Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2009

Poway, California-based Plug In Conversions Corp. kWh NiMH plug-in hybrid (PHEV) conversion kit that enables all-electric mode driving at speeds of up to 70 miles per hour (until the battery pack is depleted) in a converted Prius. Ewert Energy Systems video (handheld) of driving a Prius PHEV conversion at highway speeds.

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The Truth About Cars

AUGUST 15, 2023

The first FF91 EV delivery took place over the weekend, finally putting an end to the will they, won’t they conversation surrounding the brand. Faraday delivered the vehicle to a buyer in California on August 12 and said it plans to deliver others in the near future. With 1,050 horsepower on tap, the vehicle touts a 2.2-second

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The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

If we're talking about realistic Metro competitors here, the base 1992 Ford Festiva actually managed to undercut the price tag on the cheapest possible Metro two-door hatchback that year: $6,911 versus $6,999. 1992 Geo Metro base model in California wrecking yard. 1992 Geo Metro base model in California wrecking yard.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

plans to expand its existing network of liquefied natural gas (LNG) truck fueling stations in Southern California this year beyond its current two LNG stations located at the Los Angeles/Long Beach ports complex. We plan to connect this group of LNG fueling stations in Southern California to Northern California, Arizona, Nevada and Utah.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2010

Cobalt Technologies, a company using strain development and bioprocess technology to optimize biobutanol production for commercially viable renewable fuels and chemicals, formally launched its pilot facility in Mountain View, California. California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Silicon Valley cleantech leaders were on hand.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2010

A Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP), to be led by the California Institute of Technology (Cal Tech) in partnership with the DOE’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), will bring together leading researchers in an effort aimed at simulating nature’s photosynthetic apparatus for practical energy production.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2009

million contract to further develop Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) technology, which the leverages ocean’s natural thermal gradient between warmer water at the ocean’s surface and colder water below to produce renewable and reliable power. Tags: Brief.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

ZAP will convert the gasoline mail truck to run on electricity as specified by the USPS at facilities in Santa Rosa, California. Tags: Brief. The United States Postal Service (USPS) has awarded electric vehicle provider ZAP an engineering contract for the design and development of an electric version of its Long Life Vehicle (LLV).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2010

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) is soliciting a project for the hybridization of an existing marine vessel for an award of up to $1,000,000. The solicitation covers the use of hybrid technology to repower an existing marine vessel in California. Tags: Conversions Hybrids Ports and Marine.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2009

The Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) adopted by the California Air Resources Board (CARB) earlier this year ( earlier post ) requires a 10% reduction in the average greenhouse gas (GHG) emission intensity of the state’s transportation fuels by 2020. Tags: Fuels Policy Sustainability.

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The Truth About Cars

APRIL 22, 2024

Maybe they just don't get thrown away, un like Kidnapper Vans (this one got discarded in a Northern California yard back in 2007 or so). This Tradesman got a mild camper conversion at some point. The build tag says it was built at St. Louis Assembly , and that its first engine was a 318-cubic-inch V8 with one-barrel carburetor.

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Plugs and Cars

JULY 25, 2007

It want CARB to authorize aftermarket conversions of hybrids with its Lithium batteries. Tags: a123systems Plug-in Hybrids toyota. From today's NY Times Toyota to Test Plug-In Hybrid, Rivaling G.M.

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Teslarati

JUNE 4, 2021

A prototype of the Air was spotted on California Highway 280 near the town of Millbrae, sporting a multi-colored wrap with a masked driver at the wheel. sent in the photos of the Air as he was driving on Highway 280 in Northern California. The conversation goes well past range, too. Teslarati reader Blake M.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2021

While their work focuses on the most cost-effective solutions for replacing peaker power plants, it also contains insights intended to contribute to the larger conversation about transforming energy systems. California draws more than 20% of its electricity from solar and approximately 7% from wind, with more VRE coming online rapidly.

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The Truth About Cars

APRIL 17, 2024

Full disclosure: Hyundai flew me to Monterey/Carmel, California and fed and housed me for two nights. We were ostensibly in Northern California to drive the Ioniq 5 N, but Hyundai carved a little time for us to drive the Elantra N on the street, as well as six passes – three with each transmission – on an autocross course.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2010

Prime Time Shuttle, which has offered ride-share transportation to major Southern California airports since 1984, will replace its existing fleet with 200 Roush propane-powered Ford E-350 shuttle vans within the next 24 months. Tags: Brief. Propane-powered ride-share van. Click to enlarge. million gallons of gasoline each year.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside’s Center for Environmental Research and Technology (CERT) at the Bourns College of Engineering have received two grants to further explore a steam hydrogasification process they developed to convert waste into fuels. process, making a slow carbon conversion reaction ten times faster.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 3, 2010

CNG conversion company AFVTech has provided an update on the 1933 Ford CNG Hot Rod, nicknamed “The Gasser”. WJ Daytech, in Fairfield, California is spearheading the project. Tags: Brief. Earlier post.) The engine (a modified GM 7.0L The Electric assist steering has been fitted, making power steering leaks a thing of the past.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2009

BAF Technologies, a leading provider of natural gas vehicle upfits, is partnering with Steelweld Equipment Company to augment its conversion capacity in the United States. BAF will leverage Steelweld’s locations in Missouri, Texas and Southern California. Tags: Brief. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 26, 2009

Replacing lead acid batteries in electric lift trucks, these product installations will allow for fleet conversions within warehouses and distribution centers in Arkansas, Colorado, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Texas. Tags: Brief.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2010

In addition, GM has chosen Productive Concepts (PCI), an alternative fuels conversion company, to become an integral part of its production. Tags: Brief. These hardened engines will be assembled into the Chevrolet Express and GMC Savana vans at GM’s Wentzville, Mo.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 11, 2009

This calibration was granted certification recently by the California Air Resources Board (CARB), allowing the commercial sale and use of the engine. For this project, Hythane Company has received funding for station infrastructure as well as the conversion of 27 Ford E-450 airport shuttles to run on Hythane. Tags: Brief.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

will use post-sorted cellulosic wastes diverted from Southern California’s landfills to produce approximately 3.9 Tags: Brief. Another fully permitted and shovel-ready facility in Lancaster, Calif. million gallons of fuel-grade ethanol per year. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Green Cars News

JUNE 10, 2009

If that’s your theory then you may have to re-evaluate after Ponway, California-based Plug-In Conversions Corp (PICC) completed a software upgrade conversion kit that enables all-electric mode driving at up to 70mph in a converted Prius. Electric cars have to be slow with limited speeds, don’t they?

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2010

Tasks include investigating biochemical conversion of algae to fuels and products, and analyzing physical chemistry properties of algal fuels and fuel intermediates. Tags: Algae Algal Fuels. DOE share: up to $6 million). DOE funding: up to $9 million). National Algal Biofuels Technology Roadmap.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2009

The hybrid conversions were produced in Charlotte, N.C. An added benefit of the conversion program is that it not only reduces pollution but also extends the life of the vehicles, helping to eliminate waste production and creating a reduce-and-reuse program. Tags: Conversions Fleets Hybrids. FedEx Corp.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 14, 2010

These activities will accelerate the ability to overcome several key barriers identified in the Algal Biofuels Roadmap, including: feedstock supply (strain development and cultivation); feedstock logistics (harvesting and extraction); and conversion (production of fuels and co-products). Low-cost one-step syngas to distillates.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2010

The company will be an engineering partner on each of six processes for biofuel production being evaluated under the program: fermentation, catalytic conversion, catalytic fast pyrolysis, hydropyrolysis, hydrothermal liquefaction, and a low-cost, one-step syngas-to-distillates process. Tags: Bio-hydrocarbons Fuels Infrastructure.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2010

For 17 years, he worked as a project manager and analyst at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden, Colorado, where he led research on the production and conversion of algae to biofuels. San Marino, California-based Viral Genetics discovers drug therapies. Tags: Brief. Grace & Co, and Radian Corporation.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2009

Center for Direct Catalytic Conversion of Biomass to Biofuels (C3Bio). $20. Use fundamental knowledge about the interactions between catalysts and plant cell walls to design improved processes for the conversion of biomass to energy, fuels, or chemicals. Solar Energy Conversion in Complex Materials (SECCM). Purdue University.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

To our knowledge, this level of conversion of carbohydrate feedstocks into simple organic molecules is unrivaled in the literature. Because working at higher temperatures afforded no real advantages in terms of carbohydrate to CMF conversion, reactions were generally run below 100 °C to avoid this hydrolysis reaction.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2010

Biotechnology offers new perspectives on the conversion of biomass into molecules for biofuels and green chemistry. Amyris operates laboratories and a pilot plant in California and a pilot plant and demonstration facility in Brazil. Tags: Bio-hydrocarbons Biomass Biotech Synthetic Biology.

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Plugs and Cars

DECEMBER 11, 2009

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) met on Thursday to discuss the Zero Emission Vehicle regulation and the revisions staff was tasked with exploring for 2015 and beyond. Friedman sent an email immediately for the record clarifying the conversation with Ms. Chair Mary Nichols said that isn't true.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2009

The converted vehicles will utilize the BAF CalComp System, a proprietary CNG fuel system certified by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the California Air Resources Board (ARB). In addition, AT&T piloted four Ford Escape hybrids, which were deployed in late 2007 in California. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2009

The final MicroFueler product, which starts shipping in July to customers in California, is more than 60% smaller and 80% lighter when compared to the original concept unit shown last year. Tags: Brief. Design of the MicroFueler. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

The goal is to develop an optimal generator for current energy conversion. This research into underwater coatings that prevent biofouling has the potential to positively impact all MHK systems and improve the conversion efficiency for MHK systems. DOE Funding: $160,000. Total Project Value: $192,000. DOE Funding: $160,000.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2009

Projects in Technology Areas 2 are to demonstrate innovative concepts for beneficial CO 2 use, which include, but are not limited to: CO 2 mineralization to carbonates directly through conversion of CO 2 in flue gas; Use of CO 2 from power plants or industrial applications to grow algae/biomass; Conversion of the CO 2 to fuels and chemicals.

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