Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 27, 2022

A company that installs EV chargers in streetlights claims this is not only a practical way to bring charging to urban areas, but also has a lower carbon footprint than conventional charging installations. That's the conclusion of a study commissioned by U.K.-based based streetlight charging company ChargeLight and conducted by consultancy.

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Low CO2 Charging Light CO2 176

CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 15, 2022

Support for the 2035 zero-emission road mobility objective Call for a methodology for assessing the full life-cycle of CO2 emissions Mitigate negative economic impact of the transition with targeted funding Environment Committee MEPs are in favour of a pathway towards zero-emission road mobility in 2035 for new passenger cars and light […].

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2017

Renewable chemicals company Avantium has acquired the assets of Liquid Light. Liquid Light has developed proprietary process technology to make major chemicals from low-cost, globally-abundant carbon dioxide. The integration of the Liquid Light assets into Avantium is complete and effective immediately.

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EV Central

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

And it wants the $100 per gram fine proposed for exceeding CO2 emissions limits under the governments preferred ‘Option B’ version of the New Vehicle Efficiency Standard (NVES) reduced. READ MORE: A stack of lies you could drive a Toyota HiLux through | Opinion READ MORE: It’s a green light for electric vehicles! 2024 Hyundai Tucson.

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Hyundai CO2 Australia Tucson 104

Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2014

Audi says that its Online traffic light information system, demonstrated in an Audi A6 as part of a technology display at the Consumer Electronics Show in January in Las Vegas, is production ready and could be fitted to every Audi model in the range subject to the necessary government legislation. Click to enlarge.

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Las Vegas Audi Light Emissions 281

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2021

This is mainly due to the increased light-alloy content in the bodyshell and the larger high-voltage battery with a capacity of 28.6 Alongside the CO2 improvement, the S 580 e also has advantages over its predecessor with respect to its eutrophication (EP) and summer smog (POCP) potential.

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Mercedes CO2 Emissions PHEV 243

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

The researchers have planned follow-up studies at Brookhaven’s National Synchrotron Light Source II, also a DOE Office of Science User Facility, which offers a unique suite of tools and techniques for the characterization of catalysts under working conditions.

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Conversion Parts CO2 Carbon 418

Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2021

liter 4-cylinder 48-volt light commercial vehicle in challenging real-world conditions. When Tula’s software strategies were implemented, an additional 11% of CO2 was eliminated compared to industry-leading hybrid powertrains. The CO 2 reduction can be achieved at a cost of only €200 ($235 USD) per vehicle.

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Diesel CO2 Emissions Hybrid 186

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The conversion reaction also produces light olefins—ethylene, propylene, and butenes—totalling a yield of 8.7%. These are important raw materials for the petrochemical industry and are presently also only obtained from fossil crude oil.

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Convert Fuel CO2 Conversion 505

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Duke University researchers have engineered rhodium nanoparticles that can harness the energy in ultraviolet light and use it to catalyze the conversion of carbon dioxide to methane, a key building block for many types of fuels. So we get to choose how the reaction goes with light in a way that we can’t do with heat.

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Light Conversion CO2 Hydrogen 150

Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2014

Broadly, the Ford team found that new light-duty vehicle fuel economy and CO 2 regulations in the US through 2025 and in the EU through 2020 are consistent with the CO 2 glide paths. For the EU, the glide path is at the upper end of the discussed 2025 EU range of 68–78 g CO 2 /km. —Winkler et al. Winkler, Timothy J.

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Light Global CO2 Ford 261

Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2014

Liquid Light unveiled its new process for the production of major chemicals from carbon dioxide, showcasing its demonstration-scale “reaction cell” and confirming the potential for cost-advantaged process economics. These differences are especially significant as MEG sells for $700 to $1,400 per metric ton.

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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.

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Light CO2 Vehicles Clean 150

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Researchers have used a novel near-infrared light imaging technique to capture the first cross-sectional images of carbon dioxide in the exhaust plume of a commercial jet engine. —Michael Lengden. Until now it has been impossible to image turbine combustion on test rigs containing a large airplane engine. m in diameter.

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Commercial Engine Emissions CO2 259

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 also supporting the Swiss start-up with its technological know-how, such as for the development of new heat exchanger concepts.

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Audi Iceland CO2 Carbon 446

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

To scale up the system so that it could remove carbon dioxide from the exhaust of a commercial power plant, a light beam may be a better choice than an electron beam to excite the LSPs, Canhui Wang, lead author of the paper, said. An array of light beams impinging upon the grid would activate the LSPs.

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Conversion CO2 Carbon Exhaust 418

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

For this JCAP study, researchers engineered a complete system to work at different times of day, not just at a light energy level of 1-sun illumination, which is equivalent to the peak of brightness at high noon on a sunny day. to 1-sun illumination.

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Solar Light Fuel CO2 170

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 25, 2021

Electron microscopy experiments at the Molecular Foundry confirmed that cuprous oxide quickly oxidizes or corrodes within minutes of exposure to light and water. The Advanced Light Source, Molecular Foundry, and NERSC are user facilities at Berkeley Lab. The Liquid Sunlight Alliance is a DOE Energy Innovation Hub. Zheng, F.,

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Hydrogen CO2 Li-ion Solar 305

Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2015

Liquid Light has signed a technology development agreement with The Coca-Cola Company. The objective of the agreement is to accelerate the development of Liquid Light’s technology which can make mono-ethylene glycol (MEG) from CO 2. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

On the other hand, the proportion of polymers, light alloys and other metals is increased. The largest proportion omitted is 39% for steel and iron, followed by light-alloys (23%) and polymers, i.e. plastics (18 percent). The curb weight of the EQC 400 4MATIC is 2420 kilograms (5,335 lbs).

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Mercedes CO2 Polymer Lithium Ion 210

Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2013

Members of the European Parliament’s Environment, Public Health and Food Safety Committee approved a draft law setting out rules for achieving a 147 g CO 2 /km (235 g/mile) target for new light commercial vehicles by 2020, down from 203 g/km (325 g/mile) today—i.e., The vote was 53 to 4 with 1 abstention.

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2020 Environment Light Commercial 346

Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2022

Computational modeling of cost-effective carbon capture technologies on industrial gas turbines to reduce CO2 emission. This technology can significantly reduce the capital and operating costs of CO2 removal by commercially available CO2 removal technologies. Carbon Nanospike Based Photoelectrochemical CO2 Conversion.

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Energy CO2 Hydrogen Carbon 321

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Yang said that these copper-silver nanoparticles could potentially be coupled with light-absorbing silicon nanowires in the future design of efficient artificial photosynthesis systems.

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Convert CO2 Carbon Water 243

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 14, 2022

The thermal processes require very high temperature, and they don’t produce very high-value chemical products, which is a challenge with the light-activated processes as well, says co-corresponding author Kripa Varanasi. Efficiency is always at play, always an issue.”.

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MIT CO2 Carbon Conversion 284

Baua Electric

MAY 6, 2023

megawatts of electrical energy, relying at the quantity of light. “We used to ship them by truck, but switching to the train saves us about 2,600 tons of CO2 per year,” Jan Marls, head of manufacturing at Audi Brussels, advised Car Information in December. Put in in 2012, the array, on reasonable, generates about 13 p.c

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CO2 Audi Building Hungary 52

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The report also shows all 14 large automotive manufacturers achieved compliance with the Light-duty Greenhouse Gas (GHG) standards through at least MY2020. Estimated real-world fuel economy and CO 2 emissions. Source: EPA. Highlights of the report: For MY 2021, vehicle fuel economy remained at an all-time high of 25.4

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Fuel Economy EPA Economy Fuel 243

Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2017

A new report from the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) estimates Consumer benefits of increased efficiency in 2025-2030 light-duty vehicles in the US. 4%, 5%, and 6% compounded annual reductions in CO2 targets for cars and light trucks for 2026–2030, compared against vehicles that meet the adopted 2025 targets.

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Light MPG Vehicles Fuel Economy 170

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Start-up Liquid Light, a developer of process technology to make major chemicals from low-cost, globally-abundant carbon dioxide ( earlier post ), has closed a $15-million Series B financing. New investors include Sustainable Conversion Ventures, which focuses on renewable fuels and chemicals investments.

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Financing Light Companies CO2 218

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2023

The new system mimics a natural chloroplast to convert carbon dioxide in water into methane, very efficiently using light. It mimics the structure of a purple bacteria’s light-harvesting chromatophores (i.e. 2023) “Artificial spherical chromatophore nanomicelles for selective CO2 reduction in water.” over 24 hours.

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Convert Carbon Fuel Water 369

Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2017

Researchers in Japan and China developed an efficient method for CO 2 reduction over elemental boron catalysts in the presence of only water and light irradiation through a photothermocatalytic process. A paper on their work is published in the journal Angewandte Chemie. When the sun shines on a surface, it is heated. —Jinhua Ye.

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Conversion CO2 Fuel Convert 150

Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2022

On 14 July 2021, as part of the “Fit for 55” package, the Commission presented a legislative proposal for a revision of the CO 2 emission performance standards for passenger cars and light commercial vehicles.

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Standards Emissions CO2 Cars 284

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Researchers at ETH Zürich have developed a light-duty hybrid electric vehicle featuring a dual-fuel natural gas-diesel engine. Consumption measurements of the dual-fuel natural gas-diesel engine as a function of speed and load. Source: Ott et al. Click to enlarge.

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Gas-Electric Diesel Gas Light 239

CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 24, 2023

With increased power, enhanced efficiency, and an extended range, the Next Generation eCanter from FUSO offers a wide array of applications and operates with zero CO2 emissions during driving.

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Extended Range Production CO2 Light 124

Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2012

The European Commission today proposed targets for the further reduction of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions from new cars and light commercial vehicles (vans) by 2020. The proposals would in total save 160 million tonnes of oil and around 420 million tonnes of CO2 in the period to 2030.

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2020 Light CO2 Cars 268

Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2021

The production of the first liters of recycled fuel consolidates the agreement signed in 2019 between TotalEnergies and Ecoslops SA2, a company that produces fuel and light bitumen from “slops” (hydrocarbon residues such as bilges) from maritime transport.

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CO2 2019 France Light 170

Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2018

We’ve made several improvements to our manufacturing operations—from the lighting we use to plant consolidations—all of which played a role in dramatically reducing our CO 2 footprint. The results are significant, with a global manufacturing CO 2 emissions reduction of more than 3.4

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Manufacturer Ford Emissions CO2 302

Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2018

One reason is that it performs HER very well, and brings down the CO2 reduction selectivity dramatically. To analyze the chemical complexity of the material, the scientists used beamline 8-ID at the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II)—also a DOE Office of Science User Facility at Brookhaven Lab.

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