Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2021

More results from the 360° environmental check: A total of 202 components of the new S-Class are made from resource-saving materials. This is manufactured by recovering nylon waste destined for landfill, for example old fishing nets and fabric remnants from mills and carpets. The total weight of these components is 98.9

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MAY 17, 2021

We appreciate the support of the Department of Energy and the opportunity to collaborate with the world-class experts at the University of Kentucky as we work to advance this study. —Michael Rosenthal, Chief Operating Officer, MP Materials.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Under the terms of the agreement, XL Fleet and Curbtender will jointly develop a series of battery electric (BEV) and plug-in hybrid electric (PHEV) commercial trucks for use in waste management applications. The Quantum is the US Waste Industry’s #1 selling small rear loader. Curbtender Quantum.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2020

UC Riverside (UCR) engineers have developed a way to recycle PET (polyethylene terephthalate) plastic waste, such as soda or water bottles, into a nanomaterial useful for energy storage. The authors believe the process is scalable and marketable, and that it represents major progress toward keeping waste PET out of landfills and the oceans.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2018

BYD (Build Your Dreams) will deliver two 8R Class-8 battery-electric refuse trucks, fitted with New Way Viper Rear Loader refuse bodies, to Recology in Seattle, WA for use in residential solid waste pick up. The Recology mission represents a fundamental shift from traditional waste management to resource recovery.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

In a recent post on its YouTube channel, Edmunds noted that the Model S Plaid is “a “waste of money,” and that it’s not worth its price of $130,000. . While agreeing that the steering yoke is a gimmick, Camissa stated that the Model S Plaid is a vehicle that is effectively a class of one at its price range.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Pyrolysis oil from scrap tires and biomethane from organic waste can replace fossil raw materials in manufacturing plastics with virgin material properties. In line with an efficient circular economy, mass-balanced products will be used for bow door handles for the Mercedes-Benz S-Class and the EQE this year.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2023

The approval in principle covers its use on ships fueled by ammonia with the DNV Class notation gas fueled ammonia or on gas tankers fueled by ammonia with the DNV Class notation GF NH 3. It features staged and controlled combustion, minimal energy consumption and waste, and a compact footprint.

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MARCH 24, 2021

This world-class resource covers around 130,000 square kilometers and spans about 700 kilometers from northeastern British Columbia to northwestern Alberta. Nauticol has partnered with Haldor Topsøe, a company with extensive experience and best-in-class technology that is commercially viable, proven, reliable and used world-wide.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2013

GE Transportation Class 70 PowerHaul locomotive. Recent testing commissioned by GE Transportation and overseen by Ricardo found that GE’s Class 70 PowerHaul diesel-electric freight locomotive would save 18% of fuel in comparison with the Class 66 currently representing the majority of the UK’s locomotive fleet. Click to enlarge.

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JUNE 28, 2021

The EU-funded research project HyFlexFuel recently successfully produced biocrudes via hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) from a variety of biomasses, including sewage sludge, food waste, manure, wheat straw, corn stover, pine sawdust, miscanthus and microalgae in a pilot-scale continuous HTL plant at Aarhus University (Denmark).

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MAY 2, 2018

These include 12 Peterbilt all-electric Class 8 Model 579 day cab tractors and three Model 520 refuse trucks. At WasteExpo 2017, Peterbilt displayed a Model 520 refuse truck equipped with the Transpower ElecTruck drive system, which has accumulated over 80,000 miles of Class 8 heavy duty use in a variety of commercial applications since 2013.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 30, 2023

H2X Global has successfully secured vehicles in 12 out of the 13 categories specified in the tender, covering both 18 and 26 tonne vehicle classes. Renova AB, the city’s waste management operator owned by ten municipalities in western Sweden, will be responsible for operating these vehicles.

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Hydrogen Global Sweden Fuel 243

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 15, 2021

Completing the test well program is an essential pre-requisite for securing the permit for the EPA Class VI sequestration well. The Louisiana Green Fuels (LGF) plant will convert waste materials from managed forests into renewable diesel fuel and renewable naphtha using gasification and Fischer-Tropsch synthesis.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) are developing a small-scale demonstration reactor that will process 40 tons of wood waste per year from the university into replacements for diesel fuel and gasoline. X1) from a biological feedstock, more specifically, from lignocellulosic biomass (also known as plant waste/residue).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2022

It’s also often produced using corn and other crop feedstocks, but this approach is dependent on crops that otherwise could be used to grow food or waste feedstocks.

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Teslarati

APRIL 18, 2024

The planned Megachargers for the Tesla Semi would effectively make the Class 8 all-electric truck a true long-hauler. The former Tesla VP, for his part, noted that the funds that will be used for the hydrogen stations will likely prove to be a waste. Funding hydrogen stations will go down as purely wasted money,” he noted.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Start-up Mote is establishing its first facility to convert wood waste into hydrogen fuel while capturing, utilizing, and sequestering CO 2 emissions resulting from its process. Mote utilizes wood waste from farms, forestry, and other resources where it would otherwise be open-air burned for disposal, left to decompose, or sent to a landfill.

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JULY 31, 2018

Toyota unveiled the second iteration of its hydrogen fuel cell electric Class 8 truck ( earlier post ) during the Center for Automotive Research (CAR) Management Briefing Seminars in Northern Michigan.

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Long Beach Toyota Hydrogen Los Angeles 150

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2019

The renewable natural gas from that digestion facility is already being used to fuel about 400 waste hauling trucks. Renewable natural gas is a carbon-negative fuel produced from waste and agriculture that can be used in trucks and buses, to generate electricity, fuel heating systems in homes and businesses, and for cooking.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Through Eastman’s circular recycling technologies, OEM manufacturers will now be able to specify content and recycled-content plastics in critical Class A components, such as molded-in-color interior trim. —Eligio Martini, president of Gruppo Maip. In addition, Tr?va

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Estes, the nation’s largest privately-owned freight transportation carrier, is acquiring the Class 8 natural gas trucks equipped with the Cummins Westport ultra-clean ISX12N engine for its California fleet, and is expected to use an approximate 2.8 Clean Energy Fuels Corp., million gallons of RNG over the seven-year contract.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

It brings together Neste’s expertise in the production and supply of renewable diesel and SAF with Shell Aviation’s world-class credentials in supplying and managing fuel around the world. Neste MY Sustainable Aviation Fuel is made from sustainably sourced renewable waste and residue raw materials.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 11, 2020

This is the first installment from the $90 million available for the Zero-Emission Class 8 Freight and Port Drayage Trucks category and will provide funding to replace freight trucks (including drayage), waste haulers, dump trucks, and concrete mixers.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2020

Renewable natural gas and lactic acid production from wet waste feedstocks. The results show that both waste-derived RNG and LA production pathways bring significant GHG emission reduction benefits. These MCCI fuels are both diesel-like bio-blendstocks blended with conventional diesel. Green ammonia. O 2 (NMC 532).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

The plant will feature SGH2’s gasification technology, which uses biogenic waste, biomass and recycled water to produce carbon negative hydrogen. The facility will process 42,000 tons of recycled waste annually, employ 35 full-time employees once operational and provide over 600 jobs during construction.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 15, 2021

With its world-class aluminum business, Rio Tinto is also well positioned to produce aluminum-scandium alloys—of interest, among other applications, in lightweighting for EVs. The waste stream from that process is now being used to produce scandium.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2013

The new rule clarifies that carbon dioxide streams captured from emission sources, injected underground via UIC Class VI wells approved for the purpose of geologic sequestration under the Safe Drinking Water Act, and meeting certain other conditions (e.g.,

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2020

Redeem was the first commercially available RNG vehicle fuel, derived from capturing biogenic methane that is produced from the decomposition of organic waste from dairies, landfills, and wastewater treatment plants. The City of Tucson, AZ has signed a multi-year maintenance agreement with Clean Energy.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2021

The new funding will help ClearFlame deploy pilot Class 8 trucks with its patented technology. Historically, clean-burning fuels, and those that are easy to make from waste CO 2 streams or syngas, have failed to ignite using MCCI. The company plans to have demonstration trucks on the road by the end of 2021.

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MARCH 22, 2018

Emission savings of around 30% are projected from the refitting of ULEMCo technology onto the DAF truck, and the partners believe this makes it best in class for both CO 2 and air quality emissions for this type of vehicle. In September 2017, ULEMCo reported completing the first hydrogen fuel conversion for a UK commercial waste company.

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MARCH 23, 2011

million, three-year grant (award # 1048796 ) to address various topics relevant to automotive waste heat recovery using thermoelectrics. Research discoveries will be integrated in undergraduate and graduate classes at both Stanford and The University of South Florida.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2018

The investment in Singapore will include additional logistics capabilities and enhanced raw material pretreatment for the use of increasingly low-quality waste and residue raw materials also for the existing refinery. NEXBTL technology can make top-quality renewable products out of nearly any waste and residue fats and vegetable oils.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The SAF is produced by World Energy at its refinery in Paramount, California, from a feedstock of agricultural waste fats and oils. The engine offers a 12% better thrust-to-weight ratio and 5% higher efficiency, while maintaining its class-leading low noise and emissions performance.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2009

will test two hybrid systems—one developed by ArvinMeritor and one developed by Eaton and Peterbilt—in Class 8 trucks. Class 8 trucks have a Gross Vehicle Weight Rating (GVWR) of 33,001 pounds or more, three axles and 10 tires. Wal-Mart uses Class 8 trucks to haul its trailers and deliver product to its stores.

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Peterbilt Eaton Hybrid Fuel 150

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2021

The world has not yet cracked the problem of cost-effective conversion of lignocellulosic biomass into higher value products, and we intend to do just that with CE+P as applied to sugarcane non-food waste streams. —Blake Simmons, JBEI Chief Science & Technology Officer.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Tests have been conducted using a pressure-atomizing MultiFlame burner on an Alfa Laval Aalborg OS-TCi boiler, as well as a methanol valve unit (MVU) designed by Alfa Laval to meet the class requirements from ABS. One of these is the use of an Alfa Laval Aalborg Micro economizer in conjunction with the OS-TCi.

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