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AirAsia and Skyports partner to explore air taxi vertiport development in Malaysia

Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2022

Skyports Infrastructure, an Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) infrastructure developer, and AirAsia’s Advanced Air Mobility, a dedicated unit of AirAsia Aviation Group Limited (the aviation arm of Capital A), have signed a Letter of Intent (LoI) to explore the development of air taxi infrastructure in Malaysia.

Malaysia

Malaysia Taxi Los Angeles Singapore

Malaysia team finds adding graphene nanoflakes to lubricant improves thermal conductivity 17% with no change in viscosity

Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2016

A team of Malaysian scientists from the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus and Taylor’s University are examining the effects of adding graphene nanoflakes to various commercially available lubricants. Improved thermal conduction means the lubricant is better able to carry heat away from an engine.

Malaysia

Malaysia Universal Available Commercial

Lux: California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard will become a global phenomenon; carbon intensity, not volume

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

California’s approach to transportation fuel policy—its Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS)—will become a global phenomenon, suggests Lux Research. For example, the US and Brazil are major corn and sugarcane ethanol producers, respectively, and Malaysia and Indonesia are major palm oil biodiesel producers. Earlier post.).

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Carbon Standards Global Fuel

Nissan, Frost & Sullivan study finds 37% of Southeast Asian consumers open to buying EV

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Along with the release of the study, Nissan announced that the new LEAF will go on sale in seven markets in Asia and Oceania during the next fiscal year: Australia, Hong Kong, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea and Thailand. A significant presence of full hybrids in Malaysia and Thailand skews association of EVs with hybrids.

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Nissan Buy Philippines Indonesia

ICCT life-cycle analysis finds no climate benefit in using LNG as marine fuel

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2020

These low sulfur oxide (SO x ) and NO x emissions make LNG an attractive fuel for ships that operate in Emission Control Areas (ECAs), where ships must comply with more stringent air quality standards. Second, LNG is, and has been, less expensive than MGO and is now in some regions cheaper than heavy fuel oil (HFO).

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Mariner Climate Fuel Oil

Global geothermal industry passes 12,000 MW operational

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2013

In 2013, new geothermal geologic studies or exploration moved forward in places as diverse as American Samoa, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Azerbaijan, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Taiwan, Thailand, Uganda, the United States, and Yemen.

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SGL Group to sell graphite electrode business to Showa Denko for €350M; focusing on carbon fiber and graphite

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2016

The two parties have agreed on an enterprise value (cash and debt free) of €350 million (US$384 million), which, after deduction of standard debt-like items (mainly pension and restructuring provisions) results in cash proceeds of at least €200 million. The final proceeds will be determined based on the balance sheets at closing.

Carbon Fiber

Carbon Fiber Carbon Malaysia Austria

Aemetis upgrades India biodiesel plant

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

The Aemetis plant is the only distilled biodiesel producer in India and is one of the only plants in Asia capable of producing large supplies of biodiesel that meet the European Union (ISCC) standards, Aemetis says.

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India Malaysia Argentina Indonesia

Alaska Airlines 737 May Have Left Boeing Factory Missing Bolts, N.T.S.B. Says

Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The piece was manufactured in Malaysia in March and received by Spirit AeroSystems, a Boeing supplier in Wichita, Kan., Joe Buccino, a spokesman for Spirit, said, “We remain focused on working closely with Boeing and our regulators on continuous improvement in our processes and meeting the highest standards of safety, quality and reliability.”

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Alaska Wichita Plug-in Plug

Study Finds Upgrading of Palm Shell Bio-oil to Higher Value Fuel Hydrocarbons Economically Viable

Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2010

By assuming the feedstock used was 1% of the total palm shell available in Malaysia, i.e., 2,587 kg h -1 bio-oil, the simulation predicted the production of 226 kg h -1 benzene, 236 kg h -1 cyclohexane and 7 kg h -1 cyclohexene, with the yield of 34, 81 and 3% respectively. Ahmad et al. Nordin and M.

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Oil Malaysia Fuel Hydrogen

EPA finds that both biodiesel and renewable diesel from palm oil fail to meet GHG reduction threshold for RFS program

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2012

However, EPA also undertook a more detailed assessment of Malaysia and. Consequently, neither palm oil-based biofuel qualifies as meeting the minimum 20% greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction performance threshold required for renewable fuel under the RFS program. using palm oil as a feedstock as it used to analyze other biofuel pathways.

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EPA Oil Renewable Diesel

IHS: continued legislative focus on pollutants to drive sensor market for internal combustion engines

Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2014

In 1993, five to seven sensors were required to meet the Euro emissions standard 1 set for European countries. In comparison, to meet upcoming Euro 6 standards beginning in September this year, at least 20 sensors are needed—depending on the engine. Exhaust as a big driver for sensing.

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Pollution Engine International Market

New study finds GHG emissions from palm oil production significantly underestimated; palm oil biofuels could be more climate-damaging than oil sands fuels

Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2012

Mha (20%) of the peatlands of Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo in 2010, surpassing the area of Belgium and causing an annual carbon emission from peat decomposition of 230–310 Mt CO 2 e. Slightly more than half of the GHG emissions for these biofuels in the EPA’s analysis came from land use change. Earlier post.).

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Oil-Sands Oil Emissions Climate

UNECE Adopts Type Approval for Electric and Hybrid Vehicles’ Electric Safety Requirements; Applies in 41 Countries

Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2010

The new version of the regulation offers car manufacturers the legal instrument to put into the market passenger and commercial vehicles with greener standards, reducing the costs and delays associated with multiple approvals in various countries. Tags: Electric (Battery) Europe Fuel Cells Hybrids Plug-ins Policy Standards.

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Japan Automakers Support B5, E10 as Baseline Biofuel Blends, Recommend Specifications to ASEAN Countries

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2010

Experts from JAMA visited six countries (Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam) to share their recommended specifications of the two first-generation biofuels.

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Japan Gasoline Philippines Diesel

Vale completes first sale of iron ore using blockchain technology with Nanjing Iron & Steel

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2020

NISCO) for a cargo of 176,000 tons of Brazilian Blend Fines (BRBF) from Teluk Rubiah Maritime Terminal, in Malaysia, to China. The transaction also had the support from DBS Bank Ltd and Standard Chartered Bank Malaysia Berhad. a subsidiary of Nanjing Iron and Steel Co.,

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Malaysia Sale China International

Pensana plans $125M rare earth separation facility in England

Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2021

Lynas Corporation of Australia, currently the world’s largest non-Chinese producer, last year produced around 4,700 tonnes of magnet metal oxides from its facility in Malaysia. MP Materials is planning to produce around 6,000 tonnes of magnet metal oxides from 2023. China currently supplies 98% of Europe’s rare earth magnets.

Angola

Angola Wind China Hydrogen

The Coming Boom in Rare Earths

Cars That Think

DECEMBER 7, 2023

And the intention of Congress clearly was to develop an indigenous U.S. And they’re operating a big plant in Malaysia, if I’m not mistaken. Sanderson: Well, Lynas has got some issues in Malaysia. So that’s standard, available, readily known technology. So government support is viewed as important, and the U.S.

Australia

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Detroit Electric and Proton Announce Strategic Partnership to Produce EVs

Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2009

The DE e63 in a media test drive at the Proton Center of Excellence track in Malaysia. Detroit Electric Holdings Ltd, the joint venture between ZAP and China Youngman Group ( earlier post ), and Malaysia-based Proton Holdings Berhad are forming a strategic partnership for the mass production of electric vehicles. Click to enlarge.

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Detroit Malaysia Extended Range Electric

EV Driven

AirAsia and Skyports partner to explore air taxi vertiport development in Malaysia

Malaysia team finds adding graphene nanoflakes to lubricant improves thermal conductivity 17% with no change in viscosity

Lux: California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard will become a global phenomenon; carbon intensity, not volume

Nissan, Frost & Sullivan study finds 37% of Southeast Asian consumers open to buying EV

ICCT life-cycle analysis finds no climate benefit in using LNG as marine fuel

Global geothermal industry passes 12,000 MW operational

SGL Group to sell graphite electrode business to Showa Denko for €350M; focusing on carbon fiber and graphite

Aemetis upgrades India biodiesel plant

Alaska Airlines 737 May Have Left Boeing Factory Missing Bolts, N.T.S.B. Says

Study Finds Upgrading of Palm Shell Bio-oil to Higher Value Fuel Hydrocarbons Economically Viable

EPA finds that both biodiesel and renewable diesel from palm oil fail to meet GHG reduction threshold for RFS program

IHS: continued legislative focus on pollutants to drive sensor market for internal combustion engines

New study finds GHG emissions from palm oil production significantly underestimated; palm oil biofuels could be more climate-damaging than oil sands fuels

UNECE Adopts Type Approval for Electric and Hybrid Vehicles’ Electric Safety Requirements; Applies in 41 Countries

Japan Automakers Support B5, E10 as Baseline Biofuel Blends, Recommend Specifications to ASEAN Countries

Vale completes first sale of iron ore using blockchain technology with Nanjing Iron & Steel

Pensana plans $125M rare earth separation facility in England

The Coming Boom in Rare Earths

Detroit Electric and Proton Announce Strategic Partnership to Produce EVs

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