Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2020

ABC Companies, a leading provider to the motorcoach, transit and specialty passenger transportation market in the United States and Canada, will soon be the first to offer a motorcoach-diesel-to-electric-repower program for North American operators. —Roman Cornell.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The company proposed converting temporary workers to permanent positions within at least three months of continuous employment. It also provides allowances for traditional cost-of-living and reduces the time to earn a top wage by half. The legacy automaker offered to raise the pay of most full-time workers by over 20%.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2019

will use Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) and machine learning to rapidly improve catalysts which are imperative to the efficiency and economy of the United States by making energy production, manufacturing and transportation more efficient and eco-friendly. Awards include: Accustrata Inc. TDA Research Inc.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2020

The backhoe loader is perfectly suited for electrification as the varied use cycles, from heavy to light work, provide an excellent opportunity to convert wasted diesel engine hours into zero consumption battery time—yet provide the operator with instantaneous torque response when needed. and Moog Inc.,

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Teslarati

MARCH 21, 2023

Municipal fleets throughout the United States are electrifying to reduce costs and their carbon footprints. Furthermore, thanks to the low upfront cost of the Chevy Bolt compared to other EVs, its fuel savings will become evident quickly following the purchase.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2022

CdTe solar cells were first developed in the United States and are the second-most common photovoltaic technology in the world after silicon. efficiency in converting sunlight into electricity. The thin-film technology can be made more cheaply than silicon solar panels and has been shown to have a 22.1%

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Teslarati

MARCH 23, 2023

Hence, the price of EVs has become intertwined with the cost of lithium , which has slowly become cheaper thanks to massive investments worldwide. Meanwhile, in North and Central America, corporations and governments alike have doubled down on lithium investments, especially as the United States looks to decouple itself from Chinese supply.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2013

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected four research and development projects designed to bring next-generation biofuels on line faster and to drive down the cost of producing gasoline, diesel, and jet fuels from biomass. The projects represent up to a combined $13-million Energy Department investment.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Chicago will be Smith’s third location in the United States, joining the headquarters in Kansas City, Mo., The Chicago Department of Transportation (CDOT) announced a $15-million incentive program that will encourage companies and individuals to modernize their fleets and convert to electric vehicles.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

How much does a tech professional in the United States earn? This apparent increase turns into a nearly $3500 dip, however, when converted to real dollars [See chart, below.] These numbers were not adjusted for regional costs of living, however. In 2021, the median income of U.S.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 25, 2022

CEO Mary Barra announced the plans to add 4,000 new jobs to the State through EV updates to its factories. Additionally, it will build a new battery factory and convert an existing factory into a hub for manufacturing its electric pickup trucks. GM could control the costs of its batteries by manufacturing them.

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Cars That Think

MAY 31, 2024

Nearly 400 exhibitors representing the boldest energy innovations in the United States came together last week at the annual ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit. The rare earth oxide then undergoes a molten-salt electrolysis process that converts it into a solid metal form. The conference, hosted in Dallas by the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Global Bioenergies is now entering the final phase of demonstrating its technology for converting renewable carbon into hydrocarbons. It can also be converted into isododecane, a compound found in jet fuel. Earlier post.). Global Bioenergies is partnering with Audi, earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2013

In addition to the environmental benefits, the new CNG fleet and fast-fill station is expected to reduce SUPERVALU’s operating costs given the lower cost of compressed natural gas. Utilizing Trillium’s high-performance fast-fill hydraulic intensifier, the new station can fuel trucks at a rate of 8-to-10 gallons per minute.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Although the pyrolysis vapors contain carbon that can be condensed into an oil, impurities in that condensed oil make it not suitable to be used in an engine or even readily converted into a fuel. —Mark Nimlos. The DOE has set a 2017 goal of producing hydrocarbon fuels from biomass for about $3 per gallon.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

The project also entails the addition of up to three boilers; construction of process unit upgrades and/ or modifications; repurposing of existing tankage; and relocation and modernization of existing Liquefied Propane Gas (LPG) truck rack and upgrades to the sales rack. Alon USA Energy, Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2011

The company’s current fatty acid methyl ester (FAME) product has achieved the key parameters of B100 (100% biodiesel): ASTM 6751 (United States), EN 14214 (European Union), and ANP 7 (Brazil) standards. We want to offer more renewable and alternative fuels to our clients in Brazil and in other Latin American countries.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2016

“Project Development for Pilot and Demonstration Scale Manufacturing of Biofuels, Bioproducts, and Biopower” is a funding opportunity that will support efforts to improve and demonstrate processes that break down complex biomass feedstocks and convert them to gasoline, diesel and jet fuel, as well as plastics and chemicals.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2013

Additionally, we need to find the best enzyme mixture to convert that cellulose into sugar. We have discovered a fungus from the digestive tract of a horse that addresses both issues—it thrives on lignin-rich plants and converts these materials into sugars for the animal. —Michelle A.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2023

Heliostats are mirrors that track the sun in order to reflect highly concentrated sunlight to a receiver, where it can be stored as heat for long-duration energy storage and converted into electricity. The Heliostat Prize builds on the DOE roadmap to expand production and deployment of heliostats in the United States.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2011

High oil prices, a global economic rebound, and new laws and mandates in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, China, and the United States, among other countries, are all factors behind the surge in production, according to research conducted by the Worldwatch Institute’s Climate and Energy Program for the website Vital Signs Online.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2019

Locally CO 2 -neutral trucks and buses won’t sell themselves, because even in 2040—despite all efforts by manufacturers—the acquisition and total cost of ownership of trucks and buses with electric drives will be still higher than for diesel vehicles. The first hand-off to a customer was in 2018.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2016

There are 110 domestic fluid catalytic cracking units currently operating in the United States. This product can then be further finished into a conventional fuel blendstock at a petroleum refinery, where existing infrastructure can be leveraged to reduce the overall cost of upgrading.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 20, 2010

AC Propulsion and AutoPort , an automotive conversion, restyling and processing company, will partner in engineering, development and conversion to provide an Electric Vehicle conversion prototype and report for the United States Postal Service. AutoPort will convert the vehicle on-site at its facilities in New Castle, Delaware.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

The goal of the FOA is to enable technologies that can produce bio-ACN at a modeled cost of $1.00/pound However, the cost of production for bio-ACN is expected to exceed that of conventional ACN in the near term as the technologies necessary for the conversion process have only recently been shown under laboratory settings.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The apparent urgency of the transition leads to calls for confronting the challenge just as the United States dealt with two earlier ones: winning the nuclear-arms race against Nazi Germany and the space race against the Soviet Union. The Manhattan Project produced an atomic bomb in three years, and Project Apollo put two U.S.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2012

Key to the cost-effectiveness of ATJ is reducing the production cost of the alcohol, as well as of the ATJ process itself. Byogy has developed a patent-pending catalytic four-step process that efficiently and cost-effectively converts any ethanol directly to renewable jet fuel. petroleum-based products continues to climb.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2016

The projects selected include the following: Arizona State University. This project will engineer cyanobacteria for the production of ethyl laurate, which is easily converted to “drop-in” ready biofuels or bioproducts. The potential for this exciting project could reach five times the current algal production rates. Duke University.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2016

Through aggregated analysis of waste heat data from the literature, ARPA-E found that approximately 85% of work potential from waste heat sources across all sectors in the United States comes from waste heat sources at or below 400 °C. Thus, ARPA-E is keenly interested in waste heat conversion in this temperature range.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2017

Researchers at Rutgers University-New Brunswick and Michigan State University have devised a way to reduce the amount of enzymes needed to convert biomass into biofuels by designing and genetically engineering enzyme surfaces so they bind less to the lignin in biomass. This potentially could reduce enzyme costs in biofuels production.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2009

Allison, headquartered in Indianapolis, announced earlier this month that it had entered into a long-term business agreement with Delphi to advance the production of medium-duty hybrid trucks in the United States. million to advance the development of low-cost manufacturing of electric drive vehicles (EDV) in the United States.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2013

Eligible companies could convert to a commercial lease after satisfying the conditions of the RD&D lease and meeting basic due diligence requirements and clean air and water requirements. Unlike the oil sands deposits in Canada, oil is not currently produced from oil sands on a commercial scale in the United States.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2011

In the absence of major technological innovations or policy changes, the United States is unlikely to meet cellulosic biofuel mandates under the current Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS2) by 2022, according to a new report from the National Research Council.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2016

The team had earlier altered sugarcane metabolism to convert sugars into lipids, or oils, which could be used to produce biodiesel. The analysis showed that oil cane with 20 percent oil in the stem, grown on under-utilized acres in the southeastern United States, could replace more than two-thirds of the country’s use of diesel and jet fuel.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2009

ARPA-E is seeking new ways to make liquid transportation fuels—without using petroleum or biomass—by using microorganisms to harness chemical or electrical energy to convert carbon dioxide into liquid fuels. Coal-fired power plants currently generate approximately 50% of the electricity in the United States.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2011

Most of the company’s battery packs are sold in the United States of America and Europe. The non geared, net present value (NPV) of the project at a discount rate of 10% is estimated at A$187 million, with a project capital cost of around A$134 million. The internal rate of return (IRR) is around 29%. Mining at Mt.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2011

LanzaTech has received a US$3-million contract from the United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), through the Department of Transportation’s John A. Key to the cost-effectiveness of ATJ is reducing the production cost of the alcohol, as well as of the ATJ process itself. Different pathways to jet fuel.

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