Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Extending vehicle life and usage is at the heart of the Stellantis Circular Economy Business Unit, which is leading the initiative in collaboration with the Commercial Vehicle Business Unit and the Stellantis Ventures Studio. —Xavier Peugeot, Stellantis Senior Vice President, Commercial Vehicle Business Unit. Stellantis N.V.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2021

Rice University scientists and their colleagues at C-Crete Technologies have optimized a process to convert waste from rubber tires into graphene that can, in turn, be used to strengthen concrete. Tire-derived carbon black or a blend of shredded rubber tires and commercial carbon black can be flashed into graphene. After 28 days, 0.1

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The conversion normally requires significant amounts of energy in the form of high heat—a temperature of at least 700 ?C, Illustration of a novel room-temperature process to remove CO 2 by converting the molecule into CO. C, hot enough to melt aluminum at normal atmospheric pressure. Credit: NIST.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

and Princeton University’s Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment have created a scalable photocatalyst that can convert ammonia into hydrogen fuel. Syzygy has licensed Rice’s antenna-reactor technology, and the study included scaled-up tests of the catalyst in the company’s commercially available, LED-powered reactors.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The companies are joining efforts to implement the carbon-negative UBQ thermoplastic ( earlier post ) into auto parts manufactured by Motherson Group for the automotive industry. UBQ GHG Neutralizers, conversely, offset on average 15 times their weight of CO 2 -e. These are suited for injection, extrusion and compression molding.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

This includes making available $2 billion in grants and up to $10 billion in loans to support automotive manufacturing conversion projects that retain high-quality jobs in communities that currently host these manufacturing facilities. Converting and Retrofitting America’s Manufacturing Plants.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The powertrain is in a configuration that closely resembles the company’s first product—a conversion kit for ATR 72-600 regional airliners—which is expected to be certified and in commercial passenger service starting in 2025. Air New Zealand.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

UPS and the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) announced that new technology will be developed to convert UPS package delivery vehicles from diesel to electric. UPS and Unique Electric Solutions LLC (UES LLC) will design, build, test and make the conversions.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2022

United and United Airlines Ventures (UAV) announced an investment in and commercial agreement with Dimensional Energy. million award from ARPA-E ( earlier post ), has developed a reactor and catalysts to convert CO 2 and hydrogen from water into syngas for use in the Fischer-Tropsch process.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2013

Topchiev Institute for Petrochemical Synthesis ( TIPS ) on marketing a new technology developed by TIPS to convert flared gases into hydrocarbon fuels such as gasoline. The TIPS catalytic converter delivers considerably better properties than those currently being used in the industry, TNO said. —Kolesnikova et al.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 28, 2024

Anshu Dewan: In India, the market is yet to realise its commercial potential and is currently at a nascent stage. What are the key advantages of the conversion? How does the compulsory scrapping of commercial diesel vehicles after 15 years get impacted with retrofitting of electric systems? billion by 2026.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2020

Liquid Wind is developing its first commercial-scale eMethanol facility in Sweden and plans to establish 6 facilities by 2030 before expanding internationally. Liquid Wind, in partnership with its consortium of experts, Consortium, will convert waste CO 2 and renewable electricity into eMethanol, a carbon-neutral fuel.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2021

a global supplier of hydrogen fuel cell-powered commercial vehicles, announced a joint venture to build up to 100 hydrogen hubs across the United States and globally. As part of the agreement, Hyzon is acquiring a minority interest in Raven SR. tons of renewable green hydrogen, enough to power 100 heavy-duty commercial vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

The pilot plant follows on from Mercurius Australia’s benchtop validation project conducted jointly with QUT as part of the Queensland Government’s Biofutures Acceleration Program. Uses two widely deployed and well understood industrial processing techniques— one from the pulp and paper industry and the other from petroleum refining.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2020

With more than $32 million in pending orders from commercial and government fleets, commercial electric vehicle supplier Lightning Systems is more than tripling the size of its manufacturing, research and development facility in Loveland, Colorado. Unlike most of the industry, we’re shipping vehicles now and rapidly expanding.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2014

developer of a power conversion technology called Power Packet Switching Architecture (PPSA), received a purchase order for ten of its PPSA-enabled 30 kW battery converters from Coritech Services, a provider of custom engineering solutions for a variety of applications including electric vehicle charging. Ideal Power Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2021

The license also includes ORNL’s Oak Ridge Converter, which eliminates one of the power conversion stages needed for wireless power transfer, resulting in more compact and less costly stationary infrastructure. Opening up new parts of the transportation sector to electrification is a key benefit of this technology.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2023

The team modified a commercial tribology testing device to give it the capability to evaluate the impact of electric currents in fluids, measuring the wear and friction on the automobile parts in the presence of an applied voltage. This small-scale bench test was built around a traditional universal testing machine.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

This approval, pursuant to Title 40 CFR Part 79 promulgated under the Clean Air Act, is required for the sale of RFGasoline into US commerce. This approval follows the recently announced Part 79 approval of Ensyn’s renewable diesel product, RFDiesel. The Part 79 registration process involved a number of these industry leaders.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2022

Volkswagen has invested around €1 million in converting the Emden plant with its 8,000 employees. Buzz will commence this year at Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles in Hanover. 4’s start-up is on schedule, despite the global challenges during the two-year conversion phase. Apart from the ID.4,

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2023

The efforts on graphite are part of a larger research partnership between Ramaco and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory over the past three years, exploring a wide range of alternative uses of coal to make higher-value carbon products and materials.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 14, 2022

The California-based Hyperlight Energy will be piloting an installation where they plan to use existing oil wells as solar thermal wellsprings, with the stored energy being converted back to clean electricity when required. This can imply a long road to commercial success.”

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2022

Because so much energy is lost turning steam back into water in the Rankine cycle, at most a third of the power in the steam can be converted into electricity. In comparison, the Brayton cycle has a theoretical conversion efficiency upwards of 50%. We have never done that before; we’d always gone to the load banks.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2018

UK-based ULEMCo—a spin-out from Revolve Technologies focused on conversions of diesel vehicles to hydrogen dual fuel operation—has collaborated with Aberdeen City Council (ACC) to deliver the first hydrogen dual fuel road sweeper. The project represents the first such conversion of a DAF vehicle. Injection system.

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Charged EVs

MAY 31, 2022

Upcoming electric passenger vehicles and light trucks from GM get most of the attention, but its new commercial EV brand is a quiet and very serious push too. But very few consumers will come up with BrightDrop , the name GM has given to a new unit that builds electric commercial vehicles: full-size vans and even electric cargo containers.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2012

announced that Isuzu commercial vehicle dealers can now select IMPCO as a ship-through option more quickly to convert or to modify gasoline-powered NPR-HD (14,500-lb. IMPCO Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of Fuel Systems Solutions, Inc., GVWR) trucks to CNG operation.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a new electrocatalyst that can directly convert carbon dioxide into multicarbon fuels and alcohols using record-low inputs of energy. At top left are transmission electron microscope images of the copper nanoparticles.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2011

The University of Texas at Arlington has licensed technology for converting natural gas to synthetic liquid fuels (GTL) in portable units at a cost lower than current market rates to 1 st Resource Group Inc. of Fort Worth for commercialization. The skid-mounted Conversion Units are designed to be transported via truck or rail.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2014

In addition, the hemicellulose fraction of the biomass is hydrolyzed in the same step of lignin conversion, with easy separation of the resultant xylose. It is part of Discovery Park’s Energy Center and the Bindley Bioscience Center at Purdue. A solvent is added to the mix to help dissolve and loosen up the materials.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2016

DOE’s Office of Fossil Energy is seeking these projects as part of the Department’s Carbon Storage program, which has the goal of developing and advancing technologies to improve the effectiveness of carbon storage, reduce the cost of implementation, and be ready for widespread commercial deployment in the 2025–2035 timeframe.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2013

TNO has been working for some time already with the Russian institute, which is part of the Russian Academy of Sciences. TIPS has developed a novel method of conversion for gas, biomass and coal to liquid hydrocarbons (XTL) that is more efficient and easier to apply on small scale than the commonly used Fischer-Tropsch process.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2015

IH 2 technology is a continuous catalytic thermochemical process which converts a broad range of forestry/agricultural residues and municipal wastes directly into renewable hydrocarbon transportation fuels and/or blend stocks. The IH 2 technology is an efficient conversion route for lignocellulosic biomass. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Part of the challenge is locating sufficient quantities of hydrogen to enable large scale use of the CO 2 in waste gases. Another challenge is—assuming successful large scale commercialization is possible—what to do with all the resulting acetic acid. that conversion wouldn’t actually happen in a LanzaTech bioreactor.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Prometheus Fuels has licensed an ethanol-to-jet-fuel conversion process developed by researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The current state-of-the-art process for converting biomass-derived ethanol into aviation fuels is costly, both in terms of energy use and capital cost.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2022

E-Jet is produced by Emerging Fuels Technology’s (EFT) technology to convert the syngas from Twelve into drop-in jet fuel. SAF is a core part of Alaska’s five-part pathway to net zero by 2040. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

At the IAA in Hanover (Germany), Continental is presenting new solutions for exhaust gas aftertreatment in commercial vehicles. As the exhaust gas aftertreatment strategies are defined by the OEMs, it is part of our system competence to ensure that the individual components can be applied with a maximum amount of flexibility.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2022

Glencore will subscribe for convertible debt in Li-Cycle and Li-Cycle will become a preferred partner for Glencore in the lithium-ion battery recycling sector. We both believe that battery recycling will form a key part of the energy transition. supplying Li-Cycle’s sulfuric acid requirements for its Hub facilities.

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