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Soletair demo plant produces renewable hydrocarbon fuel from CO2 captured from the air

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VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) are beginning testing of the Soletair demo plant, which uses air-captured carbon dioxide to produce renewable fuels and chemicals. The design of rWGS reactor and the catalyst is VTT in-house know-how. kW solar PV power plant at LUT.

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Ford and AVL developing fuel cell electric commercial vehicle demonstrator based on Jumbo Transit

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AVL Powertrain UK Limited and Ford Motor Company are working together on an Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC)-funded research and development project to define, design, develop and test a driveable demonstrator Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle (FCEV). Bernadette Longridge, Engineering Center Manager at AVL.

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Mercedes-Benz unveils EQS electric luxury sedan

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The aerodynamicists, in close cooperation with the designers, were able to achieve a new Cd best value of 0.20. The operating range particularly benefits from this. Deceleration is also applied to detected vehicles ahead until they come to a standstill, for example at traffic lights.

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Premium EV bargain hunting? 2024’s best cut-price prestige electric buys

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Crayon paint ($5000), body-coloured 21-inch Mission E Design wheels ($11,400), panoramic roof ($3370), Sports Chrono pack ($2360) and all-important longer-range Performance Battery Plus ($12,020). Not easy shedding almost $100k in a year, but that’s the case for an ex-demo 4000km-old ’22 BMW i7 limo up for sale in Victoria.

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Schaeffler demo vehicle hits 2020 CAFE targets without electrification; 15% cut in fuel consumption; 48V hybrid system for 2025

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Schaeffler Efficient Future Mobility North America demo vehicle in Detroit. At the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS), Schaeffler highlighted its range of fuel-efficiency technologies and systems in the form of its current demonstration vehicle: Efficient Future Mobility North America. Click to enlarge. —Prof.

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SwRI D-EGR gasoline demo vehicle delivers diesel efficiency at lower cost; potential for LEV III/Tier 3 emissions

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The schematic of the turbocharged 4-cylinder engine in a D-EGR configuration (left), and the D-EGR engine under the hood of the demo vehicle showcased at SAE World Congress in Detroit. An SwRI-designed and patented mixer is used to improve cylinder-to-cylinder and temporal EGR imbalance. Click to enlarge. The engine conversion.

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First production of fuel-range liquid hydrocarbons from biological feedstock using the fermentative isobutene pathway

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Global Bioenergies has successfully converted renewable resources first into gaseous isobutene via fermentation, which was then subsequently catalytically oligomerized into a mix of fuel-range liquid hydrocarbons, including iso-octane. Earlier post.). Our target will now be to purify the different components of this mix.

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