Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Battery electric trucks should be the baseline for hydrogen fuel cells electric vehicle (HFCEV) comparisons, rather than any internal combustion engine alternative. Many factors will influence this, including emissions regulations, infrastructure, hydrogen availability and total costs of ownership. Stop comparisons of fill times.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2010

The focus of the project is to demonstrate how a standardized data hub can track the carbon costs of transport at the consignment level. By understanding the true environmental costs involved, users will be able to compare and assess different transport options to make better informed choices.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 3, 2022

Given the nature of wet waste resources that requires dedicated waste management practices to collect, store, treat, and dispose of the waste, shifting the waste resources from going through conventional waste management practices to utilization as feedstocks for energy production may represent an avoided cost of waste management and disposal.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2012

Researchers at the University of Alberta (Canada) have quantified the transformation of the boreal landscape by open-pit oil sands mining in Alberta, Canada to evaluate its effect on carbon storage and sequestration. million metric tons of stored carbon. Converting from units of carbon to CO 2 equivalents, this is between 41.8

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

A paper by a team from the University of Chicago and MIT suggests that technology-driven cost reductions in fossil fuels will lead to the continued use of fossil fuels—oil, gas, and coal—unless governments pass new taxes on carbon emissions. We need both a policy like a carbon tax and to put more R&D money into renewables.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2021

The California Energy Commission (CEC), California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) and California Air Resources Board (CARB) released the first joint agency report and a summary document examining how the state’s electricity system can become carbon-free by 2045. California’s electricity mix is already more than 60% carbon-free.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2019

A new study analyzing data from the 29 states and District of Columbia with mandatory RPS policies finds that the policies come at a high cost to consumers and are inefficient in reducing carbon emissions. The paper estimates that this increased renewable generation reduced the carbon intensity (i.e., —Michael Greenstone.

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Green Car Congress

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. Cost savings can be achieved by reducing material costs (notably platinum use), increasing power density, reducing system complexity and improving durability.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

The NPMC-based FCgen-1040 stack represents a step-change in PEM fuel cell technology with high performance at a reduced cost. Since platinum contributes 10-to-15% of the cost of a fuel cell stack today, we are very excited about the potential cost savings NPMC technology can enable moving forward. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

In a joint publication, WFS and AVL conclude that the combined high efficiency and lower system costs relative to FCEVs make H 2 -HPDI the most capital efficient means to use hydrogen and lower CO 2 emissions near-term and that it has the potential to remain competitive with fully industrialized FCEV in the future. Source: Westport/AVL.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2012

Cost reduction potential of a polymer fuel cell system using an ITM Power membrane. Source: Carbon Trust. DOE says that 2011 costs are $49/kW. Click to enlarge. Source: US DOE. Click to enlarge.

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Plug N Drive

JANUARY 14, 2021

By moving away from provincial and national averages, “Find Your EV Match” personalizes the EV buying process by providing total cost of ownership information, alongside greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction insights, that are based on regional electricity pricing, gasoline pricing and electricity generation.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2022

Comparison of turbocharging systems. Due to its chemical composition, neither hydrocarbons nor carbon monoxide are released during hydrogen combustion, and nor do particulates play a role. The cost of a hydrogen powertrain in series production could be comparable to that of a gasoline engine. —Vincenzo Bevilacqua.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2017

Stuart Licht ( earlier post ) have developed a new process that transforms CO 2 into a controlled selection of nanotubes (CNTs) via molten electrolysis; they call the process C2CNT (CO2 into carbon nanotubes). This synthesis consumes only CO 2 and electricity, and is constrained only by the cost of electricity. —Ren et al.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2017

In a paper in the Journal ChemSusChem they report that using a novel gel polymer electrolyte (GPE) enables stable performance close to the theoretical capacity (1675 mAh g -1 ) of a low cost sulfur-carbon composite with high active material loading, i.e. 70% S. Agostini et al. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2016

The MOF-based device shows an areal capacitance that exceeds those of most carbon-based materials and capacity retention greater than 90% over 10,000 cycles, in line with commercial devices. One class of materials that far surpasses even the porosity of activated carbons is metal–organic frameworks (MOFs). —Sheberla et al.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2015

This year has brought a significant shift in the generating cost comparison between renewable energy and fossil fuels, according to detailed analysis by technology and region, published this week by Bloomberg New Energy Finance. —Seb Henbest, head of Europe, Middle East and Africa at BNEF.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2013

Researchers at Wakayama University in Japan have produced a mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide gas by irradiating a mixture of carbon powder and distilled water with intense nanosecond laser pulses at room temperature. The carbon or charcoal powders were dispersed in distilled water at a ratio of 25.8 —Akimoto et al.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2013

GWP is a relative measure of how much heat a greenhouse gas traps in the atmosphere, with carbon dioxide setting the comparison with a GWP of 1. Comparison of Greenhouse Impact: HFO-1234yf vs. HFC-134a vs. CO 2. Earlier post.) HFO-1234yf’s GWP is 99.9% lower than that of HFC-134a, the current refrigerant in use (GWP = 1,300).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) has selected eight projects to receive almost $25 million in funding to construct small- and large-scale pilots for reducing the cost of CO 2 capture and compression through DOE’s Carbon Capture Program. FuelCell Energy Inc. Source: FuelCell Energy.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2011

A) Mixing of high–surface area carbon with aniline oligomers and transition-metal precursor (M: Fe and/or Co). (B) Their approach uses polyaniline (PANI) as a precursor to a carbon-nitrogen template for high-temperature synthesis of catalysts incorporating iron and cobalt. mgPt cm -2 ) is shown for comparison (dashed line).

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Cars That Think

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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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2012

Sample consumer and societal break-even curves for BEVs, with data points for a compact diesel for comparison. One reason is the belief that the shift to a low-carbon transport is inevitable but that an early (and assisted) shift to electro-mobility will reduce the overall burden on society. Click to enlarge. counterparts.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2013

Researchers at the University of Wyoming Carbon Management Institute (CMI) discovered a major new lithium resource near Rock Springs during a geological carbon dioxide storage site characterization project sponsored by the US Department of Energy. By comparison, the lithium reserves at Silver Peak, Nev.—the

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2016

DOE’s Office of Fossil Energy is seeking these projects as part of the Department’s Carbon Storage program, which has the goal of developing and advancing technologies to improve the effectiveness of carbon storage, reduce the cost of implementation, and be ready for widespread commercial deployment in the 2025–2035 timeframe.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2012

Analysts focused on seven criteria to evaluate the role of natural gas in the US energy supply chain: resource base, growth, environmental profile, cost profile, barriers, implementation risks, and expert opinion from stakeholders in academia, government, and private industry. per megawatt-hour.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2017

One of the most significant impediments to an increased market share for plug-in vehicles is the high cost of rechargeable energy storage. This can represent a very significant cost element of a typical battery electric vehicle (BEV); manufacturers need to strike a balance between product affordability and available range between recharges.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

At this stage, cost estimates are uncertain, since methane cracking is not yet a fully mature technology. However, preliminary calculations show that it could achieve costs of €1.9 The main by-product of methane cracking—solid black carbon—is also an increasingly important industrial commodity.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2009

These synthetic fuels are economically competitive with petro-diesel when the crude oil price (COP) is at or above $86 per barrel (based on a 20% rate of return, in January 2008 dollars, with a carbon price of zero). Tarka et al. 2009) Click to enlarge. Diesel produced in a biomass only—i.e. Tarka et al.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

One way to lower the cost of solar power is to dramatically reduce the thickness of light-absorbing layers in solar cells. Hybrid Materials for Reversible Capture of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide. The project goal is to develop a low-cost technique for capturing atmospheric carbon dioxide using organic-inorganic hybrid materials.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2012

million) demonstration program to encourage road haulage operators in the UK to buy and use lower carbon commercial vehicles. More than 300 low-carbon commercial vehicles will be involved in the demonstration program. More than 300 low-carbon commercial vehicles will be involved in the demonstration program.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2023

The Joint Battery Research Center began to take shape in November 2021, when the Group and Seoul National University signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the establishment of a joint battery research center and mid- to long-term joint research based on the consensus on realizing carbon-neutrality and creating a battery research ecosystem.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Researchers from SRI International (SRI) are developing a methane-and-coal-to-liquids process that consumes negligible amounts of water and does not generate carbon dioxide. Lifecycle GHG comparison. The cost per gallon for the SRI fuel is higher than F-T fuel, however: a calculated $2.81 Production cost of JP8 less than $3.00/gallon.

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Teslarati

MAY 26, 2021

Falcon fairings are vast nosecone-like structures built mainly out of carbon fiber and aluminum honeycomb composites and designed to maintain a sterile, controlled environment for satellites and protect them from the elements, heating, and aerodynamic stress while inside Earth’s atmosphere.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2010

The second proposed label retains the current label’s focus on miles per gallon (MPG) and annual fuel costs, while updating the overall design and adding the required new comparison information on fuel economy and emissions. Fuel Cost: Estimated annual costs of fueling the vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2014

The data for 10 nm Sn (tin) NCs are shown for comparison. One molar LiPF6 in ethylene carbonate/dimethyl carbonate mixture containing 3 wt % of FEC was used as electrolyte for Li-ion cells, whereas 1 M NaClO 4 in propylene carbonate containing 10 wt % of FEC was used for Na-ion batteries. 20C (1C = 0.66 V potential range.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2013

Per unit of delivered energy, however, the US electric grid is on average about twice as carbon intensive as gasoline. 2012) also identified the challenges of achieving large GHG reductions with BEVs in comparison to improved efficiency gasoline vehicles. A parametric analysis by Barter et al. A parametric analysis by Barter et al.

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