Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Scaling up the production of what we call green hydrogen is a priority for researchers around the world because it offers a carbon-free way to store electricity from any source. Green hydrogen is a carbon-free method that uses an electrolyzer to split water into hydrogen and oxygen gas. Choubisa et al.

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Hydrogen Production Store Design 448

Cars That Think

JANUARY 20, 2024

The shipping industry has been trying to cut its carbon emissions for years, and with little to show for it. Nearly all of the world’s ship fleet still runs on diesel fuel, with about a quarter of new ships on order being built to run on somewhat lower-carbon alternatives like liquefied natural gas, methanol, or hybrid propulsion.

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Molten Salt Mariner South Korea Water 144

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2014

Gas chromatography comparison of Conoco fuel and a Conoco-CoolPlanet blend. At each successive processing stage, the biomass is heated to a higher temperature profile and the material is compacted to a thinner layer with an increasing level of elemental carbon in the remaining biomass. Source: Cool Planet. Click to enlarge.

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Conversion Renewable Water Gasoline 308

Drive Electric

MARCH 25, 2021

Right across the world, we’ve finally realised that carbon emissions are harming our planet. Regenerative braking is built into all electric vehicles and is a feature that helps you maximise range, and makes the process of braking less wasteful. 3 has become the leading car maker’s first carbon-neutral vehicle. In short, yes.

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Electric Cars Cars Electric Electrical 98

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2016

Navy engineers monitored the performance of the gas-turbine engines and generators while running on petroleum F-76 prior to taking on the ReadiDiesel to establish a baseline for comparison. While operating on 100% ReadiDiesel, the ship successfully completed multiple engine starts and speed changes.

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Renewable Diesel San Diego Fuel 150

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2014

With sales of vehicles equipped with the popular eight-speed transmission growing, FCA US LLC (the new name for Chrysler Group LLC) will invest an additional $266 million in its Kokomo Transmission Plant (Ind.) Eight-speed transmission housings move down the assembly line at Kokomo Transmission Plant. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2009

The study is being commissioned as part of the Sustainable Aviation Fuel Users Group consortium ( earlier post ). Yale University’s School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and UOP will also participate in the analysis, which will include an assessment of the total carbon lifecycle of biofuels. Global Seawater Inc.

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Renewable Fuel Industrial Industry 218

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

The BMW Group and Toyota are consistent industry leaders, creating extremely positive Sustainable Value over the entire review period—i.e., Findings of the report include: Toyota and the BMW Group are industry leaders. they use all the economic, environmental and social resources considered in a value-creating way.

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Automobile Manufacturer Automobile BMW Manufacturer 278

Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2012

Comparison of discharge capacity and coulombic efficiency vs. cycle number for the freestanding MPSF and MPSF with pyrolyzed PAN composite during galvanostatic charge/discharge tested between 0.07-1.5V Many groups have included additional surface treatments, such as metal coatings, but this adds costly processing steps.

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Li-ion Universal Lithium Ion Batteries 231

Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2010

IHS CERA’s earlier comparison of 11 publicly available life-cycle analysis studies found that fuel produced from oil sands mining has average well-to–retail pump greenhouse gas emissions 1.3 Oil sands mines produce waste material called tailings; the waste materials have been difficult to reclaim and have grown larger than projected.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2021

While hydrogen, electric and renewable fuels (produced from waste-based feedstocks) can all radically cut emissions compared with their diesel-powered counterparts, there are major variations in their effectiveness and efficiency in terms of cutting emissions depending on choices made over the full well- to-wheel life cycle. Source: Zemo.

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Hydrogen Energy Emissions Carbon 221

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Price and cost comparison for sugar- and fatty acid-based feedstocks in the production of biofuels and biochemicals. (a) a) Prices of raw sugar, palm fatty acid distillate (PFAD) and non-edible tallow on a per-pound of carbon. (b) Ramon Gonzalez and his group at Rice University. b) Feedstock cost per gallon of ethanol produced.

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2010 Fuel Oil Engine 170

Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2015

Li-ion cell energy density was increased from 84 to 152 Wh/kg; in comparison to the first technology platform, the battery capacity has grown from 48.6 Its exterior skin, painted in Magnetic Blue, combines body parts made of aluminum and carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP), such as the front and rear lids. R8 Overview. meter (14.4

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Batteries Battery Li-ion Audi 150

Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2011

As a comparison, 314 Exajoules is more than three times the annual energy supply in the United States in 2005, which is also a similar level of supply on the Continent of Europe according to various government and independent sources. —Professor Ottmar Edenhofer, Co-Chair of Working Group III. 50 Exajoules per year.

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Renewable Supplies Global Energy 218

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

Densities for steel springs and Li-ion batteries provide a comparison. Carol Livermore, associate professor of mechanical engineering and her team used an ordered grouping of carbon nanotubes (CNT) as a spring to store elastic energy for later use—much as a steel spring stores energy in a mechanical watch. Hill et al.

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Energy Storage Li-ion MIT Carbon 231

Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2013

With its new architecture, use of carbon fiber reinforced plastic, and premium mobility service offerings, the “ i3 marks the beginning of a new mobility age ,” said Dr. Reithofer. EVs in general currently have a larger carbon burden in the production phase than conventional vehicles (e.g., The i3 accelerates from 0 to 100 km/h in 7.2

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BMW New York London Production 247

Charged EVs

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Val Miftakhov got into the EV game in 2010 when he founded eMotorWerks, which created an innovative smart charging solution and was acquired by the Enel Group in 2017. Val Miftakhov: As you can imagine, we did a lot of this [comparison] early on as well. In California, there is a Low Carbon Fuel Standard program.

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Hydrogen Fuel San Francisco All-Electric 89

Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2015

Researchers at Kyoto University in Japan have proposed a novel two-stage process to convert low-rank coals or biomass wastes under mild conditions to high-quality liquid fuel. The carbon basis soluble yields were 19.4−31.2% for biomass wastes. The carbon contents of solubles were as high as 81.5−84.8 —Li et al.

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Coal Waste Oil Hydrogen 150

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2013

A team of University of Michigan researchers has been awarded a $2-million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to identify and to test naturally diverse groups of green algae that can be grown together to create a high-yield, environmentally sustainable and cost-effective system to produce next-generation biofuels.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

We also think that with more people realizing that global warming is our greatest challenge, and that evolving the transportation sector to zero-carbon via cellulosic ethanol plug-in hybrids plus electricity from renewable sources may be our best strategy, the discussions about payback are a narrow answer to big questions. How can I help?

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