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EPA announces 2011 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards; green chemistry market opportunity projected to be $98.5B by 2020, about 2% of total market

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billion in 2011 to $98.5 The 2011 award winners are: Greener synthetic pathways: Genomatica, San Diego, Calif. Genomatica has been producing BDO at pilot scale in 3,000 liter fermentations since the first half of 2010, and is moving to production at demonstration scale in 2011. billion by 2020. Awards Methodology.

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Toyota Central R&D Labs develops new ferrihydrite material that effectively removes ozone from air

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Ozone is formed when nitrogen oxide from exhaust is irradiated with UV light and releases an oxygen atom, which reacts with an oxygen molecule (O 2 ) to form an ozone molecule (O 3 ). Ozone (O 3 ) is a dangerous air pollutant that is highly reactive and causes both short- and long-term adverse health effect and also disrupts plant growth.

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Perspective: Europeans in the lead with range extenders for hybrid vehicles; 2nd vs. 3rd generation

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Electric Vehicles—Land, Sea & Air Europe 2011. The “ Electric Vehicles—Land, Sea & Air Europe 2011 ” conference and exhibition will take place in Stuttgart, Germany 27–28 June. In addition, the exhaust manifold is cast into the block, for the same reasons as the integral head.

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Analysis: What’s the Best Way to Market EVs?

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Without being exhaustive, let’s take a look at some examples. Good examples of all-new electric cars are the Nissan Leaf battery-electric and the Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid , which both debuted in 2010 as 2011 models. I’m looking primarily at the U.S. market; many other options await in Europe and Asia.

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