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JANUARY 13, 2021

Neste and Avfuel Corporation announced a strategic partnership to create an efficient, continuous supply of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) in the United States. The method used to calculate life cycle emissions and emission reduction complies with the EU Renewable Energy Directive (2009/28/EC).

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MAY 11, 2018

Rio Tinto and Alcoa Corporation announced a revolutionary process to make aluminum that produces only oxygen as a by-product, eliminating all direct greenhouse gas emissions from the traditional smelting process. In Canada alone, use of the technology could eliminate the equivalent of 6.5

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JANUARY 12, 2010

Iogen Corporation announced that its cellulosic ethanol production in 2009 topped 581,000 liters (153,000 gallons US), more than doubling the firm’s 2008 fuel production, and surpassing the one million liter (264,000 gallons US) mark in cumulative production since 2004. This achievement is second to none.

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DECEMBER 5, 2011

Evatran, a developer of wireless charging systems for electric vehicles ( earlier post ), has signed contracts with six commercial participants to outfit their Chevrolet Volt and Nissan LEAF models with pre-production Plugless Power wireless charging systems. Plugless Power system components. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

Volvo Car Corporation is postponing its plans to produce a full hybrid based on a diesel engine and instead will introduce a series-produced plug-in diesel hybrid (PHEV) in Europe as early as 2012. The partners put three Volvo V70 PHEV demonstration cars on the road in the summer of 2009. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.)

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MARCH 25, 2009

Mazda Motor Corporation has begun commenced commercial leasing of the Mazda Premacy Hydrogen RE Hybrid ( earlier post ), a hydrogen hybrid vehicle that offers substantially improved performance due to the addition of a hybrid system. Battery pack and hydrogen tank are at the rear. Click to enlarge.

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APRIL 17, 2010

This follows the memorandum of understanding signed between CPECC and USTDA in November as part of the US-China Clean Energy Announcements made by President Obama and President Hu in November 2009. and the Polk Tampa Electric IGCC plant in Florida that helped demonstrate the commercial feasibility of IGCC.

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JUNE 26, 2009

Alternative Fuels Corporation (AFC), a wholly-owned subsidiary of G4G Resources Ltd. COMPS has recently commissioned 2 commercial scale pilot plants in China and Australia. Both plants are now producing at design capacity and planning is now underway for commercial scale production facilities. Earlier post.).

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OCTOBER 15, 2009

Coskata’s semi-commercial facility in Madison, Pa. a syngas to ethanol company, officially launched its semi-commercial “Flexethanol” facility located in Madison, PA. The Madison facility is designed to serve both as commercial-scale proof of the technology as well as a source for learnings to further optimize the technology.

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JULY 29, 2009

SymPowerco Corporation, holder of a direct methanol fuel cell technology, has acquired 70% ownership in both Highline Hydrogen Hybrids, Inc. The closing of the agreement completes the terms of the Letters of Intent previously announced on 11 May 2009 (HMSI) and 30 June 2009 (HHHI). Click to enlarge. HMSI) in an all-stock deal.

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APRIL 9, 2019

Average CO 2 emissions of new light commercial vehicles (vans) dropped by 7.5 While all van manufacturers respected their specific emission targets in 2017, three car manufacturers (Automobili Lamborghini, Mazda Motor Corporation and Société des Automobiles Alpine), representing together 1.4% g CO 2 /km from 2016. g CO 2 /km.

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JANUARY 6, 2014

The technology has been successfully demonstrated on buses at the KAIST campus since 2009. The first commercial deployment of the OLEV wireless charging technology was put into operation in July 2011 at Seoul Grand Park, where three 100-passenger trams provide daily shuttle services to visitors at a theme park near Seoul, South Korea.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2017

In 2009, KLM operated its first flight using biofuel, with observers on board. In 2010, KLM became the world’s first airline to operate a commercial flight using sustainable biofuel. KLM founded SkyNRG and initiated the KLM Corporate BioFuel Program to stimulate the demand for sustainable biofuel.

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AUGUST 1, 2011

China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (Sinopec) and Syntroleum Corporation have opened the Sinopec/Syntroleum Demonstration Facility (SDF), a 80 barrel per day (bpd) coal-to-liquids (CTL) plant located in Zhenhai, China. Sinopec and Syntroleum entered into a technology transfer agreement in 2009. Earlier post.)

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DECEMBER 20, 2012

In the commercial area, the company also concentrates on the electrification of fleet vehicles, including heavy-duty trucks and vans. Momentum Dynamics was formed in 2009 and has specialized in high-power wireless charging using resonant magnetic induction.

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APRIL 29, 2009

On 20 April, the opening day of the SAE 2009 World Congress, the AVL Technology Leadership Theater presented a forum on “Green Mobility—The Long View”. Corporate Average Fuel Efficiency (CAFE) challenge. For reference, the fully loaded PRT is approximately 80% the weight of 2009 VW Rabbit. by Bill Cooke. Earlier post.)].

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OCTOBER 6, 2011

Myriant Corporation announced the successful development of its proprietary process for producing targeted bio-based chemicals, including succinic acid and both L(+) and D(-) lactic acid, from non-food, renewable, cellulosic feedstocks. This development is an integral part of Myriant’s manufacturing and commercialization strategy.

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OCTOBER 6, 2011

Myriant Corporation announced the successful development of its proprietary process for producing targeted bio-based chemicals, including succinic acid and both L(+) and D(-) lactic acid, from non-food, renewable, cellulosic feedstocks. This development is an integral part of Myriant’s manufacturing and commercialization strategy.

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DECEMBER 27, 2011

Performance targets for this program are to exceed 500 Wh/kg and 500 cycles at commercially viable recharge rates. Privately held Sion Power Corporation was established initially as Moltech Corporation in 1994, and holds more than 100 US and international patents on its technology. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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DECEMBER 18, 2009

Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) and Aisin Seiki Co, Ltd will provide a total of 30 residential, solid-oxide fuel-cell (SOFC) cogeneration systems developed jointly by Osaka Gas Co., Once installation is complete in regular households, the five gas companies will gather data necessary for commercialization.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

Garimella 2009. to help commercialize the advanced cooling system using microchannels for electronic components in hybrid and electric cars. Delphi has taken the work further, creating prototypes and commercializing the cooling technology, said Delphi’s Bruce Myers, principal technical fellow. Click to enlarge. in Kokomo, Ind.,

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MAY 13, 2013

Based on the agreement signed between Saitama City and Nissan for the E-KIZUNA Project in 2009, the vehicle will be used as a field test car to facilitate deliveries between the Saitama City Hall and city offices. Nissan has been carrying out field tests since 2011 for the e-NV200 with major corporations.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Verenium Corporation, a developer of next-generation cellulosic ethanol technology and high-performance specialty enzymes, has extended the initial 18-month joint development program established in August 2008 with partner BP, which was scheduled to expire on 1 February 2010, until 1 March 2010. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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JULY 7, 2011

Liquid Metal Battery Corporation (LMBC), a Cambridge, Massachusetts company founded in 2010 to develop new forms of electric storage batteries that work in large, grid-scale applications, has secured the rights to key patent technology from MIT. This is an important step forward for Liquid Metal Battery Corporation.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2009

and NuCoal Energy Corporation recently executed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) wherein Sparton and NuCoal will jointly evaluate the potential of NuCoal’s lignitic coal holdings in Saskatchewan to host commercial germanium and uranium mineralization. NuCoal presentation (2 Sept 2009). Sparton Resources Inc.

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MARCH 7, 2013

Over the past several years, Ballard has made significant advances in its commercial fuel cell products, with average product cost reductions of 60% and increases in product durability. In the course of investigating environmentally clean energy systems with commercial potential, it began developing fuel cells in 1983. Earlier post.)

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MARCH 6, 2012

While Envia Systems is the first integrated cell producer to announce success with that type of combination, other providers of Si-C materials or IP—such as, but not limited to, Nanosys and the DOE’s own Argonne National Laboratory, respectively—are also currently deep in the process of development and/or commercialization.

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MARCH 29, 2012

The partners conducting the 6-year JAPAN-GTL Demonstration Test Project announced that the project achieved all of the associated R&D goals and successfully established a JAPAN-GTL process as an applicable technology to commercial plants. INPEX Corporation, JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corporation, Japan Petroleum Exploration Co.,

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DECEMBER 4, 2009

Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation Group (SAIC) and General Motors Company are expanding their cooperation in Asia with the formation of a new 50-50 joint venture investment company, General Motors SAIC Investment Limited. Through the end of November 2009, Shanghai GM had sold 2,973,411 vehicles. Source: GM. Click to enlarge.

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APRIL 2, 2010

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected Smith Electric Vehicles US Corporation to receive $32 million in grant funding toward the production of all-electric, zero emissions commercial trucks. Smith’s original DOE grant of $10 million announced on 5 August 2009 has been increased by $22 million./p>

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AUGUST 6, 2011

Rio Tinto has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Jindal Steel and Power Limited (JSPL) to take the next step in global commercialization of the HIsmelt direct smelting technology to be used in a fully integrated steel-making facility. Rio Tinto brought a HIsmelt pig iron plant online in Kwinana, Western Australia in 2006.

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APRIL 1, 2010

Sakti3 was awarded a $3 million grant from The Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC) in 2009 and has been designated as a State of Michigan Center of Energy Excellence (CoEE) in partnership with the University of Michigan.

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JUNE 26, 2011

The biofuel will be produced from used cooking oil by Dynamic Fuels at its Geismar plant and supplied by SkyNRG, the consortium launched by KLM and North Sea Group and Spring Associates in 2009. Earlier post.)

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NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC) has reached 5,000 units of its i-MiEV new generation electric vehicle (EV) produced at its Mizushima Plant as of 23 November. The i-MiEV began mass production in June 2009. This figure does not include EV production for PSA Peugeot Citroën.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Mitsubishi Fuso Truck & Bus Corporation (MFTBC) will deliver 25 Fuso Canter Eco Hybrid trucks ( earlier post ) to Australia by the end of March, its largest delivery of hybrid trucks outside Japan. The first order for Fuso Hybrid trucks from a customer outside of Japan was received by MFTBC in October 2009.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2010

The Electrification Coalition (EC) has released the Fleet Electrification Roadmap, an analysis of the business case for electric-drive technology adoption among the more than 16 million commercial, corporate, and government fleet vehicles in the United States. Smith, Chairman, President, and CEO of FedEx Corporation.

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MARCH 4, 2010

Mitsubishi Fuso Truck & Bus Corporation (MFTBC) has begun sales of Fuso Canter Eco Hybrid trucks in Hong Kong. In October 2009, the Electricity Supply Board in Ireland ordered ten Fuso Canter Eco Hybrid trucks, making it the first customer outside of Japan to order the light-duty truck. Daimler AG owns 85% of MFTBC shares.

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