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Behind the scenes look at Juiced’s low-cost 28 MPH RipRacer electric bike production in China

Electrek

San Diego-based Juiced Bikes unveiled and then launched its newest e-bike model, the RipRacer, last November. Now the company’s founder and CEO Tora Harris is taking us on a behind-the-scenes look at how production is moving along in China.

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Tsinghua Researchers Find that Sugarcane Juice is a Good Fermentation Feedstock for Algal Biodiesel

Green Car Congress

Researchers at Tsinghua University in China have shown that sugarcane juice is a good feedstock for biodiesel production, when used to support the growth of the alga Chlorella protothecoides by heterotrophic fermentation. Conversion ratios of sugar/biomass and sugar/oil using SCH were 15.2 higher than that using glucose, respectively.

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VW to unveil ID. SPACE VIZZION EV wagon at LA show; production version in 2021

Green Car Congress

The materials are consistently made from sustainable raw materials, such as the new AppleSkin, an artificial leather with a proportion of residual matter from apple juice production. SPACE VIZZION will be released in late 2021, and will come in different versions for North America, Europe and China. The production version of the ID.

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Cellulosic sugars company Edeniq raises more than $16M

Green Car Congress

Edeniq and Usina Vale are currently constructing a 20 ton per day demonstration plant to produce cellulosic sugars from sugarcane bagasse, the fibrous by-product of sugarcane juice extraction. The plant is co-located with Usina Vale’s ethanol and sugar production suite in Sao Paulo State, Brazil.

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Gin and Jellyfish? You Might Be at a Bar in Singapore.

Baua Electric

In those strait-laced colonial days, it was improper for women to imbibe in public, so a bartender formulated a cocktail that looked like fruit juice. In the cocktail world, Singapore almost inevitably evokes the pink, gin-based, grenadine-spiked Singapore Sling , a drink born in 1915 at the stylish Long Bar at the Raffles Hotel.

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Sugarcane the sweet choice for biodiesel

Green Cars News

A spoonful of sugar already helps the medicine go down, and now it seems that enough sugarcane juice will support the growth of the alga Chlorella protothecoides by heterotrophic fermentation. According to the report, the work illustrates the feasibility of sugarcane juice served as a fermentable carbon source for oil production.

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XPeng’s AeroHT flexes its eVTOL expertise, taking its X2 flying car to the skies above Guangzhou

Baua Electric

In January, XPeng AeroHT shared that the X2 had received a special flight permit from the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC), making it the first human-operated eVTOL to obtain a conditional permit in the entire country. Following today’s flight, commercial eVTOL operations in China appear closer than ever.

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