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 per gallon.

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MARCH 22, 2019

Although the researchers produced the biofuel at a laboratory scale in this study, Li and his team believe the process' cheap, abundant cellulose feedstock, fewer production steps, and lower energy cost and consumption mean it will soon be ready for commercial use.

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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

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

AUGUST 3, 2012

A new LUX Research report suggests that harvesting technologies could cut the costs of biomass for feedstock for renewable fuels and chemicals by $25 per ton. Enzymatic hydrolysis is being commercialized at new facilities like GraalBio’s plant in Brazil, using the latest. —Mark Bünger, Research Director and the lead author.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 12, 2023

The bathtub is cheap for us, so when it comes to how much we can store, we can increase that capacity quite cheaply,” says Michael Simpson , the cofounder of Cheesecake Energy. Maplewell Energy , a Colorado-based company which makes software that automates these decisions, hopes to make that easy for commercial customers.

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OCTOBER 29, 2013

Demand for hydrogen closely tracks the deployment of the vehicles, which is tied to automakers’ commercialization and roll-out plans. At the same time, the increasing availability of distributed electrolysis, low off-peak electricity prices, and cheap natural gas are improving the economics of the hydrogen market.

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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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Driivz

AUGUST 30, 2023

Installing and operating EV charging stations offers businesses and owners of commercial and industrial buildings a winning proposition. Renewable energy can also be under-utilized when the wind is blowing and the sun is shining, but demand is lower than supply. Onsite renewables and storage.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2014

Electrofuels developers are likely to idle their water electrolysis research and development (R&D) and seek commercialization partners with alternative hydrogen sources, Lux suggests. ARPA-E has already made transitions to focus funding on gas-to-liquids (GTL) technologies amidst cheap natural gas prices in the US in recent years.

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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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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Outside of California, the device has been approved for use by commercial fleet vehicles in Michigan, Arizona, and Texas, and 10 additional U.S. per month for 48 months; a hard-wired version for commercial vehicles sells for $24.95 states are considering authorization. See updated pricing above. –Ed.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 15, 2022

As the pressure to decarbonize electricity grids mounts, so does the need to have long-term storage options for power generated from renewables. The PNNL team are trying to target a 2030 to 2035 timeframe for commercial application, particularly for use in systems that are deployed and operational.

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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). a commercial manufacturer of electrolyzers, to test Ni 5 P 4 as an appropriate HER catalyst.

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EV Match

JANUARY 13, 2023

In this follow-up to our article covering commercial incentives from last month, we’ll explore some of the rebates that can help you bring EV charging home on the cheap. While it was set to expire at the end of 2021, the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) of 2022 renewed it for ten years. Hawaii Power.

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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. Fortunately, abundant renewable power is getting cheaper, while gasoline from finite fossil fuels may get more expensive.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

The concept behind V2G had gained traction in the late 1990s after California’s landmark zero-emission-vehicle (ZEV) mandate went into effect and compelled automakers to commercialize electric cars. Over time, however, the research focus in bidirectional EV applications shifted from the grid to homes and commercial buildings.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2013

They note that freshwater is cheap but in very limited supply in many areas. The work was funded by the DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. An additional issue not considered in this study is the disposal costs for saline concentrates which also increase with blowdown. —Venteris et al. —Venteris et al.

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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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OCTOBER 12, 2021

Versus cars, the value proposition for fuel cell trucks and buses is stronger, and IDTechEx does not expect fuel cell cars to be a commercial success comparative to battery-electric ones. Relatively small fleets of heavy-duty FCEV could provide sufficient hydrogen demand to viably operate an HRS. Source: IDTechEx.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Cyclonatix, Inc is developing an industrial-sized motor/controller to operate with either DC or AC power sources, for applications in electric vehicles, solar-powered pumps, HVAC&R, gas compressors, and other commercial and industrial machines which require high efficiency, variable speed/torque, and low cost. by at least 10 times.

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OCTOBER 3, 2014

However, there are a number of formidable challenges facing their commercialization. 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. Earlier post.). Their hybrid design uses only three.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2010

ion batteries provide a pathway for efficient use of renewable-sourced electricity in the transportation sector, but it is possible that fundamental physical limitations may prevent pure Li-ion-based BEVs from ever delivering the freedom of providing long trips, with intermittent quick refills, that consumers currently receive from their cars.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2009

Electricity is a cheap entity—not a commodity, but is its fundamentally very cheap. maintain a system as well as maintain and recover and investment on it that is fundamentally very cheap. Actions and communications strategies we choose can significantly improve chance of successful commercialization.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2010

And oil only seems cheap. That means we’ll be powering some miles with increasingly renewable electricity that isn't made from imported oil. But let’s realize: defending our nation is never cheap. We can’t continue ever-riskier experiments to get oil from remote locations. Its impacts are increasingly unaffordable.

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My Electric Car

AUGUST 21, 2020

Little seems developed in any wide commercial sense and certainly not to the extent of the pure electric car. If taken from such sources, hydrogen is a fossil fuel, and is not a renewable resource. Hence its supply would not be cheap, renewable nor sustainable in the long term.

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EV Central

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

LDV has announced the prices of its trio of new electric models – and they’re not cheap. . We’re in this lucky situation where we can offer commercial EVs to begin the transition.”. All those prices are before on-road costs. Our core business is our T60s and Deliver 9s and G10s and D90s.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

The process uses cheap and earth-abundant catalytic materials. Although the efficiency of the current demonstration system is not commercially viable, they team noted, it is also far from optimized and it opens a promising new path by which such solar processes might be realized.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2018

It typically takes a decade or two to get a material from discovery to commercial use. In the metallic glass study, the research team investigated thousands of alloys that each contain three cheap, nontoxic metals. —Ren et al. This is a big step in trying to squeeze that time down. Resources.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

And by the early 1980s renewed enthusiasm brought a heyday for researchers in symbolic AI, who received acclaim and funding for " expert systems " that encoded the knowledge of a particular discipline, such as law or medicine. Investors hoped these systems would quickly find commercial applications.

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JUNE 20, 2023

For instance, a recent National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) quarterly EV charging infrastructure trend report has identified only 1,246 EV charging ports at private multifamily residences across the entire United States, with nearly all being Level 2 chargers. One EV charger maker, Atom Power located in Charlotte, N.C., and SK Energy.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The Metals Company (previously DeepGreen Metals) in Vancouver expects to be the first to commercially produce metals from these nodules by 2024. Texas is top of The Metals Company's list for the processing plant given the state's ports and access to cheap renewables. "We

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Review of Forestry Carbon Standards 2008 Ford Partners to Commercialize Electric Vehicles A New "Green" Deal.Direction for the economic re. Renewables That Even Coal-Based Utilities Can Love. Individuals and businesses lose months and connect fees when they add solar and other forms of renewable energy to the grid.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Millions will plug-in their electric vehicles [EV], plug-in hybrids [PHEV] and fuel cell vehicles [FCV] at night when electricity is cheap, then plug-in during the day when energy is expensive and sell those extra electrons at a profit. The current electrical grid is poorly designed for distributed generation of power.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The long-term goal is to boost the percentage of plug-in electric cars to 10 percent in the country while maximizing the use of wind energy in Denmark, which already gets 20 percent of its electricity from renewable sources like wind. Create cheap clean energy, new badly needed green jobs, and reduce our dependence on foreign oil.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2009

This article discusses: (a) why the focus should have been on the transfer of proven renewable energy technology from developed to developing countries; and (b) how this technology transfer can be financed with currently available funds. What cannot be argued is the fact that fossil fuels are non-renewable.

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EV Sales

MARCH 22, 2021

If you want to drown in EV numbers and analyses from around the globe, do subscribe to Jose’s new commercial endeavor EV Volumes (and no, I’m not getting a cut). And these EVs are powered mostly by renewable energy. This year, though, I used his input into the EU-sanctioned eafo.eu

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