Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2023

Partnering with UK electric vehicle (EV) conversion experts, Electrogenic , Babcock will convert four in-service military Land Rovers, two protected vehicles and two general service, from diesel-fueled to EV using a drop-in kit and modified battery system.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2022

Carbon transformation company Twelve and biotechnology company LanzaTech have transformed CO 2 emissions into ethanol as a part of an ongoing research and development partnership. This work will see Twelve converting CO 2 to CO, which will in turn be converted by LanzaTech’s proprietary microbe to isopropyl alcohol (IPA).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2022

In addition to advancing CO 2 removal and conversion technologies, potential award recipients must address societal considerations and impacts, emphasizing active engagement of local communities and avoiding the imposition of additional burdens on disadvantaged communities.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Bombardier Transportation (now part of Alstom) introduced a variety of green innovations to reduce CO 2 emissions and pollution in the railway sector. To help France meet its sustainability targets, Bombardier will now convert AGC hybrid trains to full battery power.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2020

Volkswagen has begun conversion of its Emden, Germany plant to support the production of Evs; the first electric cars are to roll off the production line there from 2022. With the conversion of our plant at Emden into a production location for electric vehicles, Volkswagen is forcing the pace of system change.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

The US Army’s Project Manager Transportation Systems (PM TS), part of Program Executive Office for Combat Support & Combat Service Support (PEO CS&CSS), has partnered with the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) to prototype a hybrid conversion kit for tactical vehicles. This challenge and opportunity are not unique to the military.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2020

Researchers at the University of Southampton have transformed optical fibers into photocatalytic microreactors that convert water into hydrogen fuel using solar energy. Alongside hydrogen generation from water, the multi-disciplinary research team is investigating photochemical conversion of carbon dioxide into synthetic fuel.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2021

Ricardo won a contract with LS Automotive Technologies to develop a high voltage DC-DC converter to power the low voltage network in electric vehicles. The power conversion has to be performed at high efficiency to ensure that the equipment is cool and only occupies a small footprint in the vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2020

At SEMA360, Chevrolet will showcase a 1977 K5 Blazer converted to all-electric propulsion. Our vision is to offer a comprehensive line of Connect and Cruise systems from Chevrolet Performance—delivering a solution for every customer ranging from LSX V-8s to eCrate conversions. 200-horsepower electric motor.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2021

Rice University scientists and their colleagues at C-Crete Technologies have optimized a process to convert waste from rubber tires into graphene that can, in turn, be used to strengthen concrete. The Rice lab flashed tire-derived carbon black and found about 70% of the material converted to graphene. After 28 days, 0.1

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Baua Electric

APRIL 22, 2024

-based Bedeo is launching a Land Rover Defender EV conversion based around in-wheel motors from Bedeo-owned Protean Electric. The Defender is the first in a series of “Reborn Electric: Icons” conversions, according to a Bedeo press release. The company didn’t reveal the curb weight of this example.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The companies are joining efforts to implement the carbon-negative UBQ thermoplastic ( earlier post ) into auto parts manufactured by Motherson Group for the automotive industry. UBQ GHG Neutralizers, conversely, offset on average 15 times their weight of CO 2 -e. These are suited for injection, extrusion and compression molding.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

and Princeton University’s Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment have created a scalable photocatalyst that can convert ammonia into hydrogen fuel. Using only inexpensive earth-abundant raw materials, a team from Rice’s Laboratory for Nanophotonics, Syzygy Plasmonics Inc. The research is published in Science.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The conversion normally requires significant amounts of energy in the form of high heat—a temperature of at least 700 ?C, Illustration of a novel room-temperature process to remove CO 2 by converting the molecule into CO. C, hot enough to melt aluminum at normal atmospheric pressure. Credit: NIST.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

This includes making available $2 billion in grants and up to $10 billion in loans to support automotive manufacturing conversion projects that retain high-quality jobs in communities that currently host these manufacturing facilities. Converting and Retrofitting America’s Manufacturing Plants.

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Teslarati

MARCH 10, 2022

SpaceX has reflown a converted Falcon Heavy side booster just 37 days after its first mission as a Falcon 9 rocket, successfully delivering a batch of Starlink satellites to low Earth orbit (LEO) in the process. Booster B1052 first flew in April 2019 as part of Falcon Heavy Block 5’s launch debut.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2018

An international research team has developed a new single-atom electrocatalyst that efficiently converts CO 2 to carbon monoxide (CO). Scientists have long sought a way to convert CO 2 to CO, but traditional electrocatalysts cannot effectively initiate the reaction. —Klaus Attenkofer, Brookhaven scientist and co-author.

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Green Car Congress

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. Source: U.S.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

UPS and the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) announced that new technology will be developed to convert UPS package delivery vehicles from diesel to electric. UPS and Unique Electric Solutions LLC (UES LLC) will design, build, test and make the conversions.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The powertrain is in a configuration that closely resembles the company’s first product—a conversion kit for ATR 72-600 regional airliners—which is expected to be certified and in commercial passenger service starting in 2025. Air New Zealand.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Under the FOCUS program, projects will develop advanced solar converters that turn sunlight into electricity for immediate use, while also producing heat that can be stored at low cost for later use as well as innovative storage systems that accept both heat and electricity from variable solar sources. Earlier post.). Source: ARPA-E.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

It is an essential part of the Rheticus I and II research projects, which are sponsored by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) with a total of €6.3 In the electrolyzers, carbon dioxide and water are converted into carbon monoxide (CO) and hydrogen (H 2 ) with electricity in a first step.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

The Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC) UK, with experts and stakeholders from industry, academia and funding and support bodies, has published an updated power electronics value chain which shows an end-to-end supply chain view of materials and components required for volume manufacturing of automotive inverters, converters, and onboard chargers.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

As part of a White House roundtable to launch the Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF) Grand Challenge to decarbonize the aviation sector by 2050 ( earlier post ), the US Department of Energy (DOE) announced $64.7 Affordable, Clean Cellulosic Sugars for High Yield Conversion. Separations to Enable Biomass Conversion.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2023

These 50 EVs are part of a larger agreement between FedEx and BrightDrop that will see FedEx incorporate 2,500 total vehicles across FedEx operations in the coming years, including more than 400 vehicles that are already in operation in Southern California. Supported payload is 1,460 lbs, and cargo volume is 615 ft 3. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2020

VWCV partner eClassics is planning to offer T1 conversions and T1 complete vehicles in the style of the new e-BULLI. As the basis for the future e-BULLI the team chose a T1 Samba Bus produced in Hannover in 1966, which prior to its conversion spent half a century on the roads of California.

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CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Everrati has been working hard to ensure that timeless classics are also part of this transition. Converting classic […]. Looking at new vehicle segment, battery-electric vehicles continue to grow their market share, with record sales figures being reported month after month in a lot of the major automotive markets.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2023

The earlier vessels will initially have methanol-ready X92-B engines installed and will be converted for methanol before entering service. The order enables WinGD to advance its timeline for developing conversion packages for methanol-fuelled engines. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2014

has completed a non-brokered private placement of a US $1,000,000 Convertible Note with I2BF Energy. The Note has a maturity date of 1 April 2015; the conversion price is CAD 0.10 Nesscap can prepay the outstanding principal and interest on the Note, in whole or in part, at any time without premium or penalty.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

The pilot plant follows on from Mercurius Australia’s benchtop validation project conducted jointly with QUT as part of the Queensland Government’s Biofutures Acceleration Program. Uses two widely deployed and well understood industrial processing techniques— one from the pulp and paper industry and the other from petroleum refining.

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EV Central

JULY 4, 2022

Electrification has become a booming part of its business, mainly due to very strong customer demand. Its expansive yard and sheds heave with body shells and parts dating back to the 1950s, but in one of the workshops there are significantly more modern happenings. Why did you start doing EV conversions?

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Volkswagen opted for a dual strategy: detailed measures optimized the combustion process and reduced raw emissions, while twin dosing technology in the exhaust gas system converted the majority of NO x into harmless substances. The first SCR catalytic converter is installed directly downstream of the engine. As previously, the 2.0

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2012

Diesel to natural gas conversion system. Omnitek has developed a kit that can be used to convert the globally popular Mercedes diesel engines OM904 and OM906 into natural gas engines. Omnitek’s proprietary diesel-to-natural gas engine conversion kit is used for bus and truck applications, as well as stationary applications.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2014

developer of a power conversion technology called Power Packet Switching Architecture (PPSA), received a purchase order for ten of its PPSA-enabled 30 kW battery converters from Coritech Services, a provider of custom engineering solutions for a variety of applications including electric vehicle charging. Ideal Power Inc.,

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Electric Vehicless

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

If you want to convert your bicycle into an electric bike than you are on the right track. It is easy to convert your bicycle into an electric bike, but if you consider some technical things during selection of an electric bike kit than it will ease your journey to convert the bicycle into an electric bike & running it.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2014

Several years ago, the government of Bangladesh took took various policies to convert the petroleum vehicles on road to run on compressed natural gas (CNG), which allows both air quality improvements and energy security benefits. Congestion costs are still one-half of the health benefits of the CNG conversion policy. Earlier post.)

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Cars That Think

MARCH 14, 2022

The California-based Hyperlight Energy will be piloting an installation where they plan to use existing oil wells as solar thermal wellsprings, with the stored energy being converted back to clean electricity when required. But we can still reduce the carbon [cost] of that oil.”

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