Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Nikola Corporation announced a collaboration with PGT Trucking, Inc. PGT), an international multi-service flatbed transportation company, to advance electric drive heavy-duty transport. PGT operates in excess of 1,000 power units and more than 1,500 trailers and is headquartered in Aliquippa, PA.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2023

Further development on range across temperature variations, heavy hauling, fine tuning auxiliary load to avoid waste, increased number of hours on current and additional units will support continued technological evolution. CPKC moves essential goods across a 20,000-mile network to support economic growth throughout Canada, the US and Mexico.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2022

The study provides a comprehensive analysis of the cost and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of a variety of vehicle-fuel pathways; the levelized cost of driving (LCD); and the cost of avoided GHG emissions. Selected fuel pathways were constrained to those deemed to be nationally scalable in the future.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) showcased the utility’s first extended-range electric truck with manufacturer VIA Motors at three Bay Area National Plug-In Day events—in San Francisco, San Rafael and Cupertino—on Sunday. The gasoline engine extends the range to 350 more miles.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2020

Australia-based Woodside has signed an agreement with Japanese companies JERA Inc, Marubeni Corporation and IHI Corporation to undertake a joint study examining the large-scale export of hydrogen as ammonia for use decarbonizing coal-fired power generation in Japan. and Chubu Electric Power Company Inc.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corporation will deliver 20 units of the all-electric eCanter truck to the Australia Post fleet. In October, Australia Post will become the first local customer to integrate the electric light-duty truck into its daily operations. The eCanter, which falls under the 7.5-ton hours to fully recharge.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

United States Steel Corporation will supply General Motors with its advanced and sustainable steel solution called verdeX steel. BRS is the only steel mill in North America to combine an electric arc furnace (EAF) with a Ruhrstahl Heraeus (RH) degasser for cleaner, more formable steels.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

XL Fleet announced that the Company’s XLP plug-in hybrid electric drive technology is being expanded for use across a range of fleet vehicles from General Motors. The company believes its expanded portfolio will further extend its leadership position in fleet electrification.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2013

The California Energy Commission (CEC) is awarding $1,135,862 to 12 small-scale projects to research that will reduce the cost of producing electricity, save energy and improve the environment. will receive $95,000 to research a gas stove burner that is 30% more efficient than conventional gas stove burners.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2021

SF 6 has been the standard gas used inside high voltage electrical equipment as an insulating and arc-quenching medium. However, SF 6 is also an extremely potent greenhouse gas with 23,500 times the comparative Global Warming Potential of CO 2 and a lifetime of 3,200 years in the atmosphere. Georgia Tech in Atlanta, Ga.;

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Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2014

AT&T recently deployed its 8,000 th compressed natural gas (CNG) vehicle, achieving a major milestone in the company’s overall 10-year, $565-million commitment to add approximately 15,000 alternative fuel vehicles (AFVs) to its fleet by end of year 2018. Louis metropolitan area.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

the developer of a novel liquefied gas electrolyte. product—LiGas( earlier post )—recently expanded its manufacturing facility, corporate offices and team of experts as interest grows in LiGas. South 8 Technologies, Inc., and Chief Technology Officer Jungwoo Lee, Ph.D.,

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2023

The BMW Group sources the individual fuel cells from the Toyota Motor Corporation. The pressure plate forms a gas-tight and water-tight seal around the stack housing. Together these hold almost six kilograms of hydrogen, enough to give the BMW iX5 Hydrogen a range of 504 km (313 miles) in the WLTP cycle.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Researchers at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) Institute of Vehicle Concepts in Stuttgart have developed a demonstrator multi-fuel free-piston linear generator (FPLG, or Freikolbenlineargenerator, FKLG in German) as a range extender for electric vehicles. 1; for natural gas, 13.5:1;

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Chevrolet confirmed production of a next-generation battery-electric vehicle based on the Bolt EV concept introduced last month at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. We are moving quickly because of its potential to completely shake up the status quo for electric vehicles. Electric (Battery)' Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2021

Wabtec Corporation and General Motors will collaborate to develop and commercialize GM’s Ultium battery technology and HYDROTEC hydrogen fuel cell systems for Wabtec locomotives. GM’s HYDROTEC hydrogen fuel cell power cubes are compact and easy to package and can be used in a wide range of applications, including locomotives.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2012

Volvo Car Corporation urges the EU to coordinate incentives whilst supporting research and development. In 2011 fewer than 50,000 battery electric vehicles were sold in in the world, equivalent to a market share of about 0.1%. The European automotive industry risks losing the present technological leadership if this doesn’t happen.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2019

Hydrogen fuel cells offer an effective means for the electrification of transport while maintaining easy, 5 minute refueling and long driving ranges. The use of hydrogen derived from oil or gas to power fuel cell electric vehicles represents an exciting opportunity to expand the use of oil in clean transport. —Ahmad O.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2021

ENEOS Corporation and Origin Energy signed a memorandum of understanding to conduct a study on a potential business collaboration for the development of a CO 2 -free hydrogen supply chain between Japan and Australia.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Nippon Steel is striving to achieve carbon neutrality by multi-track technological developments, including hydrogen injection in blast furnaces, high-grade steel production in large size electric arc furnace, and DRI production by hydrogen (shaft furnace etc.).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2020

MOL) has joined a wide-ranging corporate-academic partnership in a zero-emission initiative called the “Wind Hunter Project,” seeking new applications for hydrogen fuel and wind power. Both of these applications are aimed at creating a zero-emission business free of any greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2019

The 3-year project also will investigate the potential to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions and airborne pollutants in Alberta’s freight transportation sector. The tractor-trailer trucks being used in the AZETEC project are the first Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles of this size and capacity to be built and tested anywhere globally.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 20, 2022

These fuel cell generators could ultimately replace gas- and diesel-burning generators with fewer emissions at worksites, buildings, movie sets, data centers, outdoor concerts and festivals. They could also back up or temporarily replace grid-sourced electricity for residential and small commercial enterprises at times of power disruption.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2010

The Capstone C30 Liquid Fuel microturbine is the only diesel-fueled range extender that has been certified to the CARB Urban Bus and Urban Bus Hybrid standard for operation on diesel fuel, according to the company. Brad Glosson, President and Chief Executive Officer of DesignLine Corporation. Capstone’s HEV drive system.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

million) to support six projects focused on the development of high temperature gas reactors (HTGRs). HTGR systems can supply nuclear heat and electricity over a range of core outlet temperatures between 700 and 950 °C, or more than 1000 °C as a future target for VHTR. million (US$3.8

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2019

Phase II awards range from $975,000 to $1,150,000, with a duration of two years. Mainstream Engineering Corporation is developing a hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) process to convert food wastes to renewable diesel and jet fuels that will improve yield and quality, and reduce aqueous byproducts to advance commercial adoption.

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Baua Electric

AUGUST 3, 2023

Issuing unused stocks to boost price range is significant for its pivot to generating hydrogen gas cellular vehicles and development out HYLA, its hydrogen manufacturing and distribution community. The corporate’s keep value has rallied because it has made headway in contemporary weeks. 6 billion from 800 million.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Capstone Turbine Corporation successfully completed track testing of a Kenworth Class 7 hybrid electric work truck using its 65kW microturbine as an on-board range extender. The Kenworth Class 7 work truck features a Capstone C65 microturbine that is installed onboard and operates on compressed natural gas. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The BMW Group sources the individual fuel cells from the Toyota Motor Corporation. The pressure plate forms a gas-tight and water-tight seal around the stack housing. Together these hold almost six kilograms of hydrogen, enough to give the BMW iX5 Hydrogen a range of 504 km (313 miles) in the WLTP cycle.

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 25, 2021

I started learning about, writing about, and promoting electric cars in 2007. As a former top corporate subject matter expert, I took a very deep made myself a environmental resource for others in my reincarnation as The Creative Greenius and author of this blog. Debra Bushweit Galliani in 2013 with our first electric car.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2012

Electrolysis company Hydrogenics Corporation has received an order from E.ON for a “Power-to-Gas” project in Germany. The 2 MW energy storage facility, to be located in Falkenhagen in northeast Germany, will use surplus renewable energy sources to produce hydrogen for storage in the country’s existing natural gas pipeline network.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

XRE-20 battery-electric yard tractor. Balqon Corporation, a developer of electric drive system technology for commercial vehicles ( earlier post ), has entered into a Joint Development Agreement with Polar Power Inc. to develop a series plug-in hybrid system for Balqon’s line of heavy-duty electric trucks and buses.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 4, 2020

ClassNK is a global organization with more than 120 survey offices worldwide, and offers a wide range of maritime services that ensure the security of human life and property and promote conservation of the marine environment. Storage battery system component configuration.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2020

Daimler Trucks is taking the next step in its electrification of trucks with the battery-electric low-floor heavy-duty truck Mercedes-Benz eEconic. The eEconic is based on the eActros electric truck for heavy distribution, which will already go into series production in 2021.

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 9, 2024

Prospects and Challenges in 2024 Combining the environmental benefits of electric vehicles (EVs) with the long-range and rapid refueling of traditional gasoline vehicles, hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) are becoming a compelling option for eco-minded car owners. How Do FCEVs Work?

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Teslarati

MARCH 8, 2022

General Motors and Pacific Gas and Electric announced the launch of a new pilot program today that will allow California residents to use their GM electric vehicles to act as on-demand power sources for homes. When EVs sit parked in a garage with plenty of range, that energy could be used in a pinch for various reasons.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2020

High-energy nickel (Ni)–rich cathode will play a key role in advanced lithium (Li)–ion batteries, but it suffers from moisture sensitivity, side reactions, and gas generation. This can leave much of the surface area exposed to electrolyte, accelerating unwanted chemical reactions induced by high nickel content and generating gas.

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