Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

Groupe Renault is creating the REFACTORY in Flins, the first European circular economy site dedicated to mobility. The ReFactory aims to achieve a negative carbon balance by 2030—an objective in line with the Group’s ambition to achieve carbon neutrality in Europe by 2050.

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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

JULY 3, 2019

Volkswagen Group of America announced a new name and expanded role for the former Electronics Research Laboratory (ERL), and unveiled a vehicle concept that combines Volkswagen heritage with futuristic technology. —Scott Keogh, President and CEO, Volkswagen Group of America. Type 20 concept vehicle. Type 20 concept.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2010

The Scuderi Group, developer of a split-cycle engine that divides the four strokes of the Otto cycle over a paired combination of one compression cylinder and one power cylinder ( earlier post ) has authorized the build of its second-generation engine, featuring a V design, and has filed patents on it. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2023

The Mobilize V2G service builds off four complementary components: A bidirectional on-board charger incorporating V2G technology, available on Renault’s future electric vehicles, starting with Renault 5. Mobilize V2G will also be available on future Renault electric vehicles. The Mobilize Powerbox.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

announced new proprietary technology—which it calls Spinel—to replace costly platinum group (PGM) and rare earth metals in catalytic converters. The technology is applicable in a wide range of engine and vehicle applications, both gasoline and diesel, as well as other potential vertical markets, CDTi says.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2022

The agreement, which builds on MHI’s 2021 investment in Infinium ( earlier post ), will focus on exploring the deployment of Infinium’s proprietary electrofuels technology in the Japanese market. Infinium utilizes waste CO 2 and hydrogen, which are converted to synthetic gas using Infinium’s proprietary, patented CO2Cat catalyst.

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EV Central

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

SEA Electric Asia-Pacific chief Bill Gillespie flew back into Australia last weekend fresh from discussions with Toyota in Thailand that included a proposal to build a battery electric version of Australia’s top-selling vehicle. Having close relationships with the vehicle’s original manufacturer could provide cost and engineering benefits.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Canada-based waste-to-biofuels company Enerkem has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Shanghai Environmental Group Co. to develop a project partnership to jointly build municipal solid waste-to-biofuels and chemicals facilities in China.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2023

Germany-based RENK Group, a manufacturer of mission-critical drive technologies, is supplying three high-speed special gear units via RENK-Maag GmbH , a group company, for compressors for the production of green steel to Siemens Energy Compressors GmbH as part of the “SALCOS” (Salzgitter Low CO2 Steelmaking) project of the Salzgitter AG steel group.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2023

Semiconductor technologies have become engrained in internal combustion engine vehicles. Silicon (Si) and silicon carbide (SiC) devices used for onboard chargers, inverters and DC-DC converters play a key role in the operation of electric vehicles and make up a significant proportion of the semiconductor value in the vehicle.

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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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Teslarati

JANUARY 31, 2022

5 comes in three engine options: the ID.5 billion) to convert the factory into an exclusive EV-producing plant. Around 115 million euros was spent on new building space, a new logistics building, and a battery sequencer. VW expanded its building space by more than 50,000 square meters. Volkswagen produces the ID.5

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Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2011

Solvay and Avantium, which spun off from Shell in 2000 to develop furan-based biofuels and biomaterials ( earlier post ), have entered into a partnership to jointly develop a next generation of green high-performance polyamides for engineering plastics. YXY can be implemented in existing chemical production assets. billion in 2010).

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Simply put, Germany took a perfectly working battery-electric vehicle, modified it with a synthetic methanol engine, and dubbed it as a work of true innovation. Karliczek, for his part, noted in a press release that such a project is incredibly important since “green hydrogen” is a valuable building block for climate protection.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The BMW Group will invest more than £600 million (US$751 million) in the MINI factories at Oxford and Swindon for all-electric MINI production. By 2030 production volume will be exclusively electric and the BMW Group will have spent more than £3 billion (US$3.75 billion) on its Swindon, Hams Hall and Oxford plants since 2000.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2011

Deamination is the process of removing the amino group (NH 2 ) from an amino acid—what is left behind after the process is a hydrocarbon skeleton. This study clearly showed how to engineer microbial cells to control their cellular nitrogen metabolism. —Kwang Myung Cho, co-author. Nature Biotechnology doi: 10.1038/nbt.1789.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

MIT researchers have developed a new system that could potentially be used for converting power plant emissions of carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide, and thence into useful fuels for cars, trucks, and planes, as well as into chemical feedstocks for a wide variety of products.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Chart will fit the dispensers within its first-of-a kind transportable fuel stations, which convert stored liquid hydrogen into high pressure gas, to offer a complete, deployable fuel solution delivering on existing customer orders.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

UOP LLC, a Honeywell company, has landed its third technology license for its methanol-to-olefins (MTO) technology, which converts methanol from coal into key plastics building blocks. The company is based in Linyi, China and operates as a subsidiary of Shanxi Yangquan Coal Industry (Group) Co.,

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2012

Omnitek Engineering Corporation, a developer of natural gas engines and diesel-to-natural gas conversion systems, has entered into a definitive agreement with investors for a private placement of common stock and warrants to raise approximately $5.0 million in gross proceeds. Merriman Capital, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2022

Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK), MTI, and Elomatic Oy , a Finnish maritime consulting and engineering firm, have completed the development of a concept design for an ammonia-fuel ready LNG-fueled vessel (ARLFV) for the transition to a future marine fuel. A device that supplies ammonia to the main engine. ARLFV concepts.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The topic areas include high-impact biotechnology research, development, and demonstration to bolster the body of scientific and engineering knowledge needed to produce low-carbon biofuels at a lower cost. Quasar Energy Group will use an anaerobic digestor to convert food waste to SAF precursors. Residential Wood Heaters.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 27, 2021

The combined Group will focus on four growth areas, fully aligned with automotive megatrends: Electric Mobility (including hydrogen solutions). billion) and around 3,000 software engineers. With its portfolio of solutions, the Group will be positioned to benefit from the zero emissions mobility market transition. billion (US$7.9

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Green Car Congress

MAY 30, 2020

Representatives of the Lufthansa Group and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zürich), with ETH spin-offs Climeworks and Synhelion , have signed a joint Letter of Intent for a possible cooperation to accelerate the market launch of Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has released a Request for Information (RFI) on critical materials in the energy sector, including fuel cell platinum group metal catalysts. Platinum group metals (e.g., Permanent magnets Batteries Catalytic converters Lightweighting (platform, frame, engine cradle, etc.). Technologies.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

ZF Group has received several large-scale orders worth several billion euros from North American vehicle manufacturers for its automatic 8-speed PowerLine transmission—including the largest individual commercial-vehicle-related order in company history. ZF Powerline is suitable for engines with up to 1200 N·m.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2022

Anglo American plc unveiled a prototype of the world’s largest hydrogen-powered mine haul truck designed to operate in everyday mining conditions at its Mogalakwena PGMs (platinum group metals) mine in South Africa. The hydrogen economy provides an opportunity to create new engines of economic activity.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Using optimized microorganisms, the sunliquid one-pot system simultaneously converts both C 5 and C 6 sugars to ethanol, delivering up to 50% more ethanol than conventional processes which convert only C 6 sugars. Earlier post.). The plant is anticipated to deliver its first batch of product in 2020.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

—Michelle Chang, a Professor of Chemistry and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of California Berkeley and leader of the project. Using a new family of iterative thiolase enzymes, Professor Chang’s group genetically engineered a strain of Escherichia coli to produce 4.3?±?0.4?g?l

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2023

The company aims to build an app ecosystem through the application of an open operating system and controller integration, including Level 3 and higher autonomous driving capabilities, high-performance semiconductors and over-the-air (OTA) update advancements. It plans to convert additional lines as market demand dictates. Production.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2022

The long-established site in western Saxony is the first large-scale facility of any volume manufacturer worldwide to switch over all production from internal combustion engine vehicles to electric vehicles. The Volkswagen brand has thus laid the foundations for building 1.2 The official start of production of the Volkswagen ID.5

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2022

Consequently, recyclers and plastic converters are facing quality and performance issues while processing recycled polymeric material. IrgaCycle additive solutions help to increase the percentage of mechanically recycled content in several end-use applications such as packaging; automotive and mobility; and building and construction.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2022

The Brayton cycle is named after 19 th century engineer George Brayton, who developed this method of using hot, pressurized fluid to spin a turbine, much like a jet engine. Because so much energy is lost turning steam back into water in the Rankine cycle, at most a third of the power in the steam can be converted into electricity.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Pinto Energy LLC (Pinto), a developer of smaller scale Gas-to-Liquids (GTL) facilities, will build a 2,800 barrel per day (bpd) GTL plant at Pinto’s 80-acre industrial site to the east of Ashtabula, Ohio. Velocys is part of the Oxford Catalysts Group plc; Oxford Catalysts is changing its name to Velocys plc on 25 September 2013.)

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Bloom Energy and Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI), a part of Samsung Group, today are collaborating to design and develop ships powered by Bloom Energy’s solid oxide fuel cell technology. —Kyunghee Kim, vice president of SHI Outfitting Engineering Team.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2015

Siluria’s OCM technology is the first commercially viable process to directly convert natural gas to ethylene, a key building block for the global petrochemicals industry and a new basis from which to produce transportation fuels. The oxidative coupling of methane (OCM) converts methane into ethane and ethylene (C 2 hydrocarbons).

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