Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2019

Researchers at the University of have developed an unusually rapid method to deliver cost-effective algal biocrude in large quantities using a specially-designed jet mixer. bacteria, fungi, and algae) may be grown on non-arable land and with saline water, wastewater or/and produced water from mineral and petroleum extraction.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2018

J subcommittee (8 November 2017), ASTM D02 Main committee on Petroleum Products, Liquid Fuels, and Lubricants (18 March 2018) and ASTM General Society Review (1 April 2018). Further sustainability metrics, including water usage, were a major driver for ethanol production. 2017) Click to enlarge. J Ballot”). Source: Han et al.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2019

Since operations began in April 2017, the Project Portal “Alpha” and “Beta” Proof of Concept Class 8 trucks have logged more than 14,000 miles of testing and real-world drayage operations in and around the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach while emitting nothing but water vapor. particularly in disadvantaged communities.

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Kenworth Los Angeles Toyota Long Beach 207

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2017

The BASF and Volkswagen international “ Science Award Electrochemistry 2017” ( earlier post ) this year goes to Dr. Jennifer Rupp at MIT. Her research focuses on material and electrode designs for solid-state batteries. The special prize for applied research is worth €40,000.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2013

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected four research and development projects designed to bring next-generation biofuels on line faster and to drive down the cost of producing gasoline, diesel, and jet fuels from biomass. The projects represent up to a combined $13-million Energy Department investment.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 21, 2022

The microbes and minerals in soil systems regulate water, cycle nutrients, filter pollutants, physically support plants, and sequester greenhouse gasses. According to a 2017 United Nations –supported study, a third of the planet’s land is severely degraded, and fertile soil is being lost at an alarming rate.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Carbon monoxide produced during this process can be used as a fuel by itself or combined with hydrogen and/or water to make many other liquid hydrocarbon fuels as well as chemicals including methanol (used as an automotive fuel), syngas, and so on. 2017), H 2 -assisted CO 2 thermochemical reduction on La 0.9 and Ghoniem, A.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2017

These include cleaner, more fuel-efficient cars and zero emission vehicles, low-carbon fuels, renewable energy, waste diversion from landfills, water conservation, improvements to energy efficiency in homes and businesses, and a Cap-and-Trade Program. Declining caps, continued linkage with Québec, and linkage to Ontario, Canada.

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Charged EVs

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

However, to extract ever more minerals by mining and dispose of the waste in landfills, would be to continue the practices that got the world into its current environmental mess. Nth Cycle works with battery recyclers and miners to recover production-grade critical minerals from separated electronic waste and low-grade mine tailings.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2018

The first global “Full-Flex Plant” of Mercedes-Benz Cars is based on the “Factory 56” principles introduced in February ( earlier post ), and is thus digitized consistently, designed for sustainable production and puts the human at the center of all activities. In 2017, it produced more than 190,000 Mercedes-Benz compact vehicles.

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Get Electric Vehicle

JUNE 5, 2023

FFVs are designed to run on blends of methanol and gasoline in different ratios. Over 2 million electric cars were sold in 2017. Fuel cells do not emit any harmful gases and they emit water as biproduct of energy conversion. #10 Many established automotive giants such as Volkswagen, BMW, etc. Why fuel cells are important?

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

By combining High Efficiency Clean Combustion (HECC) and Waste Heat Recovery (WHR), each demonstrating greater than 10% improvement in BTE, together with other technologies, it should be possible to improve BTE by 20% to achieve the original DOE target of 50% peak BTE. Finding 3-1. Finding 6-3. kW versus 3.0 Recommendation 6-4. Navistar, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2015

liter engine, a hybrid system, a Waste Heat Recovery (WHR) system, along with a number of other upgrades. Friction-reducing measures include a variable speed water pump, a clutched air compressor, low-viscosity oil and an improved cylinder kit. —Derek Rotz, principal investigator for SuperTruck, Daimler Trucks North America.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2015

The latest version of the MYPP presents a merged conversion R&D section; the renaming of the demonstration and market transformation area; and emerging work in wet waste-to-energy feedstocks. BETO is interested in the potential of four kinds of wet-waste feedstocks: The non-recyclable organic fraction of landfill solid wastes.

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My Electric Car

AUGUST 21, 2020

The only by products are water and a fair degree of heat, the latter indicating a degree of inefficiency and wasted energy. Second, while hydrogen can be otherwise produced through the electrolysis of water, this process requires huge amounts of clean and fresh water – a vital and highly valuable commodity of life that can’t be wasted.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 27, 2017

Researchers at Queen’s University Belfast have developed a novel green route to convert aluminium foil waste into highly active nano-mesoporous alumina (γ-Al 2 O 3 ) (designated as ACFL550). In the UK, around 20,000 tonnes of aluminium foil packaging is wasted each year. 2 O and Al(NO 3 ) 3.9H 2 O formed. Osman, Jehad K.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2015

Chevrolet will add a new clean diesel engine to the US lineup in 2017, featuring a B20-capable 1.6L Clean-sheet engine design. The new Ecotec small-displacement engine family featured in the Cruze represents a clean-sheet design and engineering process, leveraging the diverse experience of GM’s global resources.

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Chevrolet Diesel 2017 Oil-Sands 150

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Honda’s “Green Path” approach, announced during a media tour of its operations in Ohio, seeks: To reduce or eliminate the use of substances of concern (SOCs) and scarce natural resources such as rhodium, palladium and platinum in the design and production of its vehicles. SOCs are chemical (e.g., solvents) or materials (e.g.,

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Cars That Think

JULY 9, 2022

4, 1921 Birthplace Baku, Azerbaijan Height 178 cm Family Wife, Fay; children, Stella and Norman Education BSEE, University of Tehran, 1942; MSEE, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1946; PhD, Columbia University, 1949 First job Design and analysis of defense systems, International Electronics Corp., Zadeh Date of Birth Feb. Lotfi Zadeh.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Furthermore, two engineers from the US technical center gave presentations last week at the SAE 2017 Hybrid & Electric Vehicle Technologies Symposium in San Diego, discussing aspects of the hybrid and battery-electric powertrains, including some of the unique features and Hyundai “firsts” represented in the Ioniq. Driveability.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2017

Time-series trends in normalized upstream GHG intensities of twenty-five global oil fields (offshore and onshore) with dfferent extraction practices (water injection/flooding, gas injection/flooding/lifting, or steam flooding) over the course of production in the period of 1949–2015. Masnadi & Brandt (2017). a, Heavy oils. Mohammad S.

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Energy Oil Climate Climate Change 170

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Furthermore, two engineers from the US technical center gave presentations last week at the SAE 2017 Hybrid & Electric Vehicle Technologies Symposium in San Diego, discussing aspects of the hybrid and battery-electric powertrains, including some of the unique features and Hyundai “firsts” represented in the Ioniq. Driveability.

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Plug-in Hyundai Hybrid Plug 150

Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2012

The FOA covers 8 broad topics—Vehicles; Biomass; Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies; Advanced Manufacturing; Buildings; Solar; Water; and Wind—and 30 subtopics aligned with Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) programs. EERE is the only program Office participating in this FOA. Advanced Materials.

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Hydrogen Fuel Range Vehicles 210

Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2017

Now, chemists from the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) and Virginia Tech have designed two supramolecular photocatalysts that incorporate individual components specialized for light absorption, charge separation, or catalysis. —lead author Gerald Manbeck. —Gerald Manbeck. 7b02142.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Any whisper of production bottlenecks at Tesla inevitably recalls the Model 3's troubled launch in 2017 and 2018 , the one that had Musk sleeping in his office. Each jelly-roll cell packs in more active battery material, and less wasted space in metal casing. Elon Musk shared designs for the 4680 at Battery Day 2020.

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Batteries Battery Production Tesla 143

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2014

The new engine comes with an electronically-controlled waste-gate to optimize flow and improve low-end torque and throttle response. To keep the engine unit as small as possible, the exhaust manifold is integrated within the cylinder head and can therefore be cooled efficiently using the cylinder head water cooling system.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2017

The findings could be relevant to other battery materials, and could steer the design of next-generation batteries toward workarounds that avoid these newly identified pitfalls. This wastes electrolyte, drying out the battery over time. Their paper is published in the ACS journal Chemistry of Materials. Hahn, Qiang Liu, Kevin R.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

This makes it possible for the waste heat from the electrical drive components to be made available to the interior of the Q7 e-tron quattro. Aerodynamically-optimized design with a drag coefficient of 0.25, the electric e-tron quattro drivetrain delivers up to 370 kW of power output. Market launch is scheduled to begin in 2017.

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Green Authority

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Public transportation can waste time unless you live in a city with a great system, and even then it can be a messy, overpacked ordeal. While it is a modern piece of cutting-edge technology, the M1 takes design cues from traditional bikes known as cafe racers. Driving through traffic is one of our biggest daily stresses. What to do?

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