Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Cobra electric supercharger. At the 17 th Supercharging conference this week in Dresden, Controlled Power Technologies (CPT) will launch what it says is the first water-cooled electric supercharger developed for “quasi-continuous” boosting of commercial diesel engines, including those developed for off highway applications.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Sasol and General Electric (GE: NYSE)’s GE Power & Water have together developed new technology that will clean waste water from Fischer-Tropsch plants used to produce synthetic fuels and chemicals, while also providing biogas as a by-product for power generation.

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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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JUNE 21, 2020

Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corporation (Toshiba ESS) announced that its hydrogen-based autonomous energy supply system H2One, which Toshiba ESS delivered and installed on the rooftop of Toranomon Hills Business Tower (Minato-ku, Tokyo), has started full-scale operation with the opening of commercial facilities.

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AUGUST 18, 2021

a waste-to-fuels company, closed a $20-million strategic investment from Chevron USA, ITOCHU, Hyzon Motors and Ascent Hydrogen Fund. Raven SR plans to build modular waste-to-green hydrogen production units and renewable synthetic fuel facilities initially in California and then worldwide. Raven SR Inc., Earlier post.).

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NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The contract is expected to make Air France KLM DGF’s largest European airline customer and lays the groundwork for expansion of this commercial relationship as DGF scales up production at the Louisiana and additional planned SAF production plants to be located in the United States and beyond. —Christopher J.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

MAHLE is developing a modular fuel cell systems portfolio focused on commercial vehicles, based on its current range of components. New opportunities are opening up for heavy-duty commercial vehicles. The electric compressor used to compress the supply air flow must therefore be oil-free. Water separators. Compressor.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2014

developer of Electro Water Separation (EWS)—a high-speed, chemical-free process to clean up large quantities of water—will launch a subsidiary in Hong Kong and grant it a master license for the People’s Republic of China. EWS is effective for use in water-intensive industries such as oil & gas, algae, and organic waste.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Extended road testing of the vehicle is underway in Asia and represents a significant step towards the commercialization of e1’s onboard hydrogen generation technology. The M-Series units are methanol reformers that use water plus methanol to make hydrogen. Source: e1. —Dave Edlund, e1 CEO.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2014

volts (V) of water-splitting voltage with its novel low-cost electrolysis technology. The theoretical minimum voltage needed to split water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen is 1.23 Further, overcoming the corrosive degradation of these “artificial photosynthesis” systems remains a challenge and has thus far eluded commercialization.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2023

Ohmium International, a green hydrogen company that designs, manufactures, and deploys advanced Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) electrolyzers, announced a strategic collaboration with Aquastill , one of the leaders in modular membrane distillation technology that uses the sustainable power of waste heat for desalination.

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Cars That Think

MAY 31, 2024

You lose about half of your range in an electric vehicle if you drive it in the middle of winter in Michigan,” says Cyrus Rustomji, cofounder of South 8. The electrolyte serves as a medium through which lithium salt moves from one electrode to the other in the battery, shuttling electricity.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 9, 2024

But now it says it will rely heavily on hydrogen fuel cells generated from plastic, food, and organic waste to power a whole new generation of EVs, from passenger cars to heavy-duty trucks. Rather than plugging in the vehicle as you would for a battery-electric car, hydrogen fuel cells rely on compressed hydrogen.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2016

The four-year projet ORCNext , aimed at developing knowledge and design tools for next generation of Organic Rankine Cycles (ORCs), has concluded that waste heat recovery efficiency can be increased by 20 to 25% through appropriate cycle selection, efficient expanders, appropriate control and less oversizing of the heat exchangers.

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OCTOBER 2, 2018

Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have used magnets recovered from used computer hard drives in an electric motor. The permanent magnets made from rare earth elements were reused without alteration in an axial gap motor, which can be adapted for use in electric vehicles and industrial machinery.

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OCTOBER 17, 2014

The facility also features an electricity cogeneration component allowing it to operate as a self-sufficient renewable energy producer. The Hugoton plant opening also marks the first commercial deployment of Abengoa’s proprietary enzymatic hydrolysis technology, which turns biomass into fermentable sugars that are then converted to ethanol.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2021

Ford unveiled the F-150 Lightning battery-electric pickup. The commercial-oriented entry model starts at $39,974 MSRP before any federal or state tax credits, while the mid-series XLT model starts at $52,974 MSRP, offering additional comfort and technology. 2022 Ford F-150 Lightning Platinum, Lariat, XLT. Standard on base trims is 2.4

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APRIL 23, 2014

million) in the latest round of IDP10 funding from the UK’s Technology Strategy Board to support the development of a heat-recovery system for urban commercial vehicles. Ambient or low grade waste heat is used as an energy source with the cryogen providing both the working fluid and heat sink. million (US$3.12 Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2021

Haldor Topsoe and Nel ASA have entered a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the intent to offer customers complete solution for green ammonia and methanol produced with renewable electricity. Together, we can offer end-to-end renewable electricity to ammonia and methanol solutions based on the most reliable technologies available today.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The commercial start is anticipated in 2027 and Maersk intends to purchase the full volume produced at the plant, with options for the output of subsequent Carbon Sink facilities at other locations. —Berit Hinnemann, Head of Green Fuels Sourcing, A.P. Moller - Maersk.

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AUGUST 22, 2022

Sandia National Laboratories researchers recently delivered electricity produced by a new power-generating system to the Sandia-Kirtland Air Force Base electrical grid. The system uses heated supercritical carbon dioxide instead of steam to generate electricity and is based on a closed-loop Brayton cycle.

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Green Car Congress

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. Validate DLE [direct lithium extraction] in steady-state, continuously at a scale around one-tenth of commercial scale using real-world brines.

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JUNE 28, 2022

Sundsvall Energi will partner with Liquid Wind to be the host and provide carbon dioxide for the second commercial-scale—100,000 t—electrofuel facility in Sweden. In the Liquid Wind facility, green hydrogen will be produced from additional renewable electricity and water.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Cyclone Power Technologies has received a purchase order from its licensee Phoenix Power Group (PPG) for two waste oil power generators. The new Phoenix 10kW waste oil generator will be powered by Cyclone’s WHE-25 engine—a compact, scalable waste heat engine—using a specially designed, clean emissions combustion chamber.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2022

This is essential to the future of electric vehicles, as a sustainable and scalable production of lithium is needed to meet the increasing battery demand. The platform technology is also being commercialized for the conversion of waste brines to chemicals and desalinated water.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2023

In spite of increasing electric mobility in the transport sector, we will continue to need liquid fuels for a long time. REF4FU covers the use of sustainable hydrogen; pyrolysis oil based on biological residues, such as straw or waste wood; methanol from renewable feedstocks; and Fischer-Tropsch oil that corresponds to green crude oil.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The US Department of Energy (DOE) released a Request for Information (RFI) ( DE-FOA-0002686 ) on the design, construction and operation of a new facility to demonstrate the commercial feasibility of a full-scale rare earth element (REE) and critical minerals (CM) extraction and separation refinery using unconventional resources.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The selected projects, led by universities, national laboratories, and the private sector aim to develop commercially scalable technologies that will enable greater domestic supplies of copper, nickel, lithium, cobalt, rare earth elements, and other critical elements. Feedstocks will include Li/Ni/Ca/Mg-rich igneous and sedimentary minerals.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2017

South African engineering company Swayana has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with LanzaTech to collaborate on developing projects for the production of ethanol and higher value products from waste gases in the ferroalloy and titania smelting sectors.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2019

The grant will allow CRI to accelerate efforts to commercialize large scale production plants, expanding the market for ETL technology and use of renewable methanol in Europe. CO 2 is available in abundance in high concentration in many industrial processes and thermal power plants (here CRI focusing on geothermal power and waste to energy).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

The agreement aims to exploit the possibilities arising from the merging of Opcon’s Powerbox waste-heat-recovery (WHR) technology ( earlier post ) with MAN Diesel & Turbo’s diesel engines for cutting fuel consumption and reducing emissions. The gas expands over an expander, which drives a generator to produce electricity.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2010

Basic operation of the Opcon Powerbox ORC waste heat recovery system. Opcon, the Sweden-based energy and environmental technology Group, will install an Opcon Powerbox—an Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) waste heat recovery system—on one of Wallenius’ ships. The gas expands over an expander, which drives a generator to produce electricity.

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Green Car Congress

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. Methanol reforming is a relatively simple process that converts a mix of methanol and water into a hydrogen-rich gas.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2019

million in Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II Release 2 grants to projects that demonstrate commercial feasibility for innovations during the second phase of their research. is developing Lithium metal batteries with improved cycle life for electric vehicles. Awards include: Accustrata Inc. TDA Research Inc.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2021

Alcoa of Australia is currently conducting technical and commercial studies to adapt MVR technology to refining. Electricity sourced from renewable energy would power compressors to turn waste vapor into steam, which would then be used to provide refinery process heat.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2023

GM is scaling EV production in North America well past 1 million units annually and our direct investments in battery raw materials, processing and components for EVs are providing certainty of supply, favorable commercial terms and thousands of new jobs, especially in the US, Canada and free trade agreement countries like Australia.

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DECEMBER 6, 2022

The result is a more affordable battery from a faster, less wasteful process that uses less toxic material. The drive toward decarbonization and the demand for electric cars has increased the focus on sustainably producing energy-dense cathodes. NMA half cells show 200 mAh g −1 capacity with 96% capacity over 100 cycles.

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