Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Joule and Audi AG have entered a strategic partnership to accelerate the commercialization of Joule’s sustainable transportation fuels, Sunflow-E and Sunflow-D, for the global ethanol and diesel markets respectively. Joule will also benefit from Audi’s expertise and global reach as well as from the strength of its brand.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 30, 2016

The LanzaTech facility will recycle industrial waste gases from steel manufacturing to produce a low cost ethanol intermediate: “Lanzanol.” Both Lanzanol and cellulosic ethanol will then be converted to jet fuel via the Alcohol-to-Jet" (ATJ) process developed by LanzaTech and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2012

Audi is celebrating progress on its e-gas plant under construction in Werlte, Germany with a topping-out ceremony. End products from the plant will be hydrogen and synthetic methane (Audi e-gas), to be used as fuel for vehicles such as the new Audi A3 Sportback TCNG. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Audi investigating its e-fuels in an optical research engine using laser-induced fluorescence. —Reiner Mangold, Head of Sustainable Product Development at Audi. Audi notes that the partnership with Joule is still in a development phase and that large-scale production is still quite a way off. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 18, 2017

Audi is unveiling a new battery-electric e-tron concept in Shanghai: the Audi e-tron Sportback. The production version will come in 2019 as Audi’s second battery-electric offering, following the introduction of the production version of the Audi e-tron SUV ( earlier post ) in 2018. miles) (NEDC).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2013

Audi’s e-gas plant. Audi has opened its e-gas plant in Werlte, making it the first automobile manufacturer to develop a chain of sustainable energy carriers. The Audi e-gas plant, which can convert 6MW of input power, utilizes renewable electricity for electrolysis to produce oxygen and hydrogen. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Audi is presenting plug-in hybrid variants of the models A8, A7 Sportback, A6 and Q5 with an electric range of more than 40 kilometers (25 miles) in the WLTP cycle at the Geneva Motor Show. At the same time, with regard to recuperation, the drive system resembles that of the new battery-electric Audi e-tron.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 1, 2013

Audi A3 Sportback g-tron. Audi will introduce the compact A3 Sportback g-tron—which can be powered by the CO 2 -neutral Audi e-gas, synthetic methane generated from eco-electricity in the Audi e-gas project ( earlier post )—at the end of the year. The Audi A3 Sportback g-tron is fully bivalent—i.e.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2015

Last week, Audi and its partner Global Bioenergies announced that the first batch of renewable isooctane—which Audi calls “e-benzin”—using Global Bioenergies’ fermentative isobutene pathway (sugar→isobutene→isooctane) had been produced and presented to Audi by Global Bioenergies. Audi e-fuels.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2016

In a demonstration of its ongoing development of advanced alternative powertrains, Audi unveiled the new h-tron quattro fuel cell concept vehicle at the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS). The Audi h-tron quattro concept combines an Audi fifth-generation fuel cell stack delivering up to 110 kW with a power-optimized 1.8

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Audi’s e-tron quattro battery-electric SUV concept, which made its formal debut at IAA in Frankfurt ( earlier post ), is a strong indicator of Audi’s series-production electric SUV due in 2018—especially in terms of the powertrain. Audi has several development models already on the road. Audi's MLB.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2011

Audi A3 TCNG for e-gas project. Starting in 2013, Audi will begin series production of TCNG models whose engines—derived from TFSI units—will be powered by e-gas: synthetic methane produced via the methanation of hydrogen produced by electrolysis using renewable electricity. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2016

Whereas the company’s primary focus has historically been to use industrial-grade or waste-derived sugars as feedstocks, the technological maturity of the process now allows consideration of a broader range of feedstocks, including non-biomass-derived sources of carbon. —Jennifer Holmgren, CEO of LanzaTech.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

The Audi e-tron concept. At the Frankfurt Motor Show, Audi unveiled the e-tron. Audi engineers are also working on an inductive (wireless) charging solution to make charging more convenient. The Audi development engineers drew on the core competence of the company for the e-tron. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2018

Global Bioenergies (GBE), the company developing a process converting renewable resources into isobutene via fermentation ( earlier post ), and SkyNRG, world market leader in sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), will collaborate to accelerate the commercialization of Global Bioenergies’ approach to process isobutene into a jet fuel blending component.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Global Bioenergies is now entering the final phase of demonstrating its technology for converting renewable carbon into hydrocarbons. Global Bioenergies is partnering with Audi, earlier post.) It can also be converted into isododecane, a compound found in jet fuel. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2015

Global Bioenergies has successfully converted renewable resources first into gaseous isobutene via fermentation, which was then subsequently catalytically oligomerized into a mix of fuel-range liquid hydrocarbons, including iso-octane. Getting high-purity iso-octane is one of the main goals of our alliance with Audi. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2015

Fifteen million tons of isobutene are derived from oil each year and converted into fuels, plastics and elastomers. Global Bioenergies is developing a synthetic biology process to produce isobutene alternatively, from renewable resources (sugar, cereals and agricultural or forestry waste). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2015

As part of the agreement, emissions (or offtake gas) from various HeidelbergCement factories could provide Joule with the waste CO 2 required to feed its advanced Helioculture platform that effectively recycles CO 2 back into fuel. This initial relationship fits well with Joule’s strategy of turning waste CO 2 into liquid fuel.

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Carbon Manufacturer Fuel Waste 150

Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2010

Lear also has developed new automotive fabrics—Lear ECO Fabrics—made from 100% recycled plastic bottles and polyester yarn that reduce landfill waste and conserve energy and natural resources. EPP was introduced in 2002 on the Audi A2. In addition, Lear uses post-consumer plastics bottles in its yarn, minimizing landfill waste.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Audi is introducing a plug-in hybrid version of its A8 L luxury sedan. The Audi A7 Sportback and the Q5 50 TFSI e quattro and Q5 55 TFSI e quattro SUVs have been available on the market since September. The Audi A8 L 60 TFSI e quattro can drive on electric power up to a speed of 135 km/h (83.9 meters (17.4 just above idle speed.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Audi presented a range of its ongoing work on electromobility and efficiency—from fuels and systems to full vehicles—under the “Future Performance Days 2015” banner. On the full vehicle side, Audi put forward the Audi Q7 e-tron 3.0 On the full vehicle side, Audi put forward the Audi Q7 e-tron 3.0

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

Audi introduced the battery-electric Audi A3 e-tron US pilot program at TED2012 in Long Beach, California. This marks Audi’s first foray into the rapidly developing US electric vehicle landscape. Water flows around the 30 modules which constitute this battery; the waste heat is utilized to heat the vehicle’s interior.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2010

Audi e-tron Detroit Showcar. Audi introduced a new electric sportscar concept at the North American International Auto Show, its second following the introduction of the initial e-tron at the 2009 Frankfurt Motor Show in September. The Detroit showcar Audi e-tron is a 3.93 Audi e-tron Concepts. Torque. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2015

Joule and Audi formed a partnership in 2011 to accelerate the development and commercialization of CO 2 -neutral fuels. Audi is also supporting Joule’s hydrocarbon product, which was previously tested and shown to meet ASTM specifications in diesel blends of up to 50%.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2013

Joule has engineered photosynthetic biocatalysts that convert waste CO 2 into hydrocarbons through a patented, continuous process. Waste CO 2 is pumped in from an industrial emitter or pipeline; the CO 2 keeps the microorganisms in motion, maximizing their exposure to sunlight to drive photosynthesis. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

A deployment of this scale would generate up to 625 million gallons (~15 million barrels) of ethanol or 375 million gallons (~9 million barrels) of diesel per year, while consuming about 4 million tonnes of industrial waste CO 2 annually in the process. —Paul Snaith, President and CEO of Joule.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 26, 2023

Virtually everywhere that alternating current must be transformed to direct current or vice versa, there will be fewer wasted watts. In the effort to mitigate climate change, eliminating waste in power consumption is the low-hanging fruit, and these semiconductors are the way we’ll harvest it. The Lucid Air has a 900-V system.)

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

Reply ↓ ↑ report 6 CaramelZappa 3:20AM (4/23/2009) Yea, you COULD convert a lotus for $10k but the conversion wouldnt be terribly satisfying. Line breaks and paragraphs are automatically converted — no need to use or tags. READ: $10,000 of changes and the satisfaction of the build + $25,000 of Used car = $35,000 of Fun!

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

So much more convenient than having to take time out of my day and go out of my way (wasting more energy) to get a charge elsewhere or do battery swaps. Line breaks and paragraphs are automatically converted — no need to use or tags. Reply ↓ ↑ report 15 Ken 2:04AM (4/10/2009) I want to charge at home.

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