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MARCH 21, 2011

The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, announced an innovative fund totalling at least £70 million (US$114 million) which will finance low carbon waste and recycling infrastructure. The London Green Fund is the first UK fund to combine European, public and private finance to invest in environmental infrastructure.

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MARCH 10, 2022

Early in February, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries announced that they will build the world’s first ship for transporting carbon dioxide solely from carbon-capture facilities. Carbon capture is picking up steam around the world as heavy industries and power plants try to meet emissions-reductions targets.

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JANUARY 20, 2017

Ford is launching a multi-million pound project designed to help improve air quality in London. Teaming up with our London partners, we will also be able to trial software and telematics with enormous potential to reduce emissions and costs in the city. —Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London.

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APRIL 5, 2021

million (US$13 million) in public funding to 22 feasibility studies looking to scale up the industrialization of low-carbon emission vehicle technologies. Baruch Enterprises Ltd – Lithium Ion Battery Assembly and Remanufacturing facility (Li-BAR) – Edmonton, London. Q-Flo Ltd – Enabling EMI Shielding – Doncaster, South Yorkshire.

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AUGUST 6, 2018

million) to three UK-based low carbon automotive powertrain projects. Projects include: Artemis Intelligent Power: in Greater London, non-mobile machinery contributes 10% of all NO x emissions and 11% of all PM 10 emissions. The UK’s Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC) has awarded £35 million (US$45.5 Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2010

The first of a planned fleet of eight hydrogen fuel cell buses in London will start operating on 18 December. The vehicles were specifically designed for Transport for London (TfL) using technology developed by ISE, Wrightbus and Ballard. The buses will form the only hydrogen bus fleet in the UK and the largest currently in Europe.

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JUNE 27, 2022

Due to the lack of a local commercial-scale SAF industry, Australia is currently exporting millions of tonnes of feedstock such as canola and animal tallow every year to be made into SAF in other countries. Projects will have to be commercially viable and meet a strict set of criteria around environmental sustainability.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2014

Woven carbon fiber can act as an electrode for lithium ion batteries. Researchers in Sweden are exploring the use of carbon fiber as an active electrode in a multifunctional structural Li-ion battery in an electric car; i.e., electrical storage is incorporated into the body of the car. Photo: Peter Larsson) Click to enlarge.

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AUGUST 1, 2021

The feedstock for the facility will be waste-based, low-carbon ethanol, procured from a variety of waste sources. In October 2018, the first batch of LanzaTech jet fuel, made by recycling waste industrial gases, was used on a Virgin Atlantic commercial flight from Orlando to London Gatwick.

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JUNE 1, 2017

million (US$141 million) of government funding, alongside significant funding from industry, to help develop the next generation of driverless and low-carbon vehicles, as part of the Industrial Strategy and the government’s Plan for Britain. The UK Government recently awarded £109.7 million (US$21.5

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JANUARY 15, 2022

The Talon team has taken an innovative approach to the discovery, development and production of battery materials, including to permanently store carbon as part of mine operations and the investigation of the novel extraction of battery materials. Talon and Tesla will work together to optimize nickel concentrate grades and metal recoveries.

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OCTOBER 21, 2021

Johnson Matthey (JM), Echion Technologies , (Echion), Britishvolt (BV) and University College London (UCL) are grant recipients in the latest round (Round 4) of the Faraday Battery Challenge in the UK. Echion is a high-growth company spun-out of Cambridge University in 2017 to commercialize niobium oxide-based materials for anodes.

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JUNE 4, 2021

United Airlines announced a commercial agreement with Denver-based aerospace company Boom Supersonic to purchase 15 of Boom’s Overture supersonic airliners, once Overture meets United’s safety, operating and sustainability requirements, with an option for an additional 35 aircraft. Capable of flying at speeds of Mach 1.7—twice

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MAY 20, 2013

MIT scientists demonstrated two approaches for growing CNTs on carbon fiber without degrading the fiber strength. Researchers at MIT have demonstrated two approaches for producing carbon fibers coated in carbon nanotubes without degrading the underlying fiber’s strength. Credit: ACS, Steiner et al. Click to enlarge.

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JULY 12, 2010

Later this week, the UK’s Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership will host the inaugural LowCVP Low Carbon Champion Awards, recognizing best recognize best practice in vehicle manufacturers, fuel suppliers, fleet operators and developers of products and services that reduce greenhouse gases from the road transport sector.

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AUGUST 22, 2019

The proposed plant would take more than 500,000 tonnes each year of non-recyclable everyday household and commercial solid waste destined for landfill or incineration such as meal packaging, diapers and takeaway coffee cups and convert it into more than 60 million liters (15.85

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Ford’s new plug-in hybrid electric (PHEV) Transit Custom van ( earlier post ) made its debut at the Cenex Low Carbon Vehicle 2017 event in Millbrook, UK. The vehicle makes its first appearance as Ford prepares 20 PHEV Transits for the 12-month fleet customer trial in London that begins in late 2017. million (US$6.1-million)

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NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Cynar is a UK company established to commercialize the ThermoFuel technology exclusively licensed to it in the UK and Ireland by its owners, Ozmotech Pty Ltd. The objective of the new agreement is to build 10 UK plants dealing with 60,000 tonnes of mixed plastic waste per year and to commission the first plant in London by end 2011.

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OCTOBER 11, 2011

Virgin Atlantic announced the development of a low-carbon, synthetic jet fuel kerosene produced from industrial waste gases with half the carbon footprint of the standard fossil fuel alternative in partnership with LanzaTech and Swedish Biofuels. lifecycle carbon emissions. global carbon cap and trade scheme.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

The Sierra plant will be the first commercial-scale plant in the US to convert municipal solid waste feedstock, or household garbage that would otherwise be landfilled, into a low-carbon, renewable transportation fuel. The novel reactor system combines an optimized catalyst with a unique fixed-bed tubular reactor geometry.

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APRIL 5, 2022

The companies will work together on developing an initial regional airport project that represents sufficient scale to showcase how hydrogen-electric propulsion systems can deliver zero-emission commercial flights. ZeroAvia’s partnership with ZEV Station is going to be a significant part of that journey.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

Ranges of automotive fuel cell system costs at mass manufactured volume using technology from three UK companies supported by the Carbon Trust. Source: Carbon Trust. It would also reduce global carbon emissions from vehicles by an additional 260 million tonnes per year by 2050—equivalent to the current annual emissions of Taiwan.

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DECEMBER 18, 2019

The 2050 target will require a carbon efficiency improvement of up to 90%, which is incompatible with a continued long-term use of fossil fuels by commercial shipping. The shipping industry’s proposal will be discussed by governments in London at the next meeting of the IMO Marine Environment Protection Committee in March 2020.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2012

The electric vehicles (EVs) will be driven in London and Kent by engineers and technical staff working on connections, maintenance, upgrades and Low Carbon London business. Britain’s largest electricity distributor, UK Power Networks, has bought three new Peugeot iOns to join its fleet.

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OCTOBER 20, 2014

Ford is investing an additional £190 million (US$306 million) at its Dagenham London site to produce a family of all-new advanced 2.0-liter liter diesel engines (code-named Panther ) in a wide range of outputs due to be applied in commercial vehicles starting in 2016 and in cars starting in 2018. The second phase is for low-carbon, 2.0-liter

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JANUARY 7, 2020

Toyota will extend an open invitation to collaborate with other commercial and academic partners and invite interested scientists and researchers from around the world to come work on their own projects in this one-of-a-kind, real-world incubator. —Akio Toyoda, president, Toyota Motor Corporation.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

million) to six projects to further develop the UK’s low carbon vehicle capability. Hybrid Integrated Urban Commercial Vehicle. The Hybrid Integrated Urban Commercial Vehicle (HIUCV) is a lightweight Heavy Goods Vehicle designed for refuse collection in an urban environment. Plug-in Car Grant.

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OCTOBER 27, 2017

The Oil and Gas Climate Initiative ( OGCI ) has made its first three investments , moving forward the organization’s commitments to spur the growth of promising low carbon technologies. A project that aims to design a full scale gas power plant with carbon capture and storage, including industrial CO 2 sequestration capability.

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JULY 8, 2015

million in Carbon Recycling International (CRI). Geely’s CRI investment and work with renewable methanol is similar to the approach Audi is taking with its own e-fuels projects—producing very low carbon liquid or gaseous fuels using only renewable energy, water and CO 2. —Li Shufu, Chairman of Geely Group. Earlier post.).

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JULY 1, 2021

Lithium well-supplied up to 2025: The carbonate and hydroxide should be sufficiently supplied until at least 2025. Lithium prices have climbed 71% for carbonate this year, 91% for hydroxide and 58% for spodumene concentrate. Cobalt price to hold: Cobalt metal prices have risen by 42% year-to-date on the London Metals Exchange.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2014

ADL will focus initially on the introduction of the low emission technology to bus fleets in London and Oxford but anticipates rapid deployment across the UK in the next few years. ADL is now well established as Britain’s leading provider of advanced hybrid systems with almost 800 of our low carbon buses operating across the country.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2013

The partnership will involve the two companies working together to scale-up the production of Nexeon’s silicon anode technology to commercial volumes. Nexeon, a spin-off from Imperial College London and Innovations’ second largest investment to date, is developing silicon materials to replace carbon as the anode of Li-ion batteries.

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JUNE 24, 2009

Eight new low carbon vehicle projects will receive a share of £25 million (US$41 million) of funding from the UK’s Technology Strategy Board Low Carbon Vehicle Demonstrator to run ‘real-life’ trials. Low Carbon doesn’t mean low performance. Modern electric cars offer power and bucket loads of torque. The winning consortia.

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JULY 3, 2012

After a formal evaluation of available technologies performed by Fluor Corporation on behalf of Solena, Oxford Catalysts was selected by Solena as the sole supplier of FT technology for GreenSky London. The leading partner in the project is British Airways, which intends to use the low-carbon fuel to power part of its fleet by 2015.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

As well as helping the airline industry reduce its carbon emissions this initiative will also significantly reduce the amount of waste going to landfill. The planned plant will produce enough fuel to power all British Airways’ 787 Dreamliner operated flights from London to San Jose, California and New Orleans, Louisiana for a whole year.

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JANUARY 20, 2024

The shipping industry has been trying to cut its carbon emissions for years, and with little to show for it. Nearly all of the world’s ship fleet still runs on diesel fuel, with about a quarter of new ships on order being built to run on somewhat lower-carbon alternatives like liquefied natural gas, methanol, or hybrid propulsion.

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JANUARY 22, 2010

This investment is part of our ongoing strategy to put the UK at the forefront of low carbon vehicle technology. The work will help to accelerate the reduction of carbon emissions and deliver mass-market low carbon road vehicles within 5 to 15 years. Other projects include: TSB Low-Carbon Vehicle Technology Awards.

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