Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2017

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) are beginning testing of the Soletair demo plant, which uses air-captured carbon dioxide to produce renewable fuels and chemicals. Phase 1: Renewable energy. The produced dry hydrogen gas is stored into two 350 l composite cylinders.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2017

Researchers with the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University, led by Dr. Ying Li, associate professor of mechanical engineering, are developing a photocatalyst to convert CO 2 into renewable hydrocarbon fuels. The project is still in the fundamental research stage. There are two different ways to quantify the efficiency.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

The necessary energy is supplied by electricity from renewable sources. Just as plants use solar energy to produce sugar, for example, from carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) and water in several steps, artificial photosynthesis uses renewable energies to produce valuable chemicals from CO 2 and water through electrolysis with the help of bacteria.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 26, 2019

The liquid CO 2 would then be delivered to a service station and where it will be turned back into fuel using renewable energy. That liquid is stored in a tank and can then be converted back into conventional fuel at the service stations using renewable electricity.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2019

If electricity for driving during the use phase is obtained exclusively from renewable sources, CO 2 emissions of 62 g CO 2 /km in today’s EU electricity mix will drop to just 2 g CO 2 /km. The decarbonization index (DKI) measures the CO2 emissions of an average vehicle of the Volkswagen Group over its life cycle.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2019

Over the long term, hydrogen-methane technology offers a further advantage: it allows surplus wind and solar power generated during peaks to be stored, and these surpluses will see a sharp increase as the share of this renewable energy grows. —Professor Buchal. —Prof.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

This agreement also involves a collaborative effort to develop feasibility studies in order to find new solutions to transport hydrogen in both liquid and gaseous form, by using and adapting existing infrastructure and networks as well as by shipping it by vessel, and to capture, transport, store or enhance CO 2.

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 31, 2021

Energy Storage in Sand Offers Low-Cost Pathway for Reliable Electricity and Heat Supply in Renewable Energy Era.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2018

Thereby, we completely forego coal-based electricity and obtain our electrical energy from only renewable sources. Today, new plants in Europe are already planned with a CO2-neutral energy supply from the start. The production hall uses renewable energy and reduces water consumption and waste significantly.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2018

Chemical reactor company INERATEC , a spinoff of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), and the Spanish company GAS NATURAL FENOSA have built a plant in Spain that produces synthetic natural gas from CO 2 and renewable hydrogen. The process uses energy from renewable sources and stores it in the chemical energy carrier methane.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2019

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. We are making it possible to store renewable energy by converting it into useful substances such as specialty chemicals or fuel.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Major corporate and public sector partners in Japan are launching an effort to test a full carbon-neutral hydrogen supply chain powered by renewable wind energy. Under this trial project, wind power will be used to turn water into oxygen and hydrogen, with the latter stored for use locally.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2014

reported reducing CO2 emissions from global corporate activities in fiscal year 2013 while increasing vehicle production by 5.1%. In Japan, Nissan will increase the amount of renewable energy it buys from 5,200 MWh to four times that amount by fiscal year 2016 through the Power Producers and Suppliers (PPS) system. Nissan Motor Co.,

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Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2019

The project seeks to address multiple challenges related to the expansion of EVs, including the repurposing of used EV batteries, the expected impact of EV demand and renewable energy on the nation’s utility operators and the integration of EV batteries as a storage solution for the electric grid.

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Teslarati

JULY 4, 2022

Yet in recent comments, Musk has highlighted that he believes it’s a mistake to stigmatize nuclear energy today, especially as renewables like solar and batteries are still ramping up. We need to get the parts per million level of CO2 in the atmosphere down to a lower level.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 30, 2024

As a result, Continental’s logistics processes could be further optimized while lowering CO2 emissions of its operations. We can serve our customers even faster, while further reducing our CO2 footprint,” Bernhard Trilken , Head of Manufacturing and Logistics, Continental Tires , said at the inauguration of the storage facility.

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Czech Republic Auto CO2 Store 52

Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2014

That solar fuels offer the promise of solar energy storage—a key challenge in a world predominantly relying on renewables. Carbon neutral fuels might be produced from CO 2 , but only in a future energy system completely based on renewable energy. Another application could be as a storage medium for so-called stranded renewables.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2021

million Shore-to-Store (S2S) project, more than a dozen public and private sector partners have teamed up for a 12-month demonstration of the zero-emissions Class 8 trucks and will expand the project to include five more hydrogen-fueled heavy-duty trucks, two battery-electric yard tractors, and two battery-electric forklifts. Under the $82.5-million

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Los Angeles Hydrogen Toyota Fuel 397

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Among the agreements are to: Expand Joint Clean Energy Research and Development: A renewed and expanded commitment to the US-China Clean Energy Research Center (CERC). This CCUS project with Enhanced Water Recovery will eventually inject about 1 million tons of CO2 and create approximately 1.4

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China Climate Change CO2 United States 300

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2015

The syngas is stored and finally converted into jet fuel via the FT process. The production of solar thermochemical fuels presents only a viable option over conventional fuels if the CO 2 is captured from renewable sources such as the atmosphere and not from flue gases of a fossil power plant. Click to enlarge. —Falter et al.

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Solar Fuel Renewable Production 150

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2018

Lithium-ion batteries with a storage capacity of 149 kWh are used to store energy, making it possible for the eTruck to cover a range of 130 kilometers (81 miles). In addition to its low noise emissions and being CO2-neutral, the strengths of the electric vehicle include reduced wear and maintenance.

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Porsche Green Electric Electrical 359

Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2020

FLECCS project teams will work to develop carbon capture and storage (CCS) processes that better enable technologies, such as natural gas power generators, to be responsive to grid conditions in a high variable renewable energy (VRE) penetration environment. Flexible Oxy-Fuel Combustion for High-Penetration Variable Renewables - $717,658.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2015

(The comparison to the electric vehicle is based on estimates which factor in the CO 2 emissions resulting from fuel production, with the DME-powered vehicle figure calculated from the use of renewable energy to generate the DME fuel, and the electric vehicle figure calculated from electricity generated from renewable resources.

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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. Because there is not yet a widespread hydrogen infrastructure, the hydrogen is reacted with CO 2 in a methanation unit to generate renewable synthetic methane, or Audi e-gas. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

For the actual rail transport, DB Cargo then completely replaces the required amount of energy with green electricity, which is obtained solely from renewable energy sources in Germany. With the changeover to rail transport, Audi is pursuing its goal of making its car manufacturing completely CO 2 -neutral in the foreseeable future.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2010

Risø DTU, the National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy at the Technical University of Denmark - DTU, is heading an effort to transform CO 2 and renewable electricity into synthetic fuels for transportation. Source: Risø. Click to enlarge. Making the step from electricity to chemical energy requires an electrolytic process.

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Electric Vehicles India

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The hydrogen cycle has three phases: create, store/transport, and consume. It starts with renewable energy and using water electrolysis technology, electricity produced by using renewable energy sources is converted into green hydrogen. This hydrogen may be transferred by pipeline, land, and sea and stored as hydrogen.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

The insoluble carbon floats to the surface of the melt, where it can be removed and stored or incorporated into composite materials. Researchers at the University of California Santa Barbara have developed catalytic molten metals to pyrolize methane to release hydrogen and to form solid carbon. Metallic catalysts (e.g.,

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2013

An Electricity/CO 2 Market Simulation Incorporating Renewables. Many local devices that can either generate electricity, like rooftop solar panels, or store energy, like electric cars, are expected to help reduce the costs of the traditional system, especially as intermittent renewable energy provides a bigger fraction of our energy use.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 1, 2013

The start of the chain has electricity produced from renewable energy sources; the end products are hydrogen and the synthetic Audi e-gas. Construction of the world’s first industrial plant to produce synthetic methane (e-gas) from CO 2 and renewable electricity is almost complete in Werlte (Emsland district of Lower Saxony), Germany.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2016

These vehicles are the green machines that will provide a critical part of the renewable and sustainable society that we need for the future. [ That is, PHEVLERs can store electricity whenever sun and wind-generated electricity is plentiful, and then can send stored power back into the smart grid at times when more electric power is needed.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2013

Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have discovered and demonstrated a new technique to remove and store atmospheric carbon dioxide while generating carbon-negative hydrogen and producing alkalinity, which can be used to offset ocean acidification. However, further research is needed, the authors said.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2014

The material’s selectivity for oxygenates, with ethanol as the major product, demonstrates the feasibility of a two-step conversion of CO 2 to liquid fuel that could be powered by renewable electricity, the team suggests in their paper published in the journal Nature.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Hydrogen is an indispensable resource to achieve this transition because it can be used to store and transport wind, solar and other renewable electricity to power transportation and many other things. The world in the 21st century must transition to widespread low carbon energy use. The world already invests more than US$1.7

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2009

Schematic illustration of a generic liquid-fuel energy cycle utilizing a renewable electrical source. The roundtrip efficiency achievable for either a methanol or a liquid hydrocarbon cycle should be greater than that of a hydrogen cycle for storing energy from renewable sources, the researchers calculated. Credit: ACS.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 27, 2009

Joule Biotechnologies uses proprietary, highly-engineered product-specific organisms to produce renewable fuels and chemicals. Such yields would far eclipse productivity levels of current bio- or renewable fuels. There is no question that viable, renewable fuels are vitally important, both for economic and environmental reasons.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2015

One of Nissan’s CO 2 emission goals is to increase the usage rate of renewable energy in its global business activities to 9% by fiscal year 2016. Nissan is utilizing a number of proven forms of sustainable energy generation to help minimize its corporate carbon footprint.

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