Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
Because they are expensive, biofuels are usually combined with petrol or diesel to make them ‘go further’. Biofuels can be produced by fermenting waste biomass and recovering the fuel from the fermented solution using an extractant. —Kim et al. —Professor Andrew Livingston of Imperial’s Department of Chemical Engineering.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 14, 2020
I knew I wanted something for her that was cheap to maintain, had a reliable automatic transmission, came with cruise control, AC. petrol engine is not running. The Atkinson cycle petrol engine was made for regular stop-starts and is very reliable. It is something very cheap to fix and to inspect.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 30, 2011
The material could allow hydrogen to be stored in a cheap and practical way for transport applications, the company says. The hydride beads would then pumped to a hot cell where waste heat from the engine exhaust is used to drive the hydrogen into a small buffer volume.
My Electric Car
AUGUST 21, 2020
The only by products are water and a fair degree of heat, the latter indicating a degree of inefficiency and wasted energy. Hence its supply would not be cheap, renewable nor sustainable in the long term. Fourth, like all fossil fuels hydrogen is highly volatile, far more so than petrol.
Green Charging
FEBRUARY 15, 2021
We do not want to waste money on cheap, low-quality commodities. With the recent UK Government announcement to ban the sale of new petrol and diesel powered vehicles by 2030 , the switch to EVs is inevitable. Since we live in a world of scarce resources, it pays to be more economical. We want to save money.
EV Central
JANUARY 2, 2023
It won’t be cheap, but Audi’s e-Tron GT and its more potent RS e-Tron GT sibling promise big performance. But it’s what’s beneath the skin that promises to tempt plenty of people out of the big-powered petrol engines that have dominated at this end of the market. Audi e-Tron GT quattro. BYD Dolphin. BYD Dolphin. Cupra Born.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 16, 2009
CO 2 conversion to hydrocarbons over catalysts has been known for several decades but has been shown very little research and development attention, as other technologies have been much cheaper and efficient in yielding cheap oil. Most research to date however is focusing on the sequestration of CO 2 in underground reservoirs. Earlier post.)
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