Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2019

million, reaffirms its long-term commitment to the hydrogen energy markets and its ambition to be a major player in the supply of carbon-free hydrogen, particularly for industry and mobility markets. Water electrolysis is one of the key technologies to accelerate the emergence of hydrogen as a sustainable energy carrier.

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MARCH 3, 2023

The ship is also equipped with a ballast water treatment system, ahead of treaty requirements mandating such systems, and adopts energy-saving accessories in front of and astern of the propellers.

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JANUARY 11, 2021

ENGIE New Ventures, the corporate venture fund of ENGIE, is participating in a new round of investment to further the development of Connected Energy. Based in the United Kingdom, Connected Energy uses end-of-life EV batteries to create energy storage systems. —Matthew Lumsden, CEO of Connected Energy.

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MAY 19, 2022

Located in Ghent, Belgium, the plant will supply ready-to-install batteries for Volvo Trucks’ full electric heavy-duty trucks. By 2030, at least 50 percent of all trucks we sell globally will be electric and by 2040, we will be a carbon-neutral company. The plant itself is powered by 100% renewable energy. —Roger Alm.

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JUNE 8, 2020

It is the latest concrete step towards Volvo Cars’ ambition to have climate-neutral manufacturing by 2025, part of a wider climate plan that aims to reduce the overall carbon footprint per car by 40% between 2018 and 2025. By 2040, Volvo Cars aims to be a climate-neutral company.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The Audi Q8 e-tron will reach customers in Europe and the United States as a certified net carbon-neutral car. From 2025, production at all Audi plants will be carbon neutral as part of the company-wide environmental program Mission:Zero. AUDI AG has owned the Belgium site since 2007. 2018 saw the birth of the Audi e-tron.

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JUNE 4, 2022

The move will significantly reduce Audi’s carbon emissions and also save money. Battery modules and cells needed in Belgium for the Audi e-tron and Audi e-tron Sportback were up to now transported by truck over the approximately 1,300-kilometer-long route from the supplier in Hungary. In Hungary and Belgium, Audi uses DBeco neutral.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2020

The European GRAMOFON Project, coordinated by AIMPLAS, the Plastics Technology Center has developed an innovative CO 2 capture process based on novel nanomaterials and microwave energy. In the final stage of the project, additional favorable properties of these adsorbent materials were also found, including their catalytic activity.

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OCTOBER 19, 2021

INEOS will invest more than €2 billion into electrolysis projects to make zero-carbon, green hydrogen across Europe. Its first plants will be built in Norway, Germany, and Belgium with investment also planned in the UK and France. The Koln project will result in a reduction of carbon emissions of more than 120,000 tonnes per year.

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OCTOBER 9, 2014

The Global Climate and Energy Project (GCEP) at Stanford University has awarded $10.5 million for seven research projects designed to advance a broad range of renewable energy technologies, including solar cells, batteries, renewable fuels and bioenergy. Electrochemical conversion of carbon gases to sustainable fuels and chemicals.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2022

Other benefits include the ability to lower plant water usage, reduce overall energy consumption, and drop GHG emissions to levels required for the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) Advanced Biofuel category. It has up to 80% lower carbon footprint than that of conventional LPG.

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AUGUST 9, 2022

Researchers at the Université catholique de Louvain in Belgium have designed and synthesized a new class of electrically conducting anionic coordination polymers for all practically relevant alkali-cation storage. An open-access paper on their work is published in the RSC journal Energy & Environmental Science.

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DECEMBER 24, 2022

Australia’s Department of Industry, Science and Resources released the December 2022 edition of the Resources and Energy Quarterly (REQ). This will make lithium Australia’s sixth-largest resource and energy commodity export. —“Resources and Energy Quarterly”. billion in 2021–22 to $16.1 billion, and $17.0 billion, and $17.0

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NOVEMBER 16, 2022

In 2021, one out of every ten cars sold in China will be a new energy vehicle. Under the changing situation, there is not much time left for traditional oil companies to “break the circle” Total Energy launches new company. Total Energy’s first independent charging station in Wuhan.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2021

This technology promises to provide a step-change improvement in the efficiency and carbon intensity of steam methane reforming for the production of hydrogen. Honeywell’s UOP and ZFRT will cooperate in conducting reactive testing in ZFRT’s large-scale pilot plant at Université Catholique de Louvain in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2022

A graphene nanotube is a unique form of carbon that can be imagined as a graphene sheet, with a thickness of one atom, rolled into a tube. One of the best electrical conductors on earth, graphene nanotubes are 100 times stronger than steel, but lighter than aluminum. —Konstantin Notman, Chief Executive Officer of OCSiAl Group.

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DECEMBER 4, 2020

The elevated investment outlook is attributed to falling costs and policy support from governments looking to shift towards low-carbon economies. By 2030, IHS Markit expect that green hydrogen costs could drop below $2/kg where it would compete with hydrogen produced from natural gas with carbon capture.

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DECEMBER 23, 2021

Cummins was one of the first multinational companies to establish an entity in China in 1979, and we are thrilled to now use our deep roots and localized expertise to be at the forefront of the country’s energy transformation. Green hydrogen is the ultimate technology of the hydrogen energy industry in the future.

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OCTOBER 8, 2019

Beijing Shougang LanzaTech New Energy Science & Technology Co., Currently being sold to the road transport market in a low-carbon fuel blend, ethanol from this facility will now be converted into PET to be used for production of CarbonSmart consumer goods (T-shirts, bottles, packaging). —LanzaTech CEO, Jennifer Holmgren.

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JUNE 28, 2021

So far, renewable diesel and jet fuels are mainly derived from plant oils, but the EU Renewable Energy Directive limits the use of biofuel from food and feed crops since they do not meet sustainability requirements when produced at large scale. The decarbonization of the transportation sector will require large volumes of renewable fuels.

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MARCH 26, 2022

In keeping with this strategic shift of business, OMV will reduce its oil and gas production by around 20% by 2030 and will completely cease oil and gas production for energy use by 2050. A new propane dehydrogenation (PDH) plant coming on stream in Kallo, Belgium, in 2023, will be key to expanding OMV’s monomer position in Europe.

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APRIL 2, 2021

Ørsted, the world’s leading offshore wind developer, together with the major industrial companies in the North Sea Port cluster, have launched the SeaH2Land vision for a gigawatt scale project to reduce carbon emissions in the Dutch-Flemish industrial cluster with renewable hydrogen.

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JANUARY 26, 2022

The investment is part of a US$75-million Series B fundraise by H2Pro, with other investors including Temasek, Horizons Ventures, Breakthrough Energy Ventures and Yara. This disruptive process enables the production of green hydrogen in a way that retains high energy efficiency (98.7%HHV) Nat Energy 4, 786–795. Landman, A.,

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JANUARY 10, 2021

The process involves subjecting methane to pressurized steam in the presence of a catalyst, creating a reaction that produces hydrogen and carbon monoxide, as well as a small amount of carbon dioxide. In the last step, pressure-swing adsorption, carbon dioxide and other impurities are removed, leaving behind pure hydrogen.

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MARCH 11, 2011

Total Petrochemicals, IFP Energies nouvelles (IFPEN) and its subsidiary Axens are developing a new optimized technology for the production of bio-ethylene by dehydration of ethanol. Ethylene, with a $160-billion market, is a valuable commodity two-carbon chemical that can also be oligomerized into transportation fuels. Earlier post.).

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MARCH 1, 2012

The new Le Mans prototype will make its race debut on 5 May in the 6-hour race at Spa-Francorchamps (Belgium) and will compete at the 24 Hours of Le Mans (France) on 16-17 June. On the Audi R18 e-tron quattro, kinetic energy is recovered on the front axle during the braking phase. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2021

The technology will be demonstrated in real operation according to end-users’ needs, meeting market requirements for competitive low-carbon hydrogen production. Partners in the consortium represent the whole value chain of hydrogen from six different countries (Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Norway, Spain, and Turkey).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2018

Calor, an SHV Energy company and the UK’s leading supplier of LPG, has become the first energy company to supply BioLPG to homes and businesses across Britain. On 16 March, SHV Energy received the first delivery of BioLPG (biopropane) from the Neste Biofuels production facility in Rotterdam. Earlier post.)

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FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Umicore is actively working with cell manufacturers to advance SSB tech, and recently opened a material prototyping center in Belgium that supports all the steps in SSB production, from formulation to testing. Robert Privette: Rechargeable batteries are among the building blocks for the green energy transition. How do we do this?

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APRIL 13, 2020

Wystrach GmbH built a low-energy mobile hydrogen refueler to accompany the truck on its demonstration sites. The aim is to demonstrate the truck and the mobile refueling station at 6 locations in Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and France. Earlier post.) This hydrogen truck is unique in the Benelux.

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JANUARY 25, 2018

Production of battery cells is energy-intensive and Sweden offers a solid supply of cost-effective green energy. At Busworld 2017 in Kortrijk, Belgium, Scania unveiled the hybrid Scania Interlink Low Decker and the battery-electric Scania Citywide bus. —Peter Carlsson, Co-Founder and CEO of Northvolt. Earlier post.).

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JUNE 26, 2023

In its sixth consecutive year, the latest report looks at the view of nearly 25,000 drivers across Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and the UK. The Shell Recharge EV Driver Survey 2023 is one of the largest research projects into the attitudes and behaviors of European EV drivers.

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AUGUST 8, 2019

and black carbon (BC). —Haneen Khreis, lead author of the study and an associated researcher at the Center for Advancing Research in Transportation Emissions, Energy, and Health at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute.

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JULY 20, 2010

At the Clean Energy Ministerial in Washington, DC, 19-20 July, ministers reaffirmed their commitment to previously-announced targets for the deployment of electric vehicles, which the International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates will create global market momentum leading to at least 20 million electric vehicles on the road worldwide by 2020.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

An international team led by researchers at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have joined two unconventional forms of carbon—diamondoids and buckyballs—to create “buckydiamondoids”. The primary funding for the work came from the US Department of Energy Office of Science. —Hari Manoharan.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2009

Northern Lights Energy ( NLE ), the initiator of the 2012 charging infrastructure project and provider of infrastructure and services for electric vehicles (EV) based in Iceland, has signed an agreement with Reva Electric Car Company to jointly develop the electric vehicle market in Iceland. The REVA NXR. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.)

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DECEMBER 1, 2017

UPS’s Cycle Solutions will help reduce carbon emissions and noise, as well as improve traffic congestion and air quality in the city’s downtown corridor. Maximum energy efficiency is achieved when combining battery power and human power simultaneously. The eBike can be operated solely on battery power or pedal power.

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