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OCTOBER 23, 2015

The European Union appears to be undergoing a transition from the testing of and experimentation with electric vehicles to full-scale EV commercialization, according to a new report from the EU’s Joint Research Center (JRC). Registrations of BEV and PHEV in the EU from 2010 to 2014. Each column segment corresponds to a specific model.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Mercedes-Benz Vans will offer electric drive options on all its commercial van model lines. The eVito, the second all-electric production model from Mercedes-Benz Vans after the 2010 Vito E-Cell, starts at €39,990 (US$47,000) (in Germany excl. Further model ranges will follow, starting in 2019. With an installed battery capacity of 41.4

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MARCH 25, 2012

was added to the partnership as a preferred manufacturer, and in 2010 an agreement was announced with Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. Petrobras) to host and cover the running costs of the first integrated demonstration of the Group’s offshore GTL technology at its Fortaleza refinery in Brazil. In 2008, Kobe Steel Ltd.

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AUGUST 31, 2011

World ethanol and biodiesel production, 1975-2010. Global production of biofuels increased 17% in 2010 to reach an all-time high of 105 billion liters (28 billion gallons US), up from 90 billion liters (24 billion gallons US) in 2009. Source: Worldwatch Institute. Click to enlarge. billion liters abroad, a 300% increase over 2009.

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AUGUST 3, 2011

to expand the current collaboration ( earlier post ) and to form a joint venture to commercialize Amyris No Compromise Renewable Diesel. Total acquired a minority 17% stake in Amyris in 2010, and the parties are currently collaborating on the development of Amyris renewable jet fuel. million in the same quarter of 2010.

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DECEMBER 18, 2010

Over the past year, ARB staff held 20 public workshops throughout the state to solicit stakeholder input and discuss options for revising diesel control measures affecting commercially owned trucks, buses, port trucks, tractor trailers and off-road vehicles, including construction and large-spark ignition equipment (e.g., forklifts).

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JUNE 21, 2010

The European Commission Fuel Cells and Hydrogen (FCH) Joint Undertaking (JU) has published its 2010 Call for Proposals with a budget of €89.1 Specific topics for the different areas in the 2010 Call include: Transportation and Refuelling Infrastructure (€31.6M). million, entered into the negotiation stage in April 2010.

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DECEMBER 3, 2018

A new European Joint Research Center (JRC) analysis on the deployment of electric vehicles (EV) in Europe concludes that although the sector evolved significantly between 2010 and 2017, progress is still small to be characterized as full-scale commercialization. In 2010, electric vehicles still represented a niche market.

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MAY 16, 2022

This means, at a minimum, EPA should meet or exceed California’s Heavy-Duty Omnibus program by setting a standard that achieves, by 2027, a greater than 90% reduction in NO x emissions from trucks that are sold today relative to 2010 standards. —Letter to EPA Administrator Regan.

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MAY 16, 2019

BNEF expects there to be 508 million passenger EVs on the road globally by 2040; including commercial EVs, this brings the BNEF 2040 EV fleet size forecast to about 550 million. BNEF’s Electric Vehicle Outlook 2019 incorporates in the forecast detailed work on the commercial vehicle market. million barrels per day by 2040.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2024

The Super Bowl is the United States’ biggest sporting event, reaching nearly 100 million people every year since Super Bowl 44 in 2010, as per ratings agency Nielsen. At $7M for a 30 second Super Bowl ad, $TSLA would have to sell 875 incremental cars (@$8k gross profit per car) to justify the cost of the ad.

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JUNE 18, 2020

which was sold to Amazon in 2010. EcoCooling uses only ionized and cooled air and has none of the environmental hazards and costs related to oil-based fluids. During the past few years, EcoCooling has been successfully trialed in numerous commercial tests in demanding surroundings internationally. —Leo Hatjasalo.

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APRIL 25, 2011

Red Wolf, formed in 2010, is in the process of raising $3 million through an equity offering to commercialize the thermal-chemical catalytic process. This mitigates transportation costs of both the feedstock and the produced fuel.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2014

DENSO has been developing the wireless charging system with the goal to commercialize by 2020. DENSO is working to reduce the size, weight, and cost of the system while also looking to enhance convenience.

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OCTOBER 15, 2009

Coskata’s semi-commercial facility in Madison, Pa. a syngas to ethanol company, officially launched its semi-commercial “Flexethanol” facility located in Madison, PA. Actual production cost will vary, either below or above $1.00 per gallon, based on the cost of feedstock and the cost of power for the specific plant, he noted.

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MARCH 23, 2012

The Governor also signed an executive order (EO) designed to accelerate the commercialization of zero emission vehicles (ZEVs). The EO instructs all state government entities under the Governor’s control to “ support and facilitate the rapid commercialization of zero-emission vehicles ” and sets out specific targets to lay the foundation.

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DECEMBER 15, 2013

By 2040, hybrids are expected to account for about 35% of the global light-duty vehicle fleet, up from less than 1% in 2010. In 2010, about 75% of the world’s vehicles were in OECD countries. liters per 100 km) in 2010. Commercial transportation demand by region. Commercial transportation demand by region.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2011

The European Parliament has voted to introduce CO 2 limits in the EU for new vans and other light commercial goods vehicles. The European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) issued a statement saying that the new CO 2 legislation for light commercial vehicles sets extremely challenging targets in particular for the long term.

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JUNE 11, 2019

The Manufacturers of Emission Controls Association (MECA) released a report assessing market-ready technologies being commercialized by suppliers of emission control and efficiency components for heavy-duty diesel vehicles to meet lower intermediate standards for oxides of nitrogen (NO x ) by 2024 as a transition to final standards in 2027.

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MAY 18, 2012

Research and development to refine the technology at lab-scale has been in progress through NAABB since April 2010. Lab-scale experiments completed in October 2011 showed that the technology is cost effective and energy-efficient. Such an improvement would significantly reduce the cost of separating water from algae.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Faradion was founded in 2010 with the objective to develop a low-cost sodium-ion battery technology capable of reducing the cost of energy storage in a range of applications related to renewable energy, stationary storage and transportation. —Chris Wright, CEO Faradion Ltd.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

between 2010 and 2011 and 214% between 2008 and 2011. The 2011 Fuel Cell Technologies Market Report finds that commercial markets for fuel cell technologies expanded significantly over the last year, especially in the materials handling industry. Total, worldwide fuel cell shipments grew 37.5%

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JULY 8, 2011

Through this alliance, we intend to further demonstrate the high quality of our drop-in biofuels for the Brazil market, and to move closer to the commercialization of LS9 UltraClean Diesel. —Ed Dineen, CEO of LS9. We want to offer more renewable and alternative fuels to our clients in Brazil and in other Latin American countries.

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DECEMBER 10, 2014

As the world population increases by the estimated 30% from 2010 to 2040, ExxonMobil sees global GDP rising by about 140%, but energy demand by only about 35% due to greater efficiency. Across OECD nations, the Outlook assumes the implied cost of policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions will reach about $80 per tonne in 2040.

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OCTOBER 19, 2012

The August coal share of generation is still notably lower than the 50% annual average over the 1990-2010 period. Chart includes generation from the electric power sector only, excluding commercial and industrial generators. Until 2010, substitution between the two fuels for electricity generation was not widespread in most US regions.

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AUGUST 16, 2010

The solicitation seeks applications for projects that manufacture commercial technology renewable energy systems, such as an energy storage system, and components, such as wind turbine systems, blades or solar photovoltaic components. The first Part I deadline is 31 August 2010, and the first Part II deadline is 31 October 2010.

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OCTOBER 27, 2019

Daimler Trucks & Buses, one of the world’s largest commercial vehicle manufacturers, aims to offer only new vehicles that are CO 2 -neutral in driving operation (“tank-to-wheel”) in the triad markets of Europe, Japan and NAFTA by 2039. The decisive criterion for truck and bus customers is the total cost of ownership, Daimler says.

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DECEMBER 26, 2009

The Ohio Third Frontier Advanced Energy Program supports research and development that addresses the technical and cost barriers to commercialization of advanced energy components and systems, with preference to wind, biomass, and energy storage in Ohio. Accelerating Commercialization of Anaerobic Digestion for Bioenergy project.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2011

million in the third quarter of 2010, the results reflected an improving gross margin: -30.4% million and commercial revenue was $4.6 million in commercial revenue in the third quarter of 2010, and to transportation revenue of $24.4 million, no grid revenue and commercial revenue of $5.2 Commercial revenue was $12.9

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JUNE 15, 2010

The agreement between Lignol and Novozymes formalizes a Memorandum of Understanding between the partners from February 2010. In February 2010, Novozymes launched its new Cellic CTec2 enzymes that enable commercial production of biofuel from plant waste. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Our focus is on the operating range and cost of the batteries, and also on the infrastructure necessary for operations in our customers’ commercial fleets. We want to use the comprehensive findings to realise electric trucks that are economically comparable to diesel trucks for inner-city distribution from 2021.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Novozymes says it has cut cellulosic ethanol enzyme costs by more than half and is on track to deliver commercially viable enzymes by 2010. This new enzyme family is the highest performing and most cost-effective enzyme solution available today, according to the company. —Peder Holk Nielsen.

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JANUARY 23, 2012

Net petroleum imports as a share of total US liquid fuels consumed drop from 49% in 2010 to 38% in 2020 and 36% in 2035 in AEO2012. EIA added a premium to the capital cost of CO 2 -intensive technologies to reflect current market behavior regarding possible future policies to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions.

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DECEMBER 6, 2012

Building on a Phase 1 Lotus study published in 2010 ( earlier post ), the Phase 2 study demonstrated the crashworthiness of a low mass body-in-white (BIW) using computer aided analysis and simulation. The target was a mass reduction greater than 30% for the total vehicle. Combining a 30% lighter vehicle with a 150 HP 1.0L

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JUNE 1, 2010

Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne successfully completed the first in a series of performance tests on its compact gasifier, which is designed to help reduce the cost of coal gasification. Additional testing will be conducted throughout 2010 using Illinois coal, petroleum coke and sub-bituminous coal. Earlier post.)

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JANUARY 20, 2011

million vehicles per year in 2010 to more than 3.2 CAGR between 2010 and 2016). CAGR between 2010 and 2016—resulting in 32,619 vehicles sold in 2016. More and more fleet managers are attracted to the lower fuel costs of natural gas, in addition to the opportunity to reduce their vehicles’ carbon footprint.

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JUNE 6, 2011

In December 2010, Carbon Sciences announced a worldwide exclusive license agreement with the University of Saskatchewan (UOS), Canada, for catalyst technology for the dry reforming of methane with CO 2. However, there currently is no commercial catalyst robust enough to sustain dry reforming reactions on an industrial scale.

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