Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

At the current pace of research and development, replacing gasoline and diesel with renewable fuel alternatives could take some 131 years, according to a new University of California, Davis, study using a new sustainability forecasting approach based on market expectations. —Nataliya Malyshkina, UC Davis postdoctoral researcher.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2011

Yunshi Wang, Jacob Teter and Daniel Sperling from the University of California Davis Institute of Transportation Studies report that the growth rate of China’s vehicle population could reach 13-17% per year—roughly twice the 6-11% widely forecast for annual growth. Their analysis is published in the journal Energy Policy.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2023

Coal trains and terminal operations add a significant amount of fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) pollution to urban areas—more so than other freight or passenger trains— according to a study conducted in Richmond, California, by the University of California, Davis. —Ostro et al.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 18, 2020

The following projects were selected under Topic 1a: Novel Bio-Based Plastics: Designing Highly Recyclable or Biodegradable Bio-Based Plastics: Iowa State University (Ames, IA) - Trojan Horse Repeat Sequences for Triggered Chemical Recycling of Polyesters for Films and Bottles – DOE funding: $2,165,000.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

Commonwealth countries can cut their cumulative oil bill by £2 trillion (US$3.2 Given that about half the Commonwealth’s and world’s oil is used in transport and oil accounts for about 95% of transport fuel use, this could spell economic disaster for the oil importing countries which make up the vast majority of the Commonwealth.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2015

In a new, comprehensive study, a team from Argonne National Laboratory, Stanford University and UC Davis ITS has estimated the well-to-wheels (WTW) GHG emissions of US production of gasoline and diesel sourced from Canadian oil sands. g CO 2 e/MJ for US conventional crude oil recovery. This range can be compared to ∼4.4

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2023

The US Department of Energy (DOE) awarded nearly $34 million to 19 industry- and university-led research projects that will advance technology solutions to make clean hydrogen a more available and affordable fuel for electricity generation, industrial decarbonization, and transportation. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

In the new work, they applied that method to the processing of oil seed feedstocks, resulting in a substantial increase in fuel production from this type of biomass. At present, biodiesel is produced by the transesterification of mainly plant-derived oils. Earlier post.) CMF % of total. organic extract. soybean ( Glycine max ).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2021

A team of transportation and policy experts from the University of California released a report to the California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA) outlining policy options to significantly reduce transportation-related fossil fuel demand and emissions. —Dan Sperling, director of the UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2014

The station is cofunded by the California Energy Commission under its Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program (ARFVTP) and was installed at a fuel station that has been operating for more than 60 years by Ramos Oil, one of the largest Hispanic-owned companies in the United States.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2012

The anaerobic digester system that will be used was developed as a pilot project at the University of California, Davis. The University of California, Davis, will receive $2,770,072 to research the comparative value, benefits and drawbacks of all types of alternative fuels in California.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2016

and UC-Davis Emeritus and Bruce R. Frank is Professor Emeritus, Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering at the University of California, Davis, where he established the Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS-Davis), and was director of the US Department of Energy’s National Center of Hybrid Excellence at UC Davis.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2016

The Consortium for Algal Biofuel Commercialization (CAB-Comm), led by the University of California, San Diego, has released its final report , detailing the accomplishments and contributions achieved in its six years of operation. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

This project will leverage advanced instrumentation to identify and characterize important metabolites related to biomass and oil production in plants. Also, the broad metabolic effects of gene-level changes affecting plant cell walls and oil synthesis will be identified.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Switching from diesel fuel to natural gas may hold advantages for the US heavy-duty trucking fleet, but more needs to be done to reach the full environmental benefits, according to a new white paper released by the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis, and Rice University.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2013

According to the latest status report on the progress of California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (CA-LCFS) ( earlier post ), regulated parties in the LCFS—oil producers, importers and other fuel providers—continued to exceed the required reductions in carbon intensity specified by the standard. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 6, 2011

Lindle Hatton, California State University, Sacramento, Facilitator. John Reese, Shell Oil Products US. Sonia Yeh, University of California, Davis. Low Carbon Fuel Standard Advisory Panel Members. Chairs and Facilitator. Richard Corey, Air Resources Board, Panel Chair. Panel Members. Ralph Moran, BP America, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2014

Patrick Brown, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Amy Brunner, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Robin Buell, Michigan State University. Luca Comai, University of California, Davis. Michael Marks, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. John McKay, Colorado State University.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2012

Very broadly, they found that an LCFS would buffer the economy against global oil price spikes, trim demand for petroleum, and lessen upward pressure on gas prices. Treat all crude oils as part of the overall pool of transportation fuels. We did not shy away from controversy. We are not advocates. Harmonize global LCFS policies.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2013

The facility will create biodiesel from renewable waste-based materials such as used cooking oil from restaurants. University of California, Davis , was awarded $86,420 to determine the feasibility of using nanotechnology to increase the capacity of portable electricity storage units, reducing the cost of electricity storage.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

carbon fuel vehicles will be needed to continue to decarbonize LDVs and reduce oil use out to 2050 and beyond. According to the GFEI paper, improvements to conventional vehicles, including but not limited to hybridization, could achieve a 50% reduction in fuel use per kilometer for new cars by 2030, in line with GFEI targets.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2011

The potential benefits of this research range from decreasing oil consumption to increasing options for American farmers. Bartley, University of Oklahoma, Norman. Eric Beers, Virginia Polytechnic and State University, Blacksburg. Braun, University of Missouri, Columbia. Luca Comai, University of California, Davis.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2010

NASA, US Navy and university researchers have successfully demonstrated the first robotic underwater vehicle to be powered entirely by ocean thermal energy. This expansion/contraction produces a high pressure oil that can be collected and periodically released to drive a hydraulic motor for electricity generation and battery recharging.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2010

coli secreting oil droplets containing biodiesel fuel, along with fatty acids and alcohol. Fuels and chemicals have been produced from the fatty acids in plant and animal oils for more than a century. Electron micrograph shows rod-shaped E. Image by Jonathan Remis, JBEI) Click to enlarge. del Cardayre, Jay D.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2010

However, these long-chain alkenes can be cracked—a technique routinely used in oil refineries—to create hydrocarbons of an appropriate length for diesel fuel. This group of enzymes can be used to make aliphatic hydrocarbons in an appropriate microbial host but the resulting alkenes are too long to be used directly as liquid fuels.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Davis, personal communication, February 20, 2010). We also see that if countries take a less aggressive approach to turning over their fleet to alternative powertrains/fuels than they have currently stated, many of them will still be very dependent on foreign oil by 2050. The governments, the energy companies, and the.

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Get Electric Vehicle

DECEMBER 13, 2022

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2018

—California Air Resources Board Chair Mary D. To see how starkly conservative the new proposal is: its estimates that the 2025 standards will cost $1,800–$2,300 per vehicle are 3-4 times the ICCT’s own estimate of $550, based on existing and emerging technologies.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

However, suppliers will be required to report on the lifecycle GHG emissions of the fuel (gasoline, diesel, and gas-oil) they supply and reduce these emissions from 2011 onward. bitumen mining or thermally enhanced oil recovery techniques) or emit higher levels of GHG emissions during the production process (e.g., Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the Universe but, on earth, it must normally be extracted from water or organic compounds. This is not much different from diesel and gasoline which are produced from refining and cleaning crude oil (a process which heavily involves the use of hydrogen).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2009

Researchers at the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) and the Center for Applied Energy Research at the University of Kentucky are investigating the hydrogenation of CO 2 using a conventional Fischer-Tropsch cobalt catalyst for the production of valuable hydrocarbon materials. Davis and Heather D. Dorner, Dennis R. Hardy, Frederick W.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2010

Easel Biotechnologies, UC Davis). Reducing equivalent: Hydrogen (or Electrons); Organism: anaerobe and aerobe; Product: Oil for biodiesel. This project will develop a process to combine an anaerobic carbon dioxide-fixing microbe in one stage with an aerobic oil-producing microbe in a second stage. NC State University.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2010

Within the next 10 to 20 years, we will not only reach peak oil we will enter a period where demand for all liquid fuels will exceed supply. A total of 20 first generation fuel cell hybrid vehicles (FCHV) are in service in California with universities, corporations and government agencies.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Optimizing production of energy-rich biofuel molecules involves increasing production of abundant plant components, such as starch, sugars, cellulose, and oils, while keeping inputs of fertilizer and water low. May 2010 Workshop held at the University of California, Davis, to discuss challenges in metabolomics.

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Plug In Partners

JULY 20, 2006

The technology would "conserve more oil and slice smog and greenhouse gases to nearly imperceptible levels ". Four years ago, the professor at the University of California at Davis and a team of engineering students created a plug-in vehicle. A typical hybrid has a big gasoline engine and a tiny electric motor.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Europe has gasoline taxes over $4 per gallon and still finds the need to adopt aggressive performance standards for cars to reduce GHGs and oil use. we are saying that much progress can, and probably will, be made in the transport sector in the next decade without international agreements and without getting the prices right.

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Plugs and Cars

JUNE 4, 2009

Veteran automakers, oil companies, and federal and state governments have been both the prime movers and obstacles to plug-in cars in the past and they remain so today. Secretary Chu is a big advocate, having brought in hundreds of millions of oil company dollars for biofuel research to the universities with which he has been affiliated.

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