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Osaka Gas launches pilot project in Thailand to supply vehicle natural gas fuel from biogas

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The pilot project is scheduled to run for roughly one year, during which time Osaka Gas will test operate a 250 Nm 3 /h biogas refining facility that assumes commercial deployment. Natural gas vehicles are also becoming increasingly prevalent in Thailand.

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Daimler & Renault-Nissan Alliance expand cooperation to 1-ton pickup trucks

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The pickup will feature a double cab and will be targeted both at personal-use and commercial customers. The NP300, sold under the name NP300 Navara and NP300 Frontier (depending on the market), was launched in June 2014 and is currently produced in Thailand and Mexico. Mercedes-Benz is the fastest growing premium brand in the world.

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As Detroit of Asia, Thailand goals battery makers to stick forward in EV race

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To that finish, a multibillion-baht subsidy bundle is within the works and can be put to the fresh executive for esteem, says Narit Therdsteerasukdi, the secretary normal of the Thailand Board of Funding, which oversees international funding into the rustic. What makes Thailand a compelling playground for EVs?

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Global biofuels production up 17% in 2010 to hit all-time high of 105 billion liters

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The EPA’s target reduction reflects the technical challenges and high costs of commercializing so-called second-generation biofuels. Asia produced 12% of the world’s biodiesel in 2010, a 20%t increase from 2009, mostly using palm oil feedstock in Indonesia and Thailand. Sugarcane ethanol supplies 41.5%

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The Global Outlook of Electric Vehicles

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This is partially due to the cost of EVs in these countries, but also with a relative lack of charging infrastructure. State-level commercial EV infrastructure incentives are also available to businesses to help make up the shortfall of EV charging infrastructure in the US.

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ExxonMobil: global GDP up ~140% by 2040, but energy demand ~35% due to efficiency; LDV energy demand to rise only slightly despite doubling parc

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This geographically diverse group comprises Brazil and Mexico in the Americas; South Africa and Nigeria in Africa; Egypt and Turkey in North Africa/Mediterranean; Saudi Arabia and Iran in the Middle East; as well as Thailand and Indonesia in Asia. The OECD represents the developed economies.

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UOP looking to biomass catalytic pyrolysis to expand volumes of renewable hydrocarbon fuels

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UOP is moving faster commercially on the Green Diesel side, with the Diamond Green project with Darling International and Valero Energy nearly complete. There are two drivers to the cost of production: the feedstock cost and the yield of product. We are only at the pilot scale—too early to talk about costing.

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