Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2022

Hyundai Motor Group will collaborate with the Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Aramco) and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) jointly to research and develop an advanced fuel for an ultra lean-burn, spark-ignition engine that aims to lower the overall carbon dioxide emissions of a vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

ETH Zurich spin-off Synhelion has started the construction of DAWN—its own industrial plant to produce synthetic fuels using solar heat. Located in Jülich, Germany, the facility will demonstrate the entire process from concentrating sunlight to producing synthetic liquid fuel on an industrial scale. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

BMW has begun fuel cell system production at the company’s competence center for hydrogen in Munich. The BMW Group sources the individual fuel cells required for manufacturing the BMW iX5 Hydrogen from the Toyota Motor Corporation. The two companies have been collaborating on fuel cell drive systems since 2013.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2019

Fewer soot particles in the exhaust stream of aircraft reduces the formation of ice crystals and therefore the climate impact of the resulting contrail cirrus. The results are published in an open-access paper in the Nature Partner Journal (npj) Climate and Atmospheric Science. Burkhardt et al. —Ulrike Burkhardt.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

The life-cycle water consumption of fuel cell electric vehicles using hydrogen produced from natural gas with steam methane reforming is almost 50% less than the life-cycle water consumption of conventional internal combustion engine vehicles using gasoline, according to a study by researchers at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2020

BMW i Ventures has invested in Prometheus Fuels ( earlier post ), a company removing CO 2 from the air and turning it into zero-net carbon gasoline that it will sell at gas stations, at a price that competes with fossil fuels, starting as early as this year. to C 2 fuel products such as ethanol.

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

City Council, board members of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power Commission and long term colleagues from the climate justice action community to be part of a historic announcement. ” – this means that mega-polluting, constantly climate-killing, fossil fuel Chevron must go too.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The new bus model in the Augsburg-based company’s bus portfolio will be launched as an all-electric version (CIZARIS 12 EV), followed in 2023 by a fuel cell drive (CIZARIS 12 H) that uses a largely identical powertrain. With the introduction of the fuel cell version, an even more powerful powertrain will be used.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Carbon transformation company Twelve (formerly Opus 12, earlier post ) has produced the first fossil-free jet fuel—called E-Jet—from CO 2 electrolysis, demonstrating a scalable, energy-efficient path to the de-fossilization of global aviation. Since you can’t electrify the plane, we’ve electrified the fuel.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2019

These investments will accelerate the commercialization of CE’s proven Direct Air Capture (DAC) technology that removes CO 2 directly from the air and subsequently synthesizes it into clean transportation fuels. CE has been developing DAC technology since 2009 and capturing CO 2 from the atmosphere at a pilot plant in Squamish, B.C.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2023

A study led by Norwegian climate center CICERO has found that the global warming effect of leaked hydrogen is almost 12 times stronger than that of CO 2. Unlike exhaust from burning coal and gas that contains CO 2 , burning hydrogen emits only water vapor and oxygen. The climate effects of hydrogen have been an under-researched topic.

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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

JANUARY 21, 2022

Southern California Gas Company (SoCalGas) has taken delivery of 23 Toyota Mirai hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles (HFCEV), marking the company’s first purchase of hydrogen-powered vehicles. The zero-emissions Toyota Mirai HFCEVs have a driving range of 400 miles and since they run on hydrogen the only by-product is water.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Pratt & Whitney was selected by the US Department of Energy (DoE) to develop novel, high-efficiency hydrogen-fueled propulsion technology for commercial aviation, as part of DoE’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) OPEN 2021 program ( earlier post ). Now the concern is greenhouse gases and climate change.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2021

HyPoint, a company developing turbo air-cooled hydrogen-fuel-cell systems for aviation and urban air mobility ( earlier post ), has entered into a strategic development agreement with BASF New Business GmbH (BNB), a subsidiary of chemical company BASF. 20kW HyPoint HTPEM single power module. 20kW HyPoint HTPEM single power module.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2022

Researchers in Europe led by a team from ETH Zurich have designed a fuel production system that uses water, CO 2 , and sunlight to produce aviation fuel. We are the first to demonstrate the entire thermochemical process chain from water and CO 2 to kerosene in a fully-integrated solar tower system. Zoller et al.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2018

EU-funded researchers have developed an innovative climate control system (CCS) that extends the range of electric vehicles while enhancing passenger comfort. Project partners successfully demonstrated the XERIC CCS prototype under a range of external air temperatures in a climatic chamber to replicate the relevant environmental conditions.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2020

A Korean research team has developed a technology that can be used to mass-produce aviation-grade fuels from wood wastes. For this reason, lignin waste is typically used by paper mills as a low-grade boiler fuel, rather than as a high-grade fuel or as a raw material for chemical products. —Kim et al. Jeong-Myeong Ha.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2019

SW/TCH Maritime (SW/TCH), an impact investment platform building the first fleet of zero-emissions maritime vessels in the US, announced its investment to construct and own the ‘Water Go Round’ e-ferry in collaboration with Golden Gate Zero Emission Marine ( GGZEM ), a provider of turn-key hydrogen fuel cell power systems for ships.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2022

FlyZero compared zero-carbon emission energy sources such as batteries, hydrogen and ammonia; the team concluded that green liquid hydrogen is the most viable, able to power large aircraft utilizing fuel cell, gas turbine and hybrid systems. The UK has expertise and capability today in these, but little in liquid hydrogen fuels.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 31, 2019

UK-based AFC Energy launched its H-Power electric vehicle (EV) charger based on alkaline hydrogen fuel cell technology. Alkaline fuel cells (AFCs) were one of the first fuel cell technologies developed, and were used in the US space program to produce electrical energy and water on-board spacecraft. AFC offers both types.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 27, 2021

Swedish Climate Leap, “Klimatklivet”, is investing €15 million in power-to-fuel Liquid Wind’s facility, FlagshipONE, producing eMethanol. The aim of their initiative Climate Leap is to support local and regional investments that reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases that affect the climate. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2022

The Van Hool A12 Battery Electric is the first vehicle in a completely new range of buses in four different lengths (12m, 13m, 18m and 24m) equipped with exclusively zero emission powertrains: battery-electric, fuel cell (hydrogen) and trolley. —Filip Van Hool, CEO of Van Hool NV.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2014

This initiative broadens cooperation between Boeing and SAA to develop renewable jet fuel in ways that support South Africas goals for public health as well as economic and rural development. The plant is extremely robust, and is able to grow in various climates and soils. The seed contains around 40% oil. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Additionally, the new battery technology has an extended temperature range and can be used worldwide in both very cold and warm climates. The design also allows for the use of hydrogen fuel cells in future. Proof-of-concept hydrogen fuel-cell-powered yard tractor YT203-H2.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Although hydropower is broadly considered to be much more environmentally friendly than electricity generated from fossil fuels (e.g., This popularity stems partly from the perception that hydropower is an environmentally friendly alternative to fossil fuels. They also estimated emissions caused by flooding the reservoir.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2019

University of Colorado Boulder researchers have developed nanobio-hybrid organisms capable of using airborne carbon dioxide and nitrogen to produce a variety of plastics and fuels, a promising first step toward low-cost carbon sequestration and eco-friendly manufacturing for chemicals.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2019

Power Systems business unit signs letter of intent for the construction of a demonstration plant for the production of synthetic fuels Schell: “We will be electrifying the entire system, including the fuel” Important step towards sector coupling and decarbonising propulsion systems and power generation.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

neutral fuel (eFuel) in Punta Arenas, Chile. The necessary environmental permits have now been obtained by the Chilean project company Highly Innovative Fuels (HIF). We’re jointly developing and realising the world’s first integrated and commercial large-scale plant for producing synthetic, climate-neutral fuels.

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Cars That Think

MAY 25, 2025

He is the quintessential modern explorer, for whom every big mission has a purpose, which generally boils down to environmental and climate-change awareness. Now hes in the midst of what looks like his most technologically ambitious mission yet: to fly around the planet in a green-hydrogen fuel-cell aircraft.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

The California Energy Commission approved an $8-million grant to Equilon Enterprises—a fully owned subsidiary of Shell Oil—to develop a high-capacity hydrogen fueling station to service and promote the expansion of zero-emission fuel cell electric Class 8 drayage trucks at the Port of Long Beach.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 18, 2020

SMRs are a game-changing technology with the potential to play a critical role in fighting climate change, and rebuilding our post COVID-19 economy. The IMSR uses molten salt as coolant and fuel. Molten salts are thermally very stable, making them superior coolants compared to water. —Hon.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2019

Researchers from ETH Zurich have developed a novel technology that produces liquid hydrocarbon fuels exclusively from sunlight and air and have demonstrated the entire thermochemical process chain under real field conditions. CO 2 and water are extracted directly from ambient air via an adsorption/desorption process.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2020

This can be achieved—completely CO 2 -free—with the electrolysis of water using. Working together with Siemens Mobility, we want to drive sector coupling by developing, among other things, an electrolysis and fueling solution for the fast fueling of hydrogen-powered trains.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Operation with natural gas or biomethane makes the compact model economical and more climate-friendly with low emissions. Operation with the knock-resistant fuel CNG enables a higher 12.5:1 Average NEDC fuel consumption for the four-cylinder is 3.6 – 3.5 The two filler necks are placed under a common fuel flap.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2021

Hyundai Motor Company and Kia Corporation have signed a memorandum of understanding with Canada-based Next Hydrogen Corporation, a specialist in water electrolysis technology and a subsidiary of Next Hydrogen Solutions Inc., to bolster their efforts to usher in a global hydrogen society through cost-effective production of clean hydrogen.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 4, 2020

The shift to electric mobility is in line with ongoing efforts to reduce the world’s dependence on fossil fuels, and reduce harmful greenhouse gas emissions responsible for climate change. This has forced local quinoa farmers and llama herders to migrate and abandon ancestral settlements.

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