EV Central
DECEMBER 9, 2023
Because if all we do is flood the market with BEVs – and New South Wales still has 75 per cent of its power generated by coal – all we have done is shift the emissions from the tailpipe to the power station.” 2024 Mitsubishi Triton. The federal government target is to have 82 per cent of Australia running on renewable energy by 2030.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 28, 2009
Researchers from the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), South Africa and Rutgers University are proposing new Fischer-Tropsch (F-T) reaction chemistry and process designs that they say could increase F-T process efficiency and reduce CO 2 emissions by 15% compared to the conventional process. Credit: Adapted by P. Huey/Science.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
This development is a significant step towards the implementation of CO 2 hydrogenation technology in South Africa. For decades, Sasol has been using its Fischer-Tropsch (FT) technology to convert low-grade coal and gas into synthetic fuels and chemicals.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 29, 2009
ºF) above pre-industrial levels as well as the long-term stabilization of greenhouse gases at a 350 ppm CO2 equivalent. Australia is the world’s largest exporter of coal and one of the world’s highest per-capita emitters of greenhouse gases. AOSIS has called for nations to agree to limit warming to well below 1.5
Cars That Think
AUGUST 20, 2022
Manufacturing an EV battery using coal-based electricity results in more than three times the greenhouse-gas emissions of manufacturing a battery with electricity from renewable sources. 70 percent of lithium-ion batteries are produced in China, which derived 64 percent of its electricity from coal in 2020.
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