Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2016

The Government of Canada is investing up to $1.9 million from Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) in Vancouver-based Nano One to support the development of advanced battery technology for electric vehicles. For consumer electronics, this could mean greater storage, faster charging or more power.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2021

This agreement will mark the completion of Metro’s 5-year goal to transition its diesel fleet to cleaner, low-carbon fuel, with 2,400 buses now running on RNG—the first renewable and commercially available vehicle fuel made entirely from organic waste.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Oberon’s rDME fuel is a cost-effective, low-carbon, zero-soot alternative to petroleum diesel. Pursuant to the agreements between the parties, Suburban Propane has also committed to provide additional funding to support continued development efforts to begin commercializing a rDME/propane blended product. Earlier post.).

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JANUARY 9, 2021

New Flyer Industries Canada ULC and New Flyer of America Inc., Li-Cycle offers a proprietary, closed-loop lithium-ion battery resource recovery service producing minimal solid waste, and zero liquid and air emissions that can sustainably produce battery grade lithium, cobalt, and nickel products. subsidiaries of NFI Group Inc.,

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Rio Tinto has started producing spodumene concentrate, a mineral used in the production of lithium for batteries, at a demonstration plant in its Rio Tinto Iron and Titanium (RTIT) Québec Operations in its metallurgical complex in Sorel-Tracy, Canada. —RTIT Managing Director Stéphane Leblanc.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2022

Canada-based Lithion Recycling closed a first tranche of Series A equity with a strategic group of investors led by IMM Investment Global Limited and supported by Fondaction and its managed fund, the LCC Fund. The size of the first round is expected to reach up to C$125 million (US$99 million).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2011

GreenField Ethanol, Canada’s largest ethanol producer, announced the launch of G2BioChem , a collaborative effort between GreenField, industrial process solutions company Andritz and enzyme developer Novozymes. The group is committed to making transportation fuel from agricultural waste, energy crops and forest biomass.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2011

GE’s integrated evaporator and ZLD system enables the facility to cost-effectively produce 10,000 barrels per day of bitumen and maximize recycled water use. The solidification process involves mixing a solidifying reagent with the crystallizer waste slurry to produce a solid waste that is suitable for transport and disposal in a landfill.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2016

As one of the outcomes of the “Three Amigos” meeting in Ottawa, Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, US President Barack Obama, and Mexico President Enrique Peña Nieto committed to an “ambitious and enduring” North American Climate, Clean Energy, and Environment Partnership.

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JUNE 27, 2023

GM is scaling EV production in North America well past 1 million units annually and our direct investments in battery raw materials, processing and components for EVs are providing certainty of supply, favorable commercial terms and thousands of new jobs, especially in the US, Canada and free trade agreement countries like Australia.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2011

million in funding through the Automotive Partnership Canada (APC) initiative, and close to C$10 million from industry and other contributions. These partnerships will be supported with funding through the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and the Canada Foundation for Innovation. This includes C$6.5

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2015

SG Preston, a Philadelphia-based bioenergy company, is partnering with IHI E&C , a Houston-based engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) subsidiary of Japan’s IHI Corporation , to develop and to construct a series of commercial-scale renewable diesel and jet fuel manufacturing plants, initially in the US Midwest and Canada.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Equivalents of the two patents in this case have also been approved in numerous other jurisdictions around the world, including places where smaller scale GTL might be deployed, such as the United States and Canada, and countries where FT reactors and other associated equipment might be manufactured, such as Japan and South Korea.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Nearly all commercial hydrogen is produced from natural gas. The low efficiency of available electrolyzers means that most of the energy in the water-splitting step is wasted as heat, rather than being captured in the hydrogen. —Hidetoshi Matsumura, senior researcher at Fujitsu Consulting (Canada).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2010

Alberta, Canada’s Climate Change and Emissions Management (CCMEC) Corporation is awarding more than C$37.5 million) to five Alberta-based renewable energy projects including waste to biofuels and energy, concentrating solar power, biogas and home generation. million (US$36.6 million (US$1.76 City of Medicine Hat , C$3 million (US$2.9

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JANUARY 25, 2012

Canada-based biomass-to-gasoline company CORE BioFuel Inc. based in Toronto, Canada. Osprey Capital will secure equity investment capital to fund the completion of construction engineering for CORE’s first wood-to-Green Gasoline plant to be built in Canada. This makes the CORE project an excellent investment opportunity.

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JUNE 15, 2010

The partners aim to develop a process for making biofuel from forestry waste at a production cost down to $2 per gallon, a price competitive with gasoline and corn ethanol at the current US market prices. In February 2010, Novozymes launched its new Cellic CTec2 enzymes that enable commercial production of biofuel from plant waste.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Currently, three key CCS projects of which Shell is a part, Quest in Canada (in operation), Northern Lights in Norway (sanctioned) and Porthos in The Netherlands (planned), will total around 4.5 Shell serves more than 1 million commercial and industrial customers, and 30 million customers at 46,000 retail service stations daily.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 30, 2016

and Canada-based Canfor Pulp Products Inc. Licella’s Cat-HTR technology may add significant value to Canfor Pulp’s kraft process by creating new products from Canfor Pulp’s waste streams. Australia-based Licella Fibre Fuels Pty Ltd. CPPI), through its subsidiary Canfor Pulp Ltd., —Brett Robinson, President of CPPI.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2011

This demonstration-scale project is expected to lead to the final design basis for commercial-scale facilities using the combined technologies, including for potential biomass-to-energy projects that are contemplated in the southeastern United States, Hawaii and Canada.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

The acquisition combines the fiber preparation and pretreatment technologies of SBI and the consolidated bioprocessing (CBP) technology of Mascoma, to create a company with comprehensive capabilities for converting non-food cellulose (wood chips, energy crops and organic solid waste) into ethanol and high value co-products.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2016

By developing high performing synthetic fluids with better thermal stability, BASF aims to extend the life cycle of these materials, reduce waste and support the development of more fuel-efficient vehicles. How might we improve traction of the new synthetic lubricant by at least 20-30% compared to traditional commercial synthetic lubricants?

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MAY 6, 2011

The Province of Ontario (Canada) has selected Rentech’s proposed Olympiad Renewable Energy Centre (Olympiad Project) in The Township of White River (White River), Ontario, for a proposed supply of up to 1.1 million cubic meters (1.3 million US tons) per year of Crown timber.

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AUGUST 10, 2011

Light-weighting materials : Five projects awarded to accelerate commercial availability of lighter weight vehicles using advanced materials that dramatically reduce vehicle weight while maintaining the highest safety standards. This project will develop a new process that enables low-cost, domestic manufacturing of magnesium.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2009

Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne and Alberta Energy Research Institute (AERI) of Canada are working together to develop advanced gasification technology aimed at decreasing the cost and environmental impact of processing Alberta’s oil sands. Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne is a United Technologies Corp.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2010

Xylathin is effective over a wide temperature and pH range allowing ethanol producers greater operational flexibility and significant reductions in processing costs, according to Janet Roemer, Verenium’s Executive Vice President, Specialty Enzymes Business. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2010

The goal of this AOI is to support advanced fuels and lubricants technologies that will enable optimal performance of advanced combustion engines for passenger and commercial vehicle applications. Such fuels should be currently available, or have the potential to become, commercially practical within the next 10 years.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2021

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced more than $30 million in federal funding, matched by more than $35 million in private sector funds, for 68 projects that will accelerate the commercialization of promising energy technologies—ranging from clean energy and advanced manufacturing, to building efficiency and next-generation materials.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2011

High oil prices, a global economic rebound, and new laws and mandates in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, China, and the United States, among other countries, are all factors behind the surge in production, according to research conducted by the Worldwatch Institute’s Climate and Energy Program for the website Vital Signs Online.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2010

Oil sands mines produce waste material called tailings; the waste materials have been difficult to reclaim and have grown larger than projected. Oil sands production, combined with exports of Canadian conventional crude oil, has already put Canada in the position of number one foreign supplier of oil to the United States.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 14, 2023

But China’s rule-makers have been moving the quickest to turn proposals into real rules, and countries including Brazil , Canada , and the United States are following behind. If that rule actually gets implemented and enforced, it would impose really heavy costs on these AI providers.” and the U.K. offer a study in contrasts.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2012

Canadian Natural Resources Limited (CNRL) has been adding waste CO 2 into the tailings streams in order to reduce the size of their tailings ponds. The process works by treating the soft middle layer of a tailings pond with waste CO 2 and a reagent, which binds the solids together and releases the water.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2016

Natural gas is considered renewable when it is produced from sources of biogas such as organic waste or wastewater. This amendment will allow utilities to double the total pool of incentives available to convert commercial fleets to natural gas, when the new incentives go towards vehicles using 100% renewable natural gas.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2022

to pursue opportunities in large-scale, low-cost and permanent carbon capture and storage (CCS). FPX Nickel Corp., a Vancouver-based junior nickel mining company developing the large-scale Decar Nickel District in central British Columbia, has established a new subsidiary company, CO 2 Lock Corp., CO 2 Lock has raised $1.7

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2015

While conventional desalination technologies only recover about 35% of fresh water from a gallon of seawater, new Dutch technology brought to Texas by a local company recovers approximately 97% of the fresh water at an economical cost. Desalination has never been economical on a commercial scale before.

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AUGUST 31, 2020

Then came the rapid ascent of production in China and with it a flood of low-cost magnesium. Producers in Canada had conceded defeat by 2008 and the US industry was reduced to just one player that would probably not still be around were it not for punitive anti-dumping duties imposed on imports of Chinese magnesium.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2017

Canada-based SBI has a patented process that can convert a wide range of waste oils, greases and sustainable vegetable oils into lower carbon drop-ins for diesel, jet fuel and gasoline. We are confident that Shell is the right industry partner to commercialize our low carbon intensity renewable fuel process.

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