Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2017

For the last 18 months, a fleet of 6 methanol-fueled versions of the Geely Emgrand 7 cars have been in Iceland. Among drivers testing the vehicles were CRI staff and members of the Icelandic Automobile Association as well as several local service providers in the auto industry. Geely is a shareholder ($45.5-million Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2022

Denmark has been a global leader in sustainability, and has pledged to reduce its carbon emissions by 70% by 2030. Previous demonstration trials of Geely Emgrand methanol sedans in Iceland achieved an average well to wheel emissions of 46g of CO 2 per km, even lower than electric vehicles in most countries.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2022

Grants will be disbursed from the Innovation Fund to help bring technologies to the market in energy-intensive industries, hydrogen, renewable energy, carbon capture and storage infrastructure, and manufacturing of key components for energy storage and renewables. capture and liquefaction at a cement plant to storage in offshore sites.

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Teslarati

APRIL 22, 2022

Fifteen early-phase “milestone round” winners from the Elon Musk-funded $100 million XPRIZE Carbon Removal competition were announced on Friday. The XPRIZE Carbon Removal competition was launched to encourage the development of innovative techniques that can help reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide.

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Green Car Congress

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. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2022

Clean methanol from green and renewable sources is the most realistic and effective path to reducing emissions and achieving carbon neutrality. In the future, Geely Holding methanol vehicles will undergo EU certification and be promoted to other European markets in support of accelerating the goal of reaching carbon neutrality.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2018

Policies to entice consumers away from fossil-fuel powered vehicles and normalize low carbon, alternative-fuel alternatives, such as electric vehicles, are vital if the world is to significantly reduce transport sector carbon pure-emissions, according to a new study. Note the different scaling used in the graphs. McCollum et al.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 20, 2021

The deadline is fast approaching to apply for the 2021 Keeling Curve Prize , which will award $25,000 to each of 10 projects designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions or increase carbon uptake. The competition is open until 10 Feb to applicants from around the world. of the International Institute for Environment and Development; Dr.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

It’s really hard to beat a week in Iceland. With our Icelandic Camera Operator Bjorn Helgason. We were lucky to get the interviews we were able to -especially with the President- as Iceland was under incredible financial stress. Shooting in a rain storm at the Blue Lagoon. Sound familiar?

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InsideEVs

APRIL 6, 2021

The company, called Nanom, created an electric boat with 500 kWh capacity by using ‘structural battery carbon fiber’ in its shell.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2021

ltd has signed an agreement with Icelandic technology company Carbon Recycling International (CRI) to design a chemical plant based on CRI’s Emissions to Liquids (ETL) technology. Chinese petrochemicals corporation Jiangsu Sailboat Petrochemicals Co. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2015

million in Carbon Recycling International (CRI). CRI, founded in 2006 in Reykjavik, Iceland, is developing technology to produce renewable methanol from clean energy and recycled CO 2 emissions. Renewable methanol is also a low-carbon feedstock for production of synthetic materials. —Li Shufu, Chairman of Geely Group.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2021

grams of carbon dioxide per kilometrer (g?CO million new cars were registered in 2019 in the EU, Iceland, Norway and the United Kingdom, and about 38% of these were SUVs. CO 2 /km), according to the European Environment Agency’s (EEA) final data. Data about newly registered vans show a stable trend.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 29, 2024

We need to go deeper and hotter to make geothermal energy viable outside of places like Iceland.” We need to go deeper and hotter to make geothermal energy viable outside of places like Iceland.” Quaise Energy , based in Cambridge, Mass., plans to deploy what are called gyroton drills to vaporize rock using powerful microwaves. “We

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2019

Carbon Recycling International has been awarded a €1.8-million CRI developed the ETL technology to produce low-carbon intensity methanol from CO 2 and hydrogen and operates the first production facility of its kind in Iceland. million (US$2.0-million)

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Cars That Think

MARCH 16, 2024

According to the WRI’s analysis, above, Iceland, Sweden, the Netherlands, and China are the leading EV adopters after Norway. Though it’s clear that ess carbon in the atmosphere coming from tailpipe exhaust is a win for the planet, not everyone shares the belief that all-electric transportation is the panacea it is chalked up to be. “It

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2009

Because of their chemical makeup, when the rocks are exposed to carbon dioxide, they react to form common limestone and chalk in a process called mineral carbonation. Earth Institute scientists are experimenting with ways to speed the natural process of mineral carbonation for use in carbon sequestration.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 26, 2018

million) grant from the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking (FCH JU), the JIVE 2 project will deploy 152 fuel cell electric buses across 14 European cities throughout France, Germany, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, the Netherlands and the UK. Coordinated by Element Energy , and supported by a €25-million (US$31.2-million)

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Creative Greenius

MARCH 30, 2013

I’ve been seeing the b t full page ads for Icelandic Glacial water in the print edition of the Los Angeles Times for months now and every time I do they p**s me off. . But hey, it was “inspired” by glaciers in much the same way it’s carbon neutrality is inspired by a cynical and phony marketing ploy.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 30, 2022

This stretch, called Iris, will link Iceland to Ireland. In subsequent years, the Far North Fiber project will lay down a cable through the Northwest Passage, connecting Iceland to Greenland, then Canada, Alaska, and finally Japan. Each houses between 4 and 12 self-contained reactor modules depending on local needs.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2012

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) released proposed regulations to link its cap-and-trade program to Québec’s to form a joint carbon market to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Earlier post.). The release of the proposed regulations signals the start of a 45-day public comment period. South Korea’s program will begin in 2015.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2017

A new study by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) estimates heavy fuel oil (HFO) use, HFO carriage, the use and carriage of other fuels, black carbon (BC) emissions, and emissions of other air and climate pollutants for the year 2015, with projections to 2020 and 2025. Click to enlarge. —Comer et al.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2009

The 3 per cent reduction was partly due to businesses taking measures to cut their emissions in response to the strong carbon price that prevailed until the economic downturn started. In addition, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway joined the EU ETS in 2008 (although at present no installations in Iceland are covered).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2014

Carbon dioxide recycling in the methanol economy Source: Olah et al. The report’s authors presented four policy options: (1) market-driven approach; (2) regulatory push for carbon capture and utilization; (3) “methanol islands”; and (4) scenario-driven transition strategies. 2009, earlier post. Click to enlarge. Market-driven approach.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2011

They include details of nitrogen oxides (NO x ), sulphur oxides (SO x ), carbon monoxide (CO), carbon dioxide (CO 2 ), ammonia (NH 3 ) and particulate matter (PM 10 ). In addition to the 27 Member States of the European Union, it also includes data from Switzerland, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2009

Today most hydrogen is made from natural gas; there is the potential for very low or zero-carbon hydrogen to be produced at scale, according to Shell. However, Shell does produce hydrogen from electricity on site (via electrolysis) in three of its stations (Santa Monica, CA; White Plains, New York; and Reykjavik, Iceland).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2009

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 19 projects to enhance the capability to simulate, track, and evaluate the potential risks of carbon dioxide storage in geologic formations. Researchers will develop systems for tagging CO 2 with carbon-14 at atmospheric level (1 part per trillion) and measuring the carbon-14 CO 2 levels.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 3, 2024

When you go to Iceland, people walk for an hour to get to the glacier. Karla Boluk, a professor in the department of recreation and leisure studies at the University of Waterloo, in Ontario, pointed to her research that found that a majority of last-chance tourists at two Canadian sites were unwilling to pay for carbon offsets.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 21, 2009

For his sequel, Paine’s been gauging the mood at the now-much-gloomier GM headquarters, visiting geothermal-powered and EV-friendly Iceland, and test driving his brand new Tesla in Los Angeles. And on the environmental side, people are saying, “I’d rather have something I can fuel myself or has less of a carbon footprint.&#

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2015

The lightweight SP:01, which goes on sale in Asia and Europe over the coming weeks, combines a carbon fiber body with an aluminum chassis. The new SP:01 is destined for one of Detroit Electric’s export markets to be delivered to the EV company’s first customer.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2010

The US Department of Energy has selected 15 projects to develop technologies aimed at safely and economically storing carbon dioxide in geologic formations. Columbia University researchers will test and evaluate carbon-14 as a reactive tracer to assess CO 2 transport in a basaltic storage reservoir. Funded with $21.3

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2011

The Dangl team seeks to apply the genetic and genomic information toward applications in bioenergy and carbon cycling research. —Dangl team proposal. Additionally, the microbes in this environment may offer insight into bioremediation applications for cold ecosystems. Community Sequencing Program Sequencing Plans for 2012.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 5, 2023

Tests showed that the carbon-fiber spar between the wings and the wires to the servo motors in each wing were creating problematic conductive paths between the antennas, so we replaced the carbon-fiber spar with a fiberglass one and added ferrite beads on the servo wiring to act as low-pass filters.

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Drive Electric

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

We note that the Sustainable Business Council’s Low Carbon Freight Pathway, reflected in the CCC’s final advice, has shown that we can be much more ambitious. We support the SBC’s Low Carbon Freight Group’s work, and encourage the development of a National Freight and Supply Chain Strategy as a matter of priority. Role of ETS .

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Drive Electric

AUGUST 9, 2022

Electric vehicles typically have a smaller operating carbon footprint than gasoline cars, even when accounting for the electricity used for charging. With the full cradle-to-grave life cycle in mind, the question becomes: does an EV have a smaller carbon footprint over its lifetime than an ICEV? Manufacturing an Electric Vehicle.

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Drive Electric

AUGUST 9, 2022

Electric vehicles typically have a smaller carbon footprint than gasoline cars, even when accounting for the electricity used for charging. For this reason, it’s not only the carbon emissions from using your vehicle to take into consideration but also the manufacturing process. Manufacturing an Electric Vehicle.

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