Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Sales of the VNR Electric in North America will begin in 2020. Cleaner, quieter, fully-electric commercial transport also creates opportunities for expanded morning and late-night operations, helping cut traffic congestion during peak hours. —Peter Voorhoeve, president of Volvo Trucks North America.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2020

Ricardo North America (Ricardo), engineering specialists in advanced propulsion, software and thermal management, has added to its powertrain design and development expertise with the launch of a team in Southern California and a partnership with opposed-piston engine developer Achates Power. It’s a nice synergy.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2018

From the first full year of production, the plant will be the BMW Group’s most resource-efficient production location worldwide. Responsible use of water resources is a particular sustainability goal in San Luis Potosí. For the first time in North America, the new Dürr painting robot with cloud-enabled control is being used.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2021

Our innovative approach uses waste resources to create a flexible molecule that can reduce emissions from fossil fuels, as well as create entirely new, super-clean fuels. Given the compatibility of these two molecules, we can immediately offer an even cleaner alternative for the transportation sector and beyond.

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Baua Electric

MAY 1, 2024

Photo: Toyota Motor North America Toyota today announced that it’s turning its R&D office in Los Angeles into its new North American hydrogen headquarters. It just doesn’t seem like a good use of their time, money, and resources. If fuel cell vehicles were fueled by green hydrogen , they would be cleaner.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2017

The organization draws together the operations of the company’s automotive teams based at its technical centres across Europe, China and North America, which now includes a rapidly growing presence in California.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2012

G, which is expected to be in production by 2015, will be designed to meet Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and California Air Resources Board (CARB) regulations in force when it is launched. Founded in 1916, Thomas Built Buses is a leading manufacturer of school buses in North America. The ISB6.7 The ISB6.7

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

The NZ engine is the first mid-range engine in North America to receive emission certifications from both the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and California Air Resources Board (ARB) meeting the 0.02 Big Blue Bus will use the grant approved by the MSRC partially to fund the purchase of 58 new Cummins-Westport 8.9L

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Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2018

The project’s goal is to introduce this ultra clean technology, which is 90% to 99% cleaner than existing port trucks, to the port drayage industry. Fortunately, there are many ways to take advantage of grants and other resources to make the transition to the new engine technology and clean RNG virtually painless.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2016

The two ships, with a length of 200 m and a capacity of about 4,500 vehicles, are to be used for vehicle shipment between Europe and North America. She is capable of running on LNG fuel or heavy fuel oil and marine gas oil, combining cleaner operations with greater flexibility and efficiency. —Thomas Zernechel.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Volvo originally had been targeting 2015 to begin limited production of DME trucks in North America, but subsequently decided not to set a commercialization date. The DME molecule also has a high ratio of oxygen to carbon atoms, which promotes cleaner burning. Earlier post.). Earlier post.) Earlier post.). Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2017

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) released the proposed scoping plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 40% below 1990 levels by 2030—the most ambitious target in North America. Mobile Source Strategy (Cleaner Technology and Fuels Scenario). Earlier post.) Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2017

According to the report, potentially large increases in BC emissions may occur in the Arctic, further exacerbating warming, if ships are diverted from the Panama and Suez canals to take advantage of shorter routes to and from Asia, Europe, and North America. LNG, fuel cells), albeit at substantial cost to existing fleets.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2015

issued an executive order (B-30-15) to establish a California greenhouse gas reduction target of 40% below 1990 levels by 2030—the most aggressive GHG reduction target enacted by any government in North America to reduce GHG emissions over the next decade and a half.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2016

As one of the outcomes of the “Three Amigos” meeting in Ottawa, Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, US President Barack Obama, and Mexico President Enrique Peña Nieto committed to an “ambitious and enduring” North American Climate, Clean Energy, and Environment Partnership. Short-lived climate pollutants.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2018

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) announced that greenhouse gas emissions in California in 2016 fell below 1990 levels for the first time since emissions peaked in 2004—a reduction roughly equivalent to taking 12 million cars off the road or saving 6 billion gallons of gasoline a year.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2015

This novel approach avoids costly, resource-intensive thermochemical gas-to-liquids (GTL) conversion methods, and offers a biofuel that does not utilize sugar or other plant-based feedstock. Methanotrophic bacteria oxidize methane as their sole carbon source to support cellular metabolism and growth.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2016

The 5-year deal, worth an estimated $3 million per year, will enable BBB to continue using Clean Energy’s Redeem brand of renewable natural gas (RNG), rated up to 90% cleaner than diesel. The chart shows that latest version of California Air Resources Board (ARB) LCFS pathway certified carbon intensities, with electricity and Bio-LNG (i.e.,

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Researchers at the Toyota Research Institute of North America (TRINA) have developed an insertion-type tin (Sn) anode material for use in a magnesium-ion (Mg-ion) battery ( earlier post ) that shows superior operating voltages and capacity. V) than previously reported using a bismuth (Bi) material (384 mAh g -1 , + 0.23/0.32

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

This pursuit of renewable energy benefits our customers and communities through cleaner air while strengthening our business through lower and more stable energy costs. —Amy Davidsen, North America executive director at The Climate Group. —GM Chairman and CEO Mary Barra. Other automakers in RE100.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

It will protect us from volatile oil prices and provide consumers with cleaner fuels and provide the nation with greater energy security. Instead of fighting us in court, they should be working with us to provide consumers in California and the rest of the nation with the next generation of cleaner fuels. LCFS Complaint.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 11, 2015

Both FCEV and ICE fuels were compared using the GHGenius model, which is supported by Natural Resources Canada. Currently the majority of hydrogen produced in North America is from natural gas via steam methane reforming, a highly carbon intensive process.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Base case economics for EVs in North America are very challenging, absent significant disruption in oil price or battery cost. Its growth will be limited to a few regions or countries hat are committed to meeting aggressive carbon-reduction targets but have few other renewable resources. Click to enlarge. BCG, November 2010).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 2, 2016

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) released its initial draft plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 40% below 1990 levels by 2030—the most ambitious target in North America. Managing farm and rangelands, forests and wetlands so they can store carbon.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2010

Azure Dynamics Corporation, which partners with Ford commercial truck dealerships across North America to market its hybrid technology to fleet operators, reports sales of 16 additional Balance Hybrid Electric vans and buses. 5 Balance Hybrid Electric delivery vans to Domestic Uniform Rental, to be deployed in California.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2011

Executives also cited solar (31%), wind (25%), advanced, cleaner coal technologies (17%), biodiesel (10%), and chemically stored electricity (batteries and fuel cells) (8%) as alternative energy sources that would see increased R&D investment. Even batteries and fuel cells have entered the conversation. —John Kunasek.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

In a reflection of desires for cleaner fuels, emissions as a fraction of fuel consumption began decreasing around 1970, due to shifting to lower sulfur fuel sources, different end uses, and emissions controls. Resources. Since 1980, the fraction of sulfur coming from petroleum (50%) and coal (30%) has remained constant. Klimont, R.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 28, 2024

Tesla was rapidly expanding its reach and portfolio, and the Volkswagen Group — hurt from the ‘diesel gate’ scandal — had committed huge resources to pivot to electric cars. Currently, the company has 56 facilities, including eight overseas in North America, Mexico, Brazil, Sweden, Poland and China, and presence in over 20 countries.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2015

Countries like China are already moving toward implementing the ultra-low sulfur diesel fuel that is required for these new cleaner technologies. —Bob O’Keefe, Vice President of HEI and Chair of Clean Air Asia. Advanced Collaborative Emissions Study (ACES).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

CleanFUEL USA, a leading supplier of alternative fuel infrastructure and propane engine systems, will build and certify a multi-purpose 8-liter General Motors (GM) propane engine in partnership with Freightliner Custom Chassis Corporation (FCCC), a subsidiary of Daimler Trucks North America. —Tucker Perkins.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2022

The EV revolution started more than a decade ago as the world began to embrace cleaner, more environmentally friendly forms of energy. Brent Wilson is CEO of Galvanic Energy , a geoscience-driven resource exploration company with expertise in reservoir characterization and mineral acquisition.

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Charged EVs

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

It has a wide variety of locations that we can deploy in, and that really helps us take advantage of the different feedstocks that North America has to offer, and tap a lot of these valuable resources that we haven’t been able to go after in the past. It has what I call the three Cs: it’s clean, consistent and customizable.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2014

During this process, Sinopec has achieved a number of major breakthroughs in its resource evaluation system, technology system as well as R&D and manufacturing of fracturing equipment. With its lower carbon emission, shale gas is a cleaner energy that has strategic significance to coal-consuming China. Bcfd by 2020. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2009

Swan Hills Synfuels expects the project to demonstrate the ability to manufacture synthetic gas from Alberta’s coal resources, with the future potential of utilizing the coal seams for carbon capture and storage. We have centuries of coal supply beneath our feet and it’s important to examine better ways to use this resource.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2012

In a review of hydroprocessing technologies published in a new paper in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels , Mustafa Al-Sabawi and Jinwen Chen of CanmetENERGY, Natural Resources Canada, note that: “Hydroprocessing of oils, whether petroleum- or biomass- derived, entails hydrotreating and/or hydrocracking technologies. Hydroprocessing.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2011

Under the terms of the agreement, Encana will make fueling services available where Heckmann Water Resources (HWR) operates its fleet of water transportation vehicles. Additionally, because of cleaner combustion, the average operating life of NGVs is considerably longer.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 25, 2024

Over the past few months, a new type of washer-dryer combo has emerged on the scene in North America (Yes, Europe and Asia have had great, tiny heat pump tech for decades). That’s going to save time and overfilling resources and therefor some more money. Also, you will have to change from dryer sheets to fabric softener.

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