Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2010

On Tuesday, US Senate Majority leader Harry Reid released the “Clean Energy Jobs 5 and Oil Company Accountability Act of 2010”—the latest version of the energy bill to emerge from the Senate. Division B of the bill outlines two major transportation-related initiatives to reduce oil consumption and enhance energy security, including up to $3.8

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2010

More specifically, 248 proposals were received in the Innovative Materials & Processes for Advanced Carbon Capture Technologies category, 245 in the Batteries for Electrical Energy Storage in Transportation category and 90 related to Electrofuels. There is an attendance fee to defray the costs of the workshops.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

The major challenges in the photo/electrochemical synthesis of alcohols from sunlight, water and CO 2 are low product selectivity, high membrane fuel-crossover losses, and the high cost of product separation from the electrolyte. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). In April 2015, the DOE refunded JCAP for another five years with $75 million.

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Setec Powerr

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Energy storage with hydrogen, which is still emerging, would involve its conversion from electricity via electrolysis for storage in tanks. From there it can later undergo either re-electrification or supply to emerging applications such as transport, industry or residential as a supplement or replacement to gas.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2010

However, the two conclude in their review, substantial advances in catalyst, electrolyte, and reactor design are needed to enable CO 2 utilization via electrochemical conversion a technology that can help address climate change and shift society to renewable energy sources. Current research efforts in the electrochemical conversion of CO 2.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2014

As described in multiple DOE reports, the main barriers to widespread PEV commercialization are the cost; performance and life; and abuse tolerance of high?energy Specifically: the current cost of high?energy Most critical is the cost of the carbon fiber. The cost to manufacture the carbon fiber is high. energy batteries.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2011

A key barrier to achieving RFS2 is the high cost of producing biofuels compared to petroleum-based fuels and the large capital investments required to put billions of gallons of production capacity in place. As of 2010, biofuel production was contingent on subsidies, tax credits, the import tariff, loan guarantees, RFS2, and similar policies.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2010

This is an exciting opportunity for people to be part of the development of low-emission transport options as we look for new ways to cut carbon emissions and provide greener travel. The trial will also look at electric two-wheelers , as well as include some locally manufactured electric vehicle conversions. —Premier Brumby.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 3, 2013

An analysis by a team in Bangladesh found large air quality and associated health benefits accruing to the residents of Dhaka (the capital of Bangladesh) as a result of the rapid conversion of the motor vehicle fleet to CNG. However, CNG conversion was apparently detrimental from a climate change perspective, as CH 4 emissions increased.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Value of life-cycle emissions externality damages and oil premium costs from vehicles in 2010 $. We compare externality and oil consumption costs to the costs of owning and operating these vehicles and to subsidies designed to encourage their adoption. Michalek et al. Click to enlarge. —Michalek et al.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2010

Gevo’s technology platform is high yielding, approaching 94% of the theoretically possible conversion of plant sugars to isobutanol, according to the filing. The straightforward conversion of isobutanol into butenes is a fundamentally important process that enables isobutanol to be used as a building block chemical in multiple markets.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2009

ARPA-E is seeking new ways to make liquid transportation fuels—without using petroleum or biomass—by using microorganisms to harness chemical or electrical energy to convert carbon dioxide into liquid fuels. Batteries for Electrical Energy Storage in Transportation (BEEST).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2010

Pyrolysis bio-oils are produced by the thermal decomposition of biomass by heating in the absence of oxygen at more than 500 °C; fast pyrolysis of biomass is much less expensive than biomass conversion technologies based on gasification or fermentation processes. Credit: Science , Vispute et al. Click to enlarge. —Vispute et al.

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EV Connect

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Major improvements in technology, along with a growing sense of urgency in the push toward clean, sustainable energy, are changing the ways that institutions and businesses think about their role in the transportation economy. In 2010, there were only about 17,000 electric cars on roads around the world.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 28, 2010

In these yeast strains, hydrolysis of cellobiose takes place inside yeast cells through the action of an intracellular ß-glucosidase following import by a high-affinity cellodextrin transporter. A glucose transporter on the surface of the yeast prefers to bind to glucose. The team first gave the yeast a cellobiose transporter.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 18, 2014

LDVs accounted for 61% of all transportation energy consumption in the United States in 2012—8.4 This results in total transportation sector CO 2 emissions roughly 9% lower than in the Reference case. In 2010, those shares were 43% and 86%, respectively. million barrels of oil equivalent per day in 2040. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Conversion kits also will be available to switch medium-duty gasoline vehicles to run on propane. PERC estimates that operating costs of a propane fleet typically range from 5 to 30% less than a gasoline-powered fleet, when capital costs (vehicle and infrastructure) and operation and maintenance costs are all taken into consideration.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2009

Rentech, the developer of a Fischer-Tropsch process for the conversion of syngas derived from biomass and fossil resources into synthetic fuels, specialty waxes and chemicals, has acquired a 25% stake in ClearFuels Technology Inc. through a strategic investment. Between 1987 and 2004, Pearson Technologies, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2010

Production of microalgae for biofuels needs to take place on a much larger scale at much lower costs. If all transport fuels were to be replaced by biodiesel in Europe, there would be an annual need for nearly 0.4 Barbosa (2010) An Outlook on Microalgal Biofuels. billion m 3. Wijffels and Maria J. Science Vol.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2010

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) released a report outlining both the current state of renewable transportation fuels efforts in the US and a plan to develop regional strategies to increase the production, marketing and distribution of biofuels. RFS2 becomes effective on 1 July 2010. USDA Regional Roadmap. billion gallons.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

The nonpartisan US Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that federal policies to promote the manufacture and purchase of electric vehicles, some of which also support other types of fuel-efficient vehicles, will have a total budgetary cost of about $7.5 billion through 2019. times the direct reductions. Electric Vehicles”.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2014

The baseline scenario (BASE) represents the 2010 composition of the Greater London bus fleet (8,624 buses), which comprised EURO II to EURO V buses that have particle filters to meet EURO IV PM limits. As a result, current LB-CNG vehicles are the most costly of all of the modeled technologies, they concluded.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2011

Red Wolf, formed in 2010, is in the process of raising $3 million through an equity offering to commercialize the thermal-chemical catalytic process. A parallel step to the fuel conversion is the separation of the by-product of hydrolysis, glycerol, from the sweet water.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2013

In response to a Congressional mandate in 2010, the National Research Council (NRC) convened the Committee on Transitions to Alternative Vehicles and Fuels to assess the potential for vehicle and fuel technology options to achieve substantial reductions in petroleum use and GHG emissions by 2050 relative to 2005. —Douglas M.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2010

The bill provides more than $7 billion annually to improve transportation infrastructure and efficiency, including highways and mass transit systems. Significant tax incentives encourage the conversion of trucks and heavy-duty fleets to natural gas vehicles. Reducing Transportation Emissions. Transportation and refined products.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2020

Launched in January 2019, Uber’s Clean Air Plan aims to tackle air pollution by helping drivers upgrade to an electric vehicle through the introduction of a Clean Air Fee: 15p a mile is added on to all London journeys which will help drivers with the cost of adopting an electric vehicle.

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Clean Fleet Report

APRIL 8, 2022

We tried it and it works, but needing this technology is another conversation for another day. The 2022 GMC Hummer EV doesn’t stray far from the last Hummer we saw in 2010. Because of this we don’t address issues such as long-term reliability or total cost of ownership. A little help in back. Familiar Design.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2018

lignin, CO 2 , and biosolids), improving organic and inorganic catalysts to increase conversion efficiency and decrease costs, and creating high-value performance-advantaged bioproducts to allow for more profitable biorefineries. These resources thus offer potential opportunity for conversion into biofuels, bioproducts, and biopower.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2009

The Environmental Protection Agency(EPA) and the Department of Transportation, through are jointly developing the proposed rulemaking. These vehicle categories are responsible for almost 60% of all US transportation-related greenhouse gas emissions. Air conditioning credits.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2011

aviation fuel at the scale or speed needed to achieve industry goals, the report focuses on a portfolio of options, including different conversion technologies and sources of potentially sustainable biomass, including oilseeds, forest residues, solid waste, and algae. Studies show that gasification technologies face high upfront costs.

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Charged EVs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Since 2010, OUC, a municipally-owned public utility, has installed hundreds of public charging stations, some powered by solar arrays. He tells us that Florida utilities have been very engaged in electrification of transportation since OUC led its first electrification roundtable back in 2018. Charged : Let’s talk about capacity.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2010

While calculated costs of this biofuel are competitive with other kinds of alternative fuels, they found, further research is required to better determine the effect of feedstock properties and process conditions on the ultimate yield of liquid fuel from bio-oil. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). Wright, Darren E. Dullard, Justin us A.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2013

These transformational technologies would have promise to reduce the barriers to ubiquitous deployment of low-loss WBG power semiconductor devices in stationary and transportation energy applications. Advances in power electronics promise to substantially reduce the weight and additional cost of the electrification of vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

conversion to fuel molecules or to electrons—depends on market and regulatory contexts that are outside the scope of attributional life cycle assessments (LCA). Both styles of LCA have been used in recent regulations aiming to reduce GHG emissions from the transportation sector. A 2009 life cycle analysis by Campbell et al.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2017

Much progress has been made on WBG-based power switches over the past decade; ARPA-E’s Agile Delivery of Electrical Power Technologies (ADEPT) program, initiated in 2010, funded several teams to develop new WBG devices and demonstrate their efficacy in system demonstrations. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 4, 2010

Examples include, among a great many other possibilities, the replacement of gasoline and other transportation fuels with renewable biofuels. The cost of starting materials is generally a small fraction of their cost, and relatively little starting material is necessary so availability is not an issue. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2010

The goal of the NSF-DOE partnership is to leverage the complementary missions of deployment and commercialization (DOE) and fundamental research and education (NSF) to develop the critical understanding and technology improvements needed to make the efficient conversion of waste heat in automotive exhaust systems to electricity commercially viable.

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