Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2023

The all-electric MINI Cooper SE Convertible ( earlier post ) celebrates its world premiere at Auto Shanghai, 18 to 27 April at the China Expo Convention and Exhibition Complex, Shanghai. The MINI Cooper SE Convertible (power consumption combined: 17.2

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Green Car Reports

JULY 11, 2024

Polestar's Concept BST contemplates a spicy 6 electric convertible The 6's still on the docket for 2026 Polestar CEO Thomas Ingenlath says more BST editions are coming While the Polestar 3 SUV swings for efficient performance and the Polestar 4 swings for body-style-curious buyers, the upcoming Polestar 6 might be swinging at Tesla.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Rock Tech Lithium intends to build Europe’s first lithium converter—a production plant for battery-grade lithium hydroxide—in Guben, Brandenburg, Germany. The converter is scheduled to start operations in 2024. The company intends to locate all production steps of lithium refining in one overall plant at the Guben site.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 16, 2024

The Maserati GranTurismo Folgore is getting a convertible sibling that will create a new EV market niche in the U.S. in the fourth quarter, as a 2025 model, with a price tag of more than $200,000 that will likely make it the first true luxury electric convertible.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2022

This work will see Twelve converting CO 2 to CO, which will in turn be converted by LanzaTech’s proprietary microbe to isopropyl alcohol (IPA). This approach is highly scalable and could ultimately produce ethanol at an industrial scale, while simultaneously eliminating CO 2 emissions.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2022

Power management company Eaton introduced a family of 48-volt DC-DC converters for diesel-powered commercial vehicles that can be used to power accessories such as antilock brakes and lighting. Unlike competitive offerings, Eaton’s DC-DC converters are operational in ambient temperatures up to 85 ?C C and boast 97% design efficiency.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2023

The new system mimics a natural chloroplast to convert carbon dioxide in water into methane, very efficiently using light. However, it is difficult to convert carbon dioxide in water because many photosensitizers or catalysts degrade in water. A paper on this team’s latest work was published in Nature Catalysis.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

As part of the event launch, Nissan unveiled a physical concept model of its Max-Out EV convertible. Nissan Motor will hold Nissan Futures at its Global Headquarters Gallery from 4 February to 1 March. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2023

Technology group Wärtsilä has been contracted by Swedish ferry operator Stena Line to carry out and convert some of its vessels to operate with methanol fuel. The conversions will include the fuel supply system and engine modifications, as well as integrating the new installations with the ships’ existing systems.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2022

The Abfallentsorgungs-Gesellschaft Ruhrgebiet mbH ( AGR ), a waste management company in Herten, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, has put a converted DAF CF 340 hydrogen fuel cell truck into operation as part of the EU-funded HECTOR (Hydrogen Waste Collection Vehicles in North West Europe) project.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 31, 2020

A retired ScotRail Class 314 electric set has been transported by road from its depot in Glasgow to the Bo’ness & Kinneil Railway where it will be converted to hydrogen-powered—a cleaner, greener alternative to diesel for non-electrified routes.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2021

Washington State University researchers have developed an innovative way to convert waste polyethylene plastic to ingredients for jet fuel and other valuable products, making it easier and more cost-effective to reuse plastics. —Jia et al. For the process, the researchers used a ruthenium on carbon catalyst and a commonly used solvent.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Researchers at the University of Oxford have developed a method to convert CO 2 directly into aviation fuel using a novel, inexpensive iron-based catalyst. These are important raw materials for the petrochemical industry and are presently also only obtained from fossil crude oil.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2023

Researchers from University of Girona (Spain) successfully used electrically efficient microbial electrosynthesis cells (MES) to convert CO 2 to butyric acid. In an open-access paper published in the journal Environmental Science and Ecotechnology , they reported operating the low ohmic resistance (15.7

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

The new MINI Cooper SE Convertible (combined power consumption: 17.2kWh/100 km according to WLTP) ( earlier post ) will be the first series model to be produced with alloy wheels that are made entirely from recycled aluminum. The alloy wheels on the MINI Cooper SE Convertible can also be fully recycled at the end of their lifecycle.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Hydra Energy, the Hydrogen-as-a-Service (HaaS) provider for commercial fleets looking to reduce emissions and costs with limited risk and no up-front investment ( earlier post ), has delivered its first hydrogen-converted, heavy-duty truck to paying fleet customer Lodgewood Enterprises. And we've lowered our fuel costs in the process.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

To help France meet its sustainability targets, Bombardier will now convert AGC hybrid trains to full battery power. The idea is to convert dual-mode (catenary and diesel-powered) high capacity self-propelled trains to dual-mode battery-powered AGCs.

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InsideEVs

JULY 22, 2024

The flagship electric convertible has door pockets and charging mats made out of mycelium.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2021

Power management company Eaton’s eMobility business has been awarded a contract to supply a 24-to-12-volt DC-DC converter for use in a commercial heavy-duty battery electric vehicle (BEV) that will power accessories, such as antilock brakes and lighting. That capability makes the converter unique among product offerings in this space.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The boron compounds can efficiently target atmospheric nitrogen and convert it to ammonium chloride after the addition of an acid. The resulting substances converted molecular nitrogen at room temperature to borylamines, which in turn reacted with aqueous acid to give ammonium chloride.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2023

kW, 600VDC to 24VDC liquid-cooled converter with Silicon Carbide Solid-State Switching (SiC) for ZEV and hybrid vehicles. This technology builds on the 300 ampere 600VDC to 24VDC air-cooled converter. There is an increasing need for more accessory electrification, extended vehicle range, and the need for a reduction in converter size.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have developed a new method to convert captured CO 2 into methane, the primary component of natural gas. Different methods for converting CO 2 into methane have long been known.

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The Truth About Cars

JULY 16, 2024

Today, we have a "topless snake" -- a heavily modified 2001 Ford Mustang Cobra convertible. Old-school journalists might know the term "headless snake" -- meaning when a person gets referred to in a story and an editing/writing error leaves off their first name. The suspension is the target of most of the mods.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2021

announced the completion of a facility in Tokyo that will convert sewage sludge into renewable hydrogen fuel for fuel cell mobility and power generation. A new facility in Tokyo that will convert sewage sludge into renewable hydrogen gas for fuel-cell vehicles is nearing completion. Renewable hydrogen systems manufacturer Ways2H Inc.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2020

Vitesco Technologies, formerly (until September 2019) the Continental Powertrain Division, has won a major contract from an European vehicle manufacturer for the supply of innovative electric heating elements for diesel catalytic converters. —Rolf Brück, head of Catalytic Converters and Filters at Vitesco Technologies.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 29, 2024

BYD plans to convert a former Ford plant into an electric vehicle (EV) facility in Brazil. The converted BYD EV plant is located in Camaçari, Bahia. The Asian car manufacturer isn’t wasting any time on converting the facility. The post BYD to convert former Ford plant into EV facility appeared first on TESLARATI.

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Electrek

JANUARY 25, 2024

For the first time in the company’s 40-year history, Liebherr have converted one of their R 9400 excavators from a conventional diesel to an electric powertrain.

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Baua Electric

JULY 22, 2024

Cadillac has unveiled today a new all-electric 2+2 convertible concept called the Sollei. It’s a rare electric convertible, but it doesn’t mean it will ever see the light of day anyway. There are currently very few convertible electric vehicles. Cadillac, which is going all-electric, is now exploring an electric convertible.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have demonstrated a new technique, modeled after a metabolic process found in some bacteria, for converting CO 2 into liquid acetate, a key ingredient in “liquid sunlight” or solar fuels produced through artificial photosynthesis.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 20, 2023

Where are the electric convertibles? Such weather inspires many to enviously ply the auto market, pondering the possibility of a convertible. It’s time for summer cruises and drive-in movies, segueing into the time when crisp autumn air and colorful leafy backroads beckon. Could that open-air delight be an EV?

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2021

The technology group Wärtsilä and Norwegian ship owner Eidesvik Offshore ASA have signed a cooperation agreement aimed at converting an offshore supply vessel (OSV) to operate with an ammonia-fueled combustion engine with required fuel supply and safety system.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2020

Researchers at the University of Southampton have transformed optical fibers into photocatalytic microreactors that convert water into hydrogen fuel using solar energy.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

There are few electric convertibles of any brand or price range, but Genesis hinted that it may join this small group with a new concept car unveiled this week in Malibu California.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Transform Materials has developed a novel and sustainable microwave plasma reactor process to convert natural gas into high-value hydrogen and acetylene, thereby opening up a new pathway for green chemical manufacturing. Acetylene can be then converted into many derivative chemicals, all possessing high value.

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Baua Electric

JULY 22, 2024

Might an electric convertible be in Cadillac’s future? The big drop-top has been inspired by Cadillac convertibles of the 1950s, though instead of tall fins the body adopts a sleek design that shares many of its lines with the current Celestiq flagship hatch.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 31, 2019

Celeroton is expanding its portfolio of fuel cell converters. With the launch of the improved power electronics converter, CC-550-7500 , operating compressors up to 7.5 kW of drive power (at 300 VDC converter input) is now possible for fuel cell stacks of up to 75 kW. inches) remain the same.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JULY 11, 2024

continued] The post Biden-Harris Administration Announces Nearly $2 Billion to Support American Auto Workers, Convert Facilities for Electric Vehicles appeared first on CleanTechnica. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced.

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