Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2020

ASTM International has approved and published a seventh annex to D7566 , the sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) specification, with support from the Commercial Aviation Alternative Fuels Initiative (CAAFI). The hydrocarbons are cracked and isomerized, creating a synthetic jet fuel blending component comprised of paraffins.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Italy is the leading European market for natural gas consumption for vehicles, with more than 1 billion cubic meters consumed in 2015 and about 1 million vehicles currently in circulation. FCA is pursuing the development of alternative fuel motors as a key pillar in its strategy and has a leading position in the field of CNG technologies.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2015

using a blend of 95% petroleum jet fuel and 5% sustainable green diesel, a renewable drop-in bio-hydrocarbon fuel meeting ASTM International’s standard for Diesel Fuel Oils (D-975). In 2014, Boeing proposed the possibility of using green diesel at a low blending ratio to produce aviation drop-in fuel.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2012

The California Energy Commission unanimously approved funding of $35,031,310 to projects that will accelerate the development of green fuels and technology in California. These awards are provided through the Energy Commission’s Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program. Propel Biofuels, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

To launch the strategic relationship with SG Preston, JetBlue plans to purchase more than 33 million gallons of blended jet fuel per year for at least 10 years. The fuel will consist of 30% renewable jet fuel blended with 70% traditional Jet-A fuel.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Energy consumption by LDVs (including commercial light trucks) declines in the Reference case, from 16.1 quadrillion Btu in 2035, as a result of fuel economy improvements achieved through stock turnover as older, less efficient vehicles are replaced by newer, more fuel-efficient vehicles. Domestic oil production will rise to 7.5

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2017

Air Canada is participating in the Civil Aviation Alternate Fuel Contrail and Emissions Research project ( CAAFCER ), a research project led by the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) to test the environmental benefits of biofuel use on contrails.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2015

After extensive field testing of renewable diesel HVO (Hydrotreated Vegetable Oils), Volvo Trucks has approved the fuel for all Euro 5 engines and is preparing certifications for Euro 6 engines. —Tobias Bergman, Product Manager for alternative fuels and hybrids at Volvo Trucks. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2013

Achieving those goals will will be difficult—but not impossible to meet—and will necessitate a combination of more efficient vehicles; the use of alternative fuels such as biofuels, electricity, and hydrogen; and strong government policies to overcome high costs and influence consumer choices.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

For the study, the researchers used a proprietary spatial modeling program to investigate the possible advantages and disadvantages of natural gas as a transportation fuel and its potential role in enabling other alternative fuels. Economic and other findings. Additional options to supply CNG can be an enabling network feature.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2014

DOE will continue to focus on significantly increasing the amount of cost-competitive electric power from renewable resources across the nation by further accelerating the development and commercialization of these technologies. By the end of FY 2015, achieve best in class solar photovoltaic (PV) systems at $1.85/watt watt utility, $2.37/watt

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2016

Among the key findings of the study were: Maintaining the existing vehicle efficiency and fuels regulations to 2030 will lower tank-to-wheel GHG emissions from road transport to 647 Mt representing a 29% reduction compared to 2005 levels, achieving almost aspired level for 2030. BEVs fueled with low carbon, renewable electricity (for PC).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2016

BBB began using Redeem by Clean Energy in January 2015. Crankcase emissions are captured and redirected through the CCV filter, where oil is removed, before sending the gases back to the intake manifold to be reintroduced to the combustion chamber. Earlier post.). ISL G Near-Zero 0.02 Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

The H2 Mobility launch comes one day after leading automakers signed a Letter of Understanding regarding the commercialization and series production of fuel cell electric vehicles from 2015 onward. Today we can see that Germany is setting the pace when it comes to hydrogen and fuel cell technology. Earlier post.).

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

A consortium of companies have signed an agreement in Berlin in the presence of German Minister of Transport to introduction of a national network if hydrogen refuelling station in Germany by 2015. That’s good for the environment and for people – and it’s the reason why we want to commercialize this technology as soon as possible.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2013

At an event in Sacramento, California, Volvo Trucks announced that it will commercialize dimethyl ether (DME)-powered heavy-duty commercial vehicles in North America, with limited production beginning in 2015. Oberon Fuels is the first company to announce plans to commercialize DME fuel production in North America.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2012

They assessed purchaser technology choice for new vehicles on a cost-effectiveness basis using net present value (NPV) as a decision criterion, with parameters chosen to take account of factors such as consumer myopia with regard to fuel cost savings. R&D plus electric vehicle subsidy. 19% compared to the NNP case.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Furthermore, road freight activity is set to more than double from 2015 to 2050. Trucks represent the fastest growing source of global oil demand. They account for 40% of the expected increase in oil demand to 2050 and 15% of the increase in global CO 2 emissions. Access to private data for public entities is thus important.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2013

The plan as outlined also calls for further work on advanced biofuels, advanced batteries and fuel cell technologies in every transportation mode. In coming months, the plan notes, the Department of Transportation will work with other agencies to further explore strategies for integrating alternative fuel vessels into the US flag fleet.

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My Electric Car

AUGUST 21, 2020

Recent developments in lithium ion batteries, and the consequential range improvements of EVs has significantly dampened enthusiasm for hydrogen fuel cells. Little seems developed in any wide commercial sense and certainly not to the extent of the pure electric car. 2015, p127) [1]. . 2020) [11]. John Murray. Tillemann,L.,

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2015

The investment is so far the largest single investment by a US airline in alternative fuels. This alternative fuel will be a drop-in fuel that meets all of the airline’s technical requirements and specifications, and will power the aircraft in the same way as conventional jet fuel. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2010

Decreasing Dependence on Foreign Oil. It also provides significant incentives for the commercial deployment of 72 GW of carbon capture and sequestration. A strategic reserve complements the hard price collar and ensures the availability of price-certain allowances in the event of unusually high carbon prices. Natural Gas. Natural Gas.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

With increasing pressure from air pollution, oil consumption and congestion, China is compelled to reinvent propulsion technologies. … The first target (1999-2002) was compressed natural gas (CNG), liquid petroleum gas (LPG) and other combustion alternative fuel vehicles (CAFVs), in a program called the Clean Auto Auction.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2009

This report will assist regulators and government research programs to accurately assess the status of the fuel cell industry and viability of the current technology. Toyota’s hydrogen fuel cell technology has advanced rapidly over the last two years. As to alternative fuels, we have extensive research projects under way.in

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Most recently, Toyota announced that its fuel cell sedan would also be available in the UK, USA, Germany and Denmark during the summer of 2015. This is not much different from diesel and gasoline which are produced from refining and cleaning crude oil (a process which heavily involves the use of hydrogen).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2014

View of the CNG tank in the bed of a Silverado 2500HD with bi-fuel option. As with any alternative fuel, be it CNG, LPG, electricity, hydrogen or E85, one of the challenges facing its adoption is both the availability of the fuel as well as the mechanics of refueling. A structural oil pan further stiffens the powertrain.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

billion worldwide—by 2050, this may not be achievable through improvements to the traditional internal combustion engine or alternative fuels: the traditional combustion engine is expected to improve by 30%, so achieving full decarbonisation is not possible through efficiency alone. Total Raffinage Marketing.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

The alternative-fuel car evolved to reduce exhaust emissions and other problems derived from burning fossil fuels. The PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle), a subset of the electric car, combines a primary electric motor with a much smaller back-up engine fueled with a hydrocarbon/biofuel mix.

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EV Match

AUGUST 29, 2022

so-called “clean hydrogen,” including incentives for both its manufacture through less emissive processes (it has heretofore primarily been created using natural gas , which often comes from “fracking”) and for the purchase of vehicles – not only passenger cars such as the Toyota Mirai but commercial trucks and vans.

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