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Audi partnering with Climeworks on CO2 direct air capture and storage

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Two years ago the two companies built a facility in Hinwil, Switzerland, that filters CO 2 from the air and provides it to the beverage industry, where it is converted to carbonic acid. Audi has been supporting the development of CO 2 capturing technology from the Zurich-based environmental start-up Climeworks since 2013.

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27 teams advancing in $20M NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE; converting CO2 to products

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Launched in September 2015, the 4.5-year Those teams producing fuels or potential intermediates include: Aljadix (Switzerland). The semi-finalist teams propose converting CO 2 into products as varied as enhanced concrete, fuels, toothpaste, nanotubes, fish food and fertilizer. Coal plant. Breathe (India). Coal plant. C4X (China).

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ICCT/TNO study: Real-world vehicle fuel consumption discrepancy widens to 42% in Europe

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com (Spain); and the car club TCS (Switzerland). for selected brands in 2001 and 2015. Further actions are therefore required, in particular on-road testing of fuel consumption and CO2 emissions under real driving conditions as well as independent surveillance testing of actual vehicles on the road. United Kingdom), km77.com

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New diamine-appended MOFs can capture CO2 for half or less of the energy cost of current materials

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Long (2015) “Cooperative insertion of CO 2 in diamine-appended metal-organic frameworks” Nature doi: 10.1038/nature14327. Schnell, Nora Planas, Kyuho Lee, Tod Pascal, Liwen F. Wan, David Prendergast, Jeffrey B. Neaton, Berend Smit, Jeffrey B. Kortright, Laura Gagliardi, Silvia Bordiga, Jeffrey A. Reimer & Jeffrey R.

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Study Finds That CO2 Standards for Vehicles Can Reduce Price of Oil

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The European mandatory carbon dioxide requirements for new light duty vehicles begin phased implementation in 2012, reaching a limit of 130 g CO 2 /km by 2015. Delayed implementation in the EU27 of the Baseline objective (130 g/km) until 2015. Delayed implementation in the EU27 of the Baseline objective (130 g/km) until 2015.

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“Energiewende” in a tank; Audi e-fuels targeting carbon-neutral driving with synthetic fuels from renewables, H2O and CO2; Swiss policy test case

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In May 2015, testing initiated by Audi confirmed that Joule’s e-ethanol meets: American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) D4806 – Denatured fuel ethanol for blending with gasolines for use as automotive spark-ignition engine fuel; and German Institute for Standardization (DIN) EN 15376 – Ethanol as a blending component for petrol.

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