Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2015

Hydrogenics Corporation, a leading developer and manufacturer of hydrogen generation and hydrogen-based power modules, signed a 10-year exclusive agreement to supply Alstom Transport with hydrogen fuel cell systems for Regional Commuter Trains in Europe. The power module does not require onboard water for humidification.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2015

Researchers at Rice have demonstrated an efficient new way to use solar energy for water splitting. a) Plasmonic photocathode for solar water splitting, consisting of plasmonic nanoparticles in direct contact with water, p-NiO x as an electron blocking layer, and aluminum as the electrode material. (b) Click to enlarge. . …

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OCTOBER 8, 2014

Daimler and The Linde Group are partnering with oil and gas companies TOTAL, OMV, Avia and Hoyer this year to build 20 new hydrogen fueling stations in Germany, with 13 to be completed by the end of 2015. Daimler and Linde are each investing around €10 million for ten fueling stations each. Earlier post.). ( Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2019

These investments will accelerate the commercialization of CE’s proven Direct Air Capture (DAC) technology that removes CO 2 directly from the air and subsequently synthesizes it into clean transportation fuels. since 2015.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2015

Geely’s CRI investment and work with renewable methanol is similar to the approach Audi is taking with its own e-fuels projects—producing very low carbon liquid or gaseous fuels using only renewable energy, water and CO 2. Earlier post.). Earlier post.) Currently the company has a 4,000 metric ton/year production capacity.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2019

In addition to having access to Québec’s vast water resources to generate green, renewable power at competitive prices, Hydro-Québec has everything it needs to support the development of green hydrogen. Green hydrogen, is produced through the electrolysis of water rather than from methane, a process that produces high levels of GHG emissions.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2017

The aCar is designed for passenger and cargo transportation and is also of interest for the European automotive market. The vehicle is primarily intended for transporting passengers and cargo, with a total load capacity of one ton. to set up a mobile physician’s office or a water treatment station.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2023

The ore is transported to a crushing plant, and then onto washing cycling and filtering facilities. Once beneficiated, the ore is transported by rail to the port 28 km away. Left: distribution of mining leases and forests in 2015. Mining leases are shown as white polygons overlying Landsat imagery for 1985 and 2015.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2015

Findings by MIT researchers could help advance the commercialization of supercritical water technology for the desulfurization and upgrading of high-sulfur crude oil into high-value, cleaner fuels such as gasoline without using hydrogen—a major change in refining technology that would reduce costs, energy use, and CO 2 emissions.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

A Sandia National Laboratories project team, including a number of industry partners, is designing and building a cold-ironing fuel cell system that will be deployed in the Port of Honolulu in 2015. Ports have been a major source of water and air pollution in the US, but remained relatively unregulated until recent years.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2016

The possible development of California’s renewable natural gas resources comes at a time when the traditional fossil fuels natural gas industry is expanding its supply and infrastructure into the transportation sector. All costs and prices in the model are in 2015 constant dollars.). from waste-water treatment, 1.75 from dairy.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2020

The focus lies on the challenges that are key to Audi: decarbonization; water utilization; resource efficiency; and biodiversity. Since 2015 the company has made use of 250 gigawatt-hours of geothermal energy, reducing emissions of CO2 by 50,000 tonnes. Since the start of this year, all Audi plants have used only green power.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

On 20 August, the Indonesian-flagged 52,400 dwt bulk carrier Nur Allya , loaded with nickel ore, was reported missing in Indonesian waters. In presences of dynamic loading at seas, the loose material on board the vessel tends to be compacted resulting in a decrease of intergranular spaces and increase of water pressure in the pore spaces.

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Green Car Congress

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. For FY 2015, DOE-EERE and USDA-NIFA identified areas of particular interest for BRDI.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

The demonstration will run from April 2015 (the beginning of fiscal 2015) until the end of fiscal 2020 (March 2021). The independent energy supply system combines a 25 kW photovoltaic facility; a storage battery; hydrogen-producing water electrolysis equipment; hydrogen (275 Nm 3 ) and water tanks; and fuel cells.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

These initiatives are further steps toward achieving the Toyota Environmental Challenge 2050, introduced in 2015. We believe the fastest way to lower greenhouse gases in the transportation sector is to offer drivers lower carbon choices that meet their needs.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2019

According to an independent study by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and the Council on Energy, Environment, and Water (CEEW), more than 674 million Indian citizens are likely to breathe air with high concentrations of PM 2.5 In 2015, air pollution emission control costs accounted for about 0.7%

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

The largest US cities—New York, Los Angeles and Chicago—score best in economic factors but are hindered by poor transportation infrastructure, lack of green spaces and diminishing affordable housing, according to the inaugural Sustainable Cities Index by ARCADIS, a leading global natural and built asset design and consultancy firm.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2016

The 2015 Fuel Cell Technologies Market Report shows that more than 60,000 fuel cells, totaling roughly 300 megawatts (MW), shipped worldwide in 2015. 2015 also saw the world’s first fuel cell vehicles for sale. Source: “2015 Fuel Cell Technologies Market Report” Click to enlarge.

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JULY 24, 2010

Lautenberg (D-NJ), Patty Murray (D-WA), and Maria Cantwell (D-WA) this week introduced legislation that would establish a national freight transportation policy. The “Focusing Resources, Economic Investment, and Guidance to Help Transportation (FREIGHT) Act of 2010” (S.3629)

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2010

The International Maritime Organization (IMO) officially accepted the proposal to designate waters off the North American coasts as an Emission Control Area (ECA). To achieve these reductions, tougher sulfur standards will phase in starting in 2012, ultimately reaching no more than 1,000 parts per million by 2015. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2020

Costs for producing green hydrogen have fallen 50% since 2015 and could be reduced by an additional 30% by 2025 due to the benefits of increased scale and more standardized manufacturing, among other factors. There is growing potential for hydrogen to be used in transport, heating, industry and power generation.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

The California Energy Commission adopted its 2014 Integrated Energy Policy Report (IEPR) Update, which outlines, among many things, how the state is working to transform the transportation system to zero- and near-zero technologies and fuels to meet its climate and clean air goals. This is the first IEPR to focus primarily on transportation.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2015

Researchers at UC Berkeley have developed an artificial photosynthetic scheme for the direct solar-powered production of value-added chemicals from CO 2 and water using a two-step process involving a biocompatible light-capturing nanowire array with a direct interface with microbial systems. —Liu et al. —Liu et al.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Heating energy and water consumption per car are reduced by 20%. The bell-bell process can improve overall paint film uniformity, especially if robots are used as the automation equipment transporting the bells. Installation of equipment started in March 2015 and the topping‑out ceremony was in July. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2017

Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have developed a method which boosts the longevity of high-efficiency photocathodes in photoelectrochemical water-splitting devices. A PEC cell absorbs sunlight and converts that energy into hydrogen and oxygen by splitting water molecules.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2022

Founded by Rohan Ganapathy and Yashas Karanam in 2015, the Bengaluru-based company has pioneered several firsts in the industry, including the world’s first commercial Microwave Plasma Thruster; India’s first privately built Hall Effect Thruster (HET) system; and India’s first High-Performance Green Propulsion system.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2014

Another is an annual clean transportation investment plan that is designed to spark innovation in projects that will help transform California’s fleet to meet greenhouse gas and clean air goals. This is the second EPIC investment plan and covers the years 2015-2017. EPIC plans must be approved every three years.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 17, 2013

MQL reduces oil mist generation; biological contamination of coolant; waste water volume; costs for capital equipment; and regulatory permitting. MQL also improves recycling and transport of coolant contaminated chips. For a typical production line, MQL can save more than 280,000 gallons (1 million liters) of water per year, Ford says.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Until recently, the residents of Melamchi, Nepal, cooked meals and heated water for bathing over a wood-burning stove. The owner told her sales of the products supported the village’s school, which had been destroyed by an earthquake in 2015. A 200-liter solar water heater was installed in the school’s dormitory.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2015

The Argonne National Laboratory’s Systems Assessment Group has released GREET 2015 models and associated reports. Electricity generation mix: updated electricity generation mix based on EIA AEO 2015. Shale oil: developed energy and GHG emissions intensities of U.S.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2017

The 2017 FOA solicited early-stage materials research to advance the Department’s goals of enabling economic and efficient transportation via fuel cell electric vehicles that use hydrogen fuel produced from diverse domestic resources. More than 2,000 fuel cell vehicles have been sold or leased in the US since 2015. DOE share (FY17).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2021

The Jansz-Io gas field was first discovered in April 2000 and is located around 200 kilometers offshore the north-western coast of Western Australia, at water depths of approximately 1,400 meters. The world’s first subsea gas compression system was delivered by Aker Solutions to Equinor’s Åsgard field in Norway in 2015.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2014

A series of VP-X generators will be launched commercially in April 2015. Mitsubishi Electric enhanced cooling performance in the VP-X by improving main insulation and cooling gas ventilation without incorporating a water-cooling system for the stator winding. Lineup of two-pole turbine generators. Source: Mitsubishi Electric.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2014

The company had earlier said the fuel cell sedan would be on sale in Japan before April 2015, and in the US and Europe by summer 2015. The humidity required for its operation is derived directly from the production of water inherent in the chemical reaction between hydrogen and oxygen. Earlier post.). Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2020

The results of a new analysis by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) show that, when combined with a trend toward higher methane leakage and combustion slip, there is no climate benefit from using liquefied natural gas (LNG) as a marine fuel—regardless of the engine technology. First, it contains very little sulfur.

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APRIL 20, 2015

The containership, part of a two-ship contract, was built for TOTE, a leading logistics and transportation company. The LNG-powered ships will also include a ballast water treatment system, making them the greenest ships of their size. When delivered, the ships will be the cleanest of their kind and size. Launch ceremony.

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