Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2017

Ford is investing an additional C$500-million (US$375 million) in its Canadian research and development presence, adding connectivity software and hardware engineers and establishing a new Ottawa Research and Engineering Center. Connectivity is the critical component to the future of mobility.

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MAY 16, 2019

MAN Engines—a business unit of MAN Truck & Bus, itself a member of the Volkswagen Group—is now offering 12-cylinder, IMO Tier III emission standards engines for workboats, spanning a power range from 551 to 1,213 kW. The engines are immediately available. MARPOL Annex VI NO x emission limits.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Ford Motor Company’s Oakville Assembly plant in Canada now sends no operational waste-to-landfill, an achievement that gives Ford Motor Company the distinction of becoming landfill-free at all its manufacturing facilities in Canada. The Essex Engine Plant received landfill-free status in 2012 and Windsor Engine Plant in 2013.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2016

The Governments of Canada and Québec will provide $76.5 million in funding to AE Côte-Nord Canada Bioenergy Inc. The goal of the project is to convert forest residues into 40 million liters (10.6 An FCC system circulates catalyst in a closed loop between two key vessels in order to convert vacuum gas oil to gasoline.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2022

Now, researchers in Canada report that exposure to 6PPD-quinone at environmentally relevant levels can also be deadly for rainbow and brook trout, though not for Arctic char or white sturgeon. This project was supported partially by a financial contribution from Fisheries and Oceans Canada.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 22, 2023

Singh, a power-electronics engineer, has been working to replace the internal combustion engines used in the company’s equipment with hybrid (diesel-electric) and all-electric versions. in engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi “I come from a long line of farmers. as a staff engineer. cubic meters.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2014

Although gasoline direct injection engines (GDI) are a favorable technology for reducing fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, recent studies have shown that GDI vehicles could emit more PM than traditional PFI (gasoline port fuel injection) vehicles as well as heavy-duty diesel trucks equipped with diesel particulate filters.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

A team led by researchers from the National Research Council Canada has investigated the effect of the use of a gasoline particulate filter on the size and morphology of PM emitted from a light-duty gasoline-direct-injection (GDI) vehicle over the FTP-75 and US06 transient drive cycles. Credit: ACS, Saffaripour et al. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2023

The agreement combines Topsoe’s technologies in renewable fuels and hydrogen production as well as decades of experience in engineering with Steeper’s proprietary Hydrofaction technology and industry know-how. The inherent low oxygen content of Hydrofaction Oil supports less secondary upgrading to convert the biocrude oil into finished fuels.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2022

MAN Energy Solutions and the Fraunhofer Institute for Surface Engineering and Thin Films (IST) have published their analysis of the framework conditions for the future supply of green hydrogen to the Salzgitter steel site near Hannover. —Marc Grünewald. These technologies may play a role after 2030 but it’s too early to tell.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2011

million in funding through the Automotive Partnership Canada (APC) initiative, and close to C$10 million from industry and other contributions. These partnerships will be supported with funding through the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and the Canada Foundation for Innovation.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2012

These partnerships will be supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI), and National Research Council Canada (NRC). GM Canada, and Hydrogenics. The newly funded projects are: Low Platinum PEM Fuel Cells.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

C4V completed a phase 1 qualification study, in which RecycLiCo’s NMC811 (nickel-manganese-cobalt oxide) precursor cathode material, made from recycled and upcycled lithium-ion battery waste, was converted into a proprietary cathode composition by C4V’s supply chain partner, followed by cell production and performance evaluations by C4V.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

million from the Department of Energy—to convert sugarcane and sorghum, two of the most productive crop plants known, into even more productive, oil-generating plants. Researchers are engineering sugarcane into a more productive, oil-producing plant that can grow in cooler climes.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2023

Enerkem, a producer of bio-methanol from mixed waste at commercial scale, and Dimeta, a joint venture between the two of the largest off-grid energy suppliers, are initiating feasibility studies for the development of two large-scale projects that will convert waste into renewable and recycled carbon dimethyl ether (DME).

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 16, 2022

IEEE MEDAL FOR INNOVATIONS IN HEALTHCARE TECHNOLOGY Sponsor: IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society REBECCA RICHARDS-KORTUM Rice University Houston “For contributions to optical solutions for cancer detection and leadership in establishing the field of global health engineering.” IEEE JACK S. IEEE THEODORE W.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2011

through its subsidiary Bluewater Biochemicals has selected Sarnia, Ontario, Canada as the location for its first North American biosuccinic acid plant. Butanediol (BDO) on the site, using technology exclusively licensed from DuPont that converts succinic acid to BDO, a chemical with a $4 billion existing market. BioAmber Inc.,

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MARCH 12, 2011

has selected Envergent Technologies LLC, a Honeywell company, to perform the engineering design for a project that will use Envergent’s RTP Rapid Thermal Processing technology ( earlier post ) to convert palm biomass to renewable heat and electricity. Premium Renewable Energy (Malaysia) Sdn.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2013

Results from the world’s first civil flight powered by 100% biofuel that met petroleum fuel specifications without blending released by the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) show that the biofuel used in the flight last October is cleaner than and as efficient as conventional aviation fuel. Earlier post.). Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2013

Researchers at Environment Canada have found that vehicle exhaust is a significant source of isocyanic acid (HNCO), a toxic gaseous acid that is a product of various forms of combustion and a potential health concern. HNCO and its aqueous anion isocyanate (CNO ? In the reported study, Wentzell et al. 16 to 77 depending on driving mode.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Canada-based Rock Tech Lithium announced the construction of Europe’s first lithium refining facility in Guben, Brandenburg. Rock Tech Lithium has a lithium hydroxide mine project in Georgia Lake, Ontario in Canada. Rock Tech Lithium has a lithium hydroxide mine project in Georgia Lake, Ontario in Canada.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2011

Mazda’s roadmap to the ideal internal combustion engine. the step-by-step introduction of electrification to SKYACTIV internal combustion engines: stop-start, followed by regenerative braking, followed by electric motor drive technologies. Energy balance in an internal combustion engine. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Pension enhancements On pensions, some other of Unifor’s core priorities on this spherical of bargaining, participants lately on outlined contribution (DC) pension plans will probably be converted to admirable outlined advantages (DB) plans inauguration Jan. Within the tide DC plans, Ford contributes 4 p.c Workers pay 4 p.c

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MARCH 2, 2019

The consortium, which has set up a dedicated joint venture company, has already undertaken extensive preparatory work, covering detailed engineering and the permitting process. The plant will have two production lines, or twice the input capacity of Enerkem’s commercial plant in Edmonton, Canada.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Canada-based waste-to-biofuels company Enerkem has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Shanghai Environmental Group Co. Enerkem also signed an agreement with Shanghai Marine Diesel Engine Research Institute (SMDERI), to develop a project partnership to jointly build a waste-to-biofuels facility in China.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Comparison of brake thermal efficiency and specific fuel consumption at rated power (ICOMIA Mode 5), hydrogen vs. gasoline engines. A team at the Université de Sherbrooke, Ontario, Canada has developed a prototype small-displacement (. Oh and Plante. Click to enlarge. —Oh and Plante. g/kWh with a 3.3% fuel consumption penalty.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 4, 2014

Researchers from Michigan State University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison and their colleagues report successfully engineering poplar trees to produce lignin that degrades more easily, thereby lowering the effort and cost to convert wood to biofuel. A paper on their work appears in the journal Science.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2013

The process takes agricultural feedstocks such as animal fat, crop seed oil and restaurant grease, and converts them into drop-in liquid hydrocarbon fuels. The process also converts the same agricultural feedstocks into solvents and diluents. He ran that company for 12 years. Maher, Kathlyn M. Kirkwood, Murray R. Gray, and David C.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2010

Canada-based Rapid Electric Vehicles (REV) has begun production of four converted electric bi-directional charging Ancillary Power Vehicles (APVs) ( earlier post ) as part of the US Army Tank Automotive Research Development Engineering Center (TARDEC) Micro-Grid project at Wheeler Air Base, Hawaii.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2020

ABC Companies, a leading provider to the motorcoach, transit and specialty passenger transportation market in the United States and Canada, will soon be the first to offer a motorcoach-diesel-to-electric-repower program for North American operators. The repower kits are engineered by Lightning eMotors and will be installed by ABC technicians.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2022

Fluor Corporation is the contractor for Refuel YYZ and will be providing front end engineering and design (FEED) services, as well as detailed engineering, procurement, and construction management (EPCM) support. Refuel expects to make a final investment decision in 2023. If approved, production at the new facility would start in 2025.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 24, 2014

The Dieselblend system makes it possible to convert diesel engines to dual-fuel engines by means of replacing a certain quantity of diesel by LPG, CNG or LNG. The system is installed beside the original motor management system, and in principle it is suitable for all diesel engines (as from Euro 3).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

The demonstration project, undertaken jointly with General Motors (GM) and with assistance to Magna E-Car Systems from an Ontario (Canada) government grant, is intended to enable Magna E-Car Systems and GM to gain insight into the performance of larger, crossover-segment class EVs.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Commercial truck fleet operators with Hydra-converted semi-trucks can access green hydrogen at a fixed price, five percent below the price they typically pay for diesel. In Canada, 10.5% Initially, both companies are focused on one of Chemtrade’s plants in British Columbia with the potential to expand across the country.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2015

IH2 technology is a continuous catalytic thermo-chemical process which converts a broad range of forestry/agricultural residues and municipal wastes directly into renewable hydrocarbon transportation fuels and/or blend stocks. The Basic Engineering Package for the plant will be provided by Zeton, Inc. of Ontario, Canada.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2010

For the US and Canada, the new Jetta will be offered with three gasoline engines and one turbodiesel direct-injection engine (TDI Clean Diesel). Two of the four engines are new: the entry-level gasoline engine (85 kW / 115 PS / 114 hp) and the common rail TDI (103 kW / 140 PS / 138 hp). The new 320 N·m 2.0-liter

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

The works uses factors such as soil carbon and reservoir design to forecast methylmercury increases for 22 hydroelectric reservoirs under consideration or construction in Canada. Cabot Associate Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering at the Harvard John A. Chan School for Public Health. — Calder et al. 6b04447.

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