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JUNE 15, 2021

Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory, with colleagues from Lawrence Berkeley, Oak Ridge, and National Renewable Energy labs, and the University of Tennessee, have published a comprehensive analysis of the total cost of ownership (TCO) for 12 sizes of vehicles ranging from compact sedans up to Class 8 tractors with sleeper cabs.

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Maintenance Cost Of Chad Plug-in 418

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DECEMBER 30, 2016

LanzaTech has been selected by the Department of Energy’s Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) to receive a $4-million award to design and plan a demonstration-scale facility using industrial off gases to produce 3 million gallons/year of low-carbon jet and diesel fuels. The LanzaTech award was one of six totaling $12.9 Earlier post.).

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Carbon Diesel Audi Fuel 186

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JULY 17, 2020

The Research Foundation for The SUNY Stony Brook University. University of Delaware. University of Maryland. Marquette University. AOI 04: Platinum Group Metals (PGM) Content Reduction to Enable Cost-Effective Aftertreatment for Gasoline and Diesel Engines. Washington State University.

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Lithium Ion Vehicles Li-ion Universal 236

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

The three-year ADEPT (advanced diesel-electric powertrain) project ( earlier post ) in the UK set the target of developing and validating a range of advanced mild hybrid technologies with 48V “intelligent electrification” utilizing an advanced lead carbon battery.

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Diesel Hybrid Fuel Lead Acid 150

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AUGUST 26, 2009

These projects put more than 9,000 alternative fuel and energy-efficient light-, medium- and heavy-duty vehicles on the road, and establish 542 refueling locations across the country. The project will deploy 502 alternative fuel and advanced technology vehicles through 119 public and private fleets throughout the state.

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Alternative Fuels Clean Cleaning Grant 236

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NOVEMBER 22, 2017

These would facilitate the use of compressed (CNG) and liquefied (LNG) gas, as well as of methanol, which allows emission reductions when it is added to traditional fuel. This new fuel will be used by five Fiat 500 vehicles from the Enjoy fleet, Eni’s car sharing service that was created in partnership with FCA, in an extensive road test.

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Renewable Emissions CO2 Diesel 150

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JANUARY 11, 2019

Available clean fuels for the state of Washington could meet a 2028 target of 11.2% The largest fuel pathways used to meet this target include electricity, lower carbon sources of ethanol blended into gasoline, biodiesel and renewable diesel. Biomethane and renewable aviation fuel also contribute.

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Washington Clean Cleaning Supplies 223

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JULY 23, 2018

Policies to entice consumers away from fossil-fuel powered vehicles and normalize low carbon, alternative-fuel alternatives, such as electric vehicles, are vital if the world is to significantly reduce transport sector carbon pure-emissions, according to a new study. Click to enlarge.

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Carbon Market Alternative Fuels Vehicles 231

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JUNE 19, 2014

Hydraulic pumps/motors and an accumulator (power storage unit) are added to gasoline, diesel, propane or CNG engines to store braking energy and use the captured energy to accelerate the vehicle, significantly saving fuel and brakes and cutting emissions. Fleets Hybrids Hydraulic Hybrid'

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Hybrid Emissions West Virginia Colorado 275

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JUNE 12, 2015

The M670 is a 154-pin high feature engine controller designed to support gasoline PFI, GDI, diesel solenoid, and alternative fuel applications.

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Exhaust Gasoline Alternative Fuels Diesel 150

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MARCH 29, 2010

For the second year in a row, the student team from Laval University in Quebec, Canada took home the grand prize at the Shell Eco-marathon Americas, taking top place in the 2010 competition with 2,487.5 mpg achieved by Laval University in 2009, combined with a number of new teams adding fresh innovation and vehicle designs to the competition.

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2010 MPG America Houston 273

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DECEMBER 13, 2009

cellulosic diesel. The cellulosic diesel process can be modified to produce a gasoline-range blending component and various green chemicals. The cellulosic diesel process can be modified to produce a gasoline-range blending component and various green chemicals. Block flow diagram of Mercurius’ process.

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North Dakota Fuel Commercial Energy 210

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NOVEMBER 16, 2010

CleanFUEL USA, a leading supplier of alternative fuel infrastructure and propane engine systems, will build and certify a multi-purpose 8-liter General Motors (GM) propane engine in partnership with Freightliner Custom Chassis Corporation (FCCC), a subsidiary of Daimler Trucks North America. medium-duty engine, as well as a 6.0L

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USA Engine Alternative Fuels Gasoline 239

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

VW was slowly moving beyond conventional gasoline and diesel engines anyway, Lux noted, with plans of putting out 20 more plug-in vehicles by 2020 ( earlier post )—such as the production version of the Audi e-tron quattro. Diesel passenger vehicle sales in the US will drop drastically. Earlier post.)

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West Virginia Diesel Lithium Sulfur Plug-in 150

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MARCH 20, 2013

With an annual fuel bill of US$7 billion for vessel operations, the Mærsk Group continually considers ways to reduce its bunker fuel consumption. Greater efficiency is the primary way of achieving this; alternative fuels are another. Emission performance of lignin-derived cyclic oxygenates in a heavy-duty diesel engine.

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Mariner 2012 Oil Fuel 261

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FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Switching from diesel fuel to natural gas may hold advantages for the US heavy-duty trucking fleet, but more needs to be done to reach the full environmental benefits, according to a new white paper released by the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis, and Rice University.

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Gas Fleet Economy Davis 150

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AUGUST 8, 2016

However, argues a team from the University of Minnesota in an open-access paper published in the journal Energy Policy , once the “fuel market rebound effect” is factored in, RFS2 actually increases GHG emissions when all fuel GHG intensity targets specified under the act are met. for its analysis. —Hill et al.

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Tax Emissions Market Fuel 150

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OCTOBER 15, 2018

Researchers at Tohoku University in Japan have identified a way to reduce harmful NO emissions produced by ammonia fuel during combustion. The finding helps advance research into ammonia as an alternative to carbon-based fuels for cars, airplanes, and power generation facilities.

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Emissions Hydrogen Fuel Global 308

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OCTOBER 9, 2010

The 2011 Shell Eco-Marathon Americas—a challenge for high school, university, and college students from across North and South America to design vehicles to go the farthest distance using the least amount of energy—has expanded its categories to include plug-in electric vehicles (PHEVs).

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2011 America PHEV Malaysia 218

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DECEMBER 30, 2013

The LCFS program calls for a 10% reduction in the carbon intensity of fuel sold in California over the next decade. Obligated parties are upstream producers and importers of gasoline and diesel fuel sold in the state. The program is agnostic as to which fuels can be used to meet the Standard. Lade, Gabriel E.

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Davis Alternative Fuels Boston Consulting Group Price 261

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding nearly $55 million for 24 projects to develop and deploy advanced vehicle technologies, supporting the Energy Department’s EV Everywhere Grand Challenge to make plug-in electric vehicles as affordable to own and operate as today’s gasoline-powered vehicles by 2022. Clemson University.

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Fuel Carbon Fiber Lithium Ion Vehicles 150

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JANUARY 9, 2013

Alternative Energy Systems Consulting, Inc., will receive $220,554 to purchase and install electric vehicle charging equipment on the campus of the University of California, San Diego. E85 fuel is a mix of 15 percent conventional gasoline and 85 percent ethanol, an alcohol derived from plant material.

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San Diego California Transportation Clean 218

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AUGUST 16, 2016

Volvo Technology of America LLC will develop and demonstrate a tractor trailer combination with lightweight cab that achieves the freight efficiency goal using alternative engine designs and a variety of system technologies. Ohio State University. Iowa State University. University of Pittsburgh. Description. Description.

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Vehicles Plug-in Lithium Ion Universal 150

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NOVEMBER 17, 2017

A University of Washington team is trying to make poplar an economically viable biofuel feedstock by testing the production of younger poplar trees that could be harvested more frequently—after only two or three years—instead of the usual 10- to 20-year cycle. Chang Dou/University of Washington. Click to enlarge.

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Washington Cheap Oil Universal 150

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MAY 17, 2013

Relative changes in vehicle energy efficiency (VEE) (km/MJ) on ethanol/gasoline blends over those on gasoline for different blending levels. Several recent highly cited LCAs that have incorporated vehicle efficiency differences between gasoline and ethanol/gasoline blends could potentially be misleading. Click to enlarge.

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Fuel Energy Gasoline-Electric Gasoline 210

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2016

Researchers from the University of Illinois and colleagues in China investigating the performance, combustion and emission characteristics of a port fuel-injection SI engine fueled with isopropanol-n-butanol-ethanol (IBE)-gasoline blends have concluded that an IBE30 blend could be a good alternative to gasoline.

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Alternative Fuels Gasoline Fuel Emissions 150

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MARCH 5, 2009

The regulation establishes two performance standards that fuel producers and importers must meet each year beginning in 2011. One standard is established for gasoline and the alternative fuels that can replace it. A second similar standard is set for diesel fuel and its replacements. —ARB ISOR.

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Carbon Standards California Fuel 150

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DECEMBER 22, 2013

biofuel made from cellulose, algae, duckweed, or cyanobacteria) could mitigate the current elevated risk of investing in the industry that is retarding its advance, according to a new paper by a team from the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) and Johns Hopkins University.

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OCTOBER 8, 2015

Eminox SCRT technology can significantly reduce harmful diesel exhaust gases, particularly in urban operating conditions. Having better control over the combustion process reduces the emission load on the exhaust aftertreatment systems. Earlier post.)

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Vehicles Exhaust Emissions Diesel 150

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APRIL 5, 2012

The report also finds that the added technologies required to meet the proposed fuel economy improvements are cost-effective for consumers. Suppliers of fuel economy technologies will also benefit, according to the report. Role of alternative fuel vehicles. Differences in emissions standards between the U.S.

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Detroit Standards Fuel Economy Economy 225

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APRIL 19, 2009

The student team from Laval University (Quebec, Canada) took the grand prize in the “Prototype” category at the 2009 Shell Eco-Marathon Americas , held 15-18 April at the Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, CA, with 2,757.1 Fuel Cell/Hydrogen. The Penn State University team from University Park, Pa. Click to enlarge.

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2009 MPG America Engine 199

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FEBRUARY 3, 2015

788 million for high energy physics, $22 million above the FY 2015 Enacted level, to understand how the universe works at its most fundamental level by discovering the most elementary constituents of matter and energy, probing the interactions among them, and exploring the basic nature of space and time. per gallon gasoline equivalent (gge).

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Sustainable Transportation 2015 2016 Transportation 150

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AUGUST 6, 2023

A comparable SUV, such as a 2023 Ford Explorer AWD with the turbocharged 4-cylinder engine and an EPA highway rating of 26 miles per gallon, would have used 69 gallons of gasoline. The fuel costs we saw posted during our trip averaged $4 per gallon for 87 octane, which would be $276 gasoline costs, so advantage electric, but not by much.

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Las Vegas Charging Utah Miles 83

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JUNE 25, 2016

Researchers at Tsinghua University, along with Professor Rolf Reitz at the Engine Research Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, have investigated for the first time the the characteristics of homogenous charge compression ignition (HCCI) of polyoxymethylene dimethyl ether (PODE). Oxygen content and cetane number of oxygenates.

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Diesel Fuel Gasoline Wisconsin 150

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FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Increased availability of low CO 2 sources of electricity and hydrogen could counter-intuitively delay, rather than accelerate, a large-scale transition to an electric and/or hydrogen vehicle fleet, according to a new study by researchers from Ford Motor Company and Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden.

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Hydrogen Low CO2 Available Fleet 236

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MARCH 28, 2013

STG+ technology converts syngas into drop-in high-octane gasoline and jet fuel with a conversion efficiency of ~35% by mass of syngas into liquid transportation fuels (the highest documented conversion efficiency in the industry) or greater than 70% by mass of natural gas. Schematic diagram of the Primus STG+ process.

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Universal Gas Green Energy 239

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AUGUST 1, 2010

A team from Iowa State University and ConocoPhillips, Biofuels R&D performed a techno-economic study examining the fast pyrolysis of corn stover to bio-oil with subsequent upgrading of the bio-oil to naphtha and diesel range fuels. Fuel product value estimates are $3.09 per gallon of gasoline equivalent ($0.82

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Alternative Fuels Oil Iowa Diesel 225