Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2022

The cobalt, manganese and nickel found in battery cathodes are expensive to mine; scientists have for years sought a way to create new batteries from spent ones. When a car battery reaches the end of its service life, it is collected, dismantled and shredded. Building a battery is like building a tower out of Legos.

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Batteries Battery Re-Charge Conversion 186

Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2022

The company has developed a modular platform producing battery-grade lithium hydroxide and carbonate from diverse input streams and assets to improve the sustainability profile of lithium. This is essential to the future of electric vehicles, as a sustainable and scalable production of lithium is needed to meet the increasing battery demand.

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BMW Green Carbon Convert 243

Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2023

Coal and coal production waste contain a wide variety of valuable rare earth elements that can be converted into clean energy technology components. The US currently has more than 250 billion tons of coal reserves, more than 4 billion tons of waste coal, and about 2 billion tons of coal ash at various sites across the country.

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Coal Production Waste Clean 284

Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2019

Australia-based biotechnology company Circa Group, which produces its bio-based solvent Cyrene from waste cellulose, is participating in a project to develop the first UK industrial scale capability to reclaim and reuse the most valuable components of end-of-life electrical vehicle (EV) batteries. straw, bagasse, sawdust).

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Batteries Battery Polymer Li-ion 186

Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2022

The Rice lab of chemist James Tour introduced flash Joule heating in 2020 to convert coal, petroleum coke and trash into graphene. The lab has since adapted the process to convert plastic waste into graphene and to extract precious metals from electronic waste. That’s with only 0.1% by weight or less of graphene.

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F-150 Vehicles Ford Waste 243

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2022

To this end, the plants in Brussels and Győr as well as the Böllinger Höfe in Neckarsulm have already been converted. The environmental program also addresses the areas of resource and water efficiency as well as the protection and preservation of biodiversity.

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All-Electric Audi Manufacturer Electric Vehicles 307

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2020

Vehicle technologies include conventional internal combustion engines, hybrid-electric systems, battery-electric vehicles, and fuel-cell-electric vehicles. Users can evaluate the impacts on energy use, water consumption, and emissions of e-fuel production pathways using different hydrogen (H 2 ) and electricity sources. Green ammonia.

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2020 Gas-Electric Lithium Ion Mariner 324

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2019

A closed thermal integration enables reuse of fuel cell waste heat for fuel evaporation thereby increasing efficiency. Methanol reforming converts a mix of methanol and water into a hydrogen-rich gas. Waste heat can be utilized for cabin/battery heating and fuel tank can be placed where chassis design allows it.

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Fuel Power Powered Vehicles 317

Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2019

Mainstream Engineering Corporation is developing a hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) process to convert food wastes to renewable diesel and jet fuels that will improve yield and quality, and reduce aqueous byproducts to advance commercial adoption. is developing Lithium metal batteries with improved cycle life for electric vehicles.

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PHEV Lithium Ion Waste Renewable 220

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2022

First, an electric potential will be applied to water to simultaneously produce acidity and alkalinity. Olivine is a CO 2 -reactive waste product that can be returned as tailings after capture carbon from the air. Re-Mining Red Mud Waste for CO 2 Capture and Storage and Critical Element Recovery (RMCCS-CER) ($1,000,000).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Promising avenues include weight savings and extension of the cruising range in comparison with battery-powered solutions; fuel cell concepts may represent an attractive option for long-distance hauling, which requires heavy loads and large cruising ranges. As a result, the charge air coolers used must be resistant to ionized water.

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Commercial Fuel Vehicles Water 223

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2018

Accordingly, there is a large incentive to improve current CTL technology, which can convert coal into liquid fuels and valuable chemicals. Using the Fischer-Tropsch process, these components are converted to liquid fuels. The CO 2 that was previously released in this stage can now be removed in the preceding water-gas shift stage.

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Coal CO2 Conversion Convert 249

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2015

RJ Lee Group has signed an agreement to license an invention developed at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory that converts waste rubber into a valuable energy storage material. The carbon composite material can be incorporated in batteries, supercapacitors, and catalysis and water filtration technologies.

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Carbon Lithium Ion Energy Storage Waste 150

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

Electromobility is just now picking up momentum; further, electric cars are only as emissions-free as the production of electricity that charges their batteries. First, apply electricity generated from renewable sources to obtain hydrogen from water. Legacy vehicles will also have to play their part in cutting CO? Then add carbon.

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Renewable Climate Fuel Gasoline-Electric 300

Baua Electric

MAY 10, 2024

While solar and wind provide carbon-free electricity or H 2 through water splitting, they lack the ability to directly produce carbon-based fuels and chemicals without additional carbon sources. Biomass can be converted into fuels through several steps. Carbon dioxide cycle of biomass-based fuels.

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Fuel Auto Oil Conversion 52

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The Rice lab of chemist James Tour has successfully extracted valuable rare earth elements (REE) from waste at yields high enough to resolve issues for manufacturers while boosting their profits. The activation strategy is feasible for various wastes including coal fly ash, bauxite residue, and electronic waste.

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Waste Coal Convert Carbon 434

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

The gasoline engine only runs in reversing to power the batteries. There are two additional components in the hybrid Prius, an inverter that translates electricity from the battery to the motor. The hybrid battery pack will need servicing but it depends on a bunch of factors. Battery life all depends on these circumstances.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Objectives include expanding EV technology and charging infrastructure to remove obstacles to adoption and improve the customer experience, and EV and battery manufacturing to reduce emissions. Separately, Ford today also announced a cash tender offer to repurchase up to $5 billion of the company’s higher-cost debt.

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Financing Ford Clean Cleaning 170

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2021

In a paper published in the journal Applied Energy , they report devising a methodology to estimate the levelized cost of energy (LCOE) of meeting the seasonal nature of variable renewable energy (VRE) resources with either a hydrogen-fired gas turbine (HFGT) or lithium-ion battery system (LI). —Emre Gençer, co-author.

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Wind Hydrogen Solar Lithium Ion 170

Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2017

Power-to-gas technology takes excess renewable electricity which would otherwise go to waste and converts it to hydrogen, which can then be blended with natural gas and utilized in everything from home appliances to power plants.

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Renewable Gas Power Powered 150

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2018

billion convertible issue from waste-to-energy specialist China Everbright International and a $311-million IPO by US fuel cell developer Bloom Energy. The three biggest renewable energy asset financings in the quarter were the 860MW Triton Knoll project in UK waters at an investment cost of $2.6 billion for 300MW.

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Clean Cleaning Companies South Africa 259

Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2010

Professor George Miley of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and director of its Fusion Studies Lab, reported on progress toward a “cold fusion battery”—a small power unit that uses a low energy nuclear reaction (LENR) (i.e., Tags: Batteries Nuclear. He is with Dixie State College in St. George, Utah.

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Fusion Power Powered Batteries 326

Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2010

The second round was focused specifically on three areas of technology representing new approaches for advanced microbial biofuels (electrofuels); much higher capacity and less expensive batteries for electric vehicles; and carbon capture. This process is less than 1% efficient at converting sunlight to stored chemical energy.

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Carbon Batteries Battery Li-ion 249

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

The powertrain consists of a hydrogen storage system, a low-temperature hydrogen fuel cell and a battery. The fuel cell converts hydrogen directly into electrical energy. The only waste product from this process is water. A high-performance lithium battery covers peak power loads during take-off and when climbing.

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Fuel Hydrogen Taxi Universal 150

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2013

The following small businesses, researchers, and energy entrepreneurs received the latest funding: Nad Karim of DCBpower in Palo Alto will receive $95,000 to research a dual chemistry battery system that has the potential to increase by 50% the range of electric vehicles over conventional fuel vehicles. Lee Huang of Eneron Inc.

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Gas-Electric California Gas Energy 230

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

The first synthesized highly porous carbon (1625 m 2  g −1 ) using waste tires as the precursor. The technology, described in a paper published in ChemSusChem , follows an ORNL discovery of a method to use scrap tires for batteries. Earlier post.) billion tires manufacturers expect to produce annually by 2035. —Dr. Naskar, A.

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Get Electric Vehicle

JUNE 5, 2023

Bioethanol is being produced converting carbon-based agricultural feedstock such as sugar cane, bagasse, grain, barley, potatoes. A pneumatic motor which works on expanding compressed air is used to convert the energy to mechanical energy – either linear motion or rotation. Battery Electric Vehicles are environmental friendly(?).

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Alternative Fuels Gasoline Fuel Gasoline-Electric 98

Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2017

Volkswagen is also highlighting its spectrum of efficiency and electrification solutions all the way to further optimized battery-powered propulsion as in the new e-Golf and the coming new MEB-based electric vehicles exemplified by its series of I.D. High-voltage battery system of the new Volkswagen e-Golf. liters/100 km. New e-Golf.

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Gas Engine Motor Motors 207

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2022

billion to 21 projects to expand domestic manufacturing of batteries for electric vehicles (EVs) and the electrical grid and for materials and components currently imported from other countries. Group14 Technologies , Commercial Manufacturing of a Stable Silicon Anode Material Towards Fostering a Strong US Battery Supply Chain, $100,000,000.

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Manufacturer Parts Batteries Battery 435

Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2018

The production hall uses renewable energy and reduces water consumption and waste significantly. However, today’s production grids are powered by alternating current—which has to be converted. According to its slogan— digital, flexible, green—it will set standards within the worldwide automobile production.

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Germany Mercedes CO2 Supplies 170

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 19, 2022

billion to 21 projects to expand domestic manufacturing of batteries for electric vehicles (EVs) and the electrical grid and for materials and components currently imported from other countries. Group14 Technologies , Commercial Manufacturing of a Stable Silicon Anode Material Towards Fostering a Strong US Battery Supply Chain, $100,000,000.

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Manufacturer Parts Batteries Battery 370

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Mercedes-Benz is convinced of the advantages of battery-electric vans and is preparing to go fully electric before the end of the decade wherever market conditions allow. Customers, fleet operators and vehicle body builders can already choose from four battery-electric models: the eVito panel van, the eSprinter, the eVito Tourer and the EQV.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 19, 2023

They are highly automated production islands that directly convert wind energy to hydrogen, with a few of them processing the gas into fuels and other goods. Airplanes, for example, won’t be able to fly long distances on battery power. The technology to produce hydrogen by electrolyzing water has been around for more than 200 years.

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Wind Hydrogen Grid Gas-Electric 91

Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2014

Past themes have included topics as diverse as the role of big data and the energy-water nexus. They can thus be optimized for applications such as carbon capture, wastewater filtration, and natural gas storage, and for use in devices including fuel cells, rechargeable batteries, and solar cells.

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MIT Grant 2014 Energy 210

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

The Energy Commission also approved almost $16 million in research grants to help develop the next generation of energy efficient technologies for commercial and residential buildings; $11 million for projects to convert feedstock and waste into biofuels; and about $900,000 for natural gas innovations. Plug-in electric vehicles.

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Transportation Climate Energy Gas-Electric 150

Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

Breakthroughs in battery technology, carbon sequestration, and other energy technologies that result in a five-fold improvement over current technology could literally change the world. Starting a company to develop an energy technology that fights climate change is hard—a lot harder than starting a software company.

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Climate Hydrogen Los Angeles Climate Change 99

Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2020

a company focused on sourcing metals with the least environmental and societal impact, has released the results of a year-long study it commissioned into the impacts of sourcing metals to produce battery cathodes and wiring for electric vehicles (EVs). 100% reduction in solid waste. Canada-based DeepGreen Metals Inc.,

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