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MAY 12, 2022

Phillips 66 made a final investment decision Wednesday to move forward with Rodeo Renewed, the project to convert its San Francisco Refinery in Rodeo, California, into one of the world’s largest renewable fuels facilities.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

a renewable fuels company focused on negative carbon intensity products, announced that $7 billion of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and renewable diesel (RD) supply agreements have been signed with 10 airlines for a total of 916 million gallons of blended SAF. Aemetis, Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2021

The first hubs will be built in the San Francisco Bay Area and are expected to be commissioned in 2022; Hyzon and Raven will then expand into the rest of the US and globally. One hundred hydrogen hubs could convert over 5,000 tons of waste per day and power over 10,000 trucks.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 16, 2015

The City of Oakland, California has begun filling up its vehicles with Neste’s NEXBTL renewable diesel in order to reduce the emissions of their municipal fleet. Oakland is the first major US city to convert their entire fleet to renewable diesel. The City will consume about 230,000 gallons of renewable diesel per year.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

Zero Waste Energy, LLC (ZWE) broke ground on an anaerobic digestion facility in South San Francisco, CA that will convert organic waste into compressed natural gas (CNG) and compost. The Blue Line Biogenic CNG facility will convert 11,200 TPY of food and green waste into 100,000+ diesel equivalent gallons of CNG fuel.

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MAY 4, 2018

RRB has begun construction of the biorefinery, which will incorporate Velocys’ technology, and produce low-carbon, renewable diesel and jet fuel. The biorefinery in Lakeview will convert 136,000 tons of forestry residue into 15 million gallons per year of renewable transportation fuels including diesel and jet fuel.

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OCTOBER 31, 2020

ABC Companies, a leading provider to the motorcoach, transit and specialty passenger transportation market in the United States and Canada, will soon be the first to offer a motorcoach-diesel-to-electric-repower program for North American operators.

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JULY 29, 2015

UPS announced agreements for up to 46 million gallons of renewable diesel over the next three years, constituting a 15-fold increase over prior contracts and making UPS one of the largest users of renewable diesel in the world. Neste, headquartered in Espoo, Finland, is the world’s largest producer of renewable diesel.

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MARCH 21, 2012

Separately, the company announced partnerships with Solazyme and Amyris to evaluate emissions reductions and demonstrate the performance of TDI Clean Diesel technology when powered by advanced biodiesel and renewable diesel fuels. Diesel TDI models accounted for 21.6% E-Golf test. —Prof.

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JANUARY 29, 2020

The environmental impact of replacing 143 million gallons of diesel fuel with RNG is the equivalent of reducing 745,000 metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions—also equal to planting 12 million trees, or removing 158,000 cars off the road, or reducing 260,000 tons of waste that would otherwise be sent to the landfill, the company said.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2009

has added 92 hybrid-electric trucks to its delivery fleet by converting standard FedEx delivery trucks to hybrid-electric systems. The converted hybrids were developed with Freightliner Custom Chassis Corporation (FCCC) and Eaton Corporation, which provided the hybrid-electric systems ( earlier post ). FedEx Corp.

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OCTOBER 20, 2009

Air Liquide’s latest large-scale hydrogen production unit recently began operations on the site of ConocoPhillips’ San Francisco refinery in Rodeo, California, on the north eastern shore of the San Francisco Bay.

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JANUARY 7, 2020

JetBlue also announced plans to start flying with sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) in mid-2020 on flights from San Francisco International Airport. JetBlue has agreed to purchase sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) from Neste, the world’s largest producer of renewable diesel and a pioneer in renewable jet fuel, starting in 2020.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2017

We are using solar energy captured by the plant to convert the leaf’s starch reserves into more energy-dense oil molecules, which significantly increases the energy value of the vegetative tissue where the oil accumulates. —Dr. 2015.00164.

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MARCH 7, 2011

Motiv Power Systems, an electric drive power control system provider, with funding from the California Energy Commission, is using Dow Kokam’s battery system to convert a Class 4, Ford E-450 diesel chassis to a completely electric system for a passenger shuttle bus.

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AUGUST 21, 2014

Pyrolysis—thermal decomposition of large molecules by heating in the absence of oxygen at more than 500 °C—can be used to convert biomass into a more energy dense—and thus more economically transportable—liquid: bio-oil. During the process, phenols undergo a variety of reactions and are converted into ketones.

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MARCH 22, 2010

Albin Czernichowski, a professor with the University of Orleans, France, presented two papers on different aspects of the system today at the 239 th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS) in San Francisco. This step deals with all complex molecules and converts them into hydrogen and carbon monoxide.

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Plugs and Cars

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

In July Saab (owned by GM) displayed a reputedly plug-in hybrid bio-diesel convertible in Stockholm, but only after gluing shut access to the plug mentioned in a quickly withdrawn press release. In September, Chairman Lutz said that his worst decision was killing the EV1.

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OCTOBER 6, 2016

A study by two researchers at Sandia National Laboratories has concluded that building and operating a high-speed passenger ferry solely powered by hydrogen fuel cells within the context of the San Francisco Bay is technically feasible, with full regulatory acceptance as well as the requisite associated hydrogen fueling infrastructure.

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Clean Fleet Report

AUGUST 4, 2021

This scenic town, located 30 miles south of San Francisco, sits on the Pacific Ocean and is known for its annual Pumpkin Festival , and the giant waves at Mavericks. Lexus LC 500 Convertible. – If being looked at is your thing, don’t go any further than the LC 500 Convertible. Lexus LC 500 Convertible.

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APRIL 12, 2019

Brightmark Energy , a San Francisco-based waste and energy development company, closed a $260-million financing package for the construction of the US’ first commercial-scale plastics-to-fuel plant, which will be located in Ashley, Indiana.

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Green Cars News

JULY 22, 2009

The FedEx fleet of hybrid-electric vehicles has leapt by more than 50 per cent from 172 to 264 after the company added 92 hybrid-electric trucks to its delivery fleet by converting existing models. ISB EPA 07 200hp EGR diesel engine and an Eaton hybrid-electric system featuring lithium-ion batteries for energy storage.

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JULY 3, 2018

The fuel cells provide DC power, which must be conditioned, converted and inverted to provide bus DC and AC power, respectively. This is slightly worse than the equivalent vessel running on fossil diesel, with WTW CO 2 (eq.) emissions from the equivalent diesel vessel running on conventional diesel fuel. Gg CO 2 (eq.)/year,

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 21, 2023

Charging is also through motor regeneration that when coasting or braking converts kinetic energy into electric energy and returns it to the battery. Our focus is on vehicles that offer the best fuel economy in their class, which leads us to emphasize electric cars, plug-in hybrids, hybrids and diesels. Lucid says one is coming soon.

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Clean Fleet Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The regenerative braking system, which recharges the 16-kilowatt-hour lithium-ion battery, converts kinetic energy into electricity when braking or coasting. San Diego to San Francisco? Expect about 14 hours with a regular, 120-volt household outlet. The Pacifica Hybrid does not have a Level 3/DC fast charging capability.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

By combining several processes and companies under one roof, the Vertically-Integrated Facility for Electric Truck Manufacturing would combine the building of components like advanced converters or battery modules with their assembly into electric drive systems. million gallons of diesel fuel each year. Electric vehicles components.

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Clean Fleet Report

JUNE 16, 2021

Regenerative braking converts kinetic energy into electricity when braking or coasting. San Diego to San Francisco? Our focus is on vehicles that offer the best fuel economy in their class, which leads us to emphasize electric cars, plug-in hybrids, hybrids and diesels. Charlotte to Orlando? Yep, all on one tank.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2014

Most of the LS9 team, including the entire R&D leadership group, will join the newly named REG Life Sciences, LLC, which will operate out of LS9’s headquarters in South San Francisco, CA. The resulting catalysts selectively convert a diversity of feedstocks to a final product in a single-step fermentation process.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2013

These trucks will displace conventional diesel trucks, which consume substantial quantities of petroleum fuel and emit substantial pollutants and greenhouse gases. will receive $2,590,929 to build an anaerobic digestion facility in South San Francisco. CNG is much less polluting than conventional diesel.

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JUNE 13, 2013

Concurrent Technologies Corporation will receive $2 million to share costs in a US Department of Defense vehicle-to-grid demonstration project at the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, in the western Mojave Desert region that includes parts of Kern, San Bernardino and Inyo counties. The award includes a $652,664 match-funding requirement.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2012

The A3 e-tron BEV pilot program will run in the San Francisco, Los Angeles, Washington DC, and Denver markets throughout the year and provide actionable feedback and telematics data to Audi engineering teams in the US and Germany. Audi introduced the battery-electric Audi A3 e-tron US pilot program at TED2012 in Long Beach, California.

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JANUARY 28, 2010

The fact that our microbes can produce a diesel fuel directly from biomass with no additional chemical modifications is exciting and important. coli can directly convert biomass into biodiesel. The LS9 team was headed by Stephen del Cardayre and included Zhihao Hu, Andreas Schirmer and Amy McClure. Normally E. —Eric Steen.

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Charged EVs

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Just last year, we announced a 12% increase in the energy delivered from our product because our engineers keep making it more efficient and essentially converting more sunlight to electricity, storing that electricity and then delivering it into a vehicle than before. First of all, our product keeps getting better.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

Though the PHEV combines the two types of energy and power, it is not merely a temporary “transition” between gasoline and diesel cars to pure electric cars. The plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV), a subset of the PEV, uses electricity plus a different energy source (at present gasoline or diesel) to run its second engine.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

Think has even shown a convertible prototype. Better Place is building stations in San Francisco, Hawaii, Israel, and Denmark to swap out 1,000 pound batteries in a car wash type set up. Another point; a Jetta diesel has near the same mileage as a Prius and the Jetta Blue TDI will exceed the Prius.

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JANUARY 21, 2013

One of approximately twenty VW Golf blue e-motion prototypes under test in the United States, with Eaton’s 50kW DC Quick Charger, at Volkswagen’s Electronics Research Laboratory, near San Francisco. In terms of cost it is not so viable, and a diesel engine is already so efficient. ”. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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