Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2015

Stanford University scientists have created a new ultrahigh surface area three-dimensional porous graphitic carbon material that significantly boosts the performance of energy-storage technologies. The maximum surface area achieved with conventional activated carbon is about 3,000 m 2 g –1. cm –3 ), and hierarchical pore architecture.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Steel production could be made with almost no carbon emissions through $278 billion of extra investment by 2050, according to a new report from research firm BloombergNEF (BNEF). Converting a significant portion of the fleet to hydrogen would require more DRI plants and more electric furnaces. Source: BloombergNEF.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2014

Researchers at Stanford University have developed a nanocrystalline copper material that produces multi-carbon oxygenates (ethanol, acetate and n-propanol) with up to 57% Faraday efficiency at modest potentials (–0.25?volts The challenge was to find a cathode that would reduce carbon monoxide to ethanol instead of reducing water to hydrogen.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2017

On behalf of the Australian Government, ARENA has provided A$5 million (US$4 million) in funding to Wollongong-based AquaHydrex to develop commercially its new class of electrolyzer to produce cheap hydrogen from splitting water. When hydrogen burns, it produces only water vapor and no carbon dioxide.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2020

Burning increases carbon emissions and dispersants are terribly harmful for marine wildlife. The key is a nanocomposite coating of magnetic nanostructures and a carbon-based substrate that is oleophilic (attracts oil), hydrophobic (resists water), and magnetic. Each approach has its own drawbacks and none are sustainable solutions.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2009

ARPA-E’s first solicitation, announced earlier this year, was highly competitive and resulted in awarding $151 million to 37 projects aimed at transformational innovations in energy storage, biofuels, carbon capture, renewable power, building efficiency, vehicles, and other areas. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2019

The Dapozol MEA is optimized for operating temperatures of 120-200°C, high carbon monoxide concentrations and no requirements for humidification. Methanol reforming converts a mix of methanol and water into a hydrogen-rich gas.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2018

An international research team has developed a new single-atom electrocatalyst that efficiently converts CO 2 to carbon monoxide (CO). Scientists have long sought a way to convert CO 2 to CO, but traditional electrocatalysts cannot effectively initiate the reaction. —Haotian Wang.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2017

Published in an open-access paper in the journal Fuel , their findings point to a cheaper, more environmentally friendly and renewable catalyst for processing that uses common bacteria and the metal palladium, which can be recovered from waste sources such as discarded electronics, catalytic converters, street sweeper dust and processed sewage.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Founded in 2006, Algenol converts CO 2 from industrial emitters into transportation fuels through its Direct-To-Ethanol process. This technology has the best chance of actually reducing carbon emissions while producing cheap fuel in the process. We are very pleased to expand our investment into Algenol.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Traditional diesel fuel is made up of long, straight chains of carbon atoms, while the molecules that make up gasoline are shorter and branched. It’s a cheap and practical starting point that can be produced from raw biomass with high yield, Mascal said.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2021

Although residues of these slags are stored in dumps, these residues can be converted into valuable industrial products by interaction between the slag components. For this purpose, borate glass, a cheap waste material that also requires processing, was added to it. Such samples are characterized by higher iron content.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2014

The cost of electrofuels—fuels produced by catalyst-based systems for light capture, water electrolysis, and catalytic conversion of carbon dioxide and hydrogen to liquid fuels—remains far away from viable, according to a new analysis by Lux Research. Source: Lux Research. Click to enlarge. Hydrogen-to-fuels.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Improved battery technology plus access to cheap renewable electricity open the possibility of battery-electric rail. The social cost of carbon emissions starts at US$125?t Economic, environmental and grid-resilience benefits of converting diesel trains to battery-electric.” t –1 in 2021 and increases to US$226?t t –1 by 2040.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2009

million (US$19 million) in research funding for 28 projects in four key areas of sustainable development: Carbon Capture and Utilization; BioEnergy and BioFuels; Sustainable Construction; and Sustainable Materials. Carbon Capture and Utilization. Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) has awarded S$27.5

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2015

Global Bioenergies, founded in 2008, has developed a synthetic isobutene pathway that, when implanted in a micro-organism, enables the organism to convert sugars (e.g., The process to convert isobutene to isooctane is well-established. So here our isobutene would allow us to integrate this very cheap fossil component into the fuel.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2013

This study unambiguously provides evidence that a cheap and earth-abundant transition metal such as molybdenum can be turned into an active catalyst by the controlled solid-state reaction with soybeans…The preparation of the MoSoy catalyst is simple and can be easily scaled up. But these two approaches had not yet been tried together.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Researchers from the University of Liverpool (UK), with colleagues from Dalian University of Technology (China) and the University of Hull (UK), have developed a new process for the direct, one-step activation of carbon dioxide and methane (dry reforming of methane) into higher value liquid fuels and chemicals (e.g.,

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have developed a new biologically inspired catalyst that is the first iron-based catalyst that converts hydrogen directly to electricity. The catalyst could support the achievement of more affordable fuel cells.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2013

The catalyst can be immobilized on inexpensive carbon electrodes, such as those used in domestic Zn-carbon dry batteries, to generate H 2 from acid aqueous solutions. In addition to that, its reactivity is retained when immobilized on cheap carbon electrodes, which is of significant practical interest. 1 is obtained.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2010

We now have a sprinkling of promising companies working to get funded to convert gas-guzzlers. Even on land, getting oil from tar sands depletes water and other resources and doubles oil’s carbon footprint. And oil only seems cheap. But let’s realize: defending our nation is never cheap.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2009

Calculated over the whole fuel chain, from production to use on roads, the new technology could reduce carbon dioxide emissions by up to 80% in the long term compared to traditional diesel operation, if biogas and 100% biodiesel are used, Volvo says. Methane gas is currently a relatively cheap fuel in many markets. One is cost savings.

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EV Central

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Since 2020 Toyota and mining giant BHP have been testing a LandCruiser 70-Series converted to electricity by Tembo e-LV locally. Roev (converted EV Hilux/Ranger) 2023 Roev electric Toyota HiLux Australian manufacturer Roev has big plans to go into manufacturing of its own ute.

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 24, 2023

The sensing element is responsible for taking air pressure measurements inside the intake manifold, converting this to an electrical signal, which is then interpreted by the circuitry and passed onto the ECU through the connecting pins and wiring. MAP sensors work much like any other sensor on the car.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2014

During the charging process, the reduced form of the redox shuttle, M red , is first converted to M ox on the oxygen electrode, which in turn oxidizes the Li 2 O 2. The solar battery contains three electrodes: a Li-metal anode, an oxygen electrode made from carbon paper and a photoelectrode. —Yu et al. —YiYing Wu.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2015

The researchers devised a one-pot synthesis method that is simple, cheap, scalable and uses only Earth-abundant elements (Al, Ti, O, H, C and S)—and therefore can be used for mass production. They converted the alumina layer to titania (TiO 2 ), a better conductor of electrons and lithium ions when it is very thin.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2009

Linc Energy says it can now use this abundant and relatively cheap gas to make synthetic liquid hydrocarbons (with a focus on diesel). “My Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) is a process through which coal is converted in-situ (i.e., Reduces overall greenhouse gas emissions and has advantages for geologic carbon storage.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2009

Topics covered the expected gamut of policy (especially carbon policy), infrastructure, batteries and consumers. Electricity is a cheap entity—not a commodity, but is its fundamentally very cheap. maintain a system as well as maintain and recover and investment on it that is fundamentally very cheap.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2012

Thus, economically viable biodiesel conversion technology must be developed and implemented.Although these catalysts [for transesterification] are relatively cheap, they are very sensitive to FFAs and the water content in oils, since the side reactions of saponification and hydrolysis, respectively, can occur. —Kwon et al.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The solicitation was designed as a call for early-stage clean energy innovations that fall within five defined technology areas: energy efficiency; energy storage; AI/machine learning; advanced power electronics/power conditioning; and zero- and negative-carbon emission generation.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Weaker-than-expected demand in China is partly responsible, but the main driver has been the ongoing avalanche of new supply into the market, as plentiful cheap spodumene meets ample conversional capacity in China, the CRU analysts said. Lithium hydroxide has fallen by 30% to RMB 74,500/t, according to CRU’s price assessments.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

The photothermocatalytic process for the synthesis of hydrocarbons—including liquid alkanes, aromatics, and oxygenates, with carbon numbers (C n ) up to C 13 —ran in a flow photoreactor operating at elevated temperatures (180–200 °C) and pressures (1–6 bar) using a 5% cobalt on TiO 2 catalyst and under UV irradiation.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2009

Robert Dorner and his colleagues are looking at converting CO 2 and hydrogen (both won from sea-water) over catalysts, using the CO 2 as a building block to form synthetic fuel. This catalyst converts the feed gas predominantly to methane under all conditions (ca. The electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide. Robert Dorner.

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EV Central

MARCH 14, 2024

Locked in for a mid-2024 arrival in Australia, the Porsche Taycan Turbo GT is timed to arrive along with a comprehensive refresh of the rest of the Taycan range, although the new flagship model won’t come cheap, priced at $416,600 plus on-roads. READ MORE: V8s shamed, V12s whipped! 2024 Porsche Taycan GT.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2013

In addition to the high cost, however, Pt and its alloys are also suffered from methanol crossover/carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning effects and poor operation stability. The technology to make the metal-free ORR catalysts builds on a simple and cheap industrial process several of the researchers developed to make graphene sheets from graphite.

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Cars That Think

JULY 21, 2021

Hydrogen today comes primarily from natural gas, which pumps out a lot of carbon and methane pollution into the atmosphere. Devices aren’t cheap, efficient, or durable enough yet to move out of the lab. . Now Japanese researchers say they’ve made an important step toward durability. But it has proven challenging to do on a large scale.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

JANUARY 28, 2009

utilizing these ideas and instructions in an attempting to enhance national security, reduce gas consumption, vehicle "emissions", your carbon footprint, or smog, you do so at your own risk & peril. What changes do we make to convert a gasoline-only hybrid to a Plug-In Hybrid? Forget Hydrogen, Forget Hydrogen, Forget Hydrogen ".

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