Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2023

The proposed development will include a quarry, a beneficiation plant and a conversion unit co-located on Imerys’ brownfield site to produce high-purity lithium. The Cornwall mine will adhere to the highest social and environmental standards and follow the IRMA Standard—the most demanding global benchmark for responsible mining.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Global Bioenergies announced the production of ETBE—Ethyl tert-butyl ether, an oxygenate additive for gasoline—purely from renewable resources. The global market for the product is currently valued at more than €2 billion, or more than 3 million tonnes annually.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

In exchange for long-term, discounted fuel contracts with fleets, Hydra installs hydrogen-diesel co-combustion conversion kits into existing semi-trucks and provides the fueling infrastructure for green hydrogen sourced from chemical producers such as Chemtrade. Hydra pays for the truck conversion and the on-site fueling infrastructure.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Since unveiling Jaguar, Bentley and Rolls-Royce electrified classics, Lunaz has been consistently asked by its global customer base to apply its re-engineering and restoration approach to these cars. These cars will be available in both standard and long wheelbase. From the start of production, fully roofless options will be offered.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2015

Global Bioenergies and its partner Audi ( earlier post ) announced that the first batch of renewable gasoline using Global Bioenergies’ fermentative isobutene pathway has been produced. The batch will be presented to Audi by Global Bioenergies during a press conference to be held in Pomacle on 21 May. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2020

ORNL’s bidirectional technology is fully compliant with grid power quality standards. The technology takes energy from the grid and converts it to direct current (DC) voltage. Once the energy is transferred to the secondary coil across the air gap it is converted back to DC, charging the vehicle’s battery pack.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Fortiva Hemi is the first enzyme solution designed to act specifically upon the corn fiber matrix during liquefaction, creating the opportunity for improved starch and fat conversion to ethanol and oil, respectively, without creating undesirable sugars that can cause fouling. —Brain Brazeau.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2014

During the two-year collaboration, this agreement also foresees the possibility for Audi to acquire shares of Global Bioenergies corresponding to less than 2% of its capital. Global Bioenergies has engineered an initial series of bacterial strains that can produce light olefins via the fermentation of sugars. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2016

Researchers in Sweden and Spain have devised a three-step process for the conversion of precipitated kraft lignin from black liquor into green diesel. The kraft process converts wood into wood pulp for paper production. Globally over 1.3 Their paper appears in the journal ChemSusChem. Vakkilainnen, from. —Löfstedt et al.

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APRIL 11, 2022

Under this contract, thyssenkrupp nucera will deliver two of their large-scale alkaline water electrolysis standard modules. The gaseous hydrogen will be converted to liquid hydrogen using Air Products’ proprietary technology. Earlier post.) Project activities have been initiated, and the facility is expected to be on-stream in 2023.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Global automotive Tier 1 manufacturer Motherson Group is collaborating with Israeli cleantech company UBQ Materials. UBQ is a patented material converted from 100% unsorted household waste, containing food leftovers, mixed plastics, paper, cardboard, packaging materials and diapers. Polymers typically emit 1.9

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JANUARY 27, 2023

This project will demonstrate the conversion of gaseous carbon wood wastes (terpenes) to renewable Terpenes SAF blending components. Global Algae Innovations, “Algae Direct Air Capture Scale-up to Multi-Acre Raceways”, $3,600,000. Comstock Inc., per GGE, with lifecycle emissions reductions exceeding 80% over petroleum. Viridos, Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2022

In a letter sent to President Biden on 15 June, the AFPM (American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers) and the API (American Petroleum Institute) listed what they called seven realities about the current situtation: Refined product prices are determined on the global markets. including refineries in Canada, are being similarly converted.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Overall this research highlights that more needs to be done by businesses, special interest groups and local communities to convert consciousness into action. The pandemic has seen a wave of strong activism and more conversations around sustainability, which has driven the nation to re-evaluate mobility solutions.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2009

has added 92 hybrid-electric trucks to its delivery fleet by converting standard FedEx delivery trucks to hybrid-electric systems. The hybrid conversions were produced in Charlotte, N.C. The standard FedEx trucks used in the retrofit program were 2000 or 2001 models with 300,000 to 500,000 miles driven. FedEx Corp.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Northwestern University scientists have developed a catalyst that can convert atmospheric nitrogen into ammonia under natural conditions. A process that uses abundant solar energy to turn nitrogen into ammonia offers an attractive alternative to Haber-Bosch, the industrial standard for producing ammonia, Kanatzidis said. Yuhas, Eric A.

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JANUARY 4, 2016

Global Bioenergies and Audi have signed a new collaboration agreement earlier post ) to further broaden the feedstock flexibility of Global Bioenergies’ bio-isobutene process, which uses fermentation of sugars. Global Bioenergies had produced isobutene using its pilot plant located on the agri-business site of Pomacle, France.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2012

Startup US Fuel Corporation (USF), which plans to design, build, own and operate scalable facilities near coal mine sites to convert coal into synthetic fuels, will acquire coal-to-diesel intellectual property (IP) that USF co-developed with an executive team consisting of Paul Adams and Steve Luck. Andrew Halarewicz, Sr.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

The IMO, an arm of the United Nations, is the global standard-setting agency for the safety, security, and environmental performance of international shipping. The combustion of this fuel to provide propulsion and auxiliary power to ships causes the marine transport industry to produce between 2% and 3% of global carbon emissions.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2010

American Superconductor Corporation ( AMSC ), a global power technologies company, announced in conjunction with Global Wind Day 2010 on 15 June that it has achieved a significant milestone by supporting the production of more than 15,000 megawatts (MW) of wind power worldwide with its proprietary power electronic solutions.

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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. The enzymes retain up to 100% activity in the polymer construct.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

GPFs ensure the particulate emissions from a gasoline direct injection vehicle are kept to a minimum and within the latest Euro 6 standard emissions requirements. This work will support SAIC Motor’s gasoline vehicle after-treatment development program and feed into SAIC Motor’s global product development activities in the UK and China.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2018

According to its slogan— digital, flexible, green—it will set standards within the worldwide automobile production. The event will be accompanied by an exhibition with examples of sustainable and green projects in the global production organization of Mercedes-Benz Cars. The plant will start operating in 2019.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2016

Primus’ standardized modular GTL systems will convert low-cost Marcellus feedstock into methanol locally, thus saving its clients in the region both production and transportation costs.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2013

The partners also plan to build or license additional plants to support the high growth in global butadiene demand. Butadiene is also a key ingredient in high mileage “eco-tires”, a market the company expects to grow rapidly as automakers seek to meet higher fuel economy standards. —Bob Mayer, CEO of Cobalt Technologies.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2023

President and CEO Jaehoon Chang explained how the company’s second-generation dedicated EV platform, under the new Integrated Modular Architecture (IMA), will replace its Electric-Global Modular Platform (E-GMP) going forward. The proportion of global EV production is set to increase from 8% this year to 34% in 2030.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2012

Fast pyrolysis—the rapid heating of biomass to intermediate temperatures (400-600 °C) in the absence of oxygen and the rapid cooling of the resulting vapors to bio-oil—is an efficient method to convert all fractions of biomass, including lignin, into a liquid product: pyrolysis oil. Catalysts, noted Iisa et al.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2022

IDTechEx calculates that non-automotive EV sectors in 2021 demanded approximately 31 GWh globally in 2021; for reference, battery-electric and plug-in hybrid cars demanded approximately 280 GWh globally in 2021. Battery Demand From Non-automotive EV Sectors in 2021. Source: IDTechEx - “Electric Vehicles: Land, Sea & Air 2022-2042”.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2014

Computational tools for catalyst design: The ability to convert methane gas directly to liquid methanol at often-remote recovery sites would significantly alter the storage, transport, and use of the gas. However, despite decades of effort, no lab-developed catalyst for achieving that conversion has been commercialized.

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APRIL 27, 2012

Based on visual interpretation of high-resolution (30 m) satellite images, a new study in the journal Global Change Biology: Bioenergy determined that industrial plantations covered over 3.1 That number is in my opinion conservative, and consistent with a slight reduction in the rate of peat conversion. Earlier post.). Chris Malins.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2019

More than half of consumers (56%) say they would be willing to pay up to 20% more for an autonomous vehicle over a standard one. —Markus Winkler, Global Head of Automotive at Capgemini. The findings also point to a changing perception of mobility.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2018

Underpinned by the Toyota New Global Architecture (TNGA) K Sedan platform, the 2019 Avalon is powered by two new TNGA powertrains: a punchy 3.5-liter A new torque converter provides a wider range of lock-up operation (versus the outgoing 6-speed automatic transmission) to imbue a more enveloping and direct driving feel. respectively).

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EV Central

MARCH 20, 2024

Then there’s the cost of converting it to right-hand-drive for our market. That said, an EV RHD conversion is a much simpler job than one on a combustion vehicle. ” Globally, General Motors has said everything it produces will be electric by 2035. . Its Cadillac brand will be all-electric by 2030.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Even if the power consumption is converted into the emissions from the power plant, the pollution caused is less than that of traditional fuel vehicles, because the energy conversion rate of the power plant is higher, and the centralized emissions can be more easily installed with emission reduction and pollution control equipment.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2011

In the absence of major technological innovations or policy changes, the United States is unlikely to meet cellulosic biofuel mandates under the current Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS2) by 2022, according to a new report from the National Research Council.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 1, 2022

What issues will influence the development of technical standards? To start the conversation around these questions, I appointed the 2022 IEEE Ad Hoc Committee on IEEE in 2050. As a global organization, a considerable challenge of IEEE is that it supports a broad community. How will content be curated, shared, and accessed?

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

The enzyme enables more cost-efficient conversion of biomass to ethanol and performs 1.5 Both plants will convert municipal solid waste into biofuel. Global production capacity of ethanol from cellulose is estimated to reach about 15 million gallons in 2012 and 250 million gallons in 2014, according to the company.

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