Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2012

billion program of pipeline expansions to carry an additional 400,000 barrels per day (bpd) of light oil from North Dakota and western Canada to refinery markets in Ontario, Quebec and the US Midwest. billion investment rounds out our suite of major crude oil new market access initiatives for North American markets. Enbridge Inc.

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The Truth About Cars

JANUARY 30, 2024

A timing-cover oil leak was fixed last year. The ask for this Porsche , which is in the northern suburbs of Chicago (respect for the Bears license plate), is $37,900. Today we bring you a certified pre-owned Porsche Macan GTS. It's under the CPO warranty until July and has new brake pads. The car is paid off and the mileage is 73,000.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2023

Established in 1906 and operationally headquartered in Chicago, EXP is a global leader in oil, gas and chemicals. EXP Global Inc. has been awarded the contract for the engineering, procurement, construction support, commissioning and start-up services for the sulfuric acid plant.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2013

The technology also increases corn oil extraction by 13%, while saving 8% energy. A typical US ethanol plant uses around 36 million bushels (900,000 tons) of feed-grade corn per year to produce 100 million gallons of fuel ethanol, 300,000 tons of animal feed (DDGS) and 8,500 tons of corn oil. Avantec was introduced in October 2012.

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The Truth About Cars

MARCH 4, 2024

The car apparently runs well and doesn't burn oil (always nice). The seller says the oil has been changed every 5,000 miles and the pads, rotors, and tires are new. You can pick up this car in the suburbs of Chicago for $3,200. And well, this one's a wagon. We all know wagons are cool again. There are 178K miles on it.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2012

The expansion of the reversed Seaway Pipeline will more than double its capacity to 850,000 barrels per day (bpd) by mid-2014 and transport oil originating in the Canadian oil sands and the US Bakken shale from Cushing, Oklahoma to the US Gulf Coast at Houston, with an extension to Port Arthur/Beaumont. Enbridge Inc. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Enbridge and Enterprise agreed to reverse the direction of crude oil flows on the Seaway pipeline to enable it to transport oil from Cushing, Oklahoma to the US Gulf Coast. million barrels of crude oil tankage on the Texas Gulf Coast and four import docks at two locations. SCPS also includes 6.8 —Patrick D.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2014

The Demonstration and Deployment Strategy Workshop will be held 12–13 March at Argonne National Laboratory’s Advanced Photon Source conference center outside of Chicago, Illinois. The Bio-Oil Co-Processing: Expanding the Refinery Supply System Workshop will be held on 3 April in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh have found that the air pollution and greenhouse gas costs of shipping crude by rail are nearly twice as large as those for oil pipelines. Movements of petroleum products, particularly crude oil, have received enormous media attention. Clay et al.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2019

Rising crude oil prices and high levels of gasoline demand contributed to rising gasoline prices from January through May. Midwest (Chicago and Cleveland). Prices in Chicago were higher than prices in Cleveland and the Midwest regional average in every week during 2018. gal at least once in 2018. gal to $2.91/gal

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Tesla has sold $100M in Supercharger hardware units to oil giant bp, the company announced this morning, as it attempts to bolster its EV charging infrastructure.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Cast aluminum oil filtration adaptors, exhaust manifolds, differential carrier, brake rotors, oil pan, differential case casting and even rear axles were prototyped with the technology, specifically utilizing selective laser sintering, stereolithography and 3D sand casting. Explorer: Brake rotors for the 2011 Explorer built in Chicago.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2017

and are destined to rise significantly with the use of heavy oils, tar sands, and bitumen as combustion sources. Oil and coke refineries are generally built in areas where residents don’t have the political or economic clout to fight back, Schlesinger noted. —lead author William H. Schlesinger, James B.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

liter EcoBoost employs an active oil control system to optimize pressure when less fluid is needed. Ford Explorer is built in North America at Chicago Assembly Plant, as well as in Venezuela and now, Russia. An active wastegate controls boost more precisely during light load operation to help save fuel.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Fred Diaz, President and CEO - Ram Truck Brand and Chrysler de Mexico, introduces the 2014 Ram ProMaster at the Chicago Auto Show. diesel comes from a number of design features, such as: Isolated oil pan. An oil-level sensor contributes to an oil-change schedule of up to 18,500 miles. Click to enlarge.

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Plugs and Cars

APRIL 12, 2007

cents to settle at $2.280 on the Chicago Board of Trade. Tags: ethanol crude oil gasoline. Ethanol futures rose 4.3 Light, sweet crude for May delivery rose $1.84 to close at $63.85 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Brent crude for May rose 88 cents to $68.72 a barrel on the ICE Futures exchange in London.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2015

The Sonata Hybrid is available to rent at airports including Los Angeles, Orange County, San Francisco, Atlanta, Dulles International and Chicago, as well as cities such as San Jose, San Diego and Long Beach in California; Portland, Oregon; and Denver. More than 80% of Hertz’s vehicles have a minimum fuel-efficiency rating of 28 highway mpg.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2019

The four airlines—United Airlines, Alaska Airlines, American Airlines, and Cathay Pacific—represent nearly 70% of all flights at SFO, while the four fuel producers include SFO’s two primary suppliers, Chevron Corporation and Shell Oil Company along with Neste and LanzaTech, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2018

The Chicago Transit Board awarded a $32-million contract to Proterra for the purchase of 20 new, all-electric buses. CTA expects to begin receiving the first buses by the end of 2018, which will begin service along one of CTA’s busiest bus routes—the #66 Chicago route.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

This greatly reduces potential oil dilution, important with using biodiesel. Chevrolet will unveil the 2011 Silverado heavy-duty trucks at the Chicago Auto Show on 10 Feb. Also, additional heating of the fuel circuit was added to reduce the chance of fuel gelling or waxing that could plug filters.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2014

Floating NPPs can provide a reliable power supply not only to remote settlements, for example, in the Far North and Far East regions, but also to large industrial facilities such as oil platforms. The concept takes advantage of two mature technologies: light-water nuclear reactors and offshore oil and gas drilling platforms.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Brown and Iowa State researchers are presenting present their ideas and findings during tcbiomass2011 , the International Conference on Thermochemical Conversion Science in Chicago. separate sugars from the heavy fractions of bio-oil using a simple water-washing process.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2013

AltAir has partnered with an existing oil refiner for the operation of its first commercial facility. The facility will convert non-edible natural oils and agricultural wastes into approximately 30 million gallons of low-carbon, advanced biofuels and chemicals per year. —AltAir CEO Tom Todaro.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 18, 2012

The Gas Technology Institute (GTI) hosted an open house at its new Pilot-Scale IH 2 Plant in Chicago, Illinois to demonstrate the successful efforts to broaden biomass-to-liquid hydrocarbon fuel conversion. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2011

Fast Pyrolysis Oil IH 2 product. Compatibility with crude oil or refinery products. GTI Biorenewables: Vision, Challenges, Programs, and Status (presentation Chicago Chapter AIChE 15 September 2009). As a result, the technology is highly flexible and is economical for both small- and large-scale applications. Heating value.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2016

billion barrels of crude oil. Through a collaboration with Oregon State University, NIST held regional industry roundtables in Boston, Chicago and Seattle to learn how best to introduce the benefits of the sustainability standard to US manufacturers, especially small- and medium-size firms.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

At the Chicago Auto Show, Hyundai announced new direct injection technology for its Lambda V6 engine, as well as the availability of a new 5.0L Further, a variable vane oil pump has been fitted to precisely match oil pressure with engine lubrication requirements for increased efficiency at all engine speeds. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2013

Pollution from industrial activities was highest in the Midwest, roughly between Chicago and Detroit, as well as around Philadelphia, Atlanta and Los Angeles. Industrial emissions also peaked along the Gulf Coast region, possibly due to the proximity of the largest oil refineries in the United States.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2018

dollar has jumped to its strongest level in nearly a year, raising questions about how a strong greenback could act as a drag on debt and oil demand in much of the world. dollar to go up, which is putting downward pressure on prices,” Phil Flynn, analyst at Price Futures Group in Chicago, told Reuters. But the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Furthermore, oil consumption was measured to be less than 0.1% Historic OP engines, and two-strokes in general, suffer from high oil consumption, on the order of ~1% or more.). of fuel over the majority of the operating range.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

and Testa Produce (Chicago). The fuel cell-powered lifts will use renewable bio-methanol, an organically derived fuel made from crude glycerin resulting from vegetable oil and animal fat processing. and Commerce, Calif.), Earp Distribution (Kansas City, Kan.),

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

Volkswagen will bring the new Beetle TDI diesel ( earlier post ), unveiled at the Chicago Auto Show, to market in the US this summer as a 2013 model. The pistons incorporate annular channels into which oil is sprayed for cooling the piston-ring zone. 2013 Beetle TDI. Click to enlarge. liter turbocharged four-cylinder diesel engine.

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Cars That Think

JULY 30, 2023

It was manufactured in small volumes by Exxon, appeared at an electric vehicle show in Chicago in 1977, and served briefly as a coin cell battery. Jonas Ekstromer/AFP/Getty Images In the early 1970s, Exxon scientists predicted that global oil production would peak in the year 2000 and then fall into a steady decline.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Kia unveiled three major hybrid offerings at the Chicago Auto Show: the 2017 Niro Hybrid Utility Vehicle; the new Optima Hybrid; and the new Optima Plug-in Hybrid. Also adding to the equation is a new electric water pump and a new electric oil pump, which help improve overall fuel economy.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

DECEMBER 23, 2008

It’s one thing to switch from mostly foreign oil to 100% domestic electricity, but it’s also important to have a domestic source of batteries. The coalition – known as the National Alliance for Advanced Transportation Battery Cell Manufacture – is based in Chicago.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2010

In February 2010, Gevo entered into a non-binding letter of intent with Total Petrochemicals, an affiliate of oil and gas major Total, and an indirect investor in our company. Total Petrochemicals. The production of this quantity of renewable jet fuel will require approximately 205 MGPY of isobutanol.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 25, 2024

Drawing on her career in music, Ipekel curates late-night sets alongside guests such as the Chicago disco legend Sadar Bahar and the Turkish DJ Barış K. “We On the next level is a bar called Listening Room which features lounge seating, low cocktail tables and an extensive library of vinyl records.

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