Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Global emissions of CO 2 have increased by 45% between 1990 and 2010, and reached an all-time high of 33 billion tonnes in 2010 despite emission reductions in industrialized countries during the same period. Throughout the Kyoto Protocol period, industrialized countries have made efforts to change their energy sources mix.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2015

The plant, built for North European Bio Tech Oy (NEB), recycles feedstocks such as food industry biowaste and process residue from local bakeries and bread from shops that is past its sell-by date into ethanol for transport fuel. St1 is a leader in waste-based ethanol production and production technologies.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Climeworks’ new facility in Iceland transports the CO 2 filtered out of the air below the Earth’s surface, where natural processes then mineralize it. C using waste heat from a nearby geothermal plant to release the CO 2 molecules. —Hagen Seifert, Head of Sustainable Product Concepts at Audi.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2017

The second-generation concept machine is part of an electric site research project that aims to transform the quarry and aggregates industry, reducing carbon emissions by up to 95% and total cost of ownership by up to 25%. The HX1 was proof of concept. Since then, Volvo CE’s engineers have been further developing the machine.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2021

Spain-based global energy company Repsol and Talgo, a manufacturer of intercity, standard, and high speed passenger trains, will promote a renewable-hydrogen-powered train, fostering emission-free rail transport in the Iberian Peninsula.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2020

Improvements in the lifecycle energy consumption of products of interest: This includes jet engine efficiency; materials and shape optimization for light-weighting in transport technologies; semiconductor electrical efficiency; and recycling and reuse for industrial-scale materials production and processing waste.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2023

This program was partially inspired by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Commercial Orbital Transportation Services program that helped enable commercial space launch. IFE Pilot Plant with a Low-Cost, High-Energy Excimer Driver and the HYLIFE Concept. The awardees are: Commonwealth Fusion Systems (Cambridge, MA).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

MANs TGX hybrid concept at IAA. At the IAA, MAN (part of the Volkswagen Group) presented a concept diesel-electric parallel hybrid version of its long-haul TGX truck. The MAN TGX concept hybrid will be driven by a parallel hybrid system, supplied by a 440 hp (328 kW) diesel engine and an electric motor with 130 kW drive power.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Olivine is a CO 2 -reactive waste product that can be returned as tailings after capture carbon from the air. Travertine will launch a transformative process that integrates strong acid treatment of mining waste or tailings with electrolytic acid recycling. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. University of Nevada, Reno.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2019

Through research and new developments in both energy efficiency and domestically-sourced fuel technologies, we can not only strengthen our energy security but also improve transportation affordability for our nation’s trucking industry—helping those who deliver American goods and those who use them.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Elements of the concept behind the proposal, one of a number of energy-related items in the speech, reach back to an initiative launched by President Jimmy Carter on 26 April 1979—almost 34 years ago. This fund will also help us to improve our mass transportation and will stimulate development of new and unconventional energy sources.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 15, 2014

North European Bio Tech Oy (NEB) has made an investment decision concerning the construction of a bioethanol plant on the Renforsin Ranta industrial estate in Kajaani, Finland. million), of which 30% is covered by an investment subsidy granted by the Ministry of Employment and the Economy for biorefineries producing transport biofuels.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2013

The Energy Innovations Small Grant Program provides funding to small businesses, non-profit organizations, individuals, and academic institutions to conduct research that establishes the feasibility of new, innovative energy concepts. The program provides up to $95,000 for hardware projects and up to $50,000 for modeling concepts.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

The concept of the Ricardo Split-Cycle engine. Ricardo is advancing its work with two novel technologies to improve the efficiency of heavy-duty goods vehicles: a cryogenic split-cycle engine “ CryoPower ” ( earlier post ), and a low-carbon waste-heat powered microwave fuel reformer “ HeatWave II ”. Source: Neville Jackson.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2018

Andreas Scheuer, German Federal Minister of Transport and Digital Infrastructure, announced the award of around €50 million (US$58 million) in funding for 31 municipal electric mobility projects under the “Clean Air 2017-2020 emergency program”. waste disposal vehicles and public transport (ÖPNV) such as electric buses—will be promoted.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Aviation is the fastest growing means of transport and thus emissions will grow substantially. For Neste, the development of Neste MY Renewable Jet Fuel has been a long journey taking several years: from building proof of concept to ensuring the quality and performance that fully meet the aviation industry's expectations.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 26, 2018

In Japan, Aichi Prefecture, Chita City, Toyota City, Chubu Electric Power, Toho Gas, Toyota Motor Corporation, and Toyota Industries have launched the Chita City and Toyota City Renewable Energy-use Low-carbon Hydrogen Project. Hydrogen is a useful energy source for realizing a low-carbon society. The project.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 30, 2014

ReShip concept. ReShip project will use low-quality wood waste, chippings and unmerchantable wood left in forests after logging has occurred for feedstock for the fast pyrolysis process. The most promising fuels will then be engine tested to assess their quality and use for potential marine transport. Click to enlarge.

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Drive Electric

APRIL 4, 2023

For batteries without any more usable life, The Motor Industry Association of New Zealand (MIA) members have pledged to adhere to a code of practice that outlines the proper systems for the use, capture, return, refurbishment, reuse, recycling, or disposal of EV and hybrid batteries, to ensure that no batteries end up in landfills.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

In June 2021, DHL Freight started piloting a Bio-LNG solution (Bio-Liquefied Natural Gas from sustainable biomass) with Shell on three haulier trucks to reduce CO 2 emissions in road freight transport for DHL’s customer Grundfos. The logistics industry is currently responsible for 11 percent of global carbon emissions.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2020

VTO research pathways focus on fuel diversification, vehicle efficiency, energy storage, lightweight materials, and new mobility technologies to improve the overall energy efficiency and affordability of the transportation system. New Two-Cylinder Prototype Demonstration and Concept Design of a Next Generation Class 3-6 Opposed Piston Engine.

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Baua Electric

MAY 10, 2024

Fossil fuels currently meet this majority demand, raising concerns due to potential CO 2 (a major greenhouse gas) doubling compared to preindustrial levels (approximately 285 ppm for about 400 000 years before the industrial revolution and reached 376 ppm as of 2005 and is still increasing). Carbon dioxide cycle of biomass-based fuels.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Battelle researchers have developed a mobile catalytic pyrolysis unit that converts biomass materials such as wood chips or agricultural waste into bio-oil. In the first stage, which took place over the past four years, Battelle created a bench-scale machine that converted 50 pounds of woody waste per day, demonstrating the novel concept.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2018

Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin, Monash University (Australia) and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in Australia have recently discovered a new, efficient way to extract lithium and other metals and minerals from water. measured in traditional porous membranes. Freeman, Anita J.

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Baua Electric

MAY 10, 2024

The emissions further drop to ~70% if we consider 2G ethanol which is produced using farm waste. Ethanol production from farm waste such as corn cob, rice husk, wheat straw and sugarcane bagasse, is known as second generation ethanol (2G). 3G is still in early stages of commercial deployment while 4G is still at a concept stage.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

The Ricardo CryoPower concept aims to increase the fuel efficiency while reducing operating costs and CO 2 emissions for long haul trucks and other heavy-duty applications. This enables recovery of otherwise wasted exhaust heat to the working gas after the end of compression. It is thus readily available.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2011

The material could allow hydrogen to be stored in a cheap and practical way for transport applications, the company says. The coaxial electrospinning process that Cella uses is simple and industrially scalable, it can be used to create micron-scale micro-fibers or micro-beads nano-porous polymers filled with the chemical hydride.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2015

LanzaTech’s gas fermentation technology ( earlier post ) is at the core of the new Horizon2020 Steelanol project (2015-2018), which seeks to produce bioethanol via an innovative gas fermentation process using exhaust gases emitted by the steel industry. In 2011, LanzaTech began working with Harsco on a solution for steel mill waste gases.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2018

Heat exchangers are critical to efficient thermal energy use in numerous industrial and everyday applications, including electricity generation, nuclear reactors, transportation, petrochemical plants, waste heat recovery, and much more. The deadline to submit a concept paper for HITEMMP is 9:30 a.m.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

From a proof-of-concept stage, where preliminary pathway engineering results in low titers on a small scale, the titer, rate and yield are improved through multiple rounds of the design-build-test-learn (DBTL)-cycle. The International Energy Agency projects that by 2050, 27 percent of global transport fuels will be biofuels.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

Preliminary analysis performed by the national laboratories on the H2@Scale concept indicated that nearly a 50% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions is possible by 2050 via such large-scale hydrogen production and use. The RFI seeks input on six specific areas: Concept of H2@Scale. Increased energy system resiliency and flexibility.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2009

billion from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act for the capture carbon dioxide from industrial sources for storage or beneficial use. Steven Chu, Science Large-scale industrial carbon capture and storage selections (by amount of DOE award) include: ConocoPhillips. The first phase of these projects will include $21.6

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Baua Electric

MARCH 27, 2024

Empowering Electric Mobility and Energy Access Beyond stabilising energy grids, batteries are revolutionising transportation through the electrification of vehicles. The concept of vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology., where EVs can feed surplus energy back into the grid when parked, exemplifies this transformative potential.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2023

Made from widely available domestic feedstocks and advanced refining technologies, energy-dense biofuels provide a pathway for low-carbon fuels that can lower greenhouse gas emissions throughout the transportation sector and accelerate the bioeconomy. Topic Area 2: Pilot Scale-Up of Integrated Biorefineries LanzaTech, Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2014

Ionic liquids (ILs) have unique properties applicable to a variety of industrial processes. What if we could turn what is now a bane to the bioenergy industry into a boon? Ionic liquids show great promise for liberating fermentable sugars from lignocellulose and improving the economics of advanced biofuels. —Socha et al.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2014

The European Road Transport Research Advisory Council ( ERTRAC ) has published a new roadmap assessing energy carriers and powertrains in the context of the European target to achieve a 60% reduction in CO 2 emissions from transport by 2050. Liquid Air in the energy and transport systems - The Centre for Low Carbon Futures May 2013.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2021

SCALEUP awardees will focus on further developing existing technologies, for which the proof-of-concept R&D challenges have been addressed, that can establish real-world impact through scaling. LongPath Technologies proposes the largest continuous emissions monitoring network for the oil and gas industry. 24M Technologies, Inc.

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