Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Hyundai has taken two out of the ten spots in the 2019 WardsAuto 10 Best Engine competition with the all-new 2019 NEXO FCEV fuel cell vehicle and 2019 Kona Electric CUV. This marks the tenth time Hyundai has earned a WardsAuto 10 Best Engine recognition since the awards’ annual inception in 1995. Earlier post.) Kona Electric.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

ULEMCo’s H2ICED allows hydrogen to be mixed with diesel directly in a conventional engine, supplied via onboard gas tanks, in volumes that displace between 30-70% of the energy from diesel. ULEMCo has supplied heavy-duty vehicles to ACC previously, and these have been running successfully on the roads for over a year.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2023

The system will provide the infrastructure and network to connect industrial emitters of CO 2 to new and developing markets for their carbon, while ensuring project developers, such as Infinium, have access to a diversified, consistent, and ratable CO 2 supply. Operations are expected to be phased in early 2025.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Scottish Enterprise, Transport Scotland and the Hydrogen Accelerator, based at the University of St Andrews, have appointed Arcola Energy and a consortium of industry leaders in hydrogen fuel cell integration, rail engineering and functional safety to deliver Scotland’s first hydrogen powered train.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2016

Sainsbury’s has become the first company to introduce a refrigerated delivery truck cooled by a liquid nitrogen powered engine ( earlier post ), which will eliminate all emissions associated with refrigeration. The Dearman Engine operates by the vaporization and expansion of cryogenic fluids.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 15, 2022

Battery Resourcers, a vertically integrated lithium-ion battery recycling and engineered materials company, plans to open a commercial-scale, lithium-ion battery recycling facility in Covington, Ga. Compared to mining and production of new materials, the Hydro-to Cathode recycling process is 93% cleaner at a 59% lower cost.

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Li-ion Lithium Ion Batteries Battery 482

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Manufactured with Loop Energy signature eFlow fuel cell stacks, the systems were supplied to Skywell by InPower Renewable Energy—Loop’s partner in a China-based fuel cell engine manufacturing joint venture. InPower has also provided a purpose-designed DC-DC solution for the vehicle.

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Fuel China Energy Companies 321

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) announced that GAC Toyota Engine Co. Ltd (GAC), began production in October of a lineup of four-cylinder, in-line AR engines at its plant in Nansha, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, China. The engine comes in three displacements: A 2.5-liter, liter, a 2.7-liter liter and a 2.5-liter

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2022

That Polestar will be part of future projects with Candela by supplying an essential part for the innovative propulsion of their boats, is awesome. As a battery supplier to Candela, we can help drive the transition to cleaner oceans and lakes, and electrify waterborne transport. —Thomas Ingenlath, Polestar CEO.

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Batteries Battery Mariner Electric 259

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

—the company’s LNG system for heavy-duty diesel vehicles—to an updated base engine platform. offers the same power (>400hp), torque, engine braking and drivability as diesel, required to meet the harsh demands of heavy duty transport with no change in the driving experience. Westport Fuel Systems Inc. Westport HPDI 2.0

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Teslarati

JUNE 22, 2021

Audi will now phase out gas engines by the year 2033, CEO Markus Duesmann announced at the Berlin Climate Conference earlier today. Duesmann said that “Audi is ready to make its decisive and powerful move into the electric age,” finally accepting the challenge of ditching gas engines for electric ones.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2023

Li-Metal continues to advance the commercialization of a patented, cleaner and improved lithium metal production technology to establish ourselves as a domestic supplier of lithium metal for the broader North American market.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2014

earlier post ) on the Weichai Westport WP12 engine platform. The Weichai Westport WP 12 HPDI is China’s first engine featuring Westport HPDI technology, delivering the power and performance of the base diesel engine, while replacing up to 95% of diesel fuel with cleaner burning, less expensive natural gas.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 18, 2013

The global energy supply became 6% cleaner from 1971 to 1990,in response to the oil shocks of the 1970s. In 1990 the underlying carbon intensity of supply was 57.1 The world must slow the growth of energy demand as well as make its energy supply cleaner, the IEA said. tCO 2 /TJ (2.39 tCO 2 /toe); in 2010 it was 56.7

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2021

Shell will also expand its role in providing Hyundai with cleaner mobility solutions. Accelerating the mobility sector to net zero will require collaborative pioneers willing to act now and establish the alignments needed to deliver a cleaner energy future. Shell, the No.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2013

The new facilities will supply industrial gases to BPCL’s Kochi Refinery, which is currently undergoing a $2.6-billion A phased onstream for the products supplied to BPCL’s Kochi Refinery targets late 2015 for the initial supply of gases. billion integrated expansion project that will increase its crude refining capacity to 15.5

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India Hydrogen Supplies Production 218

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 24, 2020

There’s no change in engine performance. We have noticed that the exhaust appears cleaner and seems less toxic. With waste and residue as feedstock, the only “new” emissions occur during the production operations, which Neste aims to make carbon-neutral by 2035, and supply chain operations. Our experience has been positive.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2021

The results show there is no realistic pathway to full decarbonization of internal combustion engine vehicles, and that only battery and hydrogen fuel-cell EVs have potential to be very low-GHG passenger vehicle pathways. This study uses recent data on industrial-scale battery production and considers regional battery supply chains.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2020

Ricardo North America (Ricardo), engineering specialists in advanced propulsion, software and thermal management, has added to its powertrain design and development expertise with the launch of a team in Southern California and a partnership with opposed-piston engine developer Achates Power. —Marques McCammon.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2021

The solution is designed to help prolong a cleaner engine life and enable vehicle manufacturers to meet increasingly stringent environmental, social, and governance (ESG) standards and regulations, while providing considerable cost savings as the market transitions to electric vehicles (EVs).

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Green Car Congress

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 two orders are similar in scope of supply but have been issued separately. Ltd together with its trading partner, Shanghai CSR Hange Shipping Engineering Co.,

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Chinese Engine Fuel Mariner 199

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Air Products plans to construct a new 180-mile long pipeline connecting its existing Louisiana and Texas hydrogen pipeline systems, creating the world’s largest hydrogen plant and pipeline supply network. Once complete, Air Products’ hydrogen pipeline supply network will stretch from the Houston Ship Channel in Texas to New Orleans, La.

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Hydrogen Supplies Louisiana Production 218

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 3, 2014

An article in the latest issue of IEA Energy: The Journal of the International Energy Agency reports that Estonia, which has the most developed oil shale industry in the world, is collaborating in pursuing wider use of oil shale in a cleaner, more sustainable manner. Different that shale oil—i.e., of global and 17% of European reserves.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2011

Air Products will increase the supply of hydrogen to Marathon Petroleum Company LP, a subsidiary of Marathon Oil Corporation (NYSE: MRO), at Marathon’s Garyville, La. In all, Air Products will increase the current level of supply by approximately 25 million standard cubic feet (MMscf) (around 60,000 kg) per day.

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Supplies Louisiana Production Hydrogen 170

Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2013

Sales of Ford trucks with CNG/LPG-prepped engines have jumped more than 350% since 2009, the company said. Since 2009, we’ve seen the number of Built Ford Tough commercial vehicles sold with factory-prepped engines for CNG/LPG upfit increase by more than 350 percent. —Jon Coleman, Ford Fleet Sustainability and Technology manager.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2018

has entered into definitive development and supply agreements with Weichai Westport Inc. WWI) to develop, to market, and to commercialize a heavy-duty, natural gas engine featuring the Westport HPDI 2.0 s (Weichai Power) heavy-duty engine platforms. Once in production, Westport Fuel Systems will supply critical HPDI 2.0

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Advanced ignition technologies, such as those offered by TPS, have been widely recognized as enablers to achieving higher combustion efficiency and lower emissions for gasoline-powered engines. An innovative plug configuration that reduces the breakdown voltage, resulting in significant cost and size reduction of the power supply.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2022

Achates Power has released initial in-use NO x measurements from the cleaner, heavy-duty diesel engine it developed in a project funded by the California Air Resources Board (CARB) and several partners. heavy-duty opposed-piston engine demonstrated NO x emissions control far better than other diesel engines we have tested.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2018

We’re seeing the combined benefits of our ongoing clean air strategies and increased efficiencies across the supply chain. This is why cleaner technology and increased efficiency matter. The largest ships tend to be new-builds with cleaner engines, another contributor to clean air gains reported in 2017.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2017

At the Tokyo Motor Show, Mazda is introducing the KAI CONCEPT compact hatchback ( earlier post ), powered by the next-generation SKYACTIV-X spark-controlled compression-ignition (SPCCI) gasoline engine ( earlier post ), SKYACTIV-Vehicle Architecture and a more mature expression of the KODO design language. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2013

New fuel booster valve for ME-LGI engine showing the main constituent parts. On 1 July MAN Diesel & Turbo announced the development of a new ME-LGI dual fuel engine. The new engine expands the company’s dual-fuel portfolio, enabling the use of more sustainable fuels such as methanol and Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG).

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Diesel Engine Fuel Mariner 220

Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2021

The plant will produce cleaner gasoline from low-cost natural gas, captured bio-methane from farms and landfills, and mitigated flared gas from the Permian basin. Topsoe is providing engineering and design services currently and will supply catalyst and proprietary hardware to the facility.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2015

The system is powered by an innovative, liquid nitrogen Dearman engine, which replaces the standard diesel engine. Since then the Dearman engine has been re-designed and it is already proving to be 30% lighter, 30% smaller, and 30% more efficient than its predecessor. Dearman liquid air engine, Gen 2 design. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2011

Mazda’s roadmap to the ideal internal combustion engine. the step-by-step introduction of electrification to SKYACTIV internal combustion engines: stop-start, followed by regenerative braking, followed by electric motor drive technologies. Energy balance in an internal combustion engine. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 21, 2022

Engineers and technologists can and should play major roles in creating a greener planet, creating tools that address environmental degradation. Engineers and computer professionals can use them to help make buildings, energy production, farms, health care, and manufacturing greener. Let’s treat every day as Earth Day.

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Climate Change Climate Engine Pollution 98

Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2017

Shell officially opened its Joint Research Center for Cleaner Mobility with Tsinghua’s Department of Automotive Engineering (DAE). Shell integrated its supply chain with its gas value chain in Pearl GTL, Qatar, in order to provide Shell PurePlus Technology-enabled engine oils around the world.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2021

The development of the reactor incorporates expertise from chemical engineering, optics, materials science, theoretical physics, and nanophotonics. Previous seed and Series A investors including The Engine, GOOSE Capital, and Evok Innovations also joined the round.

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