Remove Climate Remove Design Remove Mexico Remove Waste
article thumbnail

‘Our new plant in Mexico is an offensive move’:Vivek Vikram Singh | Autocar Professional

Baua Electric

Gurugram-based Sona Comstar, a leading exporter of EV driveline components as well as starter motors for ICE vehicles to Europe and North America, has recently set up a new driveline facility for battery electric vehicles in the Fipasi Industrial Park in Silao, Mexico. We like playing to our strengths. Will it be over a 5-6-year horizon?

Mexico 52
article thumbnail

NASA’s New Earth Space Mission maps methane ‘super-emitters’

Green Car Congress

NASA’s Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation ( EMIT ) mission is mapping the prevalence of key minerals in the planet’s dust-producing deserts—information that will advance our understanding of airborne dust’s effects on climate. kilometers) long southeast of Carlsbad, New Mexico, in the Permian Basin.

article thumbnail

Audi opens power-to-gas facility in Werlte/Emsland; e-gas from water, green electricity and CO2

Green Car Congress

The waste heat given off during methanation is used as process energy in the adjacent biogas plant, significantly increasing overall efficiency. TFSI in the five-door model can burn natural gas, biomethane and Audi e-gas; with its bivalent design it can also use gasoline. Customers can order a quota of e-gas when they purchase the car.

article thumbnail

UN report finds world needs incremental $1.9 trillion invested in green technologies to avert planetary catastrophe; global per capita cap on primary energy consumption of 70 GJ/yr may be required

Green Car Congress

trillion in 2010) would be required to overcome poverty; increase food production to eradicate hunger without degrading land and water resources; and avert the climate change catastrophe. Claims that “the technology exists to solve the climate problem” underestimate the scale of efforts required.

Global 338
article thumbnail

A closer look at why heat pumps are dominating EV HVAC systems

Charged EVs

Another trick that can be done with a heat pump (in cabin heating mode, anyway) is to capture the waste heat from the traction inverter, motor, etc, extending the temperature range over which it can operate without resorting to a backup source such as a resistance heater.

article thumbnail

Volkswagen inaugurates 9.5 MW solar park at Chattanooga plant in US; key element of VW Group’s strategic sustainability targets

Green Car Congress

We have defined consistent CO 2 reduction for the protection of the climate as a binding objective for the group. 25% less energy and water consumption, waste and emissions. The solar park contains 33,600 polycrystalline solar panels (each rated at 285 watts) from JA Solar designed to produce 13.1

Solar 268
article thumbnail

UNEP Report Calls for More Sophisticated Approach to Developing Biofuels; Limitations of Current LCA Studies

Green Car Congress

In the report, its first, the panel concludes governments should fit biofuels into an overall energy, climate, land-use, water and agricultural strategy if biofuels deployment is to benefit society, the economy and the environment as a whole. Achim Steiner, UN Under-Secretary General and Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme.

Ozone 186