Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2012

Thus, economically viable biodiesel conversion technology must be developed and implemented.Although these catalysts [for transesterification] are relatively cheap, they are very sensitive to FFAs and the water content in oils, since the side reactions of saponification and hydrolysis, respectively, can occur.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The process uses relatively little energy and a relatively cheap material—iron sulfide with a trace amount of molybdenum as an additive. The team first used chemical looping on coal and shale gas to convert fossil fuels into electricity without emitting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2019

Vehicle exhaust gas catalysts comprising platinum-group metals are used in three-way catalytic converters of gasoline-powered vehicles to convert harmful pollutants in the vehicle’s exhaust stream into less harmful varieties.

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Electrek

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Electric powersports toys aren’t cheap. E-motorcycles can cost several thousand dollars more than their gas-powered ancestors, and electric snowmobiles aren’t cheap either. The post Canadian company launches electric motorcycle that converts into a snowmobile appeared first on Electrek.

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Electric Cars are for Girls

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

What would it take to convert a Saturn SC2 to electric? The information on web sites is all over the place. Some want $5,000.00 for a kit while another

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2019

Scientists in China have developed a process for converting cellulose from plant waste from agriculture and timber harvesting into high-density aviation fuel: a polycycloalkane mixture. Li and his team found that cellulose can be selectively converted to. —Ning Li. 2,5-hexanedione using hydrogenolysis.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2019

A traditional solar panel converts between 18 to 20% of the solar energy into electricity. m² that converts 15% of the sunlight straight into hydrogen gas. The hydrogen gas produced in the summer will be stored and converted into electricity and heat in the winter. —Johan Martens.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

British firm Swindon Powertrain has developed an electric conversion kit for the classic Mini. Available to order now and scheduled to ship in December, the kit includes one of Swindon's own electric motors (with peak output of 160 horsepower), mounted to a Mini front subframe with purpose-designed brackets.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

It’s a cheap and practical starting point that can be produced from raw biomass with high yield, Mascal said. Because the process does not rely on fermentation, the cellulose does not have to be converted to sugars first. Coauthors on the paper are postdoctoral researchers Saikat Dutta and Inaki Gandarias.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 27, 2013

is developing the Thermo Acoustic Power Stick (TAPS)—a micro-combined heat and power (µ-CHP) system for home use that converts gas into electricity and provides for domestic water and space heating. While the analysis and design of such systems can be complex, the result can be potentially cheap to manufacture.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

The UW team is the first to try converting the entire young tree—leaves, bark and stems—into bio oil and ethanol using two separate processes. Our research proved that poplar coppice can be a good option to meet the cheap, high-volume criteria of biofuel feedstock.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

Meanwhile, component Li 2 O in LiCoO 2 could be reduced to lithium metal vapor or converted into volatile lithium halides (LiF and LiCl) and subsequently be recovered in the flue dust. —Hu et al. Results from the laboratory-scale smelting reduction (carried out at 1550 ?C

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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Illustration of a novel room-temperature process to remove CO 2 by converting the molecule into CO. In the presence of the graphite, aided by the energy derived from the plasmons, carbon dioxide molecules (black dot bonded to two red dots) are converted to carbon monoxide (black dot bonded to one red dot. Credit: NIST.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2009

In particular, one of the projects will explore the idea of using cheap and widely available magnesium oxide-based mineral silicates to trap carbon dioxide from industry flue gases via a process known as dry mineral carbonation. The by-products of this can be used as construction or landfill materials.

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Electric Cars are for Girls

OCTOBER 14, 2010

The motor needs rebuilding or replacing, and I would LOVE to convert it to electric so that I could off road w/o the usual. I have a 1946 Willy's Jeep.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2018

The researchers believe this new type of photoelectrode is not only cheap to produce, but can also be recreated on a larger scale for mass and worldwide use. One way this could be achieved is by using photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting which directly converts water and sunlight to solar fuel (hydrogen).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2014

When a voltage is applied across the electrodes of a conventional cell, a current flows and water is converted to oxygen gas at one electrode (the anode) and hydrogen gas at the other electrode (the cathode). We have a solution to this problem that’s made of copper, which is cheap and abundant. —Matthew Kanan.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), with colleagues from Oregon State University, have developed PNNL a durable, inexpensive molybdenum-phosphide catalyst that efficiently converts wastewater and seawater into hydrogen. Like seawater, the MoP catalyst material is widely available, and therefore, cheap.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2010

In a separate yet related paper published in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels , a team led by Brown chemistry professor Paul Williard has created a new technique to chart the progress of the transesterification reaction in which virgin and waste oils are converted into biodiesel fuel.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 31, 2012

coli bacteria to convert glucose into succinic acid in a way that would be competitive with petroleum-based production. The new succinate process developed by Bennett, San and Chandresh Thakker promises to make even better use of a cheap and plentiful feedstock—primarily the indigestible parts of the soybean.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2019

Methanol reforming converts a mix of methanol and water into a hydrogen-rich gas. This would enable a ~3-minute refueling time with a +1000 km range using a cheap, simple fuel with reuse of existing infrastructure and logistics.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2010

” Pataki suggested converting the tax credit to a rebate, for three years or for five. Gasoline is too cheap. The current $7,500 tax credit for purchasing an advanced vehicle is wonderful if you have a great accountant or tax lawyer, Pataki said, “ but if you are an ordinary consumer, what do you do ?”

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 8, 2010

Researchers at the Isfahan University of Technology (Iran), have demonstrated the use of a dilute acid hydrolysis process to convert rice straw—a cheap, abundant and mainly unused ag waste—to 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) and furfural. Both furans are components for production of different chemicals and fuels.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2016

This approach helps overcome another issue with lithium-air batteries: As the chemical reaction involved in charging and discharging converts oxygen between gaseous and solid forms, the material goes through huge volume changes that can disrupt electrical conduction paths in the structure, severely limiting its lifetime.

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The Truth About Cars

APRIL 11, 2025

Interiors became more cheap and chintzy looking, with more angled dashboards and lesser quality materials. Eliminated was the DeVille convertible despite its popularity. A convertible also appeared as a replacement for the cancelled DeVille convertible. More on that in a moment.

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Porsche 914 EV Conversion

MARCH 23, 2007

The analog engineers at work are still designing the current/voltage limited step-down buck converter so that will be coming when I get their feedback. This one relies much more heavily on complex PIC programming and uses an off-the-shelf laptop or inkjet-printer power supply to deliver an isolated source of power for the battery charger.

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The Truth About Cars

JULY 24, 2023

The EcoBoost is available in coupe – “fastback” in Ford speak – or convertible body styles and in base or Premium trims. The base price for an EcoBoost Mustang is $30,920 -- $39,020 for a convertible. Opt for a Premium fastback, and you’ll be starting at $36,445, while the Premium convertible is $41,945. It’s not perfect.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2018

An international research team has developed a new single-atom electrocatalyst that efficiently converts CO 2 to carbon monoxide (CO). Scientists have long sought a way to convert CO 2 to CO, but traditional electrocatalysts cannot effectively initiate the reaction. —Haotian Wang.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2017

On behalf of the Australian Government, ARENA has provided A$5 million (US$4 million) in funding to Wollongong-based AquaHydrex to develop commercially its new class of electrolyzer to produce cheap hydrogen from splitting water. When hydrogen burns, it produces only water vapor and no carbon dioxide.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

At medium to high loads the engine is operated stoichiometrically, which enables the use of a three-way catalytic converter. One of the issues with which the team is currently grappling is the temperature in the catalytic converter, which needs to reach at least 300 degrees.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have developed a new biologically inspired catalyst that is the first iron-based catalyst that converts hydrogen directly to electricity. The catalyst could support the achievement of more affordable fuel cells.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

The process uses cheap and earth-abundant catalytic materials. Concentrated light drives the photochemical reaction, which generates high-energy intermediates and heat to drive thermochemical carbon-chain-forming reactions, thus producing hydrocarbons in a single-step process.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2009

When the engines are converted for gas operation, special tanks are added for either liquid volume-efficient methane gas (LNG/LBG) or pressurized methane gas (CNG/CBG). Methane gas is currently a relatively cheap fuel in many markets. The solution is based on Volvo’s proven Euro-5 diesel engines. One is cost savings.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2015

Researchers from A*STAR in Singapore have developed a fungal culture for use in a cheap and efficient method to transform waste oil palm material into biofuels and environmentally friendly plastics. glucosidase can be added to the commercial preparations, which then ramps up the cost of converting oil palm biomass into biofuel and bioplastic.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Weaker-than-expected demand in China is partly responsible, but the main driver has been the ongoing avalanche of new supply into the market, as plentiful cheap spodumene meets ample conversional capacity in China, the CRU analysts said. Lithium hydroxide has fallen by 30% to RMB 74,500/t, according to CRU’s price assessments.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2012

An elegant route toward the development of saturated hydrocarbon fuels based on terpene feedstocks may lie in a biosynthetic approach in which engineered organisms convert cellulose and/or hemicellulose derived sugar solutions into pure terpene products. —Meylemans et al.

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Electric Cars are for Girls

APRIL 21, 2011

I am converting a 1999 Ford Probe into an electric car. I have found really really cheap 7.2v NIMH battery modules used in the Toyota Prius. My question

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