Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

A paper on their work is published in the journal Angewandte Chemie International Edition ; UC Davis has filed provisional patents on the process, and is making it available for licensing. Traditional diesel fuel is made up of long, straight chains of carbon atoms, while the molecules that make up gasoline are shorter and branched.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2023

A team of international researchers led by Professor Cafer T. Qiang Xu of Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) have developed a promising method for carbon capture and storage using a single-crystalline guanidinium sulfate-based clathrate salt. Xiang et al. Nguyen, Cafer T. 2023.101383

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

In work published in the international edition of the chemistry journal Angewandte Chemie —and featured on the cover of the journal—the team describe the cobalt-catalyzed hydrogenation of alkenes, aldehydes, ketones, and imines under mild reaction conditions. Click to enlarge.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 8, 2023

Large language models don’t come cheap While the power of large language models, like ChatGPT , has increased dramatically, the price of training such models has increased dramatically as well. It concluded that a training run for even the most efficient of the four models considered, BLOOM , emitted more carbon than the average U.S.

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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). Their findings were published in the RSC journal Energy & Environmental Science. The scientists say this is a major step toward recycling CO 2 for usable energy and chemicals. —Haotian Wang.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Addressing the worldwide problems of escalating energy demand and rising CO 2 emissions will require an increase in the use of carbon-neutral, sustainable energy sources. A burgeoning effort by chemists studying many areas of catalysis has focused on ‘cheap metals for noble tasks’.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

This glut could be exacerbated by future carbon taxes and other policy restrictions on fossil fuels, he said. A glut could be exacerbated by future carbon taxes and other policy restrictions on fossil fuels. Wilson Fellow for Energy Studies in the Baker Institute’s Center for Energy Studies. million barrels per day (m b/d).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2017

California has experienced tremendous success implementing policies that incentivize innovation in business, technology and carbon reduction. The California Green Innovation Index has tracked key economic and environmental indicators at the regional, state, national and international level since 2008. below their 2006 levels.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

At the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems ( IROS ) conference in Kyoto last week, researchers from EPFL presented a paper describing a drone that can boost its payload of food from 30 percent to 50 percent of its mass. It’s a process that’s fast, simple, and cheap.

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Charged EVs

MAY 18, 2021

The combination of needing high strength in the smallest amount of volume possible while also being non-conductive/non-magnetic means that the rotor frame all but has to be constructed out of composite materials such as glass or carbon fiber and epoxy. Magnax’s axial flux inrunner motor design.

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 24, 2023

PSI), due to the vacuum created by moving internals. If this persists, you risk severe damage to the pistons, connecting rods and other engine internals. Low fuel amounts see a sharp rise in nitrogen oxide (NOx), while too much fuel is the reason for excessive carbon monoxide. pounds per square inch [PSI)].

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2012

The carbon-supported nickel–molybdenum nitride (NiMoN x ) catalyst has a nanoscale sheet structure comprising a few layers and an abundance of highly accessible reactive sites. In this new catalyst, nickel takes the reactive place of platinum, but it lacks a comparable electron density.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2011

Asia’s long-term competitiveness will depend heavily on how it controls the intensity of its resource use, including water and food, and manages its carbon footprint. The rapid growth in Asia’s energy use has created two major concerns for the region and within the international community. —Asia 2050.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2019

In an opinion piece in the journal Nature , a team from the US and Europe suggests that the transition to a low-carbon world will create new rivalries, winners and losers, and that it is therefore necessary to put geopolitics at the heart of debates about the energy transition. abating carbon will create losers. —Goldthau et al.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

Unless emissions of carbon dioxide can be greatly reduced—i.e., The report assesses the two main kinds of geoengineering techniques: Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) and Solar Radiation Management (SRM). Preliminary overall evaluation of the geoengineering techniques considered in the report.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

In a new study, KPMG International has identified 10 “megaforces” that will significantly affect corporate growth globally over the next two decades. The advantages many companies experienced in the last two decades from “cheap labor” in developing nations are likely to be eroded by the growth and power of the global middle class.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2009

The report, “Pledges and Actions: A scenario analysis of mitigation costs and carbon market impacts for developed and developing countries”, explores the implications of different possible scenarios on the outcomes of the current climate negotiations. The global costs would be limited to 0.2% of GDP in 2020. This surplus is called hot air.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2015

During the late innings of the ICE-age (as in the Internal Combustion Engine age) it has become clear that feeding gasoline and diesel to the next billion new cars is not going to be easy, or cheap. Silicon based PV, on the other hand, is hugely scalable and relatively cheap. by Henry Hewitt for Oilprice.com. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2010

Even on land, getting oil from tar sands depletes water and other resources and doubles oil’s carbon footprint. And oil only seems cheap. And magically, as more electricity comes from lower-carbon fuel sources, our cars will get cleaner as they get older! But let’s realize: defending our nation is never cheap.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Whether for religious or secular celebrations, the variety and functionality of lights have exploded in recent years, abetted by cheap and colorful LEDs and compact electronics. The earliest Christmas lights used miniature versions of Edison's pear-shaped carbon-filament bulbs, which had fragile exhaust tips that were prone to breaking.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2015

The inert nanoshell facing the electrolyte is covered with the SEI but does not change volume, while the active yolk expands/shrinks in the internal cavity without SEI. Compared with Si yolk-carbon shell, ATO has ~20% lower capacity below 1 C rate, but provides higher capacity with long cycle life above 1 C. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2009

A maximum concentration of 450 ppm carbon dioxide (~550 ppm CO 2 equivalent) in the Earth’s atmosphere is commonly cited as the limit at which average temperatures can be held at 2 ºC, and many emissions reduction proposals are based upon these two “upper bounds” targets. ºF) above pre-industrial temperatures.

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EV Central

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The B2 (a cousin to the B1 wagon) hasn’t been completely killed off and in 2023 the company said “engineers are once again working on developing the SUV and pickup” The B2 wasn’t looking like being cheap despite the simplicity of its aluminium body. We’re watching on with interest.

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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. CalSEED is administered by New Energy Nexus.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 27, 2024

Instantly recognizable as a Gocycle, the all new CXi employs Gocycle’s kernel of patented innovations such as our side-mounted Pitstopwheels, Gocycle’s F1-inspired monocoque chassis, enclosed Cleandrive® drivetrain and internal cabling.” Crafted from carbon fiber, it’s lightweight yet incredibly strong. Lightweight, portable and fun.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

The International Energy Agency (IEA) last week launched the 2011 edition of the World Energy Outlook (WEO), the current edition of its annual flagship publication assessing the threats and opportunities facing the global energy system out to 2035. Oil and the Transport Sector: Reconfirming the End of Cheap Oil. Click to enlarge.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 17, 2022

He spent three days in the intensive care unit, where doctors treated him for multiple skull fractures, massive internal bleeding, and damage to his brain’s frontal lobe. “The back of my skull bore the brunt of the fall,” he says. Over weeks and months his hearing came back, his headaches went away, and his irritability and confusion faded.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2009

Attendees believe that renewable energy needs two elements to be successful: technical progress leading to lower costs and a price on carbon. They were hoping it was going to be more aggressive in combating carbon directly through a stronger cap and trade and indirectly with a higher federal renewable energy standard. Earlier post.).

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Get Electric Vehicle

OCTOBER 27, 2023

If you come across a safe and reliable battery technology it can be used in the country’s space mission or you found a better alloy that is cheap to produce or lighter in weight and performs well under load it can be used in other sectors or even in the gasoline cars to increase efficiency and reduce carbon emission.

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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

JULY 5, 2011

Schematic diagrams showing (a) the prelithiation of SiNWs on stainless steel (SS) foil, and (b) the internal electron and Li + pathways during the prelithiation. The Stanford team is proposing a facile method for prelithiating a Si nanowire (SiNW) anode by a self-discharge mechanism using cheap Li metal foil as the Li source.

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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. This number represents the electric propulsion range of the PHEV before it must depend upon its internal combustion engine for motive power.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 6, 2024

Fortunately, we’ve found some excellent options for cheap electric bikes that can still save you some serious dough. Plus there’s a choice between a nice 9-speed chain drive transmission or a fancier Gates Carbon Drive belt setup with an Enviolo continuously variable transmission. For years, the $999 Lectric XP 3.0 and its previous 1.0

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EV Central

JULY 4, 2022

Our tester had a Carmine Red GTS interior package ($8370) with red stitching throughout, GTS logo on the headrests, red seat belts and carbon for the steering wheel and cabin trim. Not cheap, but it ups the racy ambience. While the flagship Taycan S finds 100km/h in an internal-organ mashing 2.8 Performance and efficiency.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 13, 2024

Fortunately, we’ve found some excellent options for cheap electric bikes that can still save you some serious dough. Plus there’s a choice between a nice 9-speed chain drive transmission or a fancier Gates Carbon Drive belt setup with an Enviolo continuously variable transmission. For years, the $999 Lectric XP 3.0 and its previous 1.0

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Green Cars News

APRIL 28, 2009

In addition to concerns about the true carbon footprint and environmental cost of biofuel, a coalition of international charities accuses the EU Biofuel Directive (which requires all road fuel used by member states to consist of 10 per cent biofuel by 2020) of making biofuels much more profitable than feeding the hungry, the publication reports.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

US car giant GM is to develop and market a small, cheap electric car for the Indian market. Chetan Maini, Deputy Chairman and Chief Technology Officer of Reva, said: “We are extremely happy that we have found a partner in GM India that shares our passion for reducing carbon emissions.

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