Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2009

The province signed a Letter of Intent with Shell Canada Energy, on behalf of the Athabasca Oil Sands Project—a joint venture among Shell Canada (60%), Chevron Canada Limited (20%) and Marathon Oil Sands L.P. (20%)—to The total cost of the project is projected to be C$1.35 Two injection wells are in the test phase until early 2010.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

In a report comparing advances in combustion engines, biofuels, electrification and other technologies, Accenture warns that the commercial viability of those disruptive technologies will be delayed unless regulators more proactively support the transformation of science into applied technologies. Waste-to-fuel. Marine scrubbers.

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Charged EVs

AUGUST 2, 2023

Here at Charged , we’ve been covering the commercial EV market for a decade. After many discussions with players in the commercial EV field, we realized that the problem was proving the performance of EVs. Rustam Kocher has been a pioneer in the commercial EV field. In the real world, things haven’t been that simple.

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Fleet Portland Charging Building 52

Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2015

The cost to operate an EV, per mile, is already well below the cost to drive a standard ICE-age model, and the advantage is likely to widen. The average US residential customer pays 12 cents per kilowatt-hour (kWh) , which means the cost to drive one mile in an EV is somewhat less than 4 cents. New cars in 2015 get 25 mpg.)

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2009

Dr. Don Paul is the Executive Director, University of Southern California Energy Institute and a former vice president and chief technology officer of Chevron. Dr. Attendees believe that renewable energy needs two elements to be successful: technical progress leading to lower costs and a price on carbon. Earlier post.).

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Financing Renewable Stimulus Package Energy 150

Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2012

Daimler and BP; GM and Shell; Chevron, UTC Power and Hyundai-Kia; and Ford and BP.) The three primary objectives of the project were to evaluate fuel cell durability, vehicle driving range, and on-site hydrogen production cost and compare to DOE’s targets. —Final Report. Results from version 2.1

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Gasoline Fuel Vehicles Hydrogen 306

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The eminent success of electric vehicles depends on four factors: good battery systems, customer confidence, reasonable costs and, perhaps most importantly, customer convenience. Electricity costs are relatively inexpensive. Without gasoline, today’s transportation fails. But without electricity, modern civilization fails.

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Charging Batteries Battery Nickel Metal Hydride 30

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

Massive government subsidies are upending commercial considerations. This is a much bigger call than choosing VHS over Betamax, because owning a dead end technology could cost you $50,000. Considering the cost of batteries, these are disposable cars. Commercial Ships Spew Half As Much Particulate Pollution as Worlds Cars).

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