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Audi Hungaria starts operation of Europe’s biggest solar roof installation

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Hungaria, officially started operation of Europe’s biggest photovoltaic roof installation. The focus lies on the challenges that are key to Audi: decarbonization; water utilization; resource efficiency; and biodiversity. Hungaria, has been installed on the roofs of the plant’s two logistics centers. r has used only green power.

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Yamaha and Sumitomo demo on-board thermoelectric generator for CO2 reduction

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The TEG, which is installed in a part of vehicle exhaust system, can reduce CO 2 emissions by reducing alternator load by generating electrical power from unutilized waste exhaust gas and also by early warm-up of engine by heated coolant through the TEG unit at engine start. g/km) by optimizing the vehicle installation of TEG unit.

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Evonik and Siemens launch phase 2 of Rheticus: butanol, hexanol from CO2 and water using renewable electricity and bacteria

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The goal is to develop an efficient and powerful test plant that will use carbon dioxide and water as well as electricity from renewable sources and bacteria to produce specialty chemicals. In the future, this platform could be installed anywhere CO 2 is available—for example, at power plants or biogas plants.

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Renewable-methanol fueled Geely cars in fleet testing in Iceland; 70% reduction in WTW CO2 compared to gasoline

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million investment in 2015) in Carbon Recycling International ( CRI ), an Icelandic company which produces renewable methanol using recycled CO 2 emissions sourced from a local thermal power plant and hydrogen made by splitting water with electrolysis (Power-to-Methanol). Geely is a shareholder ($45.5-million Earlier post.).

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Audi building 160,000 m2 photovoltaic system for Gy?r, Hungary plant

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This will create Europe’s largest photovoltaic system installed on a building at the Audi Hungaria plant in Gy?r. We were the first premium manufacturer to have our CO2 footprint measured and certified in 2014. Together with E.ON, Audi is building a solar energy park on the roofs of the two logistics centers of its plant in Gy?r

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Ford hits CO2 manufacturing emissions reduction target of 30% per vehicle 8 years early

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Ford reduced its emissions footprint through energy conservation and efficiency changes at Ford’s manufacturing facilities, such as installing more than 100,000 LED light fixtures and updating paint operations. —Bruce Hettle, group vice president, manufacturing and labor affairs. Painting operations use a large amount of energy.

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Nissan establishes Zero Emission Fund; CO2 offset credits for LEAF owners in Japan

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Profits earned by the sale of the credits will be invested by the fund to support the installation of quick charging facilities and forest conservation activities. The Nissan LEAF’s total annual distance traveled is automatically collected by the NISSAN CARWINGS Data Center through its continuous on-board communication unit.

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