Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2021

From 2025 on, the company plans to source steel produced with up to 95% less CO 2 emissions and without requiring fossil resources such as coal. In this way, raw materials can be used multiple times in a circular economy and natural resources protected.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2021

Niron will use the funding to build its pilot production facility in Minnesota and accelerate the development of its Clean Earth Magnet technology. Tesla and will address higher torque density applications and high operating temperatures including electric vehicle drivetrains and wind turbines. million in new financing. Background.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2022

The 2MW hydrogen-battery hybrid truck, generating more power than its diesel predecessor and capable of carrying a 290-tonne payload, is part of Anglo American’s nuGen Zero Emission Haulage Solution (ZEHS). nuGen is part of FutureSmart Mining, Anglo American’s innovation-led approach to sustainable mining.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2020

—Dane Christensen, a mechanical engineer in NREL’s Residential Buildings Research Group and a principal investigator on a blockchain pilot project. NREL is building on this work to study the benefits for building owners and utilities. Potential opportunities abound for the use of blockchain in the energy sector.

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Green Car Congress

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. Wind takes the lead, bolstered by material-intensive offshore wind. Source: IEA.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The California Air Resources Board last week approved the final proposed 2022 Scoping Plan ( earlier post ), a roadmap to reduce demand for petroleum by 94%, cut air pollution by 71%, reduce greenhouse gas emissions 85%, and reach carbon neutrality by 2045. Fuels: the energy source used to power vehicles and the facilities that produce them.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

With formation of this JV, the three parties will be pooling their resources to address this challenge. NextEra Energy Resources is a significant investor in electric infrastructure and brings experience optimizing renewable energy and grid integration. BlackRock’s Renewable Power group is a part of BlackRock Real Assets.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2020

It estimates that more than 3 billion tons of minerals and metals will be needed to deploy wind, solar and geothermal power, as well as energy storage, to achieve greenhouse gas emission reductions sufficient to achieve a below 2°C future. Source: “Minerals for Climate Action: The Mineral Intensity of the Clean Energy Transition”.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2021

The hydrogenation of waste plastic contributes to resource circulation and carbon neutrality, and the hydrogen produced can be used for fuel cells and hydrogen gas turbines, among other things. Doosan Heavy, which has been focused on building up its eco-friendly energy business, is widening its reach to include the hydrogen business.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2021

If we can use less concrete in our roads, buildings and bridges, we can eliminate some of the emissions at the very start. While the majority of the 800 million tires discarded annually are burned for fuel or ground up for other applications, 16% of them wind up in landfills. —James Tour. —Rouzbeh Shahsavari.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

The entity will thus offer a turnkey service for the sales network: optimized transport of vehicles, supply of spare parts (Re-Cycle Center), renovation, storage, production of photos and videos and their online availability. The service will include real-time monitoring of the renovation stages for the sales managers of the sales network.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2017

Leclanché North America, part of Switzerland's Leclanché SA; eCAMION, based in Toronto; and SGEM, based in Geneva; will partner to develop and to install a network of 34 fast-charging stations along the Trans-Canada Highway (TCH). The project, designed to encourage the adoption of electric vehicles in Canada, entails an investment of C$17.3

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2012

Consortia researchers will leverage their expertise and resources in solar technology, advanced biofuels, and building efficiency. As part of a planned five-year initiative, the Energy Department will make $5 million available in fiscal year 2012. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory will lead the U.S.

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Driivz

MAY 10, 2022

Part 1 of this two-part blog discusses the challenges facing electric utilities – both electricity generators and grid operators – with electric vehicle (EV) adoption coinciding with the electrification of buildings, heating, and industry. Most cars are parked 95% of the time, making EVs ideal flexibility assets for the grid.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2013

Shell and its affiliates will build two additional small-scale natural gas liquefaction units to provide liquefied natural gas (LNG) fuel for marine and heavy-duty on-road customers in North America. In the first decade of the 21 st century, exploration success and technology advances have more than doubled the recoverable gas resource base.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

that will be capable of housing a fully-electric fleet of 120 buses and charging infrastructure, as part of the MBTA’s broader plans to design facilities to serve a zero-emissions e-bus fleets. GW powered by wind, hydropower, geothermal and solar energy. Enel distributes electricity through a network of more than 2.2

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Energy-system models that marry engineering, physics, economics, and policy constraints and concerns allow us to test assumptions, explore actions, and build intuitions about how those systems work. The best we can do is to build tools that allow us to explore possible futures.” Back to top Until recently, energy modeling by the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 26, 2020

REEs are the building-blocks of a wide array of clean energy and advanced technologies, including wind turbines, electric vehicles, cell phones, computers, flat panel displays, advanced optics, catalysts, medicine, and national defense applications. The monazite sands will be from Chemours’ Offerman Mineral Sand Plant in Georgia.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2016

In the first step at a location in Chemnitz, Saxony, CarboSax will build a pilot line for the sustainable production of carbon fibers. This cost reduction is required to further enable the use of carbon fiber in mass production in the automotive industry, mechanical engineering and wind power.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2023

Following successful exploration, the company is reporting mineral resources of rare earth metals in the Per Geijer deposit exceeding one million tonnes of rare earth oxides—the largest known deposit of its kind in Europe. Extraction and processing of phosphorus, rare earth elements and fluorine are part of LKAB’s ReeMAP project.

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Plug in America

APRIL 24, 2024

That moment of clarity was to build an electric pipeline linking Tribal nations with charging stations and EVs across the Midwest. Just this year in Minnesota, Native Sun’s subsidiary Electric Nation announced the acquisition of 10 Ford Lightning pickup trucks and an electric Ford Mustang–part of the overall $13.4

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Baua Electric

MAY 29, 2024

Hydrogen is the most abundant substance in the universe, and a crucial element in the creation of our most precious resource: water. Parking an electrolyzer near a wind farm, solar array or hydroelectric dam would be ideal because you can use renewable energy to deliver clean electricity directly to the hydrogen-production facility.

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Teslarati

JULY 13, 2021

The project aims to build the first Tesla Solar neighborhood, making a sustainable residential community. SunHouse at Easton Park will be a small part of the community featuring homes equipped with Tesla Solar and Powerwall, the company’s home battery storage system. and Darca on the project.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2016

In parallel, and with equivalent resources, Chinese funding will support a collaborative counterpart Chinese Consortium. Wind/weather and GPS-based cruise control and intelligent routing. Building Energy Efficiency. Funding available is $12.5 million, and will support the US Consortium. Clean Vehicles. Energy and Water.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2013

Researchers at MIT are proposing using a variation on pumped hydroelectric systems for storage of electricity produced by offshore wind farms. The key to this Ocean Renewable Energy Storage (ORES) system is the placement of 30-meter-diameter hollow concrete spheres on the seafloor under the wind turbines. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2018

The US Department of Energy (DOE) will award up to $24 million in funding for 10 projects as part of a new Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) program: Modeling-Enhanced Innovations Trailblazing Nuclear Energy Reinvigoration ( MEITNER ). GW by 2050.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The project was funded by the Faraday Institution, as part of its battery degradation project. The cylindrical windings of the battery are difficult to examine quantitatively, and the cell cannot be unwound without inducing further damage that would not be present in an unwound battery. —Ziesche et al. Finegan, Thomas M.M.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 26, 2018

A stream of powder impacts a target at great speed where it starts building up layer upon layer. The adhesion of the magnetic material to the surface of the part is exceptional, since neither glue nor assembly is used. They are actively working on the development of soft magnetic materials to complete the range of available resources.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

An aerial methane survey conducted by the California Air Resources Board (CARB), California Energy Commission (CEC) and NASA has found that just 10% of the point sources were responsible for 60% of the total methane emissions detected. CARB is working with other state agencies to reduce emissions from dairy cattle and other livestock.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2020

The efforts also build on the airline’s existing programs such as investments in fuel-saving technologies and aircraft, as well as advocating for a more fuel-efficient air traffic control system that would reduce emissions from flying. Instead of escaping into the air, LFG can be captured, converted and used as a renewable energy resource.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

” also sees steady adoption of on-shore wind and electric vehicle technologies, but suggests that off-shore wind and carbon capture and sequestration look likely to fade or decline. For some alternative-energy industries—CCS and off shore wind, for example—real competitiveness is still a distant probability.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 29, 2021

About 160 kilometers northwest of Beijing, the city of Zhangjiakou with its rugged terrain boasts some of the richest wind and solar resources in China. Renewables account for nearly half of the city’s electricity output with less than a third of its full solar and wind potential of 70 gigawatts installed so far.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 23, 2024

Green software engineering is an emerging discipline consisting of best practices to build applications that reduce carbon emissions. Green Software Resources The Green Software Foundation offers a catalog of green software patterns for AI, the cloud, and the Web. The green software movement is fast gaining momentum.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

Savings and efficiencies are achieved through eliminating more than $4 billion annually in fossil fuel subsidies; eliminating low-priority and low-performing programs, and by concentrating resources on full utilization of existing facilities and infrastructure. part of a broad energy strategy that emphasizes. These funds are.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2022

The novel SMART-DAC technology is a natural wind driven process that captures CO 2 directly from air using membrane gas absorption with a liquid absorbent and regeneration of the absorbent by electrodialysis. Technology to build, deliver, and operate a 120 tCO 2 /year DAC pilot plant based on Mission Zero’s IP. CO 2 CirculAir B.V.,

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Creative Greenius

JULY 27, 2013

I went to Detroit last month and found myself in neighborhoods that looked like they had been attacked by enemy forces, had lost their battle and had now surrendered and in most part been abandoned. Passive solar addition topped by PV and wind turbine – photo by Galliani (c). Climate change adaptation and Sustainability.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

General Motors plans to generate or source all electrical power for its 350 operations in 59 countries with 100% renewable energy—such as wind, sun and landfill gas—by 2050. In 2015, GM required 9 terawatt hours of electricity to build its vehicles and power its offices, technical centers and warehouses around the world.

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