Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2010

VärmlandsMetanol AB has selected Uhde, a ThyssenKrupp company, as technology supplier and engineering partner for a biomass-to-methanol plant in Hagfors, Sweden, with an annual production of 100,000 tonnes of fuel-grade methanol from forest-residue biomass. Investment for the plant will be about SEK 3 billion (US$416 million).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2020

Liquid Wind is developing its first commercial-scale eMethanol facility in Sweden and plans to establish 6 facilities by 2030 before expanding internationally. Liquid Wind, in partnership with its consortium of experts, Consortium, will convert waste CO 2 and renewable electricity into eMethanol, a carbon-neutral fuel.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2012

Nihon Dengyo Kosaku and Volvo Technology Japan have demonstrated the wireless transmission of 10kW of electricity a distance of 4 meters using a prototype high-efficiency rectenna—a microwave rectifying antenna that converts microwave energy into direct-current electricity. kW each; overall efficiency of the conversion is about 84%.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2009

The European Commission is supporting a Novozymes project to convert sugarcane by-products into bioethanol with a €1.6 Novozymes has been working to develop enzymes to convert agricultural by-products into bioethanol since 2001. million (US$2 million), 2-year contract. And we’re going to keep that promise.

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Electric Auto Association

JULY 5, 2021

Other speakers have included an HEAA member who builds electric motorcycles, another who has converted gas lawn mowers into electric, and a third who is proud to move around his property while sitting in his converted electric La-Z-Boy. The gentleman who started the project lives in Sweden,” Hanson continued.” Chapter meetings.

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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

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Increased availability of low CO 2 sources of electricity and hydrogen could counter-intuitively delay, rather than accelerate, a large-scale transition to an electric and/or hydrogen vehicle fleet, according to a new study by researchers from Ford Motor Company and Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden. Wallington et al.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

UK startup Libertine LPE has developed a free piston linear power generator technology that it says overcomes the key challenges faced by earlier free piston engine schemes of motion control, emissions and power conversion efficiency. Earlier post.)

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Baua Electric

APRIL 28, 2024

In less than seven years, Tata AutoComp now produces battery packs and BMS, battery thermal management systems, electric compressors, integrated motors, controllers and reducers, on board and off board chargers, vehicle and power electronics like DC-DC converters, bus bars, PDUs and many more components for EVs.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2009

The RWE investment was part of a €10 million Series B round that included current investors NorthZone Ventures (Sweden), SINTEF (Norway), Sofinnova Partners (France), TVM Capital (Germany), Verdane Capital (Norway) and Viking Venture (Norway). million in ReVolt. A separator between the anode and cathode prevents short circuits.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2020

Researchers at Linköping University, Sweden, are attempting to convert carbon dioxide to fuel using energy from sunlight. Jianwu Sun and his colleagues at Linköping University are attempting to imitate photosynthesis to capture carbon dioxide from air and to convert it to chemical fuels, such as methane, ethanol and methanol.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Researchers from the Vienna University of Technology (Austria), Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden) and the Fritz-Haber-Institute of the Max-Planck-Society (Germany) have identified the inherent reaction behavior of different catalysts for ignition in the CO oxidation reaction in catalytic converters. —Vogel et al.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

The consortium behind the new bus is led by UEA’s Low Carbon Innovation Centre (LCIC) and includes leading independent bus operator Anglian Bus, bus manufacturer Optare plc, and engine conversion specialists Hardstaff Group of Nottingham. Tags: Biomethane Conversions Fleets Heavy-duty. Dual-fuel use is a very attractive option.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2016

Researchers at the University of Manchester (UK) have developed a graphene-based nano-rectifier (“ballistic rectifier”) that can convert waste heat to electricity. Conventional devices with similar conversion efficiencies require cryogenically low temperatures. In 2012, a team from the US, Spain and Sweden (Matthews et al.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2017

In an SOFC electrolysis system, fuel cells convert excess power from renewable generation to turn water into hydrogen, addressing intermittency and storage issues for wind and solar. Companies and research organisations from Estonia, Finland, Italy, Sweden, Belgium, Germany and the UK were involved. NELLHI received €1.6 million (US$1.9

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2017

The tested fuel—Catalytic Hydrothermal Conversion Jet fuel (CHCJ-5)—was made from rapeseed oil. Through a bilateral agreement between Sweden and the United States, the US Navy and US Air Force have contributed with valuable knowledge and experience regarding certification of biofuel.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2015

Now, however, with the addition of a single gene from barley (SUSIBA2), a team of researchers in China, Sweden and the US has engineered a strain of rice—now named SUSIBA2—that can be cultivated to emit virtually no methane from its paddies during growth. It’s an issue that must be addressed. —Christer Jansson.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2016

A number of groups have recently or are currently investigating the use of free piston engine power generation applications with a focus on automotive, including academic work at West Virginia University (WVU), Sandia National Laboratory (SNL), Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden), and Shanghai Jiaotong University. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2013

Volvo has been testing Bio-DME in Sweden since 2009. A full Oberon plant will consist of three stages: the production of syngas, its conversion to methanol, and the subsequent catalytic dehydration of methanol to DME. US Patent Nº 8,378,159: Process and system for converting biogas to liquid fuels T.H. Earlier post.).

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Get Electric Vehicle

APRIL 8, 2022

Though people like EVs, it is not get converted into sales. For example, OEMs may include conversations on their websites about customers’ top EV pain points. Several OEMs have previously done such tests (for example, Mercedes in Sweden and Toyota in New Zealand).

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APRIL 21, 2009

Fisker $80,000 Karma series luxury 50-mile range series PHEV, S Sunset convertible version.Partnering with Quantum Technologies. Several after-market companies have done PHEV conversions of the Ford Escape hybrid and one has done a retrofit of the F-150 pickup -- see Where PHEVs Are and ICE-Conversions.) Detroit News ).

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