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DOE to award up to $11M for medium- and heavy-duty vehicle powertrain electrification and dual fuel fleet demonstration

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Lower cost operation due to replacing diesel with lower cost fuel alternatives. The vehicles to be demonstrated must be subjected to typical engine operation such as that encountered by public transit buses, fire trucks, heavy-duty on-road commercial work trucks, vocational construction trucks, class 8 long-haul trucks, etc.

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IEA roadmap concludes biofuels can provide up to 27% of world transportation fuel by 2050

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While vehicle efficiency will be the most important and most cost-efficient way to reduce transport-emissions, biofuels will still be needed to provide low-carbon fuel alternatives for planes, marine vessels and other heavy transport modes, and will eventually provide one fifth (2.1 —Bo Diczfalusy.

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CAAFI R&D team releases critical challenges position paper and white papers for alternative jet fuel industry

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The Commercial Aviation Alternative Fuels Initiative (CAAFI) R&D team released its current position paper on critical R&D challenges facing the alternative jet fuel industry, highlighting near-, mid-, and long-term priorities. Detailed analyses of fuel chemistry effects on fuel properties to enhance.

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