Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Transform Materials has developed a novel and sustainable microwave plasma reactor process to convert natural gas into high-value hydrogen and acetylene, thereby opening up a new pathway for green chemical manufacturing. Acetylene can be then converted into many derivative chemicals, all possessing high value.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2020

At SEMA360, Chevrolet will showcase a 1977 K5 Blazer converted to all-electric propulsion. Our vision is to offer a comprehensive line of Connect and Cruise systems from Chevrolet Performance—delivering a solution for every customer ranging from LSX V-8s to eCrate conversions. 200-horsepower electric motor.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2023

The flight, conducted under an FAA Special Airworthiness Certificate, was the first in a two-year flight test campaign expected to culminate in 2025 with entry into passenger service of ATR 72 regional aircraft converted to run on hydrogen. The other remained a conventional engine for safety of flight. Deliveries will start in 2025.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 22, 2024

-based Bedeo is launching a Land Rover Defender EV conversion based around in-wheel motors from Bedeo-owned Protean Electric. The Defender is the first in a series of “Reborn Electric: Icons” conversions, according to a Bedeo press release. The company didn’t reveal the curb weight of this example.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2022

Glencore, one of the world’s largest global diversified natural resource companies, has established a strategic partnership with Li-Cycle Holdings, a leading lithium-ion battery recycler in North America. supplying Li-Cycle’s sulfuric acid requirements for its Hub facilities.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2022

The technology converts carbon emissions from steel mills or gasified waste biomass directly into MEG. The carbon capture technology uses a proprietary engineered bacterium to convert carbon emissions directly into MEG through fermentation, bypassing the need for an ethanol intermediate, and simplifying the MEG supply chain.

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Convert Carbon Emissions Building 186

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The company also released video footage of successful first taxi tests of the aircraft, designed to evaluate ground handling qualities and the performance of the fuel-cell electric powertrain at low power settings and airspeeds. The Dash 8-300 flying testbed has a megawatt-class hydrogen fuel cell powertrain installed in one of its nacelles.

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New Zealand Universal Grant Taxi 362

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Blue Biofuels (BIOF) and the United States Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service (USDA ARS) are collaborating on optimizing the yields of Pennisetum hybridum , commonly known as king grass, a perennial grass biomass crop, that the Company is using as feedstock for its patented mechanocatalytic cellulose-to-sugar (CTS) process.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2023

The study is conducted in collaboration with California-based H-Cycle , which has developed a thermal conversion process using heat and electricity to transform waste into hydrogen with minimal emissions. The goal is to launch a first hydrogen production facility around 2030 capable of processing 200-300 tons of waste per day.

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Waste Japan Hydrogen Clean 360

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Both companies have set out to prove that hydrogen can safely and efficiently deliver power for civil aero engines and are already planning a second set of tests, with a longer-term ambition to carry out flight tests. Following this, the company will purchase a Dassault Falcon 50, which they expect to have in the skies in early 2024.

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Hydrogen Engine Concept Mariner 431

Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2020

VWCV partner eClassics is planning to offer T1 conversions and T1 complete vehicles in the style of the new e-BULLI. As the basis for the future e-BULLI the team chose a T1 Samba Bus produced in Hannover in 1966, which prior to its conversion spent half a century on the roads of California.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Conversion of iron ore into iron accounts for 90% of steelmaking emissions that may be eliminated using Electra’s process. The “Iron Ore Challenge”: Commercial iron ores with iron content of 62% or higher are projected to be in short supply by the early 2030s. —Electra CEO Sandeep Nijhawan.

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Coal Boston Carbon Green 360

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 26, 2015

Hydrogenics Corporation will supply a 1MW electrolyzer and provide engineering expertise to a consortium of companies working on the European project MefCO2 (methanol fuel from CO 2 ) in Germany. Carbon Capture and Conversion (CCC) Emissions Hydrogen Methanol Power-to-Gas' tonnes of CO 2.

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Hydrogen Convert Gas Supplies 150

Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2021

Meanwhile, battery-grade lithium carbonate prices rose by just 6.6% (EXW China) across the same period, with a flattening of movement in the second half of the month caused by extremely limited supply capping spot liquidity, compared to previous gains of 14.2% month-on-month in March and 19.1% m-o-m in February.

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Chinese Carbon Price Conversion 273

Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2022

The company has developed a modular platform producing battery-grade lithium hydroxide and carbonate from diverse input streams and assets to improve the sustainability profile of lithium. The platform technology is also being commercialized for the conversion of waste brines to chemicals and desalinated water.

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BMW Green Carbon Convert 243

Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2021

Raven SR , a renewable fuels company, and Hyzon Motors Inc., At the hubs, which can be built at or near landfills, Raven SR will convert mixed and multiple organic wastes, including municipal solid waste, greenwaste, food waste, medical, paper, etc. As part of the agreement, Hyzon is acquiring a minority interest in Raven SR.

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Waste Hydrogen Building Motor 459

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The Chemours Company, a global chemistry company, plans to enter into a joint venture with BWT FUMATECH Mobility GmbH, an established player in multiple hydrogen markets, focused on fuel cell membrane manufacturing. Completion of the transaction is subject to customary regulatory approvals. The joint venture—THE Mobility F.C.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2023

The process consists of two key steps: Solid oxide co-electrolysis (SOCC) technology developed at GE Research Center (GRC) simultaneously converts carbon dioxide and steam into syngas (H 2 :CO) from nuclear heat and electricity. 3M Company will develop an isotope recovery process to enable commercial deployment of molten salt reactors.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2010

The California South Coast Air Quality Management District (AQMD) has awarded AC Propulsion a $300,000 grant to integrate its electric drive system technology into commercial service vans ( three Ford E250 vans supplied by Comcast) in Southern California. The first conversion vehicle is slated for road testing in early summer 2011.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 8, 2012

GE’s Power Conversion business recently received a series of new orders from South Korean companies Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering and Hyundai Heavy Industries. The scope of GE’s contracts includes MV7000 converters, induction motors, transformers, generators, main and cargo switchboards and propulsion control systems.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2014

SOLAR-JET ( S olar chemical reactor demonstration and O ptimization for L ong-term A vailability of R enewable JET fuel) uses sunlight in a concentrated solar reactor to convert CO 2 and water to syngas (a mixture of hydrogen and CO), which is then processed in a Fischer-Tropsch reactor to aviation kerosene. Scheffe J.R., Steinfeld A.

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Solar Conversion Water Fuel 268

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2018

Eni’s proprietary Eni Slurry Technology (EST) is able to convert refining residues entirely into high-quality light products, eliminating both liquid and solid refining residues with significant environmental benefits. EST is based on the hydro-conversion of heavy loads using a nano-dispersed catalyser (slurry).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 18, 2018

The Australian, Japanese and Victorian governments and a consortium of companies have launched the pilot of an innovative supply chain that will deliver liquefied hydrogen from the Latrobe Valley in Australia to Japan. A liquefaction plant at the Port of Hastings will convert the hydrogen gas into liquefied hydrogen (LH2).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2021

TotalEnergies R&D program on Carbon Capture and Utilization is developing approaches for the economically viable reuse of CO 2 which is in line with the climate ambition of the company. e-CO 2 Met is the first pilot project for TotalEnergies to convert CO 2 with renewable electric energy to methanol.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 4, 2022

LGES stated in an ESG Report 2021 that it is working on converting all its manufacturing sites to RE100, including those located in South Korea, North America, Europe, China, etc. In 2020, LGES reported a conversion rate of 33% across its business sites. The company aims to exceed a conversion rate of 60% by the end of the year.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Infinium, an electrofuels company, is partnering with ENGIE to develop a facility that will produce ultra-low carbon Infinium electrofuels at scale for the local transportation industry. Infinium electrofuels technology converts renewable power into green hydrogen, then uses the green hydrogen and waste CO 2 to produce ultra-low carbon fuels.

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Europe Commercial Fuel Conversion 150

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2022

A public call for tenders by the urban community of Pau Bearn, Pyrénées —related to the construction of a new sludge-treatment unit for a wastewater treatment plant—has been won by a temporary consortium of companies led by Suez Eau, France and including Storengy , Camborde Architectes, SOGEA/Vinci and EGIS Eau.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Honeywell announced a new ethanol-to-jet fuel (ETJ) processing technology that allows producers to convert corn-based, cellulosic, or sugar-based ethanol into sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). Ethanol and isobutanol feedstocks for Alcohol-to-Jet fuels are covered in Annex 5 of ASTM D7566. Earlier post.).

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Conversion Carbon Fuel Oil 199

Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2014

Z-Smart is being incorporated into these fleet vehicles to improve performance, safety and efficiency of the converted vehicles and to provide convenient mobile communication to the driver on the charge levels and recharging status.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

The UK’s National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL) and DNV are partnering to explore the potential of nuclear-derived hydrogen to support the conversion of UK gas networks to hydrogen. ANTs have the potential to play a major role in delivering net zero, and this scheme would consequently de-risk a future hydrogen gas network conversion programme.

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Hydrogen Gas Production Ireland 321

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Mascoma Corporation has entered into a feedstock processing and lignin supply agreement with Chevron Technology Ventures (CTV), a division of Chevron USA, Inc. Mascoma will then convert the feedstock to cellulosic ethanol through its proprietary process, which produces lignin as a by-product. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 8, 2014

Cathay Pacific Airways has made a strategic equity investment in Fulcrum BioEnergy —a pioneer in the development and commercialization of converting municipal solid waste (MSW) into sustainable aviation fuel ( earlier post )—as part of the airlines biofuel strategy and to help it achieve a target of carbon-neutral growth from 2020.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 21, 2013

Clariant, a global provider of specialty chemicals, has supplied a proprietary CO 2 -SNG (synthetic natural gas) catalyst for the methanation unit of Audi’s new power-to-gas facility in Werlte, Germany. The technology can be also used to store surplus energy in the gas pipeline system and to balance energy supply against demand.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2022

Efficiency improvements and carbon emissions reduction in energy conversion and storage technologies. The Timken Company. The Timken Company and Oak Ridge National Laboratory will develop high performance computing simulations to study seamless induction hardening (SIH) for wind turbine main shaft bearings. All Selectees.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2022

Because so much energy is lost turning steam back into water in the Rankine cycle, at most a third of the power in the steam can be converted into electricity. In comparison, the Brayton cycle has a theoretical conversion efficiency upwards of 50%.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2020

The implementation of this project, the first industrial-scale power-to-X-to-power demonstrator with an advanced hydrogen turbine, will be launched at Smurfit Kappa PRF’s site—a company specialized in manufacturing recycled paper—in Saillat-sur-Vienne, France. In this case, the “X” will be hydrogen.

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Hydrogen Power Powered Gas 411

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2020

It will be the first-of-its-kind in Canada and will begin to establish a Rare Earth Element (REE) supply chain in Saskatchewan, forming an industry model for future commercial REE resource expansion in the province. The conversion of REE ore to individual REE products is done in two main stages.

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