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Calysta completes $3M Series A financing; biological conversion of methane to fuels and chemicals

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Calysta Energy completed a Series A financing round totaling $3 million. The financing was led by Pangaea Ventures Ltd., Calysta is focusing on development of methane as a new biological feedstock for cost-competitive, scalable biofuels and chemicals production. Earlier post.).

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Lightning Systems receives California ARB Executive Order for the Transit Bus Repower powertrain

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The Transit Bus Repower is a full-featured powertrain conversion of an existing diesel transit bus to a battery-electric bus. Transit buses are excellent repower candidates for a variety of reasons, including the wide availability of parts and experienced service mechanics. All Lightning products are available today.

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Lightning eMotors introduces new generation 4 Lightning Electric Transit Class 3 Van; battery-electric and fuel cell electric variants

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The Lightning Electric Transit Van is available for order now, with deliveries starting in the second quarter of 2021. Service is performed by Lightning eMotors’ network of Ford QVM-certified service centers, upfitters, and dealers, and spare parts are readily available worldwide. —Tim Reeser, CEO of Lightning eMotors.

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CNG Ford Focus Available in Florida

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The Ford Focus with CNG option is now available in Florida through Wise Gas, Inc. at approved aftermarket conversion facilities and should be available soon through participating Ford Dealerships. Ford Motor Credit has approved the financing for the incremental cost of CNG conversion. Wise Gas, Inc.

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GE Capital and Clean Energy form strategic alliance to accelerate adoption of natural gas in trucking industry

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GE Capital’s Transportation Finance business and Clean Energy Fuels Corp., the largest provider of natural gas fuel for transportation in North America, have entered into a strategic alliance to accelerate the conversion of heavy-duty trucking fleets from diesel to cleaner-burning, less-expensive natural gas.

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DOE to award $118M to 17 projects to accelerate domestic biofuel production

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Made from widely available domestic feedstocks and advanced refining technologies, energy-dense biofuels provide a pathway for low-carbon fuels that can lower greenhouse gas emissions throughout the transportation sector and accelerate the bioeconomy. Viridos, Inc., “Pre-pilot The proposed project will construct and operate a 1.2

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Novozymes introduces its latest enzyme technology for cellulosic biofuels; performs 1.5x better than predecessor

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The enzyme enables more cost-efficient conversion of biomass to ethanol and performs 1.5 Cellic CTec3 allows the cost of producing ethanol from biomass to approach the level of corn ethanol and gasoline, according to the company. times better than its predecessor, Cellic CTec2. Earlier post.).

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