Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

AT&T has deployed its 4,000 th alternative-fuel vehicle (AFV) in its US corporate fleet. AT&T began deploying fleet AFVs in 2008 as part of an overall commitment to minimize its environmental impact while operating more efficiently. AT&T’s fleet nationwide currently numbers more than 71,500 vehicles.

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The Truth About Cars

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

& While we’ve covered the matter before ( and in greater detail ) those terms include a 25-percent pay raise over the life of the contract, the restoration of the cost-of-living adjustment, additional time off, improved retirement benefits, and more.&

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2009

NewPage Corporation is discontinuing work on the biofuels gasification project at the Escanaba, Michigan pulp and paper mill due to escalating costs. Chemrec has proprietary technology and had approached the Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC) looking for a United States partner. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2010

over 2008, reaching $139.1 Despite severe economic conditions, clean-energy markets were able to hold their momentum in 2009 as many regional and federal governments and private corporations focused on clean-energy investments as a way to pull out of the global economic tailspin. billion in 2008. billion in 2008 to $2.2

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2015

Quest was built on behalf of the Athabasca Oil Sands Project joint-venture owners Shell Canada Energy (60%), Chevron Canada Limited (20%) and Marathon Oil Canada Corporation (20%), and was made possible through strong support from the governments of Alberta and Canada who provided C$865 million in funding.

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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. Project map. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

has obtained peak power density figures from a development proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells using its platinum-free cathode technology (FlowCath, earlier post ) that consistently exceed 570mW/cm 2 since late December 2008. In November 2008, the company raised £3.3 ACAL Energy Ltd. million (US$4.8 million) in venture financing.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2009

Lignol Energy Corporation has completed the first end-to-end production of cellulosic ethanol from its fully integrated industrial-scale biorefinery pilot plant in Burnaby, British Columbia. The technology produces a clean pulp that converts feedstock rapidly into fermentable sugars with high yield and lower enzyme costs.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2012

BCAP, created in the 2008 Farm Bill, helps farmers and forest land owners with start-up costs of planting new energy crops that can take several years to reach maturity until harvest, a timeline designed to parallel the construction schedule of commercial-scale energy facilities that will use these crops.

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Creative Greenius

JULY 1, 2009

Company records show that ExxonMobil handed over hundreds of thousands of pounds to such lobby groups in 2008. In its 2008 corporate citizenship report, published last year, ExxonMobil said it would cut funds to several groups that “divert attention&# from the need to find new sources of clean energy.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Western Lithium Corporation has commenced drilling on the Stage II clay lens of its Kings Valley, Nevada lithium property. Drilling of Stage I in 2008 focused on only one of five mineralized lenses and the results supported the work previously carried out by Chevron.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2014

Eliminating the need for a humidifier allowed Toyota to simplify the structure of the fuel cell system, making it lighter, smaller and more cost-effective. For a full-scale market launch in 2015, the cost of the fuel cell system will be 95% lower than that of the 2008 Toyota FCHV-adv, Tanaka said. (A

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Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2012

The US Department of Energy (DOE) partnered with ConocoPhillips and the Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation (JOGMEC) on the test, which was the first field trial of a methane hydrate production methodology whereby CO 2 was exchanged in situ with the methane molecules within a methane hydrate structure.

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EV Central

JULY 28, 2023

Customers whose cars were made in China but would prefer that people thought otherwise can have the option of showing the American logos, at a subscription cost of $US8 a month. And this MG4, with its impressive ride quality, potent acceleration and almost attractive styling, can be had for under $40,000. Outselling Tesla?

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2010

This advanced core contains many key technologies contributing to the lower engine operating cost of the PW1000G engine. The PW1000G engine was recently selected by Irkut Corporation to power the new MC-21 aircraft family scheduled to enter service in 2016. —Bob Saia, vice president, Next Generation Product Family.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2011

the 2008 model year fuel economy ratings. least-cost) technology mix for each scenario. Using these shared forecasts, each technology’s percent contribution to the fuel efficiency target and weighted cost of. increase from the 2008 actual fleet mpg. The estimated cost of achieving the target is $3,744.

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Cars That Think

JULY 30, 2023

In the winter of 1973, corporate managers summoned Whittingham to the company’s New York City offices to appear before a subcommittee of the Exxon board. “I By this time, Sony was considering developing its own rechargeable lithium battery, according to its corporate history. But he found no takers.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 20, 2024

The Renault-Nissan Alliance in India was set up in 2008 as Renault Nissan Automotive India Private Limited (RNAIPL) a 70:30 joint venture, with Nissan holding the majority. And in what was the first dedicated Alliance plant globally, it began manufacturing operations in 2010, at a new plant in Tamil Nadu. Too little, too late?

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2012

The Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division (NAWCWD), China Lake has awarded a contract to Albemarle Corporation to complete the first biojet fuel production run based on bio n-butanol provided by Cobalt Technologies. Key to the cost-effectiveness of ATJ is reducing the production cost of the alcohol, as well as of the ATJ process itself.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 11, 2021

He was therefore perfectly positioned to be the author of the definitive corporate history of the company he used to work for, in a book entitled IBM: The Rise and Fall and Reinvention of a Global Icon , which was published in 2019 by MIT Press. So it's nearly impossible to get the cost of manufacturing and sales down to a competitive level.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2010

This facility of which construction was suspended in 2008 will have a capacity of around 200,000 barrel per day (b/d) of upgraded products and will process Total’s Fort Hills and Joslyn bitumen production. Total also has a 50% interest in the Northern Lights project following the 2008 acquisition of Canada’s Synenco Energy.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2009

At the AABC 2008 conference, Robert King from GE Global Research outlined requirements and challenges for hybrid locomotive batteries, including: 1,300 kW continuous chare/discharge power. The first application will be GE’s hybrid locomotive, which will be commercialized in 2010. Earlier post.). Battery Requirements for Hybrid Locomotives.

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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

MARCH 8, 2010

The key to obtaining significant reductions in transportation-related GHG emissions is to increase the cost of driving. The economy-wide CO 2 prices applied increase the cost of driving only marginally with respect to the business-as-usual case. million barrels per day, relative to 2008 levels.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2012

million ) European Field Operational Test (euroFOT) project—which began in June 2008 and involved 28 companies and organisations—was led by Aria Etemad from Ford’s European Research Centre in Aachen, Germany. The socio-economic assessment reveals a cost benefit ratio of 1.3 The €22-million (US$27.4-million billion (US$1.5

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Plugs and Cars

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

Academics awash in government and corporate grants analyse and research biofuels and hydrogen. That which they don't kill (EVs in 2003) they hope to delay (FCVs in 2008). CARB could nudge that process along as the ZEV program is revised early in 2008. The problem with electric is it is here now. Proven, ready to market.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2011

The current vehicle footprint-based Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards create a financial incentive for automakers to increase vehicle size, except under certain limited conditions of consumer preference for vehicle size, according to a study by University of Michigan researchers Kate Whitefoot and Steven Skerlos.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2009

The Coskata process can produce more than 100 gallons of ethanol per ton of dry, ash-free biomass material at a cost competitive with expected gasoline prices—around $1.00 Actual production cost will vary, either below or above $1.00 per gallon, based on the cost of feedstock and the cost of power for the specific plant, he noted.

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Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 31, 2023

During the pandemic operations were shut down and it is now more focused on on corporate programs. Its car share program, Hertz on Demand, launched in December 2008 and grew to more than 1,000 vehicles, 85,000 members and more than 500 locations worldwide, including corporate fleets, airports, hotels, utilities, government, and universities.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2009

Hassannia, Vice President, Business Development Diversified Energy Corporation. O&M costs generally include expenses for nutrients (generally N-P-K), CO 2 distribution, water replenishment due to evaporative losses, utilities, components replacement, and labor costs. Perspective by Jeff H. Key Takeaways. 1 ] Phillip T.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 20, 2010

If so, this tracks fairly well with the most aggressive DOE and NRC (2008) cases for FCV commercialization, assuming strong policy support. The staff of the California Air Resources Board has posted the expert review reports of the Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) technical analysis. Four external experts—Dr. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2009

I’m not against that and we should be exploring it but there are a lot of challenges—the primary one being the cost of these vehicles and there are infrastructure issues as well ,” cautioned Heywood. Corporate Average Fuel Efficiency (CAFE) challenge. LFEE 2008-05 RP, July 2008. Heywood, J., Kasseris, E., Thornes, B.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 27, 2022

From 1975, when the nation had barely begun producing its first transistors, to 2008, when he retired from teaching, Kim trained more than 100 students, effectively creating the first two generations of South Korean semiconductor experts. KAIST graduates flocked to Samsung, GoldStar/LG, and Hyundai/Hynix.

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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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Clean Fleet Report

APRIL 12, 2024

Carbon neutrality for all Honda products and corporate activities by 2050. Versus an electric car, the cost of fueling difference is substantial. Using 100-percent sustainable materials, enabling Honda to recycle or reuse all materials from its vehicles. Hydrogen prices fluctuate in a broader range than gasoline or electricity.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2009

In mid-2008, the US Department of Energy (DOE), Savannah River National Laboratory (SNRL) and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), approached Toyota to participate in a collaborative evaluation of the real world driving range of the FCHV-adv. Irv Miller, TMS group vice president, environmental and public affairs.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2013

developed by Argonne National Laboratory (2008), to model conventional, hybrid, plug-in hybrid, and battery electric vehicles with identical body characteristics, comparable control strategies, and comparable performance characteristics. Life-cycle cost. —Karabasoglu and Michalek. —Karabasoglu and Michalek.

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