Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2011

Large scale production of methanol from natural gas and coal is a well-developed. technology and there is progress on the economic conversion of biomass to. 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.

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Transportation Fuel Coal Gasoline 257

Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

The combination of harvesting whole forests and burning long-sequestered carbon sources such as coal or oil has impaired the Earth’s carbon cycle at an increasing pace. In fact, the optimized PHEV is much more efficient as a long range liquid fuel vehicle, because the engine is downsized.

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PHEV Plug-in Renewable Energy 150

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Several after-market companies have done PHEV conversions of the Ford Escape hybrid and one has done a retrofit of the F-150 pickup -- see Where PHEVs Are and ICE-Conversions.) Kwong said Toyota is concerned PHEVs might just replace gas problems with more coal emissions, since the cars will require more electricity from utilities.

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Plug-in Plug Hybrid PHEV 45