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Is It Economical to Convert ICE Car to Electric Car Using Conversion Kit

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converting existing internal combustion engine (ICE) cars into electric vehicles using conversion kits. Long-term Financial Benefits Compared to ICE cars, EVs require less maintenance. You may make use of electric power without buying a new automobile by converting your current vehicle to an electric one.

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Leclanché and Medha partner on high-energy battery packs for railroad and commercial vehicle markets

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The partnership agreement allows for Leclanché to provide its Li-ion battery pack solutions, including but not limited to its INT-53 and INT-39 high energy battery packs, to Medha for a wide range of projects including auxiliary and maintenance railway vehicles as well as passenger trains. Its ECE R100.2

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Clean Energy Fuels delivered 143M gallons of Redeem renewable natural gas in 2019, up 30% year-on-year

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The contract also includes continued operation and maintenance for the length of the agreement. Fox Rent A Car has renewed a fuel contract for approximately 210,000 gallons of Redeem over three years to power its 17 CNG rental car shuttles at Los Angeles International Airport and McCarren Airport in Las Vegas. Homewood Disposal Inc.,

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Sustainable Rail International, U of Minnesota partner to develop most powerful carbon-neutral locomotive, using new steam engine and biocoal

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CSR will completely rebuild and modernize the locomotive, doubling its thermal efficiency, converting it to burn biocoal, replacing all existing link motion with roller-bearing rods, rebalancing the driving wheels and more.

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SWISS equips entire Boeing 777-300ER fleet with AeroSHARK riblet films

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Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS) is the first passenger airline worldwide to use the innovative surface technology to reduce significantly fuel consumption and emissions of one of its existing fleets, thereby improving both economy and ecology. As a result, less fuel is needed overall. Johannes Bussmann, CEO of Lufthansa Technik.

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DOE awarding $35M to 11 projects for hydrokinetic turbine development; ARPA-E SHARKS

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Projects are encouraged to apply concurrent (as opposed to sequential) design methodologies: control co-design, co-design, and designing for operation and maintenance. HydroMINE is a disruptive and elegantly simple system with an internal propeller driven by pressure from a stationary hydrofoil structure to a separate, internal flow stream.

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TerraStar Energy to license Emerging Fuels Technology’s Fischer-Tropsch and Maxx Jet/Maxx Diesel upgrading technology

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A typical plant will convert 300 tons per day of biomass into 20,000 gallons of zero-sulfur, ASTM-grade D975 drop-in diesel which can go directly into a fuel tank. FLEX plants owe their name to their flexibility of raw materials and their scalability, both of which enable them to convert solid biomass into liquid fuels via gasification.

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