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FEBRUARY 13, 2021

British Airways will power future flights with sustainable aviation fuel produced from sustainably-sourced ethanol, as part of a new partnership with sustainable jet fuel company LanzaJet. British Airways’ parent company, International Airlines Group, will be investing US$400 million in sustainable aviation fuel over the next 20 years.

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JUNE 23, 2016

Australia-based Southern Oil and JJ Richards & Sons, joint venture partners in the Northern Oil Refinery at Yarwun, Australia, are building a new $5.3-million It has been re-refining waste oil since 2001 and was the first company in Australia to produce fully re-refined lube oil to international standards.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2014

The tenth competition under the Low Carbon Vehicles Innovation Platform’s integrated delivery program (IDP), IDP10 is targeting the building of an integrated low-carbon-vehicle innovation chain, from the science base, through collaborative R&D to fleet-level demonstration. The project builds on an earlier TSB-funded project.

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MARCH 16, 2021

These partners were Greenergy (UK), Europe’s largest waste-based biodiesel producer; Rexon Energy (Singapore), an exporter of UCO to the EU; Bensons Products (UK), a UCO collector; and Valley Proteins (USA), a UCO collector and exporter.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2023

The Alcohol to Jet Synthetic Paraffinic Kerosene pathway (ATJ-SPK) has been certified in 2016 as meeting international standards for jet fuel. The objective of the consortium is to widen the range of alcohols covered in this pathway by getting methanol, a key building block in the chemical industry, included in its remit.

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JULY 14, 2010

Cyclone Power Technologies has completed internal testing of its initial waste heat power generator ( earlier post ) and has shipped the beta unit to its customer, Bent Glass Design. The same engine was shipped in March 2010 to Robotic Technology as part of a project sponsored by DARPA, an agency of the US Department of Defense.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2020

Redeem was the first commercially available RNG vehicle fuel, derived from capturing biogenic methane that is produced from the decomposition of organic waste from dairies, landfills, and wastewater treatment plants. The company has added three new CNG trucks to its 8-truck fleet, which will fuel at Clean Energy’s station in Commerce, CA.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Mineta San José International Airport (SJC). Funded in part by a $3.8-million These include recycling and composting programs supporting a zero-waste commitment by 2022; a 1MW, 3.4-acre Proterra’s E2 series 35-foot electric buses feature a 440 kWh battery pack to deliver an estimated range of 251 miles.

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APRIL 22, 2015

LanzaTech’s gas fermentation process uses proprietary microbes to capture and reuse carbon rich waste gases, reducing emissions and pollutants from industrial processes such as steel manufacturing, while making fuels and chemicals that displace those made from fossil resources. Earlier post.).

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MARCH 5, 2021

Ensuring this critical supply of battery metals is essential to the transition from internal combustion engines to EVs, which faces the following risks, according to DeepGreen: A slump in discovery of new metal deposits could lead to shortages in key metals such as nickel and copper from 2024-2025 onwards; Source: DeepGreen. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2022

The new targets build on Aston Martin’s sustainability progress to date, with a 44% reduction in emissions intensity in its UK operations between 2020 and 2021 and 100% renewable energy used across all its UK manufacturing facilities since 2019. The Racing.Green. Earlier post.). The Racing.Green.

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JUNE 21, 2023

The key parts of the company’s strategy include introducing a next-generation modular architecture for EVs, strengthening EV production capacity, battery development capabilities and future businesses. In the existing system, auto parts can only be shared among vehicles that share the same platform. Production.

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AUGUST 12, 2011

HDM), Honda’s production and sales company in Mexico, will build an automobile plant for production of fuel-efficient subcompact vehicles for the Mexican and North American markets. Honda will invest approximately US$800 million to build the plant, which is scheduled to begin operation in 2014. Honda de Mexico, S.A.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2010

As part of the Obama Administration’s commitment to restarting the US nuclear industry, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu announced the formation of a Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future to provide recommendations for developing a safe, long-term solution to managing used nuclear fuel and nuclear waste.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Darling International and a subsidiary of Valero Energy Corporation are taking initial steps towards the formation of a joint venture to build a facility capable of producing more than 10,000 barrels/day or (135 million gallons per year) of renewable diesel on a site adjacent to Valero’s St. Darling International Inc.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2021

It will have both an internal role, providing batteries and charging solutions to the Volvo Group’s other business areas, and an external role, offering used, remanufactured and refurbished batteries to customers for use across different applications. The financial results for Volvo Energy will be reported as part of the Truck segment.

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MAY 12, 2021

The patent-pending technology, developed at PNNL, has been licensed exclusively by Moselle Technologies, a start-up business that is piloting the technology in several US and international locations. Potential lithium sources from water produced in mining and petroleum operations, expressed as concentration (parts per million).

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Waste generated by the facility, which manufactures all Volvo trucks sold in North America, is now recycled, composted or converted to electricity. NRV began in 2003 by first identifying and evaluating all solid and liquid waste streams within the plant. Volvo’s New River Valley (NRV) assembly plant in Dublin, Va.

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MAY 6, 2021

Part of the IEA’s flagship World Energy Outlook series, the report underscores that the mineral requirements of an energy system powered by clean energy technologies differ profoundly from one that runs on fossil fuels. Strengthen international collaboration between producers and consumers. Scale up recycling.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 23, 2024

Skoda Auto is seeking to reach more customers in India while also expanding its international market presence. Vietnam is part of the ASEAN region where Škoda Auto strategically leads the Brand Group Core and aims to maximise growth for the Volkswagen Group, the company added.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2016

These are: Advanced internal combustion engine and powertrain systems. Waste heat recovery. Building Energy Efficiency. The principal DOE coordinator of CERC activities within DOE, and internationally with the Chinese, is DOE’s Office of International Affairs (IA). Alternative fuel combustion. Engine thermal management.

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JUNE 18, 2020

Oy ECE EcoCooling Engineering Ltd, part of a portfolio of Finnish high-tech companies developing world-leading technologies, such as the front-lit technology used in Amazon Kindle-devices, is bringing to market the EcoCooling method to replace conventional metalworking fluids with ionized, cooled air. which was sold to Amazon in 2010.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2016

As part of that effort, the leaders committed to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from light- and heavy-duty vehicles by aligning fuel efficiency and/or GHG emission standards out to 2025 and 2027, respectively. A key element of that partnership is a goal for North America to strive to achieve 50% clean power generation by 2025.

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MAY 20, 2021

We’re not here to make an electric truck for the few—Ford is committed to building one that solves real problems for real people. —Kumar Galhotra, Ford president, Americas and International Markets Group, Ford Motor Company.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2015

At the SAE 2014 World Congress, a team from Toyota Central R&D Labs presented their own work on a prototype 10 kW Free Piston Engine Linear Generator (FPEG) featuring a thin and compact build, high efficiency and high fuel flexibility. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2022

Related to their Hydrogen Fuel Cell Hybrid approach we see a great opportunity coming in sustainable mobility that we are very excited to play a part in. Earlier this month, H2X inked an agreement with Sweden’s Renova municipal waste company to provide hydrogen-powered trucks and light vehicles. — H2X CEO Brendan Norman/div>.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2021

Toyota Motor Europe (TME) Fuel Cell Business will supply and integrate fuel cell modules into a zero-emission train prototype as part of the FCH2RAIL project in Europe. The international project team still has a number of technological challenges to solve.

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AUGUST 20, 2011

a developer of technology for the production of advanced biofuels and biochemicals from biomass and waste materials, announced a first close of its Series D round of financing. Coskata Inc., The company has been operating a demonstration-scale integrated biorefinery in Madison, Pennsylvania since 2009.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Ricardo is advancing its work with two novel technologies to improve the efficiency of heavy-duty goods vehicles: a cryogenic split-cycle engine “ CryoPower ” ( earlier post ), and a low-carbon waste-heat powered microwave fuel reformer “ HeatWave II ”. —Ricardo chief technology and innovation officer Professor Neville Jackson.

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APRIL 2, 2021

million (US$31-million) commitment to build on its momentum in four key research challenges: extending battery life; battery modelling; recycling and reuse; and solid-state batteries. The UK’s Faraday Institution announced a £22.6-million

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

This month, observers from the International Atomic Energy Agency have arrived in the country to inspect the process. And efforts are also underway to build an undersea tunnel that will discharge the water a kilometer away from the shore. That's part of the reason the discharge will likely last several decades.

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APRIL 1, 2019

According to an independent study by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and the Council on Energy, Environment, and Water (CEEW), more than 674 million Indian citizens are likely to breathe air with high concentrations of PM 2.5 —Markus Amann, Air Quality and Greenhouse Gases Program director at IIASA.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 20, 2024

At a July meeting of the International Maritime Organization , the U.N. Vard Group is part of NuProShip , a consortium of the Norwegian maritime authority, universities, shipbuilders, and shipping companies that aims to develop a Generation IV reactor for marine vessels. “So The industry now faces serious pressure to pick up the pace.

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AUGUST 31, 2021

The company isn’t wasting any time making the Tesla Bot prototype based on its recent hiring ramp. Tesla’s manager for Mobile Robotics, Chris Walti, recently invited skilled engineers and technicians to apply at Tesla and get the opportunity to work on the company’s humanoid robot program. .

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DECEMBER 5, 2022

Here in New York City, where we have a population density that supports a mass transit system, most of our fossil fuel use is to power our buildings. They also are being subjected to disinformation campaigns fueled in part by Donald Trump’s long-standing hatred of windmills. The current technologies work but have limits.

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AUGUST 21, 2012

IH 2 technology involves use of internally generated hydrogen and a series of proprietary catalysts. The process uses as its feedstock virtually any kind of nonfood biomass material—including wood, cornstalks and cobs, algae, aquatic plants and municipal solid waste—and produces gasoline, jet fuel or diesel fuel.

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MARCH 7, 2018

The project will build and install diesel-fueled two-stroke compression-ignition Achates Power Opposed-Piston Engines into Class 8 demonstration trucks that will be road-road ready in 2019 and operate in fleet service in California in 2020. This program will demonstrate the first diesel engine to comply with the state standard. Zermeno, R.,

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