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Karma Automotive’s flagship store now accepts Bitcoin as form of payment

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Karma Automotive, the Southern California-based creator of luxury electric vehicles and high-tech incubator, is using its flagship company-owned store in Newport Beach, Calif., We are opening our platform to serve as a test bed to help convert theoretical blockchain applications to practical use. —Karma CEO Dr. Lance Zhou.

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Rolls-Royce mtu Kinetic PowerPack approved for renewable diesel

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For HVO, waste vegetable and animal fats and used vegetable oils can be used as base materials, which are converted into hydrocarbons by means of a catalytic reaction with the addition of hydrogen. Part of the energy stored in the flywheel is used to drive the generator that begins producing electrical power.

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US Refiner Converting Fleet to Hybrids and Diesels

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has launched a new initiative to convert its 170-vehicle fleet to hybrid and clean diesel vehicles. Vehicles at the event were provided by Boardwalk Volkswagen, Sam Pack’s Five Star Ford and Sewell GMC. Alon markets gasoline and diesel products under the FINA brand name and is a leading producer of asphalt. Alon USA Energy, Inc.,

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Renewable hydrogen fuel being studied for the Port of Seattle

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The team is also exploring the concept’s scalability if future demand for hydrogen increases, including the potential to use the energy stored as hydrogen to power cruise or cargo ships while they’re being loaded and unloaded. Unlike coal and oil, hydrogen can be used to store renewable energy in a simple, sustainable cycle.

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Toyota Rumored to Debut Performance Automatic Transmission for GR Models Next Month

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Meanwhile, Americans want to know when it will be adapted for the GR Corolla and prospective performance products Toyota may actually sell in the United States. Production is supposed to commence at roughly the same time. That event kicks off on January 12th, so we won’t have to wait long to find out if the above predictions are true.

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Study: Energy sorghum may combine best of annual, perennial bioenergy crops

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The open-access study, published in Global Change Biology Bioenergy , offers a first look at how energy sorghum compares to maize and miscanthus grown in the Midwest, providing data for biogeochemical and ecological models used to forecast crop growth, productivity, and sustainability. Energy sorghum falls somewhere in between.

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A wood-burning EV charger? – Charged EVs

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Then, it converts the residual heat energy into electric energy and stores it in a connected Battery Storage Module. The accompanying charging mechanism allows the stored energy to be used for off-grid EV and machinery charging. The three companies will host a demonstration event for the BioCharger in early 2024.