Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2010

Altech-Eco Corporation has obtained Certificates of Conformity (COC) from the EPA for its new dedicated and bi-fuel 2010 Ford Focus compressed natural gas (CNG) conversion systems. Altech-Eco provides a lifetime warranty on all conversion system emissions components.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

The converted Bit Viking. Wärtsilä Corporation has completed the conversion of the 25,000 dwt product tanker Bit Viking from heavy fuel oil to liquefied natural gas (LNG) operation. The conversion enables the Bit Viking to qualify for lower nitrogen oxides (NO x ) emission taxes under the Norwegian NO x fund scheme.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 26, 2011

a renewable chemicals and advanced biofuels company, signed an engineering and consulting agreement with Mustang Engineering, LP for the conversion of Gevo’s renewable isobutanol to biojet fuel. The process technology for converting isobutanol to hydrocarbons is low-energy input and reduces greenhouse gas emissions by 85%. Gevo, Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2009

Poway, California-based Plug In Conversions Corp. kWh NiMH plug-in hybrid (PHEV) conversion kit that enables all-electric mode driving at speeds of up to 70 miles per hour (until the battery pack is depleted) in a converted Prius. Ewert Energy Systems video (handheld) of driving a Prius PHEV conversion at highway speeds.

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MARCH 25, 2022

EIA projects that production of renewable diesel supply will grow because of its compatibility with existing distribution infrastructure and engines, higher state and federal targets for renewable fuel production, incentives from tax credits, and the conversion of existing petroleum refineries into renewable diesel refineries.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2016

A paper by a team from the University of Chicago and MIT suggests that technology-driven cost reductions in fossil fuels will lead to the continued use of fossil fuels—oil, gas, and coal—unless governments pass new taxes on carbon emissions. We need both a policy like a carbon tax and to put more R&D money into renewables.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2015

Intrexon’s proprietary methanotroph bioconversion platform uses optimized microbial cell lines to convert natural gas into higher carbon compounds such as isobutanol and farnesene under ambient temperatures and pressures. US Patent Application Nº 20140273128A1 : Biological Conversion of Multi-Carbon Compounds from Methane.

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JUNE 14, 2010

We now have a sprinkling of promising companies working to get funded to convert gas-guzzlers. Using existing technology, we can convert many of them into plug-in hybrids and electric vehicles. Cash for Conversions” will start by fixing many of our 100 million trucks, vans, and buses.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2019

Using very high temperatures and steam, SMR reformers convert methane into carbon dioxide and hydrogen. High methane conversion coupled with an alternative purification technology could even provide a local source of CO 2 for other processes. Wismann et al. material constraints). —Wismann et al.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 11, 2014

The State of Hawaii recently passed legislation to assist in funding a project that converts crops, crop residues, dedicated energy crops, and agricultural waste into biofuels and value-added co-products. The conversion process takes a few days to cycle in a heterotrophic environment—i.e.,

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Congress has provided hundreds of billions of dollars to speed the deployment of clean-energy technologies. As legislation worked its way through Congress, Jenkins’s team provided elected officials, staffers, and stakeholders with a running tally of the possible trade-offs and payoffs in emissions, jobs, and economic growth.

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Plugs and Cars

JULY 12, 2007

Toyota made the car, the Prius, that made plug-in conversions possible, and now they are trying to rein in the desires unleashed. Neither CARB incentives nor the efforts of Plug-in Partners have moved the auto makers to produce plug-in hybrids, so conversion efforts are moving along. HybridsPlus and EDrive have converted cars.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 27, 2010

ReVolt Technology, LLC, a company that is developing rechargeable zinc-air batteries ( earlier post ), has been approved to receive a package of loans and tax credits from Oregon and Portland authorities totaling approximately $6.8 Charging of metal-air cells converts hydroxyl ions to oxygen in the air electrode, releasing electrons.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2013

The Polk County, Oregon, Sheriff’s Office is running 10 patrol cars converted to propane autogas, including seven Ford Crown Vics, two Chevy Tahoes and one Ford F-350 pickup truck; the office expects to save more than $20,000 every year by using the alternative fuel.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 27, 2012

We intend to convert more of our fleet and to supply and distribute LNG to our customers. For example, fleets that have more than 10 vehicles that use at least 20,000 gallons per year in a ‘return-to-base operation’ can expect to lock in an after-tax internal rate of return in the 20 to 35 percent range.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2016

has acquired exclusive rights to LanzaTech’s patented technology for the conversion of agricultural waste, forest waste, dairy waste and construction and demolition waste (CDW) to ethanol in California. The LanzaTech gas-to-ethanol technology enables Aemetis to convert these local California biomass wastes to advanced ethanol.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 4, 2013

The horizontal red lines show the comparable price of gasoline (before tax, refining margin 0.3 $/gal, exchange rate: 1 € = 1.326 $) with crude oil prices 100 $/bbl and 150 $/bbl. They calculated production cost estimates assuming n th plant economics and without public investment support, CO 2 credits or tax assumptions. Source: VTT.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2011

The process would convert much of the organic carbon in oil shale to the char which is left in the subsurface. Conversion to work via. Scale of conversion to work. Waste heat from conversion. The chemical energy contained in the shale is converted to work (e.g., Heat source. direct thermal or electrical energy.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2010

The Roush conversion system includes stainless steel fuel lines; fuel rail assembly; fuel injectors; fuel tank; and a re-calibrated PCM (Powertrain Control Module). The propane-powered Ford E-350 can qualify for Federal tax credits up to 80% of the incremental cost to convert. million gallons of gasoline each year.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

CNG conversions can provide stability against fluctuating fuel prices as well as lower vehicle operating costs for fleet administrators. Nearly 20 states—including Oklahoma, Texas, Pennsylvania and Florida—offer or soon will provide tax incentives or rebates for CNG-converted vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2009

As part of the report, which was requested by Senators Barbara Boxer (as Chair of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works) and Susan Collins, the GAO makes several recommendations to Congress and for executive (i.e. Federal tax credits, the RFS, and the ethanol tariff have primarily supported conventional corn starch ethanol.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2011

In 2005, Congress enacted the Renewable Fuel Standard as part of the Energy Policy Act (EPAct) and amended it in the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA). As of 2010, biofuel production was contingent on subsidies, tax credits, the import tariff, loan guarantees, RFS2, and similar policies.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2012

Virdia was founded in 2007 as HCL CleanTech— a US-Israeli biofuels technology development company focused on full process technology for conversion of woody biomass to fermentable sugars and advanced biofuels. Earlier post.) Virdia’s cellulosic sugar plants are expected to create hundreds of new jobs over the same decade.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 17, 2019

The Bayou Fuels project will take waste woody biomass and convert it into transportation fuels—such as diesel for heavy trucks and sustainable aviation fuel—using Velocys’ proprietary Fischer Tropsch process. This has a meaningful positive impact on returns. It also helps to de-risk the project and others that follow it.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2009

On 4 March 2009, Ford and Ford Credit announced the major components of a comprehensive debt restructuring: A conversion offer in which Ford offered to pay a premium in cash to induce the holders of any and all of the $4.88 billion cash tender offer by Ford Credit for certain of Ford’s unsecured, non-convertible debt securities.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2010

Bloomberg New Energy Finance found that approximately 225 million tonnes of biomass should be annually available by 2020 under the base case scenario for bioproduct conversion. The conversion yields for turning lignocellulosic biomass into ethanol, using the enzymatic hydrolysis technology, have improved dramatically in the past five years.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 31, 2009

gallon US) without tax for conventional motor fuel. The pyrolysis oil is mixed with pyrolysis coke from the process to create a biocrude slurry for transport and subsequent gasification to syngas and subsequent catalytic conversion to chemicals and/or fuels. With ±30% estimate error, this is between €0.56 per liter (US$2.72-5.03/gallon

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2011

fertilizers, pesticides, farm machinery), energy conversion coefficients among different energy forms and sources, system boundaries, and so on. only 7% of the chemical energy in corn kernels is converted to the kinetic energy on wheels, implying a great potential in increasing biomass utilization efficiency. Huang and Zhang.

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Plug In Partners

AUGUST 4, 2006

New York to Convert 600 Hybrids to PHEVs New York Governor George E. Bruno today announced a new $10 million State program to convert vehicles in the State fleet to plug-in hybrids (PHEVs) and plans for the construction of a state-of-the-art alternative fuel research laboratory at the Saratoga Technology + Energy Park (STEP).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2013

converted all vehicle efficiency measurements into vehicle energy efficiency (VEE, km/MJ) based on fuel energy densities reported in each study. Most of the studies expressed vehicle efficiency in various volume-based units. While VEE is important, it does not directly reveal the amount of gasoline displaced by a given amount of ethanol.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

We can achieve it by adopting a multi-pronged, multi-dimensional approach that considers factors like propulsion technology, energy sources, energy conversion, and storage options under a hybrid framework. And if our goal is to reduce carbon footprint or increase energy efficiency, we must view it as a crucial optimization.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2009

The project will convert local landfill gas (LFG), a renewable fuel source, to compressed natural gas and develop five CNG fueling stations throughout the metro-Atlanta area. The project will include the purchase and conversion of 283 alternative fuel vehicles for numerous fleets including taxis, cities, schools, and delivery vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2009

Given the currently unavoidable price hit resulting primarily from the cost of batteries, there were numerous mentions during the conference of mechanisms to establish a market environment that could better support plug-in adoption—carbon tax, fuel price mechanisms, or increased subsidies. convert] millions of cars on the road.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

The use of synthetic biology to convert sugars to diesel has advanced significantly in the past one to two years, and it is close to commercial viability. To improve the chances of commercialization, policy makers will be required to: Underwrite the risk of first plants through mandates, tax incentives or even direct investment.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2019

It converts the direct current from the high-voltage battery (HV) into three-phase current to power the electric motor. In many countries and cities, their owners can benefit from tax advantages or even enjoy local traffic privileges such as free parking or driving in the bus lane. of the gross list price.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2011

aviation fuel at the scale or speed needed to achieve industry goals, the report focuses on a portfolio of options, including different conversion technologies and sources of potentially sustainable biomass, including oilseeds, forest residues, solid waste, and algae. —SAFN report. Lignocellulosic biomass processing.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2012

Assessing plant sizes of 2,000, 10,000, and 35,000 dry tonnes per day of biomass at 8% return on capital, they found required sales prices (exclusive of tax) of $3.30, $2.40, and $2.06 Manganaro and Adeniyi Lawal (2012) Economics of Thermochemical Conversion of Crop Residue to Liquid Transportation Fuel. per gallon, respectively.

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