Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2022

Cheap and abundant, sodium is a promising candidate for new battery technology. In addition to the stable SEI on a hard carbon (HC) anode, we also show a stable interphase formation on a NaNi 0.68 The study was supported by the Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Vehicle Technologies Office.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2017

The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) announced a trial for a new type of electrolyzer which could see excess renewable energy stored in the gas grid and used to decarbonize Australia’s gas supply. When hydrogen burns, it produces only water vapor and no carbon dioxide. —Ivor Frischknecht.

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CleanTechnica EVs

DECEMBER 6, 2021

In a perfect world, cheap green hydrogen would slash carbon and methane emissions. We don't live in a perfect world quite yet.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2015

Last week, Audi and its partner Global Bioenergies announced that the first batch of renewable isooctane—which Audi calls “e-benzin”—using Global Bioenergies’ fermentative isobutene pathway (sugar→isobutene→isooctane) had been produced and presented to Audi by Global Bioenergies. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2018

The arrival of cheap battery storage will mean that it becomes increasingly possible to finesse the delivery of electricity from wind and solar, so that these technologies can help meet demand even when the wind isn’t blowing and the sun isn’t shining. trillion to other zero-carbon technologies such as hydro and nuclear. BNEF sees $1.3

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Photo: China News Service Renewable energy costs in Asia last year were 13% cheaper than coal and are expected to be 32% cheaper by 2030, according to a new study. This is significant because it marks a shift toward making renewables increasingly competitive with coal, a mainstay in APAC’s energy mix.

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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

JUNE 23, 2009

Scientists at the University of Delaware are developing a new low-cost material for hydrogen storage—carbonized chicken feathers (CCFF)—that they say could meet the DOE requirements for hydrogen storage and are competitive with carbon nanotubes and metal hydrates at a tiny fraction of their cost. Wool, University of Delaware.

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Baua Electric

JULY 3, 2023

PARIS — Dacia will sponsor a manufacturing unit crew to race the Dakar wilderness rally in 2025 so that you can show off carbon-neutral mobility the usage of artificial fuels, logo CEO Denis Le Vot mentioned.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2019

This resulted in a 71% isolated carbon yield—a 5% increase from the product yield in their initial work. In the future, we will go on to explore the environmentally friendly and renewable organic solvent that can replace the dichloromethane used in the hydrogenolysis of cellulose to 2,5-hexanedione.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

As a very rough benchmark on yield, cellulosic gasoline and diesel company KiOR, which uses a different pathway for fuel production (the production of renewable crude from biomass followed by catalytic cracking to upgrade to fuels), calculates that one bone dry ton of woody biomass contains hydrocarbons approximately equal to 2.8 gallons US).

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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

Algal fuels producer Algenol has closed on a $25-million dollar investment from BioFields, a Mexican business group devoted to the development of renewable and clean energy projects. The algal bio-oil can be used to produce biodiesel, renewable diesel, or other bio-oil-derived products. —Alejandro Gonzalez, founder of BioFields.

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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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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 27, 2022

There is no end of gushing about China’s cheap solar panels—but when was the last time you saw a paean to hydroelectricity? The manufacture of solar panels involves the environmental costs from mining, waste disposal, and carbon emissions. And hydro still matters more than any other form of renewable generation.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 29, 2020

A fast, green and one-step method for producing porous carbon spheres—a component for carbon capture technology and for new ways of storing renewable energy—has been developed by Swansea University researchers. Carbon spheres range in size from nanometers to micrometers. Credit: ESRI, Swansea University.

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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 state has become the most energy-productive major economy in the world, moving up three spots from 2013 to 2014, while also reducing its carbon intensity by 4.5%. below their 2006 levels.

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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. Hydrogen-to-fuels.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 11, 2024

Hence, cheap EVs coming your way (well, not in the US, at least not yet anyway). And let’s peek under the hood a bit too: Chinese President Xi “had accelerated an industrial drive centered on EVs, semiconductors and artificial intelligence and renewable energy” to try to compete with the US, China correspondent Lingling Wei told Reuters.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2009

Green Car Congress attended the Renewable Energy Finance Forum - Wall Street (REFF-Wall Street) conference (23-24 June) sponsored by Euromoney Energy Events and the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE). The renewable energy community may prefer “areas of concern” over the term schism, but significant issues were reiterated.

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Plugs and Cars

JUNE 2, 2007

What's most interesting, however, is how easy (and cheap) it is to do a carbon emission-free 200 mile day in a 100 mile range electric vehicle, my 5 year old Toyota RAV4 EV. Electric cars don't emit carbon (or anything else) as they drive, so there's one additional saving quite relevant to speaking at a rally decrying carbon emissions.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Analysts and power insiders sketch scenes including interconnected local renewable grids that draw on short-duration battery storage (including the small batteries in electric vehicles in a garage, models for which Tesla just happens to make) combined with multi-day storage for power generated by wind and solar.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 18, 2023

These initiatives have largely focused on renewable electric power generation, distribution, and storage. A Battery for Heat Made from Sand Noted chemical engineer Donald Sadoway is quoted as saying: “If you want to make a dirt-cheap battery, you have to make it out of dirt.” Sand is efficient, nontoxic, portable, and cheap!”. “We

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2019

Electrolysis of water to generate hydrogen fuel is an attractive renewable energy storage technology. Developing cheap electrocatalysts and electrodes that can sustain seawater splitting without chloride corrosion could address the water scarcity issue. (Image credit: Courtesy of H. Dai, Yun Kuang, Michael Kenney).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2014

The technology could fundamentally transform the way electricity is stored on the grid, making power from renewable energy sources such as wind and sun far more economical and reliable. Consequently they maintain peak discharge power for less than an hour before they are drained, and are therefore ill-suited to store intermittent renewables.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 30, 2022

It’s about one-twentieth the size of the minibus-scale geostationary satellites already in orbit, allowing for cheap and quick deployment. These massive construction projects are intended to help China meet its goal of going carbon neutral by 2060. But this satellite is the first of a new breed, dubbed microGEO.

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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

MARCH 22, 2015

Currently, renewable hydrogen may be produced from water by electrolysis with either low efficiency alkaline electrolyzers that suffer 50–65% losses, or by more efficient acidic electrolyzers using expensive rare platinum group metal catalysts (Pt). Resources. Laursen, K. Patraju, M. Whitaker, M. Retuerto, T. Ramanujachary, M.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2009

The remainder will consist of bio-mix diesel—fossil diesel mixed with diesel produced from renewable raw materials, says Mats Franzén, Manager Engine Strategy and Planning, Volvo Trucks. Following further analysis, the company is now focusing on two renewable fuels: DME and methane gas + diesel (biomethane plus biodiesel).

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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. Business as usual.

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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. However, building more coal and gas power plants to make miles for transport is counter-productive if the game plan is to reduce carbon output.

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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.

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Driivz

MAY 15, 2023

The ultimate promise: vehicle-to-grid Many see V2G, where the EV receives power from the grid when it is cheap or plentiful and gives power back to the grid to balance and supplement the grid as needed, as the ultimate game changer. SB-233 covers school buses as well so they can power V2B and fleet depots use cases.

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EV Info

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

When David Cameron’s energy bill was being discussed in Parliament in 2013, the word on everybody’s lips was ‘trilemma’: how to ensure that energy was affordable, reliable and low-carbon. So the only way to make renewables reliable is to back them up, expensively, with some other power source, responding to fluctuations in demand and supply.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2015

Stacked bars show the change in generation cost combined with the median damages by pollutant assuming the 2010 social cost of carbon given by the Office of Management and Budget ($31 in $2010). Reduction in annual generation cost and external emissions costs due to controlled charging compared to uncontrolled charging ($2010).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2014

The solar battery contains three electrodes: a Li-metal anode, an oxygen electrode made from carbon paper and a photoelectrode. The state of the art is to use a solar panel to capture the light, and then use a cheap battery to store the energy. Professor Wu says it will help tame the costs of renewable energy. —Yu et al.

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Plug In Partners

FEBRUARY 15, 2006

"S ustaining our early twenty-first century global civilization now depends on shifting to a renewable energy-based, reuse/recycle economy with a diversified transport system. automotive fuel economy, the key to greatly reducing oil use and carbon emissions is gas-electric hybrid cars. Hybrids of the future For the U.S.

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