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JULY 5, 2022

A recent study commissioned by the provincial government, FortisBC and the BC Bioenergy Network found that the potential for hydrogen production in the province could exceed 200 petajoules by 2050—roughly enough gas to completely replace current natural gas volumes.

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The Truth About Cars

JANUARY 22, 2024

This was the U-Pull-It in York , and today's Junkyard Scrapyard Find is one of the more interesting products of the Société Européene de Véhicules Légers during the 2000s. Imagine the United States Postal Service requiring its carriers to work a manual transmission in 2010! 2010 Peugeot Bipper Royal Mail cargo van in English junkyard.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2021

The ICCT study finds that the United States’ share of cumulative global EV production decreased from 20% to 18% since 2010 and only 15% of the approximately $345 billion in global automaker EV investments are flowing to the US. In terms of annual EV production, Europe’s 1.1 Source: The ICCT. million nearly matched China’s 1.27

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CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

In November of 2010, Tesla flew me out to their Silicon Valley headquarters for my first round of interviews. continued] The post Me & “Old Blue” — How The Original Tesla Roadster Helped Me Serve “The Mission” Well Beyond Its Production Run appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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MARCH 14, 2023

Rio Tinto has begun underground production from the Oyu Tolgoi copper mine in the Gobi Desert. Ore is currently being processed from Panel Zero in Hugo North Lift 1 and production will ramp up over the coming years. Earlier post.) The total workforce of Oyu Tolgoi is currently around 20,000 people, of which 97% are Mongolian.

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DECEMBER 7, 2022

Rising raw material and battery component prices and soaring inflation have led to the first increase in lithium-ion battery pack prices since BloombergNEF (BNEF) began tracking the market in 2010. he upward cost pressure on batteries outpaced the higher adoption of lower cost chemistries like lithium iron phosphate (LFP).

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JUNE 17, 2020

The European Investment Bank (EIB) has signed a €125-million loan with Umicore, the Belgian-based global materials technology and recycling group, to finance part of the greenfield production facility for cathode materials in Poland. Battery production is a rapidly advancing industry. billion of overall project costs.

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Poland Lithium Ion Batteries Battery 243

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

The Volkswagen brand has introduced a new production strategy—TRANSFORM.TOGETHER—which targets a 30% increase in productivity worldwide by 2025 compared to 2018. Production is therefore making a major contribution to achieving the profitability target of over 6% for the brand. And production plays a key role in that.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The definitive estimate details how Oyu Tolgoi underground will achieve sustainable production for Panel 0 by October 2022 for development capital of $6.75 At peak production, Oyu Tolgoi is expected to operate in the first quartile of the copper cash cost curve and by 2030 is expected to be the fourth largest copper mine in the world.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2017

The Volkswagen brand has set itself new, ambitious targets for reducing the environmental impact of production. By 2025, vehicles and components are to be produced in a way which is 45% more environmentally compatible than in 2010, the reference year for the current Think Blue. Liendel Chang, Head of Environmental Production.

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2010 Production Climate Protection Water 150

Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2012

Knittel/Smith results for implied gasoline price effects from elimination of ethanol for 2010 using Du/Hayes model and pooled-sample estimates. in 2010 and 2011, respectively. in 2010 and 2011, respectively. Results from Du/Hayes are indicated by the large square. Source: Knittel and Smith (2012). Click to enlarge.

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Davis MIT Gasoline 2010 334

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MARCH 13, 2020

The 16,000 barrels-per-day unit will have a yearly production capacity of approximately one million cubic meters of fuels which corresponds to about 25% of Sweden’s estimated consumption of renewable fuels in 2030. This volume of renewable fuel can reduce emissions from cars and planes by 2.5 million tons CO 2 every year.

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The Truth About Cars

MARCH 5, 2024

The Japanese auto giant recently announced its acquisition of Primearth EV Energy from Panasonic, which it said would give it a significant boost toward EV battery mass production. In 2010, Toyota grabbed another 20.5 percent, so this recent announcement only really covers 19.5 percent of Primearth.

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Toyota Batteries Battery Production 77

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 2, 2019

The Volkswagen Group says that it is making faster progress towards sustainable and efficient production while also making good progress towards reducing its production costs. From 2010 to the end of 2019, the environmental impact per produced vehicle is expected to drop by more than 37%. —Oliver Blume.

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2010 Vehicles Porsche Waste 207

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2018

High growth in demand for lithium batteries is spurring three-fold growth in mine production of lithium over the next four years, with 86kt of new lithium metal capacity coming on stream, according to data and analytics company GlobalData. After moderate growth in lithium supply between 2010 and 2017 of 6.4%

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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. Biofuels provided 2.7%

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2010 Brazil Global Argentina 256

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JUNE 25, 2021

Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards and PBF Chalmette Refinery Manager Steven Krynski announced that the company is studying the possible conversion of an idled refinery unit into a renewable diesel production complex.

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Renewable Diesel Louisiana Convert 186

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 15, 2020

John Goodenough, a recipient of the 2019 Nobel Prize in chemistry for groundbreaking work in the development of Li-ion batteries and who has served on Enevate’s Advisory Board since 2010. Enevate’s fourth-generation XFC-Energy technology provides a path to produce extreme fast-charge EV batteries at low cost and high-volume production.

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Li-ion Batteries Battery Production 247

Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

General Motors confirmed Monday morning that it plans to cease production of the Chevrolet Volt in March, as part of an effort to streamline production and pivot its business more toward zero-emissions and personal-mobility efforts. The Volt was the first production plug-in car sold in the U.S.

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Volt 2019 General Motors Production 167

Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2011

Canadian oil sands & conventional production. Oil sands growth will drive Canadian crude oil production to about 4.7 million bpd in 2010—a 67% increase— according to the latest forecast from the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP). The forecast sees oil sands production rising from 1.5

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CleanTechnica EVs

JANUARY 3, 2023

That means back before 2010 when it was going to be a hybrid car with a very similar shape. It’s been a wild ride for Aptera, but things may be coming to a successful conclusion. For those who’ve been longtime readers, we’ve been following them from the beginning. Things fell apart for Aptera 1.0, with […].

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Aptera Design Production 2010 112

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JANUARY 22, 2019

British luxury yacht manufacturer Sunseeker International and Rolls-Royce will present the first yacht fitted with an MTU series-production hybrid propulsion system in 2020. As early as 2010, the two companies laid the basis for the hybrid propulsion system in tests that were carried out on a prototype yacht.

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2020 Hybrid Power Powered 341

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MAY 18, 2019

Since 2010, SEAT, a member of the Volkswagen Group, has improved its production-related environmental footprint by 34% on average with measures to emit less CO 2 and fewer volatile organic compounds, generate less waste and consume less water and energy. —SEAT Vice-president for Production and Logistics Dr. Christian Vollmer.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 24, 2022

New data from Bloomberg states that Tesla’s Fremont Factory in Northern California was the most-productive automotive plant in the U.S., Last year, Tesla’s Fremont Factory averaged a weekly production pace of 8,550 vehicles. Most impressively, Tesla has continued to expand its yearly production capacity as a company.

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Auto Production South Carolina GM 145

Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2023

By advancing the PoC (Proof of Concept) tests it started in May 2023, Komatsu says it will accelerate its efforts to embark on the commercial production of medium-sized and large construction equipment powered by hydrogen fuel cells in the near future.

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Hydrogen Toyota Fuel Concept 418

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JANUARY 4, 2023

Most of the announced battery plant projects are scheduled to begin production between 2025 and 2030. By 2030, this production capacity will be capable of supporting the manufacture of roughly 10 to 13 million all-electric vehicles per year.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2023

New analysis has found increasing emissions of several ozone-depleting chemicals despite their production being banned for most uses under the Montreal Protocol—and a loophole in the rules is likely responsible. 2023) “Global increase of ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons from 2010 to 2020.” Vollmer, M.K., Krummel, P.B.

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Ozone Emissions Global Switzerland 353

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DECEMBER 8, 2014

Global Bioenergies has succeeded in the production of bio-sourced propylene by direct fermentation. This marks the first time an entirely biological production process—i.e. without any chemical step—is reported for propylene, a central building block for the manufacturing of plastics.

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Global Production Convert 2010 210

Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Nissan is ending production of the iconic all-electric LEAF at its Sunderland factory in the UK this week. Nissan ending LEAF production at its Sunderland plant Of the 650,000 LEAF models sold globally, over 280,000 were built at Nissan’s Sunderland plant. Nissan is investing up to $3.8 FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2018

GTI (Gas Technology Institue) is leading a high-profile program on Hydraulic Fracturing Test Sites (HFTS) in the Permian Basin, bringing together government and industry to improve recovery, continue enhancing environmentally responsible methods of optimizing production, and lowering costs in the Midland and Delaware Basins.

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Delaware Production Texas New Mexico 210

Teslarati

OCTOBER 15, 2021

The electric vehicle landscape is getting more and more crowded, with new companies such as Lucid Motors and Rivian Automotive expected to deliver their first production vehicles to customers soon. Scaling production, supply chain, logistics & service is a world of hurt. ” I hope they have a high pain tolerance.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 30, 2009

Guangzhou Toyota will begin production of the Camry Hybrid in China in 2010. Guangzhou Toyota has a 2010 sales goal of 267,000 units—170,000 for Camry 170,000 (including the hybrid Camry), 75,000 for Highlander and 22,000 for Yaris—representing a 27.5% increase over 2009 sales.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

We want to continue to grow and will significantly increase our production capacities in the coming years. This year alone, Mercedes-Benz is managing 18 vehicle ramp-ups at eight locations worldwide, among them the start of production of the new C-Class sedan on four continents. billion) this year. billion) this year.

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Mercedes Global Production Cars 210

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APRIL 12, 2018

Sales and series production of the new model will start in Europe next year. Sister company Volvo Buses has sold more than 4000 electrified buses since 2010. —Jonas Odermalm, head of product strategy Volvo FL and Volvo FE at Volvo Trucks.

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Volvo Commercial Sale Production 299

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NOVEMBER 18, 2009

Next up is the PPV (product and process validation) stage (Feb-Aug 2010) prior to the start of regular production (SORP) in November 2010. The current cell chemistry for the Volt, now in its fourth generation, is the one that will head into production. The adjustments are primarily for life. —Bill Wallace.

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2010 Volt Li-ion Production 218

Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2010

Global ethanol production will grow 16.2% billion gallons US), according to the 2010 production forecast released by the Global Renewable Fuels Alliance (GRFA). Total ethanol production for 2009 was 73.9 This year ethanol production will displace the need for 370 million equivalent barrels of oil globally.

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2010 Global Production Renewable 186

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Petrobras’ oil production in Brazil reached an average of 2,126,000 barrels per day (bpd) in October, corresponding to 0.4% rise in September’s production of 2,118,000 bpd. This flow represents a historical new record, surpassing the previous record 4,800 bpd, reached in December 2010.

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