Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2019

The 2020 Ram 1500 will become the most powerful half-ton diesel pickup in the US, with 480 lb-ft (651 N·m) of torque, and the most capable light-duty diesel, with towing capability up to 12,560 pounds. The 2020 Ram 1500 EcoDiesel is available in all models and configurations, including a first-time offering in the Ram Rebel.

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APRIL 11, 2022

NASA has modified a contract with SpaceX to allow the company to launch the international Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission on a flight-proven Falcon 9 booster. Related news: NASA has amended the launch contract for the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Researchers from Trinity College Dublin have shed new light on the formation mechanisms of a rare earth-bearing mineral that is in increasingly high demand across the globe for its use in the green energy and tech industries. Vegetation appears red, grassland is light brown, rocks are black, and water surfaces are green.

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OCTOBER 2, 2022

He imagined a shower head that would sense when the person showering moved out from under the stream of water. The shower head would then automatically turn the water off, turning it back on again when the person moved back into range. With such a device, he thought, people could enjoy a long shower without wasting water.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2021

Now, a study by researchers at the US Department of Energy (DOE) Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation (CABBI) has found that energy sorghum ( Sorghum bicolor ) behaves more like miscanthus in the way it efficiently captures light and uses water to produce abundant biomass. Energy sorghum falls somewhere in between.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2022

The filters prevent tire wear particles and other environmentally harmful substances from being washed into sewers and bodies of water along with rainwater. Together with the TUB Department of Urban Water Management, the Audi Environmental Foundation is developing an innovative new filter concept for urban runoff.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2020

The current industrial process for the production of biobutanol includes the ABE (acetone–butanol–ethanol) fermentation process from biomass; the resulting fermentation broth has a butanol concentration of no more than 2 wt% (the rest is essentially water). —Gan et al. —Gan et al. Lei Gan, Arunraj Chidambaram, Pol G. 0c01008.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The conversion reaction also produces light olefins—ethylene, propylene, and butenes—totalling a yield of 8.7%. The CO 2 hydrogenation to jet fuel range hydrocarbons process through a Tandem Mechanism in which the Reverse-Water Gas Shift reaction (RWGS) and Fischer-Tropsch synthesis (FTS) reaction are catalyzed by Fe 3 O 4 and ?-Fe

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The total estimated volume of recoverable heavy oil is almost the same as the remaining light reserves in the world. With the depletion of light oil resources and rising energy demands, the successful recovery of heavy oil is becoming increasingly important. —Yuichiro Nagatsu, corresponding author. —Yuichiro Nagatsu.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Much of that is attributed to the fishing industry, which has come to rely on plastic fishing nets and other equipment because of the durability, light weight, buoyancy and low cost of the material. Those same qualities contribute to creating ghost nets, a fatal and growing threat to marine life.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2020

Photoelectrical chemical cells (PECs) have the potential to produce hydrogen fuel through artificial photosynthesis, an emerging renewable energy technology that uses energy from sunlight to drive chemical reactions such as splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen. —Francesca Toma.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2021

Potential North American graphite consumption for electric vehicles is expected to grow by as much as 93,000 tpy by 2020—roughly equivalent to 25% of estimated global flake graphite production of 375,000 tpy for 2013. Compared to most graphite mining, the Black Crystal graphite quarry operation has a light environmental footprint.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2021

Prodigy’s SMR Marine Power Station would be shipyard-fabricated, and marine-transported to its deployment location, where it would be moored in place in sheltered and protected waters at the shoreline. NuScale’s SMR made history in August 2020 as the first and only design to ever receive approval from the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2023

Unlike existing light water and other small modular reactors, X-energy’s HTGR technology can also support broad industrial use applications through its high-temperature heat and steam output that can be integrated into and address the needs of both large and regional electricity and/or industrial manufacturing systems.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Guosong Zeng from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for research contributions to advance light-activated semiconductor cathodes to produce hydrogen via photoelectrochemical water splitting.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2021

Designed to meet increased demand for retail e-bikes globally, a market projected to reach $23 billion by 2023 (source: Deloitte) and that grew 157% year over year in sales in the US in 2020 (source: QYResearch), the Bird Bike provides consumers with an electric vehicle to reduce reliance on gas-powered vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

This eliminates the emission of substances of environmental concern, enables up to approximately 72 hours of continuous power supply, and provides water for showers and other uses as a by-product of power generation. Verification tests for the vehicle will start in September 2020.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 16, 2021

Specifically, radar sensors are minimally affected by rain, snow, and fog relative to other sensor types and function equally well in lighting conditions ranging from complete darkness to blinding sun. In 2020, sales of crossovers and utility vehicles accounted for 50% of the new vehicle market share.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

With a recovery rate of more than 95% and using Québec’s green energy, Lithion’s technology and operations will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by more than 75% and water usage by more than 90% compared to mining battery materials, as demonstrated by a third-party lifecycle analysis.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2021

NuScale’s SMR design received approval from the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission in 2020—the only SMR design yet to do so. NuScale Power has developed a new modular light water reactor nuclear power plant to supply energy for electrical generation, district heating, desalination, and other process heat applications.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

HREEs have higher atomic weights and are generally less abundant than light rare earth elements (LREEs). In a separate contract awarded in December 2020, the DoD committed $9.6 million to MP Materials’ Stage II optimization, a project underway to restore LREE processing capabilities to Mountain Pass.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Local ordinances approved include the following requirements: City of Menlo Park – New residential construction must use electric space and water heating, but may use gas cooking and fireplaces. The 2019 standards take effect 1 January 2020. New nonresidential construction must be all-electric and install solar generation.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2020

Over the last decade, momentum has been building to transform the Haber- Bosch (H-B) ammonia industry toward renewable sources of hydrogen, for example, from water electrolysis or solar thermal cycles. The H-B process is no longer required; instead, the reaction is driven by electrochemical reduction and the H source is water.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2022

In early 2020, UK-based independent testing firm Emissions Analytics published a study claiming that tire particulate wear emissions were 1,000 times worse than exhaust emissions ( earlier post ). As a result, distance-specific mass and number emissions can be derived, which can then be compared to equivalent tire metrics.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

In May 2020, SG H2 announced it was bringing the world’s biggest green hydrogen production facility to Lancaster ( earlier post ). The plant will feature SGH2’s gasification technology, which uses biogenic waste, biomass and recycled water to produce carbon negative hydrogen.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2014

The home’s occupant will be able to use less than half of the energy of a similarly sized new home in the Davis area for heating, cooling and lighting. The home is also three times more water-efficient than a typical US home. Advanced lighting. Therefore Honda Smart Home minimizes the use of blue light at night.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 16, 2010

30 European companies recently called on the European Union to increase its ambition to cut EU emissions to 30% by 2020 from 1990 levels in the interests of strengthening Europe’s economic future, boosting jobs and providing greater certainty and predictability for investors.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2019

Cuomo announced that Maid of the Mist, which has been navigating the waters of the Lower Niagara River since 1846, will launch later this year two new all-electric, zero-emission passenger vessels constructed in the United States. The color scheme is environmentally-friendly green combined with the blue of the water.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

This is higher than the 3 to 5 percent U-235 concentration, or “assay,” of Low-Enriched Uranium that fuels the existing fleet of light water reactors. DOE is pursuing multiple pathways to produce HALEU through its HALEU Availability Program authorized by the Energy Act of 2020 to meet this pressing need. Source: Centrus Energy.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2020

In 2016, BMW i Ventures—the venture capital arm of the BMW Group—invested in the Silicon Valley-based company Carbon, whose DLS (Digital Light Synthesis) technology achieved a breakthrough in planar processes, using a planar light projector to enable super-fast component production.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Handling is light and easy on winding roads, while highway driving produces an exceptional sense of power at all speeds. Launched in 2014, the first-generation Toyota Mirai combined a driving range with refueling time equivalent to conventional vehicles and emissions of nothing but water.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2020

The resulting glassy polymer membranes demonstrated nonthermal membrane fractionation of light crude oil through a combination of class- and size-based “sorting” of molecules. Finn (2020) “N-Aryl –linked spirocyclic polymers for membrane separations of complex hydrocarbon mixtures” Science doi: 10.1126/science.aba9806. Lively, M.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2012

water is then converted to light olefins (C 2 -C 4 ). MTG reactor product is separated into gas, raw gasoline and water. Raw gasoline is separated into LPG, light gasoline and heavy gasoline; heavy gasoline is hydro-treated to reduce durene content, then heavy and light gasoline are re-combined into finished MTG gasoline.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Light duty vehicles are an emerging application for fuel cells that already enable 95% lower petroleum consumption per mile than conventional internal combustion engine vehicles. Proposed cathode catalyst concepts should demonstrate the potential to meet or exceed DOE’s 2020 activity target of 0.044 A/cm 2 at 0.9 A/mg PGM at 0.1

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 24, 2020

The awards are cost-shared partnerships with industry, and companies were chosen through a funding opportunity announcement issued in May 2020. ARDP is designed to help domestic private industry demonstrate advanced nuclear reactors in the United States. Total award value over seven years: $147.5 million (DOE share is $116 million).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2020

This catalyzes the oxidation of methane to carbon dioxide and water using excess oxygen in the exhaust stream. Companies interested in commercializing the NRCan technology must submit a letter of interest to NRCan on or before 24 January 2020. The Swedish patent has been accepted and the others are still in process. Background.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

million m 2 of photovoltaic panels and expand the use of LED lighting. In February 2020, the Group joined forces with Energy Observer to make hydrogen one of the energy sources of tomorrow. The subsidiary has plans to install 1.8 Third focus: Supporting, trialing and launching projects at the cutting edge of innovation.

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