Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2017

Liquid Light has developed proprietary process technology to make major chemicals from low-cost, globally-abundant carbon dioxide. The acquisition of Liquid Light is an important step in our strategy to create and commercialize breakthrough technologies in renewable chemistry. —Tom van Aken, CEO of Avantium.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2013

The Biomass Technologies Office believes this target is an important milestone in reducing the cost of algal biofuels to cost-competitive levels on the way to achieving 5,000 gallons per acre by 2022. A biofuel intermediate is a biomass-based feedstock that will serve as a petroleum replacement in downstream refining. Background.

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AUGUST 21, 2012

Under the terms of the four-year agreement POET and Agrivida will develop Agrivida’s technology platforms with the goal of significantly reducing the capital and operating costs of commercial cellulosic ethanol production facilities. The facility is slated to begin operations near the end of 2013.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 29, 2012

DaniMer Scientific and Myriant have formed a strategic alliance focused on delivering innovative, cost-effective bio-based materials to the marketplace. Myriant utilizes its technology platform to develop renewable chemicals utilizing low-cost sugars.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2013

Myriant has produced on-spec commercial product at the plant and anticipates that customer shipments will commence soon. Myriant is also advancing its proprietary, low-cost, high-purity process for bio-acrylic acid. —Stephen J. Gatto, Chairman and CEO.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

After the separation, the Upstream Company will be a cost-competitive industry leader in bauxite mining; alumina refining; and aluminum production. It has a low 19 th percentile position on the global bauxite cost curve. in 2008 to 20.9% The Upstream Company. billion in total incremental margin.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 14, 2012

a company that has developed a low-cost hybrid electric powertrain designed specifically for class 1-3 commercial fleet use ( earlier post ), will display a Chevrolet Express 2500 cargo van fitted with the company’s hybrid technology at the 2012 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Energy Conference Energy Showcase on 16 March.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

Less expensive and more readily available than platinum, PAN enables the catalyst to be produced at reduced cost and in higher volumes. NEDO launched work on CAC as part of a larger fuel cell effort in FY 2008.) Teijin says it will continue to advance the properties and durability of its CAC, targeting commercial use by 2025.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

Titanium is an important structural material for a variety of industrial, commercial, and military applications due to its light weight, high strength, and corrosion resistance; however, utilization of titanium in many applications is limited due to its low thermal conductivity. and the Georgia Institute of Technology. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 14, 2017

In 2007, with support from Carnegie Mellon University, Dr. Jay Whitacre began researching low-cost electrochemical approaches to bulk energy storage. In 2008 he produced the first functioning Aqueous Hybrid Ion (AHI) battery. Aquion has been shipping commercially since mid-2014. Pleasant, PA in 2012.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2009

The facility, located in the midst of the sugarcane processing industry, secures the final development step before full commercial production of Amyris’s renewable fuels and chemicals. in 2008 and in Campinas earlier this year. Amyris Brasil Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento, Ltda., a wholly owned subsidiary of Amyris Biotechnologies, Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 20, 2015

IFP Energies nouvelles (IFPEN) and its subsidiary Axens have formed a strategic alliance to develop and to commercialize a new technology for the low cost production of bio-based benzene, toluene and paraxylene using Anellotech’s process of Catalytic Fast Pyrolysis (CFP) of non-food biomass. Anellotech Inc., Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2009

Gevo’s technology enables the cost-effective, practical production of renewable hydrocarbons such as isooctene and isooctane for the gasoline market, renewable jet fuel and renewable diesel blendstocks. biofuels research center on line and start developing its customer base for the commercial facility scheduled to come on line in early 2011.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 24, 2009

USABC has carried out a number of battery development programs, focusing on low-cost and long-life batteries with varying power-to-energy ratios. The United States Advanced Battery Consortium (USABC) was formed in 1991 to sponsor development of advanced high-performance batteries for Electric Vehicle (EV) applications.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 15, 2014

in the past few years important factors have emerged that are re-accelerating the commercialization of hydrogen and fuel cell technologies. Low-cost shale gas has improved the prospects for natural gas-derived hydrogen, especially in the United States, where it is a major force in the resurgence of federal interest in hydrogen energy.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Amyris has proven this technology through the delivery of its first successful commercial scale technologies to sanofi-aventis for the production of artemisinin, a low cost anti-malarial drug. Amyris presentation at Fifth Annual World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology & Bioprocessing, 2008. Earlier post.)

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

aligned with the low-cost systems engineering and. These catalysts have been interfaced directly with a commercial triple junction amorphous silicon (3jn-a-Si) solar cell (Xunlight Corp.) The new device is not yet ready for commercial production, since systems to collect, store and use the gases remain to be developed.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Bloom’s customers have deployed the solution to lower and/or fix their energy costs, while significantly cutting their carbon footprints and enhancing their energy security by reducing their dependence on the grid. Customers who purchase Bloom’s systems can expect a 3-5 year payback on their capital investment from the energy cost savings.

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MAY 26, 2015

Global Bioenergies, founded in 2008, has developed a synthetic isobutene pathway that, when implanted in a micro-organism, enables the organism to convert sugars (e.g., If successful, the first commercialization of this technology is expected as early as 2018. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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MAY 6, 2009

The license agreement moves this technology for renewable energy production a step closer to commercial reality. The company has been working with PNNL for nearly two years to demonstrate low-cost production of renewable natural gas from this feedstock. Elliott, DC (2008) Catalytic Hydrothermal Gasification of Biomass.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

Fewer base stations are required, reducing overall system setup costs. This configuration also makes it possible to provide low-cost temporary networks after disasters. OKI has already evaluated experimental systems with up to 100 devices using the 950 MHz band, both indoors and outdoors. Encompassing frequencies between 915.9

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2016

During past eight years the number of plug-in electric vehicle models has increased from one to more than 20, battery costs have decreased 70%, and the number of electric vehicle charging stations has increased from less than 500 in 2008 to more than 16,000 today—a 40-fold increase. Electric vehicle coalition.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2009

Ed Feo is a partner with the law firm of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy and was voted one of the “Five Most Influential People in Renewable Energy” in 2008 by Euromoney / Institutional Investor. We reached peak oil consumption in the US in 2008 and the same is true in the EU and Japan. ” Billion in 2008). Billion vs. $28.3

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2009

CPI’s focus is the North American automotive and commercial vehicle market. CPI has 60 employees in its Troy, Michigan facility which acts as a technical and commercial center as well as pilot manufacturing facility capable of assembling packs at prototype quantities using production representative processes. Source: DOE, ALBAA 2008.

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OCTOBER 29, 2010

The cap-and-trade program gives sources flexibility to make the most cost-effective choices about when and how to reduce emissions. Because the allowances can be traded, the program provides incentives for those with the most cost-effective reduction opportunities to reduce emissions quickly. Cost Containment Mechanisms.

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AUGUST 31, 2020

Then came the rapid ascent of production in China and with it a flood of low-cost magnesium. Producers in Canada had conceded defeat by 2008 and the US industry was reduced to just one player that would probably not still be around were it not for punitive anti-dumping duties imposed on imports of Chinese magnesium.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2016

In the last decade, wireless usage across the US has expanded significantly, with nearly 350 million smartphones, connected tablets and wearable devices in use—more than double the number from a decade ago—carrying more than 100,000 times the traffic they supported in 2008. Both challenges will officially launch later this year.

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Clean Fleet Report

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Take the Mach-E battery pack and drop it into the best-selling Ford Transit commercial vehicle and the E-Transit enters the last-mile delivery market. The Leaf has increased its range, looks and functionality since its introduction and remains a key affordable EV choice while used Leafs offer a low-cost EV alternative.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2016

We’re seeing if they can outperform current, commercially available sensors, with improved hydrogen detection at levels of interest, robustness and durability. Instability, as indicated by baseline drift, has been a long-term problem with commercial sensors. —Amanda Wu. Hydrogen Frontier Inc.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2015

For these newly funded buses, Ballard will deliver its FCvelocity-HD7 product, a next-generation fuel cell power module offering improved durability and reliability together with significant cost reduction (Ballard estimates a 30-40% reduction.) Fuel Cells Heavy-duty Hydrogen'

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APRIL 29, 2015

An major step along the way was the release of the “FCHV-adv” in 2008 ( earlier post ), which delivered major improvements in efficiency, driving range (more than double its predecssor), durability, and cold start capability, compared to its predecessor. The Mirai FC system achieves a power density of 3.1 kW/L and 2.0 FCHV-adv hybrid system.

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MARCH 10, 2018

The paper is a characterization study of commercial prototype carbon nanotube (CNT) membranes consisting of sub–1.27-nm-diameter The difficulty and high cost of making CNT membranes has confined them to university laboratories and has been frequently cited as the limiting factor in their widespread use.

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AUGUST 29, 2009

Huber’s patent-pending technique offers a low-cost, single-step process for turning sawdust, woody stalks and other waste biomass into gasoline, diesel fuel, heating oil and valuable chemical commodities such as benzene, toluene and xylenes. The company hopes to open a commercial biofuel production plant by 2014.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

Additionally, the Printed Fuel Cell has a simple, thin laminated structure that requires a limited amount of material and parts, making it suitable for low-cost, automated mass production. Source: FCO Power. Click to enlarge. In 2005, its predecessor, FCO Co.,

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Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2009

Mascoma Corporation has made major research advances in consolidated bioprocessing, or CBP, a low-cost processing strategy for production of biofuels from cellulosic biomass. This one-step conversion process lowers costs by limiting additives and enzymes used in other biochemical processes. Earlier post.) Selected strains of C.

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Green Cars News

MAY 10, 2009

The company has made progress in consolidating bioprocessing, or CBP - a low-cost processing strategy for producing biofuels from cellulosic biomass. Macoma insist this is a “true breakthrough&# and that it will take us much further to billions of gallons of low cost cellulosic biofuels.

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APRIL 21, 2009

In late 2008, BYD started selling the first production PHEV in China. This is from "Commercializing Plug-In Hybrids" (pdf), the current CalCars 24-slide presentation about PHEVs available along with other documents at CalCars Downloads. First Escape PHEV delivered to SCE Nov 2007; 20 in 2008-2009. Batteries not ready.

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