Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Broad findings of the DOE-QTR include: DOE should give greater emphasis to the transport sector relative to the stationary sector. Among the transport strategies, DOE will devote its greatest effort to electrification of the vehicle fleet, a sweet spot for pre-competitive DOE R&D. DOE has particular capabilities in these areas.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2018

Current technology for hydrogen storage requires high pressure systems which are too large and costly to be viable for transportation. Compact Membrane Systems: New Fluorinated Ionomers for Enhanced Oxygen Transport in Fuel Cell Cathodes. To demonstrate a low-cost fuel cell technology. Glacigen Materials, Inc.:

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2014

NexTech Materials will use its NO x sensing technology to develop a low-cost device capable of accurately quantifying NO x concentrations in the exhaust stream of diesel passenger cars and heavy duty trucks. These additives decrease clumping of nanoparticles in the oil and improve friction and wear properties. XG Sciences, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

This project will develop a combination of new alloys and novel casting techniques to produce high-performance, low-cost castings for crankshafts and rotating components with properties similar to forged units. In the last four years, the cost of a plug-in electric vehicle battery has come down by nearly 50%. Power electronics.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

In the near-term pre-CCS era, with a low cost of carbon, the economical solution for power providers is to vent the CO 2 and pay the fees, passing on the costs to customers. owned by) a power plant; careful integration between the two plants will reduce costs (not studied in detail here). their CO 2 (e.g. ~90%)

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Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2018

household garbage that would otherwise be landfilled—into a low-carbon, renewable transportation fuel product. By converting waste into low-carbon transportation fuel, Fulcrum provides a real solution to the aviation industry’s commitment to reduce carbon emissions. million gallons of fuel each year.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Value of life-cycle emissions externality damages and oil premium costs from vehicles in 2010 $. A paper presenting the results of the group’s latest year-long study on the lifecycle air emissions and oil displacement benefits of plug-in vehicles was published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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DECEMBER 3, 2020

Other partners in the project are the Chilean power company AME, Chile’s national oil company ENAP, and Italian energy company Enel. Hydrogen will come to play an increasingly important role in storing and transporting energy. In two further phases, capacity is then to be increased to about 55 million liters (14.5

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2014

The Methane Observation Networks with Innovative Technology to Obtain Reductions (MONITOR) program will help the oil and gas sector reduce methane emissions. The program implementation focus is on “oil and gas systems” from the wellhead to the end-user. Recent studies suggest this might be a low figure. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2016

Whereas fuel cost used to be a major driver for fleet managers, the lowering of oil prices and the availability of low-cost natural gas has reduced this concern, Navigant notes. A major factor has always been the cost of battery packs. Medium- and heavy-trucks represent 4.3% of vehicles in the US, drive 9.3%

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2019

We are certainly in revolutionary times, but it is clear that power generation sources will not become fully renewable and transport will not become fully electric for several decades, if ever. Transportation contributes about 10%. Global warming potential (GWP) in CO2 equivalent tons by sector. Reitz et al. Engine lubrication.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 11, 2024

Private demand for EVs in this segment remained strong, fueled by the popularity of compact electric SUVs, as well as the launch of low-cost models in the small segment such as Tata Motors’ Tiago EV and MG Motor’s Comet EV,” Bloomberg said. Penetration of electric buses was at 4.3 percent during the year.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2023

Made from widely available domestic feedstocks and advanced refining technologies, energy-dense biofuels provide a pathway for low-carbon fuels that can lower greenhouse gas emissions throughout the transportation sector and accelerate the bioeconomy. The envisioned system will be developed to support production of at least 0.5

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2019

Each year, NEO compares the costs of competing energy technologies through a levelized cost of energy analysis. NEO starts by analyzing technology trends and fuel prices to build a least cost view of the changing electricity sector. Global power generation mix. Source: BloombergNEF. —BNEF’s NEO director, Seb Henbest.

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Wind Solar Emissions Batteries 207

Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2013

This expands the need for controlling emissions beyond the transportation sector, the committee noted, and thus calls for a broader policy implementation. The committee supports consistent R&D to advance technology development and to reduce the costs of alternative fuels and vehicles. —Douglas M. l/100 km) for the midrange case.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2011

This project will research, develop, and demonstrate polyalkylene glycol (PAG)- based engine oil technology which can reduce engine friction relative to conventional petroleum-based and synthetic oils. This project will develop a new process that enables low-cost, domestic manufacturing of magnesium. . $1,497,531.

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Carbon Fiber Lithium Ion Li-ion Vehicles 268

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Accenture has identified 12 technologies that it concludes have the potential to disrupt the current views of transport fuels supply, demand and GHG emissions over the next 10 years. Will be competitive at an oil price of $45 to $90 at their commercial date. Source: Accenture. Click to enlarge. Waste-to-fuel. Marine scrubbers.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

This development could mean reducing enzyme costs from about $1 per gallon of ethanol to about 10 cents or less, with an overall reduction in the cost of the production of cellulosic biofuels of 30% or more. Research by the Wyman team focuses on turning lignocellulosic biomass into liquid transportation fuels. Nguyen, T.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2013

Currently, almost half of China’s oil consumption is imported, and with the projection that demand for fossil fuel oil will reach 250 million tons by 2030, it is crucial for the country to consider biomass alternatives as part of their renewable energy plan. million tons in 2008. gallon US) with tax exemption and a $0.16/liter

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2009

ARPA-E is seeking new ways to make liquid transportation fuels—without using petroleum or biomass—by using microorganisms to harness chemical or electrical energy to convert carbon dioxide into liquid fuels. Batteries for Electrical Energy Storage in Transportation (BEEST).

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JULY 4, 2013

The horizontal red lines show the comparable price of gasoline (before tax, refining margin 0.3 $/gal, exchange rate: 1 € = 1.326 $) with crude oil prices 100 $/bbl and 150 $/bbl. The UCG process was developed for the production of low-cost synthesis gas from biomass. Source: VTT. 0.7 €/liter (app. 0.7 €/liter.

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Carbon Fuel Finland Gasoline 218

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2014

As described in multiple DOE reports, the main barriers to widespread PEV commercialization are the cost; performance and life; and abuse tolerance of high?energy Specifically: the current cost of high?energy Most critical is the cost of the carbon fiber. per pound of weight saved, which could include very low?cost

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2015

Design, Deployment, and Validation of Advanced, Low-cost Mobile Hydrogen Refuelers. The long-term goal of hydrogen production and delivery R&D is a high-volume hydrogen cost of. Innovative materials, processes, and systems are needed to establish the technical and cost feasibility for renewable, low carbon hydrogen production.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) will award up to $30 million to fund a new program focused on the development of transformational electrochemical technologies to enable low-cost distributed power generation. DE-FOA-0001026 ). Source: ARPA-E. Click to enlarge. Source: ARPA-E.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 15, 2024

These projects don’t get as much attention as the race for better batteries and ever-more gargantuan battery factories, but they will be no less vital to the future of electrified transportation. The translucent tubes contain red-colored oil circulated to cool the motor.

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Motor Motors Motoring Universal 123

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2009

The five different fuel groups were those derived: from conventional petroleum; from unconventional petroleum; synthetically from natural gas, coal, or combinations of coal and biomass via the FT process; renewable oils; and alcohols. million bpd. Reduced GHG impact. Certain HRJ and FT fuels are able to reduce the GHG emissions from aviation.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2010

The target liquid fuel is isooctane, which fits well into the existing transportation fuel system in the United States. This project will develop and optimize a novel, engineered microorganism that produces a biodiesel-equivalent fuel from renewable hydrogen and carbon dioxide, at costs of less than $2.50 OPX Biotechnologies Inc.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2023

The US Department of Energy (DOE) awarded nearly $34 million to 19 industry- and university-led research projects that will advance technology solutions to make clean hydrogen a more available and affordable fuel for electricity generation, industrial decarbonization, and transportation. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2011

ARPA-E’s fourth round of funding opportunities includes five technology areas detailed below: Plants Engineered To Replace Oil (PETRO). If successful, PETRO will create biofuels for half their current cost, finally making them cost-competitive with fuels from oil. High Energy Advanced Thermal Storage (HEATS).

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Grid Solar Power Powered 231

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

China is about to become the largest oil-importing country and India becomes the largest importer of coal by the early 2020s. The Middle East becomes the world’s second-largest gas consumer by 2020 and third-largest oil consumer by 2030, redefining its role in global energy markets. Oil use grows, but in a narrowing set of markets.

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Oil 2013 Energy Emissions 275

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

The nonpartisan US Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that federal policies to promote the manufacture and purchase of electric vehicles, some of which also support other types of fuel-efficient vehicles, will have a total budgetary cost of about $7.5 billion through 2019. times the direct reductions. Electric Vehicles”.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2013

The California Energy Commission (CEC) approved $5,580,773 for clean-energy transportation projects including biodiesel production, power control electronics for medium-and heavy-duty battery electric vehicles, and buydowns for propane vehicles. The facility is slated to produce nearly 5 million gallons of transportation fuel per year.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Propane is a cleaner burning fossil fuel, yielding 87% less hydrocarbons and 50% fewer toxins than gasoline, and is more economical compared to petroleum-based options, roughly 40 to 50% less than gasoline/diesel per gallon, although less attractive on a cost per energy equivalent basis due to its lower energy content. infrastructures (e.g.,

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

However, they cautioned, those conclusions may undercount the benefits of natural gas, as both EPA GHGI methods and many regionally focused top-down studies attribute CH 4 emissions from co-producing NG systems to the NG sector, rather than to a mixture of oil and NG sources. Alvarez et al.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2019

Durable and affordable higher-temperature heat exchangers could make energy conversion much more efficient, which in turn could reduce fuel consumption, system footprint, capital and operational cost, and emissions. Additively Manufactured High Efficiency and Low-Cost sCO 2 Heat Exchangers – $1,500,000.

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Low Cost Universal Power Powered 207

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

gas into a liquid transportation fuel by combining fuel cell. convert natural gas into transportable liquids in one step. remote oil wells burn natural gas as a by-product because it is not. economical to store or transport. can be transported to market. If successful, the new crop would have a lower cost of.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2009

Dr. Paul addressed a positive change—the days of increasing US oil consumption may be over. “ We reached peak oil consumption in the US in 2008 and the same is true in the EU and Japan. ” M barrels/day of oil within the next 10 years ”. A low carbon economy will be the primary means of wealth creation over the next 20 years. ”.

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