Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2019

million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions per year—equivalent to taking more than one million cars off the roads. We are the only player at the table using low cost, sustainably produced carbohydrates as a feedstock to produce renewable jet fuel. Gevo’s ATJ has been used to power commercial flights since 2016.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2016

According to a new forecast report from Navigant Research, global commercial alternative powertrain medium- and heavy-duty vehicle (MHDV) sales will grow from about 347,000 vehicles in 2016 to more than 820,000 in 2026, representing a CAGR of about 9%. Medium- and heavy-trucks represent 4.3% of vehicles in the US, drive 9.3%

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2018

Through the pilot scheme we aim to demonstrate that the technology we’ve developed is a cost-effective way to achieve one of the holy grails of CO 2 emissions strategies – negative emissions in power production, which is where we believe the potential CO 2 emissions reductions are likely to be the greatest.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2017

million to 22 new cost-shared projects to accelerate the research of advanced battery, lightweight materials, engine emission control technologies, and energy efficient mobility systems (EEMS). An additional two projects will research and develop novel emission control strategies for advanced combustion engines. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2023

Made from widely available domestic feedstocks and advanced refining technologies, energy-dense biofuels provide a pathway for low-carbon fuels that can lower greenhouse gas emissions throughout the transportation sector and accelerate the bioeconomy. per GGE, with lifecycle emissions reductions exceeding 80% over petroleum.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2018

The C2CNT team uses low-energy, low-cost technology developed in the Licht lab located at GW’s Virginia Science and Technology Campus to transform carbon dioxide into widely useful and highly valued products—carbon nanotubes. Illustration credit: Licht, from Scientific Reports at Nature.com, 6:27760, 2016.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2016

Novomer is commercializing a proprietary catalyst system that transforms waste CO 2 into high performance, low-cost polymers for a variety of applications, including foam and plastic that are easily recyclable. Low Finished Polymer Cost. Among these companies is Novomer. These polymers contain up to 50% CO 2 by mass.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2017

In 2016, DOE national laboratories identified the potential of hydrogen to decarbonize deeply a multitude of sectors in a proposal termed “H2@Scale”. The DOE seeks qualified applicants to participate in cooperative research and development agreement (CRADA) projects with the H2@ Scale national laboratories consortium.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2016

The first trials on the demo plant in Leuna were successfully completed, within schedule, in the fall of 2016 and Global Bioenergies announced first production of green isobutene via fermentation. Global Bioenergies is now entering the final phase of demonstrating its technology for converting renewable carbon into hydrocarbons.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

As fuel prices have increased, truck manufacturers have responded by expanding their offerings of alternative drivetrains to help reduce emissions and fuel usage by trucks. However, Hurst adds that the primary challenge facing the hybrid truck market remains the cost of the system. —senior analyst Dave Hurst.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2016

Thermoelectric conversion technology that converts energy abandoned as waste heat back to electric power is strongly anticipated to be used for saving energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Conventionally, expensive platinum was used as the electrode material to extract electric power in a spin-Seebeck thermoelectric device.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2013

Projected rates of fuel consumption improvement under different scenarios relative to past experience and the 2016 and 2025 CAFE standards. In addition, alternative fuels to petroleum must be readily available, cost-effective and produced with low emissions of greenhouse gases. Source: NRC. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

The US Department of Energy has announced the 2016 Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR/STTR) Phase I Release 2 Topics, covering eight DOE research program organizations. Reduction of PGM loading in automotive emission control systems. are desired.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2016

The US Department of Energy (DOE) will award up to $7 million in project funding to accelerate the introduction of affordable, scalable, and sustainable high-performance fuels for use in high-efficiency, low-emission engines as part of the Co-Optimization of Fuels and Engines (Co-Optima) initiative. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2016

DOT will also evaluate applications based on their ability to reduce emissions and collaborate across the public and private sector. DOE and DOT have also agreed to partner on the development of a 2020 vision for a national network of fast charging stations for EVs in order to facilitate coast to coast, nationwide zero emissions travel.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2023

Stellantis aims to slash CO 2 in half by 2030, benchmarking 2021 metrics, and achieve carbon net zero by 2038 with single-digit percentage compensation of the remaining emissions. Smith, Omar Caceres (2016) “Why heap leach nickel laterites?” A Definitive Feasibility Study (DFS) is underway and will be completed before the end of 2023.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2020

The program will demonstrate that a suite of commercially available, EPA-rail-certified engines present a near-term, low-risk solution to create an affordable RNG hybrid line-haul locomotive with near zero emissions while simultaneously improving fuel cost by 50%. g/bhp-hr of NOx, a reduction of 400 times. g/bhp-hr of PM.

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JUNE 25, 2009

The renewable diesel fuel powered a 30-passenger hybrid diesel bus that provided local transportation to International Olympic Committee members who were visiting Chicago to assess the city’s bid to host the 2016 Olympic Games in April.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 31, 2013

MTBE was low-cost, had a high octane value, and was easily blended into gasoline stock—and was later found to have its own environmental problems.). Tier III volumes would initially be equal to that of mid-grade volume, and would hit the markets in 2016 or 2017. —John Heywood. Octane background.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2015

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) will issue , on behalf of the Vehicle Technologies Office (VTO), a FY 2016 Vehicle Technologies Program Wide Funding Opportunity Announcement, with an estimated $56 million of total program funding, in the January 2016 timeframe.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2011

mpg by 2016. The market would focus, consolidate and find some very innovative ways to produce low-cost clean energy. Globally, more than 100 nations have established renewable energy targets. Closer to home, the federal fuel economy standards require the average fleet fuel economy of OEMs that sell vehicles in the USA to be 35.5

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Clean Fleet Report

OCTOBER 21, 2021

for 2016, followed by the Model X. The Leaf has increased its range, looks and functionality since its introduction and remains a key affordable EV choice while used Leafs offer a low-cost EV alternative. News: Mercedes EQC Introduced ; First Drive: 2016 Mercedes-Benz B250e ; Smart Fortwo ED; 8. had Tesla badges on them.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

ICEs will continue to be the dominant powertrain for the next several years, at least through 2020, as the prices of electrified vehicles will remain high, even with incentives, and the payback period based on total cost of ownership (TCO) for consumers will be too long to be attractive.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2013

We now have the complete skill set, development resources and low-volume manufacturing expertise needed to help vehicle manufacturers, across a wide range of applications, introduce a technology that will allow them to significantly reduce CO 2 emissions for a fraction of the cost and weight of conventional electric hybrids.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2018

The AMPC’s 1,500 square meters of working space, in a bespoke building on Brunel’s campus in Uxbridge, is the second phase of BCAST’s scale-up facility, following on from 2016’s launch of the Advanced Metal Casting Center (AMCC). Touring the AMPC equipment at the opening.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Carbon emissions continue to rise, signalling the need for a comprehensive set of actions to achieve a decisive break from the past. Carbon emissions. In the Outlook ’s evolving transition scenario, carbon emissions rise by 10% by 2040.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2016

Low-cost commercial production of PODE has recently been realized in China. In 2012, Tsinghua University developed an industrial technique for producing PODE with the capacity of 10 kton/year in China, and the cost of production is close to that of diesel. With the application of EGR, NO x emissions are also very low.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Ford is showcasing the latest Transit and Transit Custom line-up powered by the Ford EcoBlue diesel engine ( earlier post ) at 2016 IAA Hannover Commercial Vehicle Show. liter TDCi engine, with CO 2 emissions from 157 g/km. EcoBlue also delivers significant improvements in low-rpm torque for enhanced driveability. liter engine.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2017

liter compression-ignition OPE will will be 30-50% more fuel efficient than comparable diesel and gasoline direct injection engines, reduce emissions and cost less than alternative technologies under development for meeting 2025 CAFE fuel economy and Tier 3 emission targets. Source: Achates Power. Click to enlarge.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 20, 2023

The mechanical complexity and high cost of most lidar sensors—which not long ago would have added tens of thousands of dollars to the price of each vehicle—no doubt helped shaped Musk’s views. We and others at our company, Analog Photonics , which spun out of MIT in 2016, hope to break this impasse.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2016

Earlier post.) ( DE-FOA-0001384 : Fiscal Year (FY) 2016 Vehicle Technologies Program Wide Funding Opportunity Announcement) DOE also released a report highlighting the successes of itsAdvanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing (ATVM) loan program. Area of Interest (AOI) 5: Advances for the Production of Low Cost Electric Drive Vehicle Motors.

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Cars That Think

MAY 9, 2024

Low-cost, low-mass, and space-hardy versions of these technologies would be required, but engineers trying to draw up detailed plans for such satellites today find no parts that meet the tough requirements. Chris Philpot Then, a decade ago, private-sector startups generated another flurry of media attention.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Given the technique’s reliance on low-cost materials and an ability to operate at room temperature in water, the researchers believe the approach could be scaled up for industrially relevant applications. For instance, the process could be used to store excess electricity generated from variable power sources such as wind and solar.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2015

Ballard anticipates receipt of purchase orders under the ESA that will lead to delivery of these fuel cell modules to Van Hool in 2015 and 2016. The module will also utilize fuel cell stacks manufactured through a high-volume, low-cost process. Van Hool is a Belgium-based independent bus, coach and industrial vehicle OEM.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2018

This waste carbon source resulted in around 5 gigatons of emissions in 2016 from the transportation, industrial, and electricity sector. scale carbon capture has enjoyed recent success, a major barrier to its utilization is the low energy content of CO 2 , making it relatively difficult to convert to fuels and products.

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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. Since it can operate on 100% biofuel, it is the means for achieving new goals recently set for reducing the use of fossil fuels and cutting the net emission of CO 2 to zero. by Professor Andrew Alfonso Frank.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2011

The Obama Administration has made a goal of developing cost-effective deployment of carbon capture, utilization and storage technologies within 10 years, with an objective of bringing 5 to 10 commercial demonstration projects online by 2016. DOE share: $2,835,680; recipient share: $708,920. Battelle (PNNL). TDA Research, Inc.

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