Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2017

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) are beginning testing of the Soletair demo plant, which uses air-captured carbon dioxide to produce renewable fuels and chemicals. The pilot plant is coupled to LUT’s solar power plant in Lappeenranta. kW solar PV power plant at LUT.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Almost €110 million will be invested to build the TOTAL Dunkirk demonstration plant and almost €12 million to construct the Sofiprotéol Venette demonstration plant. Total has a 31% stake in the BioTfuel project, IFPEN 30%, Thyssen Krupp Industrial Solutions 19%, Sofiprotéol 12%, CEA 5%, and Axens 3%.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Global Bioenergies has developed a conversion process based on fermentation for renewable resources (residual sugars, agricultural and forestry waste) into isobutene, one of the petrochemical building blocks that can be converted into ingredients for cosmetics, gasoline, kerosene, LPG and plastics.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2013

The site is on the campus of the University of California, Davis; the building process will be documented and shared through the Honda Smart Home US website. Direct PV-to-vehicle DC battery charging will substantially improve charging efficiency by reducing losses associated with DC-to-AC and AC-to-DC conversion.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

Schedule your demo drive to get started.” During Tesla’s recent 2023 earnings call, executive Karn Budhiraj also said that, if current reservation-to-order conversion rates continue, the 2024 production builds of the Cybertruck will soon be sold out.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

to design and build a biofuels demonstration facility in New Mexico. The facility is intended to scale up a pilot process currently producing liquid fuels via Joule’s novel technology, which leverages highly engineered photosynthetic organisms to catalyze the conversion of sunlight and CO 2 to fuels and chemicals.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2011

SDF utilizes the Syntroleum-Sinopec Fischer-Tropsch technology for the conversion of coal, asphalt and petroleum coke into high value synthetic petrochemical feedstocks. Earlier post.) Sinopec and Syntroleum entered into a technology transfer agreement in 2009.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2018

The project will build and install diesel-fueled two-stroke compression-ignition Achates Power Opposed-Piston Engines into Class 8 demonstration trucks that will be road-road ready in 2019 and operate in fleet service in California in 2020.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 30, 2016

LanzaTech is currently building its first commercial ethanol facilities using waste gases, including one in China with China’s largest steel company, Shougang, and one in Belgium with the world’s largest steel manufacturer, ArcelorMittal. The fuel meets all the specifications required for use in commercial aviation.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2015

Siluria’s OCM technology is the first commercially viable process to directly convert natural gas to ethylene, a key building block for the global petrochemicals industry and a new basis from which to produce transportation fuels. The ethane subsequently undergoes dehydrogenation to form ethylene and water.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2009

Renewable Energy Institute International (REII), Toledo’s Red Lion Bio-Energy , the University of Toledo, Midwest Terminals/Port of Toledo, SolarTurbines/Caterpillar, and other partners are working to build a biomass-to-liquids demonstration plant in South Toledo, Ohio.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Joule has developed a highly modular system using highly engineered photosynthetic organisms to catalyze the conversion of sunlight and CO 2 directly to liquid hydrocarbons and ethanol ( earlier post ). gallon without subsidies.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2017

In a further process, these two compounds can be converted to propylene, a key petrochemical building block with a market valued in excess of US$100 billion. Global Bioenergies’ innovation consists in radically remodeling the core carbon metabolism of the strains thereby unlocking high yields of sugar conversion.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2015

Subsequent isobutene batches have been converted into isooctane by the Fraunhofer Institute at the Leuna refinery near Leipzig where Global Bioenergies is now building its demo plant. Isooctane is an additive currently used to improve gasoline quality and could also be used as a standalone fuel.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2010

The US Department of Energy has selected UOP, a Honeywell company, for negotiation of a $25 million award to build a demonstration unit in Hawaii to convert cellulosic biomass into renewable hydrocarbon transportation fuels. Converting biomass to renewable fuels via a pyrolysis pathway. Source: UOP. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2009

The next goal is to refine and capture this knowledge and design and build a 20,000 barrel per day commercial GTL facility and that goal is progressing according to plan.” The FT catalyst reduction process has been enhanced with resulting improvements over successive production campaigns in catalyst activity and CO and H 2 conversion.

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Coal Energy Gas Conversion 150

Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2016

Altex Technologies has selected Unitel to provide engineering services to design and build a pilot system that will produce 1 BPD of synthetic gasoline from biomass (Biomass Conversion to Synthetic Gasoline System, BCSGS). Method and apparatus for conversion of carbonaceous materials to liquid fuel.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Earlier this year, the company reported the successful conversion of renewable resources first into gaseous isobutene via fermentation, which was then subsequently catalytically oligomerized into a mix of fuel-range liquid hydrocarbons. Earlier post.) We are very excited about Global Bioenergies’ membership in our initiative.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2011

The ATJ task force consists of technical experts from a wide stakeholder group including jet engine manufacturers, governmental bodies, fuel manufacturers, third-party testing laboratories, academics and airframe manufacturers investigating the requirements for a third major pathway to renewable drop-in jet fuel: the conversion of alcohols.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2009

Subject to feasibility studies and based on the operating Somersby reactor design, IER will build and operate a commercial-scale reactor at the TRUenergy site. IER is based in Sydney and has patents pending over the supercritical water reactor which is central to the conversion process.

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Clean Fleet Report

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Businesses and public-sector organizations whose employees drive for work are in a unique position to catalyze the conversion of commuter vehicles from gas to electric. Private fleet EV purchases are increasing at a faster rate overall than consumer EV purchases.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

The demo was conducted using the NVIDIA Jetson TX1 embedded module—unveiled yesterday at an NVIDIA event in San Francisco. The Kespry prototype uses the newly introduced NVIDIA Jetson TX1 module for deep learning, which offers complex algorithms to make autonomous devices more intelligent. —Paul Doersch, Founder and CEO, Kespry.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2011

This project will develop a novel low cost route to carbon fiber using a lignin/PAN hybrid precursor and carbon fiber conversion technologies leading to high performance, low-cost carbon fiber. Demo Project for Multi-material light-weight prototype vehicle. Solid state thermoelectric energy conversion devices.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Studying "smart grids" with emphasis on co-joining BEVs with houses and commercial buildings. For the past six years, he’s been building a sustainability consulting practice working with mainly residential clients and a few commercial clients to identify sustainability opportunities and put together a plan to adopt them.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 20, 2024

You were just trying to figure out how to enable conversations.” The next thing I know,” Kahn says, “there’s an RFQ [request for quotation] from ARPA for building a four-node net.” It never dawned on me that I’d actually get involved in building it,” he says. The demos, he recalled, ran 24 hours a day for nearly a week.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Studying "smart grids" with emphasis on co-joining BEVs with houses and commercial buildings. For the past six years, he’s been building a sustainability consulting practice working with mainly residential clients and a few commercial clients to identify sustainability opportunities and put together a plan to adopt them.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2012

RIMPAC and Green Fleet demo. The Great Green Fleet demo, part of RIMPAC 2012, is designed to show that the Navy can operate with a reduced reliance on conventional petroleum. Simultaneously, we are building the plant in Hawaii with the help of the DOE grant. —Jim Rekoske.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 1, 2023

Imagine the Siri voice or the Alexa voice; it’s like that, but rather than being an AI that you’re having a conversation with, it moves all the functionality of the computer from the mouse. But I’ve listened to a couple of demos that they posted on podcast, and to a person. These days, the speech is a good synthetic voice.

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Plug In India

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Video: Jaguar I-PACE : Impressions | DC Fast Charging Demo Day 1 We left Pune on the Deccan Queen train and reached Dadar at 1000 hrs. With windows rolled down, conversations do happen. The other guy who had a conversation was not so pleasant. We landed back home at 2230 hrs and got stopped by our own building watchman.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 4, 2022

The 20 PARC employees were housed in a small, rented building, “with rented chairs, rented desks, a telephone with four buttons on it, and no receptionist,” recalled David Thornburg, who joined PARC’s General Science Laboratory fresh out of graduate school in 1971. MAXC set a pattern for PARC: building its own hardware.

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Get Electric Vehicle

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Impacts of Vehicle to Grid on power quality (DC – AC conversion and power injection happens) You may start as follows. Tech student my project is: High efficiency bridgeless single power conversion battery charger for light electric vehicles which is based on transaction paper. A miniature demo version can be developed. #56

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Cars That Think

MAY 5, 2022

Models like OpenAI’s GPT-3 can generate remarkably fluid and coherent text in just about any format or style: They can write convincing news articles, legal summaries, poems, and advertising copy, or hold up their end of conversation as customer service chatbots or video game characters.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 6, 2024

Compounding these matters, we have discovered evidence that a senior software engineer at Midjourney took part in a conversation in February 2022 about how to evade copyright law by “ laundering” data “through a fine tuned codex.”

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