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JULY 5, 2016

Whereas fuel cost used to be a major driver for fleet managers, the lowering of oil prices and the availability of low-cost natural gas has reduced this concern, Navigant notes. Medium- and heavy-trucks represent 4.3% of vehicles in the US, drive 9.3% —“ Medium and Heavy Duty Vehicle Technologies ”.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2016

A new study by consultancy Roland Berger defines an integrated roadmap for European road transport decarbonization to 2030 and beyond; the current regulatory framework for vehicle emissions, carbon intensity of fuels and use of renewable fuels covers only up to 2020/2021. BEVs fueled with low carbon, renewable electricity (for PC).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2009

The Research Council is the principal operating agency of the US National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering. In the PHEV-40, the electric motor provides all the propulsion; the gasoline engine drives a generator that powers the motor and keeps the batteries charged above some minimum level.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2011

Driven by a number of growing concerns including the increasingly worrying geopolitics of oil, governments and industry are investing heavily to accelerate the development of low carbon technologies that aim to reduce, replace or obviate the use of fossil fuels in the energy mix.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2011

of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions in the US. Electrification will reduce emissions, with the scale determined by the carbon intensity of the power sector. Electrification will also reduce oil dependence, providing foreign policy benefits and the potential to reduce real oil prices and oil price volatility.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Even with CCS, the liquid product costs are comparable to recent crude oil prices. For a liquids-only configuration, CCS is a cheaper option when the CO 2 price exceeds $12/tonne. Conventional CTL plant gasifies coal to produce a syngas which is then converted in a Fischer-Tropsch reactor to products.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

Australia’s Syngas Limited has engaged Rentech to provide Fischer-Tropsch fuels production preliminary engineering services for Syngas’ proposed commercial scale coal and biomass to liquids (CBTL) fuels facility in Southern Australia, known as the Clinton Project. Overview of CBTL process. Source: Syngas. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2009

Projected growth in world carbon dioxide emissions. World carbon dioxide emissions are projected to rise from 29.0 World oil prices have fallen sharply from their July 2008 high mark. As the world’s economies recover, higher world oil prices are assumed to return and to persist through 2030. Source: IEO2009.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2011

At the same time, oil—and gas—import dependency in the US is likely to fall to levels not seen since the 1990s, because of improved fuel efficiency and the increased share of biofuels. Global consumption growth is also impacted by higher oil prices in recent years and a gradual reduction of subsidies in oil-importing countries.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2016

In an open-access paper published in Nature Communications , the researchers report on their engineering of the bacterium Clostridium ljungdahlii to produce acetone with a mass yield 138% of the previous theoretical maximum using a high cell density continuous fermentation process. In this study, researchers tested how C.

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JANUARY 29, 2014

While renewable energy, particularly solar and wind, may have some potential to mitigate carbon emissions, this is not seen as a viable large-scale alternative for commercial shipping. LNG engines currently being produced cover a broad range of power outputs. Engine concepts include gas-only engines; dual fuel 4-stroke; and 2-stoke.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2010

Genencor developed a fermentation route to BioIsoprene using an engineered organism in an integrated bioprocess whereby the volatile product is continuously recovered from the gas-phase. As reported at the ACE meeting, the work has enabled the production of the equivalent of more than 60 g/L of BioIsoprene monomer in the fermentation volume.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2011

Assumes there are only Internal Combustion Engines (ICEs) and Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEVs) available, with no Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs) or pure Electric Vehicles (EVs). The analysis is based on central forecasts of oil price, electricity. However, as EV and PHEV prices gradually reach. Scenario 1.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2009

The expected influx of large amounts of alcohol-based fuels and fuels derived from unconventional petroleum over the next decade may cause long-term world oil prices to be between 5 and 12% lower than they would be in the absence of those fuels. Adverse effects of ULS jet fuel would include higher fuel prices (by about $0.05

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Furthermore, DOE will only support technologies that emit less carbon than incumbents—in keeping with our national energy goals. There is significant headroom for DOE to work on increasing conventional vehicle efficiency by improving the internal combustion engine, by lightweighting, and by improving the aerodynamics of heavy-duty vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

In a report comparing advances in combustion engines, biofuels, electrification and other technologies, Accenture warns that the commercial viability of those disruptive technologies will be delayed unless regulators more proactively support the transformation of science into applied technologies. Next-generation agriculture.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2011

Also, the biobased BDO pathway consumes carbon dioxide (CO 2 ), resulting in a reduction of 70% in CO 2 emissions. Genomatica expects Bio-BDO to be competitive at oil prices of $45 per barrel or at natural gas prices of $3.50 Fermentation requires no organic solvent, and the water used is recycled. per million Btu.

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DECEMBER 16, 2013

annual increase in fuel economy from 2012 to 2040 as a result of GHG emission and fuel efficiency standards for medium- and heavy-duty vehicles and engines. Natural gas prices significantly increase the demand for LNG and compressed natural gas in AEO2014 , from an insignificant share in 2012 to 8% of HDV energy consumption in 2040.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2012

The National Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) Project has released two major reports that synthesize its findings from the past several years of work: a Technical Analysis Report (TAR) and Policy Design Recommendations. We have done so in a companion report, National Low Carbon Fuel Standard: Technical Analysis Report (TAR).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Such land conversion may disrupt any future potential for storing carbon in biomass and soil. The National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, and National Research Council make up the National Academies. Economic effects.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2009

Professor Lynd, from Dartmouth College’s Thayer School of Engineering, and a co-founder of Mascoma Corp., The emissions analysis does not account for carbon sinks (e.g., soil carbon sequestration) or sources (e.g., Achieve production costs consistent with gasoline when oil prices are at about $30 a barrel.

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JUNE 16, 2009

As one example of factors contributing to that decision, a survey of projected oil prices returned values between $30 and $250 a barrel, he said.). This targets the approximate 80% reduction from 1990 and will be electric drive and ultra-low carbon fueled vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

However, consumer demand for PEVs is quite uncertain and, barring another global spike in oil prices, may be limited to a minor percentage of new vehicle purchasers (e.g., As long as electricity production depends heavily on high-carbon energy sources, the net effect of PEVs on greenhouse gases will be limited and will vary by region.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2015

Investing in alternative fuels is not only good for the environment, it’s a smart move for our company as biofuels have the potential to hedge against future oil price volatility and carbon regulations. —United Executive Vice President and General Counsel Brett Hart.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 13, 2009

Generally, any alternative energy form that can help reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and limit our reliance on fossil fuels is well-received. Biofuels are generally accepted to improve net carbon output, even when local air pollution from the production of biodiesel is taken into account. So do biofuels have a role to play?

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Green Cars News

APRIL 27, 2009

Furthermore, LBM has the lowest carbon intensity of all commercially available alternative fuels – with one tonne of LBM equivalent to 1,200 litres of diesel, which is sufficient to fuel a 44 tonne heavy goods vehicle for an entire week.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 18, 2010

All reference car configurations except the diesel use gasoline engines, because the. purchase cost of gasoline engines is some €1500 lower than of diesel engines. that gasoline engine-generators in SHEVs and PHEVs have the same efficiency relative to diesel. and cheaper engines and battery packs. The team assumed.

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MAY 30, 2021

Though steam was doing well powering the trains and factories incorporating a steam engine into a personal car was not a practical and efficient way and soon became obsolete mainly due to the long starting time and the need to fill water in a short span with other numerous other inconvenience. The Great Fall. during the early 1900s.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

Alternative technologies, such as hybrid and electric vehicles that use oil more efficiently or not at all, continue to advance but they take time to penetrate markets. Without a bold change of policy direction, the IEA warned at the launch, the world will lock itself into an insecure, inefficient and high-carbon energy system.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2011

Using catalysts and heat, hydroprocessing removes oxygen, adds hydrogen and rearranges carbon molecules to create a drop-in petroleum substitute that requires no engine modifications in a 50% blend. Natural bio-oils have carbon chain lengths that are in the diesel range, 16-18 carbon atoms in the hydrocarbon.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2011

Ethylene, with a $160-billion market, is a valuable commodity two-carbon chemical that can be oligomerized into transportation fuels. But once you are at a two-carbon molecule with a double bond, you can go anywhere in the chemical industry. The company aims to achieve the catalyst performance required for commercialization in 2011.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Cleantech Blog Cleantechblog.com, the premier cleantech site for commentary on news and technology relating to clean tech, greentech, energy, climate change and carbon, and the environment. Cleantech Crunched Top 10 Low Carbon Footprint Cars (and one SUV) for. Tree Planting as Carbon Offsets – Does Latitude Ma. Email Neal.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

BYD’s engineering prowess. Depending on whether or not you count trainees, BYD employs between 10,000 and 17,000 engineers and it’s constantly recruiting the best graduates from China’s engineering and technical schools. Here are three reasons why I think BYD will become an important company in the not too distant future.

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JANUARY 4, 2021

Silent engines, positive impact on the environment, and decreased fuel costs are all reasons for this transition to EVs. Furthermore, a BCG report from earlier this year even predicted EV sales to overtake internal combustion engine (ICE) car sales by 2030.

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