Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Lux Research has investigated the trends of corporate financing of alternative fuels from oil majors, based on a non-exhaustive database of more than 1,000 deals and partnership engagements from 2000 through September, 2014. Additionally, ExxonMobil recently teamed up with Iowa State University to research pyrolysis.

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Alternative Fuels Oil Chevron Fuel 225

Electric Auto Association

JANUARY 5, 2023

Here’s what two organizations— Resource-Media and Recurrent —had to say about the advantages of electric vehicles (EVs) in frigid weather. Also, gas vehicles must be started and preheated outdoors due to health risks from the exhaust, and gas vehicle emissions contribute to air pollution. Electric vehicles are popular in cold climates.

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Gas-Electric Gas Norway F-150 52

Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2009

Researchers at Iowa State University are proposing dissolving waste polystyrene (PS) in biodiesel for use as a diesel engine fuel as a mechanism for energy recovery from the waste plastic. Comparisons of NO x , CO, soot, and engine brake power using different PS blends with the factory-set injection timings. Credit: ACS. Click to enlarge.

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Waste Energy Iowa Diesel 207

Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2016

ORNL scientists Zach Sims, Michael McGuire and Orlando Rios, along with colleagues from Eck, LLNL and Ames Laboratory in Iowa, discuss the technical and economic possibilities for aluminum–cerium alloys in an article in JOM , a publication of the Minerals, Metals & Materials Society. McCall, M. McGuire, R. Ott, Tom Geer, Orlando Rios , P.

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Engine Energy Production F-150 150

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Researchers at Iowa State have developed a new hybrid optimization control method to improve diesel engine emissions and performance. Minemura (2008) “Application of hybrid evolutionary algorithms to low exhaust emission diesel engine design” Engineering Optimization. Obayashi, Y. 1 doi: 10.1080/03052150701561155.

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Diesel Engine Emissions Hybrid 150

Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

states (Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin) and one Canadian province (Manitoba). Support for this use of allowance value stems from the idea that the climate-regulating services of the atmosphere are a common property resource. Coverage: In 2012–50% of emissions. In 2015–nearly 90% of emissions.

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