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DECEMBER 22, 2023

The United States Department of Justice has accused Cummins of installing emissions defeating devices on diesel motors and decided to fine the company $1.67 Another 330,000 taboo emissions controlling devices were also said to have been installed on newer diesel pickups built through 2023. billion for violating the Clean Air Act.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2018

The US Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory and the sustainable energy NGO Energy Vision released two case studies assessing the results of projects that were among the first to produce Renewable Compressed Natural Gas (R-CNG) vehicle fuel by using anaerobic digesters to capture the biogases from decomposing organic waste.

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MARCH 3, 2015

million in funding in fiscal year 2015 will be made available through the Biomass Research and Development Initiative ( BRDI ) to support feedstock development, biofuels and biobased products development, or biofuels development analysis. forest resources (forest thinnings, wood chips, wood wastes, small diameter trees, etc.);

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JULY 29, 2015

UPS announced agreements for up to 46 million gallons of renewable diesel over the next three years, constituting a 15-fold increase over prior contracts and making UPS one of the largest users of renewable diesel in the world. Neste, headquartered in Espoo, Finland, is the world’s largest producer of renewable diesel.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2015

billion) above the FY 2015 enacted level. billion above the FY 2015 Enacted level, sustains DOE’s role as the largest federal sponsor of basic research in the physical sciences and develops and operates advanced scientific user facilities at the National Laboratories to maintain the nation’s primacy in science and innovation.

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OCTOBER 1, 2009

Despite a number of key issues such as land use and competition for feedstocks supplies for traditional food and feed uses, global use of biofuels is excepted to more than double from 2009 to 2015, according to a new global analysis released by Hart Energy Publishing’s Global Biofuels Center (GBC).

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JANUARY 12, 2015

V8 Turbo Diesel. Nissan’s new 2016 Titan XD full-size pickup, which made its debut at the 2015 North American International Auto Show, was also the platform for the debut of the first vehicle installation of the all-new Cummins 5.0L V8 Turbo Diesel engine. V8 Turbo Diesel since the partnership began in 2007.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2009

St1 will concentrate on optimizing high-blend bio-ethanol designed to replace fossil gasoline for Finnish conditions and minimizing the environmental impact of its use, while Neste Oil will focus on developing other bio-components suitable for blending with conventional gasoline.

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JUNE 5, 2014

billion gallons per year for 2020—but as total fuel demand explodes as well, ethanol will creep up to only 4% of gasoline in 2017, placing that target in doubt, according to Lux. of its diesel fuel and 0.3% of its gasoline in 2017, according to Lux. India’s growth, however, at an impressive 18.5% CAGR through 2017.

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JANUARY 11, 2010

These projects will receive more than $115 million in funding to develop and demonstrate systems-level fuel efficiency technologies by 2015, including improved aerodynamics, reducing engine idling technologies, waste heat recovery to increase engine efficiency, advanced combustion techniques, and powertrain hybridization. Cummins Inc.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2015

These include gasoline, diesel fuel, and other fuels such as biodiesel and hydrogen.). The regulation was proposed on 25 July 2014; it was approved and filed with the Secretary of State, with an effective date of 1 January 2015. In contrast, the major components of diesel fuel do not contain oxygen. Earlier post.).

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JANUARY 22, 2016

The new location will produce the latest generation of the BMW TwinPower Turbo three and four-cylinder gasoline engines and forms part of the BBA production network based in Shenyang in Northeastern China. In 2015, local automotive production reached more than 287,000 units.

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AUGUST 28, 2015

This work supports the Energy Department’s efforts to make drop-in biofuels more accessible and affordable, as well as to meet the cost target equivalent of $3 per gallon of gasoline by 2022. BETO most recently updated its MYPP in March 2015. The projects selected include: Texas A&M University will receive up to $2.5

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JULY 15, 2015

In the German electrical energy mix, the share of renewable energies is growing rapidly, reaching 33% in the first half of 2015. In early 2015, a pilot plant in Dresden that is operated by project partner sunfire GmbH started up production of the synthetic fuel Audi e‑diesel. Earlier post.).

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FEBRUARY 23, 2011

An updated survey of major automakers suggests that, despite a drop in anticipated vehicles before 2015, the number of vehicles expected after 2015 will be in the tens of thousands. Before 2015, anticipated hydrogen fueling stations should be able to provide sufficient coverage for the expected number of vehicles. Propane ($1.5

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MAY 9, 2013

The program funds projects to encourage the development and use of new technologies and alternative and renewable fuels, including electricity, natural gas, biomethane, hydrogen, and gasoline and diesel substitutes, such as cellulosic ethanol (derived from woody materials, including agricultural waste), and biodiesel from waste grease.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

At the IAA in Frankfurt, Hyundai Motor is showcasing two new turbocharged gasoline direct injected (T-GDI) engines. T-GDI powerplants are part of a new generation of small turbocharged gasoline engines within the Hyundai engine line-up. Hyundai Motor’s new downsized 1.0 T-GDI and 1.4 The new Kappa 1.0-liter

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NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Clean Energy’s renewable natural gas vehicle fuel is derived from biogenic methane or biogas—methane that is naturally generated by the decomposition of organic waste. The 2014 baseline CIs for gasoline and diesel are 96.48 Clean Energy is on track to deliver 40 million gallons of Redeem in 2015. gCO 2 e/MJ.

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APRIL 22, 2016

On the other hand, drivers of other vehicles waste considerable time making special trips to refuel their internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles at the liquid fuel station or their battery electric vehicle (BEV) at the rapid recharging station. Diesel fuel is also frequently blended with a small amount of biofuel. 23 ] , [ 24 ].

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OCTOBER 5, 2014

Cool Planet’s biogasoline blendstock is 100% compatible with pump gasoline. The Cool Planet plant will produce approximately 8 million to 10 million gallons of high-octane, renewable gasoline blendstocks (reformate), as well the biochar, all made from sustainable wood residues. Source: Cool Planet. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).

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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. TDI, a highly efficient, latest-generation V6 diesel engine, delivers 190 kW (258 hp) of power and 600 N·m (442.5 It accelerates from 0 to 100 km/h (62.1

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OCTOBER 2, 2014

Hyundai Motor is showcasing two new turbocharged gasoline direct injected (T-GDI) engines at the Paris Motor Show 2014. Hyundai is also displaying the diesel i40 48V hybrid concept, featuring a lead-carbon battery. New engines and transmission. Click to enlarge. Both engines—1.0-liter liter and 1.4-liter liter T-GDI. liter unit.

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OCTOBER 5, 2015

The transition is expected to evolve from corn to grain sorghum and ultimately to biomass sorghum and agricultural wastes available in California. As of 2015, announced US cellulosic fuels producers’ nameplate capacity is about 85 million gallons.

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DECEMBER 18, 2014

Cycloalkanes are important components of not only traditional vehicle fuels such as gasoline and diesel, but also jet fuels, such as Jet-A/Jet-A1/JP-8. Abu-Omar (2015) “A synergistic biorefinery based on catalytic conversion of lignin prior to cellulose starting from lignocellulosic biomass,” Green Chemistry doi: 10.1039/C4GC01911C.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Switching from diesel fuel to natural gas may hold advantages for the US heavy-duty trucking fleet, but more needs to be done to reach the full environmental benefits, according to a new white paper released by the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis, and Rice University. Source: Myers Jaffe et al.

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AUGUST 16, 2016

As with the Phase 1 program, the agencies are adopting separate standards and test cycles for tractor engines, vocational diesel engines, and vocational gasoline engines. For diesel engines, the standards begin in model year 2021 and phase in to model year 2027, with interim standards in model year 2024.

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JULY 21, 2013

They are among the first of 1,000 examples that Hyundai has committed to produce between now and 2015 and are built on the same production line in Ulsan, Korea as the Tucson. We also produce a huge amount of waste and we are looking at schemes that convert biomass into hydrogen. Hydrogen has around the same energy content of 3.7

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Fuel cell vehicles are expected to number in the tens of thousands in California after 2015. 24 million to help develop and produce biofuels such as gasoline and diesel substitutes and renewable natural gas. 24 million to help develop and produce biofuels such as gasoline and diesel substitutes and renewable natural gas.

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APRIL 10, 2013

liter gasoline and diesel engines, together with next generation five- and six-speed gearboxes. They will be joined by the end of this year by a new small-displacement gasoline engine family. SIDI Turbo gasoline engine. CDTI diesel engine. Opel—in which GM has said it will invest €4 billion (US$5.3

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NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Each electric truck that replaces a diesel model can save an estimated 75 tons of CO2 a year. Because CNG has 21 percent fewer emissions than diesel, San Diego’s nearly 200 CNG buses will reduce greenhouse gases by an estimated 3,800 metric tons of CO 2 a year, compared to similar diesel-powered vehicles. Earlier post.)

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

CHrysler’s current research efforts include various strategies to warm engines and transmissions faster; to have the vehicles run at an ideal set point; and to recapture waste heat. By 2015, Chrysler expects that the Tigershark family will replace the World Gas Engine. Transmissions.

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AUGUST 9, 2011

The EPA standards adopted for 2018 (including a separate standard to control air conditioning system leakage) represent an average per-vehicle reduction in GHG emissions of 17% for diesel vehicles and 12% for gasoline vehicles, compared to a common baseline. Vocational Vehicles. emissions. for the same amount of emissions.

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MAY 26, 2015

This proprietary novel gas fermentation technology converts the carbon monoxide-containing waste gases emitted by blast furnace, coke oven and BOF (basic oxygen furnace) operations into low-cost ethanol and high-value chemicals. Earlier post.). So here our isobutene would allow us to integrate this very cheap fossil component into the fuel.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2012

the global gasoline market will reach an estimated 375 billion gallons per year (BGPY) in 2021, while demand for diesel in ground transportation markets will reach at least 427 BGPY. Cellulosic biofuels progress likely to disappoint through 2015/2016, leading to the further. Pike Research estimates that.

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MAY 28, 2015

million in the 2015 Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR/STTR) Phase I Release 2 Awards. This quality control device will help to drive down the costs of fuel cells by reducing waste and improving the process efficiency of roll-to-roll manufacturing of polymer electrolyte membranes.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

wt %, has been identified as a secure and convenient carrier of hydrogen and could be well compatible with the existing infrastructures used for gasoline and diesel. Owing to the low operating temperature, the hydrogen release of this system can be driven by the waste heat of a standard PEM fuel cell without additional heat treatment.

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AUGUST 26, 2015

to build a fast-fill CNG station at a new bus depot being constructed for ART, which will initially deploy 25 new CNG transit buses that are expected to consume 225,000 DGEs (diesel gallon equivalents) of CNG a year. less than gasoline or diesel, depending on local market conditions. Schlosser Co.

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