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APRIL 8, 2010

Researchers from BASF, Energie Baden-Württemberg AG (EnBW), Heidelberg University and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) are seeking to develop a process for the photocatalytic conversion of CO 2 into methanol for use in fuel cells or internal combustion engines. million) over two years.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2019

The goal is to develop an efficient and powerful test plant that will use carbon dioxide and water as well as electricity from renewable sources and bacteria to produce specialty chemicals. Evonik and Siemens are now combining these two, previously separate, plants in a test facility at Evonik’s site in Marl (Germany).

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MAY 16, 2023

Recall that Germany adjusted their incentive schemes for plugins, starting from January 1st this year. April also didn’t see any fast-ramp-up growth stories from newer BEV models, with cars like the BYD Atto 3, and Smart #1 mainly just treading water (for now at least). These figures compare YoY with 24.3%, 12.3%, and 12.0%.

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JULY 15, 2023

share in Germany, down from 26.0% Recall that Germany entirely cut the ecobonus for PHEVs from January 1st this year, and their fall in share since then was fully expected. Whereas PHEVs previously had almost as much market share as BEVs (see graph below) in Germany, they have now slipped to around one third that of BEVs.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

At Sunday’s event , the company talked to local employees about Giga Berlin’s water usage and the factory’s environmental and water protection protocols. It also provided information on the factory’s road and rail infrastructure, forest conversion, battery cell production, and training/studies at Giga Berlin.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2019

The open-access paper is published in the journal Energy Conversion and Management: X. In the study, researchers from IIASA, Brazil, Germany, and Malaysia looked into how an airship-based industry could be developed using the jet stream as the energy medium to transport cargo around the world. doi: 10.1016/j.ecmx.2019.100016.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2021

With large-scale, low-cost production of clean hydrogen, H2Teesside could support the conversion of surrounding industries to use hydrogen in place of natural gas, playing an important role in decarbonizing a cluster of industries in Teesside. Green hydrogen is produced by the electrolysis of water, powered by renewable energy.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2019

An international research group has improved graphene’s ability to catalyze the hydrogen evolution reaction, which releases hydrogen as a result of passing an electronic current through water. Their properties can be improved by making multiple simultaneous changes to their structures.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2019

The train, codenamed Breeze, will be a conversion of existing Class 321 trains, reengineering some of the UK’s most reliable rolling stock. This proven and reliable Class 321 is an excellent fit in terms of characteristics, fleet size and availability for conversion to a Hydrogen Multiple Unit (HMU).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2019

Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the University of Toronto have proposed a method enabling air conditioning and ventilation systems to produce synthetic fuels from CO 2 and water from the ambient air. Envisioned modular, on-site renewable hydrocarbon synthesis system based on CO 2 capture from thin air.

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AUGUST 30, 2011

A new study led by Praveen Kumar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, details the links between the hydrologic cycle and large-scale land conversion for the cultivation of bioenergy crops, both now and as growing conditions change in the future. —Phong et al. —Praveen Kumar.

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APRIL 13, 2017

Scientists at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) recaptured the record for highest efficiency in solar hydrogen production via a photoelectrochemical (PEC) water-splitting process. Structure of an IMM photocathode configured for water splitting with TEM cross-section of the active layers.

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JUNE 17, 2021

The system’s efficiency of more than 80% for producing green hydrogen from renewable electricity and water vapor is far higher than that of conventional electrolyzers. A core piece of e-CO 2 Met is the 1 MW high-temperature electrolyzer from the Dresden-based electrolysis company Sunfire.

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JULY 10, 2019

Low Cost Roll-to-Roll Manufacturing of Reusable Sorbents for Energy and Water Industries, $150,000 Qualification of SAS4A/SASSYS-1 for Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor Authorization and Licensing, $674,484 Advanced Reactor Concepts LLC, Chevy Chase, Md. Touchstone Research Laboratory, Triadelphia, W. TerraPower LLC, Bellevue, Wash. Petaluma, Calif.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2015

Geely’s CRI investment and work with renewable methanol is similar to the approach Audi is taking with its own e-fuels projects—producing very low carbon liquid or gaseous fuels using only renewable energy, water and CO 2. Earlier post.). Earlier post.) Methanol in China.

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MARCH 29, 2021

nitrogen and water) upon exiting the SCR catalyst. Development activities will take place at Tenneco’s technical center in Edenkoben, Germany, and Eaton’s technical center in Marshall, Michigan. —Nick Morley, director, global advanced engineering, Tenneco’s Clean Air business group.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2022

Bosch is branching out into the development of components for electrolyzers, which use electrolysis to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. In each of these cells, electricity is used to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. These include Bamberg and Feuerbach (Germany), Tilburg (Netherlands), Linz (Austria), and ?eské

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The Truth About Cars

MARCH 11, 2024

By 1986, 60,000 gray-market cars a year were coming into the United States, the majority of them Stuttgart products, and the heads of Mercedes-Benz dealers here were exploding like a graphite-moderated/water-cooled Soviet nuclear reactor did that year. After years of intensive Mercedes-Benz-backed lobbying, H.R.2628

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

The green power generated on site in the hydroelectric power station produces hydrogen and oxygen from water by means of electrolysis. First, the CO 2 and H 2 are converted into syngas in Ineratec’s RWGS (reverse water gas shift) reactor. High syngas conversion per reactor pass and unique reactor productivity.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is set to speak to Mexican President Manuel Lopez Obrador on Monday morning, but the news surrounding the conversation could be good or bad. Tesla has been rumored to be extremely geared toward building a new production facility in Mexico, but the company has yet to land on an exact location for the plant.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2017

The central component of the process is the electrolyzer, which takes in water and uses excess clean electricity to power an electrochemical reaction that splits it into hydrogen and oxygen. The conversion of renewable electricity to hydrogen enables long-term storage of large amounts of carbon-free power.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2015

A team from Bauhaus Luftfahrt in Germany has analyzed the climate impact and economic performance of solar thermochemical jet fuel production. Direct solar radiation is concentrated by a field of heliostats and drives the high-temperature thermochemical conversion of H 2 O and CO 2 to H 2 and CO (syngas). kg CO 2 ‐equiv /L.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

Researchers from Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) in Korea and Karlsruher Institute of Technology in Germany have developed a novel energy conversion and storage system using seawater as a cathode. V in de-aerated water. Click to enlarge. V from 1.88?V In addition, this system can be easily scaled up.

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MAY 23, 2022

Scientists from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany), University of Colorado Boulder, and Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México performed a “CT Scan” of the atmosphere, moving along latitudes and longitudes, measuring particle concentrations and compositions in the upper troposphere. The emission sources are limited up there.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2017

million OTTO-R project for the production of gasoline from “green” methanol produced from CO 2 , water and renewable electricity. The reaction heat of the exothermal reactions is used in the newly developed reactors to generate steam from boiler feed water, which is then utilized as an energy source for the process.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 4, 2010

Measured effects on conversion and yield with and without membrane integration (full symbols=without membrane; empty symbols=with membrane). Given the shortage of arable land and water in many countries, there is a need to achieve maximum fuel yields per unit of land. Credit: ACS, Unruh et al. Click to enlarge. Product selectivity—i.e.,

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

CO 2 emissions from the ammonia industry alone amount to approximately 200 million tons per year—by comparison, Germany generates around 800 million tons of carbon dioxide per year. But these past attempts were limited by issues such as carbon clogging and low conversion rates. The final design is a 1.2-meter-high

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Push EVs

JUNE 17, 2023

The auto market in Germany saw plugin EVs take 22.9% This perverse incentive is now corrected, but perhaps too late in the technology transition for PHEVs to receive serious attention from consumers and manufacturers going forwards, at least in Germany. The BYD Atto 3 continued to tread water, at 49 units in May. year on year.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2011

Researchers at the Leibnitz Institute for Catalysis (Rostock, Germany) have introduced a new approach to hydrogen storage that is based on simple salts of formic acid and carbonic acid. Most importantly, after full conversion of the formate, the bicarbonate solution may be recharged with hydrogen to close the cycle. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2017

Audi has agreed with Germany’s Federal Motor Transport Authority that it will actively approach the relevant customers and recall the affected cars. 14,000 of those 24,000 cars are registered in Germany. The cylinder heads have two-part water jackets for needs-based cooling. The recall is likely to start in July 2017.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

Researchers from Germany and Italy have developed an efficient low-temperature catalytic process to produce hydrogen from methanol. Moreover, this system represents full conversion of all ‘available’ hydrogen atoms in the substrates to hydrogen by homogeneous catalysis. b) Best performing catalysts. Nielsen et al. Click to enlarge.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 19, 2023

And Germany isn’t the only country investing in hydrogen technologies. The technology to produce hydrogen by electrolyzing water has been around for more than 200 years. Green hydrogen production requires electrolyzers, solar and wind parks, and clean water—about 10 liters per kilogram of hydrogen generated.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2017

An evaluation of the implementation possibilities of power-to-fuel (PTF) technologies by a team from Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH in Germany recommends the PTF products DME, OME 3-5 and n-alkanes as suitable diesel alternatives for the transportation sector. Earlier post.) A paper on the Jülich study is published in the journal Fuel.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2009

is working with CHOREN , a Biomass-to-Liquids (BTL) technology company, to optimize energy crops for thermochemical conversion to advanced low-carbon biofuels. The results will be used to identify the most relevant compositional traits, and later, to select the plants and traits that improve conversion and maximize fuel yields.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2016

The isobutene was then shipped to Germany and converted into isooctane. However, Global Bioenergies’s current production pathway for bio-isobutene—fermenting sugars derived from starch or biomass—doesn’t mesh with Audi’s ideal e-fuels criteria: water, CO 2 and renewable energy. Earlier post.) Earlier post.).

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 9, 2024

Visitors can also learn about green hydrogen that is produced by electrolyzing water. It has been recognized for its eco-friendliness and excellent technological prowess in major global markets, such as Switzerland and Germany. Electrolysis plants operate on renewable energy sources, such as wind, solar and hydropower.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 18, 2017

mi) (Germany, as of: August 2017). This synthetic fuel is produced using renewable energy from water and CO 2 or from organic residual materials such as straw and plant clippings. The lower CO 2 emissions also mean owners pay less in motor vehicle tax. seconds (A4 Avant g-tron: 8.5 cu ft) in the A5 Sportback g-tron. Earlier post.)

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