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SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Hyundai Motor is introducing a hydrogen fuel cell concept version of its H350 light commercial van at the 2016 IAA Commercial Vehicle Show in Hannover. The powertrain study shows the potential for the company’s advanced hydrogen fuel cell technology in the light commercial vehicle (LCV) segment. m 3 or 12.9

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

Earlier this year, The US Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratories identified the potential of hydrogen to decarbonize deeply a multitude of sectors in a proposal termed “H2@Scale”. Source: DOE workshop April 2016. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge. Increased energy system resiliency and flexibility.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Toyota said that this milestone demonstrates the staying power of a technology that is now emerging as a mainstream solution to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants. This latest milestone of 10 million units was achieved just nine months after total sales reached 9 million units at the end of April 2016. thousand.).

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JULY 5, 2022

million tonnes of greenhouse gas pollution in 2030, or roughly the amount of GHGs currently generated by the entire Canadian economy in two weeks. producers and importers) to reduce the carbon intensity of their liquid fossil fuels used in Canada from 2016 carbon intensity levels. electric or hydrogen fuel cell vehicles).

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OCTOBER 31, 2016

JILA physicists and colleagues have identified a long-missing piece in the puzzle of exactly how fossil fuel combustion contributes to air pollution and a warming climate. By finally understanding the reaction in full, we can model the atmospheric chemical processes much more accurately, including how air pollution forms. Bjork, T.Q.

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MARCH 28, 2016

prior to a 4 April 2016 public workshop on the development of the FY 2016-17 Funding Plan for Low Carbon Transportation and Fuels Investments and AQIP. AQIP is a mobile source incentive program that focuses on reducing criteria pollutant and diesel particulate emissions with concurrent reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.

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APRIL 16, 2021

The follow-up SuperTruck 2 in 2016 sought to double fuel efficiency for Class 8 trucks ( earlier post ). The funding focuses on a range of approaches to electrification—all-electric, plug-in hybrid systems using renewable biofuels, and hydrogen and fuel cell technologies, including hybridization strategies such as fuel cell range extenders.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Advanced Clean Car (ACC) package, the ZEV regulation along with new LEV III smog-forming pollutant and GHG standards can be the catalyst to that transformative process. The standard targets a reduction of about 36% for cars and about 32% for trucks from MY 2016 through MY 2025. —ARB staff. Low Emission Vehicle Program.

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JULY 22, 2017

A recent project demonstrated a 100 kW fuel cell generator with 72 kg of hydrogen storage for marine applications. The generator was designed and built by Hydrogenics with safety and regulatory reviews by the Hydrogen Safety Panel, US Coast Guard, and the American Bureau of Shipping. It averaged 29.4 kW (gross).

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OCTOBER 11, 2017

Commercially-available advanced technologies, such as battery electric or hydrogen fuel cell trucks and buses are able to more efficiently perform the same jobs without emitting any pollutants or GHGs into the air. However, there was no mention of larger, heavier-duty trucks and buses.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2017

In California, the transportation sector is responsible for nearly 40% of greenhouse gas emissions and is also by far the largest source of smog-causing pollution and fine particle pollution. China’s production of zero-emission vehicles has skyrocketed over the past two years. million ZEVs on the roads by 2025 and 4-5 million by 2030.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2016

The 2016 AFLEET Tool and user guide are available online. The latest version includes, for the first time: gaseous hydrogen fuel cell vehicles; state-based (rather than national-based) fuel pricing, private station fuel pricing and fueling infrastructure costs. —Andrew Burnham, Argonne principal environmental scientist.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2017

Oxymethylene ethers are synthetic compounds of carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen (CH 3 O(CH 2 O) n CH 3 ). Due to their high oxygen concentration, they suppress pollutant formation in combustion. Germany launched a 3-year study of oxymethylene ethers (OME) as clean diesel fuels in 2016 ( earlier post ) and. Ford is leading a €3.5-million

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NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Plug Power will have the opportunity to leverage its ownership stake to acquire a majority stake in 2016. Plug Power and Air Liquide are currently working in conjunction on GenDrive system and hydrogen infrastructure deployments at Walmart (Alberta, Canada) and Coca-Cola (San Leandro, CA).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 9, 2018

In the second step, the Fraunhofer Center for Chemical Biotechnological Processes (CBP) uses additional hydrogen to transform it into isooctane (C 8 H 18 ), ETBE and isododecane (C 12 H 26 ). The fuel is free of sulfur and benzene and is therefore especially low in pollutants when it burns. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

A team of researchers from the University of Houston and the California Institute of Technology has developed an active and durable earth-abundant transition metal dichalcogenide-based hybrid catalyst for water-splitting that exhibits high hydrogen evolution activity approaching the state-of-the-art platinum catalysts.

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OCTOBER 30, 2022

The new regulations are driving interest in e-fuels, ammonia, and hydrogen as the industry scrambles to find multiple silver bullets. The greatest challenge is the same as that which is plaguing the adoption of fuel cells in the automotive market—the buildout of low-cost green hydrogen infrastructure. Electric Buses - 12 GWh.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2018

As a result of this initiative, more than 10,000 electric cars were sold in 2017, a 67% increase over 2016. This $70-million electric car rebate and outreach initiative is aimed at encouraging the growth of clean and non-polluting electric car use in New York and promoting the reduction of carbon emissions in the transportation sector.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

For the first half of 2017, New York saw 4,209 EVs sold, a 61% increase from the 2,609 sold in the same period in 2016. Of this, $55 million is dedicated to rebates of up to $2,000 for purchase of a new plug-in hybrid electric car, all-electric car or hydrogen fuel cell car. Last week Governor Cuomo announced the availability of $2.2

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MARCH 30, 2018

We are doing more than ever before to reduce greenhouse gas pollution across all modes of transport and we are committed to ensuring nearly all cars and vans are emissions-free at their tailpipes by 2050. The current funding comes as part of a wider £100 million scheme announced in November 2016 to support low-emission buses.

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JANUARY 19, 2017

For example, the report finds that of the more than 1,300 conventional vehicle model configurations available in 2016, 23 truck configurations, 23 sport utility vehicle (SUV) configurations, and 26 passenger car configurations meet 2020 or later GHG standards with a conventional gasoline powertrain. PM and criteria pollutants.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2014

The update identifies eight key sectors for ongoing action: Energy; Transportation, fuels, land use and infrastructure; Agriculture; Water; Waste management; Natural lands; Short-Lived Climate Pollutants (such as methane and black carbon); and Green Buildings.

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DECEMBER 19, 2016

volts versus the reversible hydrogen electrode (RHE), respectively. Hydrogen enters a fuel cell at the anode, which is coated with a platinum catalyst. When the hydrogen molecules come into contact with the platinum, they split into hydrogen ions and free electrons in a reaction called hydrogen oxidation.

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DECEMBER 9, 2016

Honeywell’s Transportation Systems Forecast projects that turbocharged vehicles will acount for 48% of annual global sales by 2021, up 9 percentage points from 2016. Electrics and hybrids are expected to grow from a total of 3 million vehicles in 2016 to a total of 16 million by 2021. for its hydrogen-powered Clarity Fuel Cell vehicle.

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JANUARY 21, 2017

Short-Lived Climate Pollutant (SLCP) Reduction Strategy. The plan also includes the estimated range of greenhouse gas, criteria pollutant and toxic pollutant emissions reductions of each measure. The major elements of the framework proposed in this new Scoping Plan are: SB350.

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APRIL 4, 2016

This is a game changer, one that could transform the industrial production of fuels and chemicals, thus serving to reduce pollution significantly. Felby (2016) “Light-driven oxidation of polysaccharides by photosynthetic pigments and a metalloenzyme”. Resources. Cannella, K. Möllers, N.-U. Frigaard, P. Jensen, M. Bjerrum, K.

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OCTOBER 6, 2016

A study by two researchers at Sandia National Laboratories has concluded that building and operating a high-speed passenger ferry solely powered by hydrogen fuel cells within the context of the San Francisco Bay is technically feasible, with full regulatory acceptance as well as the requisite associated hydrogen fueling infrastructure.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2017

Improving the efficiency of road-freight transport is critical to reducing the growth in oil demand, carbon emissions and air pollution over the next decades, according to the International Energy Agency’s latest report, The Future of Trucks: Implications for energy and the environment. —“The Future of Trucks”.

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AUGUST 18, 2022

Equipment damaged in the attacks include: radiation sensors monitoring spent fuel; an air-separation unit that makes hydrogen gas used to cool the plant’s turbine generators ; and a substation connecting Zaporizhzhia to 750-kilovolt transmission lines. But Crimea, occupied since 2014, remains on the Russian grid.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2016

In the study, published in the journal Nature Energy , Noel Melton, Jonn Axsen and Daniel Sperling conduct a media analysis to show how society’s attention has skipped among alternative fuel vehicle (AFV) technology between 1980 and 2013, including methanol, natural gas, plug-in electric, hybrid electric, hydrogen and biofuels. Metlon et al.

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AUGUST 23, 2016

For low-temperature fuel cells, the hydrogen bonding interactions between the sulfonic acid group and water molecules in Nafion is only 15.4 Fuel cell technologies can significantly benefit the nation’s energy security, the environment and economy through reduced oil consumption, greenhouse gas emissions, and air pollution.

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JULY 22, 2016

Chuck Shulock. Prior to forming his consultancy, Shulock was Assistant Executive Officer and Director of Climate Programs at the California Air Resources Board, where he led the Board’s initial implementation of the California Global Warming Solutions Act (AB 32).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2016

A new study by a team from the Engine Research Laboratory at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur explores the combustion, performance and emission characteristics of a prototype spark ignition engine operating with different blend ratios of HCNG (hydrogen and compressed natural gas blends). Their paper is published in the journal Fuel.

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JANUARY 7, 2016

preventing air pollution. Although the demand for oil alternatives—such as natural gas, electricity and hydrogen—may grow, each alternative energy source has its disadvantages. Currently, oil remains the main source of automotive fuel; however, further research and development of alternative energies may bring change.

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OCTOBER 8, 2019

California has made tremendous gains cutting pollution without detrimental economic impacts. percent, respectively, from 2016 to 2017. In 2018, battery electric, plug-in hybrid, and hydrogen vehicles accounted for 1.5% from 2016 to 2017. At the same time, the recycling rate in 2017 was 42%, even lower than it was in 2016.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

In January 2012, the ARB approved the Advanced Clean Cars program, which included increased ZEV requirements through 2025 model year, and the next generation of light duty greenhouse gas (GHG) and criteria pollutant emission standards (LEV III). Electric (Battery) Fuel Cells Hydrogen Policy' Earlier post.)

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OCTOBER 30, 2016

For the mobility of the future, we are deliberately not committing ourselves to one solitary form of drive system, but to a coexistence of efficient and clean petrol engines, diesels, plug-in hybrids, battery and hydrogen drive systems. Each of these types of drive system has its justification and future prospects.

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