article thumbnail

Tesla Model Y deliveries start in Malaysia

Teslarati

Tesla Model Y deliveries started in Malaysia. Model Y reservation holders in Malaysia finally received their orders after nearly 8 months of waiting. According to local media reports , Tesla Malaysia launched with Model Y orders, followed by the Model 3. Now, the Model Y has finally arrived.

Malaysia 126
article thumbnail

Airbus forms a sustainable fuel Center of Excellence in Malaysia

Green Car Congress

Airbus and key Malaysian partners recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to assess local solutions for sustainable bio-mass production in Malaysia. —Prof Emeritus Dato’ Sri Dr. Zakri bin Abdul Hamid, science advisor to the Prime Minister of Malaysia, chairman of MIGHT, BioTech Corp and AMIC.

Malaysia 236
article thumbnail

Malaysia team finds adding graphene nanoflakes to lubricant improves thermal conductivity 17% with no change in viscosity

Green Car Congress

A team of Malaysian scientists from the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus and Taylor’s University are examining the effects of adding graphene nanoflakes to various commercially available lubricants. They may even cost less, because adding nanoparticles could reduce the amounts of other additives currently required.

Malaysia 150
article thumbnail

Gevo and Leaf Resources sign joint development agreement for potential use of cellulosic-derived sugars to convert to hydrocarbon molecules

Green Car Congress

The initial phase will develop the feasibility of a potential facility, followed by phases investigating the commercial development and commercialization of the project.

Convert 246
article thumbnail

Sumitomo and US Hybrid partnering to grow hydrogen fuel cell business for commercial vehicles and mass transit

Green Car Congress

The 80kW fuel cell power plant is capable of operating at temperatures as low as -30 ˚C with rapid start capability from -30 ˚C and is not required to be powered during non-operational periods to remain above freezing, further reducing operational and maintenance costs and failure risk in all-weather environments. US Hybrid FCe 80.

article thumbnail

Gevo signs Malaysian collaboration to produce cellulosic isobutanol for SE Asia

Green Car Congress

After a year of ongoing development work in Malaysia, Gevo says it is strategically partnering along the supply chain to provide bio-based isobutanol at a cost-competitive price. The company is in the final stages of evaluating additional partners to complete the biomass-to-isobutanol value chain.

Asia 236
article thumbnail

Shell will not move forward with $12.5B US Gulf Coast GTL project

Green Car Congress

Royal Dutch Shell plc will not move forward with the proposed 140,000 barrels per day Gulf Coast gas-to-liquids (GTL) project in Louisiana and will suspend any further work on the project, which was estimated to cost some $12.5 Shell built the first commercial GTL facility in Malaysia in 1993. Earlier post.)

Louisiana 218