Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2018

Levels of the pollutants have declined significantly since passage of the 1970 Clean Air Act, which spurred development of emission-reducing technologies, such as catalytic converters on automobiles and low nitrogen oxide burners at power plants. The findings have implications for air quality management. Slowdown in air quality improvement.

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Emissions Ozone Pollution EPA 150

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2013

The Electrification Coalition released two case studies outlining how two cities— Houston, Texas and Loveland, Colorado —are saving money by using electric vehicles (EVs) in their vehicle fleets. found that the city’s LEAFs will cost 41% less to own and operate than gasoline-powered vehicles. Earlier post.).

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Houston Fleet Tax Credit Plug-in 312

Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2010

Converting beetle-killed pine for biofuels is an extremely difficult process. If Cobalt can convert beetle-killed wood, it’s likely that the company can make biofuel from almost any cellulosic feedstock.”. In addition, Cobalt’s engineered bacteria are very resistant. If we use only half of the 2.3 Rick Wilson.

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Renewable Colorado Fuel Canada 220

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 11, 2010

Cobalt’s technology converts cellulosic biomass, such as forest waste and mill residues, into n-butanol through a process of biomass emulsification, conditioning and continuous fermentation. The dehydration pathway can be used in: alkylation of n-butanol to gasoline. John Hopkins, group executive of business development at Fluor.

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Corporation Companies Colorado Conversion 186

Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2020

AOI 04: Platinum Group Metals (PGM) Content Reduction to Enable Cost-Effective Aftertreatment for Gasoline and Diesel Engines. Slashing Platinum Group Metals Content in Catalytic Converters: An Atoms-to-Autos Approach. Colorado State University. Utility Managed Smart Charging for Consumer and Grid Benefits. General Motors LLC.

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Lithium Ion Vehicles Li-ion Universal 236

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2012

The three winning companies are: Umpqua Energy , a startup company based in Medford, Oregon, is using an Argonne National Laboratory technology to develop a system that allows a gasoline engine to operate in an extreme lean burn mode in order to increase gasoline mileage.

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Hydrogen Engine Energy Batteries 279

Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2012

At last month’s World Renewable Energy Forum 2012 in Denver, Colorado, researchers from the US National Renewable Energy Laboratory presented papers on two different approaches to upgrade pyrolysis oils to hydrocarbon fuels or fuel intermediates. Fast pyrolysis can convert about 70% of the mass and energy into the liquid product.

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Oil Fuel Hydrogen Conversion 246

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

We are not trying to treat the entire hydrocarbon [oil] content in the water—to turn it into carbon dioxide and water—but we are converting it into a form that can be retained by sand filtration, which is a conventional and economical process. —Professor Andy Hong. Water from mining of oil sands and oil shale.

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Ozone Water Oil-Sands Oil 199

Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2015

Chemical Engineering’s Thomas Jaramillo is experimenting with electrochemically converting natural gas into higher-value products, like methanol. Such fuels could lower greenhouse gas emissions from transportation compared with gasoline and diesel fuel.

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Gas Asia Mercury Chevron 150

Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2010

Today’s technologies for making biofuels all rely on photosynthesis—either indirectly by converting plants to fuels or directly by harnessing photosynthetic organisms such as algae. This process is less than 1% efficient at converting sunlight to stored chemical energy. Electrofuels: Biofuels from Electricity. Engineering E.

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Carbon Batteries Battery Li-ion 249

Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 20, 2023

When coasting or braking, it converts kinetic energy into electric energy and returns it to the battery. Distinct Exterior Sharing a platform with the gasoline-powered GV70 , Genesis engineers were able to use the same platform for both power plants without sacrificing interior space for people or cargo.

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All-Electric SUV Alabama Gasoline-Electric 74

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Energy Reduction Consolidated Projects: A variety of building energy-efficiency upgrades, hybrid vehicle upgrades, wind generator power systems, and the equipment needed to convert cooking oil to a blend with vehicle fuel to operate some of their buses. Denver Regional Transportation District, Colorado: $770,000.

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Emissions Gas Energy Maintenance 256

Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2019

University of Colorado Boulder researchers have developed nanobio-hybrid organisms capable of using airborne carbon dioxide and nitrogen to produce a variety of plastics and fuels, a promising first step toward low-cost carbon sequestration and eco-friendly manufacturing for chemicals. Ding et al. —Prashant Nagpal.

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Light CO2 Fuel Power 334

Electric Auto Association

APRIL 4, 2021

Instead, his collection of electric vehicles (EVs) has included a converted Yamaha motorcycle, a converted 1971 AMC Hornet, and several electric scooters. David O’Neill on his ‘Silent Knight Electric Motrocycle,’ a converted Yamaha Big Bear. The Hornet was considered a luxury EV because of its size.

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Colorado Denver Golf Cart Convert 57

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Methane Converter to Electricity and Fuel. Bio2Electric will develop a small-scale reactor that converts natural. convert natural gas into transportable liquids in one step. areas to convert otherwise wasted gas into usable chemicals that. Colorado State. convert natural gas into methanol and hydrogen.

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2012 Energy Lithium Sulfur Conversion 240

Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2017

The University of Wisconsin-Madison and ExxonMobil announced a two-year renewal of an agreement to research the fundamental chemistry of converting biomass into transportation fuels. Over the past two years, research has focused on a multistep approach for converting cellulosic biomass to transportation fuels. —Professor Huber.

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Conversion Transportation Fuel Wisconsin 150

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2017

The Exportable Power Takeoff (EPTO) feature demonstrates how high-voltage DC from the fuel cell stack could be converted to both high- and low-voltage AC to power tools or equipment. Future military-specific configurations. Click to enlarge. SURUS redefines fuel cell electric technology for both highway and off-road environments.

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GM Concept Fuel Colorado 150

Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2014

In 1989, HCI began blending various ratios of hydrogen and natural gas and testing them in an emissions laboratory at Colorado State University. Using information gleaned from these studies, HCI successfully converted a Chevrolet S-10 pick-up truck to a “tri-fuel” vehicle, which utilized gasoline, natural gas, and hydrogen/natural gas blends.

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Fuel Power Powered Colorado 210

Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 21, 2009

I never liked automobiles because I don’t like burning gasoline. I never liked automobiles because I don’t like burning gasoline. I also have a gas-guzzler for when I want to go up to San Francisco or drive up to Colorado. The problem is that car companies put everything in gasoline, the SUV, the truck. And he was right.

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EV1 Los Angeles Hydrogen GM 100

Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2015

Chen of Colorado State University; Soltex; and Hybrid Coating Technologies. In collaboration with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Algenol has applied hydrothermal liquefaction technology to convert the spent biomass into green crude. Chen of Colorado State University, for Academic. Department of Energy).

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EPA Green Polymer Water 150

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

One program, Reducing Emissions using Methanotrophic Organisms for Transportation Energy (REMOTE, earlier post ), provides $34 million to 15 projects to find advanced biocatalyst technologies that can convert natural gas to liquid fuel for transportation. Multicopper Oxidases for Methane Activation. 1,500,000.

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Gas Conversion Low Cost Universal 259

Clean Fleet Report

AUGUST 30, 2022

Liter gasoline engine and a 94kW electric motor. One is for driving power, while the other is to start the engine, charge the battery and provides the regenerative braking that converts kinetic energy into electric energy and stores it in the battery when applying the brakes or coasting. Road Test: 2018 Chevrolet Colorado.

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Ford Hybrid MPG Fuel Economy 87

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

streamline the process by which green plants convert carbon. production of oil, which is stored in seeds and is convertible to. plants, and it is a liquid that can be extracted readily, separated, and converted into biodiesel fuel. converted into a fuel mixture that is comparable to diesel or. These converters can also.

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Energy Clean Cleaning Grid 294

Clean Fleet Report

APRIL 12, 2022

The BZ4X will be sold throughout the world, but in America it will be first offered (April 2022) in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington. A full country roll-out is planned for late 2022. Toyota’s first serious EV entrant. American first!

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Toyota SUV All-Electric DC 96

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

A novel process known as Syngas Chemical Looping (SCL), in which coal and biomass are converted to electricity and CO 2 is efficiently captured, has been successfully demonstrated on a laboratory scale. General Motors will develop a shape memory alloy (SMA) energy recovery device that will convert waste heat from car engines to electricity.

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Energy Grant Low Cost Li-ion 231

Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

AUGUST 3, 2009

The last time a production model of an electric car had traveled from coast to coast was in 1998, when an EV-1 made the journey without consuming an ounce of gasoline. This converted Toyota Prius is another type of Plug-in --a PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle). This time it would be with a Tesla Motors Roadster!

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EV Adoption

MARCH 31, 2021

Converting this to estimated EPA range suggests range of roughly 282 miles. It expects these models – likely still referring to a mix of electrified models—to outsell its gasoline models by that point. Lightning eMotors is a Colorado-based EV manufacturer that specializes in zero-emissions solutions for commercial fleets.

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Kia Jeep Lexus Re-Charge 52

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

Think has even shown a convertible prototype. It is reminiscent of the early 1900’s, when steam, electric, diesel, biomass, and gasoline power options competed on a level playing field for consumers’ attention. They are still focusing on cars that burn gasoline. The same phenomena that customers like about electric cars.

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