Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

A chemical engineer from the University of Houston is leading a $2.1-million million project to find new catalytic materials that work at lower exhaust temperatures, allowing automakers to build vehicles that operate more efficiently while retaining the ability to clean emissions before they leave the tailpipe. and Johnson Matthey Inc.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 15, 2021

By Samantha Houston This blog post was written with substantial input from Alyssa Tsuchiya. Courtesy of Union Of Concerned Scientists.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2019

Other participants include angel investors from the Creative Destruction Lab program and the Houston area. The financing was co-led by The Engine and by The GOOSE Society of Texas. Previous investor Evok Innovations was also a major participant in the round.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Researchers from the University of Houston (UH) have developed a cobalt(II) oxide (CoO) nanocrystalline catalyst that can carry out overall water splitting with a solar-to-hydrogen efficiency of around 5%. The generation of hydrogen from water using sunlight could potentially form the basis of a clean and renewable source of energy.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2023

The JV tankers Stena Pro Marine and Stena Prosperous were refueled with methanol via barge while discharging petroleum products at a terminal in the Port of Houston in the first week of April. Bunkering Methanol is widely available in the Port of Houston, which is the United States’ busiest port in terms of foreign tonnage.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 1, 2021

I saw it again yesterday — a major media outlet (a major tech outlet even) was writing a story about Elon Musk and Tesla and added the false information that the Tesla Model S P100DL that recently crashed in Houston, resulting in the death of two men in the car, was on Autopilot. It was […].

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Clean Energy Fuels Corp. announced a multi-year bulk fueling agreement to supply liquefied natural gas (LNG) to two private UPS stations located in Mesquite and Houston, Texas.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2015

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded $5 million in grant funding for 4 clean diesel projects at ports in California, Oregon, New Jersey and Texas. The Port of Houston Authority will replace 25 drayage trucks with drayage trucks powered by certified engines that are model year 2011 or newer.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 13, 2021

A few days ago, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released its preliminary report for the investigation of the April 17th crash of a Tesla near Houston, Texas. The NTSB’s findings confirm statements Tesla made and show that there was indeed a driver in the seat before the crash.

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 30, 2021

In past articles about the crash of a Tesla near Houston, I mentioned that I had requested information from Constable Mark Herman about the crash. Today, I received a disappointing response, but did get a little bit of useful information.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Houston-based Trillium is a leading provider of renewable fuels and alternative energy solutions for fleets around the country. The Santa Ana, California hydrogen station, which went live Friday, was jointly developed by Trillium, Air Products, the Center for Transportation and the Environment (CTE), Ballard Fuel Systems and New Flyer.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

H2@Scale in Texas and Beyond intends to show that renewable hydrogen can be a cost-effective fuel for multiple end-use applications, including fuel cell electric vehicles, when coupled with large, baseload consumers that use hydrogen for clean, reliable stationary power.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2015

Florida-based truckload carrier Raven Transport is expanding its clean-burning natural gas fleet with 115 Peterbilt Model 579s, equipped with sleepers and powered by liquefied natural gas (LNG) to haul goods for a leading consumer packaged goods company. The fleet will also fuel at Clean Energy’s existing Albany, Ga.; Birmingham, Ala.;

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Cars That Think

JULY 12, 2023

National Clean Hydrogen Strategy and Roadmap putting the US in a prime position to lead the global hydrogen economy. In this report we will highlight 100 companies paving the way to achieve $1 per 1 kilogram of clean hydrogen in 1 decade. The US Department of Energy has set out the U.S. Download this free whitepaper now!

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2016

Clean Energy Fuels has won a $10-million, multi-year procurement from New Jersey Transit, the nation’s third largest provider of bus, rail and light rail transit, which links major points in New Jersey, New York and Philadelphia and provides close to 223 million passenger trips each year. In 2015, Dillon’s fleet consumed 1.1

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CleanTechnica EVs

DECEMBER 10, 2022

On a recent trip across Texas, I found myself needing to get a charge in Houston. I remembered a previous article about Phillips 66 installing their first DC fast charging station at their flagship store … which just happens to be in Houston. Plus, I haven’t charged at a Freewire station before, so it seemed […].

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CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Article by Samantha Houston, a senior vehicles analyst for the Clean Transportation program at Union of Concerned Scientists. The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) contains a tax credit that can be used for electric vehicle charging infrastructure.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The projects would also help improve air quality in underserved areas of major American cities, including New York, Los Angeles, Houston, Chicago, San Francisco, Oakland, and Salt Lake City. Gas Technology Institute: Houston to Los Angeles (H2LA)–I-10 Hydrogen Corridor Project.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Clean Energy. Clean Fuels Ohio. Region Clean Cities. Houston-Galveston. will work to expand access to natural gas, propane and biodiesel transportation fuels across the eight-county Houston-Galveston area. Clean Cities. The I-40 Collaboration of Clean Cities, a partnership across Arkansas and.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2012

Clean Energy Fuels Corp., Major highway segments planned for early opening include, among others, those linking San Diego-Los Angeles-Riverside-Las Vegas; the Texas Triangle (Houston-San Antonio-Dallas/Ft. Littlefair, Clean Energy’s President and CEO. ANGH Route map shows initial phase of America‘s Natural Gas Highway.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2010

million for emerging technologies projects as part of a summer-long roll-out of $120 million in clean diesel grants. Most clean diesel grants involve widely used strategies such as retrofits or replacements. University of Houston for $1 million for NO x reducing technologies installed on school buses.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2009

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced three recovery act grants totaling $20 million in funding for the SmartWay Clean Diesel Finance Program. Overall, the recovery act allotted $300 million for the National Clean Diesel Campaign, $30 million of which will fund SmartWay Clean Diesel Finance Program grants.

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CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Bitcoin has a well known problem, even if many bitcoin fans would like to ignore it or pretend it isn’t real. The problem is that bitcoin mining uses an enormous amount of electricity. It’s not a large amount, and actually maybe it’s not even an enormous amount — it’s an absurd amount. Naturally, people who […].

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2022

This work also supports the creation of new clean energy jobs, helping transition some of the oil and gas workforce to the production of renewable energy. ICE Thermal Harvesting (Houston, TX).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2015

The DERA funding covers engine replacements, repowers and idle reduction technologies to clean up a variety of older diesel engines, including those in heavy-duty trucks used at ports, delivery trucks, long haul trucks, marine vessels, school buses, and even agricultural equipment. Louis Clean Cities is replacing six school busses.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2011

Data collected during a major 2010 state-federal atmospheric research project show that the first-in-the-nation regulation requiring ocean-going vessels to use clean fuel when near the California coast has been extremely effective in reducing sulfur dioxide pollution from ships, according to the California Air Resources Board (ARB).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Shell and the consortium partners—including McDermott’s CB&I Storage Solutions, NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, GenH2 and the University of Houston—have been selected by the U.S. The University of Houston will focus their efforts on the creation of detailed thermal models of the proposed insulation systems.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 17, 2023

Cruise is now coming to Houston and Dallas. Cruise has slowly been expanding its network of robotaxis and their availability in certain markets. Though, it’s been a long time since the company entered new cities … until now.

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CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Remember that so-called “driverless” Tesla crash in Houston that the media went nuts over? Jennifer Sensiba did a very good job covering that for CleanTechnica, and unlike the wild headlines suggesting killer robot cars and whatnot, her coverage was fair and balanced.

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CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 21, 2022

FreeWire Technologies announced that it has installed ultrafast electric-vehicle chargers at a convenience fuel station near Phillips 66’s Houston Headquarters, marking the debut of such […]. And this is just the beginning.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The US Department of Energy’ (DOE’s) Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) is awarding $100 million to eight clean energy technology projects through the Seeding Critical Advances for Leading Energy technologies with Untapped Potential (SCALEUP) program. Award amount: $20,000,000). Niron Magnetics, Inc. Quidnet Energy, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2021

H2@Scale in Texas and Beyond intends to show that renewable hydrogen can be a cost-effective fuel for multiple end-use applications, including fuel-cell-electric vehicles, when coupled with large, baseload consumers that use hydrogen for clean, reliable stationary power.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 19, 2014

US transit agencies are adopting lower-emissions diesel technology at a faster percentage than the heavy-duty trucking fleet, said Ezra Finkin, the Director of Policy for the Diesel Technology Forum, at last week’s American Public Transportation Association (APTA) Expo Bus and Maintenance Technical Session in Houston.

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Electric Auto Association

JULY 5, 2021

Houston chapter leads toward clean energy in Texas. The outreach efforts of the Houston Electric Auto Association (HEAA), founded 34 years ago in the heart of American oil country, have not always been met with a positive response. “We Just don’t bring your Tesla HEAA meets at TX/RX Labs , a Houston makerspace. “We

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CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 24, 2021

Alset EHome will construct the community with Tesla’s solar panels and Powerwalls in Northpark Community in Porter, Texas, which is a suburb of Houston. The community […].

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2013

Within his talk about the need for a US energy policy at the IHS CERAWeek 2013 energy conference in Houston, GM Chairman and CEO Dan Akerson outlined some highlights of the company’s fuel economy plan through the 2016 model year. Clean diesel. The new Cadillac ATS is lighter than a comparable BMW 3-Series.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

UPS has expanded its agreement with Clean Energy Fuels to use up to 500,000 gallon equivalents of renewable liquefied natural gas (RLNG) annually in Texas. UPS stations in Houston and Mesquite will dispense the RLNG to a fleet of about 140 UPS tractors. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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