Green Car Congress

MAY 22, 2019

At the current estimated low-speed electric vehicle fleet size, the potential fuel demand displacement could exceed 60,000 barrels per day—2% of current total Chinese gasoline demand. Collins conducts a range of globally focused commodity market, energy, water and environmental research.

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OCTOBER 17, 2013

Wärtsilä will supply its 50DF dual-fuel engines and propulsion systems for two liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier vessels under construction in two Chinese shipyards. The ships are being built for two different Chinese owners, the Zhejiang Yuanhe Ocean Shipping Company and Dalian Inteh Group Co.,

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JUNE 24, 2017

Scientists in the US and China have developed a new low-temperature catalyst for producing high-purity hydrogen gas while simultaneously using up carbon monoxide (CO) via the water-gas shift (WGS) reaction. Its synergy with adjacent Mo sites in α-MoC can effectively activate water at low temperature. —Yao et al.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2015

Geely Group and CRI intend to collaborate on the deployment of renewable methanol fuel production technology in China and explore the development and deployment of 100% methanol-fueled vehicles in China, Iceland and other countries. —Li Shufu, Chairman of Geely Group. Earlier post.). Earlier post.)

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Baua Electric

MARCH 23, 2024

Automakers are fiercely lobbying governments to water down already-compromised emissions rules, but doing so will only lead to their doom as market entrants that are serious about EVs will continue ramping them anyway. It is necessary that we stop burning fossil fuels, and fast. Namely: China.

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Baua Electric

MAY 2, 2024

Chinese state-owned company COSCO Shipping has launched what it calls the “world’s largest” river-to-sea electric container ship. The Green Water 01 is a 10,000-ton+ fully electric vessel that sets a new benchmark in sustainability in the marine logistics industry. The Green Water 01 sails at a total length of 119.8

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Coal-powered synthetic natural gas (SNG) plants being planned in China would produce seven times more greenhouse gas emissions than conventional natural gas plants, and use up to 100 times the water as shale gas production, according to a new study by Duke University researchers published in the journal Nature Climate Change. —Robert B.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2017

For the last 18 months, a fleet of 6 methanol-fueled versions of the Geely Emgrand 7 cars have been in Iceland. The participants reported virtually no difference in driving experience compared to regular gasoline- or diesel-fueled cars. Methanol has been used as a racing fuel for many decades. Geely is a shareholder ($45.5-million

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Green Car Congress

JULY 4, 2022

In countries that choose to continue or increase their use of nuclear power, it can reduce reliance on imported fossil fuels, cut carbon dioxide emissions and enable electricity systems to integrate higher shares of solar and wind power. However, a new era for nuclear power is by no means guaranteed. —IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2018

Researchers at Jilin University (China) have investigated the effect of gasoline components on fuel economy, combustion and emissions in a GDI (gasoline-direct-injection) engine. The team subsequently followed up this first study with a second, exploring the effects in a PFI (port-fuel-injection) engine. The first paper (Han et al.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 28, 2012

are proposing using spent nuclear fuel (SNF), natural uranium, or excess weapons-grade plutonium (W-Pu) in a proposed GEM*STAR accelerator-driven subcritical reactor (ADSR) to provide the process heat and steam for the Fischer-Tropsch production of synthetic diesel from natural gas and other carbonaceous feedstocks (e.g., Click to enlarge.

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OCTOBER 9, 2018

billion convertible issue from waste-to-energy specialist China Everbright International and a $311-million IPO by US fuel cell developer Bloom Energy. The largest six VC/PE new equity deals of 2018 so far have all involved Chinese electric vehicle firms, including the two mentioned above during 3Q. billion for 300MW.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2014

Hartmann Reederei, in co-operation with engineering consultants HB Hunte Engineering, has developed a new type of vessel: the ethane-fueled liquefied ethylene carrier ECO STAR 36K with “Svelte”-bow design. The new “Svelte” bow design enables the vessel to improve seakeeping at higher transit speeds and improved fuel efficiency.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

High / Very High Temperature Reactors (HTGRs / VHTRs) are primarily dedicated to the generation of electricity and/or high temperature heat—with hydrogen, being extracted from water by using thermo-chemical, electro-chemical or hybrid processes. This includes a demonstration of hydrogen and sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) production.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 27, 2012

The contract, guaranteed by the Ukrainian government, stipulates implementation of four separate investment projects, which are to transfer national thermal energy production facilities to using coal-water fuel, and build five coal gasification plants.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2014

million barrels per day (b/d), according to a just-released Platts analysis of Chinese government data. Platts calculates China’s apparent or implied oil demand on the basis of crude throughput volumes at the domestic refineries and net oil product imports, as reported by the NBS and Chinese customs. year over year to 42.65 million mt.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 26, 2024

Australia doesn’t have its own fuel efficiency standards, making it one of only two advanced countries without such a rule, alongside Russia. The rules will cut new vehicle emissions by more than half by 2029 and will save Australians $95 billion in fuel costs by 2050. If that sounds familiar, it’s because it is.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2016

Freight hauling by trucks is a significant source of energy consumption and pollution around the world, and the fuel savings promised by the technology advances under this CERC-TRUCK program will help to combat climate change while advancing low-carbon economies. million for a total effort of $25 million or more.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2016

In parallel, and with equivalent resources, Chinese funding will support a collaborative counterpart Chinese Consortium. Alternative fuel combustion. Projects that demonstrate systems-level fuel efficient technologies must be matched with the duty cycle of the specific truck application to deliver the expected fuel savings.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

The dual-clutch gearboxes produced especially for the Chinese market will be used in several Group models in China in the future. An advanced water treatment facility that reduces process wastewater by up to 95% and also recycles the water has been installed at Tianjin. China Fuel Efficiency Transmissions'

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 4, 2021

thorium as fuel , the South China Morning Post reported recently. Live Science , the Chinese government plans to build several large MSRs. MSRs are attractive for arid regions because instead of the water used by conventional uranium reactors, MSRs use molten fluoride salts to cool their cores. being more abundant and cheaper.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2022

To transition towards decarbonization, we need a significant and timely acceleration in the production of green fuels. Collaboration and investments in innovative projects are the most important ways to reach a net zero fuel value chain. Green methanol is the only market-ready and scalable available solution today for shipping.

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JUNE 29, 2012

liter gasoline direct-injection (GDI) engine, the first developed in-house by a domestic Chinese company. The fuel-efficient engine featuring BorgWarner’s turbocharging technologies is also available for other models. BorgWarner is providing its leading turbocharging technology for BYD Auto’s 1.5-liter liter engine. liter engine.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 28, 2022

They are called breeder reactors because they produce more nuclear fuel than they consume. According to Chinese authorities, the ones on Changbiao are civilian power reactors, designed to generate 600 megawatts of electricity each, which amounts to a little more than 1 percent of the total capacity of China’s nuclear power sector. “My

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2010

A study of isopentanol—a five-carbon, long-chain alcohol (C 5 H 12 O)—by researchers at Sandia National Laboratories as a fuel for homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI) engines found that isopentanol has superior physiochemical properties compared to ethanol and very similar HCCI combustion properties to gasoline.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2014

At the same time, President Xi Jinping of China announced targets to peak that country’s CO 2 emissions around 2030, with the intention to try to peak early, and to increase the non-fossil fuel share of all energy to around 20% by 2030. launching a new track on the interaction of energy and water (the energy/water ‘nexus’).

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MAY 2, 2017

Moreover, the multifunctional catalyst exhibited a remarkable stability for 1,000 h on stream, showing potential to be a promising industrial catalyst for CO 2 conversion to liquid fuels. An open-access paper on their work is published in the journal Nature Communications.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Also signed was a separate three-way letter of intent between LanzaTech, Henan Coal and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) regarding the establishment of a Bio Energy Research Center for the development, pilot production and commercialization of the technology to change coal-derived synthesis gas to ethanol fuels and chemicals.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2013

The Volkswagen Group, through its two Chinese joint ventures, will be investing more than €9.8 Volkswagen had already reduced the fuel consumption of its fleet in China, currently including more than 70 models, by 20% between 2005 and 2010. We will be launching the largest investment program in China’s automotive history.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2010

Beijing Automotive Industry Holding Co Ltd (BAIC) exhibited an EV with a swappable battery at the 25 th World Battery, Hybrid and Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle Symposium and Exhibition (EVS25). Currently, the Chinese government is planning to standardize a method of replacing EV batteries and set up stations for replacing batteries.

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OCTOBER 19, 2010

A team from the Chinese Academy of Sciences reports the production of 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) from monosaccharide (fructose and glucose), polysaccharide (inulin) and the Jerusalem artichoke juice by a simple one-pot reaction including hydrolysis and dehydration using solid acid under mild conditions.

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MARCH 19, 2015

The project will draw on ORNL’s expertise in fuels, materials, instrumentation and controls, design concepts, and modeling and simulation for advanced reactors, as well as the lab’s experience in the design, construction and operation of the Molten Salt Reactor Experiment, the only molten salt reactor ever built. cool the fuel.

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JANUARY 27, 2018

vehicles) and industrial air pollution—fuel powerful storms and influence weather much more than has been appreciated, according to a study published in the journal Science. The additional condensate adds to both the warm rain and supercooled cloud water; when freezing occurs aloft, this addition further enhances convection (i.e.,

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MARCH 7, 2013

Tropsch synthesis is a well-established catalytic process that converts syngas derived from fossil fuels or biomass to liquid fuel products. Because hydrocarbons are insoluble in water, they can be easily separated from the reaction mixture. A report on their work is published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

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APRIL 12, 2012

With the Cyclone Engine, we can deliver viable, low cost biomass-based power solutions integrated with a bio-char process that can help remediate water and soil pollution. Led by a group of veteran China operators and investors, Great Wall is focused on developing Cyclone’s technologies for the Chinese market.

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EV Central

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The Chinese manufacturer GWM (Great Wall Motors) has announced an aggressive rollout of electric , plug-in hybrid and hybrid vehicles. Currently, we are already testing our first hydrogen vehicles, powered by fuel cells. In addition, we are reusing and recycling residual heat and energy and taking advantage of recycled water. “We

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AUGUST 3, 2014

The next step in the implementation of the project will be establishment of a joint Chinese-Russian working group. The Chinese delegation came to St. The concept takes advantage of two mature technologies: light-water nuclear reactors and offshore oil and gas drilling platforms. Petersburg and Moscow on 24-29 July.

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