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Promising results for low-pressure casting of aluminum bolts

Green Car Congress

It is thus important to exploit the material as optimally as possible, and a new casting technology developed in Norway has the potential to do just that. This is a costly, time- and energy-consuming process that also generates large volumes of waste. —SINTEF researcher Siri Marthe Arbo.

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Study finds renewable fuels from hydrotreated vegetable oils outperform transesterified lipids and BTL from woody material in environmental lifecycle impacts and costs

Green Car Congress

GHG emission comparison between fossil diesel, transesterified lipids, HVO and woody BTL. If HVO is produced from waste feedstocks with low upstream impacts, the high conversion efficiency of the HVO production process will make HVO the preferred fuel to BTL from any woody feedstock, even woody waste. Sunde et al.

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China is exporting so many EVs that it needs more ships – a lot more

Baua Electric

By comparison, Japan tops the list with 284 ships, followed by Norway, which has 102. But behind the scenes β€œis a struggling overall economy that many economists say could see even greater waste down the road because of the state-led industrial drive,” she said.

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The Dirty Truth of Petrol & Diesel Vehicles

Plug In India

70% of the energy from burning fossil fuel is wasted as heat, while only 30% goes to turn your wheels. So after we use all that electricity pumping oil out of the ground, refining it, transporting it, we then waste 70% when we burn it. In Norway they have made a huge shift to electric vehicles in a very short time.

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Naysayer Alert – the hydrogen red herring

My Electric Car

The only by products are water and a fair degree of heat, the latter indicating a degree of inefficiency and wasted energy. Second, while hydrogen can be otherwise produced through the electrolysis of water, this process requires huge amounts of clean and fresh water – a vital and highly valuable commodity of life that can’t be wasted.

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Auto Racing Test Drives Its Own EV Future

Cars That Think

That series unexpectedly swore off gasoline and staged its first all-electric race on 13-14 August in Hell, Norway. BjΓΆrn FΓΆerster, Porsche A remorseless stopwatch comparison of Formula Eβ€”the current state-of-the-art in racing EVsβ€”vs. The latest is World Rallycross , a wild-and-wooly mix of off-road rallying and tarmac sections.

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