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 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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Waste Hydrogen Building Motor 459

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. —Dr Pier Sazio, study co-author from the Zepler Institute. Matthew E.

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Electrek

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

billion investment plan to build batteries, Toyota is already making moves to convert two engine and powertrain plants near its Japanese headquarters to produce EV batteries instead. The post Toyota will convert Japanese engine plants to build batteries – is it finally coming around to EVs? appeared first on Electrek.

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Convert Toyota Building Engine 95

Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2022

Raven SR, a US-based renewable fuels company ( earlier post ), plans to build a waste-to-hydrogen production facility in Aragón, Spain, following the opening of its subsidiary Raven SR Iberia in Zaragoza, announced earlier this month. As a non-combustion process, there is no ash, no slag, build up, or hotspots in the equipment.

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Spain Waste Hydrogen Building 298

Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2020

to build the GMET4 engine—the Company’s 2.0-liter FCA will invest $400 million to repurpose an idled transmission plant in Kokomo, Ind., liter Global Medium Engine inline four-cylinder turbo that is currently offered on the Jeep Wrangler and Jeep Cherokee. liter turbocharged I-4 engine is part of FCA’s Global Medium Engine family.

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Indiana Engine Jeep Convert 269

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 Congress

MARCH 28, 2023

The Guben converter will have a capacity of 24,000tpa—enough to support about 500,000 EVs. Mercedes-Benz AG has taken an equal stake in ACC along with Stellantis and Total Energies with the goal of building a European battery champion with global ambitions. Earlier post.)

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Mercedes Convert Batteries Battery 221

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Our environmental track record and continual efforts to help our customers build more sustainable communities played a major role in our decision to use renewable diesel in our fleet. We decided to switch to renewable diesel once our quality and availability concerns were satisfied. Western States Oil, headquartered in San Jose, Calif.,

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Renewable Fleet Diesel Building 448

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2022

By the end of 2033 at the latest, the Volkswagen brand will only build electric cars in Wolfsburg—as in all of its other factories in Europe. This will be followed by a further pillar for the Wolfsburg site, the Trinity vehicle project. It will be based on the future Group-wide Scalable Systems Platform (SSP).

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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

Electrek

AUGUST 3, 2023

Fisker has unveiled its next electric car, if it can survive long enough to build it, the new Ronin: an electric convertible to compete with Tesla Roadster. more… The post Fisker unveils Ronin: an electric convertible to compete with Tesla Roadster appeared first on Electrek.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 25, 2021

With the Tesla Roadster delayed, Italian firm Ares Design decided to take matters into its own hands and build its own Tesla convertible—out of a Model S sedan. This is by no means the first Tesla Model S convertible conversion but, in photos at least, the fit and finish seem to be a bit better than some previous efforts.

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Convert Conversion Tesla Building 169

Green Car Congress

JULY 27, 2021

Cummins will provide hydrogen fuel cell electric powertrains integrated into selected OEM partners’ heavy-duty trucks for Air Products, as Air Products begins the process of converting its global fleet of distribution vehicles to hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. The company’s technologies are used in more than 1.5

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Hydrogen Convert Fleet Production 334

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Asphalt is also used for roofs, coatings, floor tilings, soundproofing, waterproofing, and other building-construction elements and in a number of industrial products, such as batteries. Spent asphalt is widely available, and even poses environmental risks.

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Li-ion Convert Carbon Batteries 221

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2021

The investment will enable GM to convert CAMI into Canada’s first large-scale electric delivery vehicles manufacturing plant. The new CAMI investments build upon other recent GM investments in Canada, including the recently announced nearly $1.03 Work will begin immediately to transform the CAMI plant. billion (C$1.3

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GM Convert Commercial Canada 321

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 20, 2021

The FLITE (Fuel via Low Carbon Integrated Technology from Ethanol) consortium, led by SkyNRG and with LanzaTech as the technology provider, will build the first-of-its-kind LanzaJet Alcohol to Jet (AtJ) facility. The facility will convert waste-based ethanol to sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) at a scale of more than 30,000 tons/yr.

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Building Waste Carbon Diesel 321

Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2019

Stora Enso is investing €10 million to build a pilot facility for producing bio-based carbon materials based on lignin. Lignin is one of the main building blocks of a tree. This lignin will be converted into hard carbon anode materials for lithium-ion batteries with properties similar to graphite.

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Carbon Building Finland Energy Storage 359

Baua Electric

JANUARY 18, 2024

to build a first-of-its-kind, self-driving battery electric haul truck, paving the way for other companies to upgrade their existing equipment assets to reach their sustainability goals. SafeAI’s autonomous electric Caterpillar 725 haul truck SafeAI converted this Caterpillar haul truck to autonomous and electric; via SafeAI.

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Conversion Building Las Vegas Electric 98

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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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 15, 2022

Indaba Renewable Fuels will build two greenfield refineries in California and Missouri to produce Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) utilizing Topsoe’s HydroFlex technology. With HydroFlex, refiners can convert low value feedstocks to renewable fuels that qualify for Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) credits.

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Building Missouri Renewable Hydrogen 199

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Royal Dutch Shell will build an 820,000-tonnes-a-year biofuels facility at the Shell Energy and Chemicals Park Rotterdam, the Netherlands, formerly known as the Pernis refinery. Hydrogen and high-pressure steam are then used in the production process to convert oils into fuels (hydroprocessing), helping to reduce the fuel’s carbon intensity.

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Electric Vehicles India

AUGUST 18, 2021

Indonesia converted 10 motorcycles to electric under pilot project . Indonesia has launched a pilot project to convert combustion engine motorcycles into electric vehicles as part of its national drive to make the transportation more eco-friendly said the energy ministry. million electric cars on the roads by 2030.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

China’s Tsingshan , the world’s largest producer of stainless steel, will invest $375 million to build a lithium plant in Argentina with French multinational mining and metallurgy company Eramet. Purification of the lithium, then reaction with sodium carbonate to convert it to lithium carbonate.

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Electrek

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Following this success and having closed an oversubscribed seed round, the firm is now gearing up to introduce a $15 million convertible note, aiming to drive further expansion. more… The post Ohio-based electric motorcycle maker raises $7M to build bikes in the US appeared first on Electrek.

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Electric Motorcycles Ohio Motorcycles Cleveland 97

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2022

It will replace ethane as raw material in production, thereby reducing 41,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions annually, the same amount as emitted by roughly 16,000 passenger vehicles.

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Norway Hydrogen Green Engine 418

Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2020

The two companies plan to build the first US modular thermochemical waste-to-hydrogen production facility in California in the fourth quarter of 2020, with a pipeline of additional projects to follow in 2021. Ways2H Inc.,

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Davis Waste Building Ford 305

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2020

Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), with colleagues at Yale University, have developed a photochemical process to convert acetone derived from plants (bio-acetone) into a mixture of polycyclic alkanes, the high energy density of which is appropriate for high-perfomance aviation applications. Ryan et al.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2023

Rio Tinto and Sumitomo Corporation will build a first-of-a-kind hydrogen plant in Gladstone, Australia as part of a A$111.1-million Converting the entire plant to green hydrogen could reduce emissions by 500,000 tonnes per year—the equivalent of taking about 109,000 internal combustion engine cars off the road. million (US$74.3-million)

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Hydrogen Carbon Building Corporation 150

Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2022

is planning to build a 3,000 barrels per day (bpd) renewable fuel plant (Refuel YYZ) in Southern Ontario. With HydroFlex, customers can convert low-value feedstocks to renewable fuels that qualify for the California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) credit. Refuel Energy Inc. Refuel expects to make a final investment decision in 2023.

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Electrek

JULY 13, 2021

A site the size of greater Sydney may host a $100 billion project to convert wind and solar into green hydrogen in Western Australia. more… The post Western Australia plans to build world’s largest clean energy hub appeared first on Electrek. If built, it will become the world’s largest clean energy hub.

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Australia Clean Cleaning Building 145

Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2022

The MoU provides for cooperation and support in the company’s search for a location in Romania for one of the company’s next planned lithium hydroxide converters and, in the longer term, the construction and operation of such converter. That converter is scheduled to start operations in 2024. Earlier post.).

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Romania Convert Lithium Ion Canada 334

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Air Products plans to invest approximately $500 million to build, own and operate a 35 metric ton per day facility to produce green liquid hydrogen at a greenfield site in Massena, New York, as well as liquid hydrogen distribution and dispensing operations. The commercial operation of this facility is targeted to begin in 2026-2027.

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New York Hydrogen Production Green 221

Electrek

MARCH 2, 2022

This all-electric, hard-top convertible builds off the automaker’s Precept concept and further showcases what Polestar has planned for its future EVs from both a design and sustainability standpoint. concept: A hard-top roadster convertible with an autonomous drone built in appeared first on Electrek.

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Convert Concept Volvo Building 106

Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 1, 2019

Haven't gotten your fill of classic cars converted to electric powertrains? Volkswagen and powerhouse EV West partnered up to build this all-electric Type 2 bus to whet our appetites for the real thing, which is still a couple of years away. This build is equal parts original Type 2 and.

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Building Convert Clean Cleaning 150

Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2020

Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Caltech have found that copper that was once bound with oxygen is better at converting carbon dioxide into renewable fuels than copper that was never bound to oxygen. Drisdell and his colleagues say their discovery is an important advance towards that goal.

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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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