Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

An international collaboration of scientists has taken a significant step toward the realization of a nearly “green” zero-net-carbon technology that can efficiently convert CO 2 and hydrogen into ethanol.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

A new analysis of commercial aircraft fuel efficiency from the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) finds that the UN’s aircraft CO 2 standard lags current technology by more than a decade. The ICCT first analyzed the historical trends in fuel efficiency improvement of new commercial jet aircraft in 2009.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2022

At the International Engine Congress in Baden-Baden (Germany), Liebherr-Components AG and US-based Tula Technology presented the results of their joint study on heavy machinery. Based on simulations, Tula’s diesel Dynamic Skip Fire (dDSF) software ( earlier post ) allowed the reduction of NO x tailpipe emissions by 41% and CO 2 by 9.5%.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2010

An alliance of industry, academic and government organizations has formed to commercialize technologies that will utilize concentrated solar energy to convert waste CO 2 into synthetic fuels. In addition, commercial partners have signed on to advance work on the first round of commercial plants. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2022

Power-to-Liquids technologies are on their way to commercialization in scale. E-fuels offer a way to expand the carbon-neutral transport fuel pool beyond biomass-based renewable fuels to replace fossil fuels in existing internal combustion engines.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Santos Managing Director and CEO Kevin Gallagher said the successful injection occurred earlier this month in the Strzelecki field in the Cooper Basin and Santos would now finalize technical and commercial arrangements with the aim of having the 1.7 million tonne per year project ready for Final Investment Decision by the end of the year.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2018

capture technologies, or 2) designing a commercial-scale, post-combustion CO? MTR) will scale up next-generation Polaris membranes and modules to a final form for commercial use and validate their potential in an engineering-scale field test at the Technology Centre Mongstad in Norway. RTI International. SRI International.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2019

Carbon Recycling International has been awarded a €1.8-million The grant will allow CRI to accelerate efforts to commercialize large scale production plants, expanding the market for ETL technology and use of renewable methanol in Europe. million (US$2.0-million)

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2019

The global maritime transport industry has submitted a proposal to the UN IMO to form the world’s first collaborative shipping R&D program to help eliminate CO 2 emissions from international shipping. The proposal includes core funding from shipping companies across the world of about US$5 billion over a 10-year period.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

CSA Group, a leading developer of standards, codes and training programs, and the International Performance Assessment Centre for Geologic Storage of Carbon Dioxide (IPAC-CO 2 Research Inc.), gigatonnes (Gt) in 2011, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). This represents an increase of 1.0 Gt on 2010, or 3.3%.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2019

It’s a capital-light solution that takes advantage of technology that has been commercialized for decades. An international panel of judges from the private, public, and nonprofit sectors selected two winners in each of this year’s five prize categories: Carbon Capture & Utilization.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2020

As part of the Daimler Electric Mobility Group, an internal research and development organization established in 2018, MFTBC also contributes to and benefits from shared resources for vehicle electrification within the larger Daimler Truck network. MFTBC is taking a leading role in realizing the electrification of commercial vehicles.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 25, 2024

Antolin is exhibiting its latest innovations aimed at transforming automotive interiors with sustainability in mind at the 18th Beijing International Auto Show, taking place at the China International Exhibition Center in Beijing from April 25 to May 4.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2022

Certain segments, such as buses and two- and three-wheelers are close to being on track for net zero, but more action is needed to get on track elsewhere—especially in medium- and heavy-duty commercial vehicle segments, BNEF said. Electric vehicles are a powerful tool in reducing global CO2 emissions from the transport sector.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2010

Once fully operational, nearly 100 manufacturing workers will be capable of producing more than 20,000 commercial-duty hybrid propulsion systems each year. Earlier this year, Allison Transmission signed a long-term electric motor supply agreement with Remy International. Allison was being awarded a $62.8 Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

The light commercial vehicle sector, 96% of which is powered by diesel, has also shown impressive progress—new vans last year reduced CO 2 by -4.8% The report highlights the importance of internal combustion engines in the UK’s journey to a low carbon future, with 99.5% to a new low of 165.4 of the UK’s 2.5

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

The storage and transport of hydrogen continues to present a number of difficult technical challenges for industrial and commercial use. Chiyoda has successfully performed demonstration tests of the system and it is now in the commercialization phase.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2009

An analysis of sales- and activity-weighted fuel efficiency for new jet aircraft from 1960 to 2008 shows that while aircraft efficiency has doubled since 1960, advancements in the efficiency of commercial aircraft have stagnated in the last two decades. Such a development would be consistent with Peeter et al.’s —Rutherford and Zeinali.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2015

On 3 November, Volkswagen AG announced that during the course of its internal investigation into the diesel emission cheating issue, it had uncovered “irregularities” when determining type-approval CO 2 levels, affecting around 800,000 vehicles from the Group. TDI diesel (VW Commercial Veh.). TDI diesel (VW Commercial Veh.).

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The new EU law will require that all carmakers achieve a 100 percent cut in CO2 emissions by 2035 for all new cars sold, eliminating the possibility that gas or petrol-fueled engines can be sold in any of the 27 countries in the EU. Along with the 2035 ban, the EU plans to cut 55 percent of CO2 emissions for all new cars sold from 2030 on.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2014

DENSO Corporation and DENSO International Asia Co. DENSO Corporation, DIAT and Thai ITS will collaborate their research efforts to gather wireless data on urban streets, as well as evaluate and analyze information systems that are commercialized in Japan to determine its adaptability to the traffic conditions of Thailand.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The scientists intend to provide sound data on the combustion process, efficiency and environmental impact of DME in the commercial vehicle sector. The engine block is derived from a Cursor 11 commercial vehicle engine manufactured by FPT Industrial and has already served us for five years in various research projects. Image: Empa.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2014

The oil sands project will now proceed to the pilot demonstration phase of testing at approximately 15 tonne-CO 2 /day scale where process performance will be validated in the field towards commercial deployment. However, the cost of conventional CCS technologies is prohibitive to broad commercial deployment. Carley, Geert F.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

The proposal also includes the already established EU fleet wide targets for 2020/2021 of 95 g CO 2 /km for passenger cars and 147 g CO 2 /km for light commercial vehicles, both of which are based on the NEDC (New European Driving Cycle) test procedure. As a consequence, a zero-emission vehicle is counted more than a low-emission vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2012

tonne truck application typical of the operations of project partner Unipart Logistics, but the open data architecture of the ERTOC system is extremely flexible and capable of application across many modes of transport, including road, rail, air and sea and without regard to international borders. The system has been demonstrated in a 7.5

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Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2014

“Kyoto accounting,” the method for tallying GHG sources and sinks formalized by the IPCC for reporting of national GHG emissions inventories and as used in the design of cap-and-trade programs and other aspects of international climate policy. Applying TRA methods to actual commercial-scale ethanol and biodiesel production.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2018

Ethanol production is one of the least costly known applications of CO2 capture and, to date, the cost of capturing CO2 has been cited as one of the major barriers to CCS. However, most BECCS technologies today, for example gasification with pre-combustion CO 2 capture, have not yet been demonstrated at commercially relevant scales.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2014

Flying a radio-controlled replica of the historic WWII P-51 Mustang red-tail aircraft (of the legendary Tuskegee Airmen), NRL researchers Dr. Jeffrey Baldwin, Dr. Dennis Hardy, Dr. Heather Willauer, and Dr. David Drab used a novel liquid hydrocarbon fuel to power the aircraft’s unmodified two-stroke internal combustion engine.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2012

The largest sources of transportation greenhouse gases in 2010 were passenger cars (43%), light duty trucks (19%), freight trucks (22%) and commercial aircraft (6%). Transportation activities (excluding international bunker fuels) accounted for 32% of CO 2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion in 2010.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2020

International logistics service provider DB Schenker will bring a total of 36 additional FUSO eCanter vehicles into operation in eleven European countries. FUSO celebrated the market launch of this commercial vehicle for short-radius distribution in 2017.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2013

Transportation activities (excluding international bunker fuels) accounted for 33% of CO 2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion in 2011. Light duty vehicles (including passenger cars and light-duty trucks) represented 61% of CO 2 emissions, medium- and heavy-duty trucks 22%, commercial aircraft 7%, and other sources 11%.

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Blink Charging

JUNE 13, 2023

Here are four reasons why – if they haven’t already – government offices and agencies at all levels should start the process of transitioning their fleets from internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles to EVs. That’s because without internal combustion, EVs have no tailpipe emissions. Why Install EV Charging? Ready to get started?

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The electrification of commercial vehicles, including trucks, buses and fleet vehicles, is gaining significant momentum globally. According to a report by Smart Energy Decisions , there were more than one million electric vehicles (EVs) in commercial and government fleets in the United States as of 2021, up from just over 300,000 in 2019.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2015

The produced synthetic paraffinic kerosene is certified for use in commercial aviation in mixtures with a share of up to 50% with conventional jet fuel according to ASTM D7566. All of the process are fully developed and established in a commercial environment—with the exception of the solar thermochemical production of syngas.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2016

An improved titanium alloy—stronger than any commercial titanium alloy currently on the market—gets its strength from the novel way atoms are arranged to form a special nanostructure. b) Comparison of tensile strength and strain to failure (elongation) of Ti-185 alloy with other commercially available Titanium alloys.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Researchers from SRI International (SRI) are developing a methane-and-coal-to-liquids process that consumes negligible amounts of water and does not generate carbon dioxide. director, Chemical Science and Technology Laboratory, SRI International. Top: Conventional F-T process. Bottom: SRI process. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2018

A methanation plant expansion to the existing power-to-gas (PtG) facility in Falkenhagen, Germany has officially opened as part of the international €28-million (US$33.5-million) Type of CO2 source (biogas; waste water; atmosphere). million) STORE&GO research project. Construction on the methanation plant began in July 2017.

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