Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

MAN Energy Solutions and Wessels Marine GmbH announced a technical showcase whereby the 2017-retrofitted Wes Amelie , a 1,036-TEU feeder container ship, will use liquefied SNG (Synthetic Natural Gas) produced from renewable electrical energy as drop-in fuel. As a result, CO 2 emissions are expected to decline by 56 tons for this trip.

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JULY 2, 2021

Although heavy vehicles comprise just 4% of all on-road vehicles, they are responsible for more than 20% of all transportation-related fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. A truck model in the NASA Ames 7x10 wind tunnel. Every 1% reduction in drag leads to a 0.45% reduction in fuel use for a heavy vehicle at highway speeds.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JANUARY 4, 2023

In 7 years of electrification and deployment of wind and solar, the US barely budged the needle, in fact declining slightly to more wasted energy in 2016 and 2017 before improving again in 2018 and onward.

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Energy Climate Waste Wind 138

Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2017

Audi has introduced the natural-gas-fueled A4 Avant g-tron; dealers in Europe will begin taking orders for the midsize model starting in early summer 2017. Additionally, Audi is now offering e-gas to power the A3 Sportback g-tron as standard; customers will pay only the regular natural gas price. lb per 62.1 lb per 62.1

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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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Mariner Climate Fuel Oil 427

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

New investment in wind, solar, and other clean energy projects in developing nations dropped sharply in 2018, largely due to a slowdown in China. This is due to wind and solar projects generating only when natural resources are available while oil, coal, and gas plants can potentially produce around the clock. thousand in 2017.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 4, 2022

In countries that choose to continue or increase their use of nuclear power, it can reduce reliance on imported fossil fuels, cut carbon dioxide emissions and enable electricity systems to integrate higher shares of solar and wind power. —IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2017

Total European Union greenhouse gas emissions increased by 0.5% Road transport emissions—about 20% of total EU greenhouse gas emissions—increased for the second year in a row in 2015, by 1.6%. g CO 2 /km, which is also below the 2017 target of 175 g CO 2 /km by 2017.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

compound annual growth rate (CAGR), increasing from 49,000 units in 2017 to 115,000 units in 2020. A forecast by Knibb, Gormezano and Partners (KGP), cited by BorgWarner, predicts the hybrid and electric commercial vehicle market will experience a 32.9% Christopher P.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 22, 2022

A November 2021 assessment of Diablo Canyon by a team from Stanford and MIT concluded that delaying the retirement of Diablo Canyon to 2035 would reduce California power sector carbon emissions by more than 10% from 2017 levels and reduce reliance on gas; save $2.6

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2020

The Rhodium Group, an independent research provider, estimates that, after a sharp uptick in 2018, US greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions fell by 2.1% An increase in natural gas generation offset some of the climate gains from this coal decline, but overall power sector emissions still decreased by almost 10%. Coal-driven decline.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2019

Eni has released the 18 th edition of the World Oil, Gas and Renewables Review , the annual statistics report on oil, natural gas and renewables sources. The second volume, the World Gas and Renewables Review , focused on natural gas and renewables sources (solar, wind and biofuels), will be published in autumn.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2020

It estimates that more than 3 billion tons of minerals and metals will be needed to deploy wind, solar and geothermal power, as well as energy storage, to achieve greenhouse gas emission reductions sufficient to achieve a below 2°C future. Source: “Minerals for Climate Action: The Mineral Intensity of the Clean Energy Transition”.

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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. Winds in the cloud bands reach 500 km/h.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 26, 2018

In Japan, Aichi Prefecture, Chita City, Toyota City, Chubu Electric Power, Toho Gas, Toyota Motor Corporation, and Toyota Industries have launched the Chita City and Toyota City Renewable Energy-use Low-carbon Hydrogen Project. Background. Hydrogen is a useful energy source for realizing a low-carbon society.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

The report finds that the greenhouse gas emissions of electric vehicles, with the current EU energy mix and over the entire vehicle life cycle, are about 17-30% lower than the emissions of gasoline and diesel cars. According to the briefing, the sector’s greenhouse gas emissions have been increasing in the EU since 2014.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2021

million people worldwide in 2017, the paper notes. Specific recommendations include: Invest in clean renewable energy, in particular taking advantage of solar and wind power resources and reducing reliance on coal, oil, and gas. Only AIDS causes more deaths. billion IQ points across the continent.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas and is 25 times more effective than carbon dioxide at trapping heat over a 100-year period. While it does occur naturally, major human-generated sources include landfills, refineries, oil and gas fields, natural gas infrastructure, dairies and wastewater treatment plants.

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Emissions Los Angeles California Oil 236

Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2017

Lower panel: The CNTs and CNFs provide high conductivity and superior carbon composite lightweight structural materials for jets, bridges, wind turbines, and electric vehicle bodies and batteries. Licht (2017). —Licht (2017). Bottom: C2CNT Cement wind plant: The full oxy-fuel configuration is shown.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2018

Electricity generation from variable renewable electricity sources (VRE) such as wind and solar power has grown rapidly and is expected to continue to do so. This is necessary because power generation from renewable energies depends on availability of sun and wind and can therefore only be controlled to a limited extent.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

In 2017, operation is planned to be continued on the campus of LUT. INERATEC GmbH develops, constructs, and sells compact chemical plants for various gas-to-liquid and power-to-liquid applications. The new power-to-liquid plant will be taken into operation at the BIORUUKKI Piloting Center of VTT this year.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2016

Delivery is planned for the first quarter of 2017. The company generates electricity through wind power, hydropower, photovoltaics, nuclear, fossil, and other fuels. It also supplies natural gas to industrial, commercial, and residential customers in the northeastern district of Heilbronn.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2019

Global energy investment stabilized in 2018, ending three consecutive years of decline, as capital spending on oil, gas and coal supply bounced back while investment stalled for energy efficiency and renewables, according to the International Energy Agency’s latest annual review. trillion in 2018, a level similar to 2017.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2017

This was the result of growing renewable power generation, switches from coal to natural gas, improvements in energy efficiency, as well as structural changes in the global economy. The decline was driven by a surge in shale gas supplies and more attractive renewable power that displaced coal.

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Green Car Congress

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. From 2017, we are planning to bring competitively priced fuel-cell vehicles to market. Earlier post.). Earlier post.)

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Baua Electric

JULY 29, 2023

GM’s first gas cellular utility was once within the 1966 Electrovan thought. GM retrofitted greater than 100 Chevrolet Equinox compact crossovers with a gas cellular machine in 2007 sooner than discontinuing the fashion in 2015. GM shifted its gas cellular efforts to greater cars, reminiscent of business vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Driven by rising natural gas and oil consumption, levels of CO 2 are expected to hit 37 billion metric tons this year, according to new estimates from the Global Carbon Project (GCP), an initiative led by Stanford University scientist Rob Jackson. growth in 2017. over 2018 emissions. That compares to 2.1% growth a year earlier and 1.5%

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EV Info

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Slashing gas storage facilities. The UK has been a leader in deploying on and offshore wind turbines. What we have not done so well is to ensure that we have a solid base level of generation to supply electricity when there is no sun and no wind. At the time of writing, mid-morning 21 Sept, we have: Wind 9%. Nuclear 15%.

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EV Info

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Wind farms stand idle for days on end, a fire interrupts a vital cable from France, a combination of post-Covid economic recovery and Russia tightening supply means the gas price has shot through the roof – and so the market price of both home heating and electricity is rocketing. Energy Solutions.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2010

New research released by Deloitte and Douglas-Westwood finds that the total cost of decommissioning the more than 260 offshore oil and gas platforms—including the associated wells, manifolds, pipelines and umbilicals—on the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) could be in excess of $30 billion over the next 30 years.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2017

LanzaTech’s first commercial facility converting waste emissions from steel production to ethanol will come online in China in late 2017. LanzaTech has developed a gas fermentation process based on biological catalysts to make fuels and chemicals from a range of waste gases instead of sugars and yeast.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2016

Chrysler unveiled the all-new 2017 Pacifica minivan in both conventional and plug-in hybrid versions at the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) in Detroit. For added fuel efficiency, engine stop-start (ESS) technology is a standard feature on the 2017 Chrysler Pacifica (late availability). system with an 8.4-inch

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2017

natural gas, shale gas, biogas and flared gas). Plasma, the fourth state of matter, an electrically charged gas mixture, offers a promising and attractive alternative for the synthesis of fuels and chemicals, providing a unique way to enable thermodynamically unfavorable reactions to take place at ambient conditions.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2017

Carbon dioxide is the sole reactant in this CNT transformation, providing a financial impetus for the removal of this greenhouse gas. The process is constrained by the (low) cost of electricity. —Johnson et al. Left side : experimental cell configuration used in these C2CNT experiments. Click to enlarge. 2017.07.003.

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Low Cost Carbon CO2 Solar 300

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

The regulation ramps up the amount of electricity from wind, solar, geothermal and other renewable sources of energy while preserving the existing authorities of the energy agencies and the grid operator.

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Renewable 2020 Standards California 291

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2017

This process will enable the economically viable transformation of excess power and off-gas carbon dioxide into methanol in small-scale, decentralized production units. Renewable energy sources such as wind or solar power plants generate excess current at times when it is not needed. kWh battery. Source: bse Engineering.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 2, 2016

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) released its initial draft plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 40% below 1990 levels by 2030—the most ambitious target in North America. The draft plan analyzes continuing the Cap-and-Trade program, which is currently being used to reach the state’s greenhouse gas reduction goals.

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