Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 22, 2012
CoolPlanet BioFuels, a start-up developing technology to convert low-grade biomass into high-grade fuels including gasoline, and carbon that can be sequestered ( earlier post ), claims it has achieved a conversion yield of 4,000 gallons gasoline/acre biomass in pilot testing using giant miscanthus, an advanced bioenergy crop.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 5, 2014
Cool Planet has devised a biomass-to-liquids thermochemical conversion process that simultaneously produces liquid fuels and sequesterable biochar useful as a soil amendment. One of the catalytic conversion processes creates the high-octane gasoline blendstock. Earlier post.).
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 28, 2012
The company is also developing a range of simple one-step catalytic conversion processes which mate with the fractionator’s output gas streams to produce useful products such as eBTX (high octane gasoline), synthetic jet fuel and maximized fuel production from ultra-high yield energy crops. earlier post ).
Charged EVs
SEPTEMBER 28, 2021
As more fleets of medium- and heavy-duty vehicles go electric, there’s a growing awareness that building the necessary charging infrastructure will be a complex proposition, requiring specialized expertise and considerable capital. TeraWatt has only recently come out of stealth mode, and has yet to announce any major customers.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 8, 2013
By 2021, Ann Arbor could become the first American city with a shared fleet of networked, driverless vehicles. They could lead to new city layouts because shared fleets of self-driving cars wouldn’t need to spend so much time in parking lots. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).
Cars That Think
DECEMBER 1, 2023
Meanwhile, Google has scrambled to deliver its own chatbot, Bard, which launched in March; Amazon announced a $4 billion investment in Anthropic , creator of ChatGPT competitor Claude, in September. Spring seemed likely to benefit from the creative, humanlike conversational abilities of modern LLMs.
EV Central
JULY 5, 2023
Just part of the scenery – Cruise robotaxis in San Francisco CBD Cruise claims it is conducting 1000 driverless trips a day, and has now driven more than 2 million miles, while Waymo One – which uses a fleet of electric Jaguar I-Paces – was a bit harder to deal with.
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