Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2013

The European Union-funded PowerDriver project—a two-year, €3-million (US$4-million) research project initiated in February 2012 to turn exhaust gas waste heat into electricity using thermoelectric generator (TGEN) technology—has completed simulation work on on a potential automotive application.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2022

Essam El-Hannouny, a principal mechanical engineer at the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, won a Technology Commercialization Fund (TCF) Award from DOE to expand his research on how a renewable alcohol-based biofuel can serve as a dual fuel to help decarbonize locomotive engines. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Wrightspeed, the leading manufacturer of range-extended electric vehicle (REV) powertrains for heavy-duty applications, and The Ratto Group, a Santa Rosa, California-based refuse, yard waste and recycling collection and processing company, unveiled the first commercial application of a range-extended electric refuse truck.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Converting commercial ships on the high seas to CO 2 -neutral drive systems is a huge challenge. One important factor is the range requirement of the individual ship types. Route flexibility and ranges of more than 5,000 nautical miles are basic requirements of the world’s maritime fleet.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2023

Financing for novel biorefinery process systems can be a barrier to commercializing advanced biofuels, and this funding will reduce technological uncertainties and enable industry deployment. Award amounts range from $500,000 to $80 million, with most receiving at least $2 million. Comstock Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2022

This team will be hellbent on delivering leading quality, attacking waste in every corner of the business, maximizing cash flow and optimizing our industrial footprint. The high end of the range equates to a margin of 8% which, if achieved, would be one year earlier than the company’s previous target. billion to $12.5

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2021

Tenneco’s Powertrain business group is partnering with key academic and industry experts to examine the technical possibilities and commercial feasibility of synthetic fuels in the NAMOSYN project. It is widely acknowledged that solutions must be found to reduce a vehicle’s carbon footprint.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2011

Red Wolf, formed in 2010, is in the process of raising $3 million through an equity offering to commercialize the thermal-chemical catalytic process. The n-alkanes derived using the RWP from the fat-containing oils are in the ranges needed for diesel and jet fuel. Hydrolysis. Step 2: deoxygenation. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

The Port of Narvik aims to get the boat classified as a long-range, high-speed passenger vessel, and the plan is that it should be able to keep a pace of 23 knots. The Port of Narvik will mainly use it for keeping an overview of the port and the activities there, for emergency preparedness, and for teaching and training of crews.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 9, 2013

The relative shift away from motor gasoline to diesel is driven by improving light-duty vehicle fuel economy and the growth in commercial transportation activity. About 80% of the growth in commercial transport demand will come from developing nations, according to the forecast. buses, waste management and utility vehicles).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2016

ReadiDiesel was developed by Applied Research Associates (ARA) and Chevron Lummus Global, as a drop-in replacement for petroleum F-76 marine diesel. ReadiDiesel has the same molecular composition, boiling range distribution, and physical and energy density as petroleum fuels while producing lower emissions than the petroleum counterpart.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2019

Funded by Pennsylvania’s share of the settlement with Volkswagen Group of America, the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP)is committing funding for a range of clean energy transportation projects on our roads, at schools, and at marine ports and airports. Valley Waste Service, Inc.: Beaver County. Bedford County.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2017

Further research has led to new possibilities for this engine leading to new prospects for multi-fuel combustion including the combustion of waste gas. However, before natural gas can be used as a commercial fuel, it must be processed to remove impurities, including ethane. The engine can be delivered in the power range 5-90 MW.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2022

Maersk will keep on working with a wide-ranging group of leading companies on these and further projects to accelerate the urgent transition to green energy. The project will be built by Proman with target start of operations in 2025, producing bio-methanol from non-recyclable forestry residues and municipal solid waste.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

Traffic went up in every ocean during the 20 years of the study, except off the coast of Somalia, where increasing piracy has almost completely halted commercial shipping since 2006. Ships powered by fossil fuels dump oil, fuel and waste into the water and pump exhaust into the air.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

In a report comparing advances in combustion engines, biofuels, electrification and other technologies, Accenture warns that the commercial viability of those disruptive technologies will be delayed unless regulators more proactively support the transformation of science into applied technologies. Waste-to-fuel. Marine scrubbers.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 31, 2016

The strategic plan outlines goals for each of these key opportunities, which will be implemented through a range of substrategies and measured by specified success indicators. expanding stakeholder engagement and collaboration. BETO strategic plan summary. Click to enlarge. Enhancing the bioenergy value proposition.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 10, 2022

Twenty-seven commercial CCUS projects are operational as of 2021, with another 108 in the pipeline. Ships, on the other hand, could safely transport varying amounts of CO 2 over long ranges for a relatively low cost, says Toby Lockwood , a carbon-capture technology and markets expert at the Clean Air Task Force, in London.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2019

The new generation zero-emission truck expands on the capabilities of Toyota’s first two Project Portal Proof-of-Concept trucks through enhanced capability, packaging, and performance while offering an estimated range of more than 300 miles per fill, twice that of a typical drayage trucks average daily duty cycle.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2014

Well-to-Propeller GHG emissions results for marine alternative fuels. While renewable energy, particularly solar and wind, may have some potential to mitigate carbon emissions, this is not seen as a viable large-scale alternative for commercial shipping. LNG engines currently being produced cover a broad range of power outputs.

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Alternative Fuels Fuel Gas-Electric Mariner 231

Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2010

Included in the 34 FY2010 SBIR Phase I awards are the following biofuel and emissions-reduction projects: Technology Specialists, “Thermochemical Biofuels Production from Biomass Waste Materials”, $70,000. This project will develop and evaluate a new process for converting biomass waste into diesel fuel.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Pike projects that by 2021, the production of biofuels derived from a range of feedstocks will reach 65.7 Given the scale of development, to date, and the crystallization of interests among a diverse range of stakeholders, widespread biofuels commercialization is no longer a question of “if’’, but “when”. billion by 2021.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2011

While vehicle efficiency will be the most important and most cost-efficient way to reduce transport-emissions, biofuels will still be needed to provide low-carbon fuel alternatives for planes, marine vessels and other heavy transport modes, and will eventually provide one fifth (2.1 Source: IEA. Click to enlarge. —Bo Diczfalusy.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Among the engine’s potential applications are power washers, electric generators, lawn equipment, welders, marine propulsion and possibly some hybrid vehicles. As an external combustion engine, it can be powered by a wide range of liquid and gaseous fuels. —Timothy Shedd.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2011

Ranges of global technical potentials of renewable energy sources derived from studies analyzed in SRREN report. Note that the figure is presented in logarithmic scale due to the wide range of assessed data. These four were chosen in order to represent the full range. Source: SRREN. Click to enlarge. Source: SRREN.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2018

This FOA addresses gaps in current research and development (R&D) which hinder better utilizing waste streams (e.g. The high costs associated with these processes are one of several issues that plague the commercial viability of biofuels and bioproducts. Topic Area 4: Biofuels and Bioproducts from Wet Organic Waste Streams.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2012

In Phase II, devices suitable for near-commercial applications must be built and tested, and issues associated with manufacturing the units in large volumes at a competitive price must be addressed. Applicant also must demonstrate a reasonable context of commercial viability. L/100 km) for cars and more than 43 mpg (5.5

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Hydrogen Fuel Range Vehicles 210

Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2013

A new new forum for the advocacy and development of liquid air as an alternative technology to harness waste and surplus energy within power and transport—the Liquid Air Energy Network (LAEN)—has formed in the UK. The main potential applications are in electricity storage, transport and the recovery of waste heat.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2012

The selected projects range from improving manufacturing processes that reduce the energy needed to make components for aircraft and vehicles, to lowering the production costs of carbon fiber for a wide range of clean energy products. Leading to High-Volume Commercial Launch. Commercial. Difficult Materials.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2013

The Scoping Plan describes the comprehensive range of efforts California must take to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020 and meet the state’s long-term goals to combat climate change. Waste Management. Earlier post.) AB 32 requires the Scoping Plan to be updated every five years. The focus areas include: Energy.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 26, 2023

Virtually everywhere that alternating current must be transformed to direct current or vice versa, there will be fewer wasted watts. In the effort to mitigate climate change, eliminating waste in power consumption is the low-hanging fruit, and these semiconductors are the way we’ll harvest it.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

A PHEV with only a 20-mile all-electric range is 62% lower (see printed page 95 in the 2004 study ). In some areas where wind and hydropower is wasted at night, the rate can be as low as 2-3 cents per kWh. In 2003-04, the US Marine Corps demonstrated a diesel-electric PHEV-20 HUMVEE. Thats 20-25 cents a gallon.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

A combination solution: increasingly renewable electricity as the primary fuel and ethanol as the range extender. Fuel cell cars should be plug-in hybrids so that the fuel cell is used only for extended range, and the fuel cell stack and hydrogen storage can be smaller. Otherwise well need more ethanol than we can make sustainably.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The Metals Company (previously DeepGreen Metals) in Vancouver expects to be the first to commercially produce metals from these nodules by 2024. It's like picking up golf balls on a driving range," says CFO Craig Shesky. We are committed to turning those rocks into metal using renewable power and with zero solid waste," Shesky says.

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Batteries Battery Hawaii Nauru 129

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2009

To get there, the draft presents several targets for emission reductions from developed countries, ranging from 25% to 45% below 1990 levels by 2020. Do we really want to be remembered as the generation that wasted another decade? C to 2 °C above pre-Industrial Revolution levels. It’s about time we changed course.

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