Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Leading commercial vehicle manufacturers Volvo Group, Daimler Truck, and the TRATON Group have signed a binding agreement to create a joint venture (JV) to install and to operate a high-performance public charging network for battery-electric, heavy-duty long-haul trucks and coaches across Europe.

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Electrek

JANUARY 24, 2022

Following another productive year of increased EV deliveries, Volkswagen Group has shared specifics to its electrification numbers in the EU. more… The post Volkswagen Group increases EV deliveries by 64% in 2021, beats EU CO2 emissions target by 2% appeared first on Electrek.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2021

Daimler Truck AG and Volvo Group officially outlined their pioneering roadmap for the new fuel-cell joint venture cellcentric, as part of an industry-first commitment to accelerate the use of hydrogen-based fuel cells for long-haul trucks and beyond. cellcentric twin-fuel-cell system for heavy-duty application.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 4, 2021

As buzz around synthetic fuels builds, the Europe-focused environmental group Transport & Environment (T&E) cautions that vehicles burning these supposedly greener fuels may cause more carbon-dioxide (CO2) emissions than battery-powered vehicles, and cost more as well.

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Baua Electric

MAY 17, 2024

This technical basis will then enable Volvo Group and Daimler Truck and potentially other partners to provide differentiating digital vehicle features for its products ultimately enhancing customer efficiency and experience. Together with the Volvo Group we can develop a benchmark truck operating system and set an industry standard.”

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

The BMW Group will launch a new era of e-mobility from 2025 with the models of its NEUE KLASSE ( earlier post )— using newly-developed cylindrical battery cells optimized for the new architecture for the first time. That is why the long-term goal of the BMW Group is to use fully recyclable battery cells. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2020

This ionomer coating contains hydrophobic (water-repellent) and hydrophilic (water-attracting) parts and is grouped together to form an ultra-thin layer of about 10 nanometres that helps to maintain the reaction where, from the CO 2 gas and the hydrogen in the water (H+ protons), the hydrocarbon is built. —García de Arquer. Resources.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 1, 2014

Renault Group has moved into pole position in Europe in terms of low CO 2 emissions, with an average of 114.7g of CO2/km per vehicle (source: AAA-DATA) based on its passenger car sales over the full year 2013. —Jean-Philippe Hermine, Director, Renault Group, Environmental Plan.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

Led by the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), the group determined that bringing cesium, copper, and zinc oxide together into a close-contact configuration catalyzes a reaction pathway that transforms carbon dioxide into ethanol (C 2 H 6 O). —Wang et al.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2020

The technology group Wärtsilä has been awarded a major contract to supply and construct a plant for production of CO 2 -neutral liquid transport fuels. The plant will liquefy gas from the natural gas grid to produce carbon-neutral LNG. It will have a capacity of approximately 100,000 tons per year and located in Cologne, Germany.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JANUARY 23, 2022

Deutsche Post Group DHL has announced that it’s offsetting carbon dioxide emissions for letter mail transport in 2022 at no extra charge.

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The Driven EV News

AUGUST 25, 2022

BMW Group inks deal for CO2-reduced steel from Swedish green steel producer H2 Green Steel. The post BMW secures “CO2-reduced steel” supply from H2 Green Steel appeared first on The Driven.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The Wood–Ljungdahl pathway is an efficient natural process through which microbes transform CO 2 into methyl and carbonyl groups and subsequently couple them together. The pathway breaks CO 2 molecules down into two different or “asymmetric” chemical groups: a carbonyl group (CO) or a methyl group (CH3).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2019

Previously, the Licht Group achieved a high yield growth of carbon nanotubes (CNT) by CO 2 electrolysis in molten carbonate through transition metal nucleation points on the electrolysis cathode. —Liu et al. CNOs are currently valued at more than $1 million per ton, according to the researchers.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Tesla had the lowest tailpipe CO2 emissions for 2021, a new report published by the U.S. The EPA released its annual Automotive Trends report, and findings reveal that Tesla is leading the way with the lowest tailpipe CO2 emissions and the highest fuel economy of all large manufacturers. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) stated.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Yan, Henry Belin du Pont Chair of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, has been working for some time to improve hydroxide exchange membrane fuel cells (HEMFCs); Yan’s research group has been searching for a workaround for the carbon dioxide conundrum for more than 15 years.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2020

The research group dissolved FDH in a liquid solution and carbon dioxide was then blown into the solution for the reaction event. Formate dehydrogenase (FDH) is a catalyst that accelerates the reaction of converting carbon dioxide into formic acid (hydrogen energy storage medium etc.)

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2023

Tests conducted by Titirici Group , a multidisciplinary research team based at Imperial College London, have found that a novel carbon nanotube electrode material derived from CO 2 —produced by Estonian nanotech company UP Catalyst ( earlier post )—enhances the cyclability of sodium-ion batteries.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2020

This calculation includes all CO 2 emissions grouped under Scope 1 and 2 categories as set out by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol as well those associated with transporting material between production and refining sites. Note: Emissions are classed as the CO 2 emissions (from all fuel sources).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2020

The BMW Group is making sustainability and resource efficiency central to the company’s strategic direction. I firmly believe the fight against climate change and how we use resources will decide the future of our society—and of the BMW Group. As a premium car company, it is our ambition to lead the way in sustainability.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

This corresponds to the emissions of more than 89,900 km driven by a diesel truck and represents 85% of CO2 savings compared to a traditional diesel engine. The pilot results indicate that Bio-LNG can already today reduce CO2 emissions to contribute to the GHG reductions needed to reach the EU’s 2030 climate targets.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2022

a Sumitomo Corporation Group company, jointly demonstrated a new waste heat recovery system based on a thermoelectric generator (TEG), which generates electrical power via exhaust gas heat. Yamaha Corporation and Sumitomo Corporation Power & Mobility Co.,

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EV Central

MARCH 26, 2024

Australia is on schedule to have a CO2 reduction scheme for motor vehicle in place by January 1 2025. Hyundai calls for more EV support under Labor’s new CO2 reduction scheme READ MORE: It’s a green light for electric vehicles! Aussie CO2 standard tough on Toyota, SUVs and utes READ MORE: Get out of the way diesel!

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2021

CO 2 emissions from private jets in Europe increased by nearly a third (31%) between 2005 and 2019, rising faster than commercial aviation emissions, according to a new report from environmental campaign group Transport & Environment (T&E). The report, Private jets: can the super-rich supercharge zero emission aviation?

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2019

With this as context, since the beginning of the year, in Germany the subsidiary Group Elli (Electric Life) has been offering customers and third parties “Volkswagen Naturstrom”, which exclusively comes from renewable energy sources. The DKI is measured in tons of CO2 equivalent per vehicle. In 2015, the figure was 43.6

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2022

Sasol ecoFT is part of the Sasol Group and world-leader in the development and application of Fischer-Tropsch (FT) technology with more than 70 years’ experience. ENERTRAG develops, builds, owns, and operates utility-scale integrated energy plants in ten countries globally.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

By 2025, the Volkswagen Group wants to reduce the ecological footprint of cars and light utility vehicles along the entire value chain by 30% relative to 2015. Audi is extending this successful partnership with the project in Iceland and taking it to the next level.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 14, 2022

There’s a number of groups working on this, and a number of catalysts that are out there. Often, the researchers say, groups have found promising catalyst materials but haven’t run their lab tests long enough to observe these depletion effects, and thus have been frustrated in trying to scale up their systems. —Kripa Varanasi.

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Teslarati

JUNE 12, 2021

Tesla is ironically facing pushback from environmental groups in Germany who claim that the automaker’s Giga Berlin production facility, which has not started manufacturing cars yet, will produce poisonous gases that will escape from the plant. million tons of CO2 from entering the Earth’s atmosphere through its vehicles alone.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2015

The Frankfurter Rundschau reports that the Volkswagen Group has ordered mobile air conditioning (MAC) systems using CO 2 (R744) as the refrigerant from a Japanese supplier for application in the VW Phaeton and the Audi A8. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2022

—Rodney Keith, manager for the advanced concepts group working on the Brayton cycle technology. It may not sound super significant, but it was quite a path to get here. Now that we can get across the river, we can get a lot more going.

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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.), CSA Group has experience in developing international environmental and carbon dioxide management standards.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2019

The Volkswagen Group is now planning to launch almost 70 new electric models in the next ten years instead of the 50 previously planned. As a result, the projected number of vehicles to be built on the Group’s electric platforms in the next decade will increase from 15 million to 22 million. Herbert Diess, CEO of Volkswagen AG.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The researchers report the new research in the Optica Publishing Group journal Applied Optics. To solve this problem, four instrumentation research groups in the UK came together to combine their knowledge in gas species measurement in harsh environments, chemical species tomography and optical source development.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 23, 2024

Daniel Schönfelder, President of BASF’s Catalysts division, who is also responsible for the company’s battery materials and battery recycling business, and Francesco Donato, Head of Iveco Group Procurement. Lifecycle thinking is one of our strategic sustainability priorities,” commented Angela Qu, Chief Supply Chain Officer, Iveco Group.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2020

In 2019, researchers from Reisner’s group developed a solar reactor based on an artificial leaf design, which also uses sunlight, carbon dioxide and water to produce a fuel, known as syngas. —senior author Professor Erwin Reisner.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2021

—Michael Frick, CFO of the MAHLE Group and Chairman of the Group Board of Management (ad interim). The prescription of specific technology is in contradiction with the principles of a free market and competition to which MAHLE is committed.

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