car batteries.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 14, 2009

The Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corporation (MFTBC) has been marketing the Fuso Canter hybrid truck in its home market since July 2006 with 600 vehicles sold in Japan to date. This order, along with another from Australia for 10 vehicles, represents the first time the company has delivered a Fuso hybrid truck outside Japan.

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Plugs and Cars

NOVEMBER 22, 2007

nk City in 2008. Daimler is set to be the first on the street with 100 test vehicle SMARTs in 2008. If the tests turn out as Daimler hopes, the company plans to begin commercial production in 2010, before the end of the pilot. “We Norway's Th!nk nk Global views London as a first market when it relaunches the Th!nk

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 9, 2009

The type of petrol engine used for the Hybrid is similar to the 3-cylinder 658 cc fitted to the compact and low tax ‘Kei’ cars in Japan. . The FCV is currently under test on public roads in Japan. Tags: Electric cars Fuel Cells Suzuki fuell cell hybrid japan new.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2009

Although production will initially focus on external fuel cells for recharging, the company plans to commercialize mobile handsets and PCs with built-in fuel cells by the end of fiscal 2009. In 2008, Toshiba displayed chargers or integrated fuel cells in mobile TV viewers and cell phones at CES and CEATEC. Active vs. passive.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2009

Ed Feo is a partner with the law firm of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy and was voted one of the “Five Most Influential People in Renewable Energy” in 2008 by Euromoney / Institutional Investor. We reached peak oil consumption in the US in 2008 and the same is true in the EU and Japan. ” Billion in 2008).

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Plug In Partners

MAY 20, 2008

by ’10 By BILL VLASIC Published: May 13, 2008 DETROIT — The Nissan Motor Company plans to sell an electric car in the United States and Japan by 2010, raising the stakes in the race to develop environmentally friendly vehicles. It can also be about a small commercial vehicle and a small crossover.”

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Revenge of the Electric Car

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

The group issued a lengthy report and a 30-second television commercial touting its plan, and its members outlined it at a presentation in Washington, D.C. The group issued a lengthy report and a 30-second television commercial touting its plan, and its members outlined it at a presentation in Washington, D.C.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2009

How did the high fuel prices impact customer behavior in 2008? But you won’t see the dramatic changes you see in Germany and Japan because they have their inspection regimes that drive them towards newer cars. The cells make up the remainder. —Bill Cooke.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2010

BG Group has approved implementation of the first phase of a US$15-billion project to convert coal seam gas (CSG) to LNG—the first major commercial project to do so. First LNG exports are planned to commence from 2014, underpinned by agreements in Chile, China, Japan and Singapore for the purchase of up to 9.5 Source: QCLNG EIS.

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