Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2018

This project will be the first step for the City of Boulder and Via in realizing their combined goal of converting the HOP fleet of 35-foot transit buses to all-electric vehicles. The long-term plan is that we’ll be able to fuel the vehicles with the solar energy that’s collected at Via’s site. —Natalie Stiffler.

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Teslarati

JUNE 15, 2023

Volkswagen and the Hellenic Republic of Astypalea have decided to take on the rigorous task of electrifying the Greek island’s entire transportation fleet. Volkswagen and the local government of Astypalea island want to gradually convert to electric vehicle fleets, digital mobility solutions, and green energy.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2013

PNNL’s thermochemical conversion device is installed in front of a concentrating solar power dish. A new concentrating solar power system developed by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) can reduce the fuel consumption of a modified natural-gas combined-cycle (NGCC) power plant by about 20%. Photo: PNNL. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2014

SOLAR-JET concentrated thermochemical reactor. The EU-funded SOLAR-JET project has demonstrated the production of aviation kerosene from concentrated sunlight, CO 2 captured from air, and water. The solar reactor consists of a cavity-receiver containing a porous monolithic ceria cylinder. Click to enlarge.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JANUARY 5, 2023

Sanofi is expanding its renewable energy ecosystem with solar panels on the carpark and charging for electric vehicles in the staff carpark. They are slowly converting their corporate fleet to EVs as well.

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Cars That Think

JULY 15, 2021

Dozens of solar farms in the country’s southeastern region are slated to use “ hydrogen batteries ” in coming years. Operators can use the systems to store energy from solar panels and deliver power to the grid during cloudy days or at night. All together they’ll represent a 300-megawatt solar installation.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2021

A team at MITEI (MIT Energy Initiative) has found that hydrogen-generated electricity can be a cost-competitive option for backing up wind and solar. California draws more than 20% of its electricity from solar and approximately 7% from wind, with more VRE coming online rapidly. —Drake Hernandez.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2021

Total started up production at the La Mède biorefinery—converted from a former oil refinery—in 2019. An 8-megawatt solar farm that can supply 13,000 people. In September 2020, Total announced plans to invest more than €500 million to convert its Grandpuits refinery into a zero-crude platform.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2014

Schematic of the “New Grid Testbed” components, including renewable energy generation, energy storage, smart distribution and electric transportation Click to enlarge. The batteries will store energy for distribution during periods when there is insufficient solar power generation. Solar carport. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2022

Build a hydrogen production, storage, and refueling complex at Mogalakwena that incorporates the largest electrolyzer in Africa and a solar plant to support the operation of the haul truck. They span the transport, industrial, and construction sectors. With a combination of abundant renewable energy sources (i.e.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2020

Jemena’s Managing Director, Frank Tudor, said the deal will make hydrogen gas generated from solar and wind power available to the vehicle industry. The MOU also signals the wider community benefits of our Western Sydney Green Gas project and demonstrates the value of renewable gas to Australia’s transport industry. —Frank Tudor.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2013

The US National Science Foundation (NSF) has issued a grants opportunity notice ( PD-14-7644 ) for up to about $13 million in awards to fundamental research and education that will enable innovative processes for the sustainable production of electricity and transportation fuels. Photovoltaic Solar Energy. Wind Energy.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2021

a provider of solar and battery power systems that enable fully-electric Transport Refrigeration Units (eTRUs) for Class 8 commercial trailers. eNow has pioneered the development of mobile solar battery charging systems to the commercial fleet market since 2011. XL Fleet Corp.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

When that carbon is converted into a fuel, burned, and exhausted to the atmosphere, the overall cycle is roughly neutral. This raises the unusual possibility of the transportation sector becoming decarbonized before. emissions. In CCTF, the source of CO 2 determines the net carbon intensity of the fuel, Kreutz says.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 27, 2020

To export hydrogen from regions with high renewable energy intensity to those lean in renewable energy requires hydrogen to be in a form that is transportable. … These advances have provided technologies that are both scalable and economically viable, making ammonia the preferred carrier for the long-distance transport of hydrogen.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2023

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Sandia National Laboratories, co-leads of the Heliostat Consortium , announced seven awardees from a request for proposals (RFP) aimed at achieving DOE’s goals for heliostat cost reduction, sustained multifaceted innovation, and improved solar field performance.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Researchers from Purdue University and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland are proposing a new integrated process involving the co-production of hydrogen and electricity from solar thermal energy—a concept they label “hydricity”. —Gençer et al. Emre Gençer, Dharik S. 1513488112.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2023

The Green Methanol Project involves capturing carbon from NTPC power plants and converting it into green fuel. Green hydrogen in Kawas is made by electrolysis of water using power from an already installed 1 MW floating solar project. It is considered as a substitute fuel for maritime fuel applications.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

It aims to experiment, test and develop energy solutions based on hydrogen, solar, tidal and wind power. The green hydrogen used by Energy Observer is made from seawater using on-board renewable sources of electricity (solar, wind and hydropower). CMA CGM will also contribute its shipping and logistics expertise to Energy Observer.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2011

With the creation of a 3-D nanocone-based solar cell platform, a team led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Jun Xu has boosted the light-to-power conversion efficiency of photovoltaics by nearly 80 percent. Nanocone-based solar cell consisting of n-type nanocones, p-type matrix, transparent conductive oxide (TCO) and glass substrate.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Joule, the developer of a process for the solar conversion of CO 2 to liquid fuels, has entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with DNV GL, a leading provider of technical assurance and advisory services to the energy industry.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2014

The basic concept of the integrated solar battery is to use the contribution of the photovoltage to reduce greatly the charging overpotential caused by the difficulty in efficiently electrochemically decomposing lithium peroxide (Li 2 O 2 ), the discharge product formed on the oxygen electrode. —Yu et al. Photo-assisted charging. (a)

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2015

Researchers at Rice have demonstrated an efficient new way to use solar energy for water splitting. Structure and mechanism of operation of plasmonic photocathode for plasmon-mediated direct electron injection to drive solar-to-chemical energy conversion. (a) —Robatjazi et al.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2016

The conversion process builds upon the solar thermal electro-chemical process (STEP) introduced by GWU Professor Stuart Licht and his colleagues in 2009. In short, STEP uses solar thermal energy to increase the system temperature to decrease electrolysis potentials. Earlier post.) —Licht et al.

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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? —Baker Institute report Need Nickel?

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2013

Direct land use, life cycle GHG emissions (excluding indirect land use change), and life cycle fossil fuel requirements to generate the transportation services provided by 17.8 × 10 12 MJ NCV of gasoline, the amount used in transportation in the US in 2009. Credit: ACS, Geyer et al. Click to enlarge. —Geyer et al.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2015

A team from Bauhaus Luftfahrt in Germany has analyzed the climate impact and economic performance of solar thermochemical jet fuel production. Schematic of solar thermochemical fuel production path. The syngas is stored and finally converted into jet fuel via the FT process. kg CO 2 ‐equiv /L. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2017

showed for the first time how MEG allowed a solar cell to exceed 100% quantum efficiency by producing more electrons in the electrical current than the amount of photons entering the solar cell. A salt bridge connects the two compartments and transports H + and Na +. —Matthew Beard. Click to enlarge. Yong Yan, Ryan W.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2012

An integrated electromicrobial process to convert CO 2 to higher alcohols. Electricity powered the electrochemical CO 2 reduction on the cathode to produce formate, which is converted to isobutanol and 3MB by the engineered R. Click to enlarge. Compared with H 2 , formic acid is a favorable energy carrier. —James Liao.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2021

For the implementation of a sustainable energy economy, the greatest challenge is the weather-depending, fluctuating electricity production of wind and solar power plants. To store the green electricity in a highly scalable way, it must be converted into chemical energy. All these aspects lead to increased capital and operating costs.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2021

The consortium has been collaborating on the project for more than three years, which will consist of 25 gigawatts (GW) of renewable solar and wind energy at full capacity to produce millions of tons of zero-carbon green hydrogen per annum. Green hydrogen is expected by some to grow into a US$2.5-trillion trillion market by.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2020

It is based on proven, world-class technology and will include the innovative integration of over four gigawatts of renewable power from solar, wind and storage; production of 650 tons per day of hydrogen by electrolysis using thyssenkrupp technology; production of nitrogen by air separation using Air Products technology; and production of 1.2

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2009

Schema of synfuel synthesis through solar-driven biomass gasification. Solar energy produces both heat for gasification and H 2 via electrolysis. High temperature heat for biomass gasification is obtained from a molten-salt system in a solar concentrating tower. Land area for solar energy collection (m 2 /ton fuel/yr).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2020

Doing so would give energy flexibility to a fleet owner’s business, and help better manage on-site generation such as solar power. The technology takes energy from the grid and converts it to direct current (DC) voltage. ORNL’s bidirectional technology is fully compliant with grid power quality standards.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2020

Also, they typically charge during the day, when a greater quantity of solar energy is powering the grid. —author Alan Jenn, a researcher at the Institute of Transportation Studies at UC Davis. Both Uber and Lyft are converting more of their fleet to electric, and Lyft recently committed to becoming 100% electric by 2030.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

Even at the point in the future when all cars and trucks are powered by batteries or fuel cells, airplanes, ships, and parts of the heavy-goods transport sector will continue to rely on conventional fuels. Sufficient renewable energy can be generated worldwide to produce fuel that can then be stored and transported relatively easily.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

The German Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure approved grants of approx. Steam electrolyzers ( earlier post ) are excellent for converting electrical energy into chemical energy. A new TOTAL hydrogen filling station on Karlsruhe’s Südtangente ring-road was commissioned on Wednesday. 970,000 (US$1.2

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