Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2023

TerraStar Energy signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Emerging Fuels Technology (EFT) to license EFT’s Fischer-Tropsch (FT) and Maxx Jet/Maxx Diesel proprietary technology ( earlier post ) to build a fleet of FLEX plants—small-scale, modular renewable diesel facilities.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2009

Green Car Congress attended the Renewable Energy Finance Forum - Wall Street (REFF-Wall Street) conference (23-24 June) sponsored by Euromoney Energy Events and the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE). Renewable energy projects are frequently financed with project rather than corporate finance. by Bill Cooke.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 21, 2013

GE Capital’s Transportation Finance business and Clean Energy Fuels Corp., Clean Energy will then help offset the monthly cost of newly-acquired NGVs to make it consistent with the cost of a diesel truck, if the customer makes a fuel commitment.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2015

Global Bioenergies, a developer of one-step fermentation processes for the direct and cost-efficient transformation of renewable resources into light olefins, and Cristal Union, the 4 th largest European beet producer, have formed IBN-One, a joint venture to build and operate the first plant in France converting renewable resources into isobutene.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 15, 2018

Shockwave is financing its equipment required for this multi-million dollar project and is providing certain performance guarantees for the Shockwave Process. We project that we would generate on the order of 10 pounds of protein and feed for the food chain for every gallon of renewable jet fuel that we would produce.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2021

These selections bring total SCALEUP program funding to over $70 million, building on $24 million in previously announced SCALEUP “Fast Track” selections. Over the last decade, the cost of lithium-ion (Li-ion) energy storage systems has fallen while energy density has improved steadily. Earlier post.) 24M Technologies, Inc.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 20, 2024

The first was the American NS Savannah , built in the late 1950s at a cost of $46.9 The other two ships, the Japanese Mutsu (1970) and the German Otto Hahn (1968), were both refitted with diesel engines partway through their service lives. Engines in ordinary ships are the size of houses,” says Emblemsvåg, who is leading NuProShip.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2017

The supply agreement contains a selling price that is expected to allow for an appropriate level of return on the capital required to build out Gevo’s existing production facility in Luverne, Minnesota. Gevo and HCS intend to establish further offtake arrangements for other products such as Gevo’s ATJ and isobutanol.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2012

Our first project must be absolutely ‘bankable’ to obtain the necessary project financing. This means selecting proven technologies, processes, engineering firms and suppliers to build a highly predictable operation for the production of gasoline. Optimization of this section will yield significant cost benefits.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

million is funded by the ACT consortium; private financing amounts to €1.5M Carbon Capture Projects: Lowering Absorption Process Uncertainty, Risks, and Costs by Predicting and Controlling Amine Degradation (LAUNCH). This project will result in improved reliability and lower costs of carbon storage sites. million of which €31.5

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2012

This progress includes advanced internal combustion engines; efficient transmissions; lightweight materials; and hybrid and other energy-saving technologies. kW/kg, at a cost of 200 yuan/kW. China has made big progress in electric car technologies but still lags behind other countries in certain areas, said the report.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2023

Financing for novel biorefinery process systems can be a barrier to commercializing advanced biofuels, and this funding will reduce technological uncertainties and enable industry deployment. MicroBio Engineering Inc., MicroBio Engineering Inc., Comstock Inc., gallon with over 80% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

More than half of this (57%) will be invested in Germany alone; investments in the German locations will focus on alternative drives, new generations of diesel and gasoline engines, and new generations of Volkswagen’s innovative direct shift gearboxes. These investments will be financed using the joint ventures’ own funds.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2014

Leverage increased private sector financing for deployment of “all of the above” energy technologies. DOE also will work with other agencies in addition to state and local governments to use existing authorities to remove barriers to increased financing for clean energy deployment.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2017

The automakers will bear the entire cost of the retrofitting, estimated by the German Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA) to be at least €500 million. Combustion engines will be necessary in the foreseeable future for individual mobility and freight transport. German auto manufacturers will optimize the emissions systems in 5.3

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

If fleet electrification is to compete on equal terms with the classic internal combustion engine, it will need more than the right economic parameters such as the cost of purchasing and operation. When it comes to operating costs (total cost of ownership), the eVito stands on an equal footing with the diesel-powered Vito.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2016

Charging infrastructure financing: Unlocking Up $4.5 Loan guarantees can be an important tool to commercialize innovative technologies because these projects may be unable to obtain full commercial financing due to the perceived risks associated with technology that has never been deployed at commercial scale in the United States.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

and advanced power electronics initiatives in support of the EV Everywhere Grand Challenge; improvements in lightweight materials performance; more efficient combustion engine technologies; a new SuperTruck II initiative to achieve improved freight hauling efficiency goals; and. Within the $10.7 billion, the FY 2016 Budget requests $4.8

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 27, 2022

But it was true what semiconductor engineers in South Korea whispered about his former students: They were everywhere. Starting in the mid-1980s, as chip manufacturing in the country accelerated, engineers who had studied under Kim at. His mother taught elementary school; his father, Kim Byung-Woon, was a textile engineer for.

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Cars That Think

JULY 2, 2023

Mr. Raskin’s proposal did not impress anyone at Apple Computer enough to bring much money from the board of directors or much respect from Apple engineers. Mr. Jobs wanted to commit enough money to build an automated factory that would produce about 300 000 computers a year. No one tried to control us,” said one.

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Plug In India

AUGUST 2, 2022

Finances Let’s see how the company is doing. Let's talk about finances. Cost of the parts and materials are its largest cost center forming 51.7% of the overall costs. Do remember that India is only now building manufacturing capacity for motors, chargers, controllers. crore in FY21.

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Blink Charging

JANUARY 4, 2024

The only thing worse than being ICE’d (as in, finding that a charger is blocked by an internal combustion engine vehicle) is discovering that an EV driver is using the charging spot but not charging. Generally speaking, one should never unplug another EV except in an emergency (or if that other driver left a note). Considering a home charger?

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2016

Takashi Moriya, Senior Chief Engineer at Honda R&D, re-iterated Honda’s strategic focus on electrification as the main pathway toward reducing greenhouse gases, and shift to renewable sources of energy. V6 engine, enabling it to be packaged under the hood of a sedan-type vehicle for the first time.

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EV Connect

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

What are the costs of all the raw materials required to produce the batteries used in these vehicles, both in terms of mining and production resources and in pollution from those processes? Department of Energy , the energy loss in an EV drive system is only around 15 to 20 percent, compared to 64 to 75 percent in internal combustion engines.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2011

The conclusions of that study are detailed in a new book— Unlocking Energy Innovation (MIT Press, 2012)—by Richard Lester, the Japan Steel Industry Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering at MIT, and David Hart, a professor of public policy at George Mason University. Business as usual is unsustainable over the long run.

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Charged EVs

AUGUST 2, 2023

Most commercial trucks are engineered for 1.2 Most commercial trucks are engineered for 1.2 million miles, so the engineering that goes into making those vehicles be able to perform and last that long has to apply to the battery pack as well. Most commercial trucks are engineered for 1.2 million miles. It won’t work.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2011

A newly released report financed by the World Bank and prepared by consultancy PRTM analyzes China’s New Energy Vehicles Program, as well as the Ten Cities, Thousand Vehicles Program, in the context of these megatrends and concludes that the overall value chain shift could favor China from both a technological and supply chain perspective.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

billion at the apex, the category’s top seven companies together have hauled in more than $5 billion in funding—a figure that doesn’t include private firms, whose finances haven’t been disclosed. Laurie Garrow, Georgia Tech And somehow, the cost would be no greater, either. With Joby and its $1.85

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2015

During the late innings of the ICE-age (as in the Internal Combustion Engine age) it has become clear that feeding gasoline and diesel to the next billion new cars is not going to be easy, or cheap. By contrast, at 25 miles per $3 gallon of gasoline, those miles cost 12 cents each. However, it costs more to build an acre of rooftop PV.

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EV Info

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

Boris has spoken and started the end of the petrol engine in the UK. Under Boris’s new Green plan, the sale of new combustion engine vehicles, that are powered wholly by Petrol or Diesel will be banned from 2030. Some ships already use sails in a kind of hybrid system, together with a conventional engine, for when the wind drops.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2014

To date, the paper notes, the shipping industry has not acted decisively to realize its potential to reduce emissions via low carbon energy due to a number of reasons, include capital cost, patchwork regulations, lack of standards, lack of appropriate infrastructure and uncertainty regarding long-term availability of fuel.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 26, 2022

If the cost of our cars don’t change at all, we’ll still sell as much as we make,” he said. . The goal is currently to build 250,000 Cybertrucks per year. . The CEO also noted that the question is wrong, since “the thing that really matters is when the car is autonomous, which causes cost of transport to drop by 4-5x.”.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2013

Although the industry has reduced its consumption of fossil fuels by a number of measures such as using increasingly thermally efficient diesel engines in recent decades, the current total fuel oil consumption is in excess of 350 million tonnes per year (about 98.5 billion gallons US).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2014

Possibilities include dramatic reductions in the cost of EV batteries that lead to more cost- competitive vehicles, greater state or federal incentives, or increasing taxes on fossil fuels. The luxury internal combustion engine (ICE) motorcycle market may be growing in both the United States and Europe, as well.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Stationary Fuel Cells and Hybrid Transit Buses Incremental Costs: The purchase of diesel-electric hybrid transit buses and stationary fuel cells for use in the statewide bus system in Connecticut. Hybrid Electric Buses Incremental Costs: For the incremental cost of making transit buses hybrid electric.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

To help California mitigate its ever-growing wildfires, this year CalSEED has included companies that are innovating in technologies that will build wildfire resiliency into the grid. EV Life, LLC is building the first online platform that gives drivers everything they need to switch from gas to an electric car. by at least 10 times.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2019

Proterra launched Proterra Energy fleet solutions , a full suite of options that enable turnkey delivery of a complete energy ecosystem for heavy-duty electric fleets, including design, build, financing, operations, maintenance and energy optimization. Recently, Proterra announced a partnership with Mitsui & Co.,

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