Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Asphalt binder, the sticky “glue” that holds crushed stone and sand together to form pavement, only accounts for about 5% percent of the final hot mix asphalt (HMA) that is steamrolled into glossy new lanes and boulevards. Building roads is a big investment in taxpayer money. —Haifang Wen.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 18, 2023

When we turn up the heat in our homes and workplaces, we must balance our personal need for warmth with the global impact of burning fossil fuels like oil, gas, coal, and biomass. Out of Finland’s energy-related emissions, 82 percent come from heating domestic buildings (Ref. The apparent contradictions do not end there.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2018

Eni has now sold the licence and basic engineering project to the Chinese company Sinopec for the construction of a refining plant based on EST. The plant will be built at the Sinopec refinery in Maoming, in Guandong province, and is due to be completed by 2020. Eni slurry technology: A new process for heavy oil upgrading.” 614-622.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2013

Jerald Schnoor, also a professor in the departments of civil & environmental engineering and occupational & environmental health at the University of Iowa, has written an editorial for the journal in which he calls the Keystone XL pipeline a “ pipeline to nowhere ”. Use of coal, oil, and natural gas has to stop (in that order).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2011

To be sited at Jie Yang City, Guangdong Province, the Nanhai refinery will be operational in early 2015, with a capacity to process 400,000 barrels of heavy and extra heavy crude oil per day (400 kbd) from the Orinoco Oil Belt. Oil and Gas Journal (OGJ) pegged Venezuela’s 2011 reserves at 211 billion barrels, up from 99.4

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2010

The US Department of Energy has selected UOP, a Honeywell company, for negotiation of a $25 million award to build a demonstration unit in Hawaii to convert cellulosic biomass into renewable hydrocarbon transportation fuels. RTP rapidly heats biomass at ambient pressure to generate high yields of pourable, liquid pyrolysis oil.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The BMW XM is equipped with a plug-in hybrid system comprising a V8 gasoline engine and electric motor that delivers combined fuel consumption of 1.6 – 1.5 It is underpinned by a newly developed, classically high-revving V8 engine with M TwinPower Turbo technology. The BMW XM LABEL RED will be added to the model range in autumn 2023.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2011

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) has selected 11 research projects that will help find ways to extract more energy from unconventional oil and gas resources while reducing environmental risks for awards totalling $12.4 The selections include $10.3 The selections include $10.3

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2010

In a pre-response to that speech, having successfully advocated for plug-in hybrids like the forthcoming Chevy Volt, we propose that the President follow that speech up with a “realistic and conservative” roadmap to halve our oil use in 10 years. Oil is holding us all hostage, economically and physically. Finally, it’s time to begin.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

turbocharged engine is available in the 2013 Chevrolet Malibu. It is rated at 259 hp (193 kW), making it one of the most power-dense automotive engines in the industry, GM notes. A twin-scroll turbocharger generates up to 20 pounds of boost, helping the engine optimize power delivery across the rpm band. l/100 km) highway.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2013

Hybrids, which combine an internal combustion engine and an electric motor, are expected to account for about half of global new-car sales by 2040, as they become increasingly cost-competitive compared to conventional vehicles. China will see the largest increase—more than 4 million oil-equivalent barrels per day. Natural gas.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2012

Twelve of Canada’s oil sands producers have formed a new alliance, Canada’s Oil Sands Innovation Alliance (COSIA), focused on accelerating the pace of improving environmental performance in Canada’s oil sands through collaborative action and innovation. This would improve plant reliability.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2012

Wanxiang and GreatPoint Energy have entered into a joint venture and have begun engineering the Bluegas complex. Inherent in the technology is the ability to capture nearly all emissions, including carbon dioxide, which can be sequestered and used for oil production through Enhanced Oil Recovery.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2010

Preliminary work and engineering plans have been drawn up to build a 50,000 liter (13,209 gallon US) cultivation pilot plant at the Ketch Harbour facility. In parallel, scientists are also working to develop technology to effectively extract the oil. Additional resources of approximately C$1.2M

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EV Central

JULY 20, 2022

Yes, it is admirable that the ACT is the first Australian jurisdiction to announce plans to phase out internal-combustion engines, and that it is following the lead of the EU, which plans to do the same thing by the same year. READ MORE: EVs no more expensive than petrol cars: ACT Government.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2009

The process also uses less than half the water per gallon than required for the production of gasoline from conventional crude, and about one-third to one-quarter of the water per gallon required for the production of gasoline from oil sands oil, Bolson said. 9-10 for every one we build. On average, approximately 3.0

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2017

The all-new 2018 Volkswagen Tiguan—the second-generation of the vehicle—is powered by the latest version of the EA888 four-cylinder engine, the 2.0L This is the only engine/transmission combination available in the Tiguan in the US. L TSI EA888 Gen 3, the new B-Cycle engine delivers about an 8% improvement in efficiency.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2015

turbocharged direct injection engine (for North America) helps enable a General Motors-estimated 40 mpg (5.88 The new turbo engine and a leaner architecture that reduces up to 250 pounds (113 kg) also contribute to the new Cruze’s stronger performance, with expected 0-60-mph acceleration of eight seconds. Clean-sheet engine design.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2009

The 2010 Terrain will feature a choice of two new direct injection engines. The newly introduced GMC Terrain ( earlier post ) became the latest GM North American model that will feature a fuel-efficient gasoline direct injection (DI) engine in 2010. The MY 2009 engines include three 2.0-liter V-6 (LF1) direct injection engines.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2012

Building on LCFS policies already adopted in Europe, British Columbia, and California, the researchers looked at potential costs and benefits of reducing the carbon intensity of transportation fuels by 10 to 15 percent by 2030. Treat all crude oils as part of the overall pool of transportation fuels. We are not advocates.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2011

The study also highlights the potential for blending GTL diesel in refineries with heavy crudes that require severe hydrotreating, such as Venezuelan heavy crude oil or bitumen derived from Canadian oil sands and/or in jurisdictions with tight aromatic specifications for diesel, such as California. GTL Lubricant Base Oils.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 24, 2023

Importantly, the nanofluids are engineered to remain suspended indefinitely, unlike other suspensions—for instance, sand in water. The particles can compose up to 80 percent of the liquid’s weight while leaving it no more viscous than motor oil. The battery possessed a wide operational range of between -40 °C and 80 °C.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2014

The Ford vehicle is based on the first phase (Mach-I) of work of the DOE-supported Multi-Material Lightweight Vehicles project (Award DE-EE0005574) by Vehma International (an engineering and prototype division within the Cosma International operating unit of Magna) and Ford. liter 3-cylinder engine. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2010

Geologic storage is currently focused on five types of formations:(1) depleted oil and gas reservoirs, (2) deep saline formations, (3) unmineable coal seams, (4) oil- and gas-rich organic shales, and (5) basalts. The effects of complex structures such as faults and fractures will be completed.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2009

A new report from the National Research Council examines and, when possible, estimates, “hidden” costs of energy production and use—such as the damage air pollution imposes on human health—that are not reflected in market prices of coal, oil, other energy sources, or the electricity and gasoline produced from them. of the estimated total.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

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Cars That Think

APRIL 23, 2022

Clearly, that’s no lazy Rover diesel chugging below the hood—or even a Chevrolet V-8, a current go-to engine for vintage-car fans seeking a contemporary edge. About 60 percent of those cells go into the front engine bay; the rest reside below the cargo hold. This Defender, known for raiding tombs , has raided Tesla’s temple of tech.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

Think Global managers want to develop the car plant and launch an engineering center, perhaps alongside. Better Place is building stations in San Francisco, Hawaii, Israel, and Denmark to swap out 1,000 pound batteries in a car wash type set up. The Renault-Nissan Alliance is building fleet charging stations in Portland and Phoenix.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Current consortium members include Accenture, Current Group, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories and Ventyx. Millions of EVs and PHEVs would expand the sale of electricity as an alternative to oil. Utilities could avoid building more dirty peaking power plants. No more Big OIL - think of the extra money stimulating the economy!

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Baua Electric

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Around the six Gulf states, together with oil majors Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, electrical vehicles account for simply 0.4% Some automobiles now not particularly engineered for the Center East begin to creak upcoming being parked out of doors for prolonged sessions of day, he stated.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The four-door sedan will deliver 40 miles on a charge; a small gasoline engine will recharge the battery as it approaches depletion, extending its range by as much as 200 miles. GM killed that car because of back room deals with oil companies, and now they expect us to believe that they are just so cutting edge now?

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Baua Electric

JULY 18, 2024

They could have been better, but after lobbying from the auto and oil industries, those regulations were softened compared to the original proposal. In the end, the regulations are “technology-agnostic,” which means that automakers can choose to meet these regulations using whatever engine technology they can.

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