Green Car Congress
JUNE 25, 2013
Audi’s e-gas plant. Audi has opened its e-gas plant in Werlte, making it the first automobile manufacturer to develop a chain of sustainable energy carriers. The Audi e-gas plant, which can convert 6MW of input power, utilizes renewable electricity for electrolysis to produce oxygen and hydrogen. Click to enlarge.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 15, 2013
Relying on a higher share of efficient, low-emission combined cycle power plants and wind energy could save €150 billion (US$200 billion) by 2030 while attaining the same CO 2 targets, Siemens says. The country should give greater priority to high-efficiency combined cycle power plants and wind power, the company suggests.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 6, 2013
The automobile industry has said that without additional government subsidies they can only sell 600,000 electric cars by 2020 at best. The Regulatory Assistance Project (RAP) is a global, non-profit team of experts focused on the long-term economic and environmental sustainability of the power and natural gas sectors.
Cars That Think
JANUARY 10, 2023
To lessen these emissions and their contribution to global climate change, the automobile industry is ramping up the production of electric-powered cars and trucks. Perhaps it is because, in a sense, electrification is forcing the industry to learn how to produce an entirely different type of machine.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 24, 2010
These plants are EcoBlue natural-gas-powered compact combined heat and power (CHP) plants produced by Volkswagen exclusively for LichtBlick. In the long-term LichtBlick plans to network 100,000 of these home power plants, like a shoal of fish, to form Germany’s largest virtual gas-fired power plant. Earlier post.)
Green Cars News
AUGUST 21, 2009
This program has been a lifeline to the automobile industry, jump starting a major sector of the economy and putting people back to work,” Secretary LaHood said. “At Most consumers have turned in trucks and SUV’s in exchange for passenger cars, with an improved gas mileage of about 60 per cent, according to official figures.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 12, 2015
solar and wind), water and CO 2 to produce liquid or gaseous fuels with a very low carbon intensity. Underneath the e-fuels banner, Audi also includes renewable electricity for recharging its e-tron vehicles (“e-power”) and, should the market so require it, “green” hydrogen (e-hydrogen, derived in the e-gas process).
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