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Oil companies fight back for charging dollars

Green Car Reports

As electric cars begin eating into profit growth at oil companies, the war for electric-car drivers' pocketbooks has begun. Electric utilities are counting on supplying increasing quantities of juice, especially during off-peak hours to make their operations more efficient—and not insignificantly to boost revenues along the way.

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Save up to $400 on Juiced Bikes e-bikes in largest sale of the year from $999 in New Green Deals

Electrek

Do just that when you pick up a new e-bike from Juiced Bikes as the company just launched its largest sale of the year. Coming in at the all-time low that we’ve tracked only once before, the RipRacer is a great way to get around town this spring without using any gas or oil.

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Indian Oil opens ethanol fuel pump; Ethanol now available at 183 outlets | Autocar Professional

Baua Electric

In a bid to capitalise on the government’s push for ethanol as one of the alternatives to fossil fuels, India’s largest fuel retailer Indian Oil Corp opened the country’s first ethanol pump in Delhi. India is the world’s third-largest consumer of crude oil, and imports more than 85% of its crude oil requirements.

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Shell acquisition of charging network Greenlots points to juice as the new gas

Green Car Reports

Electric cars are getting the attention of oil companies. Greenlots, announced that it had been bought by oil giant Royal Dutch Shell—via the subsidiary Shell New Energies US LLC. On Wednesday, one of the largest fast-charging networks in the U.S., the kind.

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Tsinghua Researchers Find that Sugarcane Juice is a Good Fermentation Feedstock for Algal Biodiesel

Green Car Congress

Researchers at Tsinghua University in China have shown that sugarcane juice is a good feedstock for biodiesel production, when used to support the growth of the alga Chlorella protothecoides by heterotrophic fermentation. Conversion ratios of sugar/biomass and sugar/oil using SCH were 15.2 The highest oil content was 53.0%

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NREL and Ecopetrol in $2.3M CRADA agreement to optimize conversion of waste biomass to ethanol

Green Car Congress

The US Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is working with Ecopetrol, the largest oil company in Colombia, to process the residue from sugar cane and palm oil harvesting into fuel ethanol for blending with gasoline. The plant spoils quickly if the sugars aren’t squeezed out.

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Osaka Gas launches pilot project in Thailand to supply vehicle natural gas fuel from biogas

Green Car Congress

At its palm oil factory, ABC will digest organic matter contained in factory wastewater to generate biogas, which will be subsequently refined by Osaka Gas into methane gas. The company says it is capable of producing high purity methane gas with the world’s highest efficiency in methane recovery at a rate of more than 99%.

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