Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Fuel Cell Technologies Office’ (FCTO) 2014 Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Program Annual Progress Report ( earlier post )—an annual summary of results from projects funded by DOE’s Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Program—described progress in the field of hydrogen production. Source: DOE.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2021

To increase the share of hydrogen in the final energy demand to enlarge the low-carbon energy sources share in the global energy mix and promote the environmental sustainability. The goal is to create a unique concept that can be standardized and implemented worldwide, allowing for large-scale hydrogen production.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2023

MAN Energy Solutions’ methanol engines are a proven concept that combine well with methanol’s unique selling points as a fuel that include its easy storage, simple auxiliary systems, and not to forget that green methanol is entirely carbon-neutral. —Thomas S.

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Engine Fuel Mariner South America 365

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists have identified a suite of technologies to help California to become carbon-neutral—and ultimately carbon-negative —by 2045. The key finding of this report is that carbon neutrality is achievable. —“Getting to Neutral”.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2021

The urgent need for introducing renewable energy into the mobility sector and the low energy density of state-of-the-art batteries call for alternative solutions to meet climate targets. Chemical energy carriers produced from renewable electricity—so called e-fuels—may contribute substantially to such a solution.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2023

ITOCHU is one of several strategic investors in privately held Raven SR, and the two companies maintain a strong partnership, including plans for commercial production and sales of renewable fuels worldwide. Unlike other hydrogen production technologies, its Steam/CO 2 Reformation does not require fresh water as a feedstock.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Green hydrogen is no longer the future, it is a reality. The implementation of hydrogen trains, such as the one Talgo is developing, will improve mobility and have a positive impact on the environment by replacing diesel technology. —Emilio Garcia, Talgo Innovation Director.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Carbon transformation company Twelve (formerly Opus 12, earlier post ) has produced the first fossil-free jet fuel—called E-Jet—from CO 2 electrolysis, demonstrating a scalable, energy-efficient path to the de-fossilization of global aviation. Global aviation produces 1.2 —Twelve Co-Founder and CEO Nicholas Flanders.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2021

The consortium aims to pave the way for a new and competitive hydrogen industry based on European know-how through innovation by developing, building, operating and demonstrating the sustainability of a 100 MW high-pressure alkaline electrolyzer.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2015

A new study by Energy Environmental Economics (E3) consulting suggests that low-carbon gas fuels are a viable option for meeting California’s greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction goals and can simultaneously help achieve pollution emission reduction targets. —Rodger Schwecke, vice president of customer solutions for SoCalGas.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2022

Methanol is a widely available fuel that is carbon-neutral when produced from renewable sources and is easier to handle than many other alternative fuels. Wärtsilä will develop an ammonia-fueled engine concept by 2023, and a hydrogen concept by 2025. © Wärtsilä Corporation. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2021

Researchers from Oregon State University College of Engineering, with colleagues from Cornell University and the Argonne National Laboratory, have used advanced experimental tools to provide a clearer understanding of an electrochemical catalytic process that’s cleaner and more sustainable than deriving hydrogen from natural gas.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2023

By Jake Stones, hydrogen editor at ICIS ICIS data shows that renewable hydrogen could be sold for below €1/kg if a producer obtains the maximum support provided by the European Hydrogen Bank , according to the heads of terms for the bank published by the European Commission on 31 March. 1/kg hydrogen.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2019

Carbon Recycling International has been awarded a €1.8-million The grant will allow CRI to accelerate efforts to commercialize large scale production plants, expanding the market for ETL technology and use of renewable methanol in Europe. million (US$2.0-million) CRI’s ETL technology consist of five process modules.

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EV Info

AUGUST 13, 2021

A GOVERNMENT-BACKED push to heat millions of homes using hydrogen boilers risks increasing carbon emissions and speeding up global warming, a new academic paper suggests, in a blow for Boris Johnson’s green agenda. After being contacted about the concerns in a paper entitled How green is blue hydrogen?

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Green Car Congress

MAY 22, 2014

Staff estimated the carbon intensities (CIs) for biomethane produced under two alternative scenarios; under the first scenario, the CI of biomethane is 10.86 In this model, the majority of the biogas is allocated to the production of renewable power using a device such as a gas-fired turbine with an exhaust heat recovery system.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2021

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced two funding opportunities totaling more than $162 million to improve efficiency and reduce carbon emissions among cars, trucks, and off-road vehicles. SuperTruck 3 Funding Opportunity. The follow-up SuperTruck 2 in 2016 sought to double fuel efficiency for Class 8 trucks ( earlier post ).

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Vehicles Peterbilt Gas-Electric Hydrogen 186

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2015

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $35 million in available funding to advance hydrogen and fuel cell technologies ( earlier post ) to support research and development, early market deployments, and domestic manufacturing. AOI 1 Topic 1: Hydrogen Production R&D: Advanced High‐Temperature Water Splitting.

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Hydrogen Fuel Climate Production 150

Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2015

In the proposed regulation, first- and next-generation fuels are referred to as “Tier 1,” and “Tier 2” fuels, respectively. Tier 1 refers to conventionally produced first-generation fuels (e.g., starch- and sugar-based ethanol, biodiesel, renewable diesel, compressed natural gas, liquefied natural gas).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2014

That solar fuels offer the promise of solar energy storage—a key challenge in a world predominantly relying on renewables. That the costs of carbon capture can be offset by producing valuable fuels or chemical products from CO 2. R indicates reference alternatives not explicitly modeled in this study. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2011

Starting in 2013, Audi will begin series production of TCNG models whose engines—derived from TFSI units—will be powered by e-gas: synthetic methane produced via the methanation of hydrogen produced by electrolysis using renewable electricity. achieving a neutral CO 2 balance across the entire mobility chain.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2016

The WTG CO 2 emissions vary from 180% (nearly twice) to a reduction of 75% compared to that of the business as usual scenario without carbon sequestration. With the cost of carbon emissions being appropriately included, this electricity to synthetic fuel pathway will be even more economically competitive.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2013

Project Volt Gas Volt is based on a long-term financing plan and the use of existing technologies for the large-scale conversion of surplus renewable electricity to methane, with subsequent reuse. Project VGV uses surplus electricity generated by renewable and nuclear sources to produce hydrogen via electrolysis. Earlier post.).

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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

JULY 31, 2017

An international research team led by scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore have developed a light-activated material that can chemically convert carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide without generating unwanted byproducts.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2015

Life Cycle Associates has developed the T1E tool to help with California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) calculations. T1E is an emulator of the Tier 1 CA_GREET2 model which helps biofuel producers provide a verification of carbon intensity (CI) calculations. T1E provides the CI for an individual facility in a reduced file size.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

Infrastructure considerations for charging and fueling, particularly as they affect future demand for electric and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. The reference scenario assumes continued strengthening of fuel efficiency standards for LDVs, as well as expanded use of renewables for power generation.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2016

EU legislation currently refers to low-emission vehicles as vehicles having tailpipe emissions below 50 g/km. This would include some plug-in hybrids, full electric cars and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. The Commission will accelerate work to curb carbon dioxide emissions from trucks, buses and coaches. Trucks, coaches and buses.

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Emissions Alternative Fuels Transportation Standards 150

Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2014

A specific objective is to have the outcome accepted as a reference by all relevant stakeholders, including industry, academia and government. They also note that large-scale production of synthetic fuels or hydrogen from coal or gas offers the potential for GHG emissions reduction—but only if CO 2 can be captured and stored.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

Researchers at the University of Toronto have developed a catalyst comprising of black silicon nanowire supported ruthenium ( Ru/SiNW) for the photochemical and thermochemical reduction of gaseous CO 2 to methane (methanation) in the presence of hydrogen under solar-simulated light. 1 under 14.5

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2009

At its meeting on Thursday, the California Air Resources Board adopted a regulation that will implement Governor Schwarzenegger’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard ( earlier post ) calling for at least a 10% reduction from 2006 levels in the carbon intensity (measured in gCO 2 e/MJ) of California’s transportation fuels by 2020.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2015

The PFL 799 technical executive expert panel at this year’s world Congress, chaired by Jesse Schneider (from BMW), invited those automakers as well as infrastructure leaders to discuss their progress in fuel cell technology and hydrogen infrastructure and challenges remaining. This is planned to increase in the future.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2009

Penetration rates for the PHEV-10 and the PHEV-40 were compared to a Reference Case that assumes high oil prices and fuel economy standards specified by EISA 2007 (with modest increases after 2020, when those standards level off), as described in the 2008 Hydrogen Report from NRC. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2014

AQDSH 2 refers to the reduced form of AQDS. 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. Cell schematic. Discharge mode is shown; the arrows are reversed for electrolytic/charge mode.

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Plug In India

MARCH 15, 2023

Using low-carbon fuels or biofuels as the source of heat energy to process lithium and manufacture li-ion batteries would cut carbon emissions by half as per world banks study. [4] tons of GHG each year assuming 50% energy generation from renewable energy [3,6]. References Diamond Mine shown as Lithium Mines!

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 27, 2016

This motivates the development of sustainable processes to generate fuels and chemical feedstocks from water and CO 2 using solar energy; such a process is analogous to photosynthesis in nature and is sometimes referred to as artificial photosynthesis. —Montoya et al. Even the best OER catalysts have overpotentials of 0.3

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

The Open FOA is expected to support transformational and disruptive high-impact energy R&D projects related to renewable power, bioenergy, transportation, conventional generation, the electrical grid, and building efficiency, among other technology areas. Conventional Generation (Non-Renewable). Earlier post.) Electrofuels.

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