Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The MOU builds on a strong foundation of several years of collaboration and will draw on the companies’ expertise in electric vehicle (EV) charging, hydrogen, low-carbon energy solutions and digital technology as potential opportunities for both companies to reduce carbon emissions.

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Hyundai Hydrogen Carbon Motor 186

Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2020

Alstom and Snam, one of the world’s leading energy infrastructure companies, have signed a five-year agreement to develop hydrogen trains in Italy. As part of the agreement, Alstom will manufacture and maintain newly built or converted hydrogen trains, while Snam will develop the infrastructures for production, transport and refueling.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2019

Researchers from ETH Zurich have developed a novel technology that produces liquid hydrocarbon fuels exclusively from sunlight and air and have demonstrated the entire thermochemical process chain under real field conditions. Carbon-neutral fuels are crucial for making aviation and maritime transport sustainable.

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Carbon Fuel Solar Switzerland 247

Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2021

Biocrudes from three representative feedstocks—Spirulina (micro-algae), sewage sludge, and wheat straw—were further upgraded to a mixture of hydrocarbon fuels at Aalborg University (Denmark). Analyses of the kerosene fractions of the upgraded biocrude show promising compositions for a use as aviation fuel.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2021

Swiss research intsitute Empa’s future mobility demonstrator, “move”, is investigating three paths for CO 2 reduction in road traffic—electric mobility, hydrogen mobility and synthetic fuels—against the background of a rapidly changing energy system.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2019

The Mercedes-Benz eActros heavy-duty electric truck, with a range of up to 200 km, is in intensive use by customers in Germany and Switzerland as part of the eActros “innovation fleet”. By the end of the next decade, Daimler Trucks & Buses will extend its range of vehicles with hydrogen-powered series production vehicles.

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Japan Fleet Europe Switzerland 186

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 3, 2014

First, it considers the performance of both mature and novel hydrogen production processes, multiple electricity generation pathways and several alternative drivetrains. Second, it is specific to Switzerland. Li-ion battery specific energy density is presumed to be 150 Wh kg -1 , and fuel cell specific weight is 3 kg kW -1.

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Alternative Fuels Emissions Fuel Switzerland 252

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Audi is systematically building on its e-fuels strategy. Together with the partners Ineratec GmbH ( earlier post ) and Energiedienst Holding AG , the company has plans for a new pilot facility for the production of e-diesel in Laufenburg, in Canton Aargau (Switzerland). Earlier post.) Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2020

Primary energy, non-renewable [Megajoule]. Primary energy, renewable [Megajoule]. A recent PSI study led by environmental scientist Christian Bauer found that a battery electric car is already the most environmentally friendly option in Switzerland and many other countries, even when the manufacture of the battery is figured in.

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Mariner Climate Change DC Cars 435

Baua Electric

JANUARY 9, 2024

Under the theme ‘Ease every way,’ the company presents a redefinition of its role in creating a more comfortable everyday life, focusing beyond mobility to innovate a human-centered life through the completion of a hydrogen energy ecosystem and a shift toward software-driven approaches.

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Hyundai Hydrogen Motor Motors 52

Teslarati

MARCH 20, 2023

TotalEnergies, a prominent French gas station chain, has announced it plans to sell its gas station locations in Germany and the Netherlands as it pursues EV charging and hydrogen fueling. “TotalEnergies has been looking at ways to develop non-fuel revenues in its retail business,” says the company’s announcement.

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Store Gas Charging Netherlands 79

Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2015

In an event in Bern, Switzerland, Swiss National Council member and president of the Clean Fuel Now initiative Thomas Böhni filled up his Audi A2 with 100% synthetic diesel (Audi e-diesel) produced by sunfire GmbH to draw attention to the need to remove what he terms unjustified Swiss restrictions on synthetic fuels.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Hyundai Motor Company has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Swiss hydrogen company H2 Energy (H2E). Beginning in 2019 and over a five-year period, Hyundai Motor and H2 Energy will provide 1,000 heavy-duty fuel cell electric trucks ( earlier post ) and an adequate supply chain for renewable hydrogen.

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Hyundai Hydrogen Renewable Fuel 191

Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2015

Unlike the others, however, Audi over the past few years has embarked on a comprehensive approach to developing a range of new CO₂-neutral fuels as part of its overall strategy for sustainable, carbon-neutral mobility: Audi e-fuels. Audi’s basic goal is to combine renewable energy (e.g.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

The goal is to develop a process for producing kerosene from carbond dioxide and green hydrogen. Over the next three years, the two Swiss research institutes will jointly search for practical ways of linking carbon dioxide and hydrogen to form longer-chain molecules and thus produce synthetic fuels. million Swiss francs (US$6.9

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Hydrogen CO2 Renewable Carbon 186

Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2011

PowerHouse had earlier completed an equity investment in and obtained exclusive licensing rights from the thermal reactor technology’s developer, Pyromex Holding AG of Switzerland. PowerHouse now offers integrated waste and biomass-to-energy systems on a turnkey basis. —Peter Bond, Linc Energy CEO.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 17, 2022

Among the technological visions that seem perpetually futuristic (think commercial nuclear fusion and maglev trains), the hydrogen economy has always been tantalizing. It could power trucks, cars, planes, and ships and generate electricity, either in fuel cells or combustion turbines. So that’s why the community is so excited.”

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

Michael Grätzel at EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) in Switzerland has developed a highly efficient and low-cost water-splitting cell combining an advanced perovskite tandem solar cell and a bi-functional Earth-abundant catalyst. conversion efficiency from solar energy to hydrogen, a record with earth-abundant materials.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 26, 2023

At COP27, he said that even though the first legally binding international treaty on climate change, known as the Paris Agreement , was adopted nearly a decade ago, countries have yet to come to a consensus on how to stop burning fossil fuels, among other issues. France sells energy to Italy, Spain, and Switzerland,” Rahman said.

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