Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2017

Researchers in Japan and China developed an efficient method for CO 2 reduction over elemental boron catalysts in the presence of only water and light irradiation through a photothermocatalytic process. She is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and among the 2016 Highly Cited Researchers in Materials Science.

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MAY 24, 2017

The Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), Bern University of Applied Sciences, the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, several industrial partners and Empa were all involved. The other vehicles were all built between 2010 (VW Golf, Euro 4) and 2016 (Citroën C4, Euro 6b).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2016

While the industrial sector in the US has made solid advances in reducing greenhouse gas emissions over the past 25 years, the transportation sector has increased its carbon footprint, according to an analysis by researchers at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI). Sivak and Schoettle. Click to enlarge.

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AUGUST 20, 2021

million is coming to 26 government agencies, universities, and electric utilities in Louisiana. million shares of an almost $3 billion settlement in 2016 between the U.S. Almost half the new buses are fueled by cleaner-burning propane or compressed natural gas; the others are cleaner-burning diesel engines.

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JULY 24, 2016

Researchers at Rice University’s Laboratory for Nanophotonics (LANP), with colleagues at Princeton University, have developed a new method for uniting light-capturing photonic nanomaterials and high-efficiency metal catalysts, creating an “antenna-reactor” plasmonic catalyst. Swearer/Rice University) Click to enlarge.

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DECEMBER 1, 2016

SGL Group brings its long-established expertise as a component developer to the project, and is responsible for the development of the gas diffusion layers (GDL), which will be manufactured based on carbon fibers. CNRS Montpellier, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd., Project management support is being provided by Pretexo.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

The study, “Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas and Energy Study of Automotive Lightweighting,” found that AHSS-intensive vehicles had lower or equivalent life cycle emissions than aluminum-intensive vehicles for every class of vehicles tested: sedans, trucks, SUVs and alternative power train vehicles. Source: SRI. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2016

In a paper describing the kraft recovery process, Honghi Tran from the University of Toronto and Esa K. This makes black liquor the fifth most important fuel in the world, next to coal, oil, natural gas, and gasoline. 2016) “Green Diesel from Kraft Lignin in Three Steps” ChemSusChem doi: 10.1002/cssc.201600172. Globally over 1.3

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JANUARY 24, 2017

STF first converts natural gas-based synthesis gas to methanol in an isothermal reactor; the methanol is then transformed into high-octane gasoline via the intermediate methanol. Residual methanol and light hydrocarbons are separated downstream and recycled into the process.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

will have to ensure that their fleet-wide fuel economy is 36 mpg or better under tough new 2016 Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards. But according to a University of Michigan study, the average fuel economy of new cars and light-duty trucks sold in the U.S. In four years’ time, every automaker in the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 17, 2016

A team from the University of Science & Technology of China in Hefei has developed a three-step process for the conversion of vegetable oils (triglycerides) into cycloparaffinic and aromatic biofuels in jet fuel range. The team analyzed the products by Gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC-MS). —Wu et al. 2016.10.030.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Jupiter’s northern (and southern) lights Jupiter's polar auroras are the largest and most powerful known in the solar system—and O'Donoghue says the energy in them, caused as Jupiter's atmosphere is buffeted by solar wind, is strong enough to heat the outer atmosphere of the entire planet. Where does this lead? Keck Observatory; A.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2016

The light olefins ethylene, propylene, and butylene—usually made from petroleum—are key building blocks for chemical industry, and are starting materials for making plastics, synthetic fibers, and coatings. This could make it more attractive to make olefins from alternative sources of carbon, such as biomass, natural gas, or coal.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Ozone, a greenhouse gas and toxic air pollutant, is not emitted but forms when ultraviolet light hits nitrogen oxides. Jason West (2016) “Tropospheric ozone change from 1980 to 2010 dominated by equatorward redistribution of emissions”. —Owen R. Cooper, co-author. Yuqiang Zhang, Owen R. Cooper, Audrey Gaudel, Anne M.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2010

The American Power Act, released as a discussion draft, targets reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by at least 4.75% compared to 2005 levels by 2013; by at least 17% compared to 2005 levels by 2020; by at least 42% compared to 2005 levels by 2030; and by at least 83% compared to 2005 levels by 2050. Natural Gas.

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MARCH 30, 2011

Obama was delivering a speech on energy policy at Georgetown University. This includes almost 24 million inactive leased acres in the Gulf of Mexico, which potentially could hold more than 11 billion barrels of oil and 50 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. America holds only about two percent of the world’s proven oil reserves.

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AUGUST 1, 2016

In a new study from the US Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Illinois at Chicago, researchers report devising a new transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) nanoarchitecture for catalytic electrochemical reduction of CO 2 to carbon monoxide (CO) in an ionic liquid. —Asadi et al. 353, Issue 6298, pp.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

As the project approaches its mid-point, the research team—led by Ricardo and including Ford Motor Company, Controlled Power Technologies (CPT), the European Advanced Lead Acid Battery Consortium (EALABC), Faurecia and the University of Nottingham—has completed the build of the first functional integration prototype ADEPT vehicle.

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JUNE 15, 2016

They embedded the material within a silicone lattice to create mechanically robust, gas-permeable membranes, and the direct printing of micron-scale structures with controlled geometry. Membrane-bound pMMO is mixed with PEGDA 575 and photoinitiator and exposed to ultraviolet light to crosslink the material. (b)

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MAY 14, 2020

In FY2017, IHI Group began, in partnership with Kobe University, the NEDO supported R&D project “Development of Production Technologies for Bio jet fuels / Pilot scale test on once through production process” to produce algae-based biofuel, using the hyper-growth Botryococcus braunii. Feedstock(s): Same as Annex A1.

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Teslarati

JUNE 10, 2021

Known as Of Course I Still Love You (OCISLY), a name derived from late science fiction author Iain Banks’ Culture universe, the drone ship supported its first Falcon booster landing attempt in March 2016 and successfully recovered a booster two months later. Mighty Servant 1 is a massive submersible heavy-lift ship.

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APRIL 8, 2014

These include technologies to improve conventional vehicles with the use of advanced lightweight materials; improvements in aerodynamics; and engines and powertrain technologies that improve vehicle efficiency for both light-duty vehicles and heavy trucks. Contribute to international efforts to address global climate change.

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AUGUST 22, 2017

At the end of 2016 around 3.1 Between 2009 and 2011 various workgroups were formed under the umbrella of the UN’s Economic Commission for Europe to develop a new emission-measuring method called the Worldwide Light Duty Vehicle Test Procedure (WLTP). million passenger vehicles with gasoline engines and 1.3 Image: Empa.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2016

35 new businesses, non-profits, universities, and utilities signing on to DOE’s Workplace Charging Challenge and committing to provide electric vehicle charging access for their workforce. Dayton Power & Light Company. Florida Power and Light Company. Hawai`i Electric Light. Indianapolis Power & Light Company.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2013

TCO for selected gas and diesel vehicles over a 3 year timeframe. Diesel vehicles generally saved owners between $2,000 to $6,000 in total ownership costs during a three to five year period when compared to similar gasoline vehicles, according to data compiled by the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2022

An international team of researchers has shed light on one way new particles are forming in the upper troposphere. The presence of ammonia was first discovered in the upper troposphere in 2016 using the analysis of averaged MIPAS (Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding) infrared limb-emission spectra.

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OCTOBER 3, 2013

Average monthly and model year fleet-wide achieved CAFE performance levels (light purple) versus NHTSA projected achieved CAFE levels (blue) for model years 2008 through 2016. Brandon Schoettle and Michael Sivak (2013) A Comparison of CAFE Standards and Actual CAFE Performance of New Light-Duty Vehicles (UMTRI-2013-35).

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Teslarati

MARCH 7, 2022

Europa Clipper is an interplanetary spacecraft developed by NASA to observe Europa, a large moon of Jupiter, over the course of a series of flybys while orbiting the gas giant. Some scientists like Monica Grady, Chancellor at Liverpool Hope University, believe it is almost certain that Europa is harboring life.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

A new economic analysis in an issue brief from the Consumer Federation of America (CFA) is recommending that the Obama Administration set a fleet-wide car and light truck fuel economy standard of 60 mpg (3.92 The Obama Administration will release a Notice of Intent for 2017-2025 light duty fuel economy standards on 30 September.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Then he waves a vial of purple liquid and gets a purple light along with the message “Listerine.”. There won’t be Scotch tape on the final model,” says Costanzo , as he rearranges the gear in his lab at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), in Richmond. In 2016 the two researchers were awarded a U.S.

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AUGUST 20, 2016

A team from the University of Vaasa (Finland) and UPM-Kymmene Corporation has examined how the blends of fossil and renewable diesel produced from crude tall oil (CTO) affect the performance and exhaust emissions of the modern common-rail off-road diesel engine. UPM BioVerno renewable diesel is produced from wood-based tall oil.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2016

JILA a partnership of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Colorado Boulder. JILA’s frequency comb spectroscopy technique analyzes chemicals inside a glass container, in which comb light bounces back and forth between two mirrors. Their paper appears in Science. Bjork, T.Q. Heckl, P.B.

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AUGUST 24, 2023

After he graduated from the Federal University of Technology in Owerri, Nigeria, his plan was to get a high-paying job at one of the multinational oil and gas companies based in the country. He earned a master’s degree in electrical power systems engineering in 2018 from the University of Port Harcourt , in Choba, Nigeria.

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JULY 21, 2016

A team of researchers from the UK’s Cardiff University’s Cardiff Catalysis Institute and Queen’s University Belfast have shown that significant amounts of hydrogen can be unlocked from fescue grass—without significant pre-treatment—using sunlight and a metal-loaded titania photocatalyst. —Professor Michael Bowker.

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DECEMBER 17, 2015

The initiative intends to accelerate the widespread deployment of significantly improved fuels and vehicles (passenger to light truck to heavy duty commercial vehicles) by 2030. At a fleet level, Optima will result in an additional 9%–14% fleet greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction by 2040. Earlier post.) Fuel Properties Characterization.

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OCTOBER 19, 2017

The GMR is the first study to assess the global performance of the transport sector and the progress made toward four main objectives: universal access, efficiency, safety, and green mobility. By 2030, advances in vehicle emission controls can cut air pollution from light and heavy-duty vehicles by almost 70% compared to 2010.

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JUNE 7, 2017

A new study by researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder projects the emission impacts of the widespread introduction of inexpensive and efficient electric vehicles into the US light duty vehicle (LDV) sector. The work is reported in a paper in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. Click to enlarge.

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