Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2023

In addition, after announcing the capability to demonstrate a 70% sustainable-material tire in January 2022, Goodyear, working with its supply base, plans to sell a tire with up to 70% sustainable-material content in 2023. Silica is an ingredient often used in tires to help improve grip and reduce fuel consumption.

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AUGUST 30, 2011

The company says that some of the most promising projects are the Turbosteamer ( earlier post ); the Thermoelectric generator (TEG) ( earlier post ); engine encapsulation; and a waste heat exchanger for oil heating. Research project Turbosteamer: comparison of the heat exchanger generation 1 (top) and generation 2 (bottom).

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Waste BMW Exhaust Gas-Electric 376

Green Car Congress

MARCH 1, 2023

With EcoDC MACS, Dürr split the previously large thyristor rectifiers into small rectifier modules, each of which supplies voltage to just a small section of the tank. Since the smaller units cost just a fraction by comparison, the investment for replacement units is significantly reduced.

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APRIL 29, 2022

The JV is the first of its kind and will provide reliability of supply and speed to market for green hydrogen throughout North America, setting the foundation for broader collaboration between the two companies. wasted), or sold to the external merchant hydrogen market. The first production plant in St.

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JANUARY 5, 2023

We will systematically address all parts of the value chain to reduce overall carbon footprint, reduce waste and develop circular solutions. In October 2022, Cargill’s metals business and Blastr agreed to work together to supply steel made without use of fossil fuels in the Nordic region. —Hans Fredrik Wittusen.

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DECEMBER 2, 2010

Cyclone Power Technologies and its licensee Phoenix Power Group (PPG) have announced positive results of preliminary emissions testing of the combustion system of the Phoenix 10, the first small-scale waste oil power generator. Acceptable emissions of SO 2 and NO x required by many state environmental agencies are below 5 tons per year.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

As reported in Waste Management , instead of using acid extractants to dissolve the REs trapped in the spent lamps, the Kanazawa team turned to chelator chemistry. These are already used to remove toxic metals from solid waste. Rare-earths (REs) are key components for the transition to a greener energy profile and low carbon society.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2020

This can intensify vulnerabilities during any kind of global crisis, such as the current COVID-19 pandemic, as global food supply chains are disrupted. In comparison, the global average is about 3,800 kilometers. There are big differences between different areas and the local foliage. —Pekka Kinnunen, lead author.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Comparison of LPI systems with currently fielded generators in size and weight. This generator can also eliminate the need for idling trucks and other vehicles as a makeshift generator when running idle, which causes a massive waste of fuel and excessive noise that could give away a soldiers’ position. 2 kW 28VDC. LPI CAPS prototype.

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Get Electric Vehicle

DECEMBER 3, 2021

In a way what they suggest is true but over the lifetime of an EV, the pollution caused this way will be less in comparison with that of a gasoline car’s tailpipe emission. So that’s cleared up but there is one more area that has been overlooked which is the pollution involved with the supply chain of EVs. Standardize The Supply chain.

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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. New opportunities are opening up for heavy-duty commercial vehicles. Compressor.

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AUGUST 22, 2022

In comparison, the Brayton cycle has a theoretical conversion efficiency upwards of 50%. The compressor gets the supercritical CO 2 up to the necessary pressure before it meets up with waste heat in the recuperator and returns to the heater to continue the cycle. The recuperator improves the overall efficiency of the system.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 18, 2024

An alternative energy startup in Malaysia is ready to help electric-vehicle makers source a key ingredient outside of China — using agriculture waste to create graphite. The company’s projected output is small in comparison to the huge global demand for the critical mineral, which BloombergNEF estimates may almost triple to 2.4

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2017

Switzerland-based Climeworks, a spin-off from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH), recently launched the world’s first commercial plant that captures atmospheric CO 2 for supply and sale to a customer. The plant is now supplying 900 tonnes of CO 2 annually to a nearby greenhouse to help grow vegetables.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2016

Kreisel says that it leverages assembly and thermal management techniques to deliver 20% more usable capacity available in comparison to the products of its main competitor. The generated solar power will be stored in stationary Kreisel batteries (1,000 kWh) to secure the continuous power supply for building and charging stations.

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JUNE 16, 2012

Other successful initiatives—highlighted in Ford’s 13th annual Sustainability Report—include reductions in water use, waste-to-landfill and CO 2 emissions as well as improvements in vehicle fuel economy and safety.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2011

Up to 77% of the world’s energy supply could be met by six key renewables by mid-century under the most optimistic scenario if backed by the right enabling public policies, according to a new report by more than 120 researchers working with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Source: SRREN. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2010

For all crops, the entire plant was used to facilitate comparison on a total energy basis. Colosi (2010) Environmental Life Cycle Comparison of Algae to Other Bioenergy Feedstocks. The large environmental footprint of algae cultivation is driven predominantly by upstream impacts, such as the demand for CO 2 and fertilizer, they found.

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Water Waste Energy Emissions 218

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JULY 26, 2023

In particular, the Group plans to encompasses all areas of batteries by stabilizing material supply, strengthening battery design and management capabilities and developing next-generation batteries. Hyundai Motor will invest KRW 9.5 trillion (US$7.4

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Charged EVs

APRIL 1, 2024

Several companies are developing chemical processes, but these are still at pilot scale, and Aqua’s execs see serious challenges in delivering the required product purity and dealing with waste streams. Once millions of tons of batteries are recycled annually to maintain the supply chain, these emissions are going to get really challenging.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 11, 2024

By comparison, Japan tops the list with 284 ships, followed by Norway, which has 102. Tesla and Volkswagen have also expanded their exports from China, which of course leverages the country’s cheaper supply chain to their advantage. South Korea comes in third with 72 and the Isle of Man, which has 61 registered ships, in fourth.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

The Ricardo CryoPower split-cycle engine concept redefines the processes of internal combustion to enable significantly improved internal thermal efficiency in comparison with today’s state-of-the-art engines. This enables recovery of otherwise wasted exhaust heat to the working gas after the end of compression.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2016

Navy engineers monitored the performance of the gas-turbine engines and generators while running on petroleum F-76 prior to taking on the ReadiDiesel to establish a baseline for comparison. Alternatives to traditional petroleum can equip mission planners and commanders with more options, as well make the service’s supply lines more secure.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2018

These are modular in design: the batteries are split between up to ten modules, each supplying around 25 kWh. F), the energy consumption of a city bus doubles by comparison with journeys where no heating is required—thereby halving the range. At an outside temperature of -10 ?C

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Baua Electric

APRIL 1, 2024

Several companies are developing chemical processes, but these are still at pilot scale, and Aqua’s execs see serious challenges in delivering the required product purity and dealing with waste streams. Once millions of tons of batteries are recycled annually to maintain the supply chain, these emissions are going to get really challenging.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2012

The indicators take a holistic approach to assessing many important aspects of the intersection of bioenergy and sustainability, including greenhouse gas emissions, biological diversity, the price and supply of a national food basket, access to energy, economic development and energy security. Water use and efficiency. Social pillar.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2010

In addition, oil sands imports could ultimately increase to a range of 20% to 36% of US oil and refined product imports by 2030 from the 2009 level of 8%, according to the Dialogue ’s first report, The Role of Canadian Oil Sands in US Oil Supply. The Role of Canadian Oil Sands in US Oil Supply”. IHS CERA is based in Cambridge, Mass.,

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2010

New Zealand-based waste gas and syngas to fuels company LanzaTech ( earlier post ) has attracted US$18 million in Series B financing from investors led by China-focused venture capital firm Qiming Ventures. LanzaTech uses proprietary bacteria to convert industrial waste gases into fuels and chemicals. Gary Reischel.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2015

analyzes the impacts of producing hydrocarbon fuel from wood resources on water supplies in the United States. For example, using forest wood waste generated from lumber production would allow the creation of cellulosic biofuels without consuming food stocks.

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Drive Electric

MARCH 25, 2021

Regenerative braking is built into all electric vehicles and is a feature that helps you maximise range, and makes the process of braking less wasteful. In comparison – a combustion engine car’s brakes convert kinetic energy into wasted heat to slow the vehicle. As an example, the new Volkswagen ID.3

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Environmental costs are often not shown on financial statements because the bearers of such costs can be either particular individuals or society at large, are often both non-monetary and problematic to quantify for comparison with monetary values. It is predicted that by 2030, the global demand for freshwater will exceed supply by 40%.

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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. Another plus for nuclear-propelled ships is easy access to an endless supply of cooling water. Land-based nuclear power plants, for comparison, are constructed on site and typically far exceed their budgets and schedules.

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Plug In India

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The electricity usage for the 1,42,054 onshore wells that supply oil to India is over 1,415 GWh a month! 70% of the energy from burning fossil fuel is wasted as heat, while only 30% goes to turn your wheels. To put that into context, that is enough electricity to power a Tata Nexon EV for 82,450 km. Enough to drive an EV for 6.8

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Get Electric Vehicle

JUNE 7, 2023

The battery pack stores electrical energy and supplies power to the electric motor. 7 DC-DC Converter: A DC-DC converter converts high voltage DC supply from the battery to low voltage supply. Electric motors have higher efficiency rates compared to internal combustion engines, which waste a significant amount of energy as heat.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

Well-to-wheel GHG estimates for palm hydrotreated renewable diesel (HRD) fuel, with and without direct LUC, and diesel fuel included to enable comparisons. Thus, algal biofuels could expand transportation energy supplies, without significantly displacing land and water resources that would otherwise have been used for food production.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2021

While hydrogen, electric and renewable fuels (produced from waste-based feedstocks) can all radically cut emissions compared with their diesel-powered counterparts, there are major variations in their effectiveness and efficiency in terms of cutting emissions depending on choices made over the full well- to-wheel life cycle. Source: Zemo.

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Setec Powerr

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The growth of supply chains and networks of organizations involved in production is common in many parts of the economy, but not electricity. In the last two decades of the 20th century, we identified thousands of toxic waste dumps and worked to ensure that people were not in the pathways of exposure to poison.

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