Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

As coal plants close, they leave behind empty building shells and scores of lost jobs. Department of Energy (DOE) released a report suggesting that, in theory, over 300 former and present coal power plants could be converted to nuclear. “A On 13 September, the U.S. In Kemmerer, Wyo.,

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 28, 2023

“Electric cars will not save the climate. Behavioral change is hard How willing are people to break their car dependency and other energy-related behaviors to address climate change? In fact, some 74 percent of those polled indicated they were already “proud of what [they are] currently doing” to combat climate change.

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Climate Change Climate San Diego Emissions 133

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2016

The government of British Columbia recently unveiled its Climate Leadership Plan , targeting the reduction of net annual greenhouse gas emissions by up to 25 million tonnes below current forecasts by 2050 and the creation of up to 66,000 jobs over the next ten years. —Climate Leadership Plan. Carbon pricing mechanisms.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

The Swiss company Climeworks is building the world’s largest direct air capture (DAC) and storage facility for converting atmospheric CO 2 to rock in Iceland. The particularly high geothermal energy means that the Earth’s heat can be converted to electricity cost-effectively and virtually CO 2 neutrally.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

Starting a company to develop an energy technology that fights climate change is hard—a lot harder than starting a software company. But the opportunities are huge. It’s challenging in the energy field. It takes longer.” Do they know how to meet [these] commitments? Not really.” This is a hard problem,” Majumdar continued.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2022

The Volkswagen brand has thus laid the foundations for building 1.2 After Gläserne Manufaktur Dresden, we have now converted a second Volkswagen factory in Saxony to dedicated electric vehicle production. The plants in Emden (ID.4), 4), Hanover (ID. Buzz) and Chattanooga (ID.4) The start of production of the ID.5

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Deutsche Bahn and Tognum subsidiary MTU Friedrichshafen GmbH (MTU) have converted a diesel-mechanical powered car from the VT 642 series into a hybrid vehicle as part of a joint research project. We need new mobility and vehicle concepts for an environmental and climate friendly future. Hybrid rail car VT642 with MTU Hybrid Powerpack.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 8, 2024

Reports say that Canadian industry minister Francois-Philippe Champagne has spent most of last year building up EV investments to solidify the country’s clean-tech future by offering tax breaks and the promise of overflowing renewable energy sources and rare minerals used in EVs. Thomas, Ontario, with production starting in 2027.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

At COP26 in Glasgow, US Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg announced the US Aviation Climate Action Plan , published by the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), which sets out to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions from the US aviation sector by 2050. Source: US Aviation Climate Action Plan.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

Porsche and Siemens Energy have joined forces with a number of international companies to build an industrial plant for the production of nearly CO?-neutral We’re jointly developing and realising the world’s first integrated and commercial large-scale plant for producing synthetic, climate-neutral fuels.

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Chile Porsche Hydrogen Wind 409

Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2021

The Origin platform converts C-6 cellulose into four isolated building-block chemicals in one chemo-catalytic step in liquid-phase reactors with almost zero carbon loss. The assessment studies Origin products across four environmental criteria: climate change; ecosystem quality, resource consumption; and human health.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

It is a strategy rooted in cross-cutting research and engineering to enable industry stakeholders, communities, government agencies, and early adopters to meet their climate goals. Optimally integrating transportation with buildings, the grid, and renewables to realize system-wide benefits.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 30, 2019

Faraday Future announced two new investments that could keep it afloat long enough to build its long-awaited FF91. And the EPA is warning others to prepare for climate change—as it maintains it's not really an issue yet. Just a year after converting Smart into. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Nine national, regional, state and city-level governments signed up to Climate Group’s newly launched initiative ZEV Pledge. The ZEV Pledge asks governments at all levels, as well as individual departments, agencies and public sector bodies, to pledge to convert their entire owned or leased fleets, where feasible, to zero-emission vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2018

The partners from industry and power generation will use this facility to research into future breakthrough technologies which are needed to meet global climate goals over the long-term. The goal is to achieve a record output efficiency of 80% in converting electricity into hydrogen. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2023

announced that its subsidiary SoCal Biomethane will supply renewable natural gas (RNG) as facilitated by renewable fuels marketer Anew Climate to FuelCell Energy’s Tri-gen system to produce carbon-negative hydrogen and electricity for Toyota Motor North America, Inc.’s Anaergia Inc.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The solar radiation is converted into high-temperature process heat of more than 1,000°C, then drives the thermochemical reaction to produce solar fuels. The precise control technology of the heliostat field was developed by Synhelion and guarantees optimal use of land resources and building materials.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Rolls-Royce is focusing on methanol as a fuel for climate-friendly shipping; Rolls-Royce business unit Power Systems is currently developing mtu engines for use with methanol. We urgently need to create concrete solutions together to achieve the climate targets. Existing infrastructure can continue to be used in many cases.

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Engine Fuel Mariner Climate 199

Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2011

Siemens is building power converter stations for a high-voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission system with a record capacity of 2 x 1,000 megawatts. A reactive power exchange is possible between each power converter and the three-phase alternating current network, which helps to stabilize overloaded grids.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2022

Another project in Sweden will create a first-of-a-kind methanol plant converting CO?, Refineries (2 projects): In Norway, one project will build and operate the world’s first commercial-scale drop-in biofuel production facility to convert forestry waste into advanced second-generation biofuels and biochar. Background.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2022

The gaseous hydrogen will be converted to liquid hydrogen using Air Products’ proprietary technology. The combination of our reliable engineering and best-in-class technology with Air Products’ speed, strategic investment and build-own-operate model, will be the differentiator on this new hydrogen market—which we create now.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2020

Starting from today, the WESTKÜSTE100 partners will be working together to create this green future and build an ecologically and economically sustainable business model. In building and commissioning an industrial-scale electrolysis plant on our site we will become an active part of the industry of tomorrow.

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Hydrogen Green Wind Grid 435

Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2021

RWE will develop, build and operate the wind park. To advance the joint project, the CEOs of BASF and RWE have signed a letter of intent covering a wide-ranging cooperation for the creation of additional capacities for renewable electricity and the use of innovative technologies for climate protection. BASF will own a stake.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 15, 2021

This cornerstone is needed to build-up production capacity and organize feedstock value chains while avoiding investments that either fail to deliver emission reductions or cause unintended environmental impacts. —Pete Harrison, Executive Director for EU Policy at the European Climate Foundation.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The category mistake is obvious: A university is an institution, not a collection of buildings. He gave the example of a visitor to the University of Oxford who sees colleges and a splendid library and then asks, “But where is the university?”

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2016

The conversion process builds upon the solar thermal electro-chemical process (STEP) introduced by GWU Professor Stuart Licht and his colleagues in 2009. This presents a sustainable route to convert carbon dioxide into materials relevant to both grid-scale and portable storage systems. Earlier post.) —Licht et al.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2021

The ethanol will then be converted into SAF using the LanzaJet Alcohol-To-Jet technology, developed by LanzaTech and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. The technologies enabling project AtmosFUEL are proven climate solutions that are being deployed globally. Project AtmosFUEL marks the first integration of these technologies.

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Carbon Engine CO2 Commercial 305

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Solar heat is used to convert a mixture of methane, CO 2 , and water into syngas, which is then processed into any type of fuel. Sustainable fuels are becoming increasingly significant as the mobility sector strives to decarbonize, not least to meet climate targets of net zero carbon emissions by 2050. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2021

The generated climate-friendly hydrogen will primarily be used to supply local industry, but it will also be possible to feed it into the national hydrogen network. One way of achieving this is to import green ammonia and convert it into hydrogen, which is something we are looking at for Wilhelmshaven. —David Bryson, COO Uniper.

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Green Hydrogen Germany CO2 273

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2022

As ICE technology is predicted to be slowly fading away, there has been a boom around H 2 ICE in China to combat pollution and climate change. But on the flip side, they are complex and expensive to build and maintain while having safety concerns. These engines offer zero vehicular emissions, quick charging, and better ranges.

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Teslarati

JUNE 15, 2023

FedEx Express Canada aims to convert its entire parcel pickup and delivery (PUD) fleet to zero-emissions cars by 2040. The delivery company plans to expand its BrightDrop fleet as it builds out charging infrastructure at FedEx locations across Canada. The first 50 BrightDrop vehicles will service Toronto, Montreal, and Surrey.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2019

Shell will join a consortium comprising Air Liquide, Nouryon (formerly AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals), Enerkem and the Port of Rotterdam in an effort to build Europe’s first advanced waste-to-chemicals facility in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2023

This venture will reduce the UK’s and Europe’s dependence on critical raw materials imports, thus contributing to the achievement of the European and British climate change targets and the creation of the first fully integrated regional electrical vehicle value chain.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2021

We have joined the global battle to defeat climate change. Our aim is to provide the two “missing links” in the climate change battle, to create both the demand and the supply of green hydrogen. FFI is advancing projects across Australia including Tasmania, to build large-scale renewable energy and green hydrogen production capacity.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2022

Oberon’s rDME is a straightforward and scalable way for propane distributors and their customers to become more sustainable and will lead to overall emissions reductions from the propane sector which is a critical step to meeting global climate commitments. —Rebecca Boudreaux, Ph.D., President and CEO of Oberon.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

One of the primary challenges is to convert the existing ZF plants around the world so that they can be operated with climate-neutral energy from now on. The plant, which is part of the Electrified Powertrain Technology division, supports the company’s efforts to achieve climate neutrality across all value chains by 2040.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2014

California’s Climate Protection Strategies do not help meet NAAQS Standards. If the near zero technologies outlined in this paper are developed in the time frame described herein, they will dramatically enhance the state’s ability to meet air quality standards and climate protection objectives. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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