Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Golf convertible. The deviations found in the figures for only nine model variants amount to a few grams of CO2 on average, corresponding to increased cycle consumption in the NEDC of approximately 0.1 Seven-speed (DSG). TDI BMT 135kW EU6. Six-speed manual. TSI BMT 77kW EU6. Six-speed manual. TDI BMT 81kW EU6. Five-speed manual.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Evonik and Siemens are now combining these two, previously separate, plants in a test facility at Evonik’s site in Marl (Germany). million from Germany’s Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The first unit comprises two electrolyzers which convert H 2 O and CO 2 to H 2 and CO.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2019

The Mercedes-Benz eActros heavy-duty electric truck, with a range of up to 200 km, is in intensive use by customers in Germany and Switzerland as part of the eActros “innovation fleet”. We therefore need government incentives to make locally CO 2 -neutral trucks and buses competitive. The first hand-off to a customer was in 2018.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2010

In this project, the carbon in carbon dioxide is converted into climate neutral fuels with the aid of sunlight. Photocatalysis is used to convert the carbon dioxide together with water into methanol. million) over two years. The project aims to combine approaches based on nanotechnology and material research with catalytic processes.

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Conversion Engine Germany CO2 259

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

Nearly 80% of that can be converted into synthetic diesel. Audi’s latest e-fuels project is participation in a a pilot plant project in Dresden that produces diesel fuel from water, CO 2 and green electricity. Click to enlarge. This fuel—Audi e?diesel—is it can be used as a drop-in fuel.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2012

The United States remain one of the largest emitters of CO2, with 17.3 These shares are based on the BP convention of 38% average thermal power conversion efficiency for converting renewable electricity production to primary energy. This amount is similar to the current CO 2 emissions from Germany. tonnes per capita.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2013

At an entry price of €12,050 (US$15,700) in Germany, the new SEAT Mii Ecofuel is also the most inexpensive CNG model on the market. Fine particulates or soot are not emitted at all, although unburnt residual methane has to be converted by the catalyst. m 2 ); and an efficiently matched engine/transmission combination.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Teams at ArcelorMittal Bremen in Germany are working on the first large-scale deployment of this technology which can then be deployed in both the blast furnace and the DRI-EAF route. The project will reduce the volumes of coal needed in the iron ore reduction process, thereby cutting CO2 emissions.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2014

They converted from an absolute amount to scale relative to 2000. Wallington, Heiko Maas, and Heinz Hass (2014) “Light-Duty Vehicle CO2 Targets Consistent with 450 ppm CO 2 Stabilization,” Environmental Science & Technology doi: 10.1021/es405651p. They assumed that all sectors of the economy follow the same proportional reduction.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 24, 2024

The deal is a collaboration with Swedish-owned Einride and launched in Germany last week, with routes in the UK and the Netherlands coming this year. Technically the company will start hauling pet food from its Pet Nutrition factory in Verden, Germany, to its logistics center in Mindin, about 91 kilometers (about 56.5 miles) one way.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 1, 2013

The e-gas fuel will be produced in the power-to-gas plant in Werlte, Germany. Key modifications relate to the cylinder head, turbocharging, injection system, and the catalytic converter. The five-door car consumes on average less than 3.5 kilograms per 100 km of compressed natural gas (CNG) or Audi e-gas.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2013

The Audi e-gas plant, which can convert 6MW of input power, utilizes renewable electricity for electrolysis to produce oxygen and hydrogen. Audi has opened its e-gas plant in Werlte, making it the first automobile manufacturer to develop a chain of sustainable energy carriers. Earlier post.). Components of the e-gas plant. Click to enlarge.

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Gas-Electric Audi Gas Water 296

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) In this second stage, hydrogen from regenerative energy sources is converted into methane (CH 4 ), i.e. synthetic natural gas, using CO 2 from a bio-ethanol plant.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2011

Researchers at the Leibnitz Institute for Catalysis (Rostock, Germany) have introduced a new approach to hydrogen storage that is based on simple salts of formic acid and carbonic acid. Reversible hydrogen storage cycle based on the redox system bicarbonate/formate. Source: Boddien et al. Click to enlarge. at 20 °C in H 2 O).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Audi e-diesel has the potential to make conventional combustion engines operate almost CO2-neutrally. To produce it, the power-to-liquid plant converts surplus hydropower into synthetic fuel. This hydrogen, together with carbon dioxide, is converted in a two-step power-to-liquid process.

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Audi Diesel Carbon Power 170

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 17, 2012

In a presentation at the 1 st Conference on CO 2 as Feedstock , held last week in Essen, Germany, LanzaTech CSO Dr. Sean Simpson described the company’s progress on developing a CO 2 pathway. LanzaTech envisions using partner technology to convert the acetic acid to lipids—i.e., Earlier post.).

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Parts CO2 Renewable Conversion 244

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

Cellulosic ethanol from agricultural residues can play a key role in creating more sustainable mobility in Germany, Europe and worldwide. Wheat straw or other non-edible agricultural residues are converted into cellulosic ethanol using Clariant’s sunliquid process. sunliquid process. Click to enlarge.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 11, 2024

Green Li-ion’s patented technology uses a novel and advanced hydrometallurgical approach that closes the recycling loop by directly converting recycling scrap into battery-grade precursor cathode active material (pCAM) without being exported for further processing.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2015

A team from Bauhaus Luftfahrt in Germany has analyzed the climate impact and economic performance of solar thermochemical jet fuel production. The syngas is stored and finally converted into jet fuel via the FT process. Solar syngas is then converted into liquid hydrocarbon fuels by the Fischer−Tropsch process. Click to enlarge.

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Solar Fuel Renewable Production 150

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2018

JATO Dynamics’ latest findings on the impact of WLTP on the automotive market indicate that re-homologation to the WLTP test cycle is having a more significant impact than previously thought on NEDC-correlated values obtained under WLTP, which are calculated using co2mpas (the model developed to convert WLTP CO 2 measurements to an NEDC equivalent).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

An international research team has now copied this principle, and used nanoparticles to convert carbon dioxide into ethanol and propanol. Enzymes use cascade reactions to produce complex molecules from comparatively simple raw materials.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 19, 2023

They are highly automated production islands that directly convert wind energy to hydrogen, with a few of them processing the gas into fuels and other goods. And Germany isn’t the only country investing in hydrogen technologies. In the fight against climate change, many countries have pledged to reduce their CO2 emissions to net zero.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2009

In Germany, for example, the tax privileges will remain in force at least until 31 December 2018. At the same time, LPG helps reduce CO2 emissions immediately. There are more than 20,000 LPG fuel stations throughout Europe. For instance, the LPG-powered Chevrolet Matiz S 0.8,

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2022

With an integrated voltage converter, the TFCM operates in a voltage range of 450 to 700 volts and most efficiently at around 30kW. In 2021, almost every second all-electric city bus newly sold in Germany came from Daimler Buses.

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Range Toyota Fuel CO2 435

Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2011

If there are strong sea winds, for instance, then surplus power supplies can be converted to e-gas and stored in the largest available energy-storage system: the public gas network. Along with our project partners, AUDI AG is realizing a method which puts CO2-neutral mobility within reach. Rated at 3.6

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2019

Partners of the P2X Kopernikus project on the premises of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany have demonstrated the production of fuel from air-captured CO2 using—for the first time—a container-based test facility integrating all four chemical process steps needed to implement a continuous process.

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CO2 Green Power Powered 290

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2012

In Germany, the car, even before market launch, was picked as the overall winner in the VCD Environment List ( VCD Auto-Umweltliste ) and was also awarded the ACVmobile environmental prize (ACVmobil Umweltpreis). However, any unburned methane must be converted in the catalytic converter. The four-seat Volkswagen with its 1.0L

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2012

Walter Leitner at the RWTH Aachen University, Germany, has developed a new concept that can be used to produce pure formic acid from CO 2 in a continuous process using catalytic hydrogenation. A number of approaches for converting CO 2 to methanol (CH 3 OH) have been developed. Wesselbaum et al. Click to enlarge. A team led by Prof.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2011

The German federal government is targeting one million electric vehicles in Germany by 2020. In addition, a DC/DC converter is used to supply the 12V onboard electrical system with its required voltage. L/100 km (112 mpg US) is attained (equivalent to 49 g/km CO2). These vehicles must be operated sustainably—i.e.,

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Plug-in Fleet Plug Hybrid 210

Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2015

The Audi e-gas plant can convert 6MW of input power. The e-gas is virtually identical to fossil natural gas and is distributed via an existing infrastructure—the German natural gas network—to the CNG filling stations beginning in Germany in fall 2013. The process to convert isobutene to isooctane is well-established.

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Audi Renewable Fuel Carbon 150

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

l/100 km (124 mpg); this equates to a co2 emissions figure of 42 g/km. Under ideal conditions, the energy that it generates annually is sufficient to add up to 1,000 km of driving range (Germany 500 km, Southern Europe 800 to 1,000 km), depending on the regional solar radiation power. Its average fuel consumption (combined) is 1.9

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Concept Audi Porsche Plug-in 150

Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2021

Highly Efficient Electrocatalysts for Direct Conversion Of CO2 To Chemicals, $250,000. Electrochaea GmbH (Munich, Germany). Robust Carbonic Anhydrases for Novel Biological, Sustainable and Low Energy CO2 Scrubbing Process from Waste Gases, $250,000. Power Converters and Components for Resilient MVDC Microgrids, $299,754.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 13, 2009

It predicts 35 per cent growth in the US; 30 per cent growth in Brazil; and substantial increases in areas including the Asia-Pacific region, France, Germany and Argentina. Generally, any alternative energy form that can help reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and limit our reliance on fossil fuels is well-received.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2015

A sugarcane-produced ethanol is converted into ethylene which forms a substantial portion of the base polymer. in Germany and NOK Corp. The bio-renewable rubber, for which development began in 2012, is made from a polymer that is made via a process that begins with the sugarcane plant.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 17, 2009

Peripheral circumstances However, as we reported last year, TNT Germany has set its cards on compressed natural gas (CNG), hoping to switch to biogas in the future. Peripheral circumstances are different everywhere, says TNT CO2 manager Mr Bjorn Sawilla. In the Netherlands TNT is still piloting EVs. Why these different strategies?

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Plug In India

OCTOBER 11, 2022

features the world's first 8-in-1 high efficiency electric powertrain (with motor, motor controller, reducer, onboard charger, DC converter, high-voltage distribution box, vehicle controller, and BMS integrated in 1 unit). 76,774,796 kg of CO2 was saved in India as of 2022. BYD's e-Platform 3.0 e-Platform 3.0

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BYD India E6 SUV 52

Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2013

Focused on meeting a growing customer demand for ‘downsized’ engines offering strong power with reduced fuel consumption and CO2 emissions, the new gasoline and diesel powertrains are being progressively introduced across the Opel product range. The new Cascada mid-size convertible is the first Opel model available with the new engine.

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