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Taking another look at methanol as an alternative transportation fuel for the US

Green Car Congress

Large scale production of methanol from natural gas and coal is a well-developed. Sufficient feedstock of natural gas and coal exists to enable the use of non-renewable methanol as a transition fuel to renewable methanol from biomass, they suggested. Methanol from non-renewable coal or natural gas could be used as a bridging.

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What is Fleet Electrification?

Driivz

In order to understand fleet electrification, let’s first take a look at electrification in general: Electrification is the process of replacing technologies that use fossil fuels (such as oil, coal and natural gas) with those that use electricity as an energy source. million commercial EVs, including buses, delivery vans and trucks.

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Naysayer Alert – the hydrogen red herring

My Electric Car

Little seems developed in any wide commercial sense and certainly not to the extent of the pure electric car. The Honda FCX Clarity FCEV and the Toyota Mirai FCEV, both use an electric drive motor and a battery pack. It is important to realize that a fuel cell car is actually an electric car. The reasons are numerous. .

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Nikola inaugurates first HYLA modular hydrogen refueling station in Ontario, CA

Baua Electric

California is working on adding requirements to its Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) which would require a certain percentage of “green” hydrogen to earn credits, so that might be cleaning up if progress is made on offering commercial green hydrogen credits. But all of that is a long way off.

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China Plucky Plug In

Plug In Partners

E ven as the President of Honda says he doesn't think that Plug-ins make sense, a new car company in China announces their plans to build one and Hyundai says it is considering developing a plug-in hybrid car. China's Plucky Plug-In Hybrid BYD's car hits the stage at the Detroit auto show—but will it really be ready to roll this summer?

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Green Hydrogen Cars: How They are Different?

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Furthermore, unlike coal and oil, it is a clean energy source that produces only water vapor and leaves no residue in the air. Green hydrogen is versatile, since it may be converted into energy or synthetic gas and utilized in a variety of applications including residential, commercial, industrial, and transportation.

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ARPA-E Selects 37 Projects for $106M in Funding in Second Round; Electrofuels, Better Batteries and Carbon Capture

Green Car Congress

With a clear path to commercialization this technology hopes to revolutionize Li-Air batteries for electric vehicle applications. Honda, Applied Materials). Zero-Carbon Coal: Innovative Materials & Processes for Advanced Carbon Capture Technologies (IMPACCT). A123 Systems, Rutgers University). Stanford University.

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