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SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Terrabon, a company commercializing a waste-to-biogasoline technology developed at Texas A&M, ( earlier post ), has filed for bankruptcy protection under Chapter 7 of the Federal bankruptcy laws. In January 2011, Terrabon, Inc. Earlier post.). Terrabon, Inc. The MixAlco technology converts biomass to bio-gasoline.

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JANUARY 26, 2013

AB Volvo has signed an agreement with the Chinese vehicle manufacturer Dongfeng Motor Group Company Limited (DFG) to acquire 45% of a new subsidiary of DFG, Dongfeng Commercial Vehicles (DFCV), which will include the major part of DFG’s medium- and heavy-duty commercial vehicles business. billion (pro forma).

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MARCH 21, 2012

Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) and Chery Automobile Company Ltd have reached agreement on a proposed joint venture in China. The scope of the proposed joint venture (JV) would include manufacture of JLR- and JV-branded vehicles; establishment of a research and development facility; engine manufacture; and sale of vehicles produced by the JV company.

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AUGUST 6, 2012

As it outlined in 2010, Bosch has increased the maximum injection pressure of its CRSN3-25 injection system for medium- and heavy-duty commercial vehicles to 2,500 bar. The company is also working on additional systems to reduce fuel consumption and emissions. billion), or 59% of total group sales, in fiscal 2011.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Braskem is joining a collaboration already launched in 2011 between Michelin and Amyris. This collaboration was initiated to develop and commercialize renewable isoprene, sourced from various biomass as an additional sustainable pathway to produce isoprene. Earlier post.)

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JULY 18, 2011

Oxford Catalysts Group PLC has received a commercial order for its microchannel Fischer-Tropsch (FT) product from a new customer, a Fortune 500 company committed to distributed production of synthetic fuels. The two reactors ordered will be delivered by the fourth quarter of 2011. Earlier post.).

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MAY 28, 2014

Liberty Electric Cars, the European subsidiary of Green Automotive Company, has completed the build of the first fully functioning example of “DELIVER”—an electric light commercial delivery vehicle funded by the European Commissions’ 7 th Framework Programme. Click to enlarge.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2013

CalBattery says it plans to move forward rapidly in the commercial scale-up and production of the novel composite anode material and to offer it in commercial production in the US by 2014. Current commercial LIBs have an energy density of between 100-180 Wh/kg and a specific anode capacity of 325 mAh/g. Earlier post.).

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DECEMBER 13, 2010

bank serving both private and public growth companies, forecasts the. energy sector will spur a flurry of M&A and investment activity in 2011 as renewable energy. Sustainable Industries Predictions for 2011 include: Cap and Trade Discarded by Congress in National Energy Policy. technologies mature. extraction.

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AUGUST 9, 2016

announced that its fleet of natural gas vehicles (NGVs) has surpassed 100 million miles of operations, making it the first commercial fleet outsourcing provider to reach this milestone. Ryder plays an important role in advancing the environmental sustainability of commercial transportation and logistics. Ryder System, Inc.

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AUGUST 27, 2012

Aerial photo of Green Crude Farm in November 2011. announced that the first phase of its Green Crude Farm, a commercial demonstration algae-to-energy facility, is now operational. Construction of this first phase, which began on 1 June 2011, was completed on time and on budget. Click to enlarge. Sapphire Energy, Inc.

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OCTOBER 4, 2011

Merger and acquisition (M&A) deals in the smart grid, energy storage, and electric vehicle (EV) sectors during the first six months of 2011 already totaled twice those made during all of 2010, and many more cash-starved start-ups are due for the auction block, according to a new report from Lux Research. M&A transactions totaled $2.42

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MARCH 14, 2017

Immediately preceding the Chapter 11 filing, the company retrenched to a core R&D team by terminating approximately 80% of its personnel (several of whom have also entered into consulting agreements with the company to assist it in the sale of its assets), paused all factory operations, and stopped the marketing and selling of its products.

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JULY 16, 2013

and The Linde Group will expand their partnership to commercialize a new industrial-scale conversion technology needed to upgrade algae biomass into crude oil. Together, the companies will refine the hydrothermal treatment process developed and operated today by Sapphire Energy at pilot-scale. Sapphire Energy, Inc.

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APRIL 5, 2023

Lab 4 is a materials and process-development laboratory and engineering company concentrating on process solutions to battery materials primary production and recycling. The company has experience in metals found on Ermazon concessions such as copper, manganese, and vanadium, across many types of processing.

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JUNE 24, 2011

SAE International will hold the 2011 Vehicle Battery Summit in Shanghai, 14-15 November 2011. Designed to integrate the most recent battery innovations with lessons learned in recent EV/PHEV commercialization efforts, this year’s Summit will build significantly on the knowledge presented at last year’s highly successful (2010) Summit.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Farnesane is a Direct Sugar to Hydrocarbon (DSHC) bio-kerosene developed jointly by Total and the US-based biotech company Amyris, which in April of this year received RSB (Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials) Certification. Earlier post.) The tests showed that blending can improve fuel emission characteristics.

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JULY 2, 2012

the largest manufacturer of fully-automatic transmissions for medium- and heavy-duty commercial vehicles and hybrid-propulsion systems for city buses, has invested in a non-controlling equity stake in Odyne Systems LLC. By the end of 2011, city buses equipped with the Allison H 40/50 EP hybrid system were operating in 230 cities worldwide.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2014

million in 2011 to $1.3 The OorjaPac DMFC system is already in use by some of the world’s largest materials handling and telecommunications companies. The global fuel cell industry surpassed $1 billion in revenue in 2012, growing from $847.5 billion in 2012, according to a 2013 report by Navigant Research.

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DECEMBER 23, 2012

American Commercial Lines (ACL) will begin transporting crude oil by barge on the US inland waterways for MEG Energy (US) Inc. MEG Energy), a subsidiary of the Canadian oil sands company MEG Energy Corp. American Commercial Lines Inc. American Commercial Lines Inc.

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MARCH 22, 2012

Boeing Commercial Airplanes President and CEO Jim Albaugh, Airbus President and CEO Tom Enders, and Embraer Commercial Aviation President Paulo Cesar Silva, signed the agreement at the Air Transport Action Group (ATAG) Aviation and Environment Summit in Geneva. —ATAG Executive Director Paul Steele.

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AUGUST 16, 2013

University of Maryland researchers have partnered with Redox Power Systems LLC to commercialize low-temperature solid oxide fuel cell (LT-SOFC) technology for distributed generation—and ultimately transportation—applications at about one-tenth the cost and one-tenth the size of current commercial fuel cell systems.

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APRIL 3, 2012

Algae-based renewable oil company Solazyme, Inc. Using standard industrial fermentation equipment, Solazyme can scale and accelerate microalgae’s natural oil production time to just a few days and at commercial levels. Source: Solazyme. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).

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MAY 14, 2014

Start-up Power Japan Plus announced plans to commercialize a dual-carbon battery technology, which it calls the Ryden dual carbon battery. The ability to charge the battery so rapidly could, the company proposes, enable longer-range electric vehicles, as regenerative breaking will be more efficient. Capacity vs. cycle number.

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MARCH 15, 2023

Elcora was founded in 2011 and has been structured to become a vertically integrated battery material company. As part of the vertical integration strategy, Elcora has developed a cost-effective process to purify high-quality battery metals and minerals that are commercially scalable.

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JUNE 24, 2011

Isuzu Commercial Truck of America is supporting the use of B20 (20% biodiesel blend) in all of its new 2011 and forward model year diesel engines, including its four popular N-Series truck models as well as the new Isuzu Reach. Isuzu Commercial Truck is the first Asian manufacturer to approve B20 for US market spec engines.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Alcoa and China Power Investment Corporation (CPI) have finalized an agreement to establish a joint venture company to produce high-end fabricated aluminum products for the China market. The two partners had signed a Letter of Intent in September 2011. The new joint venture company, Alcoa CPI (China) Aluminum Investment Co.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2011

The Oxford Catalysts Group has raised £21 million (US$34 million) before expenses from the conditional placing of 26,250,000 new shares, which will be used to accelerate its ongoing transition from a research and development organization to a commercial product company.

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JANUARY 11, 2012

Renewable fuels company Mascoma Corporation has implemented key components of the commercialization strategy for its Mascoma Grain Technology, or MGT, yeast product—the first commercial application of Mascoma’s proprietary consolidated bioprocessing (CBP) technology platform. Mascoma and Lallemand Specialties, Inc.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Neste, the leading producer of renewable diesel and Boeing, the world’s largest aircraft manufacturer, will work together to promote and accelerate the commercialization of renewable aviation fuel. The goal is also to gain widespread market acceptance for renewable aviation fuels, and to progress sustainability accreditation efforts.

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DECEMBER 22, 2022

These incentives are offered by the federal government, state governments, local jurisdictions, and electric utility companies in hopes of boosting the installation volume of EV chargers across the nation. In fact, in 2011 there were only 2,100 charging station locations throughout the United States. Station Locations.

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JANUARY 6, 2014

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. The technology has been successfully demonstrated on buses at the KAIST campus since 2009.

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JULY 14, 2011

and IFP Energies nouvelles (IFPEN) have initiated exclusive negotiations for the commercial development of the company’s proprietary pyrolysis oil upgrading process to produce second-generation biofuels. Dynamotive Energy Systems Corp. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). The process is patent pending. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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JULY 7, 2011

The investment will accelerate OPXBIO’s development and commercialization of renewable, bio-based chemicals and fuels that are lower cost, higher return and more sustainable than existing petroleum-based products. The company also announced that USRG managing director Jonathan Koch has joined the OPXBIO Board of Directors.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2012

The United Soybean Board (USB) has awarded Battelle funding specifically targeted to assist Biobent Polymers, the Marysville, Ohio-based bioplastics company, in the commercialization of its new bio-composite polymers made from soy. Masavage, Chief of Strategy and Operations at Biobent Polymers.

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JUNE 2, 2013

A combined team of engineers and technicians from Ad Astra Rocket Company and Cummins Power Generation have successfully powered a Cummins-built electrical generator using mixtures of hydrogen and biogas. kW renewable energy system being studied for potential commercialization by a combined team from Ad Astra Rocket Company, Cummins Inc.

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JULY 10, 2012

In 2011, China automobile sales exceeded 18.5 million units; commercial vehicle sales exceeded 4 million units. Protean also has won the 2012 Technology Pioneers Award from the World Economic Forum as being one of most promising start-up technology companies in the world. —Sonny Wu, GSR Ventures managing director.

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