Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Cleantech research firm Pike Research forecasts growth in natural gas vehicles (NGV) on the road worldwide to 17 million units by 2015, up from 9.7 to reach just over 3 million vehicles (including conversions) by 2015. between 2008 and 2015, which translates into 31,347 vehicles (including conversions) sold in 2015.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2010

Santa Ana, California-based California Yellow Cab has ordered 25 units of the compressed natural gas (CNG) and propane (LPG) engine prep package for the Ford Transit Connect Taxi. The engine prep package enables conversion of the Transit Connect to CNG or LPG. California Yellow Cab began using natural gas in 2002. liter and 6.8-liter

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2013

The law enforcement fleet began switching to autogas in March 2013 through Blue Star Gas, which provides the Alliance AutoGas program for West Coast fleets. Auto Additions of Salem performed the bi-fuel vehicle conversions while Blue Star Gas installed an on-site fuel station and delivers year-round fuel supply.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2011

billion venture capital fund over the next 10 years, Chesapeake NG Ventures Corporation (CNGV), dedicated to identifying and investing in companies and technologies that will replace the use of gasoline and diesel with natural gas and natural gas-to-liquids (GTL) fuels. per gallon cheaper than gasoline and diesel; and.

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Baua Electric

MAY 10, 2024

Fossil fuels currently meet this majority demand, raising concerns due to potential CO 2 (a major greenhouse gas) doubling compared to preindustrial levels (approximately 285 ppm for about 400 000 years before the industrial revolution and reached 376 ppm as of 2005 and is still increasing).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2017

LanzaTech has developed a gas fermentation process based on biological catalysts to make fuels and chemicals from a range of waste gases instead of sugars and yeast. India is adopting a cleaner and greener economic growth pathway today, with the Government running one of the largest renewable capacity expansion programmes in the world.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2010

Each shuttle van consumes more than 7,500 gallons of gas annually; by switching to propane, Prime Time Shuttle will save more than 1.5 million gallons of gasoline each year. The fuel tank fit snugly along the vehicle’s frame rail where the gasoline tank was. Click to enlarge. The E-350 van features a 5.4L

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2010

For $100 million in one year, we’ll demonstrate how to rapidly reduce use of oil in transportation with safe, warrantied retrofits of tens of millions gas-guzzlers. We now have a sprinkling of promising companies working to get funded to convert gas-guzzlers. When they’re mass-produced, conversions will cost under $10-$15,000.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2021

The air in the United States and Western Europe is much cleaner than even a decade ago. Low-sulfur gasoline standards and regulations on power plants have successfully cut sulfate concentrations in the air, reducing the fine particulate matter that harms human health and cleaning up the environmental hazard of acid rain.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2019

Researchers at MIT and the Ford Motor Company have found that depending on the location, lightweight conventional vehicles could have a lower lifecycle greenhouse gas impact than electric vehicles, at least in the near term. Their paper is published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Tax credits and gasoline prices necessary for various electric vehicles to be cost-competitive with conventional vehicles at 2011 vehicle prices. Those people who purchase electric vehicles because of the tax credit use less gasoline and produce fewer emissions of greenhouse gases than would otherwise be the case. Source: CBO.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2010

Icom’s liquid-injection systems can be installed on virtually any gasoline vehicle with multi-point injection. Icom’s JTG system is currently in service on more than 100,000 vehicles around the world in a bi-fuel (gasoline-propane) version. Based in Jasper, Ind., Headquartered outside of Detroit in New Hudson, Mich.,

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2011

Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell has signed two pieces of legislation that promote the use of natural gas, electric or other alternative-fueled vehicles in the Commonwealth. He also signed a new executive order setting out the state alternative fuel plan required by House Bill 2282.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Conversion kits also will be available to switch medium-duty gasoline vehicles to run on propane. LPI is a direct replacement of the OEM gasoline injection system. Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), also known as propane or autogas, can be used to replace gasoline and diesel. medium-duty engine, as well as a 6.0L

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2016

An FCC system circulates catalyst in a closed loop between two key vessels in order to convert vacuum gas oil to gasoline. The RTP conversion unit is being engineered and supplied by Envergent Technologies LLC, a joint venture between Ensyn and Honeywell UOP. The Government of Canada is providing $44.5 Lawrence Seaway.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2009

With the capabilities to produce a cleaner, non-petroleum-based fuel that exceeds JP-8 specs, Accelergy utilizes proprietary micro-catalytic conversion technologies licensed from Exxon Mobil Research and Engineering Company.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

plans to expand its existing network of liquefied natural gas (LNG) truck fueling stations in Southern California this year beyond its current two LNG stations located at the Los Angeles/Long Beach ports complex. acre site, the station is the second that the company has opened in the area to serve natural gas-powered port drayage trucks.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2018

liter four-cylinder Dynamic Force Engine is more fuel efficient, runs cleaner, and is more powerful than previous iterations, and excels at dissipating thermal inefficiencies. The new TNGA 2.5-liter inches; bore remains at 3.44 inches; bore remains at 3.44 Efficiencies on many levels are seen with the implementation of the new PCU.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

BCG’s analysis finds that cellulosic ethanol is on the verge of becoming cost-competitive with gasoline at $3/gal US. The fortunes of alternative energy have historically waxed and waned with the price levels of oil, gas, and other energy sources, rising when prices are high only to fall once they retreat. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

Bionaphtha is used as a blending component in gasoline and also as a feedstock for the petrochemicals industry. The core of Solena’s solutions is its patented Solena Plasma Gasification (SPG) technology, which is capable of producing a synthetic fuel gas (BioSynGas) from the thermal conversion of bio-based hydrocarbons.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2018

liter four-cylinder Dynamic Force Engine is more fuel efficient, runs cleaner, and is more powerful than previous iterations, and features enhanced thermal management. Energy loss in the conversion efficiency of the transaxle and electric motor is reduced by approximately 20%, and its cooling system’s energy loss is cut by approximately 10%.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2017

liter inline-four-cylinder D-4S gasoline engine and a new 3.5-liter With its long-stroke and high compression ratio, multi-hole direct fuel injectors, variable cooling system and VVT-iE, this high-output powerplant takes the gasoline-powered internal combustion engine to an increased level of thermal efficiency. Powertrains.

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The Truth About Cars

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

No, this is a pickup for the homeowner who hauls big stuff on occasion but would prefer to do it without gasoline. It’s no worse than any other pickup truck, however, and in a way oddly reminiscent of similar vibrations you’ll experience from a gas-engined truck. & Cargo space, even disregarding the bed, is quite good.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

Second, the US Department of Agriculture proposed a rule on the Biomass Crop Assistance Program (BCAP) that would provide financing to increase the conversion of biomass to bioenergy. Third, the President’s Biofuels Interagency Working Group (BIWG) released its first report: Growing America’s Fuel. Percent reduction from 2005 baseline).

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Green Cars News

JULY 2, 2009

Discovery of the zeolite catalyst ZSM-22 could have an impact on the production of cleaner transportation fuels from natural gas or biomass. The catalyst, which was previously believed to be inactive in the conversion of methanol to hydrocarbons, has been discovered by researchers at the University of Oslo in Norway.

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Plugs and Cars

JUNE 2, 2007

Rainforest Action Network (RAN) held a rally in Sacramento Thursday outside the lobbying offices of the Association of Automobile Manufacturers to protest their continuing lawsuit against California's greenhouse gas legislation. In a Prius or Civic Hybrid at 50mpg, the trip would have cost about $30 in gas, tolls and parking in Sacto.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

2 Plug-in hybrids are cleaner 3 Plug-in hybrids are cheaper 4 Plug-in hybrids are domestic 5 Plug-in hybrids already exist 1. You can fill it up at the gas station, and you can plug it in to any 120-volt outlet. But when you do, your car essentially becomes an electric vehicle with a gas-tank backup. What Are Plug-In Hybrids?

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

JANUARY 28, 2009

utilizing these ideas and instructions in an attempting to enhance national security, reduce gas consumption, vehicle "emissions", your carbon footprint, or smog, you do so at your own risk & peril. See also our EAA-PHEV:General disclaimer talk : Disclaimer edit Please visit the Conversion Interest page to help us gauge DIYers interest!

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2013

Naturally aspirated port-fueled gasoline engines have produced the least PM per mile or per brake horsepower hour, both by particle mass and particle number. Gasoline engines using turbocharging also show increased PM number emissions.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2009

A new report from the National Research Council examines and, when possible, estimates, “hidden” costs of energy production and use—such as the damage air pollution imposes on human health—that are not reflected in market prices of coal, oil, other energy sources, or the electricity and gasoline produced from them. cents to about 1.7

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2012

Honeywell’s UOP—a major international supplier and licensor of technology for petroleum refining, gas processing, petrochemical production and major manufacturing industries—has also been an early leader in developing technologies for the production of renewable drop-in hydrocarbon fuels. —Al-Sabawi and Chen (2012).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2015

High-temperature solid-oxide fuel cells and solid-oxide electrolysis cells have potential over the intermediate term to double energy efficiency from fossil fuels and reduce greenhouse gas emissions as well as over the long-term to enable the shift to renewable energy sources such as solar and wind. earlier post ).

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 22, 2009

The same state agency that drove the electric car off a cliff is now poised to wreck a new Berkeley company that triples the gas mileage of a Toyota Prius. The same state agency that drove the electric car off a cliff is now poised to wreck a new Berkeley company that triples the gas mileage of a Toyota Prius.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2015

The overall process reduces the carbon footprint relative to gasoline by 60–80% according to peer-reviewed published work from Georgia Tech. LanzaTech Gas Fermentation Process. LanzaTech is being recognized for the development of a process that uses waste gas to produce fuels and chemicals, reducing companies’ carbon footprint.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

Though the PHEV combines the two types of energy and power, it is not merely a temporary “transition” between gasoline and diesel cars to pure electric cars. Since it can refuel from a standard household outlet and from a gasoline station, it needs no new infrastructure. It is much more than that. Engineering Advantages of the PHEV.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2009

Included in the lineup are four-, six- and eight-cylinder diesel and gasoline powerplants with outputs ranging from 150 kW/204 hp to 285 kW/ 388 hp. The HP turbine is located directly at the exhaust manifold and initially allows exhaust gas to flow through it; it then rotates at up to 215,000 revolutions per minute.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2009

ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company (EMRE) has launched what it calls a “ significant ” new program to research and develop advanced biofuels from photosynthetic algae that are compatible with today’s gasoline and diesel fuels. Phase Five: Conversion of bio-oil to biofuel. Earlier post.) tubular) photobioreactors, or both.

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