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OCTOBER 20, 2021

Compass Minerals, a leading global provider of essential minerals, announced the successful, third-party conversion testing of its lithium brine resource into both lithium carbonate and battery-grade lithium hydroxide, representing a significant milestone in its previously announced lithium development project. Source: Compass Minerals.

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OCTOBER 8, 2020

Methanol fuel cell developer and manufacturer Blue World Technologies ( earlier post ) is starting limited production—the first step in commercializing its methanol fuel cell technology. The methanol fuel cell system is based on High-Temperature PEM technology and methanol to hydrogen reforming.

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OCTOBER 25, 2020

Linde GmbH and Shell announced an exclusive collaboration agreement on ethane-oxidative dehydrogenation (E-ODH) technology for ethylene production. The agreement will enable accelerated deployment of this novel technology across the wider chemicals sector, with Linde marketing to customers under the name EDHOX.

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MAY 10, 2023

million to 10 industry-led projects to advance nuclear technologies, including two aimed at expanding clean hydrogen production with nuclear energy. A well-established downstream syngas-to-synfuel conversion process, such as Fischer-Tropsch synthesis, converts the syngas to liquid synfuel for a total projected cost of less than $4/gallon.

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APRIL 22, 2021

million Series A financing round led by prominent Silicon Valley venture fund, Playground Global, with the investor syndicate comprising Fortescue Future Industries, Coatue, Global Founders Capital, Plug Power, Airbus Ventures, JetBlue Technology Ventures, Toyota AI Ventures, Sojitz Corporation, and Future Shape.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Westinghouse Electric Company has signed a service agreement with the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission to bring its eVinci microreactor closer to commercialization. Westinghouse will execute both Phases 1 and 2 of the VDR as a combined program, signaling the eVinci microreactor’s design and technology maturity.

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AUGUST 3, 2020

Specialty chemical company Clariant and Eta Bio, a company of the Pavlovi family, running a leading business in the agricultural sector in Bulgaria, have signed a license agreement for Clariant’s sunliquid cellulosic ethanol technology. The agreement marks the fourth signed license deal for Clariant’s sunliquid technology.

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MAY 14, 2023

A Ford-led consortium is testing hydrogen fuel cell technology on the E-Transit in a small UK-based prototype fleet developed by Ford Pro. The UK-based project will establish if hydrogen fuel cell technology can help to deliver enhanced zero-emission-driving range for E-Transit customers with energy-intensive use cases.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The technology group Wärtsilä will commercially launch its Two-Stroke Future Fuels Conversion platform during the first quarter of 2022. This innovative and patented engine combustion technology platform will enable the fast and cost-effective conversion of two-stroke main engines to operate on clean-burning future fuels.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2022

0002823 ) to support the extraction and conversion of lithium from geothermal brines to use in batteries for stationary storage and electric vehicles. This funding opportunity will support technologies to extract battery-grade lithium from geothermal brines directly—providing a cost-effective, domestic source of this critical material.

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MAY 25, 2021

Solid Power, a producer of all-solid-state batteries for electric vehicles, provided details on its All-Solid-State Platform technology and the three unique battery designs it enables. Solid Power’s all-solid-state platform technology allows us to produce unique batteries for the unique electric vehicles they intend to power.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their colleagues have demonstrated a room-temperature method that could significantly reduce carbon dioxide levels in fossil-fuel power plant exhaust, one of the main sources of carbon emissions in the atmosphere.

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MARCH 7, 2020

FF is committed to the development of EV solutions along with US Hybrid to support California’s drive towards zero emissions for commercial vehicles. We are thrilled to provide commercially viable solutions that ultimately support ports, good movements and municipalities in achieving their air quality improvement and environmental goals.

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MARCH 25, 2025

At the same time, startup Micas Networks , announced that it is in volume production with a CPO switch based on Broadcoms technology. Co-packaged optics is an effort to boost bandwidth and reduce power consumption by moving the optical/electrical data conversion as close as possible to the switch chip.

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MAY 11, 2020

The global transportation of ammonia by pipeline and bulk carrier is already a well-developed technology. This, they suggest in a paper in Joule , will emerge via three overlapping technology generations: Generation 1 is based on an expansion of current-day Haber-Bosch ammonia production using CO 2 sequestration or offsets.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Freudenberg Sealing Technologies has launched the development of a special fuel cell system for heavy-duty trucks. The company is collaborating with Quantron AG, a specialist in the field of commercial vehicle conversion. With their large loading volume, 40-ton heavy-duty trucks are popular among freight carriers.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Voltabox AG secured a long-term framework contract with e-troFit GmbH as the preferred supplier of high-performance battery systems for e-troFit’s conversion solutions for diesel buses. In the past fiscal year, e-troFit nominated Voltabox AG as the supplier of the battery unit for conversion kits for buses and trucks.

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APRIL 2, 2021

Transform Materials is a sustainable chemical technology company that uses microwave plasma to convert natural gas into acetylene and hydrogen. In addition, it uses 50% less electricity for producing hydrogen than competing technologies. Chart Industries Inc., —David Soane Ph.D., Chairman of Transform Materials.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Continuing to speed up the adoption of hydrogen in long-haul transportation, Hydra Energy —the first Hydrogen-as-a-Service provider for commercial fleets—announced a strategic partnership with Chemtrade. Hydra pays for the truck conversion and the on-site fueling infrastructure.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2023

ULEMCo has been awarded a major fleet-wide contract by Aberdeen City Council (ACC) for its hydrogen dual-fuel utility vehicle conversions. This new order, part of a Fleetwide Conversion commitment, includes further refuse collection vehicles and road sweepers, but also a wide variety of other utility trucks including tippers and tractors.

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AUGUST 17, 2019

Electro-Active Technologies has exclusively licensed two biorefinery technologies invented and patented by the startup’s co-founders while working at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The technologies work as a system that converts organic waste into renewable hydrogen gas for use as a biofuel.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Developed in conjunction with partners—Parker Hannifin and converted by Volvo Group’s own CE Engineering Solutions—the 20-ton L120H Electric Conversion will be commercially available for selected customers in Europe during 2023. The L120H Electric Conversion will be available this year for selected customers in Europe.

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MAY 27, 2021

UK-based ULEMCo signed an exclusive MoU with ENGV Pty Ltd to collaborate on developing a market for its hydrogen dual fuel technology in Australia. The scope of the agreement extends across Australia and into commercial vehicles, particularly heavy-duty applications like refuse collection, urban trucks, buses and prime movers.

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JULY 21, 2021

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding a total of $125 million to support 110 clean energy technology projects (DE-FOA-0002381). The technology has the potential to enable increased green hydrogen production from renewable offshore wind energy, reducing global carbon dioxide emissions. million); Fossil Energy (US$14.7

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OCTOBER 21, 2021

Hydra Energy, the Hydrogen-as-a-Service (HaaS) provider for commercial fleets looking to reduce emissions and costs with limited risk and no up-front investment ( earlier post ), has delivered its first hydrogen-converted, heavy-duty truck to paying fleet customer Lodgewood Enterprises. Hydra’s technology has been in development since 2012.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2019

The miscanthus biomass was harvested and baled at the INA demonstration site in Croatia in February this year and shipped for processing to Clariant’s pre-commercial sunliquid plant in Straubing, Germany for conversion into lignocellulosic sugars and ethanol.

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MAY 11, 2023

Arcadia eFuels has selected Sasol and Topsoe technologies for its Vordingborg eFuels plant. The technology support for Arcadia marks the first single-point license between Topsoe and Sasol, whereby the two companies will deliver their proprietary technology (G2L), converting CO 2 and H 2 into eFuel for aviation.

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DECEMBER 18, 2020

It is a major development for a project that aims to improve the environmental performance of commercial vehicles using hydrocarbon fuels. These results show that the Opposed-Piston technology is able to meet our sustainable transportation goals, reducing criteria pollutants while also emitting less carbon dioxide.

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AUGUST 31, 2021

The US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has licensed its high-power wireless charging technology for electric vehicles to HEVO. megawatts (1,500 kilowatts) per square meter—eight to 10 times higher than currently available technology. It’s not just about charging your vehicle really fast.

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JANUARY 24, 2023

The new PNNL carbon capture and conversion system brings the cost to capture CO 2 down to about $39 per metric ton. PNNL chemist David Heldebrant, who leads the research team behind the new technology, compares the system to recycling. This technology is available for licensing. But, no matter the setup, solvents are central.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

The NSF grant will address challenges that remain before the renewable strategy can be applied practically on a commercial scale. Koch School of Chemical Engineering Practice at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and Yuanyue Liu, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Texas at Austin.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2018

Continental and Knorr-Bremse AG have entered into a partnership to develop a complete system solution for highly automated driving (HAD) in commercial vehicles, initially focused on automated convoy driving (platooning). Knorr-Bremse will offer the complete system to commercial vehicle manufacturers in Europe, North America and Asia.

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MARCH 7, 2021

C, which sets it apart from standard electrolysis technologies. Solid oxide electrolysis cell (SOEC) technology is attractive because of unrivaled conversion efficiencies—a result of favorable thermodynamics and kinetics at higher operating temperatures. The facility is expected to be operational by 2023. —Hauch et al.

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OCTOBER 10, 2022

Toshiba Corporation has developed large-scale production technology for electrolysis electrodes that realize high level efficiency in Power to Gas (P2G) technology while reducing the use of iridium, one of the world’s rarest precious metals, to 1/10. However, PEM uses iridium as the catalyst in its electrodes.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Airbus has revealed three concepts for the world’s first zero-emission commercial aircraft which could enter service by 2035. To achieve that 2035 deadline with commercial product, Airbus would have to select the specific technologies by 2025, according to Grazia Vittadini, Chief Technology Officer.

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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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APRIL 9, 2021

Supported by the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi), and due to run for three years from December 2020, project partners include the University of Munich, Neptun Ship Design, WTZ and Woodward L’Orange. Together with MAN, the technology will be scaled up to large, four-stroke engines in the project.

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