Green Car Congress

MARCH 29, 2022

Lightning eMotors, a provider of medium-duty and specialty commercial electric vehicles for fleets, has expanded its partnership with Forest River ( earlier post ) to offer a factory-certified all-electric repower program for shuttle buses and passenger vans. —Forest River Bus president David Wright.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2021

are collaborating on early stage design and engineering for a potential blue hydrogen project near Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta. Suncor Energy is Canada’s leading integrated energy company, with a global team of more than 30,000 people. It is expected that 85% of the produced clean hydrogen would be used to supply existing energy demand.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Mass production of the all-new 2023 Honda CR-V hybrid began at Honda of Canada Mfg. The CR-V hybrid features a new two-motor hybrid system produced at Honda’s Ohio Transmission Plant (TMP-O), and a newly refined Atkinson-cycle engine unique to hybrid models that is made at the Anna Engine Plant (AEP), also in Ohio.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Commercializing renewable hydrogen in China is anticipated to not only help green industries, but in combination with hydrogen refueling stations, it will also help alleviate hydrogen supply bottlenecks to accelerate fuel cell vehicle adoption. In 2020, the company shipped 670,000 engines to customers in China.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Canada-based First Cobalt Corp. is expanding its strategic plan to provide battery-grade nickel and cobalt, recycled battery materials and precursor material to the North American battery supply chain. million electric vehicles per year.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2022

Suncor Energy and Australia-based Hazer Group Limited will use Hazer’s innovative methane pyrolysis technology for the first time in North America to produce hydrogen from natural gas. The Fund supports projects that can advance innovative solutions for industry greenhouse gas emissions, like renewable and low carbon gases.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 30, 2022

In subsequent years, the Far North Fiber project will lay down a cable through the Northwest Passage, connecting Iceland to Greenland, then Canada, Alaska, and finally Japan. Amidst much pressure to move toward electric, NASCAR maintains that entertainment value for its fans is the top priority.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2011

Mazda’s roadmap to the ideal internal combustion engine. the step-by-step introduction of electrification to SKYACTIV internal combustion engines: stop-start, followed by regenerative braking, followed by electric motor drive technologies. Energy balance in an internal combustion engine. Click to enlarge.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

TransAlta, a clean energy provider in Canada, the United States, and Australia, will help power BHP’s Nickel West assets, specifically its Mt. The solar farms and battery will be integrated into TransAlta’s Northern Goldfields remote power grid, replacing power currently supplied by diesel and gas.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2018

UPS plans to build an additional five compressed natural gas (CNG) fueling stations and add more than 700 new CNG vehicles including 400 semi-tractors and 330 terminal trucks. We strongly believe further investment in our natural gas fleet is a key element to help us achieve our long-term goals for reducing our CO 2 emissions.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2018

Rio Tinto and Alcoa Corporation announced a revolutionary process to make aluminum that produces only oxygen as a by-product, eliminating all direct greenhouse gas emissions from the traditional smelting process. In Canada alone, use of the technology could eliminate the equivalent of 6.5 million light-duty vehicles off the road.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2020

They are to offer emission-free alternatives to diesel engines, which are currently used as emergency power generators or to cover peak loads. This membrane is coated on both sides with a thin catalyst layer and a gas permeable electrode made of graphite paper. It will go into operation in Friedrichshafen by the end of this year.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2014

The Freightliner Custom Chassis built for UPS uses a GM engine. Both the engine and system integration were provided by Powertrain Integration. The propane autogas fuel system was supplied from CleanFuel USA. UPS currently operates nearly 900 propane vehicles in Canada. —David Abney, UPS chief operating officer.

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 9, 2024

Prospects and Challenges in 2024 Combining the environmental benefits of electric vehicles (EVs) with the long-range and rapid refueling of traditional gasoline vehicles, hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) are becoming a compelling option for eco-minded car owners. How Do FCEVs Work?

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2011

confirmed that their jointly-developed RAV4 electric vehicle ( earlier post ) will be built at Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada, Inc. As previously announced, Toyota will pay Tesla approximately $100 million to supply the electric powertrain, which includes the battery, motor, gear box and power electronics for the RAV4 EV.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Greenhouse gas (GHG) emission standards and CAFE standards increase new LDV fuel economy through model year 2025 and beyond, with more fuel-efficient new vehicles gradually replacing older vehicles on the road and raising the fuel efficiency of the LDV stock by an average of 2.0% per year, from 21.5 l/100 km) in 2012 to 37.2

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Lux’s observation comes shortly after the Government of Canada announced it will develop a similar low-carbon clean fuel standard requiring reductions in the carbon footprint of the fuels supplied in Canada, based on lifecycle analysis. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2015

The technology allows a building owner to purchase electricity during times of low demand and low prices—after midnight, for example—store it in the on-site battery units, and then use that power during periods of high demand when prices peak, typically in the late afternoon and early evening.

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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. This decision follows an investment decision in 2011 on a similar corridor in Alberta, Canada. Earlier post.) Gulf Coast.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2009

Pneumatic hybrid engine on the test bench. Researchers at ETH Zürich are developing a pneumatic hybrid engine—an internal combustion engine connected to a compressed air tank instead of a battery system. If fuel is also injected, the engine responds quickly. The compressed air supply also allows extreme downsizing.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2020

Canada Nickel Company Inc. The Company has applied for trademarks for the terms NetZero Nickel, NetZero Cobalt, and NetZero Iron in the US, Canada, and other jurisdictions related to zero-carbon production of nickel, cobalt, and iron products. —,Mark Selby, Chair & CEO of Canada Nickel.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 17, 2014

GM’s new landfill-free facilities include: CAMI Assembly (Canada). Joinville Engine (Brazil). This is comparable to the greenhouse gas benefit of 15 million tree seedlings grown for 10 years. Localizing the supply chain strengthens the business case and reduces overall carbon footprint. Colmotores Assembly (Colombia).

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EV Adoption

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

But in the automotive world and especially when related to electric vehicles, deliveries frequently fall well short of what was promised. And it is looking through that lens that I wanted to dive into GM’s most recent electric vehicle “supply” promise. Electric Vehicle PR Is Driving Up the Stock Price.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2013

The automaker introduced the “CrossBlue SUV” concept—developed specifically for the US and Canada—at the North American International Auto Show earlier this year. The CrossBlue Coupé can be driven in all-electric mode over a distance of up to 33 kilometers (20 miles) at a maximum speed of 120 km/h (75 mph). Earlier post ).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2017

Today, trucks account for almost a fifth of global oil demand, or around 17 million barrels per day—equivalent to the combined oil production of the United States and Canada. Greater improvements on that front will require increased cooperation, as well as the exchange of data, information and assets across the entire supply chain.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2013

Bosch, a leading supplier of technology for diesel engines, recently provided an overview of trends it sees in the diesel engine marketplace globally. Purchasers of SUVs, who represent one of the fastest-growing segments of the auto market, almost always opt for a diesel engine.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2010

Natural gas will play a leading role in reducing greenhouse-gas emissions over the next several decades, largely by replacing older, inefficient coal plants with highly efficient combined-cycle gas generation, according to a major new interim report out from MIT.

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Charged EVs

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Increasing the efficiency of recycling offers a way to “close the loop,” creating a circular supply chain that can provide the needed raw materials for batteries and other components and minimizing the need to expand the world’s mining operations. We actually use a combination of electricity with water filtration.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Electric motor efficiency targets within the FOA. 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. Click to enlarge. AOI 1: Advanced Fuels and Lubricants Technologies. Miller Cycle).

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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

JULY 8, 2009

UPS intends to achieve its 2020 airline goals by: Investing in more fuel-efficient aircraft types and engines; Fuel-saving operational initiatives, such as lower flight speeds; reduced flight segments, where viable; computer-optimized flight plans; computer-managed aircraft taxi times; and jet engine washing; and. MMT in 2007.customers

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Green Car Congress

MAY 30, 2009

Canada-based international auto supplier and contract assembler Magna International, now with a Memorandum of Understanding for the acquisition of Opel from General Motors ( earlier post ), sees vehicle electrification as one of its key strategic initiatives. The platform is ready for use, for every OEM specifically to design. Earlier post.)

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Charged EVs

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

For EVs to deliver their full emission-reducing potential, the battery supply chain must be as clean as possible, and cathode active materials (CAM) are a key part of the sustainability equation. Total emissions over the lifetime of an electric vehicle are considerably lower than those of an internal combustion engine.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2021

Hot Shot Coanda-Stabilized Free Stream Gas Atomization (Hot CoSA) of Powders of Refractory Multi-Principle Element Alloys (RMPEA) for Extreme Environments, $250,000. Enhancement of PyARC for Westinghouse Electric Company’s Lead Fast Reactor design and modeling, $450,000. Westinghouse Electric Company (Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2022

The system comes with a 230 VAC power supply or an insulated DC/DC power supply. The MRS-2 is already powering some of the most innovative fully electric and hybrid vessels including: Grimaldi Lines, which is now operating six of nine hybrid RoRo ferries, all equipped with 5.1 The 100% electric car and passenger ferry has a 4.3

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

For EVs to deliver their full emission-reducing potential, the battery supply chain must be as clean as possible, and cathode active materials (CAM) are a key part of the sustainability equation. Total emissions over the lifetime of an electric vehicle are considerably lower than those of an internal combustion engine.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2015

FHRs have the potential to economically and reliably produce large quantities of electricity and high temperature process heat while maintaining full passive safety, according to ORNL. A 700°C output temperature enables a thermal cycle efficiency of 45% as compared with the 33% efficiency typical for LWRs. Lithium-7 cost.

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