Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2022

the cost is less than that of the gasoline ICEV. For the future technology case, HEV, PHEV, and BEV platforms offer the lowest modeled costs of avoided GHG emissions, with many options having a negative cost—i.e.,

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Fuel Vehicles PHEV Carbon 417

Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2016

California has 19 oil refineries that process approximately two million barrels of petroleum per day into a variety of products, with gasoline representing about half of the total product volume, according to the California Energy Commission. DIR, Cal OES, and CalEPA have collaborated to ensure that the two regulations are aligned.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 19, 2024

Photo by Jeremy Thompson on Flickr Disney’s Autopia ride has been making headlines recently, after a park spokesperson told the LA Times that the park was considering ditching gas engines soon. But the ride was sponsored by Chevron from 1998-2012, and that company is pretty dedicated to poisoning small children anyway, so it was apt.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

As highlighted at the 2013 SAE International High Octane Fuels Symposium (HOF) last week, high octane fuels—combined with optimized engines—are viable enablers to higher efficiency operation. Gasoline or E10 BOB would be premium-grade fuel for total coverage of legacy fleet. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Lux charted the investment counts (rather than invested companies) of the seven most active oil majors in its database: Shell, BP, Total, Valero, Chevron, Petrobras and Reliance. It also partnered with Virent on biomass catalytic conversion to produce renewable gasoline, and Cellana (HR BioPetroleum) on algae biofuel.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

million gasoline gallon equivalents (GGE) of vehicle fuel annually for the Class 8 trucking sector—enough fuel to move 10 million miles of freight. Montrose Water and Sustainability Services, a division of Montrose Environmental Group, completed design and engineering for the project as well as equipment procurement.

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Fuel Chevron Gas Renewable 170

Baua Electric

APRIL 18, 2024

Photo by Jeremy Thompson on Flickr Disney’s Autopia ride has been making headlines recently, after a park spokesperson told the LA Times that the park is “evaluating technology that will enable us to convert from gas engines in the next few years.” Until 2016, Autopia vehicles were noisy, polluting two-stroke engines.

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Gas-Electric Honda Pollution 2016 52

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2018

Fuels or energy carriers in the study included gasoline, ethanol, diesel, CNG, LPG, hydrogen, and electricity. Broadly, the team found that gasoline ICEVs using current technology have C2G emissions of ?450 Credit: ACS, Elgowainy et al. Click to enlarge.

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Industrial Industry Gasoline-Electric PHEV 223

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Gevo’s isobutanol is the first isobutanol to be listed in the EPA’s Fuel Registration Directory and is now approved for blending with gasoline. There are two listings for the butanol isomer n -butanol in the directory, from Chevron Oronite and Cobalt Technologies.). Earlier post.). —Gevo CEO Dr. Patrick Gruber.

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EPA Fuel Chevron Gasoline 236

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

EPA could have modeled ethanol’s emissions effects by simply adding ethanol to commercial gasoline blendstocks (‘splash blending’), or mimicking real-world refinery practices. Adding insult to injury, BP, Chevron, and others with a clear incentive to limit ethanol were involved in the design of the fuel testing.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2013

We hope the project will advance CTL and CBTL processes by demonstrating a cost-effective, novel FT catalyst that selectively converts syngas derived from the gasification of coal and coal-biomass mixtures predominantly to gasoline and diesel range hydrocarbons, thereby eliminating expensive upgrading operations.

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Coal North Carolina Chevron Alabama 231

Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2016

Co-authors are from Argonne National Laboratory; the US Department of Energy’s Vehicle Technologies, Fuel Cell Technologies, and Bioenergy Technologies Offices; the National Renewable Energy Laboratory; the Electric Power Research Institute; Fiat Chrysler Automobiles; General Motors; Chevron; and Ford. Elgowainy et al. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Computer simulations at Rice determined that fuel with 5% or less ethanol content does not rise to the level of concern, because small amounts of ethanol and benzene, a toxic, volatile hydrocarbon present in gasoline, degrade rapidly in the presence of oxygen. —Pedro Alvarez.

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Building Chevron Gas Houston 225

Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2015

In one of the first research projects NGI is funding, Robert Jackson, professor of environmental Earth system science, and Adam Brandt, assistant professor of energy resources engineering, are starting to develop a more accurate, faster and less expensive method for detecting leaks of methane at well pads and gas processing stations.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2015

During the late innings of the ICE-age (as in the Internal Combustion Engine age) it has become clear that feeding gasoline and diesel to the next billion new cars is not going to be easy, or cheap. By contrast, at 25 miles per $3 gallon of gasoline, those miles cost 12 cents each. by Henry Hewitt for Oilprice.com.

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Solar Miles Gasoline-Electric MPG 150

Clean Fleet Report

JULY 5, 2021

liter four-cylinder gasoline engine mated to an 8.9 The redesigned front has a new diamond-pattern grille and fascia that house chevron-shaped LED daytime running lights and fog lamps. In the rear the horizontal LED taillights have a bold design, with a faux skid plate and more chevron-shaped back-up lights.

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PHEV Kia Plug-in Fuel Economy 94

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

The Model Fuel Library is a subscription-based library which includes more than 40 fully validated, self-consistent components that can be used to simulate fuel effects in virtually all types of automotive and aircraft engines, as well as engines used for electric power generation. Additive components such as ETBE.

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Fuel Design Engine Emissions 225

Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 15, 2024

liter 4-cylinder engine that puts out 235 horsepower and 258 pound-feet of torque (on premium gasoline), driving either the front or all-four wheels through a nine-speed automatic transmission with paddle shifters. liter engine or 350 horsepower, but no, not even close. All come with a turbocharged 2.0-liter

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Cadillac Escalade SUV MPG 55

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2010

Chevron Technology Ventures and the Institute for Energy Economics of Japan provided support for the study. Rather, it is uncertain whether existing biofuels production provides any beneficial improvement over traditional gasoline, after taking into account land use changes and emissions of nitrous oxide.

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Universal Congress Gasoline United States 257

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

In a report comparing advances in combustion engines, biofuels, electrification and other technologies, Accenture warns that the commercial viability of those disruptive technologies will be delayed unless regulators more proactively support the transformation of science into applied technologies. Next-generation agriculture.

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Transportation Supplies Emissions Fuel 262

Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2016

The new octane index correlation can be used for designing robust HCCI control strategies, capable of handling the wide spectrum of fuel chemical compositions found in pump gasoline, the researchers said in their paper published in the International Journal of Engine Research. —Lacey et al.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2011

The second NABC insertion point (insertion point 3 on the diagram) is where the biomass is processed to a point where it is acceptable as a neat fuel or as a blendstock component to be blended with existing petroleum-based gasoline or diesel. Fermentation of Lignocellulosic Sugars. Hydropyrolysis.

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Production Fuel Oil-Sands Oil 218

Plugs and Cars

DECEMBER 18, 2009

Little would have been gained by attempting to expand the reach of gasoline to laptops or refrigerators, so we've long been subjected to a decades-long preemptive assault on electric cars. It takes a sustained effort to sow confusion about the obvious benefits of electric cars. An odd-sounding committee, really, albeit imbued with gravitas.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2009

Dr. Don Paul is the Executive Director, University of Southern California Energy Institute and a former vice president and chief technology officer of Chevron. Energy Markets in a State of Change. Dr. Paul addressed a positive change—the days of increasing US oil consumption may be over. “

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Electric motors are generally three times more energy efficient than combustion engines. Electric engines are emissions free (and quiet). Without gasoline, today’s transportation fails. Consumer confidence in electric transportation is growing – aided in no small part by $4 to $5 gallons of gasoline.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

Think Global managers want to develop the car plant and launch an engineering center, perhaps alongside. It is reminiscent of the early 1900’s, when steam, electric, diesel, biomass, and gasoline power options competed on a level playing field for consumers’ attention. The same phenomena that customers like about electric cars.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2016

Values normalized to standard naturally-aspirated gasoline engine vehicle. However, BEVs do appeal because their propulsion system is simpler than an ICE, and they do not dilute their “electric miles” with “gasoline miles,” as does a PHEV. BP, Chevron, Concawe, the Department of Energy U.S.-China

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

April 10, 2009 2:28 pm Link Nothing pollutes more than the tailpipe of a internal combustion engine car. Gasoline is burnt up and gone forever into the atmosphere and into our lungs. Chevron owns the NiMH patents and have not allowed EV size batts to be built. If you charge with solar, is way less.

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