Teslarati

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Construction has begun on a 250MW/500MWh Tesla Megapack project in Swanbank, Queensland, as part of a partnership on the Swanbank Clean Energy Hub between the company Yurika and public utility organization CleanCo, as detailed in a press release on Monday.

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Tesla Australia Coal Clean 135

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

A research team at the University of Wisconsin–Madison has identified a new way to convert ammonia to nitrogen gas through a process that could be a step toward ammonia replacing carbon-based fuels. This technology could enable a carbon-free fuel economy, but it’s one half of the puzzle. The new reaction avoids those toxic byproducts.

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Energy Wisconsin Hydrogen Gas-Electric 418

Clean Fleet Report

JUNE 17, 2024

Today, it is a cost-neutral way for fleet owners to achieve their goals by allowing them to convert an entire diesel-powered fleet to alternative fuel overnight. Some fleet owners can achieve sustainability goals overnight by converting an entire diesel-powered fleet to renewable diesel.

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Renewable Diesel Oakland Fleet 52

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

Converting and Retrofitting America’s Manufacturing Plants. Projects selected for this funding must also contribute to the President’s Justice40 Initiative, which aims to advance diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in America’s workforce and ensure every community benefits from the transition to a clean energy future.

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Conversion Grant Manufacturer Supplies 279

Drive Electric

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Press release 13 December 2023 New research shows the new Government’s policy to remove the Clean Car Discount (CCD) and weaken the Clean Car Standard could mean between 100,000 and 350,000 fewer electric cars on New Zealand roads by 2030, and increasing emissions by between 900 and 3,000 kilotonnes. And they won’t be needed forever.

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New Zealand Clean Cleaning Economy 98

Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2021

This project is funded through Natural Resources Canada’s Energy Innovation Program (EIP), which invests in the research, development and demonstration of clean energy technologies to lower emissions, including GHGs, with the aim of meeting 2050 clean growth targets.

Canada 186

Canada Clean Cleaning Universal 186

Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2021

The three Notices of Intent (NOI) are for the following potential FOAs: Notice of Intent - SuperTruck 3: ( DE-FOA-0002464 ) Improving the vehicle efficiency and safety of freight transportation while minimizing environmental impact is critical to helping the country decrease its petroleum use and reduce emissions as the economy grows.

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Sustainable Transportation Transportation Economy Hydrogen 199

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

EV Market Stimulation in Divested Economies. Rural Reimagined: Building an EV Ecosystem and Green Economy for Transforming Lives in Economically Distressed Appalachia. Rural Reimagined: Building an EV Ecosystem and Green Economy for Transforming Lives in Economically Distressed Appalachia. Metropolitan Energy Center.

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Emissions Eaton Minnesota Hybrid 304

Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2021

For the implementation of a sustainable energy economy, the greatest challenge is the weather-depending, fluctuating electricity production of wind and solar power plants. To store the green electricity in a highly scalable way, it must be converted into chemical energy. All these aspects lead to increased capital and operating costs.

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Water Hydrogen Store Wind 497

Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2021

Oberon Fuels, producer of clean-burning dimethyl ether (DME) transportation fuel, has begun production of the first renewable DME (rDME) in the United States, and the only current commercial production of this in the world. Once delivered, rDME can be converted to renewable hydrogen at the point of use.

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Renewable Commercial Fuel Production 243

Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2011

Six new corporate partners have joined the National Clean Fleets Partnership. General Electric has committed to convert half of their global vehicle fleet and will partner with fleet customers to deploy a total of 25,000 electric vehicles by 2015. Earlier post.) This project is expected to save 1.5

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Corporation Clean Cleaning Fleet 231

Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2021

The many millions of vehicles will need many millions of fuel cells to convert hydrogen into power, but as yet, Europe has no mass production facility that could cover this demand. Specifically, this is about producing the fuel cell stack on which hydrogen is converted to water and the energy is collected. —Christopher Baum.

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Fuel Production Hydrogen Europe 496

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 20, 2022

Hyzon will evaluate opportunities to utilize the carbon solids Transform produces in Hyzon truck materials, such as battery and carbon fiber production, offering further circular economy opportunities in Hyzon’s operations. —David Soane, Transform Materials’ founder and CEO.

Hydrogen 259

Hydrogen Renewable Production Motor 259

Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2023

Coal and coal production waste contain a wide variety of valuable rare earth elements that can be converted into clean energy technology components. This funding will create new opportunities to remediate land and water while generating rare earth elements necessary for a clean energy economy.

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Coal Production Waste Clean 284

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

The companies expect to work together on hybrid powertrain solutions to enhance their global competitiveness and create economies of scale. To this end, we are systematically converting our portfolio, so that by 2030 more than half of our passenger car sales will be comprised of plug-in hybrids or purely electric vehicles.

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Hybrid Mercedes China Volvo 290

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2016

The new chemical plant will use Enerkem’s innovative technology to convert residual waste into methanol, a raw material used in the chemical industry. The methanol will then be converted into chemicals such as acetic acid (e.g., for fibers and adhesives), thickening agents and dimethyl ether (clean propellant gases).

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Waste Convert Clean Cleaning 329

Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2023

Element 1’s L-Series hydrogen generator uses advanced fuel reforming and hydrogen purification technology to convert a mixture of methanol and water into fuel cell grade high-purity hydrogen, on-site and on-demand. Hydrogen refueling for fuel cell aircraft and ground vehicles residing at airports.

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Hydrogen Grid Grant Renewable 150

Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2011

has selected Envergent Technologies LLC, a Honeywell company, to perform the engineering design for a project that will use Envergent’s RTP Rapid Thermal Processing technology ( earlier post ) to convert palm biomass to renewable heat and electricity. The RTP liquid fuels will be used to generate renewable electricity and heat.

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Malaysia Convert Renewable Design 207

Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2014

A team from the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) has provided an update on China’s proposed Phase 4 fuel consumption standard for passenger cars. In absolute terms, the new regulations would put China third behind the EU and Japan for fuel consumption and GHG regulations. Source: ICCT. Click to enlarge. in 2020.

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Fuel Economy China Economy Fuel 239

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Enerkem gasifies the feedstock and then catalytically converts the resulting cleaned syngas into liquid methanol and then fuel-grade ethanol.

Waste 221

Waste Hydrogen Alternative Fuels Renewable 221

Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2020

The Orange County Transportation Authority board has approved a draft plan outlining how the agency will convert the OC Bus fleet to 100% zero-emission technology by 2040. OCTA’s zero-emission bus rollout plan will now be submitted to the California Air Resources Board. More than half of that funding—$12.5

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Fleet Emissions Fuel Conversion 269

CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 19, 2023

Thailand is the tenth largest automobile manufacturing economy and has a goal to convert 30% of its automobile production into electric vehicle production.

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Thailand Manufacturer Motor Motors 107

Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2021

Bloom Energy announced an agreement with Idaho National Laboratory (INL) to test the use of nuclear energy to produce clean hydrogen through Bloom Energy’s solid-oxide, high-temperature electrolyzer. First announced in July 2020, Bloom Energy’s electrolyzer converts water (or steam) into hydrogen and oxygen.

Idaho 199

Idaho Power Powered Energy 199

Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2017

The defect leads to lower fuel economy, non EPA-compliant emissions levels, and costly and frequent vehicle repairs, the complaint charges. This reduces the truck's fuel economy, according to the complaint.

Fuel Economy 170

Fuel Economy Chrysler Diesel Emissions 170

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Cities are expanding, economies are growing, and life expectancy has almost doubled. Specific recommendations include: Invest in clean renewable energy, in particular taking advantage of solar and wind power resources and reducing reliance on coal, oil, and gas. billion in 2020 to 4.3 billion by 2100.

Africa 397

Africa Pollution 2019 Ethiopia 397

Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2021

Given the scope and strategic location of our Piedmont Lithium Project, we believe we are ideally positioned to play a critical role in helping the United States build a clean energy economy and a US-based EV supply chain. —Keith D. Phillips, President and CEO. The MRE update increased the Core property MRE by 26%, from 25.1

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North Carolina North America United States America 243

Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2022

REEs are essential for American competitiveness in a high-tech economy because they are used in many devices important to the clean-energy industry and national security, including computer components, wind turbines, hybrid/electric vehicles, LCD screens and tunable microwave resonators.

Kentucky 259

Kentucky Universal Arizona Wind 259

Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2023

Recently passed EU, US and Canadian policies and laws aim to support local economies, secure their battery raw material supply chains, and accelerate the transition away from fossil fuels into clean energy. The objective of these policies and laws has direct benefits to the manganese market, Elcora noted.

Morocco 186

Morocco Production Batteries Battery 186

Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2021

RevoTech will be applying its continuous pyrolysis technology to convert waste plastic into gas, while Doosan will be developing the main equipment and processes for reforming the product gas into hydrogen. The option of applying small modular reactors (SMRs) to produce clean hydrogen is also being reviewed. million tons in 2030 to 5.26

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Waste Hydrogen Industrial Industry 320

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

In a speech at the National Press Club, US Energy Secretary Steven Chu said that the success of China and other countries in clean energy industries represents a new “Sputnik Moment” for the United States, and will require a similar mobilization of innovation to enable the US to compete in the global race for the jobs of the future.

Energy 342

Energy China Clean Cleaning 342

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Michelin also partnered with Scandanavian Enviro Systems to increase end-of-life tire recycling using a pyrolysis process which converts scrap tires to new raw materials. USTMA urges state regulators and federal law makers as well as recyclers, industry and environmental groups, and academic partners to do more to advance a circular economy.

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2019 2013 New Jersey New Mexico 397

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The new Reuze project includes the development of one of Europe’s largest announced CO 2 conversion hubs, located in France, which will enable the conversion of hundreds of thousands of tons of CO 2 emissions from ArcelorMittal into clean electrofuels for the European market.

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Europe Commercial Fuel Conversion 150

Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2019

Stäubli’s QCC system features an enclosed pin-and-socket design that is self-cleaning, touch-protected on both sides of the connector and easily corrects for misalignment. Installation of the chargers is scheduled to begin in 2019, and deliveries of the converted vehicles are scheduled to begin later this year through October 2020.

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Mariner Long Beach Electric Vehicles Charging 257

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Volkswagen Group of America reported that it has sold 100,000 TDI Clean Diesel vehicles from the Volkswagen and Audi brands this year—the first time it has reached this mark in a calendar year. TDI Clean Diesel Volkswagen models accounted for 21% of sales in November and 24% of sales year-to-date, the best year-to-date results yet.

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Diesel Sale Audi United States 265

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

The ROD and cooperative agreement between DOE’s Office of Fossil Energy (FE) and Summit Texas Clean Energy, LLC (STCE) sets in motion continued federal cost-shared funding for the Summit Texas Clean Energy Project, to be built just west of Midland-Odessa, Texas.

Coal 170

Coal Texas Clean Cleaning 170

CleanTechnica EVs

JULY 18, 2022

In Europe, people take real summer vacations. Europeans get a lot of time off. As some Europeans I knew were fond of saying, they work to live, they don’t live to work. European factory workers at the Cologne Ford factory in Germany are enjoying a nice lengthy summer vacation (aka holiday), but work is actually […].

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Ford Convert Germany Europe 106

Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2021

BETO is focused on developing technologies that convert domestic biomass and other waste resources (e.g., The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) announced the availability of $61.4 million for technologies that produce low-cost, low-carbon biofuels. (

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Carbon Emissions Transportation Waste 186