Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2014

British Airways and its partner Solena Fuels announced that the UK GreenSky facility to convert landfill waste into jet fuel ( earlier post ) will be built in Thames Enterprise Park, part of the site of the former Coryton oil refinery in Thurrock, Essex. Plasma is a very high-temperature ionized gas.) Click to enlarge. FT Processing.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2018

The project—Building Genome-to-Phenome Infrastructure for Regulating Methane in Deep and Extreme Environments ( BuG ReMeDEE )—was awarded a $6-million grant by the National Science Foundation in October 2017. SURF is located in Lead, South Dakota at the former site of the Homestake Gold Mine. Johnson, Bhupinder S. 2018.02.128.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Toshiba Corporation has developed large-scale production technology for electrolysis electrodes that realize high level efficiency in Power to Gas (P2G) technology while reducing the use of iridium, one of the world’s rarest precious metals, to 1/10. Practical application requires reduction of the iridium used.

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Production Water Conversion Hydrogen 243

Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2017

The 2017 model of the Porsche 919 Hybrid deploys a range of new innovations, particularly in the vehicle’s aerodynamics, the chassis and the combustion engine. Team Principal Andreas Seidl, who continues to serve as acting technical director, said that for the 2017 season, 60 to 70 percent of the vehicle is newly developed.

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Porsche 2017 Hybrid Exhaust 150

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2020

California’s latest greenhouse gas data shows that while the state continues to stay below its 2020 target for emissions, there is much more work to do to achieve carbon neutrality by 2045. million metric tons in 2017. million metric tons between 2017 and 2018, the first such decline since 2013. tons per person to 10.7

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2022

President Biden called on Congress to suspend the federal gas tax for the next 90 days, through the busy summer driving season—18 cents per gallon for gasoline and 24 cents per gallon for diesel. He also called on states to suspend their state gas taxes as well or to find other ways to deliver some relief.

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Congress Fuel Tax Tax Fuel 259

Clean Fleet Report

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

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. Amazon announced an investment of nearly $1 billion in an all-electric delivery truck fleet last October. The New York Police Department began its shift to electric vehicles last September.

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Corporation Fleet Gas-Electric Purchase 76

Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2020

Replacing a gasoline-powered ride-hailing vehicle with an electric vehicle can deliver three times the carbon benefits of a personally owned electric vehicle, according to a study by a University of California, Davis, researcher of Uber and Lyft data. The paper is published in the journal Nature Energy. Nat Energy (2020).

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Davis Personal Emissions Cleaner 239

Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2016

MW for the first years, will convert the off-gas waste heat from the steel-melting Electric Arc Furnace (EAF) to electric power. The heat recovery system configuration includes a saturated steam heat carrier circuit to convey the heat from the furnace exhaust gas to the ORC unit.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2015

with an estimated 15 million diesel gallon gas equivalents of renewable natural gas (RNG)—biomethane—as part of a multi-year agreement with Memphis Light, Gas and Water and Atmos Energy Marketing, LLC. of total gas and diesel purchased was displaced by using these alternative fuels. and Jackson, Miss.,

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Get Electric Vehicle

JUNE 5, 2023

It takes really long to form fossil fuels They are air pollutants – Combustion of fossil fuels emits greenhouse gases causes air pollution Global warming – as a result of greenhouse gas emission, atmospheric temperature increases ( how? ). 6 Electricity Electric energy is another form of energy used in a vehicle.

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Alternative Fuels Gasoline Fuel Gasoline-Electric 98

Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2018

The Toronto Transit Commission , the third largest transit agency in North America and the most heavily used system in all of Canada, purchased ten Proterra Catalyst E2 buses in support of the transit agency’s goal to convert its entire fleet of 1,926 buses to zero-emission buses by 2040. million CAD.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2018

Among other enhancements, buses will be equipped with Cummins-Westport Near-Zero engines and fueled by Renewable Natural Gas, to further reduce NO x vehicle emissions by more than 90% by December 2018. In 2015, Big Blue Bus became one of the country’s first municipal transit agencies to convert its entire fleet to renewable natural gas (RNG).

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Fleet Engine Los Angeles Gas-Electric 199

Green Car Congress

APRIL 18, 2018

The Hydrogen Energy Supply Chain ( HESC ) project will convert brown coal from the AGL Loy Yang mine into hydrogen at an adjacent site and then transport the gas by road in high pressure tube trailers to a liquefaction terminal at the Port of Hastings. The liquefaction process will cool the hydrogen gas to ?

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Japan Coal Transportation Australia 170

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2017

In 2016, about 57% of India’s steel was produced using electric-based methods—the second-highest proportion of electric-based steel production among major steel producers, behind only the United States, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). Most other large producers use basic oxygen steelmaking processes.

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Coal Industrial Industry India 150

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2019

The report, “Assessing Alternatives to California’s Electric Vehicle Registration Fee,” was requested by the California Legislature. Since electric vehicles use no gasoline, EV drivers pay no gasoline tax. As more people drive EVs, gas-tax revenue for road repairs is dwindling.

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Davis Fuel Tax Tax Gasoline-Electric 268

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

ExxonMobil and Renewable Energy Group (REG) announced that by utilizing REG’s patented fermentation technology, the companies’ joint research program has demonstrated the ability to convert sugars from a variety of non-edible biomass sources into biodiesel. In June 2017, ExxonMobil and partner Synthetic Genomics, Inc. Earlier post.).

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Renewable Energy Connecticut Waste 150

Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2017

The model follows on the world premiere of the twin-turbo gas V6-powered LS 500 at the 2017 North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) in Detroit in January. liter V6 Dual VVT-i V6 gasoline engine matched to a 10-speed automatic transmission and two electric motors, together delivering maximum system power of 354 hp.

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Lexus Hybrid 2017 Motor 150

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2017

natural gas, shale gas, biogas and flared gas). It is almost impossible to directly convert two stable and inert molecules (CO 2 and CH 4 ) into liquid fuels or chemicals in a one-step catalytic process bypassing the production of syngas. …

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Conversion Fuel CO2 Gas 186

Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2017

This synthesis consumes only CO 2 and electricity, and is constrained only by the cost of electricity. Molten carbonate electrosynthesized boron-doped CNTs exhibit high electrical conductivity. Per ton CO 2 avoided, the C2CNT cement plant consumes $50 electricity, emits no CO 2 , and produces $100 cement and ∼$60,000 of CNTs.

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CO2 Carbon Gas-Electric 2017 150

Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2019

Across sites in Lübeck, Braak and Augsburg, a team of 20 employees develops and produces stacks and electrolyzers for manufacturing hydrogen with electricity. H-TEC Systems will be able to continue to focus on developing and producing series production-ready technologies for converting electricity into hydrogen in a cost-efficient manner.

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Hydrogen Companies Energy Renewable 170

Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2017

The recall is likely to start in July 2017. The low-pressure exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) removes the exhaust gas only downstream from the particulate filter and sends it through a radiator, for driving the turbocharger with the full exhaust-gas mass flow especially at medium and high loads. in the moderate rpm range).

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Diesel Hybrid Audi Exhaust 186

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2016

SGL Group brings its long-established expertise as a component developer to the project, and is responsible for the development of the gas diffusion layers (GDL), which will be manufactured based on carbon fibers. With this step the capability of serial production will also be demonstrated. Sehkyu Park, Jong-Won Lee, Branko N. 2011.12.148.

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Fuel Carbon Fiber South Carolina Hydrogen 150

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2016

The propulsion package also features a MAN 6L32/44CR common-rail main engine, a MAN Alpha Kappel propeller and a MAN SCR (Selective Catalytic Reduction) system capable of operating on MGO (marine gas oil), MDO (marine diesel oil) and HFO (heavy fuel oil). A delivery date for the newbuilding has been scheduled for September 2017.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

RAV4 is the currently the best-selling vehicle in its class, doubling volume over the last five years to sales of nearly 408,000 in the US in 2017. The new parallel-type electric power steering system is rack-mounted rather than column-mounted as is the case in the previous model. Dynamic Torque Vectoring All-Wheel Drive.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

The major sources of methane in California are livestock (~30% of the state’s methane emissions), followed by landfills and oil and gas production. Methane is 72 times more efficient at trapping heat in the atmosphere than CO 2 , which is the most prevalent global warming gas. CO 2 remains in the atmosphere for up to a century.

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Pollution California Emissions Climate 150

Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2017

four-cylinder with eAssist complements the V-6 that launched on the 2017 LaCrosse last September. Buick’s eAssist propulsion system combines a compact electric motor and an advanced 24-cell air-cooled 0.45kWh lithium-ion battery pack with the 2.5L This energy powers the electrical system when the vehicle is in Auto-Stop mode.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

The California Energy Commission has awarded a $1-million grant to UC Riverside’s College of Engineering-Center for Environmental Research and Technology (CE-CERT) to build a process demonstration unit (PDU) to convert waste biosolids to synthetic diesel fuel. The fuel gas can also be converted into electric power.

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Waste Grant California Fuel 199

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2017

The FPLG can be used in a small-scale organic Rankine cycle (ORC) system and can directly convert the thermodynamic energy of working fluid into electricity. Beijing University of Technology, Collaborative Innovation Center of Electric Vehicles in Beijing, and Datong North Tianli Turbocharging Technology Co., Prototype FPLG.

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Exhaust Waste Conversion Engine 186

Electric Auto Association

MAY 3, 2022

Submitted to the Ohio Senate Energy and Public Utilities Committee in support of Senate Bill 307: Accelerating Ohio's Auto Industry By Tim Benford, president of Drive Electric Dayton. My EV’s electric drive unit (motor) that provides the acceleration also reduces the need for using the brakes and brake repair.

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Electric Vehicles Ohio Vehicles Electric 88

Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2018

CO 2 -free hydrogen produced via electrolysis using renewable electricity—in the various process stages of steel production, and integration into the power reserve markets for the power grid. After the launch of the project at the beginning of 2017, construction of the pilot facility at the voestalpine site in Linz has now accelerated.

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Hydrogen Industrial Industry Green 240

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

This H 2 filling station—the eleventh in the TOTAL network and the tenth in the German federal state of Baden-Württemberg—is differentiated by producing hydrogen on-site through steam electrolysis, using electricity generated by a solar array. The delivery from Dresden to Salzgitter took place in June 2017.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2016

Together, SLCPs represent about 12% of California’s total annual greenhouse gas emissions inventory. Governor Brown is also actively supporting implementation of the draft Strategy by including $215 million in his proposed 2016-2017 budget to support a range of immediate actions. Black Carbon. Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs).

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Pollution Climate California Carbon 150

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Currently, it is often incinerated to produce steam and electricity. While bioethanol is not a drop-in fuel, the residual lignin can be converted to a drop-in fuel via thermal treatments such as gasification or solvolysis. Lignin is a structural bio-polymer which contributes to the rigidity of plants. Nielsen, Anders Jensen, Line R.

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EV Report

APRIL 30, 2020

Above – Electric Car at Norway. There has been a steady increase in electric and hybrid cars over the last decade in the US but still only 2 percent account for new car sales in the US. Americans still love their air-polluting and smog-producing gas guzzlers. But this was removed in 1990 for electric vehicles.

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Electric Cars Norway Cars Electric 52

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2017

According to Sigurbjörnsson, the data collected supports the conclusion that methanol fueled cars will also be economically competitive with both fossil fueled cars, hybrids and electric cars. Unlike methane gas and hydrogen, there is no need to install expensive infrastructure in order to store and distribute methanol as a fuel.

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Iceland CO2 Gasoline Renewable 170

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2017

The Federal and state governments also expect the manufacturers to use self-financed competitive measures to provide incentives for the change of pre-Euro-5 diesel vehicles to vehicles with the latest exhaust gas aftertreatment or electric vehicles. To this end, the German manufacturers will submit a concept by October 2017.

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