Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

Capturing this waste carbon then allows for algae to be cultivated into a variety of biofuels and bioproducts. The FOA has two topic areas: Topic Area 1, funded by BETO, is to support the development of algal biofuels through the utilization of carbon dioxide generated via fermentation (e.g.,

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Electrek

APRIL 5, 2024

The recently-announced Heybike HERO is the purest embodiment of that idea, showcasing what happens when a company says “Let’s build a super lightweight carbon fiber frame but also stuff it full of suspension and heavy, high-power components.”

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Teslarati

APRIL 23, 2021

XPRIZE officially launched the $100 Million XPRIZE Carbon Removal competition. In February, the Tesla CEO announced he was teaming up with XPRIZE to manage the $100 million carbon capture prize he was donating to encourage innovators to develop CO2 removal solutions. “It Musk admitted that making ideas tangible can be challenging.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Luna looks like Dell’s latest XPS 13 , but clever tweaks have slimmed its carbon footprint. Framework, a startup that released its first laptop in 2021, is already putting this idea into practice. Luna, a laptop that can be disassembled and repurposed, could help achieve that goal.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2021

GM plans to become carbon-neutral in its global products and operations by 2040 and has committed to setting science-based targets to achieve carbon neutrality. The use of GM’s products accounts for 75% of carbon emissions related to this commitment. Carbon Offsets and Credits. Electrification.

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Teslarati

JUNE 14, 2021

Musk’s updates came as a response to Tesla bull @ajtourville , who inquired if the carbon fiber sleeves of the Model S Plaid’s rotors are direct-wound or pressed-on. ” He also noted that the “carbon sleeve must put (the) copper rotor in compression or it loosens at low temp due to differential thermal expansion.”

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Carbon Motor Motors Motoring 145

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 8, 2023

This will accelerate Sumitomo efforts to create a sustainable society characterized by carbon neutrality and a circular economy—the goals of its circular economy concept, “TOWANOWA.” The partners are also contemplating the idea of recycling the metals recovered during the gasifying process and reusing them as raw materials.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy has initiated a working group to develop a United States protocol for paying ranchers and farmers to store carbon in their soil. The current system for voluntary carbon transactions is broken and needs to be fixed, group founders said. —Kenneth Medlock. —Jim Blackburn.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2019

As a result, it has a carbon footprint more than 30% lower than gasoline manufactured entirely from petroleum. By using low carbon fuels, a really noticeable CO 2 reduction could be achieved for these cars without having to make technical changes. We are excited about the idea of reducing CO 2 emissions through the use of waste.

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Aston Martin Audi Carbon Fuel 207

Green Car Reports

MARCH 15, 2024

” As of yet, the companies have only committed to a feasibility study for the idea, but such a partnership would aim to combine strengths and accelerate carbon-neutrality and safety.

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Electrek

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Google is pledging to help us get a better idea of our travel choices with estimated carbon emissions/impact of any journey planned using Google Flights. more… The post Google Flights now lets you see estimated carbon emissions for planned trips appeared first on Electrek.

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Google Carbon Emissions IDEA 79

Creative Greenius

MARCH 12, 2010

Courtesy of YouTube and the Hermosa Beach City website and converted and enlarged through the magic of Greenius we bring you this exclusive look at the Carbon Neutral ClueTrain leaving the Hermosa Beach station this week. You say you’d like to see that presentation? Here it is as presented to the Green Task Force.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Further, the scientists pinpointed a culprit in the growth process: ethylene carbonate, an indispensable solvent added to electrolyte to enhance battery performance. The team found that the level of ethylene carbonate directly correlates with dendrite and whisker growth. a–c, Sequential TEM snapshots of Li particle nucleation.

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Li-ion Carbon Lithium Ion Batteries 247

Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2022

Companies can use hydrogen to reduce their carbon footprint in many ways—for example, to generate electricity; to deploy fuel cells for heavy-duty vehicles; to make steel; and to produce ammonia for fertilizer and products. However, turning these ideas into reality raises complex questions. Is it affordable?

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Cars That Think

MARCH 27, 2023

One of the big winners was a technology called carbon capture and storage. And specifically, how do you apply recent advances in machine learning in the HPC to carbon capture? How and where can carbon dioxide be meaningfully captured, and how can it be stored, and where? It’s about 0.04 percent overall.

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Carbon Store Climate Change Light 56

Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2021

The HYPOS project partners are pursuing the idea, among other approaches, of transporting hydrogen along with natural gas. Alongside ceramic-based materials, the Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic Technologies and Systems IKTS is researching the potential of other materials such as carbon as a solution. © Andreas Junghans GmbH.

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Hydrogen Gas Transportation Polymer 511

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2012

The BMW Group and Boeing signed a collaboration agreement to participate in joint research for carbon fiber recycling as well as share carbon fiber manufacturing process simulations and ideas for manufacturing automation. Both the BMW Group and Boeing are pioneering the use of carbon fiber in their products.

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Creative Greenius

AUGUST 20, 2010

After eight months of working directly with Mayor Michael DiVirgilio to introduce and launch the Carbon Neutral City initiative , I stepped aside two weeks ago to focus more on the surrounding South Bay communities and to play a different role in Hermosa. I’ve learned a lot over that period.

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Reblogged from Creative Greenius: [youtube=[link] Courtesy of YouTube and the Hermosa Beach City website, and converted and enlarged through the magic of Greenius, we bring you this exclusive look at the Carbon Neutral ClueTrain leaving the Hermosa Beach station this week. Here is the genesis of the idea from 4 years ago.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

Evonik and Siemens Energy commissioned a pilot plant—sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)—that uses carbon dioxide and water to produce chemicals. For the idea of artificial photosynthesis, which is behind the Rheticus experimental facility, the researchers took nature as a model.

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Conversion Energy CO2 Water 243

Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2014

DICE involves converting coal or biomass into a water-based slurry (called micronised refined carbon, MRC) that is directly injected into a large, specially adapted diesel engine. The process has very high conversion efficiency >97% (LCA); he fuel choice determines the carbon footprint. —CSIRO Energy Group Executive, Dr.

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Coal Carbon Engine Emissions 257

Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2023

The round included participation from one of North America’s largest commercial fleets, Chevron Renewable Energy Group, and Pittsburgh regional investors including: Idea Foundry, Inc., ​ Optimus Technologies recently announced a $17.8-million million Series A funding round led by Mitsui & Co. out of Tokyo, Japan.

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Engine Chevron Wisconsin North America 259

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Researchers from Newcastle University in the UK have engineered Escherichia coli bacteria to capture carbon dioxide using hydrogen gas to convert it into formic acid. Dr. Sargent said he developed the idea from reading about the emergence of life on Earth, both in primary literature and popular science books. In this study, an E.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2014

Lithium-ion batteries could benefit from a theoretical model created at Rice University and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory that predicts how carbon-based anodes will perform. It doesn’t exactly tell you how strong the person will be, but it gives you some idea. That’s easy to measure. —Boris Yakobson. Yuanyue Liu, Y.

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Li-ion Carbon Lithium Ion Batteries 231

Green Car Reports

AUGUST 13, 2019

Porsche rolls out one very fast plug-in SUV, just after it outlined a carbon-offset program. And are silicon-wafer batteries a good idea? Could more moss clean city air? All this and more on Green Car Reports. The 2020 Porsche Cayenne Turbo S E-Hybrid is the quickest, fastest SUV ever presented from the performance brand.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

BMW on Thursday announced a new effort to reduce its overall carbon footprint through the use of new materials, while also teasing a concept car that will put some of those ideas into action. The automaker hopes to reduce lifecycle carbon-dioxide (CO2) emissions 40% by 2030, a company press release said.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

It sounds like an intriguing idea: Make diesel fuel from air rather than fossil-fuel petroleum. Better yet, make it from carbon dioxide--the greenhouse gas whose concentration in the atmosphere has risen precipitously since the dawn of the Industrial Age. Take hydrogen and carbon dioxide, add some.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

Which 1,000-mile EV is getting carbon-fiber composite bodywork? Which automaker balks at the idea of building U.S. EVs because it can’t compete with fast-food wages? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending November 11, 2022.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2020

Since then, LTD hired a Sustainability Program Manager and conducted carbon footprint analysis of its operations to measure the impacts and benefits of public transit on climate change. In 2014, it received silver level certification for the American Public Transportation Association’s (APTA) sustainability commitment.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Ford is targeting zero emissions for all vehicle sales and carbon neutrality across its European footprint of facilities, logistics and suppliers by 2035, and carbon neutrality globally no later than 2050.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2013

Alberta-based Climate Change and Emissions Management Corporation (CCEMC) ( earlier post ) has issued a $35-million open innovation international challenge to create new, carbon-based products and markets. The CCEMC Grand Challenge: Innovative Carbon Uses offers three rounds of funding that total $35 million over a five-year period.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2023

Hydrogen fuel has numerous benefits including the fact that it produces no carbon emissions during the combustion process. One of the reasons hydrogen is such an attractive alternative fuel is that it does not create carbon dioxide emissions, but it does create NO x. —Griffin Beck

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

At an event last week focusing on low-carbon and fuel-cell innovation, a consortium of four suppliers together revealed the Aura, a fully electric sports car that combines a series of ideas that may point to the future in which automakers put a higher priority on weight reduction in EVs.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2022

With interest rising worldwide in new technologies that are reliable and carbon-free, Purdue and Duke Energy intend to study power produced through Small Modular Reactors (SMRs), a move that may be unprecedented for a college campus and a potential fit for Purdue’s energy needs.

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Green Energy Consumers

DECEMBER 28, 2023

But there is no one path for us all on the journey to zero carbon. Hopefully, this story will generate some ideas for your household. We all must phase out fossil fuels, the sooner the better, but no later than 2050. Each family’s situation is different from their neighbor’s.

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Fuel IDEA Carbon Climate Change 81

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2023

million investment from the High-Performance Computing for Manufacturing (HPC4Mfg) program for six teams which will tap into the US National Laboratories’ high-performance computing (HPC) resources to help manufacturers streamline their processes, increase their productivity, and lower their carbon footprint. M2X Energy Inc. – M2X Energy Inc.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 27, 2021

The vehicle, entirely made of carbon-fiber, maintains the same lines and contained mass of the original 4L, yet presenting new dynamic capabilities. A true icon conveying families, businesses and the likes of the gendarmerie and La Poste, as well as helping several generations of young motorists get behind the wheel.

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