Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2010

A comparison of estimates of the energy return on investment (EROI) at the wellhead for conventional crude oil, or for crude product prior to refining for oil shale. If internal energy is excluded, and only purchased energy is used as input, then the EROI calculated is in the range of 2 to 16. Source: Cleveland and O’Connor.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2019

PetroChina is the world’s third-largest oil company and plays a leading role in energy distribution throughout China. The deal provides critical charging infrastructure required to support the mass adoption of eco-friendly vehicles and could be the benchmark for future fossil fuel station conversions globally. Ideanomics Inc.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

s Rialto Renewable Energy Center for the conversion of biomass to transportation fuels. The unconverted fractionator bottoms product can be fed to an FCC unit or lube oil hydrofinishing unit, or it can be recycled back to the process for full conversion to lighter high-value products. Earlier post.).

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Conversion Renewable Fuel Los Angeles 207

Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2013

The hydrocarbons are refined into the final liquid products using ZSM-5 catalytic conversion, oligomerization, alkylation, isomerization, hydrotreating, reforming, and hydrocracking. This threshold level for duckweed purchase depends on the desired refinery capacity and will decrease as the capacity decreases. Click to enlarge.

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China Gasoline Purchase Conversion 225

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Previously MBFP announced the signing of an agreement for the purchase of all of the gasoline produced from the facility. The project will capture 92% of the CO 2 generated throughout the development process and provide the liquefied CO 2 for use in the enhanced oil recovery market in the Rocky Mountain region. Denbury Resources Inc.,

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Wyoming Coal Engine Fuel 236

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Value of life-cycle emissions externality damages and oil premium costs from vehicles in 2010 $. A paper presenting the results of the group’s latest year-long study on the lifecycle air emissions and oil displacement benefits of plug-in vehicles was published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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DIY Electric Car

MARCH 3, 2012

My professional life has kept me busy, but I still have made good progress on my conversion. Motor volts, amps, temperature will be showed on 2 inch round dials in the place of oil temp, 12V battery voltage, and fuel level. First, someone on the forums has offered to sell an adapter from one of their former conversions.

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Conversion 2012 Deep Cycle Lead Acid 100

Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2011

CLE’s purchase of products is contingent on, among other things, satisfaction of product specification criteria and RIN certification of the products as cellulosic biofuels under the US Renewable Fuel Standard. KiOR expects to begin production at its Columbus facility in the second half of 2012.

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Gasoline Renewable Columbus Diesel 170

Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2011

developer of a catalytic pyrolysis process to produce renewable oil from biomass ( earlier post ), has signed an offtake agreement with Hunt Refining Company, which has agreed to purchase renewable gasoline and diesel blendstocks and fuel oil produced at KiOR’s first commercial facility to be located in Columbus, MS.

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Renewable Companies Columbus Fuel 186

Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2011

While compressed natural gas (CNG) will play a role, particularly for high-mileage fleets, the report suggests that the chemical conversion of gas into some form of liquid fuel may be the best pathway to significant market penetration. MIT: leaning toward conversion for light-duty vehicles. million bpd of oil.

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MIT Gas Transportation Future 299

Blink Charging

APRIL 4, 2023

Limited time to claim tax credits for EV fleets There are currently numerous incentives to purchase EVs and EV charging equipment. For example, the federal government’s Clean Vehicle Credit (CVC) for purchasing two-wheeled EVs expired at the beginning of 2022. Take oil changes alone. Ready to get started?

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Fleet Tax Credit Vehicles Tax 92

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2017

These new catalytic conversion strategies are focused on making ATJ blends that include additional hydrocarbon products—such as aromatic content—to allow for greater blending volumes of the AJF product. Earlier post.). ChemCatBio, a consortium within the US Department of Energy, awarded funding to LANL in support of the project.

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Fuel Oil Prices Oil Emissions 170

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2013

has purchased 35 Class 8 Volvo trucks that operate on compressed natural gas (CNG). The conversion to natural gas will reduce the fleet’s annual oil consumption by more than 1 million gallons and result in 1,300 fewer tons of greenhouse gas emissions. SUPERVALU INC.

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Fleet Gas West Virginia Virginia 261

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2015

In addition, APG purchased substantially all of Trident’s operating assets including two existing mobile NGL operating systems currently servicing remote or stranded well-sites for one of the top five E&P companies in the Bakken region.

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Gas Fuel North America North Dakota 150

Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2015

Flagship Ventures is investing in Red Rock Biofuels, which is commercializing a Fischer-Tropsch-based process for the conversion of woody biomass into renewable, drop-in diesel and jet fuels. Also in 2014, Southwest Airlines agreed to purchase approximately 3 million gallons per year of Red Rock’s low carbon, renewable jet fuel.

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Renewable Convert Diesel Commercial 150

Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2012

National Electric Vehicle Sweden AB (NEVS)—an international consortium formed by Chinese, Japanese and Swedish stakeholders—and the Receivers of the Saab Automobile bankruptcy estate ( earlier post) signed a purchase agreement covering the main assets of Saab Automobile AB, Saab Automobile Powertrain AB and Saab Automobile Tools AB.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2013

Currently, almost half of China’s oil consumption is imported, and with the projection that demand for fossil fuel oil will reach 250 million tons by 2030, it is crucial for the country to consider biomass alternatives as part of their renewable energy plan. —Littlewood et al.

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Gasoline China Tax London 351

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2009

The agreement further provides a subsidiary of Valero the right to purchase up to 25% of Mission at A$0.45 Subject to favorable economics, as Mission’s available stock of Jatropha matures to scale Mission will supply Valero with palm oil based biodiesel. The first tranche of 81.41 The first tranche of 81.41

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Supplies Malaysia Mauritius India 230

Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2019

ReactWell , LLC, has licensed a novel waste-to-fuel technology from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory to improve energy conversion methods for cleaner, more efficient oil and gas, chemical and bioenergy production. It can be used by refineries to upgrade their feedstock or to convert biomass to oil.

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Conversion CO2 Carbon Convert 311

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2009

The first conversion of the partnership is already underway, a MY 2002 CNG Chevrolet HD 2500 provided by Denver International Airport. HHS has also purchased a totaled 2008 Chevy Silverado HD 2500 that will serve as a demonstration vehicle. Tags: Conversions Fleets Hydraulic Hybrid. HHS system on the test stand.

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Fleet Hybrid Market Denver 252

Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2012

The combined science team from Cobalt and the NAWCWD focused on scaling and optimizing the dehydration chemistry for the conversion of bio n-butanol to 1-butene, followed by oligomerization of the bio-butene into jet fuel, based on the process developed at NAWCWD in China Lake, CA. Earlier post.). Alcohol to Jet. Wright, Benjamin G.

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Renewable Fuel Conversion Hydrogen 236

Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2013

Feebates,” rebates to purchasers of high-fuel-economy vehicles balanced by a tax on low-mpg vehicles is a complementary policy that would assist manufacturers in selling the more-efficient vehicles produced to meet fuel economy standards.

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Hydrogen Oil Plug-in Fuel Economy 244

Green Car Congress

MARCH 29, 2017

Bio-based jet fuels also present a tremendous opportunity to transition away from fossil fuels towards domestically produced aviation biofuel that would further reduce US reliance on foreign oil and create jobs, BETO notes. Biorefineries and airlines have demonstrated significant interest by signing long-term purchase agreements.

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Commercial Fuel United States Conversion 150

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2010

Gevo’s technology platform is high yielding, approaching 94% of the theoretically possible conversion of plant sugars to isobutanol, according to the filing. The straightforward conversion of isobutanol into butenes is a fundamentally important process that enables isobutanol to be used as a building block chemical in multiple markets.

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Renewable Fuel Companies Polymer 252

Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2011

The ATJ task force consists of technical experts from a wide stakeholder group including jet engine manufacturers, governmental bodies, fuel manufacturers, third-party testing laboratories, academics and airframe manufacturers investigating the requirements for a third major pathway to renewable drop-in jet fuel: the conversion of alcohols.

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Renewable Engine Fuel Conversion 285

Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2012

The concept design is ready for the owners’ preferred choice, whether that it is to run on heavy fuel oil using emission treatment systems or to switch to low sulphur fuels or LNG. tonnes (about 4,700 gallons US heavy fuel oil), and daily fuel consumption at 10 kn slow-steaming of 6.4 —Hu Jin-Tao, the president of SDARI.

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2020 Design Concept Fuel 294

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2011

Yet today, low consumer familiarity and understanding of alternative fuel vehicles - including both electric only and gasoline-electric hybrids - has a cooling effect on their purchase intent. While OEMs have been focusing on familiarity, increasing consumer knowledge will enable higher sales conversions to new drive-train technologies.

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Alternative Fuels Fuel Gasoline-Electric Volt 218

Porsche 914 EV Conversion

OCTOBER 12, 2006

After seeing the movie Who Killed The Electric Car , I got the nutty idea earlier this year to purchase an all-electric vehicle to commute to work. The motivation was to see if I could get by with as little oil products as possible. A lot has happened over the past few months and I hope to post all that info here for your perusal.

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2007 NMG Kits Oregon 100

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

The nonpartisan US Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that federal policies to promote the manufacture and purchase of electric vehicles, some of which also support other types of fuel-efficient vehicles, will have a total budgetary cost of about $7.5 —“Effects of Federal Tax Credits for the Purchase of. Source: CBO.

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Tax Credit Gasoline Tax Gasoline-Electric 252

Plugs and Cars

APRIL 3, 2012

Gas prices are at historically high levels, and have become a political football, but haven’t led to a surge in EV purchases. Politicians hoping to exploit the moment spread the notion that American gasoline could flow bountifully, cheaply and forever were the boot heel of big government taken off the neck of poor oil companies.

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Karma Bright Automotive Fisker Tax Credit 100

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2011

However, consumers’ willingness to purchase flex-fuel vehicles and use E85 instead of lower blends of ethanol in their vehicles will likely depend on the price of ethanol and their attitude toward biofuels. Such land conversion may disrupt any future potential for storing carbon in biomass and soil. Economic effects.

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Renewable Tax Credit Conversion Standards 252

Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2011

Increased use of alternative fuel vehicles holds the potential to help reduce our dependence on foreign oil, support the expansion of private-sector businesses and create new jobs here in the Commonwealth. It is important that we pursue all practicable and cost-effective options to promote the use of alternative fuel vehicles.

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Alternative Fuels Virginia Gas-Electric Fuel 236

Electric Auto Association

AUGUST 2, 2022

It’s quite an exciting time here,” said VEVA President Harry Constantine, pointing out that British Columbia has the highest rate of electric vehicle (EV) purchase in Canada at 17% of all new vehicles, and that the chapter’s success is reflected in this number. Cross-border similarities Like so many of the veteran EVA chapters in the U.S.,

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Canada DIY Gas-Electric All-Electric 40

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Stationary Fuel Cells and Hybrid Transit Buses Incremental Costs: The purchase of diesel-electric hybrid transit buses and stationary fuel cells for use in the statewide bus system in Connecticut. Statewide Paratransit Bus Hybrid Program: Purchase 31 paratransit hybrid buses to replace 31 gas and diesel vehicles.

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Emissions Gas Energy Maintenance 256

Clean Fleet Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

In our First Timer series we speak with people who purchased their first electric, plug-in hybrid electric or hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicle. His shopping and purchasing story is modern and progressive, and will become a common experience. CFR: How was the purchase process. His first electric looks as fast as it is.

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Ford Dealers All-Electric Purchase 88

My Electric Car

AUGUST 21, 2020

Every time there is a conversion of energy from one form to another there are efficiency losses – a concept known as ‘energy vector transition’. In essence this mandates a complete billion dollar replication of the oil industry’s distribution network. Again, the hydrogen pathway represents a stupid energy pathway.

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Hydrogen Petrol Gas-Electric Lithium Ion 52

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2009

The oil price shocks of the 1970s led the Brazilian government to address the strain high prices were placing on its fragile economy. Brazil, the largest and most populous country in South America, was importing 80% of its oil and 40% of its foreign exchange was used to pay for that imported oil.

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