Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2016

Altex Technologies has selected Unitel to provide engineering services to design and build a pilot system that will produce 1 BPD of synthetic gasoline from biomass (Biomass Conversion to Synthetic Gasoline System, BCSGS). In a patent application published 1 December 2015, Altex described the basic approach for its synthetic fuels processes.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2016

In 2015, 59.2 Thus, ARPA-E is keenly interested in waste heat conversion in this temperature range. Maximum energy generation potential is the amount of waste heat that can be converted to electricity, assuming conversion occurs at the Carnot efficiency limit. Source: DE-FOA-0001607.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

This development could mean reducing enzyme costs from about $1 per gallon of ethanol to about 10 cents or less, with an overall reduction in the cost of the production of cellulosic biofuels of 30% or more. The challenge is to lower the cost of processing low cost biomass sources into fuels. —Nguyen et al.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2015

Traditionally, thermoelectric materials researchers have focused on a high thermoelectric figure-of-merit (ZT) as the only parameter pursued in thermoelectric materials for high conversion efficiency. It can be used with waste-heat applications and concentrated solar energy conversion at temperatures up to 300 ? —Liu et al.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2017

A PEC cell absorbs sunlight and converts that energy into hydrogen and oxygen by splitting water molecules. However, the slow charge transport kinetics and/or large bandgaps that typically define these oxide semiconductors result in very low energy conversion efficiencies.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2015

The hydrogen from electrolysis and CO 2 , delivered by a pipeline, are fed to a plant where the gases are converted in a reverse water–gas shift (RWGS) reactor to syngas (H 2 and CO). The syngas is then further converted to hydrocarbons using Fischer-Tropsch (FT) synthesis. —König et al. Earlier post.). 2015.06.085.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

A paper by a team from the University of Chicago and MIT suggests that technology-driven cost reductions in fossil fuels will lead to the continued use of fossil fuels—oil, gas, and coal—unless governments pass new taxes on carbon emissions. Currently battery costs for an electric vehicle are about $325 per kWh.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

The EU NEMESIS 2+ project, which ran until June 2015, was coordinated by the German Aerospace Center (DLR). A techno-economic evaluation, which was also carried out during the EU project, determined maximal production costs of €5.80 (Original project goals were 50 Nm 3 /h, or 4.5 kg/h with an efficiency >80%.) Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2010

Gevo has a low capital cost retrofit strategy for ethanol plants to produce isobutanol for direct use; for use in the production of plastics, materials, rubber and other polymers; and for use in the production of hydrocarbon fuels. Click to enlarge. Gevo, Inc., Gevo designed its biocatalysts (engineered E. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2015

Hydrogen Production R&D: Microbial Biomass Conversion. Microbial biomass conversion processes offer mid- to long-term potential for sustainable hydrogen production with low environmental impact. Fiber-reinforced composite pipes may be a viable option to reduce the cost and complexity of hydrogen pipeline installation.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

DOE plans to issue the full Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) on 30 November 2015. The first hydrogen TTO is focused on durable, high activity electrocatalyst with low platinum content and low cost for polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell applications. For reference, the average loading for three-way catalysts is 1.1

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2015

The study in Energy & Fuels is a proof-of-concept for the use of olefin metathesis as an alkenone-conversion strategy to produce a hydrocarbon mixture in the kerosene/jet fuel boiling range as a coproduct with algal biodiesel. However, a key obstacle is the cost of the Isochrysis biomass. —O’Neil et al. O’Neil, Aaron R.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2017

This synthesis consumes only CO 2 and electricity, and is constrained only by the cost of electricity. In 2015 we introduced the efficient transformation splitting of CO 2 by electrolysis in molten carbonates to form carbon nanotubes and nanofibers at high yield. Licht et al. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

On the way there, I made a pit stop at a gas station to buy a bottle of champagne as a gift, hoping to start out a conversation with a stranger on the right foot. The cost of that usually starting just below $1,000 or changing the faulty modules (28 modules in a pack) individually that is much cheaper.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2013

Joule, the developer of a direct, single-step, continuous process for the production of solar hydrocarbon fuels ( earlier post ), has extended its solar CO 2 conversion platform to produce renewable gasoline- and jet fuel-range hydrocarbons. Joule is now commercializing its first product, Sunflow-E, for global availability in early 2015.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

For vehicles to have minimal impact on air quality, catalytic converters have been fitted to modern engines. The target is a 4% improvement in CO 2 by 2015 potentially rising to 15% by 2025. CREO - CO 2 Reduction through Emissions Optimisation. The level of the Plug-In-Car Grant has been agreed until 31 March 2012. 43 million (US$67.2

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FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The selected projects will focus on technologies such as revolutionizing fuel cells for light- and heavy-duty vehicles, and technologies to generate less nuclear waste and reduce the cost of fuel. 3D-Printed Ceramic Thermocatalytic CO 2 Reactor with High Carbon Conversion and Energy Efficiencies - $3,100,104. Stanford University.

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My Electric Car

AUGUST 21, 2020

Every time there is a conversion of energy from one form to another there are efficiency losses – a concept known as ‘energy vector transition’. The cost of platinum makes hydrogen fuel cells an expensive proposition even in comparison to lithium-ion batteries. 2015, p127) [1]. . 2020) [11]. John Murray. Tillemann,L.,

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2015

BETO has targeted a performance goal of validating, at pilot scale, at least one technology pathway for hydrocarbon biofuel at a mature modeled cost of $3/GGE (gasoline gallon equivalent) with GHG emissions reduction of 50% or more compared to petroleum-derived fuel by 2017, and validating two additional pathways by 2022.

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The Truth About Cars

JANUARY 5, 2024

The newly established company planned to introduce a whole line of PHEV vehicles, and their industry connection for completed passenger vehicles to convert (Lutz) was already in place. VIA was focused on fleet sales and a low cost of ownership. Things like fuel and maintenance costs were much less with the VTRUX setup.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

In the study, they converted biomass-derived ?-valerolactone These efforts include the aqueous phase reforming (APR) process, by which sugars are converted to alkanes by hydrogenation with noble metals as catalysts. A paper on their work is published in the RSC journal Green Chemistry. doi: 10.1039/C4GC01792G.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Also, the cost of the non-stack subsystems has been estimated to be about 50% in automotive fuel cell propulsion systems and in stationary backup power systems. Fuel processors (FPs) for stationary fuel cell systems convert raw fuel into hydrogen-rich streams suitable for use in fuel cells. water-gas-shift); and. cold start-up time.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 28, 2021

I have talked about the total cost of ownership for EVs compared with both hybrid and traditional ICE vehicles. He worked for SolarCity and Tesla between 2015 and 2018 and now for Solar Smart Living (since 2018). In my conversations, I focus primarily on the overall total cost of ownership and I have encouraged some friends to convert.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 28, 2021

I have talked about the total cost of ownership for EVs compared with both hybrid and traditional ICE vehicles. He worked for SolarCity and Tesla between 2015 and 2018 and now for Solar Smart Living (since 2018). In my conversations, I focus primarily on the overall total cost of ownership and I have encouraged some friends to convert.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2015

The new aqueous lithium−iodine (Li−I) solar flow battery (SFB) incorporates a built-in dye-sensitized TiO 2 photoelectrode in a Li−I redox flow battery via linkage of an I 3 − /I − based catholyte for the simultaneous conversion and storage of solar energy. Credit: ACS, Yu et al. Click to enlarge. —Yu et al. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2018

For 20 years, researchers have shown that CNT membranes offer tremendous promise for a wide variety of uses including the low-cost production of ethanol fuel, precision drug delivery, low-energy desalination of seawater, purification of pharmaceutical compounds, and high-performance catalysis for the production of fuels. Source: Mattershift.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Audi presented a range of its ongoing work on electromobility and efficiency—from fuels and systems to full vehicles—under the “Future Performance Days 2015” banner. Conversely, high coating thicknesses for the electrodes produce a high energy density. On the full vehicle side, Audi put forward the Audi Q7 e-tron 3.0

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2015

He also observed, in a conversation on the eve of the LAAS, that if an automaker can launch a defining product, the game changes. Conversely, if the rear axle has less grip, the opposite happened; up to 7% of the torque is correspondingly diverted to the front axle. plug-in hybrid or full electric—models by 2025. Earlier post. ).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

Furthermore, the batteries in a PHEV are generally smaller than those in any other electric vehicle constructed today and the battery savings in the PHEV from a pure BEV can easily make up for the cost of the small liquid-fueled engine, resulting in a lower-cost production vehicle for mass distribution.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 25, 2023

Losses The conductor size of a subsea or terrestrial cable affects the cost of the cable system. The team has also performed research into HVDC cables, which involve XLPE insulation and voltage source converter (VSC) technology. HVDC cables can be more cost efficient for systems installed over long distances. References M.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2013

Earlier this month, Volkswagen and Eaton executives met with a small group of journalists at the VW Electronics Research Laboratory in Belmont, California, to discuss VW’s partnership with Eaton on AC and DC charging, followed by a broader conversation about VW’s plans for vehicle electrification over the next several years. Click to enlarge.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

So imagine a million electric cars on US roads which all need to change these batteries in say 2015. April 10, 2009 10:06 pm Link I make, convert and drive EV’s and have for 13 yrs. But that cost in a built as an EV is much less than an ICE’s costs by about 1/2. Lead batts are around 98% recycled.

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