Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have mixed metal compounds with perchloric acid to create a stable, efficient electrocatalytic material for the oxygen evolution reaction in acidic media. —Hong Yang, a co-author and professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at Illinois.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2023

Researchers at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), with colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Illinois at Chicago have developed an electrolyzer capable of converting carbon dioxide into propane in a manner that is both scalable and economically viable.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 11, 2024

Ford Pro Insure expanded its insurance offering for commercial vehicles to Indiana and Wisconsin. Besides Indiana and Wisconsin, Ford’s insurance for commercial vehicles is also available in Arizona, Illinois, and Tennessee. The right commercial auto insurance can help them run efficient and productive fleets.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2011

Regulatory hurdles are hindering the successful commercialization of emerging liquid biofuels, according to a new study by University of Illinois law professor Jay P. Slating, a regulatory associate with the University of Illinois Energy Biosciences Institute. Wisconsin Law Review ; Illinois Public Law Research Paper No.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 1, 2023

The first batteries produced in Mirabel will power the Lion5 truck and the LionAmbulance, expected to reach commercial production in the first half of 2023. The news comes as Lion has also recently celebrated the start of production at its US vehicle manufacturing facility in Joliet, Illinois.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2021

a supplier of hydrogen fuel cell powered heavy vehicles ( earlier post ), plans to build the largest fuel cell membrane electrode assembly (MEA) production line for commercial vehicles in the United States at its new Hyzon Innovation Center located in Bolingbrook, Illinois, just outside of Chicago. Hyzon Motors Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2011

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has entered into a licensing agreement with Xerion Advanced Battery Corp under which Xerion has the exclusive right to bring the University’s patented StructurePore electrode technology to the market. Earlier post.). Xerion Advanced Battery Corp. Huigang Zhang, Xindi Yu & Paul V. 2011.38.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

MTD is the first in the US to order 60' hydrogen fuel cell buses commercially. MTD is the public transportation provider in the Champaign, Urbana, and Savoy regions of Illinois, also serving the University of Illinois. The Xcelsior CHARGE H2 is the first sixty-foot fuel cell-electric bus to complete Altoona testing.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2012

announced the successful commissioning of its first fully integrated biorefinery (IBR) in Peoria, Illinois, to produce algal oil. Solazyme has been running routine fermentations at commercial scale since 2007 and began running fermentation operations at the Peoria facility in Q4 2011. Solazyme, Inc. Solazyme, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2011

Illinois-based Li-ion manufacturer AllCell Technologies, LLC received a $460,433 grant as part of the Illinois Energy Plan. The PCM technology spun-out from Illinois Institute of Technology and AllCell developed its products as the first tenant in the state-funded incubator at University Technology Park at IIT. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2021

The financing round will enable the company to scale from the batch processing of materials to commercial roll-to-roll production. Using this fundraise, NFW will scale its production to full commercial capacity and capitalize on its existing momentum to bring its alternative material to the market.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2020

Ozinga Energy has purchased an ANG-equipped Ford F-150 and installed a dedicated, low-pressure fueling appliance at its headquarters in Mokena, Illinois. Ozinga Energy joins a growing number of US natural gas utilities and private commercial fleets to pilot ANG-equipped vehicles. The Ford F-150 is fitted with the 5.0L

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2021

ClearFlame Engine Technologies , a startup developing net-zero engine technology ( earlier post ), has secured $17 million in Series A financing, which will enable commercialization of the company’s innovative engine technology for the long-haul trucking, agriculture and power generation sectors.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2022

IKEA US announced a collaboration with Electrify America and Electrify Commercial to bring ultra-fast public charging stations and delivery fleet electric vehicle (EV) charging to more than 25 IKEA retail locations throughout the US. The first locations are expected to open in late 2022 and be completed by the end of 2023.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign are applying new materials and concepts integrated within the battery cell to enable a variety of critical features including fail-safe or autonomic shutdown, self-healing of battery performance, and greatly extended lifetimes. Photo credit: Marta Baginska. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 9, 2022

Proceeds from the transaction are expected to fund acceleration in LanzaTech’s commercial operations, capital requirements associated with development projects in which LanzaTech has chosen to participate with partners, and continued technological innovation.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

and is the largest commercial advanced biofuel facility in the United States. Ecofining technology is used in two commercial scale production facilities in the United States, and two in Europe. Diamond Green Diesel facility in Norco, La., Diamond Green Diesel is owned by Valero Energy Corp. and Darling Ingredients Inc.,

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Electrek

AUGUST 11, 2022

Lion Electric , a leading commercial EV maker, is hosting several US leaders to preview its upcoming Joliet manufacturing facility in Illinois and discuss domestic manufacturing investments. The event is the second time prominent congressional leaders joined Lion Electric at its new manufacturing facility.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Critical barriers remain before widespread commercialization can be realized—many of which center around the unique mechanical properties that emerge at solid-solid interfaces in electrochemical cells. Those include long-duration energy storage and hydrogen fuel cells.

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Electrek

DECEMBER 7, 2021

more… The post 10,000 North American school buses will be converted to fully electric appeared first on Electrek.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2021

million in additional financing from several investors, including the Iowa, Minnesota, Kansas and Illinois Corn Growers Associations. ClearFlame Engine Technologies , a growing startup dedicated to the development of clean engine technology ( earlier post ), secured $2.5 In fact, it increases power by 25%.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Bunge is expected to contribute its soybean processing facilities in Destrehan, Louisiana, and Cairo, Illinois, and Chevron is expected to contribute approximately $600 million in cash to the joint venture.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

So far, Rivian has a working electric vehicle plant in Normal, Illinois, though the company has announced its intentions to launch a second US factory in the future. Production facilities in Europe and China are also planned, though no specifics about the upcoming factories have been shared so far. .

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 25, 2021

The team will turn its attention to sustainable aviation challenges related to a jet engine’s combustor but in this case the engine is powering a commercial supersonic transport. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The selected projects are: CALSTART: East Coast Commercial ZEV Corridor. This project will develop an extensive two-phase MD-HD EV Charging and H2 Fueling Plan for the Midwest I-80 corridor serving Indiana, Illinois, and Ohio, to support 30% of the MD-HD fleet using ZEV technologies by 2035.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2020

Successful operation of the technology at pre-commercial continuous scale has directly extracted lithium from brine in Arkansas and produced a purified, concentrated intermediate product (LiCl solution) which has been converted to better than battery-quality lithium carbonate final product. Canada-based Standard Lithium Ltd.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2019

The electric truck solution was partially funded by the American Lung Association through a grant provided by the US Environmental Protection Agency’s Diesel Emissions Reductions Act (DERA) Program, secured and administered by the Clean Air Team at the American Lung Association (ALA)’s Springfield, Illinois office.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2021

About 900 million gallons of ethanol produced at ADM’s dry mills in Columbus, Nebraska, and Cedar Rapids, Iowa, as well as its Decatur, Illinois, complex, is expected to be processed utilizing this technology, resulting in approximately 500 million gallons of SAF and other renewable hydrocarbons. —Gevo CEO Patrick Gruber, Ph.D.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Phil Ansell, an aerospace engineer at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, modeled the life cycle carbon dioxide equivalent emissions of liquid hydrogen production required to meet the fuel needs of Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport (ORD) with today’s electric grid mix. Are we ready from the actual lifecycle perspective?

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Baua Electric

MARCH 13, 2024

Upstart electric vehicle brand Rivian is extending its reach into the commercial vehicle market, entering into a new partnership with JBPCO. The partnership with JBCPO began with a visit to Rivian’s manufacturing facility in Normal, Illinois, where John Poindexter and other leaders from JBPCO were impressed by what they saw.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2020

Exelon’s utilities, which serve approximately 10 million customers in Delaware, the District of Columbia, Illinois, Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania through its Atlantic City Electric, BGE, ComEd, Delmarva Power, PECO and Pepco subsidiaries, will electrify 30% of their vehicle fleet by 2025, increasing to 50% by 2030.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2017

A multi-institutional team led by the University of Illinois has genetically engineered sugarcane to produce lipids in its leaves and stems for biodiesel production (lipid-cane). Woese Institute for Genomic Biology at Illinois. —Vijay Singh, Director of the Integrated Bioprocessing Research Laboratory at Illinois.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

There are significant challenges for new lightweight and modern metals to reach widespread commercial production. The integrated design, development, and production of highly complex systems, leveraging software, can speed ideas from the lab into commercial production, reduce costs, and shorten production lifecycles.

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Teslarati

MARCH 10, 2022

The Illinois-based EV manufacturer plans to use the LFP cells in its Standard battery packs and the Rivian Commercial Van (RCV) — otherwise known as the all-electric Amazon delivery van. The company believes that including more battery chemistries would expand its available supply while reducing costs.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2017

A team from the Prairie Research Institute at the University of Illinois, with colleagues from the University of Birmingham and Aarhus University, have developed a nanosized bio-Pd/C catalyst for upgrading algal bio-oil. Bio-Pd/C resulted in similar catalytic activities as commercial Pd/C. —Kunwar et al.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2021

Each team will work to bring new water and wastewater-treatment technologies from the applied research and development stage to commercial readiness. They are based out of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, and Virginia.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2018

The Saltillo Truck Assembly Plant will be repurposed to produce future commercial vehicles for global distribution. The investments include: $350 million in the Belvidere Assembly Plant (Illinois) to produce the Jeep Cherokee, which moved from Toledo, Ohio, in 2017. Most recently, the Company announced investments totaling $3.5

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