Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2019

In a major new report on hydrogen, the International Energy Agency says that the time is right to tap into hydrogen’s potential to play a key role in a clean, secure and affordable energy future. A wide variety of fuels are able to produce hydrogen, including renewables, nuclear, natural gas, coal and oil.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

million in funding for projects focused on producing cost-effective, low-carbon biofuels. Affordable, Clean Cellulosic Sugars for High Yield Conversion. Among the projects are: National Renewable Energy Laboratory will lower the cost and carbon intensity of producing a highly fermentable sugar from corn stover.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2015

Royal Dutch Shell plc will not continue construction of the 80,000 barrel per day Carmon Creek thermal in situ oil sands project located in Alberta, Canada. After careful review of the potential design options, updated costs, and the company’s capital priorities, Shell’s view is that the project does not rank in its portfolio at this time.

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Clean Fleet Report

AUGUST 11, 2022

In reality, there are a lot of costs that come with owning a car. We’ve put together a comprehensive guide to help you understand all the costs associated with owning a vehicle. Maintenance Costs Associated With Car Ownership. The maintenance costs for your vehicle depend on numerous factors. Insurance Costs.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2016

France-based Total is the first oil supermajor aggressively to enter new areas of business including solar plus storage and distributed generation, notes Lux Research in a new report : “Superpower Darwinism: What Big Oil Can and Cannot Do About Total’s Billion-Dollar Battery Move.”. Asia challenges loom for battery acquirers.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

To ensure needed infrastructure to support zero-emission vehicles, the order requires state agencies, in partnership with the private sector, to accelerate deployment of affordable fueling and charging options. It supports companies who transition their upstream and downstream oil production operations to cleaner alternatives.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2014

Scientists at Rice University have created a nanoscale detector that checks for and reports on the presence of hydrogen sulfide (H 2 S) in crude oil and natural gas while they’re still in the ground. Crude oil and natural gas inherently contain hydrogen sulfide, which gives off a “rotten egg” smell. —Michael Wong.

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JUNE 23, 2023

Like its sister molecule methanol, DME can be produced particularly efficiently and cost-effectively as a climate-neutral energy source and is characterized by emission-reducing properties in diesel engine combustion (virtually soot-free when used as a pure fuel with simultaneous reduction of nitrogen oxides).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2017

Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, with colleagues from Los Alamos, Sandia and NREL, are working to lower the cost of producing biofuels from algae. Determining strains of algae that are highly productive could help lower the cost of biofuel production. DISCOVR Project BETO peer review (March 2017).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

a nationwide distributor of propane, fuel oil and related products and services, as well as a marketer of natural gas and electricity, is purchasing a 39% stake in Oberon Fuels, a San Diego, CA-based development-stage producer of low-carbon, renewable dimethyl ether (rDME) transportation fuel. Suburban Propane Partners, L.P., Earlier post.).

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APRIL 23, 2021

The plant will produce cleaner gasoline from low-cost natural gas, captured bio-methane from farms and landfills, and mitigated flared gas from the Permian basin. The captured CO 2 will be used for enhanced oil recovery. Nacero’s Pemwell-facility in Houston, Texas.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2023

It plans to increase its supply of biogas six-fold, underpinned by Archaea Energy, to up to 70,000 barrels of oil equivalent a day in 2030. by will also invest up to a cumulative $8 billion more into oil and gas by 2030—targeting short-cycle fast-payback opportunities with lower additional operational emissions. mmboe/d in 2030.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2012

GE has concluded a commercial alliance agreement with Norway-based Sargas AS to provide a gas turbine for one of the world’s first gas-fired plants with integrated carbon capture for enhanced oil recovery (EOR). Overview of the Sargas system. Source: Sargas. Click to enlarge. — Sargas’ Chief Executive Henrik Fleischer.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2019

The investments mark the first significant collaboration between a DAC developer and the energy industry, with two global energy leaders investing in DAC as a mechanism to reduce emissions from transportation and enable permanent capture of existing atmospheric CO 2 that can be utilized both in oil production and in direct synthesis of fuels.

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OCTOBER 23, 2012

HEET, a company with experience developing alternative energy technologies, will focus on ways to convert discarded cooking oil into a component of sustainable aviation biofuel at the Boeing-COMAC Aviation Energy Conservation and Emissions Reductions Technology Center. The Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China, Ltd.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2014

Increasing oil demand is requiring increasing imports; since 2009, China has been importing more than half of its petroleum needs. For example, Shanghai (where a license plate can cost as much or more than an entry-level domestically manufactured car) offered free license plates for 20,000 electric vehicles purchased before the end of 2013.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2018

The difficulty to produce high-quality graphene affordably on a large scale, however, continues to pose hindrance to its widespread adoption by industries. The slurry can also be used directly to 3D-print conductive graphene aerogels, an ultra-lightweight sponge-like material that can be used to remove oil spill in the sea.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2019

Today, most hydrogen gas is produced using oil and gas.—Grey One family would need about 4 cubic meters of storage—the size of a regular oil tank. We wanted to design something sustainable that is affordable and can be used practically anywhere. The researchers, however, say that it should be affordable.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

The current plunge in oil prices will likely negatively affect plug-in and hybrid vehicle sales in the short term; automakers such as BMW are already warning of lower sales of plug-in vehicles given the market context. Anticipated price of oil and forecast plug-in sales. Lux on the price of oil. Source: Lux Research.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2015

Findings by MIT researchers could help advance the commercialization of supercritical water technology for the desulfurization and upgrading of high-sulfur crude oil into high-value, cleaner fuels such as gasoline without using hydrogen—a major change in refining technology that would reduce costs, energy use, and CO 2 emissions.

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JUNE 14, 2010

In a pre-response to that speech, having successfully advocated for plug-in hybrids like the forthcoming Chevy Volt, we propose that the President follow that speech up with a “realistic and conservative” roadmap to halve our oil use in 10 years. Oil is holding us all hostage, economically and physically. Finally, it’s time to begin.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2019

Efforts to shift away from fossil fuels and replace oil and coal with renewable energy sources can help reduce carbon emissions but do so at the expense of increased inequality, according to a new study by researchers at Portland State University (PSU) and Vanderbilt University. We don’t think of energy as a human right when it actually is.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

The plants are designed to be low-cost, highly efficient facilities optimized to generate an attractive project rate of return. Oil and Gas Fields: Maverick Oasis takes advantage of both stranded natural gas reserves and associated (flare) gas found when drilling for petroleum. Earlier post.).

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Clean Fleet Report

JUNE 15, 2021

One of the reasons behind the drastic increase in sales was the more affordable price range of the Tesla Model 3, a best-seller in the U.S., Say Goodbye to Fuel Costs. A small margin in the market drastically affects the cost of fuel and its availability. Low Maintenance Costs. Electric Vehicles are Affordable.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2016

The study was commissioned by a coalition of fuel suppliers and automotive companies with a view to identifying a roadmap to 2030+ to identify GHG abatement options at the lowest cost to society. GHG abatement in road transport sector will cost approx. 150-200 (US$172-229) per ton of CO 2 e avoided. 34 Mton CO 2 e (WTW).

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Get Electric Vehicle

MAY 29, 2021

At present, an electric vehicle costs 30% more than an IC engine-powered vehicle with similar specifications. The Reduction in Battery cost. Around 2020 and 2030, new battery costs are expected to drop by 58 %, to $58 per kilowatt-hour. The battery costs one-third of the total price of an electric vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2021

These projects, operating in 13 states, have the potential to reduce carbon emissions and water-treatment costs while improving water quality and equity of distribution nationwide. Each team will work to bring new water and wastewater-treatment technologies from the applied research and development stage to commercial readiness.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2021

NuScale Power continues to field growing domestic and international customer interest from those who see the NuScale power plant as a long-term solution for providing reliable, safe, affordable, and operationally flexible carbon-free energy for diverse applications.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2022

Action in the transportation sector will be buttressed by an acceleration of adding more clean, affordable, and reliable renewable energy to displace fossil-fuel fired electricity generation and scaling up new options such as hydrogen and renewable gas for hard-to-electrify end uses. Phase out oil and gas extraction operations by 2045.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

The Hub will focus on early-stage research and development (R&D) for energy-efficient and cost-competitive desalination technologies including manufacturing challenges. Congress appropriated a total of $40 million since Fiscal Year 2017 for the Hub and public and private stakeholders are expected to contribute $34 million in cost-share.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2013

billion, as the world’s population grows and more people in developing economies are able to afford cars. Hybrids, which combine an internal combustion engine and an electric motor, are expected to account for about half of global new-car sales by 2040, as they become increasingly cost-competitive compared to conventional vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Cepsa—the Spain-based multinational oil and gas company—will invest more than €3 billion to establish the Andalusian Green Hydrogen Valley, creating the largest green hydrogen hub in Europe in southern Spain. Of these, 1,000 will be direct employment opportunities.

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AUGUST 13, 2021

The California Energy Commission has approved a 4-million grant to Equilon Enterprises LLC (dba Shell Oil Products US) to develop and demonstrate the first multi-modal hydrogen refueling station in California.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2014

The Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) anticipates two awards being made: the first for $7 million in the area of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) and fossil-fuel-based Clean Energy Systems (CES); the second for $2 million in the area of international oil and natural gas. International Oil and Natural Gas.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 4, 2014

The company powered its ecoDemonstrator 787 flight test airplane with a blend of 15% NExBTL renewable diesel from Neste Oil and 85% petroleum jet fuel in the left engine. Neste Oil can also produce a NExBTL synthetic paraffinic kerosene as a discrete, and already approved, commercial aviation fuel.).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2013

The new partnership brings together automakers, government agencies, gas suppliers, and the hydrogen and fuel cell industries to coordinate research and identify cost-effective solutions to deploy infrastructure that can deliver affordable, clean hydrogen fuel in the United States.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

49,895 kg); maximum horsepower is 510 HP (375 KW), and oil capacity is 16 pints (7.5L). Addressing costly and time-consuming maintenance requirements was taken into account when designing Endurant to further deliver in a key area amongst customers. One-year and two-year extended protection plans are also available.

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