Green Car Reports

JUNE 27, 2018

Italy plans to deploy 1 million electric cars on its roads. And EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt recruited oil industry lobbyists. Spy photographers caught the Honda Pilot plug-in hybrid testing. An NTSB report shows a Tesla battery reignited twice following a fatal Florida crash. All of this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Alstom and MOL, Hungary’s leading oil and gas company, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to structure cooperation in examining the use of hydrogen technology in rail transportation. Alstom’s hydrogen technology has also been purchased by SNCF (France) and FNM (Italy). Operating these trains requires hydrogen refueling stations.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

To date, 70% of our order book in the engineering and construction (E&C) sector is not related to oil. Therefore, it is consistent with the decarbonization process that we are committed to pursuing in all our activities, as we strive to be leading players in the process of transition to low-environmental-impact energies.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2021

In the context of the energy transition, hydrogen can make a valuable contribution to the decarbonization of energy-intensive industries such as chemicals, aviation, maritime transport and non-electrified railways, provided it is produced in a sustainable manner.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Italy-based oil and gas major Eni and PDVSA (Petróleos de Venezuela), the state-owned oil and gas corporation of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, signed contracts for the creation of two joint ventures (Empresas Mixtas, Mixed Enterprises). billion barrels of oil equivalent). Map of Orinoco’s Faja area.

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Venezuela Oil 2009 Gas 218

Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2021

Thanks to the expertise of several project partners, HyFlexFuel proved that HTL biocrudes can be successfully upgraded to drop-in fuels in an industrially-relevant environment, achieving hundreds of hours of continuous operations. Eni (Italy) investigated the perspective of co-processing HTL biocrudes in conventional crude oil refineries.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2023

The interior is made almost entirely of sustainable materials, all made in Italy. The water comes from olive oil production and has to be treated in waste water treatment plants due to its high acidity and antimicrobial and phytotoxic effect. 100 percent merino wool. 100 percent merino wool.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Global emissions of CO 2 have increased by 45% between 1990 and 2010, and reached an all-time high of 33 billion tonnes in 2010 despite emission reductions in industrialized countries during the same period. tonnes are still below the EU-27 average, but now equal those of Italy. jumped by more than 5% in 2010, which is unprecedented.

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Teslarati

MARCH 20, 2023

One industry that is set for dramatic change with the switch from gas to electric vehicles is the gas station industry. One such gas station chain and oil conglomerate, TotalEnergies, has seen this first hand, with its revenues from its gas stations falling precipitously over the past few years. .”

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

In its tally and projections, Pike includes conventional ethanol and biodiesel facilities targeting commodity-based feedstocks, such as corn starch, sugarcane, soy, palm oil, and rapeseed. —“Industrial Biorefineries”. —“Industrial Biorefineries”. United States, Brazil, and Europe—at 34.6 Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2018

Researchers from Istituto Motori - CNR in Italy and Eni report in a paper in the journal Fuel that blends of hydrocracked fossil oil (HCK) and Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil (HVO) as diesel fuels deliver fuel consumption (FC) and CO 2 savings based on the NEDC cycle. —Napolitano et al. 2018.02.097.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Proesa is used to produce bio-fuels and chemical intermediates and it has been demonstrated on an industrial scale at the Crescentino plant. Biochemtex is also developing a new technology called MOGHI to convert lignin into bio-diesel and other aromatics, largely used in the industrial field.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2016

In 2013, Boeing and SAA launched their sustainable aviation fuels collaboration and in 2014, Project Solaris became the first focus project that converted oil from the Solaris plant seed into bio-jet fuel. Sunchem holds the exclusive rights for an international industrial patent named “Solaris Seed Tobacco”. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2009

Artist’s rendering of a GE Frame-7 gas turbine, similar to the units that GE Oil & Gas is supplying for the Gorgon project. billion barrels of oil (boe). The award further strengthens GE Oil & Gas’ strategic role in the Gorgon project. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2011

and Chemtex, a global technology and engineering company wholly-owned by Italy’s Gruppo Mossi & Ghisolfi, are collaborating to develop and produce sustainable detergent alcohols for use in the household products market. The parties expect that this process will initially be piloted at Chemtex’s R&D facility in Rivalta, Italy.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Eni plans to convert its Venice (Italy) Refinery into a biorefinery producing innovative and high quality biofuels. The Ecofining process uses catalytic hydroprocessing technology to convert vegetable oils to a renewable diesel fuel. The new biorefinery is based on Ecofining technology developed and patented by Eni. Earlier post.).

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Electric Vehicles India

JULY 1, 2021

The Department of Heavy Industry has issued an Expression of Interest (EoI) for inviting proposals from government organisations, PSUs (state/ central), state-owned discoms, oil PSUs and other public and private entities to build and operate public EV charging infrastructure. Let us read more about EV charging highways in Italy.

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Motor Motors Motoring Charging 59

Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2015

The identification of optimal future fuel blends with a fossil fuel base and Photofuel biofuels as additives, as well as the analysis of performance and emissions in car or truck engines, will be evaluated by the oil- and automotive-industry partners. Universita Degli Studi Di Firenze, Italy. Neste Oil Corporation, Finland.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 18, 2020

The China policy response to assist the commercial-vehicle industry has been broad, with a variety of direct and indirect supports announced, locally and nationally. The local industry is already recovering, with commercial vehicle plants re-opened.

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2020 Commercial Global Production 191

Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2013

GE Oil & Gas introduced the LNG In A Box system, a small-scale, plug-and-play, re-deployable liquefied natural gas (LNG) fueling solution based on proven technology that can help accelerate the use of natural gas as a cost-effective, cleaner transportation fuel.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2010

an Italy-based provider of engineering and construction services and technology for the oil and gas industry, will jointly design , develop and commercialize utility-scale hydrogen power plants for peak shaving and energy management. Hydrogenics Corporation and Rosetti Marino S.p.A.,

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2010

2008, 54% in 2006 and 65% in 2005); in 2007, the industry growth rate was. than soybean and canola oils, signalling its likely US. Differential Export Taxes (DET) maintain a large differential between an export tax on crude soybean oil of. Direct Oil Use Consequences) i.e. among others the. and countervailing duties.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

There is a growing interest in operating vehicles on biogas or natural gas in countries such as Italy and France as a result of increased availability, improved infrastructure and good economic viability for truckers. We have defined the interval at 45,000 kilometers for both the spark-plug and oil changes with normal use.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2017

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA), IVECO (a brand of CNH Industrial) and ENGIE (Global Energy Player) are broadly collaborating to promote natural gas vehicles and infrastructure in Europe. Transportation is responsible for 22% of CO 2 emissions in the world (and even 30% in Europe); 95% of the energy consumed by this sector comes from oil.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 20, 2024

The shipping industry has been trying to cut its carbon emissions for years, and with little to show for it. The industry now faces serious pressure to pick up the pace. body that governs the industry, representatives doubled down on carbon-reduction ambitions, setting a net-zero emissions goal for 2050.

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Baua Electric

MAY 23, 2024

There are also stoneware pieces by the Japanese artist Niho Kozuru, who comes from a lineage of ceramists who’ve been making the pottery known as Agano ware on the island of Kyushu for hundreds of years, as well as a large acrylic-and-oil painting by the actress Lucy Liu. 100, taschen.com.

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EV Info

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Ministers decided they would rather throw hundreds of Northern workers out of a job, turn down hundreds of millions of pounds of investment and rely instead – for the five million tonnes of coal per year gap that we still need for industry – on energy imports from those famously reliable partners, Russia and Venezuela.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2009

Dr. Paul addressed a positive change—the days of increasing US oil consumption may be over. “ We reached peak oil consumption in the US in 2008 and the same is true in the EU and Japan. ” M barrels/day of oil within the next 10 years ”. Annual investment in the global renewables industry had grown from $16.5 One year ago.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2009

In general they found that bioelectricity is more water-efficient than first-generation biofuels (due largely to the ability to use the entire biomass to produce energy, rather than just the starch or oil fraction of the yield for liquid fuel production).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2012

Honeywell’s UOP—a major international supplier and licensor of technology for petroleum refining, gas processing, petrochemical production and major manufacturing industries—has also been an early leader in developing technologies for the production of renewable drop-in hydrocarbon fuels. That’s a big sum. Earlier post.)

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

. “A car must be able to be recharged in Italy in exactly the same way as in Denmark, Germany or France,&# she was quoted saying in an edition of Die Welt to appear Monday. Perhaps you should have checked that before posting. as stated. 5 Clayton B. Cornell said on April 20th, 2009 at 4:43 am Emily, thanks for spell checking for us.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2015

Another challenge was, at first sight, the impact of the 50%-plus collapse in the oil price in the second half of last year. Oil and renewables do not directly compete for power investment dollars. Global investment in renewable power and fuels (excluding large hydro-electric projects) was $270.2

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

At issue is the 2012 expiration of the Kyoto Protocol, a binding but effectively unenforceable 1997 treaty that had set greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets for 40 industrialized countries, referred to as Annex 1 countries, yielding an average GHG reduction of 5.2% ” [ 1 ]. ºF) increase. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Israel’s Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), through the Israel Fuel Choices Initiative (IFCI), signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA), Iveco (a Brand of CNH Industrial) and Magneti Marelli (FCA Group) for co-operation in the development of natural-gas-based automotive technologies.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

The challenge now is to implement gigatonne scale reductions across the economy, in power generation, energy efficiency, transport and industry, as well as REDD+ in forested nations. PwC divides the G20 into three blocks: G7 economies (US, Japan, Germany, UK, France, Italy, Canada). —PwC report.

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Climate Change Climate Saudi Arabia Economy 261

Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2013

The pistons, in aluminum for reduced reciprocating mass, feature a concave, shallow-bowl profile to facilitate efficient combustion and are cooled by under-skirt oil spraying. Applying an industry standard measure for friction, Friction Mean Effective Pressure (FMEP), Opel research shows that the 1.6 Variable displacement oil pump.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 1, 2016

Techrules employs air bearing technology—a high pressure feed of compressed air—instead of a traditional oil lubricant film to separate the shaft from the bearing. As a result, adoption of the TREV system by the fuel supply industry, vehicle manufacturers and consumers requires no major investment in new networks.

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