Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Researchers from Purdue University and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland are proposing a new integrated process involving the co-production of hydrogen and electricity from solar thermal energy—a concept they label “hydricity”.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 18, 2013

IFP Energies nouvelles (IFPEN) has become one of the first global research centers actively to investigate onshore natural hydrogen emissions after the discovery of offshore sources of the gas in the 1970s. Currently, hydrogen is considered a carrier of energy rather than a source—i.e.,

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2016

In a demonstration of its ongoing development of advanced alternative powertrains, Audi unveiled the new h-tron quattro fuel cell concept vehicle at the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS). The Audi h-tron quattro concept combines an Audi fifth-generation fuel cell stack delivering up to 110 kW with a power-optimized 1.8

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2011

Reversible hydrogen storage cycle based on the redox system bicarbonate/formate. Researchers at the Leibnitz Institute for Catalysis (Rostock, Germany) have introduced a new approach to hydrogen storage that is based on simple salts of formic acid and carbonic acid. Source: Boddien et al. Click to enlarge. wt % (FA) and 2.35

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Conceptual diagram of oxidation-reduction cycle of ceramic fuel cells and comparison of new concept vs. deterioration rate of conventional fuel plates. Dr. Ji-Won Son’s team at KIST developed a new concept for an anode which contains significantly less nickel—1/20 that of a conventional SOFC. —Park et al.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2015

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $35 million in available funding to advance hydrogen and fuel cell technologies ( earlier post ) to support research and development, early market deployments, and domestic manufacturing. AOI 1 Topic 1: Hydrogen Production R&D: Advanced High‐Temperature Water Splitting.

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My Electric Car

AUGUST 21, 2020

There has been much discussion for over thirty years or more around the use of hydrogen fuel cells as an alternative to the internal combustion engine. Proponents believe such a car could be easily refuelled with hydrogen and assumed it would have greater range than a pure all-electric car.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

EADS Deutschland GmbH is coordinating the recently-launched EU GreenAir project—an investigation of the production of hydrogen for aviation applications via efficient and low-emissions new technologies. It will establish links to the JTIs (CLEANSKY and Fuel Cells and Hydrogen) to maximize synergies. The three-year, €7.8

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2021

A standing oblique detonation wave, stabilized on a ramp, is created in a hypersonic flow of hydrogen and air. Flow diagnostics, such as high-speed shadowgraph and chemiluminescence imaging, show detonation initiation and stabilization and are corroborated through comparison to simulations. —Rosato et al. Rosato et al.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2010

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 8 research projects for funding that will focus on gasification of coal/biomass to produce synthetic gas (syngas) as a pathway to producing power, hydrogen, fuel or chemicals. Area 3: Design Concepts for Co-Production of Power, Fuels and Chemicals. million, with $6.4

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2013

The basic concept of power-to-gas (or e-Gas, as Audi calls it), is to “store” excess renewable electricity by producing hydrogen, which can then either be converted to methane; injected into the gas distribution grid directly; or used as a vehicle fuel. The municipal gas distribution networks can manage these quantities in principle.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Promising avenues include weight savings and extension of the cruising range in comparison with battery-powered solutions; fuel cell concepts may represent an attractive option for long-distance hauling, which requires heavy loads and large cruising ranges. Thermal management.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

While Hyundai, Toyota and Honda seized much attention over their presentations of fuel cell rollout plans (in the case of Hyundai) and concepts (in the case of Honda and Toyota) at the Los Angeles and Tokyo auto shows, Daimler used EVS27 in Barcelona as a forum to report on its 3.3 Fuel Cells Hydrogen' Earlier post.). million km (5.6

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Fuel Cell Technologies Office (FCTO) has selected 11 projects to receive up to $10 million in funding through the fuel cell technology incubator FOA ( earlier post ) in support of innovations in fuel cell and hydrogen fuel technologies. Source: Slade et al. Click to enlarge. Gas Technology Institute.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 25, 2010

A study by a team at the German Aerospace Center (Deutschen Zentrums für Luft- und Raumfahrt, DLR) identified autothermal reforming in combination with a water gas shift reactor as the preferred option for on-board reforming of biodiesel and bioethanol into a hydrogen-rich gas suitable for high temperature PEM (HTPEM) fuel cells.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2022

H2Carrier is the designer and owner of the proprietary floating energy production and storage system P2XFloater—the first industrial-scale floating green hydrogen and ammonia facility of its kind in the world. Green hydrogen is produced by pumping seawater onboard, purifying the water and feeding it to electrolyzers.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 18, 2011

The concept behind the new FuelCELL bus essentially corresponds to that of the Mercedes-Benz BlueTec Hybrid buses which are in service in Hamburg. Hamburger Hochbahn AG has acquired four Mercedes-Benz Citaro FuelCELL Hybrids under the German “NaBuZ demo” scheme to promote sustainable bus systems for the future. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Comparison of Brayton and detonation cycles on a P-v diagram, with an operating pressure ratio (OPR) of 2 for the. In that paper, they conclude that hydrocarbon RDE’s are viable and that basic flow-field patterns and behaviors are very similar to the hydrogen/air cases detailed previously.). Schwer and Kailasanath 2011c. 2012.05.046.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 20, 2024

The IMO’s previous goal was a 50 percent reduction by 2050 in comparison with 2008 levels. Hedging its bets, the industry is exploring ammonia, batteries, and hydrogen, among other options for powering ships. Land-based nuclear power plants, for comparison, are constructed on site and typically far exceed their budgets and schedules.

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EV Central

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Toyota EPU (effectively an electric Hilux) Toyota EPU concept is an electric four-door ute Toyota has been glacially slow to the EV market but at the 2023 Tokyo motor show there were signs the message had finally sunk in. Toyota showed off a concept car called the EPU (or electric pick-up) alongside an electric version of the LandCruiser.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2011

Comparison of biomass-to-wheel (BTW) efficiency for different biomass utilization scenarios. internal combustion engine vehicle (ICE); hybrid electric vehicle-gasoline (HEV-gas); hybrid electric vehicle-diesel (HEV-diesel); (hydrogen) fuel cell vehicle (FCV); battery electric vehicle (BEV); and sugar fuel cell vehicle (SFCV).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Carbonate ion transfer supports the electrochemical reaction of hydrogen at anodes and oxygen at cathodes, creating a cycle of CO 2 production at the anode and CO 2 consumption at the cathode. In the standard DFC system, a gaseous hydrocarbon fuel is sent to the anodes and reformed to hydrogen. Source: FuelCell Energy.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

The ORNL team analyzed two categories of vehicles: current vehicles as well as future technologies that are not currently in the market but are conceptually valid—for example, CNG hybrid electric concepts. The baseline for comparison is based on a 2012 2.4 L Chevrolet Malibu with a combined fuel economy of 26 mpg (9.0

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2015

The comparison to the electric vehicle is based on estimates which factor in the CO 2 emissions resulting from fuel production, with the DME-powered vehicle figure calculated from the use of renewable energy to generate the DME fuel, and the electric vehicle figure calculated from electricity generated from renewable resources. 2010.05.014.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Seed funding supports early work on concepts that have the potential for very high impact on energy production and use. The proposed concept could dramatically reduce solar cell manufacturing costs, according to the researchers. million for promising new research in clean technology and energy efficiency.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2016

In comparison, noncoinage transition metals have historical precedence as excellent catalysts, yet are generally considered poor plasmonic metals, because they suffer from large nonradiative damping, which results in broad spectral features and weak absorption across the visible region of the spectrum. —Dayne Swearer.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2017

Automakers must develop and present technically feasible and economically justifiable concepts for further upgrading of emissions controls—for example, through the installation of additional exhaust gas purification systems. To this end, the German manufacturers will submit a concept by October 2017. Rail transport.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2009

Hydrogen for reverse water gas shift reaction to avoid producing CO 2 during the process is produced by electrolyzing water, driven by solar power. The purpose of the concept, said Edgar G. For comparison, they also modeled the production of methanol using only biomass as a fuel and also using coal as source of both carbon and energy.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Using natural gas to generate electricity and/or hydrogen results in nearly twice the distance with half as much CO 2 , he said. As a point of comparison, the California ARB ZEV regulation is mandating 15% compliant new production by 2025. What if this natural gas is used in an integrated energy system in concert with renewable energy?

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 14, 2010

Processing train of integrated triglyceride-biofuel concept. However, the ARA authors note: the UOP/Eni Ecofining process is intrinsically associated with a monotonic spectrum of paraffinic products and high consumption of hydrogen. Credit: ACS, Li et al. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The paper explores four aircraft concepts: air taxis; 20-passenger commuter aircrafts; 50-passenger regional jets; and 150-passenger, single-aisle 737-class aircraft. For each concept, the paper describes a research area where DOE and NASA could help spur innovation in electric aviation batteries.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2013

The working concept of I3 – /I – redox reaction in the aqueous Li-I 2 battery. kWh kg -1 ) is fairly promising in comparison to the conventional lead-acid, nickel-metal hydride and Li-ion batteries, and can be further improved to be ~0.4 Zhao et al. Click to enlarge. The specific energy density (~0.33

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Clean Fleet Report

APRIL 12, 2024

Revolutionary New Honda EV In a first-ever technology pairing for series production, Honda is mating plug-in battery electric and hydrogen fuel cell electric in the all-new 2025 CR-V—e:FCEV. This breaks the norm of a fuel cell vehicle run solely on hydrogen or simply with a battery for energy storage. kg of hydrogen).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2009

RAPTR is being designed to investigate R egenerative A ir P reheating and T hermochemical R ecuperation concepts for reducing losses from combustion irreversibility. The modified approach incorporates two main concepts— Regenerative Air Preheating (RAP) and Thermochemical Recuperation (TR)—resulting in the acronym RAPTR. Stuart Daw.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2009

A broader question not analyzed here is whether any form of bioenergy (as might be used to produce electricity and hydrogen) is properly treated under cap-and-trade or renewable energy policies that use the renewability shortcut.” DeCicco (2009).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2022

Their patent-pending concept could potentially have nearly twice the energy density of other tubular PEM fuel cells, be 50% lighter, have a replaceable inner electrode and electrolyte (if liquid), a leak-proof configuration, and require fewer precious metals. —Pedram and Jnkovic (2022).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2016

For the mobility of the future, we are deliberately not committing ourselves to one solitary form of drive system, but to a coexistence of efficient and clean petrol engines, diesels, plug-in hybrids, battery and hydrogen drive systems. In comparison with the previous V6, the CO 2 emissions from the engine have been reduced by around 15%.

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