Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2011

Transport for London (TfL) recently announced a package of measures to tackle pollution levels at the busiest roads in central London. Two additional vehicles are set to be converted to apply the dust suppressant enabling the two trial sites to be expanded into more areas including construction sites.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2014

A new ceramic hollow fiber substrate for catalytic converters designed by Dr. Benjamin Kingsbury and colleagues at Imperial College London could cut the size and precious metal loading of the devices in automobiles while reducing fuel consumption and and manufacturing costs. Kingsbury has founded MicroTech Ceramics Ltd. 2011.11.009.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2013

Renmatix and Virent announced a strategic collaboration to convert affordable cellulosic sugars to renewable chemicals and bio-based packaging materials. The two companies, both ICIS Innovation Awards winners, made the announcement at the ICIS awards ceremony in London.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2011

The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, announced an innovative fund totalling at least £70 million (US$114 million) which will finance low carbon waste and recycling infrastructure. The London Green Fund is the first UK fund to combine European, public and private finance to invest in environmental infrastructure.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2010

DHL Supply Chain and London Stansted Airport recently signed agreements to participate in Hydrogen On Site Trials (HOST) of ITM Power’s transportable high pressure hydrogen refuelling unit (HFuel).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2009

Transport for London (TfL) has selected Wrightbus as the preferred manufacturer for the final design and build of the New Bus for London, based on the iconic Routemaster. The original double-decker AEC Routemaster buses were produced until 1968, and saw continuous service in London until 2005. Design by Capoco Design Ltd, UK.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

SITA UK, one of the country’s leading recycling and resource management companies and a subsidiary of Suez Environment, has signed an exclusive agreement with Cynar Plc to build Britain’s first fully operational plants to convert end of life plastic into diesel fuel. Agitation evens the temperature and homogenizes the feedstocks.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

The HybridFLEX train is powered by two mtu Hybrid PowerPacks and is operated by Chiltern Railways on the route between London Marylebone and Aylesbury. Together with the leasing company Porterbrook and Chiltern Railways, Rolls-Royce has converted a Class 168 DMU into the HybridFLEX train.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 20, 2019

If converting city buses to electric power is one of the most effective ways to reduce harmful pollution from particulate matter and nitrogen oxides in cities an even more effective way is to double the number of people they can carry.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

BP and Johnson Matthey (JM) have signed an agreement with Fulcrum BioEnergy to license their Fischer Tropsch (FT) technology to support Fulcrum’s drive to convert municipal solid waste into biojet fuel. The novel reactor system combines an optimized catalyst with a unique fixed-bed tubular reactor geometry.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2021

Advocacy group Coltura has published a report that finds converting the biggest users of gasoline to EVs in the next ten years is critical to reaching climate goals and that present EV policies are poorly suited to accomplishing that conversion. —Janelle London, co-author of the report.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2018

The City of Westminster and operator Veolia have ordered a retrofit of 92 Refuse Collection Vehicles (RCVs) for the upcoming Ultra-low Emission Zone in London. The homologation criteria in London are very ambitious, and the test vehicles have proven the Eminox-Amminex partnership to be a competitive solution.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 22, 2024

Some of the buses are already in service, and the city plans to convert all of its buses to zero-emission models. The city proudly points out that, once its new e-fleet is fully operational, it will have more electric buses per capita than London or Glasgow. Operators Go-Ahead and Stagecoach put up about half of the £82.5-million

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 31, 2024

Tootbus describes itself as the world’s first clean energy sightseeing bus company, specializing in hop-on hop-off tours around Europe, including Bath, London, Paris, and Brussels. In 2021, Tootbus converted its fleet to HVO fuel, which reduces CO2 emissions by 90% compared to traditional combustion.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2009

has added 92 hybrid-electric trucks to its delivery fleet by converting standard FedEx delivery trucks to hybrid-electric systems. The converted hybrids were developed with Freightliner Custom Chassis Corporation (FCCC) and Eaton Corporation, which provided the hybrid-electric systems ( earlier post ). FedEx Corp.

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Green Cars News

JANUARY 29, 2014

Scientists have developed a new type of catalytic converter that uses up to 80 per cent less precious metals while still delivering lower emissions than traditional designs. Developed by researchers at the Imperial College London, the new catalytic converter is smaller and much cheaper than conven[.]. Green credentials'

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2020

For this an existing Siemens SGT-400 industrial gas turbine will be upgraded to convert stored hydrogen into electricity and thermal energy. Storing fluctuating renewable energy is one of the major challenges of the energy transition.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Provaris has appointed Clarksons’ newbuild team in London to work with Provaris to undertake a shipyard selection. Next steps for the company are to construct and test a prototype hydrogen tank, and to prepare for ship construction with a selected shipyard(s).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2021

One key risk is that about 35% of the projected supply growth from now until 2025, will come from integrated spodumene-to-hydroxide converters in Australia. Should these Australian converters delay in their commissioning hydroxide could be in shortage by 2025. These projects are expensive and have had a history of delayed development.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Overall this research highlights that more needs to be done by businesses, special interest groups and local communities to convert consciousness into action. RingGo survey. The pandemic has seen a wave of strong activism and more conversations around sustainability, which has driven the nation to re-evaluate mobility solutions.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2022

The global push to convert the world to electric vehicles will cause supply chain complexities that could undermine the alternative energy transition in the United States, according to a new report from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. The detailed report— Need Nickel?

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2019

The proposed plant would take more than 500,000 tonnes each year of non-recyclable everyday household and commercial solid waste destined for landfill or incineration such as meal packaging, diapers and takeaway coffee cups and convert it into more than 60 million liters (15.85

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Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2012

After a formal evaluation of available technologies performed by Fluor Corporation on behalf of Solena, Oxford Catalysts was selected by Solena as the sole supplier of FT technology for GreenSky London. In the second step of the overall process, Solena uses the Fischer-Tropsch reaction to transform the syngas into light FT liquids and FT wax.

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

A luxury London hotel is the latest to convert to greener cars, as the newly opened Rafayel Hotel on the Left Bank in Battersea takes delivery of two new SEAT Leon E Ecomotive cars. Tags: SEAT Battersea ecomotive hotel leon london.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

The plant will gasify waste biomass, and use a Fischer-Tropsch process to convert the resulting syngas to biojet fuel and bionaphtha. The Fischer-Tropsch tail gas can be used to produce 20MW of excess electricity for export to the national grid or converted into steam to be used in a district heating system.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Researchers from the University of Turku in Finland, Imperial College London and University College London have devised a synthetic metabolic pathway for producing renewable propane from engineered E. Patrik Jones, Imperial College London, joint corresponding author. coli bacteria. Pauli Kallio, András Pásztor, Kati Thiel, M.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Scientists at Imperial College London have demonstrated a highly efficient inductive method for wirelessly transferring power to a drone while it is flying. To demonstrate their approach, the Imperial College London researchers bought an off-the-shelf quadcopter drone—around 12 cm (4.7

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2018

And in London, we were able to find a solution for our charging needs through a collaboration between government and private organizations. The challenges of cost and infrastructure requirements can be daunting, but we’ve begun to see solutions emerge.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

GKN Land Systems is ramping up production of its Gyrodrive electric flywheel hybrid technology for buses following successful trials in London and the start of UK production. The energy is drawn from the flywheel and converted back into electricity to power the traction motor. GKN Gyrodrive bus. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Collaborating with Lead Partner ULEMCo on the project are: Westminster City Council; Veolia; London Fire Brigade; Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust; Commercial and Ocado. Aberdeen City Council has a plan to convert a range of their vehicles to dual-fuel hydrogen: refuse trucks, HGV road sweepers and delivery vans.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2013

Five Hyundai ix35 Fuel Cell models ( earlier post ) are joining the London Hydrogen Network Expansion (LNHE) project. Two hydrogen fuel stations are already open in London—one of which has public access—with a third to come as part of the LHNE project. The ix35 Fuel Cell. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 1, 2018

Hydrogen is converted to electricity in the fuel cell, with water vapour as its only emission, while the batteries provide additional power wherever and whenever needed. —Ulrich Jaeger, Business Manager at WSW mobil GmbH.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

British Airways has entered a partnership with Velocys to design a series of waste plants that convert household waste into renewable jet fuel to power its fleet. The UK still sends more than 15 million tonnes of waste per year to landfill sites which not only damages the natural environment but also releases further greenhouse gases.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

He shared the award with Mark Hills , a former colleague at the London-based visual-effects studio Framestore. Vanns, who now works at Disney -owned Industrial Light & Magic , in London, was an avid cinephile growing up. He joined the London office of Industrial Light & Magic in 2014 as a senior production engineer.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2014

The energy is drawn from the flywheel and converted back into electricity to power the traction motor, which helps accelerate the bus back up to speed, generating fuel savings of more than 20% at a significantly lower cost and weight (60 kg, 132 lbs) than battery hybrid alternatives. When the driver accelerates, the system works in reverse.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 30, 2023

RoMeLa ] Imperial College London and Empa researchers have built a drone that can withstand high enough temperatures to enter burning buildings. One of the big challenges here was converting the image to vectors, (lines), that Ameca could draw. Enjoy today’s videos! Humanoid robot ARTEMIS training for RoboCup.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2012

Requirements for catalytic converters, use of reformulated fuels less prone to evaporate, and improved engine efficiency of new vehicles have all likely contributed to overall declines in vehicle-related pollution, including VOCs. —Warneke et al.

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