Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2010

Natural gas will play a leading role in reducing greenhouse-gas emissions over the next several decades, largely by replacing older, inefficient coal plants with highly efficient combined-cycle gas generation, according to a major new interim report out from MIT. —MITEI Director Ernest J.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2010

General Motors and Hawaii’s The Gas Company (TGC), the state’s major gas energy provider, are collaborating on a hydrogen infrastructure project. TGC will file a tariff with the Hawaii Public Utilities Commission to establish the cost of hydrogen for the retail dispenser. TGC infrastructure follows the populated core on Oahu.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2009

TransCanada Corporation and ExxonMobil have reached an agreement to work together on an Alaska gas pipeline. The project has an initial forecasted capital cost of US$26 billion. In November 2007, TransCanada Alaska and Foothills jointly submitted an application under the Alaska Gasline Inducement Act (AGIA) to build a 4.5

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2013

With the exception of 2010, emissions have declined every year since 2007. During 2012, particularly in the spring and early summer, low natural gas prices led to competition between natural gas- and coal-fired electric power generators. Even a modest jump in gas prices could erase this advantage.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

The US Department of Energy (DOE) in partnership with the US Air Force has issued a request for information (RFI)— DE-FOA-0000981 —on research & development aimed at greenhouse gas emissions reductions and cost competitiveness of Mil-Spec jet fuel production using coal-to-liquid (CTL) fuel technologies. Information Request.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2012

EIA’s AEO2012 projects a continued decline in US imports of liquid fuels due to increased production of gas liquids and biofuels and greater fuel efficiency. EIA added a premium to the capital cost of CO 2 -intensive technologies to reflect current market behavior regarding possible future policies to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

However, although cellulosic biofuels volumes are expected to grow significantly relative to current levels, they will likely remain well below the targets envisioned in the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA). Strategic corporate shifts because of increased availability of low-cost natural gas.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2011

In countries where carbon credits are available, a carbon negative balance may offset a majority of the cost of producing syngas, offering a major cost advantage over other methane reforming processes. Haijun Sun Jian Huang, Hui Wang, and Jianguo Zhang (2007) CO 2 Reforming of CH 4 over Xerogel Ni-Ti and Ni-Ti-Al Catalysts.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

The US Department of Transportation (DOT) is awarding $100 million in Economic Recovery Act funding to 43 transit agencies for projects to reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions from both vehicles and facilities. Hybrid Electric Buses Incremental Costs: For the incremental cost of making transit buses hybrid electric.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2012

The program, created by Assembly Bill 118 (Núñez, Chapter 750, Statutes of 2007), provides approximately $100 million annually to encourage the development and use of new vehicle technologies and alternative and renewable fuels to help attain the state's climate change policies. Earlier post.) Electricore Inc. Electricore Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2014

2015 Investment Plan Update covers the sixth year of the program and reflects laws, executive orders, and policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, petroleum dependence, and criteria emissions. million for natural gas fueling stations. duty vehicles from diesel to natural gas. Background.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

A paper by a team from the University of Chicago and MIT suggests that technology-driven cost reductions in fossil fuels will lead to the continued use of fossil fuels—oil, gas, and coal—unless governments pass new taxes on carbon emissions. for oil, 24% for coal, and 20% for natural gas.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2011

If biogas is substituted for conventional natural gas, total GHG emissions can further significantly reduced (190 gCO 2 /mile). The cost per gallon for the SRI fuel is higher than F-T fuel, however: a calculated $2.81 Production cost of JP8 less than $3.00/gallon. Capital cost less than $15,000/daily barrel.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2010

Projects to be funded include: Ultra Lightweight Gas Turbine Range Extender for Electric Vehicles. Total project cost is £2,206,784, with the TSB providing £1,103,392. The small size, multi-fuel capability and potential low cost of the ULRE could also help speed adoption of electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2011

Dynamic Fuels is a 50:50 joint venture formed in 2007 between Syntroleum Corporation and Tyson Foods for the production of synthetic fuels from animal fats and greases. Syntroleum notes that the Geismar plant could also be expanded to host a conventional gas-to-liquids plant leveraging its Fischer-Tropsch technology as well.).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2012

Topics in this area could, for example, include innovations leading to improvements in process efficiency, separations and catalysis, durability of materials of construction and reaction, or reductions in capital costs of hydrogen production equipment. A hydrogen-powered cell phone that is the same size and cost as the latest smartphone.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2009

SOFCs operate by separating oxygen from air and transferring it across a solid electrolyte membrane, where it reacts with a fuel—such as synthesis gas derived from coal, biofuels, or natural gas—to produce steam and carbon dioxide (CO 2 ). Cost of $700 per kilowatt (2007 dollars) for an integrated fuel cell power block.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

When Congress passed the Clean Air Act, it never gave EPA the explicit authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions for the purpose of stopping global climate change. I do not agree with the EPA or the 2007 Supreme Court ruling that gave the Agency that authority. But, that is exactly what EPA has proposed to do.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

We have been thrilled with the performance of liquid injection in general—such good performance characteristics, gas mileage, emissions, service and warranty—that’s the wave of the future for OEM programs. Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), also known as propane or autogas, can be used to replace gasoline and diesel.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Growth in diesel fuel consumption will be moderated by the increased use of natural gas in heavy-duty vehicles. The United States becomes a net exporter of natural gas earlier than estimated a year ago. The share was 29% in 2007.). Biofuels grow at a slower rate due to lower crude oil prices and. slower growth in E85 sales.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2012

In 2007, Vorbeck signed a worldwide license agreement with Princeton University for a patented method from the the Aksay Labs for manufacturing graphene at commercial scale. The powder form of titanium is easier to work with than having to cast the metal, particularly given titanium’s tendency to react with the materials used to form molds.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2012

In 2007, the global transportation sector accounted for approximately 25% of total energy-related CO 2 emissions&mdash almost 7 Gt, Of that, road transportation accounted for 5 Gt. These choices ultimately affect urban planning and land use patterns, with even bigger benefits to global greenhouse gas emissions. —Kodjak et al.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2011

In 2005, Congress enacted the Renewable Fuel Standard as part of the Energy Policy Act (EPAct) and amended it in the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA). Greenhouse gas emissions. The extent to which using biofuels rather than petroleum will reduce greenhouse gas emissions is uncertain, the report says.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2013

The ATVM loan program was established in 2007 by the Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA) to provide up to $25 billion in loans for projects to produce more fuel-efficient passenger vehicles and their components. billion in loan authority or $4.2 billion that it considers to be inactive.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 30, 2012

A computational analysis that screened hundreds of thousands of zeolite and zeolitic imidazolate framework structures has identified many different structures that have the potential to reduce the parasitic energy loss of carbon capture technologies for powerplant flue gas by as much as 30–40% compared with amine scrubbing. —Lin et al.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2010

One label design prominently features a letter grade (ranging from A+ to D) to communicate the vehicle’s overall fuel economy and greenhouse gas emissions performance. Fuel Cost: Estimated annual costs of fueling the vehicle. EPA and DOT are proposing two new label designs for comment.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2015

The Annual Energy Outlook 2015 (AEO2015) released today by the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) projects that US energy imports and exports will come into balance—a first since the 1950s—because of continued oil and natural gas production growth and slow growth in energy demand. Tcf in the High Oil and Gas Resource case.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2009

Heat from the SHA creates a radiant heat process throughout the length of the processing gas inlet conduit, causing a non-burning thermal energy front in the oil shale surrounding the hole in a predictable radius. This self-perpetuating feedstock feature reduces the cost of product substantially.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2011

The Commission’s funding is the cost-share for the company’s $6.2 The total cost of the project is $12.4 Seeo was founded in 2007 with an exclusive license to advanced technology from LBNL, and with initial funding from Khosla Ventures. Seeo is contributing $5.6 million for the project. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2009

Total cost of those five measures is estimated to be $3.9 BNSF has been operating four liquefied natural gas yard locomotives in downtown Los Angeles since the mid-1990s. billion, with $3 billion of that consumed by the new Tier 4 interstate line haul locomotives.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2009

Increasing the percentage of biomass in the feed further reduces the life cycle GHG emissions of the fuel, but also increases capital and operating costs due to the higher cost of biomass feedstock and reduced economies of scale, the NETL report notes. EPA and EISA 2007. Diesel produced in a biomass only—i.e. Tarka et al.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2013

And yet clean diesel, one of the cleanest choices for putting the US on the road to energy independence, hasn’t see any sort of incentive since the Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA) of 2007. The survey is similar to surveys run by UMTRI on the same topic in 2006 and 2007. Are these sales incentivized? Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2010

The report comes as oil majors like ExxonMobil, Chevron and Shell, and other companies, are developing at least a couple dozen oil shale and CTL projects, including 12 CTL facilities projected to produce 170 million barrels of liquid fuels per year at a cost of $2 billion to $7 billion per plant. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2010

However, the technologies would also increase vehicle purchase costs for consumers, sometimes by as much as several thousand dollars. Replacing spark-ignition engines with diesel engines and components would yield fuel savings of about 37% at an added cost of approximately $5,900 per vehicle.

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Electric Auto Association

MARCH 4, 2022

Lucid is a new entry in the electric vehicle (EV) market, but the company—founded in 2007—has some of the leading engineers on power train efficiency. The Ford F-150 Lightning, for example, retains the extended hood of the F-150 gas engine truck, even though it is no longer necessary and it blocks the driver’s view.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

On the way there, I made a pit stop at a gas station to buy a bottle of champagne as a gift, hoping to start out a conversation with a stranger on the right foot. The cost of that usually starting just below $1,000 or changing the faulty modules (28 modules in a pack) individually that is much cheaper.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2009

Fuel cell system durability has improved and costs have been reduced through R&D, the ARB staff noted. In volume production, FCVs are expected to be cost competitive with other advanced vehicles, and are approaching the cost of advanced hybrid system even with current designs and high costs of materials. Source: DOE.

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