Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2022

Energy company RWE and steel producer ArcelorMittal have signed a memorandum of understanding to work together to develop, build and operate offshore wind farms and hydrogen facilities that will supply the renewable energy and green hydrogen required to produce low-emissions steel in Germany.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Rivian has signed a power purchase agreement with Apex Clean Energy to supply their Normal, Illinois, manufacturing facility with wind power. With the secured energy, Rivian will be able to power 75% of its operations on renewables while also aiding the company in powering its EV charging “Adventure Network.”

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2014

The construction of a new north-south electric power line is being extensively discussed in Germany. MAN SE, one of Europe’s leading manufacturers of commercial vehicles, engines and mechanical engineering equipment, and mostly owned by the Volkswagen Group, prefers “power-to-gas” instead.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2020

The falling cost of making hydrogen from wind and solar power offers a promising route to cutting emissions in some of the most fossil-fuel-dependent sectors of the economy, such as steel, heavy-duty vehicles, shipping and cement, according to a new report from BloombergNEF (BNEF). kg in most parts of the world before 2050. MMBtu) in 2050.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 25, 2024

A new report by the European Commission adds yet another real-world data point showing that plug-in hybrid electric vehicles create much more emissions than we previously thought – by an average of 3.5 For this reason, PHEVs have long been thought of as an ideal transitional technology between gas vehicles and electric ones.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

TECO 2030 ( earlier post ) is aiming to establish Norway’s first large-scale production of fuel cells, optimized to be the heart of hydrogen-powered ships and other heavy-duty installations. The partnership with AVL has already resulted in bringing to production the TECO Future Funnel, a complete exhaust gas cleaning system.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2017

Southern California Gas Co. SoCalGas) announced that new research on power-to-gas technology shows the technique holds the ability to significantly increase the use of intermittent renewable energy. to 35% by implementing a power-to-gas strategy. to 35% by implementing a power-to-gas strategy.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Daimler and The Linde Group are partnering with oil and gas companies TOTAL, OMV, Avia and Hoyer this year to build 20 new hydrogen fueling stations in Germany, with 13 to be completed by the end of 2015. The aim is to enable motorists to reach any destination in Germany in their hydrogen-fueled vehicles. Earlier post.).

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The Truth About Cars

MAY 17, 2023

Honda, Suzuki, Kawasaki, and Yamaha have just collectively promised to develop a slew of hydrogen-reliant engines designed to power small vehicles. It’s largely counter to what the rest of the world is doing and begs the question of why Japan seems so intent on making hydrogen power work.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 27, 2014

Hydrogenics Corporation, a leading developer and manufacturer of hydrogen generation and hydrogen-based power modules, was selected by the Independent Electricity System Operator ( IESO ) for Ontario as one of five grid storage projects. Convergent Energy and Power LLC. —Daryl Wilson, CEO of Hydrogenics. Lead organization.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2011

Audi A3 TCNG for e-gas project. Starting in 2013, Audi will begin series production of TCNG models whose engines—derived from TFSI units—will be powered by e-gas: synthetic methane produced via the methanation of hydrogen produced by electrolysis using renewable electricity. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 21, 2013

Clariant, a global provider of specialty chemicals, has supplied a proprietary CO 2 -SNG (synthetic natural gas) catalyst for the methanation unit of Audi’s new power-to-gas facility in Werlte, Germany. The “e-gas plant” was started up in June this year and is part of Audi’s sustainability initiative.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

The SQ5 TDI was first introduced in the fall of 2012 as the first Audi S model powered by a diesel engine. TDI develops its power earlier and more forcefully than before. This offers the advantage since exhaust gas cleaning responds more quickly. When the car decelerates, the MHEV system recovers up to 8 kW of power.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2021

—Amy Davis, Vice President and President of New Power at Cummins. Last year, Sinopec set the vision of becoming the world’s leading clean energy chemical company and positioned the entire hydrogen industry chain as the core business for its new power strategy.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

signed a memorandum of understanding with Fraunhofer IKTS (Institute for Ceramic Technologies and Systems) to form a German-based joint venture to develop the market in Europe for Direct FuelCell (DFC) stationary power plants. The Germany-based joint venture will target the European market for baseload distributed generation.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Daimler AG and leading energy companies signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in Berlin, with the participation of the German Minister of Transport, Wolfgang Tiefensee, to evaluate and expand the setup of a hydrogen infrastructure in Germany to support the series production of fuel cell electric vehicles. Earlier post.).

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

His plan’s legacy is the dozens of cooling towers rising from the French landscape, marking the nuclear power stations that produce over two-thirds of France’s electricity, by far the highest proportion of any country on Earth. Italy hasn’t hosted nuclear power at all since 1990. Spain plans to start phasing out in 2027.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The most notable new policies include the US “Inflation Reduction Act”, legislation providing more than $369 billion in funding for clean technologies, and the European Union’s REPowerEU plan, which sets ambitious targets to reduce reliance on gas from Russia. advancing or delaying the time of electricity dispatch.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Physicists first suspected more than a century ago that the fusing of hydrogen into helium powers the sun. And scientists and engineers have continued to study the sun’s fusion process in hopes of one day using nuclear fusion to generate heat or electricity. But these generators convert heat to electricity at roughly 7.5

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Volkswagen faces mounting pressure to keep up with Tesla and Chinese automakers in the transition to battery-electric vehicles (BEVs), and its success in doing so could have major implications. In 2015, the company admitted to cheating on emissions standards through the use of its “clean diesel” products , and it later paid out over $9.5

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2021

Synthetic fuels for passenger vehicles, commercial trucks or even marine applications could play an important role in achieving a near-zero emissions mobility, by using renewable energy sources, such as solar or wind power, to create a closed CO 2 cycle when viewed from a holistic “well-to-wheel” perspective. —Steffen Hoppe.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

This H 2 filling station—the eleventh in the TOTAL network and the tenth in the German federal state of Baden-Württemberg—is differentiated by producing hydrogen on-site through steam electrolysis, using electricity generated by a solar array. With an input power of 150 kW el the module produces 40 Nm³ per hour of hydrogen.

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CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

In recent months it’s become clear that there’s a distinctly non-cottage industry in Germany producing unintentionally and intentionally misleading reports. continued] The post German Energy Agency Dena Is Just As Subject To Hydrogen Gruppendenken As JRC & PIK appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2017

Audi has agreed with Germany’s Federal Motor Transport Authority that it will actively approach the relevant customers and recall the affected cars. 14,000 of those 24,000 cars are registered in Germany. The engine thereby acquires more spontaneous response characteristics and an even more homogeneous buildup of power.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

UPS has purchased another 48 heavy tractor trucks equipped to run on Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG). Manufactured by Kenworth, the LNG tractors are powered by Westport HD Systems and initially will pull trailers on a transit lane linking Ontario, Calif., UPS has contracted with Clean Energy Fuels Corp. and Las Vegas, Nev.,

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Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2013

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) have identified two compressed air energy storage methods for the temporary storage of the Northwest’s excess wind power and two eastern Washington locations to put them into practice.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2011

In Germany, renewable electricity generation will be 35 percent by 2020, and 50 percent by 2050. Why then do we not have the same clarity of goal for the electricity generating industry here in the USA? Power plant capital costs. The same can be said for the electricity companies that generate power in the USA.

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 12, 2022

A vehicle should be pure electric or pure gas- or diesel-powered — if you’re short of a pure EV, you might as well just be non-electrified. We see college teams doing solar vehicle races where they don’t accept any grid power, which is cool, but they […].

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2017

This event drew a field of 32 electric, hybrid, fuel cell, diesel and natural gas powered vehicles from nearly all the world’s major vehicle manufacturers and top design houses. Safe, clean and effective mobility for all. Michelin then hosted a second Challenge Bibendum in 2000.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2016

The remarkable advantage for BMW customers in using BMW i3 batteries as a plug and play storage application is the ability to tap into an alternative resource for residential and commercial backup power, thus using renewable energy much more efficiently, and enabling additional revenues from the energy market.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2013

Audi of America introduced four new TDI clean diesel models for the US market this year—the Audi A8, A7, A6, Q5—along with an updated Q7 TDI, all equipped with a second-generation 3.0L Not only is it more powerful and contains up to 30% better efficiency than traditional gasoline, etc. Audi''s Gen 2 3.0L Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

In a new departure, the A5 Sportback is also available as a bivalent g-tron, which customers can run on either Audi e-gas ( earlier post ), natural gas or gasoline. The A5 g-tron is powered by a 2.0 It develops 125 kW (170 hp) of power and 270 N·m (199 lb-ft) of torque. lb) of gas per 100 kilometers (62.1

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2021

The Front-Loading Net Zero report states that electricity production costs could be reduced by up to 50% by 2050 if countries and states adopt 100% renewable systems faster than currently planned. As the investments start to flow in, power producers will see the running hours of their inflexible, legacy power plants decrease.

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Clean Fleet Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Sharp-looking, powerful and affordable (with a base price of $36,090), this gran turismo has a place in both around-town and open road driving. Designed in Kia’s Frankfurt, Germany, design studio and built in Sohari, Korea, the Stinger is truly a world car. Clean Fleet Report spent a fun week in the 2022 Kia Stinger GT-Line RWD.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 19, 2023

Then, as now, wind farms are operating off the world’s coasts—but not all of these offshore sites are connected to the mainland via underwater power cables. They are highly automated production islands that directly convert wind energy to hydrogen, with a few of them processing the gas into fuels and other goods.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 30, 2022

As a bonus, the tech onboard the balloons runs on solar power. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has put a new set of supercomputers into operation to power the next generation of modeling. model has been lagging in accuracy behind Europe’s version, a problem that first became evident during Hurricane Sandy in 2012.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2013

MW solar park at Chattanooga is owned and operated by Silicon Ranch; VW has signed a 20-year power purchase agreement. The power will be used directly in production; solar power will provide up to 12.5% of the electric power required in full-capacity operation and 100% of demand when the plant is not in production.

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