Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Tenneco and Gentherm (formerly BSST/Amerigon) are part of a US Department of Energy (DOE) consortium actively developing a thermoelectric generator (TEG) for capturing waste exhaust heat in vehicles and converting it to electrical energy to be used to power electrical systems within the vehicle. Source: Crane (2013).Click Click to enlarge.

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Fuel Economy Waste Economy Fuel 218

Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2015

The licensed technology could be applied to convert heat into electricity in a number of waste heat recovery applications, including automobile exhaust and high-temperature industrial processes such as ceramic and glass processing plants. —Thierry Caillat, task leader for the thermoelectrics team at JPL.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

a China-based developer, manufacturer and distributor of alcohol-based automobile fuels and civil-use fuels, including methanol, ethanol, and blended fuels, plans to build a second waste conversion facility, this one based in Harbin, China, that will convert municipal waste, construction waste, plant waste and sewage sludge into alcohol-based fuel.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 4, 2011

A newly released GE study — Flare Gas Reduction: Recent Global Trends and Policy Considerations —estimates that 5% of the world’s natural gas production is wasted by burning or “flaring” unused gas each year, despite some progress on the flaring issue. The study finds that the technologies required for a solution exist now.

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Waste Gas Equatorial Guinea Gas-Electric 260

Baua Electric

APRIL 9, 2024

The Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) collaborated with the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board to organise a ‘Circularity Workshop’ on ‘Extended Producer Responsibility Regime: An Innovative Policy Tool for Fostering a Sustainable Circular Economy in the Automotive Industry.’

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Pollution Economy Waste India 40

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Ghost gear comprises nearly 10% of all sea-based plastic waste, entangling fish, sharks, dolphins, seals, sea turtles and birds. For more than two decades, Ford has used recycled plastics not collected from oceans to produce various parts for automobiles.

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Parts Ford Mariner Escape 434

Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2021

Eastman is collaborating with the United States Automotive Materials Partnership LLC ( USAMP ) and automotive recycler PADNOS for a concept feasibility study to demonstrate a closed-loop project to recycle automotive-industry mixed plastic waste in the automotive supply chain. —Steve Crawford.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2020

Large amounts of plating solution must also be used because the complete substrates have to be immersed in the baths, which means that large amounts of plating solution must also be discarded (wasted) after use.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

UBQ is a patented material converted from 100% unsorted household waste, containing food leftovers, mixed plastics, paper, cardboard, packaging materials and diapers. By diverting landfill-destined waste, UBQ prevents the emission of methane, groundwater leakage and other environmental harms. Every ton of UBQ produced prevents 11.7

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Parts Carbon Auto Polymer 362

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

BMW’s press shop in Dingolfing—the largest of the BMW Group worldwide—is the first in which all aluminum sheet waste is separated and recycled to make it reusable for industry. When producing components in the press shop, there is always a waste of sheet metal. The BMW Group has invested around €6.5 automotive plant.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2022

In the future, Schaeffler will supply beam axles to automobile manufacturers, particularly in North America. Heat is a scarce and valuable resource in electric cars, which do not have the waste heat from internal combustion engines for heating the interior, for example. Axles like these are more than two meters wide.

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Electric Electrical Automobile Manufacturer Hungary 369

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Stressing the power of “ and ” rather than “ or ”, he asserted that: The automobile is unsustainable without transformational change. He also called the propensity to “ sit around debating ” which drive technology or energy source is better than all the rest as “premature and presumptuous ”.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2011

These laws have resulted in the lowering of vehicles’ weight through the replacement of heavy materials in certain systems with lighter alternatives, as the weight of the automobile has a direct bearing on its fuel efficiency. These laws.also challenge OEMs to find innovative solutions to comply with them and still stay profitable.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

Economic crisis, energy crisis, climate crisis and recent global developments have affected the automobile industry like few other sectors. Sustainable Value in Automobile Manufacturing (2009). The ranking of the 17 manufacturers based on the Sustainable Value Margin. Click to enlarge. GM achieved a sustainable value of -€9.87

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Due to the fuel’s high hydrogen content, a CNG automobile emits approximately 20% less carbon dioxide than a comparable gasoline model. More than half of them sell biomethane produced entirely from waste, and this number is increasing. Audi sources the CO 2 from an adjacent biogas plant that recycles agricultural waste.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2019

Water is necessary in the entire manufacturing process of an automobile—in the paint shop, for example. Audi has set itself the target of reducing the environmental factors of energy, CO 2 emissions, fresh water, waste and volatile organic compounds by 35% per car produced by 2025 compared with reference year 2010.

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Teslarati

MARCH 25, 2024

We actually have one of the most efficient automobile factories in the world here in terms of water consumption,” Riederer stated. million cubic meters of water every year, and the waste recycler EEW in Premnitz uses 23 million cubic meters of water annually. Even the Klaistow asparagus farm uses nearly 1.1

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Baua Electric

AUGUST 25, 2023

The device permits quantity automakers to trade in contrasting roof colours with no need to run a automobile during the paint store a 2nd date. Reger foresees PixelPaint first being impaired on automobile roofs. The facility to use custom designed paintings on a automobile’s frame has appealed to luxurious producers.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The amount of waste per vehicle is also continuously decreasing, making the BMW Group one of the world’s most sustainable automotive manufacturers. The BMW Group was positioned as sector leader in the “Automobiles” category of the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices World and Europe, announced just a few days ago.

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Drive Electric

APRIL 4, 2023

In New Zealand, the Ministry for the Environment and the New Zealand Automobile Associatio n are working together to ensure that old EV batteries are handled in an environmentally responsible way. The programme’s foundation is built on the concept of a circular economy , which seeks to avoid the linear “take-to-waste” model.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2011

HDM), Honda’s production and sales company in Mexico, will build an automobile plant for production of fuel-efficient subcompact vehicles for the Mexican and North American markets. The smallest automobile currently produced by Honda in North America is the compact Honda Civic, which is built at Honda plants in Indiana and Ontario, Canada.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2018

Researchers from Hokkaido University and their colleagues in Japan and Taiwan have more than doubled the ability of a material to transform wasted heat into usable electricity by significantly narrowing the space through which spread electrons move, according to a new open-access study published in the journal Nature Communications.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 12, 2023

The unused ways will come with the worth of giga casting, which removes the numerous portions and brackets by way of necessarily casting the automobile’s back and front as two immense modules. “This is overwhelmingly faster,” Yoshio Nakamura, deputy leading of worldwide manufacturing, informed Automobile Information.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

At every price point and with multiple powertrains, we can put more people in cleaner automobiles across North America to have the greatest near-term impact on total carbon emissions. We believe the fastest way to lower greenhouse gases in the transportation sector is to offer drivers lower carbon choices that meet their needs.

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Baua Electric

MAY 22, 2023

DETROIT — Ford Motor expects gross sales and benefit margins from its inner combustion engine automobiles to develop for a minimum of the later two years ahead of the industrywide transition to electrical automobiles begins to reduce that industry. CFO John Lawler stated it’s on corporate leaders to reach effects.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 12, 2023

“This is overwhelmingly faster,” Yoshio Nakamura, deputy leading of worldwide manufacturing, instructed Automobile Information. Engineers wish to lengthen that self-driving form to ultimate meeting, necessarily letting the automobile force to the portions, in lieu than bringing the portions to the automobile.

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Toyota Batteries Battery Automobile 52

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 29, 2011

This applies especially to energy consumption, waste volumes, airborne emissions, water consumption and carbon dioxide emissions. A few weeks ago, the new Volkswagen plant at Chattanooga, Tennessee, was the first automobile factory worldwide to receive platinum LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2014

The Audi Group has calculated its corporate carbon footprint and is the first premium automobile manufacturer to be certified according to the international standard ISO 14064. Audi made a detailed assessment of emissions in all automobile lifecycle phases; experts of DEKRA Certification GmbH and DEKRA Certification Inc.

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Corporation Audi Carbon Waste 191

Baua Electric

JUNE 12, 2023

STOCKHOLM — Autoliv expects to satisfy or exceed its medium-term industry enlargement goal era reiterating all of its monetary targets for this 12 months, a past later saying round 8,000 process cuts to avoid wasting prices. In a commentary forward of its U.S.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 10, 2023

North The us’s two greatest automakers have now grew to become to their electrical automobile rival Tesla to faucet into its monumental community of Superchargers to aid them proceed quicker into the electrical marketplace. GM will weave Tesla’s Supercharger community into its automobile and cellular apps. and Canada.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

million automobiles. This included the more than 1.3 million tons of tin plate steel—the equivalent of 21 billion steel cans, which were recycled at a rate of 72%, the highest among packaging materials. More than 16.3 million tons of automotive scrap were recycled at a rate of 92.5% in 2012—the equivalent of 11.5 Source: SRI.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2016

One of the possible applications of the material is in automobiles to utilize waste heat emitted from engines, the research team suggested. Previous work by the research team had investigated Mg 2 Si-based systems as suitable thermoelectric materials for the effective utilization of automotive waste heat.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 28, 2024

Other areas in automotive that require workwear include after-sales workshops for mechanics, added Roy before continuing, “In India, the automobile industry accounts for 3–5% of the company’s total revenue.”

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Clean Fleet Report

DECEMBER 13, 2022

This calls for routine interior cleaning , including washing and vacuuming, as well as making sure that all surfaces are clear of clutter and waste. The types of automobiles that can be used on a ridesharing platform are subject to certain criteria set by each individual firm. You’ll thank yourself for the foresight.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2015

Ge 0.25 )—intended to generate electric power from waste heat with greater efficiency and higher output power than currently available materials. It can be used with waste-heat applications and concentrated solar energy conversion at temperatures up to 300 ? —Liu et al. It was found that Mg 2 Sn 0.75 has an average ZT of 0.9

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The Truth About Cars

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Even with EV subsidies helping to knock off a few grand, that’s remains a lot of money to spend on an automobile that’s the size of a Mitsubishi Mirage. We imagine the minuscule EV will spend the next few years as toxic waste on the secondhand market. But it’s almost assuredly going to end up a collectable car someday.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2012

The e-gas project marks a transition toward alternative forms of energy for automobiles. The CO 2 used in Audi’s e-gas plant is a waste product from a nearby biogas plant, operated by energy provider EWE. Waste heat generated during electrolysis and methanation, for example, is used in the adjacent facility.

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