Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Hydra Energy, the Hydrogen-as-a-Service (HaaS) provider for commercial fleets looking to reduce emissions and costs with limited risk and no up-front investment ( earlier post ), has delivered its first hydrogen-converted, heavy-duty truck to paying fleet customer Lodgewood Enterprises.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2009

The provincial government of Alberta and the federal government of Canada will invest C$865 million (US$822 million) in a large-scale Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) project in the Athabasca oil sands. The total cost of the project is projected to be C$1.35 Tags: Canada Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Oil sands. billion (US$1.28

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2020

ABC Companies, a leading provider to the motorcoach, transit and specialty passenger transportation market in the United States and Canada, will soon be the first to offer a motorcoach-diesel-to-electric-repower program for North American operators. The repower kits are engineered by Lightning eMotors and will be installed by ABC technicians.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

This collaboration of two industry veterans is targeted to enable accelerated adoption of hydrogen in heavy-duty transport applications requiring long range, rapid refueling and lowest total cost of ownership of the vehicle. Fuel cell testing facilities in British Columbia, Canada and Denmark.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2023

pCAM is a specifically engineered combination of processed raw materials necessary to produce CAM, a key battery material representing about 40% of the cost of a battery cell. 2021 - Announced plan with POSCO Future M to produce CAM in Canada; site work in Québec commenced in March 2022.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Canada-based First Cobalt Corp. The company has also been testing black mass feeds from recycled batteries and will be announcing results from test work and engineering studies in the coming weeks. —Michael Insulan, Vice President, Commercial. Battery Materials Park.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2009

The US and Canada have submitted a proposal to the International Maritime Organization (IMO) for the designation of an Emission Control area (ECA) around their coastlines in which stringent international emission controls would apply to ocean-going ships. The overall cost of the ECA is estimated at $3.2 Source: EPA Click to enlarge.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 16, 2024

EVs are at the point where their sticker prices have fallen or will soon fall below those of comparable vehicles with internal combustion engines. Cost parity between battery- and petrol-powered vehicles will happen by 2026 in the U.S. But Canada might have a fight on its hands that mirrors what the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

The hybrid drives combine a modern diesel engine with an electric motor and batteries to recover braking energy, reducing fuel consumption and CO 2 emissions by up to 25%. It is powered by two MTU PowerPacks, each based on the MTU Series 1800 engine that meets the strict requirements of the current EU Stage IIIB emissions directive.

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 9, 2024

This limits FCEV use primarily to a handful of areas in California and Canada. and Canada, poses a major obstacle. The high costs associated with producing and installing these fueling stations contribute to these infrastructural constraints. The existing U.S. Safety will always remain a top concern for automakers.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2021

Pricing for the 2022 Passat Limited Edition starts at $30,295 MSRP with a destination cost of $995. Specifically designed for North America, the 2012 Passat was bigger than the car it replaced, with ample rear-seat and trunk space, offering German engineering and styling at a competitive price.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2011

Canada is awarding C$10M (US$10.5 million) from Sustainable Development Technology Canada’s (SDTC) SD Tech Fund to a consortium led by N-Solv Corp. The N-Solv process is also expected to have lower operating and capital costs than SAGD with fewer restrictions on the reservoir conditions under which it can operate.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2018

Canada-based Loop Energy’s heavy-duty fuel cell range extender ( earlier post ) will power two new zero-emission hybrid-electric Class 8 drayage trucks that will operate for a one-year period as part of a FAST TRACK Fuel Cell Truck Project in southern California. —Ben Nyland, President and CEO of Loop Energy.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2018

In Canada alone, use of the technology could eliminate the equivalent of 6.5 Oxidation of the carbon anode increases the electrical efficiency at a cost of consuming the carbon electrodes and producing carbon dioxide. Canada and Québec are each investing $60 million (CAD) in Elysis.

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Baua Electric

MAY 4, 2024

Canada’s Magna International missed first-quarter profit estimates and cut its full-year overall sales forecast on Friday, as auto parts suppliers navigate ongoing supply constraints and bumpy demand for electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2009

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has finalized its new rule for Category 3 marine engines—engines with per-cylinder displacement at or above 30 liters. By 2030, the domestic and international strategy is expected to reduce annual emissions of nitrogen oxides (NO x ) from large marine diesel engines by about 1.2

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2011

Westport high-pressure direct injection (HPDI) injector for heavy-duty engines. The consortium is expecting to demonstrate the natural gas locomotive as part of the previously announced Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) project with CN and Gaz Metro. Click to enlarge. Westport Innovations Inc. Westport Innovations Inc.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 21, 2013

Clean Energy will then help offset the monthly cost of newly-acquired NGVs to make it consistent with the cost of a diesel truck, if the customer makes a fuel commitment. Class 8 trucks can use both compressed natural gas (CNG) and liquefied natural gas (LNG).

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Twenty homes scattered across Canada and the northern United States are keeping warm this winter using prototypes of the latest iteration in residential heating systems: cold climate heat pumps. Department of Energy (DOE) in partnership with Natural Resources Canada. Companies can choose to further test their machines down to -26 °C.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2021

The MEA is the critical component of a fuel cell and accounts for about 70% of the cost of a fuel cell stack. MEAs are currently produced in Canada, Europe, Japan, Korea and China at commercial scale. highlighting the potential for enhanced freeze start-up capability.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2019

Researchers at the University of Waterloo (Canada), with a colleague in Sweden, have used a power management strategy greatly to extend the durability of onboard fuel cells in a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle: an increase of 1.8, With our design approach, the cost could be comparable or even cheaper than gasoline engines.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2013

a new 5-liter V8 diesel engine designed to power pickup-and-delivery vehicles, other light- and medium-duty trucks, school buses and motorhomes. extends Cummins range of on-road diesel engines for North American vehicles. will be manufactured at the Columbus Engine Plant, with production to start during the fourth quarter of 2014.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2009

As the next steps in a strategy to cut harmful emissions from ocean-going vessels, the US Environmental Protection Agency is proposing new engine emissions and fuel standards for large marine diesel engines on US-flagged ships that would harmonize with international standards. EPA’s proposed rulemaking affects the Category 3 engines.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

For the first phase of the program, Ballard has agreed to provide a license, associated equipment and Engineering Services to enable assembly of Ballard’s next-generation FCvelocity-HD7 bus power modules by Azure in China. Government of Canada which helps commercialize Canadian clean technologies, readying them for growth and export markets.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2018

Vancouver, Canada-based naval architecture firm Robert Allan Ltd. The weight saved in eliminating the diesel engines and their support systems, removing the diesel fuel, and changing to an aluminum hull provides the weight budget for the new electric drive and batteries. However, this requirement is achievable with electric drive.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2010

a division of the Vedder Transportation Group, specializes in the transportation of Food Grade products in a bulk liquid or dry state and offers dedicated and irregular route, truck load and less than truck load freight services throughout Canada, and between Canada and the United States. Vedder Transport Ltd.,

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Teslarati

JUNE 3, 2021

A team of battery researchers at Canada’s Dalhousie University are the recipients of a $6 million grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC). The NSERC will give the team, headed by Dr. Jeff Dahn, $2.9 million in funding.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

Design and re-engineering the surfacing of the raw materials. Saint Jean is a publicly traded carbon science company, with specific interests in energy storage and green energy creation, with holdings in graphite mining and lithium claims in the province of Quebec in Canada.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2010

Ken Reardon, professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Colorado State University Cobalt’s pretreatment process removes most of the terpenes, and uses them for process heat, Wilson said. In addition, Cobalt’s engineered bacteria are very resistant. However, a program in place in the US will pay half the cost of the removal.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2017

—Jack Brouwer, associate professor of mechanical & aerospace engineering and civil & environmental engineering at UCI and associate director of the Advanced Power & Energy Program (APEP). Power-to-gas systems are currently in place in Germany and Canada.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

leveraging of Broad-Ocean’s global operations and supply chain infrastructure to lower the cost of Ballard fuel cell engines and the cost of integration with vehicle drivetrains. We are committed to make a significant investment in our fuel cell strategy over the next 5 years, and Ballard is a key piece of our strategy.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2009

a wholly-owned subsidiary of Canada-based Lignol Energy Corporation, a cellulosic ethanol and biorefining company, has been awarded C$3.4 This will lead to the creation of an engineering design package for a commercial biorefinery within the province. Lignol Innovations Ltd., million (US$2.74 million (US$1.5 Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2016

The GLC F-CELL features a ~9 kWh lithium-ion battery pack combined with a new fuel cell stack developed in Vancouver, Canada together with partner Ford in the Automotive Fuel Cell Cooperation (AFCC) joint venture. Around 30% more compact than previously, it can be fully housed in the engine compartment for the first time.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2010

Canada-based Solarvest BioEnergy has begun a cooperative Research and Development agreement with Dr. Suzanne Budge at the Canadian Institute of Fisheries Technology at Dalhousie University to assist Solarvest in the characterization of lipids and fatty acids in algae. The continuous bio-production of hydrogen.

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Drive Electric

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

To date, Subaru’s main powertrain has been its ‘boxer’ petrol engine. This has the advantage of having a lower centre of gravity than a traditional petrol engine, and mated to the brand’s ‘symmetrical’ all-wheel-drive system, this has given Subaru a unique point of differentiation in the market.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2011

The selections announced focus on eight approaches to improving vehicle efficiency: Advanced fuels and lubricants : Eight projects awarded to improve fuels and lubricants that will enable optimal performance of advanced combustion engines. Wisconsin Engine Research Consultants LLC. Advanced fuels and lubricants. Grantee Description.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2011

In December 2010, Carbon Sciences announced a worldwide exclusive license agreement with the University of Saskatchewan (UOS), Canada, for catalyst technology for the dry reforming of methane with CO 2. Carbon Sciences, Inc., Earlier post.) steam reforming, partial oxidation, or autothermal reforming—according to the company.

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