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Chevron, Cummins team on renewable natural gas engine demonstration with Walmart

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Chevron USA, a subsidiary of Chevron Corporation, announced definitive agreements to supply fuel linked to renewable natural gas for a Walmart Inc. demonstration of Cummins’s new 15-liter natural gas engine for heavy-duty trucks ( earlier post ).

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More Americans Would “Definitely” Get Electric Vehicles, Consumer Reports Survey Shows

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With gas prices taking a toll on people’s wallets, Consumer Reports (CR) has a new survey of what Americans think about battery electric vehicles and low carbon fuels.

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MAN offering pre-chamber spark plugs for turbocharged nat gas engines to increase efficiency; hydrogen admixture up to 20% by volume

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MAN Engines is now offering pre-chamber spark plugs adapted to the respective combustion chamber to all turbocharged natural gas engines of the current MAN E3262, E3268, E0836 and E0834 series as an option, as well as MAN E3872 as obligatory. This is a definite plus in terms of reducing maintenance costs.

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Chevron to acquire full ownership of Beyond6 CNG fueling network

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a subsidiary of Chevron Corporation, signed a definitive agreement to acquire full ownership of Beyond6, LLC (B6) and its network of 55 compressed natural gas (CNG) stations across the United States from Chevron’s current B6 co-owners, a subsidiary of Mercuria Energy Trading (Mercuria) and B6 CEO Andrew West. Chevron U.S.A.

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Gevo to sell renewable natural gas to bp

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Gevo’s, wholly-owned dairy manure-based renewable natural gas (RNG) project company located in northwest Iowa—Gevo NW Iowa RNG, LLC (NW Iowa RNG)—has signed binding, definitive agreements with BP Canada Energy Marketing Corp. and BP Products North America Inc. collectively, “bp” ) for the sale of NW Iowa RNG’s production.

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CarMax: High Gas Prices Driving Jump In EV Interest

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CarMax recently released a report on its EV customer interest and sales, and one thing is pretty clear: EV sales are going up, and today’s nasty gas prices are definitely driving it. Here’s the heavy-hitting part of the report: “From February 2022 to March 2022, CarMax.com received 1.5

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Next Fuel, Inc. signs definitive agreement to field test coal-to-gas technology in China; Chinese partner makes strategic investment

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If the field tests are successful, the parties intend to negotiate a definitive long term license agreement. The Next Fuel CTG process re-introduces amendments designed and tested to the wide range of microorganisms that exist in the seams of coal and other carbonaceous deposits that originally formed the methane gas extracted from coalbeds.

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