Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 17, 2016

A convertible version of the BMW i8 plug-in hybrid coupe was teased as far back as the 2012 New York Auto Show, when the i8 Spyder concept first debuted. But while the i8 coupe went into production as a 2014 model, BMW has been unusually slow to approve a convertible version for production.

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DECEMBER 1, 2020

The alternative drive concept combines an electric drivetrain with a high-voltage battery and a highly efficient energy converter for the first time. The energy required for this comes from a high-voltage battery, which can be charged as required while driving via an energy converter in the form of a highly efficient TFSI engine.

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JANUARY 10, 2019

billion, in line with financial charge taken for this purpose in third-quarter, 2018. FCA US will conduct an emissions recall to update emission control software in an estimated 100,000 model-year 2014-2016 Ram 1500 pickups and Jeep Grand Cherokee SUVs equipped with 3.0-liter The estimated total cost of settlements is $0.8

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APRIL 9, 2018

As a shareholder since 2014, it works with Symbio FCell, developer of a hydrogen fuel cell range extender. This can be used to convert any electric vehicle into an electric/hydrogen hybrid, encouraging rapid adoption of this technology, without having to wait for new models to be brought out. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

To produce it, the power-to-liquid plant converts surplus hydropower into synthetic fuel. This hydrogen, together with carbon dioxide, is converted in a two-step power-to-liquid process. First, the CO 2 and H 2 are converted into syngas in Ineratec’s RWGS (reverse water gas shift) reactor.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 28, 2019

The brand’s electrified model range has been continually expanded in the following years: e-Golf and Golf GTE followed in 2014, the Passat GTE and Passat Variant GTE in 2015. 3 started in November at the Zwickau plant, which has been fully converted for this purpose. To date, more than 37,000 customers have reserved an ID.3

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Audi’s e-tron quattro battery-electric SUV concept, which made its formal debut at IAA in Frankfurt ( earlier post ), is a strong indicator of Audi’s series-production electric SUV due in 2018—especially in terms of the powertrain. As soon as the battery is fully charged the process stops again.

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DECEMBER 2, 2015

The company will build Japan’s first demonstration plant for the production of biojet/biodiesel fuels in Yokohama, with operations planned to begin in 2018. drop-in hydrocarbon) renewable diesel production from Euglena since June 2014. ARA has developed a catalytic hydrothermolysis (CH) process to convert triglycerides (e.g.,

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MAY 30, 2013

The first products will be introduced in commercial production in 2014. Euro-4 is achieved through use of an EGR (exhaust gas recirculation) system and catalytic converter with replaceable filter. A 2012 Global Strategic Business Report projects that the number of natural gas vehicles in Russia will almost double by 2018.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2018

Seven 30-foot Gillig buses are being placed in service now; an additional twenty 40-foot Gillig buses will be delivered and commissioned in October 2018. In 2014, Big Blue Bus became the first transit agency in Southern California to purchase buses with near-zero compressed natural gas (CNG) engines. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Under city law, São Paulo is working to reduce fossil diesel use by 10% every year through 2018. In 2014, building on the successful scale-up of production at a specialty contract manufacturer, Amyris plans to produce this fragrance oil at Amyris’ own industrial fermentation plant, located near the town of Brotas, São Paulo state in Brazil.

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JULY 31, 2019

million in 2018 and is estimated to reach at least 130 million by 2030. Established in 2006, Circa Group converts waste biomass into bio-based chemicals with its proprietary Furacell process at its prototype plant in Tasmania—a joint venture with Norske Skog. According to the IEA, the global electric car fleet exceeded 5.1

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MARCH 6, 2014

The proposal was published on 21 January 2014 by the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT). The multiplier is set at 5 in 2016–2017, falling to 3 in 2018–2019, and then to 2 in 2020. in 2018–2019, and 1.5 100km (34 mpg US) in 2015. 100km (84 mpg US) will be counted as 3 vehicles in 2016–2017, 2.5

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Drive Electric

DECEMBER 3, 2021

The Max-Out is a lightweight two-seater convertible concept. Since then the LEAF has steadily gained more range, and a refreshed design was introduced in 2018. Nissan has also offered the e-NV200 all-electric van since 2014. The other concepts are the ‘Max-Out’, ‘Surf-Out’ and ‘Hang-Out’. Nissan Chill Out Concept.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2013

million bbl/d and is anticipated to be in service by late-2017 for deliveries in Québec and 2018 for deliveries to New Brunswick. The company intends to proceed with the necessary regulatory applications for approvals to construct and operate the pipeline project and terminal facilities in early 2014. Click to enlarge.

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MAY 26, 2015

Global Bioenergies, founded in 2008, has developed a synthetic isobutene pathway that, when implanted in a micro-organism, enables the organism to convert sugars (e.g., If successful, the first commercialization of this technology is expected as early as 2018. The process to convert isobutene to isooctane is well-established.

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JULY 29, 2021

Established in 2014 by Milton, Nikola worked toward revolutionary new battery-electric and hydrogen fuel cell automotive powertrains for commercial and passenger vehicles. Swift agreed to convert up to 800 trucks, securing a $16 million contract for dHybrid shortly after its establishment.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2015

In the course of 2015, both have raised output and exports over 2014 levels—Saudi Arabia by ~500 and 550~ mbbls/day respectively and Russia by ~100 and ~150. The year in which GDP exceeds 2014 GDP is noted in red font. The Saudis have repeatedly cut pricing to undercut competitors to maintain market share in the critical U.S.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2016

The Bioenergy Technologies Office’s (BETO) Advanced Algal Systems Program has a goal of demonstrating, at a process development unit scale, algal biofuel intermediate yield of 2,500 gallons per acre per year by 2018 and 5,000 per acre per year by 2022. This FOA is directed at the interim yield between the two target yields and target years.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 3, 2024

Bringing Google Home to market When Amazon announced in 2014 it was developing smart speakers with AI assistive technology, a gadget now known as Echo , Google decided to develop its own version. Kim, who grew up in South Korea, missed his family, and in 2018 he moved back, joining Samsung as vice president of its AI Center in Seoul.

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EV Report

APRIL 30, 2020

In comparison, in 2018 US and China had a total combined sales of 1.2 As a result, buyers are using the perks which they get to convert to cash. By 2017, the number of stations increased to 300 from 2014. This has been the trend for the last 30 years. So how did this happen? million (360,000 of them being plug in hybrids).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2015

Amyris uses its industrial synthetic biology platform to convert plant-sourced sugars into renewable hydrocarbons for fuel and chemical applications; Solazyme has developed a technology that harnesses the oil-producing ability of microalgae to develop renewable oil products.). Earlier post.). Georgios Karavalakis, Thomas D. Durbin, Robert L.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2016

In 2014, California’s dairy industry generated a record $9.4 Working together, CalRecycle and CARB will have a regulation in place by 2018 to effectively eliminate disposal of organics in landfills by 2025. Nearly 60% of California’s methane emissions are produced by agricultural activities, primarily at dairy farms.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

An expert in power electronic converters, electrical machines, and novel grid components, he spent almost his entire career in academia, conducting research in power electronics. He founded the IEEE Empower a Billion Lives global competition in 2018 to crowdsource ideas that could improve energy access in underserved communities.

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MAY 5, 2015

ACT Research forecasts that adoption rates for US Class 8 natural gas-powered commercial vehicles will grow steadily from 4% in 2014 to an estimated 10% in 2018 and 23% in 2020 (ACT Research Co. Adoption Forecasts 2015). The system comes with both transit-fill and time-fill fuel ports.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2016

kWh pack), which Audi presented in November 2014. The storage battery operates over the range of 220 to 460 volts—a 3-way DC/DC converter in the engine compartment equalizes the difference compared with the fuel cell’s voltage level. 3-way power DC/DC converter. Earlier post.) Hydrogen storage. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Organic wastes converted to biogas could supply enough renewable natural gas for about 2 million residential units. Also, Senate Bill 605 (Lara, 2014) requires ARB to develop a plan to reduce emissions of SLCPs, while SB 1383 requires the Board to complete and approve the plan by 1 January 2018.

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Clean Fleet Report

AUGUST 24, 2021

First was the short-lived, 2014-2016, very cool looking ELR plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV). Additional charging comes from Cadillac’s variable Regen on Demand regenerative braking system that converts kinetic energy into electricity when braking or coasting. Road Test: 2018 Cadillac CT6 PHEV.

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Clean Fleet Report

AUGUST 27, 2021

The four-wheel power-assisted disc anti-lock brakes are part of the regenerative charging system that converts kinetic energy into electric energy and stores it in the battery when applying the brakes or coasting. Road Test: 2018 Lexus RX 350. Wind noise was low with a respectable 0.34 Coefficient of Drag (Cd). News: Lexus UX 300e EV.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The VPU converts the images to simple patterns of 60 pixels and sends that information to a transmitter on the user’s glasses. Spectrum analyzed all 90 MAUDE reports for the Argus II, submitted from 2014 to 2020. By 2018, Byland’s impressions had shifted. approval in 2013. James Provost.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

At InnoTrans 2018, the International Trade Fair for Transport Technology, MAN Engines is exhibiting the D3876 LE63x for locomotives, which produces 471 kW (632 hp) at 1,800 rpm. The D3876 in-line six engine is a system with top-class performance that has been an established fixture and a practical success in trucks since 2014.

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JUNE 4, 2022

EPA also established a 250-million-gallon “supplemental obligation” to the volumes finalized for 2022 and stated its intent to add another 250 million gallons in 2023, to address the remand of the 2014-2016 annual rule by the DC Circuit Court of Appeals in Americans for Clean Energy v.

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MAY 5, 2009

The analysis uses economic models to determine the area and location of land converted into cropland in each country as a result of the RFS program. Satellite data are used to predict the types of land that would be converted into cropland (e.g. a To be determined by EPA through a future rulemaking, but no less than 1.0

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 27, 2022

Later, the converted Kim would become the “loudest-speaking” professor at KAIST, according to several fellow faculty members, and they say his absence made the whole campus seem quiet. Favorite movie: Ode to My Father , 2014 (South Korean film). At Fairchild, Kim also learned how to communicate with and lead other engineers.

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MAY 25, 2011

Miles per gallon of gasoline-equivalent converts kilowatt-hours of electricity into gallons of gasoline (based on 33.7 In July, the Obama Administration plans to finalize the first national fuel economy and greenhouse gas emission standards for commercial trucks, vans and buses built in 2014 to 2018.

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DECEMBER 1, 2015

The production version of Audi’s battery electric e-tron quattro SUV ( earlier post ), due out in 2018, is an important vehicle for the brand, and especially for Audi of America, which is driving many of the requirements for the C-segment electric SUV. plug-in hybrid or full electric—models by 2025. Earlier post. ).

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 5, 2023

This data has come in large part from ICESat , launched in 2003, and its successor, ICESat-2 , launched in 2018. Navy Lockheed C-130 Hercules transport was converted into an IPR-data-collection aircraft. Eliza Dawson In 2018, IceSat-2 launched, heralding the end of Operation IceBridge.

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