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JUNE 17, 2014

Waste coffee grounds are being mooted as the latest sustainable source of biofuel. Researchers from the University of Bath have discovered that all kinds of coffee are suitable for use, and could produce as much as two litres of fuel from just around 10kg of waste – roughly the amount of waste a c[.]. Biofuels'

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JUNE 15, 2010

The world’s third largest chemical company INEOS has received an offer of a £7.3million grant towards the construction costs of the first commercial plant that would use its waste-to-ethanol technology.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 18, 2014

Each of these facilities recycles, reuses or converts to energy all waste produced from daily operations. Eleven more General Motors facilities have now achieved landfill-free status, bringing the total to 122 sites spanning Asia, Europe, South and North America. For the newly landfill free si[.]. GM Editor Pick'

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Green Cars News

JANUARY 29, 2014

Working in partnership with Clariant and Haltermann, the carmaker will trial the use of a fuel called sunliquid20, a super grade fuel consisting of 20 per cent cellulosic ethanol, produced from agricultural waste such [.]. Mercedes'

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Green Cars News

JULY 14, 2011

In a significant tribute to its environmental efforts, 10 of Honda’s manufacturing plants in North America have now achieved zero waste to landfill status – while the remaining four are functioning at “virtually zero” waste to landfill.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 6, 2024

This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending January 5, 2024. The Kia EV9 is Green Car Reports’ Best Car To Buy 2024. Which EVs made the tax-credit shortlist in 2024? Which company faced a $1.7 billion fine for diesel emissions cheating?

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Green Cars News

JANUARY 19, 2012

As the capital city of Canada, you might expect Ottawa to be at the cutting edge of environmental innovation – and now even its waste management services have got in on the act. Waste Management will introduce 25 compressed natural gas trucks in the city this year to collect waste and recycling. It is also [.].

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Today on Green Car Reports: Elon Musk calls hydrogen fuel-cell cars a "waste of time" (in different words), Mazda previews hybrid and CNG variants of the Mazda 3 compact, and we drive the 2014 Fiat 500L tall wagon. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Audi has developed two new e-fuels using different waste materials. These combine salt or waste water with waste CO2, sunlight and special genetically modified microorganisms suspended in pipes. The German manufacturer has buddied up with US-based fuels specialist Joule to produce e-ethanol and e-diesel.

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Green Cars News

MARCH 4, 2010

Mercedes is wasting no time in establishing itself in the green car race by debuting three brand new vehicles at the 2010 Geneva Motor Show.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

Today on Green Car Reports: We preview the green production cars and concepts of the 2014 Geneva Motor Show, the 2015 BMW i8 plug-in hybrid will arrive in dealers this year, and chemists create a gasoline substitute made from plant waste. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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JULY 24, 2014

Whenever you run a car, a lot of the energy in the fuel you used is lost as waste heat. The result is that combustion cars are typically no more than 38 per cent efficient in their fuel use when you combine energy losses through heat and friction. Hybrid cars' With the growth of hybrid vehicles it was though[.].

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 9, 2012

If you think that eco driving is a load of old rubbish, then think again – because a new study suggests it could save waste-hauling fleets (pictured) as much as 13.9 The study, from SmartDrive Systems, which provides intelligent driving solutions, looked at 193 waste hauling trucks in multiple [.]. per cent on their fuel consumption.

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Green Cars News

APRIL 5, 2011

Sustainable energy firm Convert2Green and food service company 3663 have secured a contract with restaurant chain TGI Friday’s to collect and turn waste cooking oil from around 50 branches in the UK into carbon savings.

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Green Cars News

JANUARY 31, 2012

Ford has committed itself to slashing waste and landfill from its European operations as part of its plans for cleaner manufacturing. The US car maker aims to cut landfill waste by 70 per cent and cut water use by 30 per cent across its European plants over the next five years as part of its [.].

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 10, 2011

A study by Ford suggests that an organic Rankine cycle (ORC) waste heat recovery system using R245fa as the working fluid could supply the full vehicle accessory electrical load in a light duty vehicle on the highway cycle.

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Green Cars News

MARCH 22, 2011

An innovative fund of at least £70million has been introduced by the Mayor of London Boris Johnson to finance low carbon waste and recycling infrastructure. The Mayor announced that Foresight Group will manage the waste and recycling fund as part of the London Green Fund and that it includes £35million from the fund itself which [.].

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Green Cars News

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

Europe has huge untapped potential for producing new advanced, low-carbon biofuels from waste products for use in transport, if it sets up a strong sustainability framework to support the industry, a new report finds. According to the new study conducted by the International Council for Clean Trans[.]. Biofuels'

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Green Cars News

JUNE 1, 2009

Smelly, unhygienic and definitely not green - that’s the typical perception of a waste disposal truck. Tags: Green cars Hybrid cars Latest news Deparment of Sanitation New York City waste disposal. Finally, the Kenworth T370 diesel-electric hybrid is the first medium-duty hybrid truck to enter service.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

A coordinated programme for managing and recycling waste has seen Suzuki GB reach its target of eliminating waste to landfill within two years of the strategy being launched. Furthermore all waste that is thrown away is helping to generate energy for the local community. Tags: Suzuki landfill waste.

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Green Cars News

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

A new plant that will convert garden, household and vegetative waste into cellulosic ethanol and renewable power has broken ground in Vero Beach, Florida. Ineos New Planet BioEnergy began work on the $130million Indian River BioEnergy Centre earlier this week.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 12, 2011

One of Scotland’s leading family entertainment destinations, Xscape Braehead, has taken delivery of a 100% electric 4×4 utility vehicle to help with its recycling and waste collection. The Tomberlin VANISH, from ePower Trucks, will also be used to help ferry maintenance staff around the popular complex located near to Glasgow.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 27, 2011

UK motorists waste £337 million pounds on fuel every year by driving with under-inflated tyres according to new research by Michelin.

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Green Cars News

APRIL 4, 2011

Natural gas is picking up steam as a potential alternative fuel for our vehicles – however, it seems that a large portion of the world’s natural gas is simply going to waste. According to a newly released GE study entitled Flare Gas Reduction: Recent Global Trends and Policy Considerations, five per cent of the world’s [.].

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Green Cars News

JANUARY 27, 2010

At last, a use for all that office waste paper! For the first time, a vehicle fuelled by US government waste-paper and waste cardboard has been driven through the streets of Washington D.C. The car, a Chevrolet converted to run on E85 [.]. The drive happened yesterday as part of the opening of the Washington Auto Show.

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Green Cars News

JULY 30, 2010

A messy process of filtering and the need to go begging to chip shops probably stop many people from pursuing this route to alternatively fuelling their cars. Tags: Hydrogen fuel biofuel chip fat hydrogen Leeds production reaction waste. But now, researchers at the University of Leeds may have found a way [.].

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Green Cars News

APRIL 19, 2011

It might not be something that will ever make it into full-sized and full-scale mass production, but Italian scientists have developed a radio-controlled model car which runs on powered by hydrogen produced from waste aluminium ring pulls from cans.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 13, 2024

This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending January 12, 2024. To make enough hydrogen, it plans megawatt-scale electrolyzers plus Waste-to-Hydrogen and Plastic-to-Hydrogen innovations. The Model X Plaid and Model S Plaid were also affected.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 17, 2010

A website designed to match people who want goods moving with available delivery companies already making similar journeys, says that it’s service has successfully saved more than 10 million otherwise wasteful road miles since launching in 2008. Tags: Green credentials courier delivery goods moving road miles Shiply.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Biofuel produced from municipal waste and plant by-products could replace more than half of gasoline used in the European Union by 2020, according to the latest analysis from Bloomberg New Energy Finance. According to the leading source of new energy analysis, Europe has a ‘golden opportunity’ to build a new industry in the production of [.].

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 9, 2013

It may still seem like a futuristic technology, but South Korea is not wasting time in making wireless charging a reality. Latest News Green cars Electric cars'

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OCTOBER 2, 2016

Probably not, and many of you will be wondering what he has to do with cars. Did you hear about EDWARD? Well, EDWARD is the European Day Without A Roa.

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Green Cars News

JULY 31, 2012

If drivers in London turned off their engines rather than idling for one minute on every journey, this alone would reduce CO2 emissions by more than 100 million kg a year, new research shows. According to analysis by the Energy Saving Trust, this would also collectively save drivers over £60 million in fuel. With congestion [.].

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Green Cars News

MAY 13, 2013

Liquid Air is seen as one of the most exciting forms of alternative technology that can be used to harness surplus energy and waste for both the power and transport industries: and now it is being represented with a new forum in the UK. Latest News Green cars Green credentials'

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 22, 2014

Running your car on table scraps and leftovers; it sounds like something which is still the reserve of films like the classic Back to the Future and the time-travelling DeLorean car. But now for Chevrolet Impala CNG that dream is a reality. Chevrolet’s new bi-fuel model which can run on compressed [.]. Chevrolet'

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Green Cars News

JANUARY 3, 2010

Now, one entrepreneur believes he has found a technology to turn today’s waste into tomorrow’s fuel. Tags: Biofuels Green cars Latest news bioethanol fermentation tanks Phillip Hall Reclaim Resources recycled waste fuel Vantage Waste Processor.

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Green Cars News

MAY 22, 2009

The contract, set to see an extensive program of widening along London’s famous orbital motorway yet, has been branded a huge ‘waste’ by transport charity, Campaign for Better Transport. This is a farcical waste of tax payers’ money at a time when infrastructure budgets are being wiped out because of the credit crunch.”.

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