Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2019

In order to access the energy-rich sugars found in the plant cell walls, researchers have renewed focus on solvating lignin, a complex polymer also found in plant cell walls that acts as a natural shield, blocking both chemical and biological attack. A paper on their work is published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2021

The US plastics industry reported releasing 114 million tons of greenhouse gases nationwide in 2020; an increase of 10 million tons over 2019. Polymers and Additives Production emits at least 14 million tons of GHG each year—equivalent to seven coal-fired power plants. Plastics in the Water degrade into GHGs.

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Cars That Think

MAY 10, 2023

The discovered materials are a very tiny fraction of the hypothesized materials—like a droplet of water in an ocean,” wrote MIT professor of nuclear science Mingda Li over email. Xu and fellow Argonne scientists have used Polybot to research electronic polymers, which are plastics that can conduct electricity.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Additionally, many chemicals relied upon for transportation (such as oils and lubricants) as well as other commodity chemicals and polymer precursors are, and will likely remain, carbon-based. By 2018, complete gap analyses to identify the barriers and solutions to potentially reaching a mature modeled price of $2/gge for biofuels.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2015

The US Department of Energy (DOE) will award up to $18 million in funding to six projects to reduce the modeled price of algae-based biofuels to less than $5 per gasoline gallon equivalent (gge) by 2019. Algal biomass can be converted to advanced biofuels that offer promising alternatives to petroleum-based diesel and jet fuels.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2019

The 2019 Ram 1500 Classic Crew Cab is also offered with the second-generation 3.0-liter Several significant changes contribute to the new EcoDiesel’s improved dynamic and fuel economy performance: A new-generation water-cooled turbocharger with variable geometry is more efficient and provides improved response as engine rpms rise and fall.

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Get Electric Vehicle

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Like BEVs, FCEVs’ exhaust produces no smog-forming or climate-changing emissions; the sole result is water. The most common type of fuel cell for vehicle applications is the polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cell. Only roughly 335,000 BEVs were sold in 2015, but over 1,700,000 were sold in 2019 a 50% yearly growth rate.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

In one example, Tesla plans to use raw metallurgical silicon to boost its content in cells, using a scalable elastic polymer coating to conduct ions, boosting range another 20 percent and reducing pack costs by five percent, according to Drew Baglino, its SVP of engineering.

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