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JULY 8, 2011

General Motors’ efforts to eliminate the shipment of plant waste to landfills is spreading to its non-manufacturing sites, 10 of which now reuse, recycle or convert to energy all waste from normal operations. Manufacturing is at the company’s core, so converting plants produces the largest environmental benefits.

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MAY 6, 2021

These include renewable domestic biomass, such as forestry and agricultural waste, which can be combined with petroleum-based fuels to improve vehicles’ carbon footprint and engine performance. Visolis and PNNL are converting Visolis’ bioderived intermediate into a high-energy-density blendstock for use in gasoline engines.

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DECEMBER 3, 2013

After four years of effort, including seven attempts to recycle an oily filter sludge generated from a machining operation, a 75-year-old General Motors manufacturing facility in Rochester, N.Y. The plant and its nearly 1,100 employees now reuse, recycle or convert to energy all waste from daily operations.

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OCTOBER 17, 2014

Eleven more General Motors facilities have achieved landfill-free status. The running total is 122 manufacturing and non-manufacturing operations spanning Asia, Europe, and South and North America that recycle, reuse or convert to energy all waste from daily operations. Colmotores Assembly (Colombia).

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OCTOBER 20, 2022

The demonstration plant will produce NMC811 generating zero waste and 70% less greenhouse gases by using only 10% of the water and 30% of the energy versus traditional battery material production methods. Microvast and General Motors will combine complimentary intellectual properties to create a specialized separator.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Concept diagram of an SMA heat engine for power generation from waste engine heat. As one of 37 projects selected by the US Department of Energy’s ARPA-E (earlier post), General Motors R&D will receive $2.7 Tags: ARPA-E Materials Waste Heat Recovery. Source: GM. Click to enlarge.

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OCTOBER 19, 2022

The demonstration plant will produce NMC811 generating zero waste and 70% less greenhouse gases by using only 10% of the water and 30% of the energy versus traditional battery material production methods. Microvast and General Motors will combine complimentary intellectual properties to create a specialized separator.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2010

General Motors said that 52% of its worldwide facilities are now landfill-free; i.e., all waste generated from normal operations is reused, recycled or converted to energy. GM employees focus first on decreasing the amount of waste generated, and then work to recycle the unavoidable waste.

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Baua Electric

MAY 29, 2024

An alternative to electrolysis is to use organic waste by extracting hydrogen from rotting food or sewage. It’s also a stretch to expect traditional US car companies such as General Motors Co. or Ford Motor Co. By the end of 2024 Hyundai it expects to have another plant convert sewage into hydrogen. Tesla Inc.’s

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JULY 17, 2020

General Motors LLC. Slashing Platinum Group Metals Content in Catalytic Converters: An Atoms-to-Autos Approach. Ford Motor Company. General Motors LLC. Municipality of Anchorage Department of Solid Waste Services. Pilot Heavy-Duty Electric Vehicle Deployment for Municipal Solid Waste Collection.

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MAY 13, 2010

One of GM’s innovations involves the creation of a shape memory alloy (SMA) heat engine for power generation from waste engine heat. More than half of the 1,300 patents filed by General Motors Co. Source: GM. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.)

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APRIL 14, 2016

General Motors is turning its employees’ recycled water bottles into a noise-reducing fabric insulation that covers the Chevrolet Equinox engine. Given its drive to zero waste, all of GM’s global facilities recycle their water bottles. washes the bottles and converts them to flake. Clean Tech Inc. Unifi, Inc.

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DECEMBER 20, 2010

General Motors has developed a method to convert an estimated 100 miles of the oil-laden plastic boom material used to soak up oil from the BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico earlier this year into parts for the Chevy Volt. Click to enlarge.

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JANUARY 12, 2010

Converting biomass to renewable fuels via a pyrolysis pathway. The US Department of Energy has selected UOP, a Honeywell company, for negotiation of a $25 million award to build a demonstration unit in Hawaii to convert cellulosic biomass into renewable hydrocarbon transportation fuels. Source: UOP. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).

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JULY 12, 2013

Describing its product goals and tracking progress toward its 2020 manufacturing priorities in its 2012 Sustainability Report , General Motors reaffirmed its commitment to further reduce the energy used and the environmental impacts of building and operating an automobile. Fuel Efficiency Lifecycle analysis Manufacturing'

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JULY 29, 2015

Bio-based feedstocks from fats, plant oils and waste residues are converted to renewable diesel using advanced refining technologies. Neste produces NEXBTL renewable diesel from a variety of feedstocks including more than half from waste and residues. The companies making pledges as part of today’s launch represent more than $1.3

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Green Cars News

DECEMBER 14, 2010

Though many car manufacturers are focusing their efforts on producing greener vehicles, General Motors has gone one step further in its environmental push. In fact, GM [.].

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AUGUST 10, 2011

Advanced power electronics and electric motor technology : Four projects awarded to develop the next generation of power inverters and electric motors to meet demanding performance targets while achieving significant cost reductions. Advanced power electronics and electric motor (PEEM) technology. General Motors LLC.

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JUNE 12, 2012

This system will use waste heat to treat a wide variety of waste streams at manufacturing facilities. process will reuse more than 50% of the facilities’ wastewater, decrease wastewater discharge, and recover significant amounts of industrial waste. Bioelectrochemical Integration of Waste Heat. Difficult Materials.

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AUGUST 30, 2011

Project: Development of a Multi-Chamber Catalytic Converter. Concern over pollutants in vehicle exhaust has led to the development of the catalytic converter, which is a key component of exhaust gas mitigation systems. These university-industry partnerships will receive more than C$16 million (US$16.4 million) in total project support.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

streamline the process by which green plants convert carbon. production of oil, which is stored in seeds and is convertible to. wasted energy in plants into energy-dense fuel molecules. plants, and it is a liquid that can be extracted readily, separated, and converted into biodiesel fuel. The team will. field trials.

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OCTOBER 15, 2009

It first gasifies the feedstock to syngas (CO and H 2 ), then uses proprietary microorganisms—licensed from Oklahoma State University and the University of Oklahoma—to convert simultaneously both CO and H 2 into ethanol. Scale up lots of times makes things better—there is more residence time to convert the gas into ethanol.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Waste Heat Capture (2 projects). Eagle Picher, in partnership with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, will develop a new generation of high energy, low cost planar liquid sodium beta batteries for grid scale electrical power storage applications. Biomass Energy (5 projects). Carbon Capture (5 projects). Water (1 project).

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Lightweight Thermal Energy Recovery System: A grant of $2,655,174 will help General Motors to develop a shape memory alloy energy recovery system that converts waste heat from car engines to electricity. They have received a grant of $4,462,162.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2013

The new Cascada mid-size convertible is the first Opel model available with the new engine. A lightweight, aluminum fuel pump with a suction control valve allows delivery of the exact amount of fuel requested, avoiding energy waste that is normally necessary in regulating fuel pressure. VGT and waste-gate.

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JUNE 25, 2015

turbocharged direct injection engine (for North America) helps enable a General Motors-estimated 40 mpg (5.88 The crankshaft-driven oil pump matches the oil supply to the engine load, changing its capacity based on the engine’s demand for oil—eliminating energy wasted to pump oil that is not required for proper engine operation.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

And were gratified that General Motors recognizes this study as validation of its decision to evolve to the electrification of transportation. In some areas where wind and hydropower is wasted at night, the rate can be as low as 2-3 cents per kWh. Three more points: Both reports match up well with previous studies.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 20, 2009

Automakers agree on common plug to recharge electric vehicles by Darren Murph , posted Apr 19th 2009 at 4:24PM Just hours after General Motors put forth a proposal for a standardized plug for electric vehicles , in flies this. Nuclear waste is a problem much harder to solve than CO2, and dams have quite an impact in the environment.

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