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APRIL 28, 2023

The round included participation from one of North America’s largest commercial fleets, Chevron Renewable Energy Group, and Pittsburgh regional investors including: Idea Foundry, Inc., ​ Optimus Technologies recently announced a $17.8-million million Series A funding round led by Mitsui & Co. out of Tokyo, Japan.

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JANUARY 8, 2020

The Rhodium Group, an independent research provider, estimates that, after a sharp uptick in 2018, US greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions fell by 2.1% An increase in natural gas generation offset some of the climate gains from this coal decline, but overall power sector emissions still decreased by almost 10%. increase in 2018.

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APRIL 17, 2018

New biofuel targets that came into force in the UK over the weekend (15 April 2018) will double the use of renewable fuels in the UK transport sector within 15 years, cutting the sector’s reliance on imported diesel. Increasing our use of renewable fuels is a key part of this. biofuel by 2032. in 2019 and rising to 2.8%

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MAY 18, 2016

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed increases in renewable fuel volume requirements across all types of biofuels under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program. Total renewable fuel volumes would grow by some 690 million gallons between 2016 and 2017. billion gallons in 2018, up from 1.9 Renewable fuel.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2018

The UK automotive industry warned that the current anti-diesel agenda combined with the ongoing slow take-up of electric vehicles could mean industry misses its next round of CO 2 targets in 2021, with negative consequences for the UK’s own climate change goals. decline in new diesel registrations. to a new low of 165.4

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JULY 8, 2020

Neste, the world’s largest producer of renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) produced from waste and residue raw materials, has delivered its first batch of sustainable aviation fuel to San Francisco International Airport (SFO) via pipeline, where it will be used by major airlines committed to reducing carbon emissions.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2021

In 2009, EMRE launched what it calls a “significant” new program to research and develop advanced biofuels from photosynthetic algae that are compatible with today’s gasoline and diesel fuels. As part of the program, ExxonMobil formed a strategic research and development alliance with Synthetic Genomics. Earlier post.).

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NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Together with the partners Ineratec GmbH ( earlier post ) and Energiedienst Holding AG , the company has plans for a new pilot facility for the production of e-diesel in Laufenburg, in Canton Aargau (Switzerland). For the first time, the energy needed will be supplied from the renewable source of hydropower. Earlier post.)

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AUGUST 14, 2020

Neste, the world’s largest producer of renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) produced from waste and residue raw materials, is supplying Alaska Airlines, American Airlines and JetBlue Airways with sustainable aviation fuel for flights from San Francisco International Airport (SFO).

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JUNE 26, 2018

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt issued a proposed rule under the Renewable Fuel Standards (RFS) program that would set the minimum amount of renewable fuels that must be supplied to the market in calendar year 2019, as well as the biomass based diesel volume standard for calendar year 2020.

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DECEMBER 19, 2020

Canada Minister of Natural Resources Seamus O’Regan, released a national SMR Action Plan, which responds to the 53 recommendations identified in Canada’s SMR Roadmap that was launched in November 2018. Develop international partnerships and open up new markets. Small modular reactors are the great enabler of other, clean energy sources.

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MARCH 7, 2018

The project will build and install diesel-fueled two-stroke compression-ignition Achates Power Opposed-Piston Engines into Class 8 demonstration trucks that will be road-road ready in 2019 and operate in fleet service in California in 2020. This program will demonstrate the first diesel engine to comply with the state standard.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Transport emissions were 29% above 1990 levels in 2018. According to the European Green Deal proposal, transport emissions need to be cut by 90 % by 2050 to achieve climate neutrality in the EU. Other key findings: In 2018, average CO 2 emissions of new passenger cars increased for the second consecutive year, reaching 120.4

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MARCH 24, 2017

On the first day of a two-day board meeting—the second day of which (Friday 24 March) will consider the Advanced Clean Cars Midterm Review—the California Air Resources Board (ARB) took a number of climate and air quality actions.

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APRIL 12, 2016

The California Air Resources Board released a new draft of California’s Short-Lived Climate Pollutant Strategy to significantly reduce the near-term climate impacts of these potent pollutants. Methane is the most abundant of the short-lived climate pollutants in California. Black Carbon.

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AUGUST 6, 2019

The new tug, a Damen RSD-E Tug 2513 to be delivered in 2021, will have a 70-tonne bollard pull, the same as the port’s strongest diesel tug Hauraki , also built by Damen. It was important to us that a new electric tug should be able to carry out normal port operations, just like our existing diesel tugs.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Climate impact of lithium-ion batteries & how to measure it . Read further to know more about the climate impact of lithium-ion batteries. . Climate impact of lithium-ion batteries. They still cause an impact on climate by the manufacturing of the car and not least the battery. Lithium-ion battery production.

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JULY 18, 2018

Neste, the world’s leading producer of renewable diesel, is now exploring ways to introduce liquefied waste plastic as a future raw material for fossil refining. Neste has been ranked the world’s second most sustainable company and we are already the world’s largest producer of renewable diesel from waste and residues.

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MAY 11, 2020

in 2018, the only annual increase in the past five years. The changes in US energy-related CO 2 emissions in 2019 offset the increase in 2018. in 2019, but power sector CO 2 emissions fell by even more (-8.2%), largely because of increases from renewable sources such as wind and solar. CO 2 emissions had increased by 2.9%

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FEBRUARY 4, 2020

The German aid scheme will apply until the end of 2021 and is intended to cover the additional costs for the purchase of electrically operated or rechargeable hybrid buses instead of conventional diesel buses and the establishment of the charging infrastructure required to operate these buses.

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APRIL 20, 2019

The researchers carried out their calculations based on a Mercedes-Benz C 220 d diesel and the new Tesla Model 3. Electricity production in Germany, 2018. Unfortunately, due to our grid situation, electric cars are still too early for this strategic goal in the sense of German climate protection efforts. —Buchal et al.

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Germany CO2 Power Powered 406

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

The law is in addition to California’s existing raft of climate legislation. SB 1383 reduces the emission of super pollutants (also known as short-lived climate pollutants) and promotes renewable gas by requiring a 50% reduction in black carbon and 40% reduction in methane and hydrofluorocarbon from 2013 levels by 2030.

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JULY 11, 2018

A “well-to-wheel” life cycle assessment (LCA) by a team from synthetic fuels producer Greyrock ( earlier post ), and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has determined the potential reduction of greenhouse gases and criteria pollutant emissions from the use of synthetic fuels directly converted from flare gas. billion liters (18.8

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MARCH 10, 2016

million gallons US) of renewable diesel fuel annually. million gallons US) of renewable diesel fuel annually. This support works in concert with Alberta’s Renewable Fuels Standard which requires commercial fuel producers to blend renewable products into their fuels.

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AUGUST 9, 2021

The facility will thus set new standards in terms of overall efficiency and make an important contribution to Switzerland’s climate friendly energy supply. The plan is to produce green hydrogen exclusively using electricity from renewable sources direct from the grid in Freienbach.

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DECEMBER 25, 2022

They’ve been studying up on renewable energy, hydrogen power, and electric vehicles, preparing for the big day in April when their remote-controlled vehicles will rumble for 4 hours in Gladstone, a port city in Queensland. The government elected last year passed the country’s first climate-action law in more than a decade.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Since internal combustion engines will remain the primary mode of choice for mobility in the foreseeable future, both alternative (renewable) fuels and high-performance combustion concepts/ engines using fuels adapted for that purpose will be preferred for reducing the combustion impact on climate change. Kalghatgi, G., 2018.06.003.

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MAY 5, 2009

The US Environmental Protection Agency released its expected Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) detailing the implementation of changes to the existing Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS1) as required by the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA). Biomass-based diesel. Renewable fuels. Advanced Biofuel.

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JULY 23, 2018

Encouraging the use of low-carbon alternatives is an essential part of meeting climate change targets as well as improving local air quality and health. Global, economy-wide carbon pricing is assumed as climate policy in both scenarios after 2020 (100 US$ per tCO 2 held constant over time). McCollum et al. Click to enlarge.

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OCTOBER 27, 2019

At Daimler Trucks & Buses we are clearly committed to the goals of the Paris Climate Protection Agreement and thus to the decarbonization of our industry. As it takes about ten years to completely renew a fleet until 2050, our ambition is to offer ‘tank-to-wheel’ locally CO 2 -neutral new vehicles in the triad by the year 2039.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2016

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has posted a revised draft of California’s proposed Short-Lived Climate Pollutant (SLCP) Strategy. SLCPs may account for an estimated 40% of global warming, increasing the impacts of climate change. —“Revised Proposed Short-Lived Climate Pollutant Reduction Strategy”.

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MAY 9, 2015

Mandate a fraction of bus purchases to be zero emission technology starting in 2018, and set a goal of complete transit fleet transition to zero emission technologies by 2040. Require use of renewable fuels and the cleanest available engines as soon as feasible. Minimize Emissions from Conventional Fleet.

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MARCH 30, 2021

Smooth, Powerful Diesel Performance. There is a low diesel rumble upon start-up that becomes a nice note when accessing the ample torque to get off the line, but then purrs at freeway speeds. About those radio knobs and the climate control wheels: they are constructed using a cheap-feeling chromed plastic. A signature stitch.

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MARCH 21, 2021

The flagship project MethanQuest was launched in September 2018, and on it a total of 29 partners from research, industry and the energy sector have come together to work on processes for producing hydrogen and methane from renewables and for using them to achieve climate-neutral mobility and power generation.

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APRIL 18, 2022

Unlike battery-powered electric vehicles, FCEVs can go over 500 kilometers on a full tank of hydrogen and can be refueled in 2-3 minutes, exactly like regular petrol/diesel cars. We will create energy without spewing carbon dioxide into the environment if this power is supplied from renewable sources. Why Fuel cells are Preferred?

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MAY 23, 2021

Flagship SUV Gives Smooth Luxury, Powerful Diesel Performance. The low diesel rumble upon start-up becomes a nice note when accessing the ample torque to get off the line, but then purrs quietly at freeway speeds. This is one area where GM is the industry leader and, after the trial service plan expires, it is well worth renewing.

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AUGUST 3, 2017

The company’s electrified range currently comprises nine electrified vehicles and will be further complemented in 2018 by the all-new BMW i8 Roadster. Modern, efficient diesel engines ensure lower CO 2 emissions and therefore make an important contribution to protecting the environment, BMW argues. Earlier post.).

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