Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Hyundai Motor unveiled the RN30 high-perfromance concept at the Paris Motor Show in September. The RN30, jointly developed by BASF and Hyundai Motor Company, combines key solutions from the chemical industry with purposeful aerodynamic design and specialized high-performance technologies.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

The NSF Engineering Research Center for Innovative and Strategic Transformation of Alkane Resources ( CISTAR ) will develop technologies for responsible conversion of alkanes—light hydrocarbons including methane, ethane and propane—into more valuable liquid fuels, including gasoline and diesel fuels.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

Researchers from Japan and Mexico have developed a one-step hydrotreatment process over catalysts containing Ni-Mo and solid acids for the conversion of vegetable oils (Jatropha, palm and canola) to renewable diesel and LPG fuels. However, it needs further research to investigate how to achieve the concept satisfactorily.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2010

When he proposes steps to improve oil industry safety, we hope he won’t say, “Let’s make sure this never happens again.” Here’s our rough draft, which we’re releasing as we refine the concept—we moved up our plans when we learned about the Tuesday address. Well, America’s auto industry delivered over 100,000.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2022

In light of energy diversification, the move away from fossil fuels, and the need to reduce CO 2 emissions, demand for green hydrogen is growing rapidly—not only in energy-intensive industries such as steel, chemicals, and heavy-duty freight, but also in private real estate.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2013

Westport believes that the amalgamation will create the largest product portfolio and largest market presence in the North American light duty natural gas vehicle (NGV) space. Westport does not expect to change its revenue outlook for 2013 at this time.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2018

Henkel is determined to play a decisive role in electrification of the automotive industry. Potting: Another polyacrylate technology—Loctite AA 5831—is used for protection and fixation of parts in the e-motor or in the conversion electronic control unit.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2016

Methane monooxygenases (MMOs), found in methanotrophic bacteria, are selective catalysts for methane activation and conversion to methanol under mild conditions; however, these enzymes are not amenable to standard enzyme immobilization approaches. NADH is costly, unstable and not viable for industrial use.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 3, 2014

In the design, semiconductor photocatalysts are synthesized as one-dimensional nanowires, which are assembled into a free-standing, paper-like mesh using a vacuum filtration process from the paper industry. When immersed in water with visible light irradiation (? ? 400 nm), the mesh produces hydrogen gas. —Liu et al.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

The LCFS eliminates volume targets and focuses strictly on a fuel’s carbon intensity (CI) measured in gCO 2 /MJ on a well-to-wheel (WTW) basis—from extraction, conversion, transport, and combustion of the fuel. Not all countries are positioned to support a biofuels industry as it is designed today. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

TEG component (cartridge) and TEG architecture concept. The first rapid prototype of their Thermoelectric Generator (TEG) for light vehicle applications is on display at Tenneco’s booth at the 2013 Frankfurt IAA Motor Show. For light duty passenger vehicles, the fuel economy improvement must be measured over the US06 cycle.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2016

Researchers at Rice University’s Laboratory for Nanophotonics (LANP), with colleagues at Princeton University, have developed a new method for uniting light-capturing photonic nanomaterials and high-efficiency metal catalysts, creating an “antenna-reactor” plasmonic catalyst. —Swearer. Image courtesy of D.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2017

The hydrogen gas can also be used as a chemical energy storage and can later be reconverted into electricity in a fuel cell, albeit with an additional penalty in terms of losses in conversion. The renewable product that is in gaseous form at room temperature consists of methane, the main component of natural gas, and other light hydrocarbons.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2009

CLEPA (the European umbrella membership organization representing the interests of the global automotive supply industry) and EUCAR (the European Council for Automotive R&D from the major European passenger car and commercial vehicle manufacturers) jointly prepared the document.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2013

Project Volt Gas Volt is based on a long-term financing plan and the use of existing technologies for the large-scale conversion of surplus renewable electricity to methane, with subsequent reuse. The concept is the same embodied in Audi’s e-gas project ( earlier post ), to which the VGV proposal makes continued reference.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 20, 2024

The shipping industry has been trying to cut its carbon emissions for years, and with little to show for it. The industry now faces serious pressure to pick up the pace. body that governs the industry, representatives doubled down on carbon-reduction ambitions, setting a net-zero emissions goal for 2050.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2011

The Cluster of Excellence “Unifying Concepts in Catalysis” ( UniCat ) and the chemical company BASF SE signed a cooperation agreement establishing a new joint lab dedicated to the development of new catalytic processes for raw material change. Chemical and biological transformations of CO and CO 2 are key processes in industry and nature.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 7, 2022

Grove Award “for contributions to materials for nanoscale electronics and organic light-emitting devices.” Grove, who was a true technical and business leader in the semiconductor industry, and many people I admire have received this award.” When voltage is applied, a bright light is emitted from each individual pixel.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2017

Researchers at the Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg, with partners from the automotive industry (Audi, VW) and the petroleum industry (Shell, OMV) have launched the €1.46-million Residual methanol and light hydrocarbons are separated downstream and recycled into the process. OTTO-R is to be available in 2025.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2014

million for 12–24 month projects with industry and academia ( DE-FOA-0000966 ) in support of innovations in fuel cell and hydrogen fuel technologies. Fuel cell–based electrochemical conversion devices for stationary energy storage (TRL 2- 5). Earlier post.). Hydrogen infrastructure (TRL 9-10).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

If successful, the proposed technology will offer light- and heavy-duty vehicle manufacturers a cost-effective solution to improve vehicle fuel efficiency and reduce transportation carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions. The University of Maryland will further develop its “super wood” approach to replace steel in the automotive industry.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

At NACV, Bosch will debut its 15-inch freely programmable cluster, the largest digital cluster available for the commercial vehicle industry. Powertrain concepts. At NACV 2017, Bosch is also showcasing several future-focused powertrain concepts engineered to save fuel and money while extending the lives of fleets.

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EV Adoption

MAY 15, 2022

In the EV industry the poster child of this is the term “charger.” Beyond the use of confusing, technical and jargony terms and acronyms, a foundational communications problem with EV charging is that the industry doesn’t even agree on what the most basic of terms — EV “charging station” — actually refers to. We have a choice.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Distributed architecture and modular design concept are adopted, which is highly configurable and easy to assemble, debug and maintain. Cooperating with industrial computer and battery stack management software, a three-level architecture (BMU + CBMs + GBMs) can be formed, which is suitable for 50kwh-2mwh occasions.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2014

Under that, the plan sketches out 3 strategic goals: Strategic Objective One: Advance the goals and objectives in the President’s Climate Action Plan by supporting prudent development, deployment, and efficient use of “all of the above” energy resources that also create new jobs and industries.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2011

This project will optimize fuel-based control of novel combustion strategies in light- and heavy-duty vehicles to enable diesel-like efficiencies with ultra-low engine-out emissions. Light-weighting materials. Demo Project for Multi-material light-weight prototype vehicle. Solid state thermoelectric energy conversion devices.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2015

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced ( DOE-FOA-0001224 ) up to $35 million in available funding to advance fuel cell and hydrogen technologies, and to enable early adoption of fuel cell applications, such as light duty fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs). Subtopics include Microbial Biomass Conversion. Earlier post.).

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Charged EVs

MAY 31, 2022

Upcoming electric passenger vehicles and light trucks from GM get most of the attention, but its new commercial EV brand is a quiet and very serious push too. BrightDrop offers a fascinating window into the breadth of GM’s EV plans, though even many people in the auto industry know little about it. The BrightDrop Zevo 600.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2012

The high-level performance goals of the Partnership are a 25-40% improvement in fuel economy in a light-duty vehicle (LDV) and achieving 55% brake thermal efficiency (BTE) in heavy-duty engine systems. At the present time, sustainable energy technologies (e.g., The potential is significant.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

Many of the systems being evaluated by this study use hydrogen production as a form of energy storage or as an input to industrial processes. This result represents an important step toward demonstration of stabilized solar-to-hydrogen conversion efficiencies >20% using PEC devices. L/L-reactor/day hydrogen production rate, a 12.5%

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Electric vehicle industry experts and scientists at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) are testing and evaluating the compatibility of inlet and connectors for a new high-power charging standard for medium- and heavy-duty vehicles called the Megawatt Charging System (MCS).

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Baua Electric

APRIL 28, 2024

It was braving through inheriting the loss-making Reva while Tata Motors just had a few R&D concepts of the Vista and Nano electric. The latter two have witnessed a much stronger traction in the industry due to the government’s FAME (Faster Adoption of Manufacturing of Hybrid and Electric Vehicles) policy.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2009

metric ton reduction in green house gases per vehicle conversion, this has the potential to reduce more than 125,000 metric tons of greenhouse gasses over this ten year period. This commitment will provide the transportation industry the evidence that a robust market for PEVs exists. Also, based on a 2.45 FPL Group, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 28, 2009

The US Department of Energy will invest up to $366 million to establish and operate three new Energy Innovation Hubs focused on accelerating research and development in three key energy areas, one of which is developing an effective solar energy to chemical fuel conversion system—i.e.,

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

As far as the components are concerned, the options range from supplying individual actuators and sensors up to complete system concepts, contributed by EMITEC, a 50% subsidiary of Continental. Reducing the NO x emission levels of commercial vehicles even further is a core challenge to the industry. SCR development progress.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Such engines may incorporate novel thermodynamic cycles, but should not simply involve regurgitation of existing concepts (e.g., approximately 45% peak thermal efficiency for light duty and greater-than 50% peak thermal efficiency for heavy duty). Subtopic 6A: Solid State Thermoelectric Energy Conversion Devices. Miller Cycle).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2011

technology and there is progress on the economic conversion of biomass to. Multiple ways exist for introduction of methanol into the fuel infrastructure (light blends or heavy blends) and into vehicles (light duty or heavy duty applications). The concept has been demonstrated and proven in systematic dynamometer tests at Ford.

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