Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Ballard Power Systems has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with strategic partner Zhongshan Broad-Ocean Motor Company Limited with the goal of producing fuel cell modules for use in buses and commercial vehicles in select cities and regions in China. In July, Broad-Ocean announced a $28.3-million Earlier post.).

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JUNE 3, 2023

pCAM is a specifically engineered combination of processed raw materials necessary to produce CAM, a key battery material representing about 40% of the cost of a battery cell. 2021 - Announced plan with POSCO Future M to produce CAM in Canada; site work in Québec commenced in March 2022. Cell Manufacturing and R&D Dec.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2013

a new 5-liter V8 diesel engine designed to power pickup-and-delivery vehicles, other light- and medium-duty trucks, school buses and motorhomes. extends Cummins range of on-road diesel engines for North American vehicles. will be manufactured at the Columbus Engine Plant, with production to start during the fourth quarter of 2014.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2018

Canada-based Loop Energy’s heavy-duty fuel cell range extender ( earlier post ) will power two new zero-emission hybrid-electric Class 8 drayage trucks that will operate for a one-year period as part of a FAST TRACK Fuel Cell Truck Project in southern California. —Ben Nyland, President and CEO of Loop Energy.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Canada-based First Cobalt Corp. The company has also been testing black mass feeds from recycled batteries and will be announcing results from test work and engineering studies in the coming weeks. —Michael Insulan, Vice President, Commercial. Battery Materials Park.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2009

The provincial government of Alberta and the federal government of Canada will invest C$865 million (US$822 million) in a large-scale Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) project in the Athabasca oil sands. The total cost of the project is projected to be C$1.35 Tags: Canada Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Oil sands. billion (US$1.28

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 21, 2013

Truck fleet operators will first work with Clean Energy to develop natural gas fueling contracts, and will then apply for loans and leases, including fair market value leases, from GE Capital to acquire trucks from manufacturers that produce commercial natural gas vehicles (NGVs).

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Cars That Think

MARCH 16, 2024

Thirty-three countries are signatories of the Global Commercial Vehicle Drive to Zero agreement for heavy- and medium-duty vehicles like tractor-trailers, buses, and box trucks. EVs are at the point where their sticker prices have fallen or will soon fall below those of comparable vehicles with internal combustion engines.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2011

Westport high-pressure direct injection (HPDI) injector for heavy-duty engines. The consortium is expecting to demonstrate the natural gas locomotive as part of the previously announced Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) project with CN and Gaz Metro. Click to enlarge. Westport Innovations Inc. Westport Innovations Inc.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Twenty homes scattered across Canada and the northern United States are keeping warm this winter using prototypes of the latest iteration in residential heating systems: cold climate heat pumps. Department of Energy (DOE) in partnership with Natural Resources Canada. Companies can choose to further test their machines down to -26 °C.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

For the first phase of the program, Ballard has agreed to provide a license, associated equipment and Engineering Services to enable assembly of Ballard’s next-generation FCvelocity-HD7 bus power modules by Azure in China. Government of Canada which helps commercialize Canadian clean technologies, readying them for growth and export markets.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2009

a wholly-owned subsidiary of Canada-based Lignol Energy Corporation, a cellulosic ethanol and biorefining company, has been awarded C$3.4 This will lead to the creation of an engineering design package for a commercial biorefinery within the province. Lignol Innovations Ltd., million (US$2.74 million (US$1.5 Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2011

In December 2010, Carbon Sciences announced a worldwide exclusive license agreement with the University of Saskatchewan (UOS), Canada, for catalyst technology for the dry reforming of methane with CO 2. However, there currently is no commercial catalyst robust enough to sustain dry reforming reactions on an industrial scale.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2010

—Ken Reardon, professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Colorado State University Cobalt’s pretreatment process removes most of the terpenes, and uses them for process heat, Wilson said. In addition, Cobalt’s engineered bacteria are very resistant. However, a program in place in the US will pay half the cost of the removal.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2010

Canada-based Solarvest BioEnergy has begun a cooperative Research and Development agreement with Dr. Suzanne Budge at the Canadian Institute of Fisheries Technology at Dalhousie University to assist Solarvest in the characterization of lipids and fatty acids in algae. The continuous bio-production of hydrogen.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2011

The selections announced focus on eight approaches to improving vehicle efficiency: Advanced fuels and lubricants : Eight projects awarded to improve fuels and lubricants that will enable optimal performance of advanced combustion engines. Wisconsin Engine Research Consultants LLC. Advanced fuels and lubricants. Grantee Description.

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OCTOBER 27, 2015

Professor Zhongwei Chen, leader of the Waterloo team, expects to commercialize this technology and expects to see new batteries on the market within the next year. This arrangement, while commercially successful, can only deliver a maximum theoretical capacity of 370 mAh g −1. —Hassan et al.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2012

Torotrak will contribute its engineering support and intellectual property and knowhow; in return, it will earn an effective revenue share on all sales of Torotrak related parts or sub assemblies. It allows a reliable production source of cost-effective and quality validated parts or sub assemblies. Canada); Aichi Machine Industry Co.,Ltd.;

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2017

Alberta Innovates has teamed up with Natural Resources (NRCan) and industry partners to take three clean oil sands technologies to commercial demonstration. million in commercial demonstration in the three projects intended to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions of bitumen production and upgrading. million, for a total of $26.2

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2009

Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne and Alberta Energy Research Institute (AERI) of Canada are working together to develop advanced gasification technology aimed at decreasing the cost and environmental impact of processing Alberta’s oil sands. Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne is a United Technologies Corp.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2009

The project has an initial forecasted capital cost of US$26 billion. TransCanada has moved forward with project development, which includes engineering, environmental reviews, Alaska Native and Canadian Aboriginal engagement, and commercial work to conclude an initial binding open season by July 2010. Project map.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2010

Canada-based Suncor Energy Inc., which pioneered commercial development of the Athabasca oil sands in 1967, plans to increase production to more than one million barrels of oil equivalent per day by 2020, beginning with the company’s 2011 capital spending plans. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2023

UK-based energy firm SSE is the first UK utility to trial First Hydrogen ’s hydrogen-powered van in a real-life setting, enabling SSE to evaluate the benefits of hydrogen mobility alongside its growing fleet of EV engineering and maintenance vehicles as an alternative to fossil fuels. First Hydrogen Corp. First Hydrogen Corp.

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APRIL 6, 2023

There are two ways to look at what is hindering EV adoption: Consumer challenges Manufacturer challenges Consumer challenges Lack of demand, especially in places like the US, Canada, and India, still hamper EV adoption. This is partially due to the cost of EVs in these countries, but also with a relative lack of charging infrastructure.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

The OECD, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development formed in 1960 when 18 European countries plus the US and Canada joined forces to create an organization dedicated to global development. Alternative propulsion systems include hybrid and electric engines. Today, the OECD has 34 member countries.).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2009

Researchers at Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Énergie, Matériaux et Télécommunication in Quebec, Canada, report a major advance in the use of non-precious metal catalysts for PEM fuel cells. One of the obstacles to commercializing hydrogen fuel cell vehicles is the cost of the fuel cells themselves. Science Vol.

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JANUARY 11, 2022

While this approach manages development costs and complexity for the developer, it may not be in the best interest of the customer. To set the stage for increased growth, the commercial AMR market must evolve and challenge the status quo. Lowering the cost of AMRs is certainly a key to enabling larger and faster growth in the industry.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2011

While production costs and refining costs for heavy oil exceed that for light oil, applying information technology solutions for decision-making has provided a significant increase in the margins and profits of operations, according to Chevron engineers in a paper presented on their system earlier this year.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2009

Dr. Patil has an undergraduate degree from IIT, Bombay (India) and a PhD in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He served as the chief engineer for the Ford Escape Hybrid from 1998 to 2003 and holds 12 patents. CPI’s focus is the North American automotive and commercial vehicle market.

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OCTOBER 12, 2022

We already discussed the cost of building a hyperloop but haven’t discussed the price we have to pay. Hyperloop: How Much Do The Tickets Cost? There are also several engineering challenges to overcome Making the tubes sturdy enough to withstand the strains of transporting the high-speed pods while being energy and cost-efficient.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2016

Canada-based Loop Energy ( earlier post ) has entered a collaboration agreement with Hunan CRRC Times Electric Vehicle Co., million grant from Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) to accelerate deployment of the company’s new zero-emission powertrain for heavy-duty trucks. is a key step on our commercialization path.

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AUGUST 11, 2021

I am very pleased to say that we have achieved this now with KoBold, an organization with the heft and technical capability to grow this project to its full commercial potential. The total cost of this multi-decade data acquisition and field work represents millions of dollars of total expenditure. —Bo Stensgaard, CEO of Bluejay.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2012

An example of the evaluation “diamonds” for one technology in each of the research, development and commercial stages. For the project, Alberta oil sands operators—Suncor Energy, Syncrude Canada Ltd., Click to enlarge. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). Eddy Isaacs, CEO, AI-EES. The project.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 26, 2021

He's an actual engineer, with a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Stanford. Tesla, one of the smartest things the company did was to recognize early on that if electric cars were to be accepted as viable substitutes for cars with engines, they couldn't be limited to low-range city-only [driving]. John, welcome to the podcast.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 26, 2021

He's an actual engineer, with a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Stanford. Tesla, one of the smartest things the company did was to recognize early on that if electric cars were to be accepted as viable substitutes for cars with engines, they couldn't be limited to low-range city-only [driving]. John, welcome to the podcast.

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OCTOBER 28, 2022

Electric vehicle (EV) fleets have so many more advantages over internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles. While it’s true that EVs do generally cost more to purchase up front, the true savings are in the long game and total cost of ownership. Lower maintenance costs. Conclusion.

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MARCH 23, 2021

Another week with automakers sharing plans to either curtail development of internal combustion engines or share their EV sales goals – in this case German luxury OEMs, Audi and BMW. The layout would have one pack up where the engine would be, one in back, and two toward the rear axle and tucked inside the frame rails.

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