Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2021

Germany will invest some €227 million to support the electrification of rail, with a focus on batteries and hydrogen fuel cells, including charging and refueling infrastructure. Currently, 61% of the rail network in Germany is electrified with overhead lines.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 11, 2024

Vulcan’s lithium chloride output will be converted into battery-grade lithium hydroxide at the company’s new conversion plant in Frankfurt in the second half of the year, Moreno said. “We’re looking to close the financing in the next probably four to five months,” Moreno added.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The union called on the shareholders of HKM to commit themselves clearly to the future of the traditional steel mill and to invest now in its conversion. The French pipe manufacturer Vallourec SA wants to give up its 20% stake in HKM and withdraw from Germany.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2019

The miscanthus biomass was harvested and baled at the INA demonstration site in Croatia in February this year and shipped for processing to Clariant’s pre-commercial sunliquid plant in Straubing, Germany for conversion into lignocellulosic sugars and ethanol.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2022

The study’s calculations show that—if used directly without further conversion—local hydrogen can be economical and even cheaper than imports from 2030 onwards. per kilogram are possible in northern Germany, hydrogen imported from Tunisia, for example, would cost at least €4.70 While production costs of around €4.00

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Teslarati

JULY 27, 2022

Drivers will no longer receive the same amounts they did previously for purchasing electric cars, as Germany announced it would reduce the amount of money it gives consumers for switching to sustainable powertrains. The post Germany announces plan for EV subsidy reductions appeared first on TESLARATI.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2021

—project coordinator Valentin Batteiger of Bauhaus Luftfahrt (Germany). For the future, it will be important to commercialize advanced biofuel conversion technologies, which utilize a broader and more sustainable feedstock base. The decarbonization of the transportation sector will require large volumes of renewable fuels.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

BIOFOREVER (BIO-based products from FORestry via Economically Viable European Routes)—a consortium of 14 European companies—has started a demonstration project for the conversion of woody biomass to value-adding chemical building blocks such as butanol, ethanol, and 2,5–furandicarboxylic acid (FDCA) on an industrial scale.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2018

In Germany, all Mercedes-Benz plants will be supplied with CO 2 -neutral energy. From 2022, the production of our Mercedes-Benz plants in Germany will operate CO 2 -neutral. The “Factory 56” is currently built in the Sindelfingen plant (Germany). Already today all Mercedes-Benz plants in Germany are certified to ISO 50001.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2022

The Abfallentsorgungs-Gesellschaft Ruhrgebiet mbH ( AGR ), a waste management company in Herten, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, has put a converted DAF CF 340 hydrogen fuel cell truck into operation as part of the EU-funded HECTOR (Hydrogen Waste Collection Vehicles in North West Europe) project.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

bp has begun producing sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) from used cooking oil in co-processing process with crude oil at its plant in Lingen, Germany. This is the first industrial production facility in Germany to use this process for SAF production based on biomass waste and residues.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2010

Researchers from BASF, Energie Baden-Württemberg AG (EnBW), Heidelberg University and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) are seeking to develop a process for the photocatalytic conversion of CO 2 into methanol for use in fuel cells or internal combustion engines. million) over two years.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2022

Ford is also moving forward with a $2-billion conversion of its Cologne, Germany, operations to begin producing electric passenger vehicles starting in 2023. The decision on Valencia followed the conclusion of comprehensive consultations with teams in Valencia, Spain and Saarlouis, Germany.

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Push EVs

JULY 15, 2023

share in Germany, down from 26.0% Recall that Germany entirely cut the ecobonus for PHEVs from January 1st this year, and their fall in share since then was fully expected. Whereas PHEVs previously had almost as much market share as BEVs (see graph below) in Germany, they have now slipped to around one third that of BEVs.

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Push EVs

MAY 16, 2023

Recall that Germany adjusted their incentive schemes for plugins, starting from January 1st this year. Conversely, both Stellantis, and Renault-Nissan, lost share over the period. Outlook The overall economic outlook in Germany is still cloudy, according to the latest data. Please join in the debate in the comments below.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The conversion of heavy-duty trucks to fuel cell drives is the focus of the RWTH Aachen project, which is manufacturer-independent, for old and new vehicles alike. We are actively tackling this issue, as around 90 percent of CO 2 emissions in the transport sector come from road traffic, with trucks accounting for one third of this.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2023

Canada-based Rock Tech Lithium officially broke ground for its lithium conversion plant in Guben, Germany ( earlier post ), from which it will supply Mercedes-Benz with battery-grade lithium hydroxide (LiOH) starting in 2026 (starting with a qualification period).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2022

Emden is now the second site for electric vehicles in Germany following Zwickau and also joins the Chinese plants in Anting and Foshan. 4’s start-up is on schedule, despite the global challenges during the two-year conversion phase. 4 in Emden. Chattanooga (ID.4) 4) and Hanover will also commence production this year.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2015

LG Chem is providing 140 MWh worth of batteries for use in ESS systems for STEAG power plants in Germany. Conversely energy will be fed into the grid to keep the frequency constant at 50 Hz. Earlier post.) With 140 MWh, the storage systems will deliver enough energy to supply 10,000 households per day with electricity. billion (€1.0

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2021

Another funding guideline concerns investments in the conversion or the construction of new generation plants for renewable fuels (electricity-based fuels and advanced biofuels) so that they are also available on the market on a larger scale.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2023

Researchers from the University of Twente in The Netherlands have developed a new high-entropy perovskite oxide (HEO) as a high-activity electrocatalyst for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER)—the key kinetically limiting half-reaction in several electrochemical energy conversion technologies, including green hydrogen generation.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

The vehicles are part of a large-scale order for 56 units of the battery-powered city bus which is series-produced in Mannheim, Germany. The consultancy team at Daimler Buses eMobility Consulting are assisting ESWE in the conversion of their fleet to electromobility solutions.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Specifically, Germany has recently committed to covering up to 80% of conversion costs from internal combustions engines to alternative drives through the e-mobility support program. Initial deployment of fuel cell electric trucks is scheduled for the second half of 2022.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2023

It is estimated that Germany will need around a million public charging stations by the year 2030. Conversely, the solution developed by Rheinmetall makes intelligent use of existing urban infrastructure while simultaneously assuring an identical level of charging performance, effectively transforming curb stones into charging poles.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

These runs were part of OPTISOCHEM (OPTimized conversion of residual wheat straw to bio-ISObutene for bio based CHEMicals), a project which started in June 2017 and was granted €9.8 million by the Bio Based Industry- Joint Undertaking (BBI-JU) as part of the H2020 program.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2022

The conversion of biogenic CO 2 , a co-product of the anaerobic digestion, along with renewable hydrogen into synthetic methane via power-to-methane. The new unit will have two main functions: The treatment of sludge by anaerobic digestion, which produces a mixture of bio-methane and biogenic CO 2 ; and. How the methanation works.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2022

The CO 2 will come from CEMEX’s Rüdersdorf cement plant in Germany, which will provide 100 tons of CO 2 per day in the project’s first phase. ENERTRAG is a renewable-energy company based in Brandenburg, Germany. The consortium will source green hydrogen generated exclusively from wind and solar energy from ENERTRAG.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2010

The EU’s DirectFuel project, which launched on 1 October, intends to develop a photobiological process for the direct conversion of sunlight and CO 2 into engine- and infrastructure-ready transport fuels such as propane. The 4-year project will have funding of up to €3.73 million (US$5.1

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

The four companies agreed to conduct technical feasibility studies regarding the integration of hybrid drives developed by MTU ( earlier post ), a Rolls-Royce brand, into Coradia Lint rail vehicles and their use on routes of Dieselnetz Saxony-Anhalt, a diesel-powered rail network in Germany.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2018

The first batches of the bio-isobutene-based SAF were produced by Global Bioenergies in Leuna (Germany) and sent to SkyNRG for preliminary analysis, laying the basis for Tier 1 of the ASTM evaluation process. The evaluation process includes up to 4 stages from Tier 1 up to Tier 4 (as described in ASTM Standard Practice D4054).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 27, 2022

Most SWU that originated in other countries came from Russia (28%), the United Kingdom (17%), Germany (13%), and the Netherlands (11%). Commercial uranium inventories include uranium in different stages of the nuclear fuel cycle: in-process for conversion, enrichment, or fabrication. Total US commercial inventories were 141.7

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2017

million (US$18-million) project to convert currently poorly valorized residual wheat straw into second-generation renewable isobutene for subsequent conversion into oligomers usable in lubricants, rubbers, solvents, plastics, or fuels. Global Bioenergies is partnering with Clariant, INEOS, IPSB, TechnipFMC and Linz University in a €16.4-million

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2019

The train, codenamed Breeze, will be a conversion of existing Class 321 trains, reengineering some of the UK’s most reliable rolling stock. This proven and reliable Class 321 is an excellent fit in terms of characteristics, fleet size and availability for conversion to a Hydrogen Multiple Unit (HMU).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2023

MAN Energy Solutions’ MAN 49/60DF dual-fuel engine has received its Type Approval after a five-day program on the testbed at company HQ in Augsburg, Germany. Conversions are straightforward as all engine variants originate from an initial, modular engine design.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2021

They endorse the development of a hydrogen economy and infrastructure in Germany and in Europe. In the next few years, the company expects the conversion of one blast furnace to result in an annual demand of around 20,000 tonnes of green hydrogen.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2021

The four aircraft purchased from WestJet in March are currently undergoing passenger-to-cargo conversion and will join Amazon Air’s network in 2021. Last year, Amazon launched its first air hub at Leipzig/Halle Airport in Germany and new regional air operations at Lakeland Linder International Airport, John F.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2021

Mercedes-Benz will build the next generation eSprinter electric van, which is based on the newly developed Electric Versatility Platform ( earlier post ), at three locations: North Charleston, South Carolina; and Düsseldorf and Ludwigsfelde in Germany. The necessary conversion measures in plants and retraining is currently in preparation.

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