Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

These SCALEUP “Fast-Track” teams, Natron Energy and Bridger Photonics, will receive $19 million and $5 million, respectively, to further their commercialization efforts in sodium-ion battery development and methane detection technologies, respectively. Natron Energy: Domestic Manufacturing of Sodium-Ion Batteries - $19,883,951.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Hatch was commissioned to conduct a commercial-scale capital and operating cost comparison study, as well as a high-level evaluation of plant emissions and impacts to natural resources between NOVONIX’s patent-pending process and the conventional wet process.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2014

The product is a newly developed catalytic process capable of reducing emission of harmful substances such as soot, hydrocarbons and heavy metals from ships powered by bunker fuel, also known as fuel oil. The process reduces up to 95% of soot emission from ships using bunker fuel and is the first of its kind.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 18, 2013

The SkyMine plant, which will be retrofit to the Capitol Aggregates Cement plant, is expected to directly capture 83,000 tons of CO 2 from the cement plant’s emissions. The captured pollutants are mineralized into solid products, including sodium bicarbonate, which are stored, transported and sold as safe, stable solids.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

The zero-emission mobile medical unit will travel between UCLA’s Ronald Reagan and Santa Monica campuses to collect, clean, repair, disinfect and sterilize surgical suite instruments. The Motiv system features a TM4 electric drivetrain with 250 kW and 2,300 N·m peak motor and a 127 kWh sodium-nickel battery system.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2016

Researchers from George Washington University and Vanderbilt University have demonstrated the conversion of atmospheric CO 2 into carbon nanofibers (CNFs) and carbon nanotubes (CNTs) for use as high-performance anodes in both lithium-ion and sodium-ion batteries. times above that of sodium-ion batteries with graphite electrodes.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2014

The researchers found that biodiesel has many advantages over regular diesel even in a very low blend percentage, including low emissions of particulate matter, combustion elements (mainly sulfur), elemental carbon, and carbon monoxide. Biodiesel may produce high NO x emissions. Biodiesel Emissions' Kumar et al.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

Dacia, a member of the Renault group, is broadening its offerings of fuel-efficient and low-emissions engines. 16V 75 hp, with CO 2 emissions of 139 g/km. LPG (90 hp / 67 kW) engines reduce CO 2 emissions by up to 12% compared with gasoline power, and offer lower emissions of criteria pollutants. LPG, Logan MCV 1.6

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2017

Alberta Innovates has teamed up with Natural Resources (NRCan) and industry partners to take three clean oil sands technologies to commercial demonstration. million in commercial demonstration in the three projects intended to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions of bitumen production and upgrading. million, for a total of $26.2

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2015

EPA’s newly released voluminous final Clean Power Plan rule ( earlier post ) has established the first national standards to limit CO 2 emissions from fossil-fuel-fired power plants (Electric Generating Units, EGUs), with a target of a 32% reduction against a 2005 baseline by 2030. The actual text of the CPP rule is, however, more reserved.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2014

With regard to overall storage capability and potential for further fuel efficiency improvements, the demand for larger battery systems based on lithium, nickel and sodium will continue to grow through the increased market penetration of vehicles with higher levels of hybridization and electrification. Click to enlarge.

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Driivz

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Toyota is aiming to have a solid-state battery ready for commercial use by 2027-2028 that will have a 1,000 km cruising range and a fast charge time of 10 minutes. Another approach under development is adding lithium salt to the electrolyte of lithium-ion batteries to reduce flammability.

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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. Earlier post.)The

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Charged EVs

APRIL 1, 2024

Charged spoke with Steve Cotton, CEO and President, and David Regan, VP of Commercial, about the different ways to recycle batteries, and the challenges of building a full-scale circular supply chain for batteries. The whole batteries go in, so the plastics get burned, the carbon gets burned, there’s a lot of emissions.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 12, 2024

Tiamat was one of 11 top-performing technology startups honoured with a Stellantis Ventures Award in 2023, and is the first company in the world to have recently commercialized a sodium-ion technology in an electrified product. Sodium-ion technology offers a lower cost per kilowatt-hour and is free of lithium and cobalt.

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EV Connect

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The 200,000 vehicle cap on manufacturers has also been lifted, while credits have been extended to used and commercial EVs. California led the way with the August 2022 law requiring all new cars, SUVs and pick up trucks sold in the state to be zero-emission by 2035.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

Iveco has presented a prototype of its new Electric Daily in Brazil, destined to be the first zero emission light commercial vehicle produced in Latin America. The prototype, based on a crew cab Daily 55C, is equipped with three sealed Zebra Z5 sodium nickel chloride batteries. The Electric Daily in Brazil. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2015

Lygos’ novel manufacturing technology decreases CO 2 emissions, eliminates toxic inputs and could replace the existing petroleum production process for malonic acid at lower cost and less energy. The petrochemical process to produce malonic acid requires chloroacetic acid and sodium cyanide, and is both costly and environmentally hazardous.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 12, 2024

Stellantis Ventures, the corporate venture fund of Stellantis, today announced its participation as a strategic investor in Tiamat, a France-based company that is developing and commercializing sodium-ion battery technology. Sodium-ion technology offers a lower cost per kilowatt-hour and is free of lithium and cobalt.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2010

The financing follows LanzaTech’s signing with Baosteel, China’s largest steel and iron conglomerate, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) to commercialize its technologies for producing ethanol from steel mill off gases. Using industrial waste gases curbs GHG emissions and so maintains manufacturing sustainability in China.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2014

Using lead batteries in start-stop or micro-hybrid systems can result in emission savings of between 700-1600 kg CO 2 equivalent over a vehicle’s lifetime. In plug-in hybrid and full electric vehicles, high voltage battery systems (up to 100 kWh for commercial vehicles) are installed to provide significant levels of electric propulsion.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 1, 2024

Charged spoke with Steve Cotton, CEO and President, and David Regan, VP of Commercial, about the different ways to recycle batteries, and the challenges of building a full-scale circular supply chain for batteries. The whole batteries go in, so the plastics get burned, the carbon gets burned, there’s a lot of emissions.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2010

million) in 22 studies and projects to develop new technology that will speed up the reduction of CO 2 emissions from road vehicles. The work will help to accelerate the reduction of carbon emissions and deliver mass-market low carbon road vehicles within 5 to 15 years. 2nd Generation Zero Emissions 12t Battery Electric Truck.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 28, 2024

C omponent Champion Incentive Scheme: This scheme is also linked to the sales value and encompasses a broader range of components, complete- and semi-knocked down (CKD/SKD) kits, and vehicle aggregates across various vehicle categories, including two-wheelers, three-wheelers, passenger vehicles, commercial vehicles, and tractors.

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Get Electric Vehicle

MARCH 31, 2021

Along with sodium-based alternatives, could soon supplant the seemingly obsolete lithium-ion battery. #2. Solar-powered vehicles, when used on a wide scale, help to reduce both environmental and noise emissions. There are some interesting advances in the works for other lithium-ion alternatives. Improvement in charging technology.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The solicitation was designed as a call for early-stage clean energy innovations that fall within five defined technology areas: energy efficiency; energy storage; AI/machine learning; advanced power electronics/power conditioning; and zero- and negative-carbon emission generation.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Could the first zero emission light commercial vehicle ever produced in Latin America be the Iveco Electric Daily? It is based on a crew cab Daily 55C and features three sealed Zebra Z5 sodium, nickel and chloride batteries which do not produce gaseous emissions and are maintenance free.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 2, 2010

The hybrid systems research team at GE Global Research has successfully demonstrated a dual battery system for an electric transit bus, pairing a high-energy density sodium metal halide battery with a high-power lithium battery. Sodium batteries are on the opposite side of the spectrum. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

The MSG process, under license from Idaho National Laboratory, uses a combination of molten sodium salts (sodium carbonate and sodium hydroxide) to convert a carbon feedstock and water into hydrogen. —Vicky Sharpe, President and CEO of Sustainable Development Technology Canada.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

When biogas is produced and used on-site in a fuel cell, fuel utilization or overall energy efficiency can reach 90% and can reduce emissions by more than 90% by weight as compared to the emissions associated with grid electricity generation. Report to Congress. centralized hydrogen production and delivery systems—have slipped.

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Charged EVs

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

For EVs to deliver their full emission-reducing potential, the battery supply chain must be as clean as possible, and cathode active materials (CAM) are a key part of the sustainability equation. Umicore takes a fourfold approach to minimizing the emissions embedded in its materials. How do we do this? Our approach is fourfold.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Scientists at Stanford University have developed electrochemical cells that convert carbon monoxide (CO) derived from CO 2 into commercially viable compounds more effectively and efficiently than existing technologies. —senior author Matthew Kanan, an associate professor of chemistry at Stanford University.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 24, 2023

The prototype’s success encouraged several of the principal investigators to spin off a company, called Influit Energy , to commercialize the technology. Influit is also working with a commercial partner to pilot nanoelectrofuel flow batteries in their line of electric utility vehicles. Similarly, the U.S.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

For EVs to deliver their full emission-reducing potential, the battery supply chain must be as clean as possible, and cathode active materials (CAM) are a key part of the sustainability equation. Umicore takes a fourfold approach to minimizing the emissions embedded in its materials. Second, the use of renewable electricity.

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Get Electric Vehicle

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

  The Market For Zero-emission Trucks & Buses Are Never Seizing To quote some figures, the market for electric commercial vehicles including vans, buses, and trucks is expected to increase from $56.13 The batteries that use sodium instead of the pricey and rare lithium are the ones that are the closest to being on the market.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2015

Other work focuses on sodium as an earth-abundant alternative to lithium, but while it could lower cost, sodium ions also carry just a single charge. This allows storage of charge at a higher volumetric or gravimetric density, which translates to a higher stored energy density or storage capacity for a given size or weight.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2015

will advance improved commercial seed cultivars. Widespread adoption of CHP systems in the residential sector would lead to significant energy savings, along with increased reliability for residential power supply and a large reduction in CO 2 emissions. Finally, Chromatin Inc. Purdue University. Tour Engine. Earlier post.)

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