Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The recycling of plastic waste plays a large conceptual role in the quesst for the realization of a circular economy. This suggests that the design of catalysts that can control the selectivity of this process is challenging. The work provides some guidelines for catalyst design in the field of plastic hydrocracking.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2017

Coined the “Passenger Economy” by Intel and prepared by analyst firm Strategy Analytics, the study predicts an explosive economic trajectory growing from $800 billion in 2035 to $7 trillion by 2050. trillion in revenue, or nearly 55% of the total passenger economy. Autonomous driving will do the same, Intel says.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2014

At the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Annual Merit Review meeting in Washington, DC last week, Michael Ruth from Cummins noted that the DOE program target for the project is a fuel economy (CAFE) target of 26 mpg (9.05 Cummins made extensive use of aluminium as well as space-saving design features for new engine weight control.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

These allow the greatest possible freedom in the development and design of various conversions and superstructures previously only known from the conventionally powered Sprinter. The third pillar of the modular design is the rear module with the electrically driven rear axle. tonnes) and trailer loads (up to 2 tonnes).

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MAY 21, 2012

developer of a low-cost hybrid electric powertrain designed specifically for class 1-3 commercial fleet use ( earlier post ), has signed an agreement with Henley Transmission Services, LLC, the largest franchise holder of AAMCO automotive service centers, to certify AAMCO technicians to install and service XL Hybrids’ hybrid-electric conversions.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2021

Alumobility, a non-profit organization focused on solutions to advance the adoption of aluminum automotive body sheet, announced the results of its technical study demonstrating affordable lightweighting through the proposed conversion of a mass-produced C-segment SUV passenger door from steel to aluminum.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2021

Supported by the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi), and due to run for three years from December 2020, project partners include the University of Munich, Neptun Ship Design, WTZ and Woodward L’Orange. Such scalable components are a prerequisite for the introduction of ammonia engines in shipping.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2017

The direct plasma synthesis of acetic acid from CH 4 and CO 2 is an ideal reaction with 100% atom economy, but is almost impossible by thermal catalysis owing to the significant thermodynamic barrier. Instead of using H 2 , direct conversion of CO 2 with CH 4 (dry reforming of methane, DRM) to liquid fuels and chemicals (e.g.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2018

Toyota estimates that the 2019 Avalon Hybrid will boost fuel economy by up to 10% over its MY 2018 predecessor, from 40 mpg (5.88 Energy loss in the conversion efficiency of the transaxle and electric motor is reduced by approximately 20%, and its cooling system’s energy loss is cut by approximately 10%. l/100 km) combined.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

A Bloomfield, Michigan startup is developing light- and medium-duty series plug-in hybrid electric vehicle powertrain systems—initially as conversions, but ultimately extending to an OEM basis. In the Crown Victoria, the proof of concept powertrain conversion systems improve fuel economy from 80%-200% from the base 4.6L

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Among the objectives of the project is delivering a 5% fuel economy improvement by direct conversion of engine waste heat to useful electric power for light-duty vehicle application. For light duty passenger vehicles, the fuel economy improvement must be measured over the US06 cycle. —Gentherm President and CEO Daniel R.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The new Reuze project includes the development of one of Europe’s largest announced CO 2 conversion hubs, located in France, which will enable the conversion of hundreds of thousands of tons of CO 2 emissions from ArcelorMittal into clean electrofuels for the European market.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 21, 2021

This combined offering helps meet the urgent need to remove carbon emissions in hard-to-decarbonize sectors of the economy. The catalytic conversion unit converts the gas into crude methanol, a mixture of methanol and water, at elevated temperature and pressure. The agreement was effective as of July 2021.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2021

HES present an opportunity to optimize power plant designs to maximize the services that are useful to and valued by the electric and broader energy systems. The report finds that hybrid energy systems that integrate multiple generation, storage, and energy conversion processes can play a major role in decarbonizing the US economy.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2021

For the implementation of a sustainable energy economy, the greatest challenge is the weather-depending, fluctuating electricity production of wind and solar power plants. The central process for this conversion is electrocatalytic water splitting in which hydrogen and oxygen are formed.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Fossil fuel systems that employ high rates of carbon capture or other thermal conversion processes such as pyrolysis, electrolysis systems that primarily use clean energy (e.g., kgCO 2 e/kgH 2 through optimized design choices, such as the use of greater shares of clean electricity and low-carbon forms of biomass.

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MAY 19, 2013

The Algal Carbon Conversion (ACC) Pilot Project is a partnership among the National Research Council of Canada (NRC); Canadian Natural Resources Limited, one of the largest independent crude oil and natural gas producers in Canada; and Pond Biofuels. Algae: Identification of most appropriate algae strains for industrial deployment.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2014

In a 2012 presentation, the inventors said that the direct conversion process delivers a liquid hydrocarbon fuel yield of ~54-55% at 310°C, with ~6-7% ethylene and ~39% water byproducts, making the technology more cost-effective than previous approaches. It could also be incorporated into new plant designs to further reduce operating costs.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

A research vehicle fitted with a flywheel hybrid system including stop-start has demonstrated improvements in fuel economy of up to 22.4% Designed by Flybrid Systems, the flywheel is constructed from carbon composite and operates in a partial vacuum, allowing it to spin at up to 60,000 rpm. FHSPV flywheel CVT system layout.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

AMP will use the Remy HVH250 electric motors in their custom electric vehicle conversions. The first two vehicles available for AMP conversions are the GM Saturn Sky and the GM Pontiac Solstice. Tags: Conversions Electric (Battery) Motors. The end product is an all-electric vehicle with a range of up to 150 miles per charge.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2021

HyDeal LA is a collaboration of developers, green hydrogen off-takers, integrators, equipment manufacturers, investors, and advisors coalescing to overcome the biggest barrier to the green hydrogen economy—its high cost—by launching a commercial green hydrogen cluster at scale.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 17, 2011

a company working with a hybrid electric conversion system for Class 1 through 3 commercial vans and trucks ( earlier post ), is conducting customer pilot tests of its system. XL Hybrids has partnered with Ashwoods Automotive in the UK, developers of a hybrid conversion system. XL Hybrids, Inc., Earlier post.) Increased low-end torque.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2011

A European-based Vauxhall Vivaro van retrofitted with Protean Electric’s electric wheel motors ( earlier post )applied in a through-the-road plug-in hybrid system (TTRH) has shown a more than three-fold improvement in fuel economy in hybrid mode over a conventional Vivaro on the New European Driving Cycle (NEDC).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2016

In a paper presented at the 2016 SAE World Congress, Tula Technology, developer of Dynamic Skip Fire (DSF) cylinder deactivation technology, reported significant fuel economy gains of up to 18% over a conventional GM 6.2-liter In addition, DSF increases the temperature of the catalyst which will result higher conversion efficiency.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2009

ALTe’a electric drive system, designed to replace a base V-8 internal combustion engine powertrain, improves fuel economy from 80% to 200%. The idea of converting existing vehicles that had very low fuel economy with Range Extended Electric Powertrains is an advanced idea especially considering the patents that come with it.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Due to its higher energy density, LMFP should reduce the range anxiety associated with standard LFP formulations designed for EVs. Lithium Australia aims to ensure an ethical and sustainable supply of energy metals to the battery industry (enhancing energy security in the process) by creating a circular battery economy.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2021

This combination of rapidly expanding global demand and lack of a safe, domestic supply has created an urgency to develop a safe, domestic, cost-competitive source of lithium to ensure American leadership in the transition to a carbon-free economy and a robust domestic supply chain.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2023

For us, the path to the decarbonization of the maritime economy begins with the switch to climate-neutral fuels. MAN Energy Solutions is pursuing this project in close alignment with its own strategy for developing sustainable technologies and welcomes the opportunity to work with external research partners. —Prof.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2013

developer of a low-cost hybrid electric powertrain designed specifically for class 1 to 4 commercial fleet use ( earlier post ), unveiled its third-generation XL3 product release for model year 2014 vehicles. The XL3 system features a patent-pending inline traction motor system design, the newest upgrade for its hybrid conversion system.

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AUGUST 5, 2019

Reintroducing airships into the world’s transportation mix could contribute to lowering the transport sector’s carbon emissions and can play a role in establishing a sustainable hydrogen based economy, according to a new IIASA-led study. The open-access paper is published in the journal Energy Conversion and Management: X.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2023

The goal of the project is to continue to develop a circular carbon economy that replaces the petroleum-based chemicals in consumer products with algae-derived and biodegradable polymers. This project will demonstrate the conversion of gaseous carbon wood wastes (terpenes) to renewable Terpenes SAF blending components. Viridos, Inc.,

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JUNE 14, 2010

If we can again succeed like that, in a decade, we’ll look back and know that we got a great deal: safer, healthier, better lives, an economy no longer held hostage to petro-dictatorships and blindered, monopolistic companies, and a significant response to climate change. When they’re mass-produced, conversions will cost under $10-$15,000.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2021

These efforts are geared toward accelerating the transition to the hydrogen economy. Baker Hughes is a leader in turbomachinery solutions designed for a wide variety of applications across the energy value chain and providing fuel flexibility.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

The production concept is based on the distributed primary conversion of various kind of biomass residues to intermediate liquid products at small-to-medium scale (10-50 kt/a Fischer-Tropsch products, 30–150 MW biomass) units located close to biomass resources. It receives funding of €5.1 million (US$6.1

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2013

The wasted CO 2 leads to a significant decrease in carbon yield, the researchers observed, which results in a major impact on the overall economy of biorefinery and the carbon efficiency of cell growth. NOG can be a nice platform with different sugars for a 100 percent conversion to acetyl-CoA. —Igor Bogorad.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 27, 2020

With our influx of large orders, we are realizing economies of scale, moving from producing tens of vehicles per month to hundreds of vehicles per month. Our component costs are falling fast, and we are constantly introducing new automation and efficiencies in our manufacturing processes and we are passing these savings on to our customers.

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JULY 18, 2017

The researchers demonstrated their optimization-simulation framework using a case study of conversion of terpenes derived from bio-waste feedstocks into reactive intermediates. Adequate decision support methods are then required for the development of an efficient bio-economy. …

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