Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Heavy-duty trucks can emit drastically higher levels of pollution when not equipped with required emissions controls. Transport companies must comply with California’s rule to improve air quality and protect adjacent schools and communities from breathing these toxic pollutants.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The Pure Outboard from Pure Watercraft uses groundbreaking efficiency to benefit a boat’s performance while reducing environmental pollution, and features much lower operating cost and maintenance than traditional marine propulsion systems.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 15, 2024

With headquarters in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, ZF Friedrichshafen AG is known for a rich R&D heritage and many commercially successful innovations dating back to 1915, when it began supplying gears and other parts for Zeppelins. That generates some environmental pollution and, of course, a change of the landscape.

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Motor Motors Motoring Supplies 141

Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2023

The tankers are designed with foldable suction sails and dual-fuel engine enabling the use of e-methanol as fuel, which is produced with Power-to-X technology using captured carbon and renewable energy. At the refineries, products such as renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) will be loaded for transport.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2023

Aqua Metals has successfully recovered high-purity nickel from lithium battery black mass using its proprietary Li AquaRefining process, utilizing electricity, and without a polluting smelter or the significant chemical waste typical in recycling. —Ben Taecker, Chief Engineering and Operations Officer at Aqua Metals.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2020

Vitesco Technologies, formerly (until September 2019) the Continental Powertrain Division, has won a major contract from an European vehicle manufacturer for the supply of innovative electric heating elements for diesel catalytic converters. Start of production for the multi-million contract is scheduled for 2022.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2023

InCharge Energy and ABB E-mobility are supplying and preparing to activate 40 Terra 124 DC fast chargers. The Riverside EV hub project is also supported through partnership with: Black & Veatch - Engineer of record and system integrator providing comprehensive design, engineering, permitting, procurement, and construction management.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 9, 2021

Among the features of the unit: A tailor-made inverter for constant capacity and exceptional operating efficiency independent of the vehicle engine. A smart controller with power management intelligence to optimize the supply and demand of power. F, an can be used for both engine-powered or all-electric fleets.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

It can be used for storing large amounts of hydrogen in a liquid form that builds on existing global supply chain infrastructure. Ammonia cracking was not included at the pioneering RAL demonstrator so the ammonia cracker prototype fills a supply chain gap in the technology.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2018

Using this type of measurement, the Port also posted its best year ever, lowering the average amount of emissions the port generates to move each container of cargo for all eight pollutants tracked by the Port’s emissions inventory, including greenhouse gases (GHG), which were down 30% per container on average since 2005.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2015

Researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center have linked fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) pollution to a dangerous narrowing of neck arteries that occurs prior to strokes. pollutants are particulates with diameters less than 2.5 They are mostly by-products of combustion engines and burning wood. millionths of a meter. Berger, MD.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 9, 2018

galons US), the largest batch yet produced—of synthetic Audi e-gasoline for initial engine tests. The fuel is free of sulfur and benzene and is therefore especially low in pollutants when it burns. Audi engineers are now examining the combustion and emission behavior of the renewable fuel in a test engine.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2014

A recently released total fuel cycle analysis for maritime case studies shows that natural gas fuels reduce some air quality pollutants substantially, and reduce major greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions slightly, when compared to conventional petroleum-based marine fuels (low-sulfur and high-sulfur). This is an important consideration.

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Mariner Pollution Gas Emissions 291

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has posted a revised draft of California’s proposed Short-Lived Climate Pollutant (SLCP) Strategy. SLCPs are a category of pollutants which remain in the atmosphere for a relatively brief period, but have global warming potentials that are much higher than those of CO 2.

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Pollution California Emissions Climate 150

Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2023

bp is working to establish supplies of lower carbon alternative fuels for the shipping sector and will look to use its trading expertise to bring WasteFuel’s bio-methanol to market. Bioenergy is one of bp’s five transition growth engines, in which the company plans to invest heavily through this decade.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Standards should help to ensure at least 50% of new vehicles sold by 2030 are zero-emissions vehicles and be consistent with eliminating tailpipe pollution from new passenger vehicles by 2035. Standards should incorporate an innovation opt-in compliance pathway for multi-pollutant reductions.

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EPA Standards GM Emissions 186

Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

A team of students from the Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University is helping to improve the air quality for nomadic communities in Mongolia. A drought in Mongolia has led to food shortages, prompting the nomads to migrate to the Ger district in the capital of Ulaanbaatar, one of the world’s most polluted cities.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2021

According to the R&D engineer of this project, hydrogen fuel cell construction vehicles have five important advantages: The realization of zero pollution with only water and heat being discharged. The latter is the first hydrogen-powered mixer truck in the world.

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Hydrogen Fuel Vehicles Climate Change 449

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

With a new DC/DC converter, the heating discs of the electrically heated EMICAT catalyst ( earlier post ) can now also be supplied with electricity in high-voltage vehicles. It is already in use in vehicles with a pure combustion engine or in mild hybrids. During these phases, the engine cools down.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2018

Oil production growth from the United States, Brazil, Canada and Norway can keep the world well supplied, more than meeting global oil demand growth through 2020, but more investment will be needed to boost output after that, according to the International Energy Agency’s latest annual report on oil markets. mb/d by 2023 to 104.7

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Teslarati

JUNE 22, 2021

Audi will now phase out gas engines by the year 2033, CEO Markus Duesmann announced at the Berlin Climate Conference earlier today. Duesmann said that “Audi is ready to make its decisive and powerful move into the electric age,” finally accepting the challenge of ditching gas engines for electric ones.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 21, 2022

Engineers and technologists can and should play major roles in creating a greener planet, creating tools that address environmental degradation. The climate crisis is also having a severe effect on the planet, which is being battered by pollution, deforestation, and soil degradation. Deforestation is contributing to climate change.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2023

Fuel cell systems company Advent Technologies Holdings signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Safran Power Units, a leader in auxiliary power systems and turbojet engines. HT PEM is more robust and can withstand toughest conditions, such as extreme temperatures and pollution, compared to LT-PEM.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2020

According to Apte Research Group, University of California, Berkley, particle air pollution in South Asia ranks among the most severe in the world. The use of SAF, blended with aviation turbine fuel, can contribute to mitigating the risk associated with particulate air pollution.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2016

SDCmaterials, a developer of advanced catalyst products based on a novel materials fabrication and integration platform, announced a partnership and formalized a supply agreement with Car Sound, a leading manufacturer of catalysts and catalytic converters for the automotive aftermarket. Further advancements in automotive fuel economy.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2020

—Andrew Lund, chief engineer, Toyota Motor North America Research and Development. Reducing airborne pollution at the Ports of L.A. Toyota’s Environmental Challenge 2050 aims to almost completely eliminate CO 2 emissions from vehicles, operations and the supply chain by 2050.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

India consumes about 25 billion gallons per year of diesel, but India does not have a meaningful amount of domestic oil production and is dependent on imported crude oil to supply its petroleum refineries. The Kakinada Plant also distills the crude glycerin byproduct from the biodiesel refining process into refined glycerin.

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India Oil Renewable Pollution 150

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

Federal-Mogul Powertrain, a division of Federal-Mogul Holdings Corporation, has developed a new piston ring for two-stroke diesel engines that reduces oil consumption and marine pollution by allowing the quantity of lubricant used to be greatly reduced. This feed oil is not uniformly distributed on the cylinder wall.

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Mariner Oil Pollution Diesel 150

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The fuel cells of the company will primarily be used for stationary power generation and within the maritime sector and are a climate-friendly alternative to conventional fossil-based combustion engines. Blue World’s targeted markets are within stationary applications and the maritime sector.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

The UK government has launched a £75-million (US$120-million) fund to speed the development of low carbon technologies for engines. To apply for a share of the £75 million APC fund, bidders must form a group which includes at least one vehicle manufacturer, an SME and at least one supply chain company. Earlier post.)

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Engine Energy Cars Climate Change 240

Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2017

The LX1 is a series hybrid that incorporates a driveline that consists of electric drive motors mounted at the wheels, electric driven hydraulics, a battery energy storage system, a significantly smaller diesel engine (3-liter vs. 13-liter) and new machine architecture. The feedback provided by the Waste Management Inc.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2022

The hydrogen generators produced by the JV under license from e1NA use methanol and water as feedstock resulting in cost effective onsite production of hydrogen and a significant reduction in carbon dioxide emissions and local air pollution when compared to gas and oil. Dave Edlund, the founder and CEO of e1NA.

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Hydrogen China Legal Carbon 418

Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2019

The study also confirms that emissions of other local pollutants, such as sulfur oxides (SO x ), nitrogen oxides (NO x ) and particulate matter (PM), are close to zero when using LNG compared with current conventional oil-based marine fuels. Moving from current Heavy Fuel Oil (HFO) to LNG does reduce GHG emissions. Source: thinkstep.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2021

One of the company’s goals is to significantly reduce pollutant emissions. The current large order signals the return of EvoBus Italia to the capital; the company has already supplied buses to Atac: 450 Citaro between 2001 and 2005. A compact hybrid module assists the low-emissions diesel engine.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2018

million worldwide last year to 11 million in 2025, and then surging to 30 million in 2030 as they establish cost advantage over internal combustion engine (ICE) cars. The number of combustion engined (ICE) vehicles sold per year (gasoline or diesel) is expected to start declining in the mid-2020s, as EVs bite hard into their market.

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Get Electric Vehicle

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Yes, They Are Greener But… On the surface, EVs are more ecological than gasoline cars because 70-80% of the pollution caused by automobiles comes from their tailpipe and EVs don’t have tailpipe emissions. EV Supply chain and Pollution. The pollution goes beyond tailpipe emissions. The Real Problem.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2015

The system is powered by an innovative, liquid nitrogen Dearman engine, which replaces the standard diesel engine. Since then the Dearman engine has been re-designed and it is already proving to be 30% lighter, 30% smaller, and 30% more efficient than its predecessor. Dearman liquid air engine, Gen 2 design. Earlier post.)

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