Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

The technology converts non-recyclable, non-compostable municipal solid waste into methanol, ethanol and other widely-used chemicals. In November 2017, Enerkem received approval from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to sell cellulosic ethanol produced at its Edmonton facility under the US Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS).

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JULY 5, 2017

It can be transported by the existing infrastructure and readily used in gasoline blends. A commercialized bioprocess of n-butanol can be readily realized by a cost-effective feedstock. Therefore, it is appealing to develop a technology platform that converts crude glycerol to the value-added products.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2018

It converts manure to R-CNG using a large anaerobic digester, and uses the fuel to power its milk tanker trucks. The other study assesses the Sacramento BioDigester, the first food-waste digester in California to turn commercial organic waste into R-CNG vehicle fuel using anaerobic digestion. Source: “Cow Power” case study.

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JULY 14, 2016

The plant, which will use Ensyn’s RTP (rapid thermal processing) ( earlier post ), will be the first commercial RTP facility designed and optimized for the production of biocrude used for heating, cooling and refinery applications, according to Dr. Robert Graham, Chairman, Ensyn Corporation. million gallons US) of renewable fuel oil per year.

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JANUARY 11, 2017

These feedstocks can be converted into renewable natural gas, diesel, and aviation fuels, or into valuable bioproducts. billion gallons of gasoline equivalent (GGE). SBIR technical topic areas for both the fiscal year 2016 (topics 10 b & c) and fiscal year 2017 (topics 14 a & b) included aspects of converting waste to energy.

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DECEMBER 15, 2016

Global Bioenergies is now entering the final phase of demonstrating its technology for converting renewable carbon into hydrocarbons. In the fuel sector, it is presently used to manufacture isooctane, ETBE and MTBE which are valuable compounds used in gasoline mixes. Earlier post.).

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JULY 11, 2017

LanzaTech’s first commercial facility converting waste emissions from steel production to ethanol will come online in China in late 2017. For liquid fuels, this is highlighted by targets initiated by the Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas to increase the supply of ethanol-blended gasoline (E10) to all parts of the country.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 8, 2018

The FONSI was issued as part of Velocys’ ongoing development of a 100-acre site in Natchez that the company secured in October 2017. The plant is expected to convert locally-sourced woody biomass waste into enough renewable fuel to meet the demands of running around 40,000 diesel and gasoline trucks.

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Mississippi Waste Fuel Renewable 170

Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2014

Together, Siluria’s OCM and ETL technologies form a unique and efficient process for transforming methane into gasoline, diesel, jet fuel and other liquid fuels. The successful scale-up of a commercially-ready process for producing fuels from natural gas represents another key milestone in our strategy. —Siluria CEO Ed Dineen.

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JULY 2, 2013

Elements of the proposal include: EPA should allow vehicle manufacturers that certify new vehicles to the “higher octane, higher ethanol content gasoline” level referenced in the proposed rulemaking also to certify that those vehicle are able to also operate on existing E10 or E15 fuels. These vehicles would be called “E30 Capable.”.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2017

The UW team is the first to try converting the entire young tree—leaves, bark and stems—into bio oil and ethanol using two separate processes. When scaled up to a commercial operation, leaves should be removed and may be used for other purposes, such as feed for animals. Chang Dou, Wilian F. Marcondes, Jessica E.

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Clean Fleet Report

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

The general assumption seems to be that Americans will simply ditch their gasoline-powered vehicles in favor of EVs. As of 2017 , commuting to and from work accounted for 30 percent of all miles of passenger travel driven at the local level in the U.S. A better question might be, how do they plan to get there?

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Clean Fleet Report

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Research on hydrogen vehicles dipped until the 1990s when European countries announced plans for more hydrogen-centered car power, such as the 2005-07 bi-fuel BMW 7-Series with a V12 engine that ran on either compressed hydrogen or gasoline. Hydrogen is more flammable than gasoline, electric or natural gas vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Sulfur compounds in fuels such as gasoline and diesel create air pollution when the fuel is burned. The new technique, however, has the potential to reduce sulfur down to a fraction of that amount, which would further reduce air pollution and extend the lifetime of vehicles’ catalytic converters, which control tailpipe emissions.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

The 2018 Mitsubishi Outlander Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV) will arrive in dealerships in December 2017 with an MSRP of $34,595. In this configuration, the gasoline-powered generator helps charge the lithium-ion drive battery pack and powers the motors. Equipped with a 2.0-liter Safety technology.

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OCTOBER 21, 2013

The market for micro hybrid and mild hybrid vehicles is on track to grow nearly eightfold to 39 million vehicles in 2017, driving a $6.9-billion billion market for energy storage devices, according to a 2012 Lux Research report on micro and mild hybrids. Earlier post.).

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NOVEMBER 16, 2015

The selected project will use a unique class of electrochemical sensors created at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) to develop low cost electronics packaging that is manufacturable at high volume and will integrate the LANL sensor into a commercial package that can meet the codes and standards for being deployed at a hydrogen fueling station.

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Charged EVs

MAY 11, 2022

Lower-line Lightnings use the 12-inch horizontal display from high-end gasoline F-150s. kW DC-to-AC converter and an automatic transfer switch for the home’s electrical panel. Still, it’s a use for EVs that gasoline trucks can’t duplicate, one that justifiably seized public attention. Top trims upgrade to a portrait-style 15.5-inch

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2013

Joule, the developer of a direct, single-step, continuous process for the production of solar hydrocarbon fuels ( earlier post ), has extended its solar CO 2 conversion platform to produce renewable gasoline- and jet fuel-range hydrocarbons. Joule is now commercializing its first product, Sunflow-E, for global availability in early 2015.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

Hybrid Integrated Urban Commercial Vehicle. The Hybrid Integrated Urban Commercial Vehicle (HIUCV) is a lightweight Heavy Goods Vehicle designed for refuse collection in an urban environment. A hydrogen fuel cell version of the van is due to be launched in 2017. The six successful projects are: Grantees Project Description.

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 13, 2021

Ignoring the briefly popular commercial electrics around at the turn of the last century, EVs have been experimental concepts or limited edition runs until relatively recently. Battery-gasoline hybrids go back more than 20 years to the first Toyota Prius, but real mainstream battery-only electric EVs are only in their second decade.

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My Electric Car

AUGUST 21, 2020

Little seems developed in any wide commercial sense and certainly not to the extent of the pure electric car. The hydrogen fuel cell in the FCEV acts to keep the battery charged, but can directly power the electric drive motor, similar to the function of a gasoline-powered range extender. Hydrogen is a classic one to one substitution.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2017

SURUS was designed to form a foundation for a family of commercial vehicle solutions that leverages a single propulsion system integrated into a common chassis. Commercial freight. The SURUS commercial platform draws on GM’s more than 50 years of research and development of fuel cell technology. Flexible cargo delivery systems.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2017

A team from Saudi Aramco Research and Development Center has developed a novel low-cost, high-octane gasoline blend component it calls SuperButol. The team suggests that SuperButol is thus a viable and affordable gasoline component, which can help to meet future demands for high-octane gasoline. —Kalamaras et al.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has announced the 2017 Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR/STTR) Phase I Release 2 topics , including three subtopics focused on hydrogen and fuel cell technologies. Further, a technology transfer opportunity is the use of a new Argonne catalyst for reducing NO x.

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DECEMBER 19, 2015

As an example, EPS suggests that a Cirrus SR22 (a single-engine four- or five-seat composite aircraft) fitted with the Graflight V-8 could carry the equivalent of two additional passengers flying the same distance as with a Continental gasoline 315 horsepower engine while still realizing a 40% reduction in fuel cost. Source: EPS.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2015

Joule, the developer of a direct, single-step, continuous process for the production of solar hydrocarbon fuels using engineered cyanobacteria ( earlier post ), announced the successful results from third-party testing of its ethanol fuel (Sunflow-E), setting the stage to obtain certification for commercial use. New financing.

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MAY 25, 2011

Sample label for a plug-in gasoline hybrid-electric vehicle, which features fuel economy ratings for both electricity and gasoline. The new labels will for the first time provide: New ways to compare energy use and cost between new-technology cars that use electricity and conventional cars that are gasoline-powered.

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Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 18, 2024

Newsom signed a funding bill to invest $106 million in the construction of additional hydrogen stations through the end of the decade, for the first time backing stations for commercial vehicles as well as passenger cars. If you can fill a tank with gasoline, then you will have no problems with hydrogen.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2018

The startup is developing the technology’s ability to combine and separate individual molecules to make gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel using CO 2 removed from the air. The paper is a characterization study of commercial prototype carbon nanotube (CNT) membranes consisting of sub–1.27-nm-diameter Source: Mattershift. Click to enlarge.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 26, 2021

They know it will take a little bit longer than a gasoline car because your gasoline stop. But Nissan has announced that for North America, they too are converting over to CCS. Importantly, Tesla is about to offer a converter that allows Teslas to use CCS charging sites. in a Tesla. It has a highway part and a city part.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 26, 2021

They know it will take a little bit longer than a gasoline car because your gasoline stop. But Nissan has announced that for North America, they too are converting over to CCS. Importantly, Tesla is about to offer a converter that allows Teslas to use CCS charging sites. in a Tesla. It has a highway part and a city part.

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Electric Vehicles Charging Vehicles Electric 85