Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2023

The efforts on graphite are part of a larger research partnership between Ramaco and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory over the past three years, exploring a wide range of alternative uses of coal to make higher-value carbon products and materials.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

Toyota will invest an additional $90 million in two of its US manufacturing facilities to boost hybrid transaxle and engine capacity: Toyota West Virginia (TMMWV) – $73 million. With the new investment, Toyota has put more than $2 billion in its West Virginia plant. Toyota Tennessee (TMMTN) – $17 million.

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JANUARY 6, 2022

The agreement centers on the development of production facilities using Vertimass’ catalytic technology to convert renewable ethanol into renewable-propane and sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). The technology enables flexible production of the renewable fuels to align with regional market demand.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2022

Sparkz announced in March it will begin construction in 2022 of a Gigafactory in West Virginia to commercialize their zero-cobalt battery which will initially employ 350 workers and could grow to as many as 3,000. We have lost thousands of mining jobs over the last decade in West Virginia. Earlier post.).

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MAY 3, 2021

The US Department of Energy (DOE) awarded $19 million for 13 projects in traditionally fossil-fuel-producing communities across the country to support production of rare earth elements and critical minerals essential to the manufacturing of batteries, magnets, and other components important to the clean energy economy.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2009

The Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) plans to construct and operate a hydrogen fuel production plant and vehicle fueling station at the Yeager Airport in Charleston, W.Va. Two similar facilities are being planned for West Virginia and Pennsylvania.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2018

The goal of the partnership, led by startup C4-MCP (C4), is to offset the hydrogen production expense with the sales of the carbon fiber and carbon nanotubes, reducing the hydrogen’s net cost to less than $2 per kilogram, thus helping make hydrogen fueled cars and trucks cost-competitive with conventional gasoline and diesel vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Toyota is expanding the production of its hybrid powertrains to the US. million in five US manufacturing plants to support production of its first US-made hybrid powertrain and to implement Toyota’s New Global Architecture (TNGA) at its Alabama plant. liter engine capacity at the Georgetown, Kentucky, plant; increasing production of 2.5-liter

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MARCH 13, 2021

It is now planning to begin low volume production of the BEV models in the fourth quarter of 2022, ramping up to full production by the end of 2023. The company had previously announced plans to develop and produce a full range of class 4 through 8 Battery Electric Trucks by 2024. The company plans to make the Cummins B6.7

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MAY 24, 2018

million to three hydrogen production research and development (R&D) projects that are compatible with nuclear energy sources. Many utilities are now economically incentivized to consider integrating nuclear energy production with other industrial processes to optimize thermal and electrical energy production.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2022

The company’s expert technicians will install the systems at its facilities in Charlotte and Statesville, North Carolina; Springfield, Ohio; Detroit, Michigan; Dublin, Virginia; and Mineral Wells, West Virginia.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2012

engine facility to increase North American production of V6 engines. The increased production will begin in March 2014. This investment will increase engine production at the Huntsville plant to more than 700,000 annually, and will increase total Toyota engine production in the US to more than 1.4 A new 300,000 sq.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

The Department of Energy (DOE) has selected nine projects to receive approximately $4 million in cost-shared federal funding to improve the technical, environmental, and economic performance of new and existing technologies that extract, separate, and recover rare earth elements (REEs) from domestic US coal and coal by-products. Organization.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2012

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced $10 million in research grants to spur production of biofuels, bioenergy and biobased products that will lead to the development of sustainable regional systems and help create jobs. West Virginia University, $349,952. Washington State University, $349,993.

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OCTOBER 7, 2020

million in federal funding to develop conceptual designs of commercially viable technologies that will extract rare earth elements (REEs) from US coal and coal by-product sources. West Virginia University Research Corporation (Morgantown, WV). Each project will receive up to $150,000 in DOE funding. Tetra Tech, Inc. Sharon, PA).

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DECEMBER 4, 2017

Researchers at West Virginia University will lead a team that will investigate ways to convert stranded gas resources into value-added liquid products that could reduce the United States’ demand for crude oil by up to 20%.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2018

West Virginia University (WVU) researchers are opening a new facility to capture rare earth elements (REEs) from acid mine drainage (AMD) from coal mining. Paul Ziemkiewicz, director of the West Virginia Water Research Institute and principal investigator on the project, is an expert in acid mine drainage.

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DECEMBER 4, 2014

Pennsylvania and West Virginia reported the largest net increases in natural gas proved reserves in 2013, driven by continued development of the Marcellus Shale play, the largest US shale gas play based on proved reserves. Tcf in West Virginia) and were 70% of the net increase in proved natural gas reserves in 2013.

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AUGUST 17, 2017

In addition to producing REEs, the team plans to recover other material from the lignite feedstock to produce one or more value-added products. West Virginia University Research Corporation will use acid mine drainage solids as a feedstock for recovery of REEs and other useful materials. as their feedstock.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The latest customer is the US Department of Homeland Security, which has ordered 47 Beam EV ARC systems and 16 ARC Mobility trailers to enable efficient transportation of the products. Executive Order 14057 calls for the 657,500-strong federal vehicle fleet to be electrified by 2035.

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OCTOBER 6, 2017

As an integral part of Boeing, our pioneered technologies of long-endurance aircraft, robotic co-pilots, and autonomous electric VTOLs will be transitioned into world-class products for the global infrastructure. Headquartered in Manassas, Virginia, Aurora has more than 550 employees and operates in six states in the U.S.

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Electric Auto Association

JULY 7, 2022

July 4th thoughts on EVs BY Robert FernatT, Member of West Virginia Electric Auto Association. This article was first posted on the West Virginia Electric Auto Association (WVEAA) site. First, I am thankful that an EV provides independence from foreign petroleum fuel products.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2019

The new investments include adding Toyota RAV4 Hybrid and Lexus ES 300 Hybrid vehicle production at its Georgetown, Ky. In Alabama, Toyota’s $288,000,000 investment will increase annual engine capacity from 670,000 to 900,000 by the end of 2021 to increase product flexibility and better accommodate market demand. facility. .;

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FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Four rare earth elements (REEs) recovery projects managed by the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) ( earlier post ) have made significant progress in the development of a domestic supply of REEs from coal and coal by-products by successfully producing REE concentrates.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 3, 2023

Our key products are sold out. … We are actually going to add capacity for a lot of these products. Listed below are highlights from the fresh episodes of ‘Day-to-day Force’, Automobile Information ‘ weekday podcast, Might 30-June 1 hosted by means of Jake Neher with Kellen Walker. “We

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2016

The hybrid sweetgum trees have enormous potential for the production of bioenergy and paper, said Scott Merkle, a professor in UGA’s Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources. But sweetgums—including hybrids—have already adapted to grow in the region in a variety of sites.

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MAY 8, 2012

This investment will increase engine production at the Kentucky plant to more than 500,000 annually and will increase total engine production in the United States to more than 1.2 Toyota also has engine plants in Alabama and West Virginia.The approximately $30-million project will create about 80 new jobs. million per year.

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AUGUST 22, 2016

The team, which includes researchers from Montana, Wyoming and South Dakota, seeks to identify a framework of carbon mitigation strategies that would minimize conflicts with food security and clean energy production priorities. Improving Water Management, Treatment and Recovery in Oil and Gas Production. Murray State University.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2011

The facility was permitted by the State of West Virginia’s DEP based on PRENFLO PDQ gasification technology provided by Uhde, a wholly owned company of the ThyssenKrupp Group. For synthetic gasoline production, Uhde uses ExxonMobil’s Methanol-to-Gasoline (MTG) catalytic process. Earlier post.)

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MARCH 16, 2015

million tons of combined production last year, according to the companies’ respective annual reports. Murray Energy Corporation and its subsidiary companies currently operate 13 active coal mines, consisting of 13 underground longwall mining systems and 46 continuous mining units in Ohio, Illinois, Kentucky, Utah, and West Virginia.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2016

Our objectives are to demonstrate a straightforward path to near-term commercial production of jet fuel from coal using biomass-derived coal solvents. The bio-solvent production and coal liquefaction have been scaled-up successfully to one ton per day. —Satya Chauhan, the leader of Battelle’s process-development team.

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EV Adoption

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

While US consumers are showing a huge appetite to buy or lease EVs, the question is if automakers can meet this demand due to supply chain issues and scaling EV productions. Five states had EV (BEV + PHEV) sales share in Q2 of less than 2% (Arkansas, Mississippi, North Dakota, South Dakota, West Virginia, and Wyoming).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Concentrations of rare earths at 300 ppm are integral to the commercial viability of extracting REEs from coal and coal by-products, making NETL’s finding significant in the effort to develop economical domestic supplies of these elements. Rare Earth Elements from Coal andCoal By-Products. dependent on foreign REE imports.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2011

The NAFTC, a program of West Virginia University, has produced the Electric Drive Vehicle First Responder Safety Training, a curriculum developed under the NAFTC’s Advanced Electric Drive Vehicle Education Program, funded by the US Department of Energy. Online courses will be available in 2012.

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AUGUST 8, 2012

The RFP was coordinated by the National Association of State Procurement Officials, which leverages the purchasing power of states by aggregating purchases on a variety of products.

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OCTOBER 16, 2012

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has awarded Pennsylvania State University a five-year research grant valued at roughly $10 million to develop biomass supply chains for the production of liquid transportation and aviation biofuels in the Northeast. Earlier post.).

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DECEMBER 13, 2012

The NAFTC, a program of West Virginia University, was founded in 1992. Earlier post.). The project will provide curricula, training, and professional development to State Fire Academy personnel, which will help meet their training needs as they provide professional development and training to the firefighters they serve.

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