Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Transform Materials has developed a novel and sustainable microwave plasma reactor process to convert natural gas into high-value hydrogen and acetylene, thereby opening up a new pathway for green chemical manufacturing. Acetylene can be then converted into many derivative chemicals, all possessing high value.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2020

Researchers at the University of Southampton have transformed optical fibers into photocatalytic microreactors that convert water into hydrogen fuel using solar energy. Alongside hydrogen generation from water, the multi-disciplinary research team is investigating photochemical conversion of carbon dioxide into synthetic fuel.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2021

a global supplier of hydrogen fuel cell-powered commercial vehicles, announced a joint venture to build up to 100 hydrogen hubs across the United States and globally. As a non-combustion process, there is no ash, no slag, build up, or hotspots in the equipment. Raven SR , a renewable fuels company, and Hyzon Motors Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2020

At SEMA360, Chevrolet will showcase a 1977 K5 Blazer converted to all-electric propulsion. During the virtual event, Chevrolet Performance will survey SEMA members interested in building their own electric projects to help finalize Chevrolet’s initial eCrate offering. DC-to-DC power converter to power low-voltage systems.

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Chevrolet Convert DC Installation 221

Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2023

Canada-based Rock Tech Lithium officially broke ground for its lithium conversion plant in Guben, Germany ( earlier post ), from which it will supply Mercedes-Benz with battery-grade lithium hydroxide (LiOH) starting in 2026 (starting with a qualification period).

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Mercedes Convert Batteries Battery 221

Baua Electric

APRIL 22, 2024

-based Bedeo is launching a Land Rover Defender EV conversion based around in-wheel motors from Bedeo-owned Protean Electric. The Defender is the first in a series of “Reborn Electric: Icons” conversions, according to a Bedeo press release. The company didn’t reveal the curb weight of this example.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2021

Rice University scientists and their colleagues at C-Crete Technologies have optimized a process to convert waste from rubber tires into graphene that can, in turn, be used to strengthen concrete. If we can use less concrete in our roads, buildings and bridges, we can eliminate some of the emissions at the very start.

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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. Conversion backers say the process has benefits for everybody involved. In Kemmerer, Wyo.,

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The method’s byproducts include the building blocks for synthesizing methane, ethanol and other carbon-based compounds used in industrial processing. The conversion normally requires significant amounts of energy in the form of high heat—a temperature of at least 700 ?C, Credit: NIST.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 12, 2019

Off-the-shelf EV conversions aren't just for classic cars like Prince Harry's Jaguar anymore. French startup Transition One plans to make it easy to convert a wide variety of average old cars in the country to electric power by building a standard conversion kit.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2021

Wrightspeed and Matthews Specialty Vehicles are teaming up to develop, convert, and deliver battery-powered and range-extended electric buses, trucks, and specialty vehicles with industry-leading performance, efficiency, and total cost of ownership. The Matthews vehicles will be designed to have gross vehicle weight (GVW) up to 53,000 lbs.,

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Green Car Reports

MAY 13, 2022

In addition to building new zero-emission trucks, what if older diesel trucks were converted to hydrogen fuel-cell power? Two such initiatives were announced earlier this week.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

We intend to build an electrochemical modular system as a platform for a continuous conversion process of simulated flue gas to pure liquid fuels. We address both materials-level design and device-level engineering. —Haotian Wang.

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DIY Electric Car

MARCH 22, 2021

I have an extra b2200 laying around and looking into potentially converting it into electric. Looking to do a Ev Conversion on my Mazda B2200. After seeing this video on youtube. I've decided I want to take this idea and run with it. I like I because it re uses half the original engine and maintains stock motor/transmission mounts.

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EV Central

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Australian manufacturer Roev plans to do just that from 2023 by converting Toyota Hiluxes and Ford Rangers to electric, with conversions priced from $47,990. That makes the locally-converted utes cheaper than the LDV eT60 that has just gone on sale priced from $92,990 drive-away. 2023 Roev electric Toyota HiLux.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2023

In June, CPKC and CSX Corporation announced their intent to enter into a joint venture for the building and deployment of hydrogen locomotive conversion kits for diesel electric locomotives. As an initial step in the collaboration, CSX plans to convert one of its diesel locomotives using a hydrogen conversion kit developed by CPKC.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

This includes making available $2 billion in grants and up to $10 billion in loans to support automotive manufacturing conversion projects that retain high-quality jobs in communities that currently host these manufacturing facilities. Converting and Retrofitting America’s Manufacturing Plants.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

UPS and the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) announced that new technology will be developed to convert UPS package delivery vehicles from diesel to electric. UPS and Unique Electric Solutions LLC (UES LLC) will design, build, test and make the conversions. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2019

The miscanthus biomass was harvested and baled at the INA demonstration site in Croatia in February this year and shipped for processing to Clariant’s pre-commercial sunliquid plant in Straubing, Germany for conversion into lignocellulosic sugars and ethanol.

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Electrek

OCTOBER 31, 2022

After visiting ECD Automotive Design’s original footprint in Florida earlier this year, the custom EV conversion specialists invited us back for a tour of its its new 100,000 square-foot facility up the street.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 30, 2020

The researchers and engineers at ETH Zurich have developed innovative processes that make it possible to extract CO 2 from the atmosphere and, together with water and with the help of concentrated sunlight, convert it into a synthesis gas that can be used to produce jet fuel.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The 22 selected projects fall into five topic areas for the “Bioenergy Technologies Office Scale-Up and Conversion” funding opportunity ( earlier post ): Scale-Up of Biotechnologies. Affordable, Clean Cellulosic Sugars for High Yield Conversion. Separations to Enable Biomass Conversion. Residential Wood Heaters.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2023

Operating throughout the city and surrounding areas of Newport, South Wales, the transport operator currently has 49 electric buses and coaches in fleet, further building on this with an Equipmake partnership which will electrify ICE buses for use on school and city routes.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

The Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC) UK, with experts and stakeholders from industry, academia and funding and support bodies, has published an updated power electronics value chain which shows an end-to-end supply chain view of materials and components required for volume manufacturing of automotive inverters, converters, and onboard chargers.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2016

The light olefins ethylene, propylene, and butylene—usually made from petroleum—are key building blocks for chemical industry, and are starting materials for making plastics, synthetic fibers, and coatings. An alternative method is the conversion of synthesis gas in two process steps.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

BIOFOREVER (BIO-based products from FORestry via Economically Viable European Routes)—a consortium of 14 European companies—has started a demonstration project for the conversion of woody biomass to value-adding chemical building blocks such as butanol, ethanol, and 2,5–furandicarboxylic acid (FDCA) on an industrial scale.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Fulcrum BioEnergy has selected Gary, Indiana as the location of its Centerpoint BioFuels Plant, which will convert municipal solid waste (MSW) into low-carbon, renewable transportation fuel. a highly efficient and economic gasification system for the conversion of the MSW feedstock to syngas.

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Indiana Waste Fuel Building 259

Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2012

Diesel to natural gas conversion system. Omnitek has developed a kit that can be used to convert the globally popular Mercedes diesel engines OM904 and OM906 into natural gas engines. Omnitek’s proprietary diesel-to-natural gas engine conversion kit is used for bus and truck applications, as well as stationary applications.

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Kits Conversion Gas Diesel 218

Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2022

As a result, Volkswagen is creating the conditions in 2022 for building 1.2 Volkswagen has invested around €1 million in converting the Emden plant with its 8,000 employees. 4’s start-up is on schedule, despite the global challenges during the two-year conversion phase. Chattanooga (ID.4)

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2017

It will extend our capabilities beyond catalytic conversion of biomass. Spun out from Princeton University in 2008, Liquid Light has invested more than US$35 million on low-energy electrochemistry technologies to convert CO 2 to major chemicals. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed.

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Light Convert CO2 Polymer 150

Baua Electric

MAY 13, 2023

Heritage Customs Valiance Convertible according to the Land Rover Defender 90 A Dutch coachbuilder through the title of Heritage Customs this date introduced a convertible conversion for the Land Rover Defender. 2024 Alfa Romeo Tonale Probably the most automobiles we examined this date used to be the 2024 Alfa Romeo Tonale.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2023

The conversion of coal to higher value materials, such as graphene, graphite or carbon nanotubes, is of high interest, and a number of researchers have proposed processes. At its core, the research is focused on harnessing carbon, the key building block for synthetic graphite and many other products.

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Coal West Virginia Carbon Wyoming 210

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The new plant builds on the experience and knowledge gained from its predecessors, which processed ~400 m 3 of lithium rich brine over the lifespans. Recently, the company converted mineral exploration permits into 21-year mineral leases—the first for lithium brines in Saskatchewan.

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Conversion Design Water Convert 259

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Greyrock Energy, a company transforming natural gas into premium transportation fuels ( earlier post ), announced a final investment decision (FID) to build a small-scale Gas-to-Liquids (GTL) facility near Houston, Texas. The plant will be commercially operational by the end of 2015.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 7, 2022

While growing up in Germany, Heike Riel helped her father design and build furniture in the family workshop. She says the experience taught her that “precision and creativity are necessary to build something excellent.” When I go back to my hometown, many of our clients still have the furniture that I helped build for them.”

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

The UCLA team constructed a synthetic biocatalytic pathway that efficiently converts methanol under room temperature and ambient atmospheric pressures to higher-chain alcohols or other higher carbon compounds without carbon loss or ATP expenditure. With a cell-free system, we demonstrated the conversion of methanol to ethanol or n-butanol.

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Conversion Fuel Carbon Convert 210

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

At Zwickau, Volkswagen is converting an entire vehicle plant from 100% internal combustion engines to 100% electric vehicles for the first time. Our conversion work is proceeding entirely to schedule. Twelve entirely new buildings or parts of buildings are currently under construction at the plant site. With the ID.3,

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