Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The chemical process employed by the scientists also could reduce costs and energy requirements for producing liquid hydrocarbons and other chemicals used by industry. The method’s byproducts include the building blocks for synthesizing methane, ethanol and other carbon-based compounds used in industrial processing. Credit: NIST.

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Setec Powerr

OCTOBER 25, 2023

With technological advancements, we can now convert various primary energies into electricity more flexibly and efficiently, providing a cleaner and more efficient energy supply chain for electric cars. Firstly, the development of related technologies is difficult, and the industrial chain is complex, leading to high costs.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2020

The research was published in the ACS journal Industrial Engineering and Chemical Research. The OHM (oleophobic hydrophobic magnetic) nanocomposite slurry can be used to coat any cheap, commercially available sponge. The sponge is quickly and easily converted into a smart sponge (or “OHM sponge”) with a selective affinity for oil.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2019

Methanol reforming converts a mix of methanol and water into a hydrogen-rich gas. Blue World Technologies’ methanol fuel cell system is applicable to a variety of industries with a primary focus on the transportation sector. CO 2 + 3 H 2. The hydrogen produced is subsequently used in the fuel cell to produce electricity.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Founded in 2006, Algenol converts CO 2 from industrial emitters into transportation fuels through its Direct-To-Ethanol process. This technology has the best chance of actually reducing carbon emissions while producing cheap fuel in the process. —Alejandro Gonzalez, founder of BioFields.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Global Bioenergies, the developer of a process to convert renewable resources into light olefin hydrocarbons via fermentation (with an initial focus on isobutene) ( earlier post ), signed a contribution agreement with the shareholders of Syngip B.V. to transfer all Syngip shares to Global Bioenergies S.A.

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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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Baua Electric

JANUARY 8, 2024

After calling off beats with GM to “beat out Tesla” with a cheap SUV, it has now emerged with news that it is mulling over a $14 billion EV and battery plant in Canada. For its part, Canada has done a good job of attracting new investment from the EV industry.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2021

Although residues of these slags are stored in dumps, these residues can be converted into valuable industrial products by interaction between the slag components. For this purpose, borate glass, a cheap waste material that also requires processing, was added to it.

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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. BioEnergy and BioFuels.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2015

Global Bioenergies, founded in 2008, has developed a synthetic isobutene pathway that, when implanted in a micro-organism, enables the organism to convert sugars (e.g., The process to convert isobutene to isooctane is well-established. So here our isobutene would allow us to integrate this very cheap fossil component into the fuel.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Engineers at Iowa State University have developed a hybrid process that combines bio- and electrocatalysis to convert glucose into bio-based unsaturated nylon-6,6—which has the advantage of an extra double bond in its backbone that can be used to tailor the polymer’s properties. Their study is published in the 12 Feb.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2009

The point to be made is that the automotive industry, policy makers and also utilities need to go to work as early as possible to deal with this great opportunity. Electricity is a cheap entity—not a commodity, but is its fundamentally very cheap. convert] millions of cars on the road. —Felix Kramer. [GM

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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

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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Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

Then, as electricity entrepreneurs expanded power generation and transmission capacity, they faced the new problem of what to do with all the cheap off-peak, nighttime electricity they could now produce. AC Propulsion cofounder Wally Rippel converted a Volkswagen microbus into an electric vehicle while he was still a student at Caltech.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2012

Terpenes such as α-pinene, β-pinene, camphene and limonene are components of pine resin, and currently produced industrially either by tapping trees (gum turpentine) or as a byproduct of paper pulping. —Meylemans et al.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2013

Aluminum is ubiquitous in cooking, eating utensils, food packaging, construction, and the automotive and aircraft industries. Now, aluminum is increasingly important in electronics, particularly as a “green” component that’s cheap, widely available and environmentally benign.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Moreover, it is a cheap carbon source which can increase the atom utilization of CO 2 hydrogenation due to the stoichiometric ratio of C and O atoms, as well as reducing the formation of water. … CH 4 is an ideal H-supplier to replace H 2 in CO 2 hydrogenation as CH 4 has a high H density and is available from a range of sources (e.g.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2015

The one-pot synthesis route is simple and industrially scalable, and the result may “ reverse the lagging status of aluminum among high-theoretical-capacity anodes ,” they noted. They converted the alumina layer to titania (TiO 2 ), a better conductor of electrons and lithium ions when it is very thin. —Li et al.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2010

When he proposes steps to improve oil industry safety, we hope he won’t say, “Let’s make sure this never happens again.” We now have a sprinkling of promising companies working to get funded to convert gas-guzzlers. And oil only seems cheap. Well, America’s auto industry delivered over 100,000. We just had to do it.

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Plug In India

APRIL 10, 2021

This is mostly due to the hard work done by the Indian EV Industry as more and more localization is happening. Cost of electricity is fairly cheap at Rs 10 per unit in the commercial location of cities and Rs 3 - 4 small towns and villages. But this is no longer the case in our electric scooter world.

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Baua Electric

MAY 10, 2024

As the fog of dawn lifted one morning in mid-November 1872, Claude Monet looked out the window of his hotel room in the French city of Le Havre and furiously painted his vision of its industrial harbor. It consists of a volcano-shaped theater and a smaller crater converted into a library — with quirky seating pods that are great for kids.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2014

During the charging process, the reduced form of the redox shuttle, M red , is first converted to M ox on the oxygen electrode, which in turn oxidizes the Li 2 O 2. 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. Their hybrid design uses only three. —YiYing Wu.

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Plugs and Cars

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Creating an new industry that converts cheap electricity into a monetized charge session is not necessarily the best way forward. Businesses are looking to attract customers and show their green side, and government is seeking the emissions reduction benefit of plug-ins.

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Plugs and Cars

JULY 31, 2008

Plug-in 2008 in San Jose, California witnessed a noon-time address by new heavy-weight convert, Andy Grove, former CEO of Intel. The conference attendees heard the now familiar if increasingly impassioned representatives of the utility industry trumpet the benefits of electricity for transportation.

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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. Click to enlarge.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

If it were legal to deliver rescued migrants to Libya, it would be as cheap as sending rescue boats a few extra kilometers south instead of east. Hawkeye 360 , which also markets its service to the shipping industry and security services in countries such as the United States, was the only bidder and won the contract.

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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.

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Plug In India

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

We feel that this scheme is a very progressive scheme from the government and has really propelled the EV industry in the right direction. Regarding warranty, they offer 3 years for battery+motor+controller+converter+charger. Many scooter companies provide a cheap GPS tracker and call themselves a connected scooter.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2015

The new C5 FUEL yeast delivers fermentation and ethanol yields that set a new standard for conversion of biomass sugars from pretreated corn stover, converting up to 97% of the plant sugars into fuel, the researchers said. The results were presented at the 31 st International Fuel Ethanol Workshop this week in Minneapolis. 1(3):e00323-13.

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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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My Electric Car

AUGUST 21, 2020

Hence its supply would not be cheap, renewable nor sustainable in the long term. Baxter details the unavoidable efficiency losses of the hydrogen fuel pathway due to the energy vector transition wherein energy is converted from one medium, electrical to chemical (hydrogen), back to electrical and finally to kinetic energy.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2013

The finding, detailed in an open access paper in Nature’s Scientific Reports , is a step toward eliminating what industry regards as the largest obstacle to large-scale commercialization of fuel cell technology—the high cost and insufficient supply of platinum catalysts. —Jeon et al.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

SOURCE: GARTNER Fortunately, we have access to an information storage technology that is cheap, readily available, and stable at room temperature for millennia: DNA , the material of genes. In other words, we already convert digital information to and from DNA, but generally using only sequences that make sense in terms of biology.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 17, 2009

Together with Electric Mobility Netherlands (Elmonet) Urgenda tries to stimulate large-scale introduction of (non-converted) EVs on the Dutch roads. With very few moving parts, there is little that can break, so maintenance is infrequent and cheap. The automobile industry only needs a hand to get over the first expensive hurdle.

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Plug In India

JUNE 11, 2021

Regarding warranty, Ampere offers 3 years for battery+motor+controller+converter+charger. We asked them about localization and the company told us this - "Battery, Charger, Tyre, Chassis, DC Converter, and other mechanical parts: 60% parts localization". The website says the battery will offer 650 cycles. Rest is imported.

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