Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 19, 2020
The BMW Group has reduced resource consumption and CO 2 emissions in vehicle production by 50% since 2006. The plants will take advantage of the best options at each location—from solar energy in Oxford, Mexico and China, to biogas in South Africa, to wind power in Leipzig. Sustainability in production.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 1, 2023
The EU is heavily dependent on imports of these metals because extraction is concentrated in a few countries such as China, South Africa and Brazil. The survey, which goes back as far as 2006, shows that the proportion of critical metals has increased significantly in vehicles, a development which the researchers believe will continue.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 15, 2009
In 2006, Shell signed an agreement with Shenhua Ningxia Coal Industry Co. Shenhua has also signed an agreement with Sasol from South Africa to study a coal-to-liquids project in Ningxia. But the company will keep playing an active role in China’s coal gasification sector, he added.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 27, 2010
Ford’s Asia Pacific and Africa region encompasses markets on three continents, including Australia, China, India, Thailand and South Africa. Ford has invested US $4 billion since 2006 in the region and employs more than 25,000 people there.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 17, 2009
The Japan-GTL consortium, formed in 2006 to commercialize a lower-cost gas-to-liquids GTL) process for the production of synthetic fuels and chemicals that does not require first removing carbon dioxide from the feedstock, has completed construction of its demonstration plant which will produce 500 barrels (about 80 kiloliters) per day.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 14, 2014
By comparison, Eucalyptus has three times the number of tandem repeat genes present in poplar, the first tree sequenced (by the DOE JGI and published on the cover of the journal Science in 2006). This poses a barrier to their rapid domestication and breeding improvements by way of self-pollination.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 21, 2011
However, levels of HFCs are rising as they replace HCFCs—HFC 134a, the most popular type, has increased in the atmosphere by about 10% per year since 2006. The report is the first of three being launched this week by UNEP in the run-up to the UN climate convention meeting in Durban, South Africa.
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