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JUNE 28, 2013

In 2009, AT&T announced it expected to spend an estimated $350 million to purchase about 8,000 Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) vehicles. engine and will leave IMPCO Automotive’s Union City, IN high volume production facility with 25GGE of CNG before transportation for the utility body installation. Earlier post.).

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MARCH 30, 2011

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has updated rules making it easier for manufacturers to sell fuel conversion systems—i.e., systems that alter a conventionally-fueled vehicle or engine to enable it to run on an alternative fuel. Vehicle/Engine Age Conversion Manufacturer Requirement Certificate Issued?

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JANUARY 9, 2019

Canada-based Carbon Engineering Ltd. (CE) CE has been developing DAC technology since 2009 and capturing CO 2 from the atmosphere at a pilot plant in Squamish, B.C. since 2015. The DAC plants are location-independent and can be co-located with an oilfield operation for enhanced oil recovery (EOR).

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MAY 7, 2010

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to make it easier for manufacturers to gain approval to sell fuel conversion systems. The proposed rule would cover conversions of light-duty vehicles and heavy-duty highway vehicles and engines, and would apply to all clean alternative fuels. Vehicle/Engine Age.

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AUGUST 20, 2021

In 2009, I wrote in these pages about my efforts to. Purpose-built electric bikes and e-bike conversions using hub-motors are now commonplace. That got me thinking, how hard would it be, and how much would it cost, to do a simple conversion now? Fast forward a dozen years. If anything, it's gone up. So I bought an outrunner.

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JUNE 7, 2010

Ford will begin offering an alternative-fuels engine prep package for its 6.8-liter Ford presented details of the conversion option, which will become available this fall and enables the use of compressed natural gas (CNG) or propane (LPG, or liquefied petroleum gas), at the annual Ford Fleet Product and Business Conference in Dearborn.

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Conversion Ford Transit Connect Alternative Fuels 240

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2009

(BAF was acquired by Clean Energy in October 2009.). Additionally, although no formal order has been made, AT&T has requested that BAF procure on AT&T’s behalf CNG cylinders for 463 additional conversions to be completed in the third quarter of 2010. V8 Triton engine. Tags: Conversions Natural Gas. Earlier post.)

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AUGUST 3, 2020

The sunliquid process developed by Clariant uses process-integrated enzyme production, optimized enzymes, simultaneous conversion of cellulose and hemicellulose into ethanol and an energy-efficient process design to overcome technological challenges and sufficiently reduce production costs in order to arrive at a commercially viable basis.

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JUNE 10, 2009

Poway, California-based Plug In Conversions Corp. kWh NiMH plug-in hybrid (PHEV) conversion kit that enables all-electric mode driving at speeds of up to 70 miles per hour (until the battery pack is depleted) in a converted Prius. Ewert Energy Systems video (handheld) of driving a Prius PHEV conversion at highway speeds.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2021

In order to use plants to make new materials, both problems must be solved—the conversion process needs to strip oxygen atoms from the glucose, and molecules must be combined to make larger products. The key sugar in plants is glucose, which contains too much oxygen and at six carbons is too small for many important applications.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2010

The authors highlight three possible strategies for CO 2 conversion by physico-chemical approaches: sustainable (or renewable) synthetic methanol; syngas production derived from flue gases from coal-, gas- or oil-fired electric power stations; and photochemical production of synthetic fuels. This same analysis (Pearson et al. Jiang et al.

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JANUARY 20, 2010

AC Propulsion and AutoPort , an automotive conversion, restyling and processing company, will partner in engineering, development and conversion to provide an Electric Vehicle conversion prototype and report for the United States Postal Service. US Postal Service Electrification of Delivery Vehicles (28 August 2009).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2010

has acquired 100% of the outstanding shares of OMVL SpA and OMVL’s 51% share of Juniper Engines Inc. Ian Scott, President of Juniper Engines, will manage the combined companies while Maurizio Grando, Managing Director of OMVL, will continue to manage the Italian operations. In 2009, Juniper Engines introduced its new 2.0-liter

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2010

Researchers from the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have formed the Clean Energy Partnership to accelerate the development and deployment of coal conversion, emissions capture and carbon storage technologies.

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Coal Chinese Conversion Emissions 170

Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2009

US-based BAF Technologies , a provider of natural gas conversions for select light- and medium-duty vehicles, has entered into an exclusive distributorship agreement with UK-based T. BAF is currently converting 600 AT&T Ford E-Series vans to dedicated CNG technology in 2009. Basic OIGI system for CNG or LNG. Click to enlarge.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2009

reported a major step forward in its development of renewable fuels, achieving direct microbial conversion of carbon dioxide into hydrocarbons via engineered organisms, powered by solar energy. Joule Biotechnologies, Inc. Earlier post.) Bill Sims, President and CEO, Joule Biotechnologies. million barrels per day by 2030.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

The AVEC axial engine technology in a 60 hp (45 kW) application targeted at UAVs. Axial Vector Energy Corporation (AVEC) and Kirloskar Oil Engines (KOEL) have signed a binding memorandum of understanding (MOU) for a joint venture for the mass production of the Axial Vector axial-type, multi-fuel engines ( earlier post ).

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JUNE 4, 2009

a leading manufacturer of engine components that converts vehicles to operate on cleaner gaseous fuels, such as propane. Partnerships like this make it feasible to address the industry’s distribution, installation and service/support gap for propane engines, broadening the potential for propane to become a widely utilized domestic fleet fuel.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2010

The poplars has been planted on 6 May 2009 in an open-air field trial in Ghent. Bio Base Europe consists of a pilot plant in Ghent for bio-based products and processes on the one hand, and a training center for bio-process operators in Terneuzen on the other hand.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 29, 2022

Lightning’s zero-emission powertrain provides our customers with an updated powertrain that is not only more sustainable and more efficient than the gasoline engine that is being replaced, but also provides the latest safety and driver technology on a platform that is serviceable and highly customized for their needs.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2019

CARB, in partnership with CALSTART, launched HVIP and Low NO x Engine Incentives in 2009 to accelerate the purchase of cleaner, more-efficient trucks and buses in California. From its inception in 2009, more than $589 million has been allocated to HVIP.

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California Fleet Cleaner Clean 207

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

Researchers from Japan and Mexico have developed a one-step hydrotreatment process over catalysts containing Ni-Mo and solid acids for the conversion of vegetable oils (Jatropha, palm and canola) to renewable diesel and LPG fuels. A paper on their work appears in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels. —Liu 2011. doi: 10.1246/cl.2009.552.

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JUNE 30, 2009

Dallas-based BAF Technologies has begun converting 600 AT&T Ford E-Series vans to dedicated CNG technology in 2009. V8 Triton engine. Tags: Conversions Fleets Natural Gas. This is part of AT&T’s plan to invest up to $565 million to deploy more than 15,000 alternative-fuel vehicles over the next 10 years. Earlier post.).

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FEBRUARY 17, 2010

The United States Postal Service (USPS) has awarded electric vehicle provider ZAP an engineering contract for the design and development of an electric version of its Long Life Vehicle (LLV). The USPS fleet consumed 444 million gallons of fuel in 2009, costing roughly $1.1 billion miles each year. Agency vehicles average 10.4

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2011

These include pyrolysis; catalytic conversion; depolymerization; and gasification. The Plastic2Oil conversion process is similar to pyrolysis, and involves the cracking of plastic hydrocarbon chains at ambient pressure and low temperature using a reusable catalyst.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2010

(CIL) announced that CIL has received purchase orders for 460 natural gas engines to customers outside of Delhi, India. The B Gas Plus and B Gas International engines, powered by compressed natural gas (CNG), are licensed by CWI and manufactured by CIL. India imports 70% of its diesel and gasoline.

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DIY Electric Car

JULY 15, 2010

The Ban on EV Conversions is Over!!! Yesterday (June 7, 2010), Electric Mobility Canada sent out an e-mail advising its Ontario members that MTO has lifted the ban, and has implemented an interim solution for the licensing of electric vehicle conversions. "EV conversions are: ? Ontario's Ban on Electric Cars.

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Conversion Canada Convert 2010 100

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AUGUST 1, 2009

Researchers have engineered strains of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae —the workhorse of industrial fermentation—to use pentose (five-carbon) sugars from lignocellulosic biomass for the production of cellulosic ethanol. This research has been published in the August 2009 issue of the Journal of the Association of Laboratory Automation.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Researchers at UCLA led by Dr. James Liao have genetically engineered the common photosynthetic cyanobacterium— Synechococcus elongatus —efficiently to produce isobutyraldehyde and isobutanol directly from CO 2. A paper on their work was published online in Nature Biotechnology 15 November. —Atsumi et al.

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JULY 18, 2021

De Lijn introduced its first hybrid buses in its fleet in 2009, and currently operates 530 hybrid buses. With regular hybrids, that capacity is limited: while they accelerate emission-free from standstill, their low-emission diesel engine kicks in after about 400 m to recharge their battery pack.

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MARCH 26, 2013

This is OSEO’s third financing on the Company’s program aiming at the conversion of renewable resources into isobutene. OSEO’s financing of various development stages of Global Bioenergies’ isobutene program amounts, since 2009, to a total of €2 million (US$2.6

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JUNE 12, 2012

Italy, the European leader in natural gas vehicle (NGV) adoption, has seen a 16% increase in its natural gas vehicle parc from 676,850 at the end of 2009 to 785,000 vehicles by early 2012. This number mainly comprises private cars and vans, which can be refueled at any of the 850 public refueling stations spread over the country.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2009

A study of flex-fuel vehicles operating on different ethanol blends (E10, E20, E30, and E85) found that higher ethanol blend ratios provide better energy conversion within the engine. L engines and pickups with 4.7 L engines—on a chassis dynamometer. L engines and pickups with 4.7 Source: Hanna et al.

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Nebraska Fuel Energy Engine 218

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JUNE 6, 2011

a technology developer focusing on the conversion of carbon dioxide and methane to fuels, plans to produce samples of diesel fuel in an end-to-end process demonstration. The UOS catalyst technology, developed over the past decade by Dr. Hui Wang, professor of Chemical Engineering, has demonstrated high performance and reliability.

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MARCH 4, 2011

The same principle is used to power jet engines today. This machine is basically a jet engine running on a hot liquid. MPa enable the system to operate with very high thermal efficiency, exceeding even those of a large coal-generated power plant and nearly twice as efficient as that of a gasoline engine (about 25%). 2009.03.017.

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MAY 24, 2016

The plant is being engineered to sit adjacent to an operating sugar mill, with only the residual bagasse entering the new IH 2 process facility. SunLight Fuels’ founders have experience in feedstock sourcing, preparation, technology and operations, oil and gas engineering and financial services.

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OCTOBER 11, 2010

After a three-month period covering the main issues in sustainable mobility, students choose one of the following options: mastering electric vehicle energy: electro-mechanical conversions, static conversions and storage; or.

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