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MARCH 25, 2021

The locomotive will show the potential of hydrogen fuel-cell technology to reduce transportation air pollutant and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The demonstration will facilitate the improvement of local air quality, a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, noise and odor.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Switching from diesel fuel to natural gas may hold advantages for the US heavy-duty trucking fleet, but more needs to be done to reach the full environmental benefits, according to a new white paper released by the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis, and Rice University.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2016

RNG is produced from organic materials or waste streams; the lifecycle emissions for RNG have the potential to be lower than the emissions of fossil natural gas. Liquefied natural gas (LNG) fueling stations for heavy trucks now exist in over a dozen locations around the state of California and continue to expand. per mmBTU and $4.15

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2019

The funding will help Sierra Energy further develop and commercialize its FastOx gasification technology, which converts virtually any waste into clean, renewable energy and fuels without burning. Injected oxygen and steam react with the carbon char to produce a synthesis gas (syngas), comprised predominately of carbon monoxide and hydrogen.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2021

—Amy Davis, Vice President and President of New Power at Cummins. Commercializing renewable hydrogen in China is anticipated to not only help green industries, but in combination with hydrogen refueling stations, it will also help alleviate hydrogen supply bottlenecks to accelerate fuel cell vehicle adoption.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2013

Myriant has produced on-spec commercial product at the plant and anticipates that customer shipments will commence soon. Myriant’s bio-succinic acid reduces harmful green house gas emissions by 94% compared to petroleum-derived succinic acid and by 93% compared to petroleum-derived adipic acid, a chemical that succinic acid can replace.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2013

UPS plans to purchase approximately 700 liquefied natural gas (LNG) trucks and to build four refueling stations by the end of 2014. An initial investment of more than $18 million to build fueling stations will be supported by the purchase of the 700 LNG tractors and continued expansion of the natural gas fleet in the US.

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APRIL 30, 2013

The project survey will include identifying barriers to standardizing, researching methods to implement battery system standards, and recommending potential paths to the commercial adoption of battery standards. This project includes $150,000 in match funding from San Diego Gas & Electric.

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DECEMBER 1, 2011

The contract is one of the first major commercial agreements in the US for the sale of liquid transport fuels made from coal. Initial commercial operation of up to a 20,000–22,000 barrels per day project is expected to start in 2014. Medicine Bow, Wyoming. Earlier post.) to purchase the CO 2 for use in their EOR operations.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2014

million metric tons of commercial-grade methanol per year and will have the necessary facilities to convert methanol to automotive gasoline in the future. The site is located adjacent to multiple large natural gas pipelines and industrial electricity connectivity, and affords the option to ship methanol via barge or oceangoing vessel.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2015

The California Energy Commissions has selected 9 projects to receive a combined $24,873,512 in proposed funding for cost share in the field demonstration of advanced medium- and heavy-duty on-road vehicle technologies—primarily battery electric and fuel cell technology—that may become commercially available in California.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2012

Providing a possible new route to hydrogen-gas production, researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have devised a new manganese-based thermochemical cycle with a highest operating temperature of 850?°C Davis’ first paper as a graduate student dealt with the sulfur-iodine low-temperature water-splitting cycle.).

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FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Published in an open access paper in Nature Communications , the research suggests that the ability of these insects to efficiently digest cellulose could be exploited for industrial processes, such as the production of sustainable low carbon fuels to cut greenhouse gas emissions associated with fossil fuel use. Davies, Paul H.

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JULY 29, 2014

In March 2014, Honda launched Honda Smart Home US at the University of California, Davis, which seeks to investigate the integration of the home with distributed renewable energy, the smart grid and the electric vehicle. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). Earlier post.) Earlier post.).

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APRIL 22, 2016

and UC-Davis Emeritus and Bruce R. The 2016 Chevrolet Volt with an electric range of 53 miles [ 2 ] is the first commercial car that almost qualifies as a PHEVLER. from University of California, Davis and years of experience as an agricultural researcher. by Professor Andrew Alfonso Frank, CTO Efficient Drivetrains Inc.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

PCC 6803—and demonstrated that the organism remained stable through at least four generations, producing ethylene gas that could be easily captured. Conversely, the process recycles carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, since the organism utilizes the gas as part of its metabolic cycle. into a cyanobacterium— Synechocystis sp.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2011

The CCSE project team includes the UC Davis’s Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle Research Center; the UC Berkeley, Transportation Sustainability Research Center (TSRC); UC San Diego Strategic Energy Initiatives; San Diego Gas & Electric; and AeroVironment. The total budget for the NREL-CCSE second use battery project is approximately $1.3

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2012

Although the company has designed and commercialized a platinum-gold alloy catalyst that is a viable alternative to platinum alone, it had not—until this experiment with mullite mixed oxides—found a catalyst made of materials that are less expensive to produce. Graham, Burtron H. Science 337 (6096), 832-835. doi: 10.1126/science.1225091.

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JUNE 26, 2021

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced more than $30 million in federal funding, matched by more than $35 million in private sector funds, for 68 projects that will accelerate the commercialization of promising energy technologies—ranging from clean energy and advanced manufacturing, to building efficiency and next-generation materials.

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APRIL 14, 2011

Joe Project) had initially been developed by Biomass Energy Holdings (BEH), a subsidiary jointly held by Bianchi Energy Services, LLC and Biomass Gas and Electric, LLC. White Construction and Ford, Bacon & Davis LLC are finalizing the engineering work necessary to enter the EPC phase of the project. Construction of the Port St.

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JANUARY 14, 2010

The two cross-functional groups will seek to break down critical barriers to the commercialization of algae-based and biomass-based advanced renewable transportation fuels. Louis, MO), NAABB will develop a systems approach for sustainable commercialization of algal biofuel (such as renewable gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel) and bioproducts.

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JULY 5, 2011

The past decade was the first in two centuries with increasing CO2 emissions intensities, owing to a “coal revival”, in contrast with the rapid conversion to natural gas in the 1990s. These trends, which are diametrically opposed to declared greenhouse gas mitigation goals and targets, are by no means limited to emerging economies.

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MARCH 2, 2016

In the study, published in the journal Nature Energy , Noel Melton, Jonn Axsen and Daniel Sperling conduct a media analysis to show how society’s attention has skipped among alternative fuel vehicle (AFV) technology between 1980 and 2013, including methanol, natural gas, plug-in electric, hybrid electric, hydrogen and biofuels.

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AUGUST 19, 2023

plans to develop a process that produces high-purity oxygen from air at significantly lower cost than state-of-the-art commercial technologies. DOE Funding: $1,250,000; Non-DOE Funding: $500,000; Total Value: $1,750,000 High Purity Oxygen Generation through Modular Structured RPSA — Susteon Inc.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 27, 2009

Bright will also face the same challenges in raising capital and moving from crafting prototypes to producing commercial vehicles. million gallons of gas consumed by those white little trucks trolling your neighborhood. Boosting mileage to 100 miles per gallon conceivably could save nearly 80 million gallons of gas.

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JUNE 14, 2012

This will divert 100 tons per day of food waste from landfills and use that to produce enough renewable natural gas to replace 566,000 gallons of diesel fuel and generate 3.17 The anaerobic digester system that will be used was developed as a pilot project at the University of California, Davis. tmdgroup, Inc. Kent BioEnergy Corp.

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JANUARY 20, 2010

The basic goal of the revised ZEV program should be to help demonstration-stage, low-GHG emitting technologies to commercialization, include fuel cell vehicles (FCVs); battery-electric vehicles (BEVs); and Enhanced AT PZEVs, which currently include plug-in HEVs (PHEV) and hydrogen internal combustion engine (HICE) vehicles, according to ARB staff.

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MARCH 16, 2021

Life cycle analysis showed up to 165% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions relative to fossil jet if the food waste is diverted from landfills to produce VFA-SAF. The impressive emissions reductions of the VFA-SAF are achievable by targeting the huge greenhouse gas footprint of food waste. Tifft, Davis R. —Huq et al.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2021

The LT team will develop a gas fermentation process that leverages affordable, renewable hydrogen to capture and fix CO 2 directly into valuable fuels and chemicals. At commercial scale, the inputs to the proposed “carbon refinery” process are carbon-free renewable energy, water, and CO 2. University of California, Davis.

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MARCH 21, 2013

In addition, CEC awarded $1,815,274 to fund 20 energy research projects in the areas of transportation, electricity, and natural gas. Its benefits include the reduction of an estimated 32,000 tons of greenhouse gas emissions annually—roughly equivalent to the greenhouse gas emissions produced by 5,850 gasoline vehicles in a year.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

“A group of us have been working with the cities of Davis and Sacramento because we want to make sure they go the progressive route on infrastructure. Three of 26 chargers added at Eugen Dunlap’s condo building in Davis. This is especially important for the underserved. Everything is about using technology if you’re not so well off.”

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APRIL 30, 2010

Easel Biotechnologies, UC Davis). The novel pathway will use hydrogen gas to convert carbon dioxide into C-2 and C-4 compounds that will serve as precursors to biofuels, such as butanol. With a clear path to commercialization this technology hopes to revolutionize Li-Air batteries for electric vehicle applications. Clemson Univ.,

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2009

Lowering costs by helping technologies cross the Valley of Death between pilot scale production and commercialization is the charter of the proposed Clean Energy Deployment Administration (CEDA) which was discussed by attendees. Grant Davis is a Managing Director at New York Life Investments. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2017

PG&E ’s proposal is aimed at accelerating widespread EV adoption and combatting climate change by reducing greenhouse-gas emissions related to transportation. For the seven proposed projects, PG&E is requesting a total budget of approximately $253 million. SCE is proposing a portfolio of projects tailored to meet the needs of its customers.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Honda next year will offer Californians futuristic sedans that can travel 300 miles (480 km) or more on a tank of hydrogen gas while emitting nothing more toxic than pure water vapor. Myth #2: Hydrogen gas is dangerous to store and use. In fact, hydrogen has a rapid diffusivity (3.8

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AUGUST 13, 2020

When combined with the new fuel’s potential infrastructure compatibility and reduced greenhouse gas emissions relative to fossil diesel, it significantly reduces the risks inherent in introducing a new technology. Huq, Davis R. Hafenstine, Nabila A. Conklin, Matthew R. Wiatrowski, Xiangchen Huo, Qianying Guo, Kinga A.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

You can fill it up at the gas station, and you can plug it in to any 120-volt outlet. But when you do, your car essentially becomes an electric vehicle with a gas-tank backup. So youll have a cleaner, cheaper, quieter car for your local travel, and the gas tank is always there should you need to drive longer distances.

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