Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2022

The building has numerous environmental features including water harvesting from the roof to provide water to all non-drinking water supplies. The construction of the new building started in June 2019, after the demolition and the clearing of ‘A’ Building on the Swindon site.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2014

Tata Steel has formed a strategic partnership with the UK research body the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) to develop a range of innovations that will include graphene-coated steels and next-generation sensors that can operate in extreme environments.

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Teslarati

JUNE 4, 2021

Tesla has officially submitted amended application documents to build electric vehicle battery cells at its German production plant, Giga Berlin. Tesla also outlined a r eduction in planned water consumption at the plant. The post Tesla submits its application to build batteries at Giga Berlin appeared first on TESLARATI.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Market-based partnerships are needed to enable mass-scale domestic and international off-take and demand for green hydrogen, and increase cooperation to design, finance, build and operate green hydrogen production, storage and distribution infrastructure. €1

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APRIL 14, 2021

But a new study led by Sujay Kaushal of the University of Maryland warns that introducing salt into the environment—whether it's for de-icing roads, fertilizing farmland or other purposes—releases toxic chemical cocktails that create a serious and growing global threat to our freshwater supply and human health.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2021

U-M’s Ford Motor Company Robotics Building is a four-story, $75-million, 134,000-square-foot complex situated on the north campus. The new facility brings together U-M researchers from 23 different buildings and ten top-10 programs. Robots and robotics for any environment.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 30, 2011

Ford plans to cut the amount of water used to make each vehicle 30% globally by 2015, compared with the amount of water used per vehicle in 2009. If Ford meets the 30% goal, the amount of water used to make a vehicle will have dropped from 9.5 Between 2000 and 2010, Ford reduced its global water use by 62%, or 10.5

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Tire wear particles pollute the environment, the air we breathe, the water run-off from roads and has compounding effects on waterways and agriculture. Large particles are carried from the road by rain into rivers, where they may leach toxic chemicals into the environment, whilst smaller particles become airborne and breathed in.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2018

Plus if we are able to develop this system on a larger scale, the same unit would be able to treat the waste and to remediate the soil and water that has been contaminated. In previous research, Gude studied the use of microorganisms in wastewater treatment, and he has recently turned his focus to building biosensors from similar species.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2022

They can replicate every climatic environment in the world and scale between extreme settings well beyond what a typical customer would put a vehicle through. Building the Battery Engineering Lab from the ground up allowed Volkswagen to install highly specialized equipment such as the electrical Multi-Axial Shaker Table (eMAST).

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Tesla Giga Berlin’s expansion is supposed to start with modernizing the existing facility and building a water recycling plant. Then Tesla wants to build a second production facility, followed by a battery recycling plant down the line. The expansion will result in Tesla clearing 100 hectares of forest.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The catch is identifying lithium that can be harvested economically and in a way that doesn’t harm the environment. Besides fresh water, no other chemicals were required in the IBAT process, whereas other DLE operators add acids, bases or both to adjust the pH of the brine through their DLE processes. We can find the lithium.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2021

Cement and asphalt are vital to modern construction materials; cement is used for the construction of various buildings and structures, while asphalt is primarily used for highways and runways. During their experiments, the scientists happened to notice that a strange odor developed when commercial cement was mixed with water.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2011

The US Department of the Interior released a report that assesses climate change risks and how these risks could impact water operations, hydropower, flood control, and fish and wildlife in the western United States. Click to enlarge. —Interior Secretary Ken Salazar. —Reclamation Commissioner Mike Connor. million homes.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The expansions will begin with construction to modernize the existing facility and build a water recycling plant before initiating plans to add a second production facility and a battery recycling plant in the following years. The news also comes after years of criticisms and legal issues lodged at the factory’s water consumption.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

“I am also about to receive the start-up of the Gigafactory from Tesla…We are going to start with the whole issue of water, it is treated water, from the train and adaptations and access to the highway, highway (Monterrey-Saltillo) to the plant, so pure good news, we are working with everything,” the Governor said. Based on Gov.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Water covers 72 percent of the Earth’s surface, its volumes host 80 percent of biodiversity and play a pivotal role in global phenomena, such as climate change. WSense has designed its platform first for shallow water (up to 300 m depth), but now it asserts that it is operational up to -3000 m, opening the door wider to the oceans.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

There is already the electrical issue, there is the water issue, there is the environment, they had requested an extension of the environmental permit because it seems that the plant is going to be bigger than they thought. Among the concerns is nearshoring and its impact on small companies in Nuevo León.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2016

of the energy consumed for the reported water electrolysis. Wei Liu, Yong Cui, Xu Du, Zhe Zhang, Zisheng Chaob and Yulin Deng (2015) “High efficiency hydrogen evolution from native biomass electrolysis” Energy Environ. The electric energy consumption can be as low as 0.69 kWh per normal cubic meter of H 2 (Nm −3 H 2 ) at 0.2

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2023

Toyota has developed new electrolysis equipment to produce hydrogen from electrolyzing water using the fuel cell (FC) stack and other technology from the Mirai. The unit installed at DENSO Fukushima can produce approximately 8 kg hydrogen per hour, with 53 kWh/1 kg hydrogen energy required.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2015

Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a highly effective new perovskite-promoted iron oxide redox catalyst for a hybrid solar-redox scheme they had proposed earlier for partial oxidation and water-splitting of methane. Schematic of the hybrid process for liquid fuel and hydrogen generation. Image credit: Feng He.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2010

BP pledged up to $500 million to an open research program studying the impact of the Deepwater Horizon incident, and its associated response, on the marine and shoreline environment of the Gulf of Mexico. How do oil, the dispersed oil and the dispersant behave on the seabed, in the water column, on the surface, and on the shoreline?

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

The US Department of Agriculture has awarded Bridgestone and several partners a $35-million grant to continue its investment in desert shrub guayule ( earlier post ) to advance a climate-smart domestic rubber industry and offer a solution for growers amid the ongoing water crisis in the Southwestern US.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2021

By leveraging core technologies unique to Honda, such as combustion, guidance, fuel cell and robotics technologies, Honda is pursuing technology development with a goal to create new value in the ultimate environment of outer space. High differential pressure water electrolysis system.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Sasol and General Electric (GE: NYSE)’s GE Power & Water have together developed new technology that will clean waste water from Fischer-Tropsch plants used to produce synthetic fuels and chemicals, while also providing biogas as a by-product for power generation. The treatment of GTL-derived effluents is complex and challenging.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2020

The company’s patented technology allows the production of renewable hydrogen as well as the direct conversion of water and CO 2 into raw material for petrochemical products. As part of Neste’s growth strategy, we continue to focus on innovation with the aim to develop the existing businesses and build new growth business platforms.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2009

Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), recently introduced legislation authorizing a study to determine the feasibility of building a deep water port in the Arctic. The two-year study would seek to determine what strategic capabilities a deep water port could provide as well as the best location to site such a facility. —Sen.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2019

The facility will run on sustainable hydrogen, which is produced using water and wind energy. SkyNRG’s independent Sustainability Board advises on whether the fuel meets the highest sustainability standards, thereby ensuring that the fuel (produced from waste streams) will not have a negative impact on the food supply and environment.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2019

SW/TCH Maritime (SW/TCH), an impact investment platform building the first fleet of zero-emissions maritime vessels in the US, announced its investment to construct and own the ‘Water Go Round’ e-ferry in collaboration with Golden Gate Zero Emission Marine ( GGZEM ), a provider of turn-key hydrogen fuel cell power systems for ships.

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Clean Fleet Report

DECEMBER 3, 2022

Recent reports suggest several EVs caught fire due to water damage caused by severe flooding in the most heavily impacted areas. Learn more about how and why they sometimes catch fire and how EV owners can prepare themselves for potential water damage in their vehicles. The Effects of Water Damage in EVs.

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Teslarati

APRIL 23, 2024

Tesla’s initial application and petition outlines 2,100 acres along SH-130 and the Colorado River, which includes the entire Giga Texas building: Credit: Travis County via ABJ Understandably, the law is controversial and several municipalities have challenged the law, claiming that their ability to regulate land in the area has been removed.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2015

Findings by MIT researchers could help advance the commercialization of supercritical water technology for the desulfurization and upgrading of high-sulfur crude oil into high-value, cleaner fuels such as gasoline without using hydrogen—a major change in refining technology that would reduce costs, energy use, and CO 2 emissions.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2018

The project—Building Genome-to-Phenome Infrastructure for Regulating Methane in Deep and Extreme Environments ( BuG ReMeDEE )—was awarded a $6-million grant by the National Science Foundation in October 2017. This, the deepest mine in North America, began filling with water following its closure in 2002.

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

We went to the SCAQMD hearing out in Diamond Bar last Friday, February 6, 2015, to testify on the big, new storage tanks Phillips 66 wants to build in Wilmington at its refinery so they can receive more of the super explosive, super dirty crude from the Bakkens.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2020

Several opportunities will be evaluated over the coming months that could enhance project economics further, including alternative approaches to managing elevated sodium concentrations prior to returning process water to the environment. The main building also includes a laboratory, administrative offices and changerooms.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2022

While a small fraction of the United States’ vast geothermal resource can be harnessed via naturally occurring hot water or steam, the vast majority is inaccessible without the creation of human-made EGS reservoirs.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Tesla has won Gigafactory Mexico’s Environmental Impact Permits, as the country’s Ministry of the Environment approved the factory’s initial construction phases. Additionally, there are guidelines to follow as the area is considered a forest and must be cleared out to make way for the building.

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