Design, Green and Store

Hybrid biomass flow battery stores electricity and produces valuable chemicals at the same time

Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2023

Rechargeable batteries store electricity in their electrode materials, while redox flow batteries use chemicals stored in tanks attached to the electrodes. Researchers have now developed a battery system based on a hybrid cell, which not only stores and provides electricity but also produces valuable chemicals in a flow system.

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Store Nickel Metal Hydride Ni-Li Hybrid

SoCalGas, H2U testing new Gramme 50 electroylzer for green hydrogen production

Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2021

(SoCalGas) and H2U Technologies are testing a new electrolyzer, called the Gramme 50, for the production of green hydrogen. The Gramme 50 electrolyzer features a radically different stack design to achieve high current density and outlet pressure requirements.

Hydrogen

Hydrogen Green Production Gas-Electric

H2Carrier and Anori developing PtX project in Greenland; production of green ammonia on floating platform P2XFloater

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2023

H2Carrier AS and Greenland-based Anori A/S have signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with the purpose of developing the first commercial wind farm in Greenland with subsequent production and export of green ammonia. The 1.5GW wind farm will supply power to H2Carrier’s floating production vessel for hydrogen and green ammonia, the P2XFloater.

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Green Production Wind Norway

Cummins provides 20MW PEM electrolyzer to Air Liquide for green hydrogen production

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2021

has provided a 20-megawatt PEM electrolyzer system to generate green hydrogen, making it the largest in operation in the world. Here we are seeing how green hydrogen can improve sustainability for industrial manufacturing and how the demand for decarbonized hydrogen solutions will grow.

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Hydrogen Green Production Davis

Nornickel investigating using mining tailings to capture and store CO2

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2023

Russia-based Norilsk Nickel (Nornickel)—the world’s largest nickel producer—is studying the potential for mining tailings to capture and store CO 2. As a waste, tailings are stored in designated storage facilities called tailing dams. In 2021, Nornickel extracted 41.2 mm) that looks like sand.

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Store CO2 Waste Carbon

Provaris receives ABS approval for design of H2Neo compressed hydrogen carrier

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Australia-based Provaris Energy has received class approval from the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) for the design of Provaris’ 26,000 m 3 H2Neo compressed hydrogen carrier, the first of its kind to receive this level of approval. The tanks are designed so that they cannot suddenly rupture and release a catastrophic amount of energy.

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Hydrogen Design Store Gas-Electric

IIT, Argonne team designs Li2O-based Li-air battery with solid electrolyte; four-electron reaction for higher energy density

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

In past lithium-air designs, the lithium in a lithium metal anode moves through a liquid electrolyte to combine with oxygen during the discharge, yielding lithium peroxide (Li 2 O 2 ) or superoxide (LiO 2 ) at the cathode. This chemical sequence stores and releases energy on demand. —Kondori et al.

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Li-ion Lithium Air Design Lithium Ion

Fraunhofer IFF team designing hydrogen factory of the future

Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2020

Researchers at the Fraunhofer IFF in Germany are designing the distributed and modular production and distribution of green hydrogen for industry, business and transportation throughout the value chain—a hydrogen factory of the future. The outcome is always green hydrogen.

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Hydrogen Future Design Ozone

Australian researchers develop new hybrid plasma electrocatalytic process to produce green ammonia

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2021

Chemical engineers at UNSW Sydney and University of Sydney have developed a hybrid plasma electrocatalytic process for the production of sustainable (“green”) ammonia. Hybrid plasma-electrochemical technology for green ammonia production. The way that we did it does not rely on fossil fuel resources, nor emit CO 2. —Dr Jalili.

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Green Hybrid Store Water

GEV and Pacific Hydro sign MoU to explore export of green hydrogen using new compressed H2 ship

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2021

Australia-based Global Energy Ventures (GEV) and Pacific Hydro Australia Developments Pty Ltd (Pacific Hydro) have executed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to explore opportunities regarding the production, storage, loading, ground and marine transportation of green hydrogen produced by Pacific Hydro’s Ord Hydrogen Project.

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Hydrogen Green Mariner Australia

Chartwell secures £320k Innovate UK Smart Grant to develop methanol-fueled vessel design

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2023

The grant will enable Chartwell and consortium partners—Boat Electric & Electronics and Engineered Marine Systems—to develop and test the feasibility of a market-first methanol-fuelled vessel design, with applications in the offshore wind, commercial workboat and leisure sectors.

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Grant Design Fuel Mariner

Heliogen and Bloom Energy demonstrate production of low-cost green hydrogen; concentrated solar and high-temp electrolysis

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Heliogen and Bloom Energy have successfully demonstrated the production of green hydrogen by integrating the companies’ technologies: Heliogen’s concentrated solar energy system and the Bloom Electrolyzer. Source: Heliogen. Bloom Energy officially introduced the Bloom Electrolyzer in July 2021. Source: Heliogen.

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Low Cost Hydrogen Solar Green

Starfire Energy closes major funding round; green ammonia and hydrogen solutions

Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2021

It can be stored and transported inexpensively and easily, leveraging established infrastructure and shipping networks, and is regulated by well-developed codes and standards. Unlike traditional Haber-Bosch designs the RapidRamp process can accommodate being directly powered by intermittent energy sources such as wind, solar and hydro.

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Hydrogen Green Energy South Africa

Where to Start with EV Charging for Convenience Stores & Truck Stops

Blink Charging

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Convenience stores and truck stops are in a fantastic position to take advantage of available federal funding for DC fast charging stations. Here’s what you need to know installing EV charging stations at your c-store or truck stop. Not located in a designated AFC? You have more options for selecting a charger.

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Store Charging Puerto Rico Tax Credit

ATI FlyZero project finds green liquid hydrogen most viable zero-carbon emission fuel for aircraft

Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2022

The independent study brought together experts from across the UK to assess the design challenges, manufacturing demands, operational requirements and market opportunity of potential zero-carbon emission aircraft concepts. The narrow-body concept carries 179 passengers up to a design range of 2400 nmi at a speed of 450 knots.

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Hydrogen Carbon Emissions Green

Siemens Energy, FFI and GeoPura developing prototype ammonia cracker to produce hydrogen

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

million) ammonia cracker prototype designed to produce green hydrogen at industrial scale. The ammonia cracker system will provide the potential to produce green hydrogen at scale, wherever and whenever it is needed. The ammonia is stored, before being used for electricity generation. million (US$4.24 Source: CSIRO.

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Hydrogen Energy Grid Ireland

Fusion Fuel Green partners with CCC to develop green hydrogen demonstrator plants in Middle East

Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2021

Ireland-based electrolyzer company Fusion Fuel Green PLC will collaborate with Consolidated Contractors Group S.A.L. Offshore) (CCC), to develop green hydrogen plants in the Middle East. It has been specifically designed to be small, lightweight and possible to be mass produced. Many more will follow.

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Fusion Green Hydrogen Oman

Study suggests new strategy for storing hydrogen, using natural gas as stabilizer

Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2019

A recent study has suggested a new strategy for storing hydrogen, using natural gas as a stabilizer. As a result, they succeeded in stably storing the hydrogen-natural gas compound in hydrates. A paper on the work is published in the journal Energy Storage Materials.

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Store Hydrogen Gas Energy Storage

Toyota introduces second-generation Mirai fuel cell electric vehicle as design and technology flagship

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2020

For 2021, Toyota has fully rebooted the Mirai, originally offered in 2016, as a premium rear-wheel drive sports-luxury fuel cell electric vehicle (FCEV) with striking design, cutting-edge technology, more engaging driving performance and a significantly longer EPA-estimated range rating.

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DOE closes on $504M loan guarantee for world’s largest clean hydrogen and energy storage project

Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2022

The hub will initially be designed to convert renewable energy through 220 MW of alkaline electrolyzers to produce up to 100 metric tonnes per day of green hydrogen, which will then be stored in two massive salt caverns each capable of storing 150 GWh of energy. Rendering of Advanced Clean Energy Storage salt cavern.

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Energy Storage Clean Cleaning Hydrogen

SGH2 building largest green hydrogen production facility in California; gasification of waste into H2

Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2020

Energy company SGH2 is bringing the world’s biggest green hydrogen production facility to Lancaster, California. SGH2 says that its green hydrogen is cost competitive with “gray” hydrogen produced from fossil fuels such as natural gas—the source of the majority of hydrogen used in the United States. —Lancaster Mayor R.

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Waste Hydrogen Green California

MIT team exploring using LOHCs directly on-board hydrogen-fueled trucks

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Green, the Hoyt Hottel Professor in Chemical Engineering, is developing a technology that allows liquid organic hydrogen carriers (LOHCs) not only to deliver hydrogen to the trucks, but also to store the hydrogen onboard. Image courtesy of the Green Group. A team of MIT researchers led by William H. 3c01919

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MIT Hydrogen Fuel Exhaust

Wärtsilä, Höegh LNG and partners receive funding of €5.9M to develop ammonia as hydrogen carrier

Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2023

The funding is a part of Norway’s Green Platform program of initiatives and amounts to approximate 50% of the total budget for the joint project. The project is designed to enhance the availability of large-scale storage and transportation capabilities of clean energy.

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Hydrogen Norway Store Renewable

Stanford team proposes new design strategy for electrolytes for lithium metal batteries

Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2020

Stanford University scientists have proposed a design strategy for electrolytes that enable anode-free Li metal batteries with single-solvent single-salt formations at standard concentrations. Lithium metal batteries do this by replacing the graphite anode with lithium metal, which can store significantly more energy.

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Design Li-ion Battery Batteries

Uniper receives €2.375M funding notification for Krummhoern hydrogen storage pilot

Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2022

The advantage of hydrogen is that it can be stored. Storing electricity converted to hydrogen is important for balancing supply and demand fluctuations in the future. Storing electricity converted to hydrogen is important for balancing supply and demand fluctuations in the future. We are happy to support this path.

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Hydrogen Store Ukraine Gas-Electric

Team at Naval Research Laboratory suggests design direction for structural batteries

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2020

Structural batteries, i.e., batteries designed to bear mechanical loads, are projected to substantially increase system-level specific energy, resulting in electric vehicles with 70% more range and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with 41% longer hovering times.

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Zinc Air Design Battery Batteries

Porsche commissions MAN electric eTruck for green logistics at Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2018

The type designation indicates that the truck is a semitrailer tractor and belongs to the 18-tonne weight class, while the overall combination with a semitrailer is designed for a total weight of 32 tonnes in delivery traffic. The battery-powered eTruck is a MAN eTGM 18.360 4x2 LL.

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Porsche Green Electrical Electric

Sion Power projects Licerion EV Li-metal batteries will have 420 Wh/kg and 700 Wh/L when scaled to commercial design

Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2020

Sion Power, a developer of high-energy, lithium-metal rechargeable batteries, said that its Licerion EV technology will have energy capacities of 420 Wh/kg and 700 Wh/L when scaled to commercial design. Through optimization of its protected lithium anode (PLA) and advanced electrolyte formulations, Sion Power performed tests on 1.8

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Design Commercial Lithium Sulfur Power

Strategic Biofuels successfully tests carbon capture and storage for renewable diesel plant

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 15, 2021

Strategic Biofuels announced that its Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) Test Well Program was successfully completed at the company’s Louisiana Green Fuels Project (LGF) in Caldwell Parish, Louisiana. The program used oil field workers and traditional oilfield equipment to advance this green energy project.

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Renewable Carbon Diesel Louisiana

The Greening of Transportation

Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

In this month’s special report on the greening of transportation, we examine a moonshot idea for powering electric vehicles, the biggest change in aviation since the jet engine, and cargo ships with a battle-tested mode of generation.

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Transportation Green Climate Change Climate

Bombardier (now Alstom) to convert AGC hybrid trains to full battery power

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Bombardier Transportation (now part of Alstom) introduced a variety of green innovations to reduce CO 2 emissions and pollution in the railway sector. Bombardier is ideally positioned to carry out this greening project, since nearly 50% of the diesel rail fleet in France consists of AGC trains built at Crespin.

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Battery Powered Convert Power Powered

Kopernikus Project P2X integrated container-scale test facility produces first fuels from air-captured CO2 and green power

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2019

Dittmeyer suggests that is thus only reasonable to store unused green power in chemical energy carriers. After that, a pre-industrial demonstration plant in the megawatt range, i.e. with a production capacity of 1500 to 2000 liters per day, will be designed. Four steps to fuel.

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CO2 Green Power Powered

Carrier partners with ConMet to advance zero-emission transport refrigeration solutions

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2022

The electricity is stored in a high-capacity battery and then shared with other parts of the vehicle as needed. The eHub system can also utilize stored battery energy to power the eHub motors to propel the vehicle forward. The eHub system can also utilize stored battery energy to power the eHub motors to propel the vehicle forward.

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Transportation Emissions Waste Store

Kohl’s Department Stores expands charging station initiative with 18 additional locations; 101 stations in total

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Kohl’s Department Stores will expand its plug-in vehicle charging station initiative with 36 new stations across 18 additional Kohl’s locations by the end of fall 2012. These charging stations will be available at select Kohl’s stores through 31 December 2013, after which Kohl’s will assess opportunities to expand upon the effort.

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Store Wisconsin Charging Indiana

Toyota, Kenworth tout fuel cell electric truck capabilities with completion of truck operations for ZANZEFF

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Kenworth designed and built the Class 8 T680 FCEVs, while Toyota designed and built the powertrain’s fuel cell electric power system powered by hydrogen. Earlier post.). The Ocean trucks reduced Greenhouse Gases (GHG) by 74.66 metric tons of CO 2 per truck annually compared to the baseline diesel engine.

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Kenworth Los Angeles Toyota Fuel

Study finds direct seawater splitting has substantial drawbacks to conventional water splitting, offers almost no advantage

Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2021

To meet this challenge and to satisfy the constant energy demand of society, electricity must be stored in times of overproduction to provide energy when little sunshine and wind is available. To store the green electricity in a highly scalable way, it must be converted into chemical energy. —Driess et al.

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Water Hydrogen Store Wind

Shell and Uniper to work together on blue hydrogen production facility in the UK

Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2022

Blue hydrogen refers to hydrogen produced by the reformation of natural gas, with the CO 2 produced as a result of this process being captured and stored using CCS technology. Uniper plans to develop a hydrogen hub at its Killingholme site, with up to 720MW blue hydrogen production and up to 100MW green hydrogen production.

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Hydrogen Production Carbon Store

H2Carrier receives AiP from DNV for P2XFloater floating hydrogen and ammonia facility

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2022

H2Carrier is the designer and owner of the proprietary floating energy production and storage system P2XFloater—the first industrial-scale floating green hydrogen and ammonia facility of its kind in the world. Green hydrogen is produced by pumping seawater onboard, purifying the water and feeding it to electrolyzers.

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Hydrogen Norway Wind Renewable

Researchers use quantum computing method to optimize molecular photoswitches for solar energy harvesting

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2023

Molecular photoswitches that can both convert and store energy could be used to make solar energy harvesting more efficient. At present, solar energy is either used directly to generate electricity, or indirectly via the energy stored in heat reservoirs. This corresponds to a closed cycle of energy capture, storage and release.

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Solar Energy Energy Storage Store

Ballard signs MOU with Global Energy Ventures for development of fuel-cell-powered hydrogen carrier C-H2

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Artist rendering of Global Energy Ventures’ fuel cell-powered C-H 2 Ship, to be powered by a Ballard system as it transports compressed green hydrogen. At full scale, the C-H 2 Ship will have a propulsion power requirement of approximately 26MW, and a containment system for storage of 2,000 tons of compressed green hydrogen.

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Hydrogen Global Mariner Fuel

Summit Ag Group launches world’s largest CCS project; to reduce carbon footprint of biorefineries by up to 50%

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

When fully developed, Summit Carbon Solutions will have an infrastructure network (pipeline and injection wells) capable of capturing and permanently storing more than 10 million tons of carbon dioxide annually in underground saline formations in North Dakota—equivalent to taking 2 million cars off the road per year. Green Plains Inc.

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North Dakota Carbon South Dakota Iowa

BLive launched its first multi-brand EV store in Hyderabad

Electric Vehicles India

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

BLive launched its first multi-brand EV store in Hyderabad . BLive has announced that it has launched its first multi-brand EV store in Hyderabad. The EV experience platform aims to offer electric two-wheelers and electric bicycles (e-bikes) designed and manufactured by Indian brands at this offline store.

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Store India Financing Dealers

Toyota Mirai drives 1,003 km (623 miles) on one fill of hydrogen

Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2021

Green hydrogen was used during the record attempt. kg/100km, with Mirai being able to store 5.6 It offers more performance, a sleeker and more dynamic design and new driving dynamics compared to the first-generation product. The distance & consumption were certified by an independent authority. kg of hydrogen.

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Hydrogen Toyota Miles France

Novel Li-metal electrode design could lead to more powerful solid-state batteries

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Researchers at MIT and their colleagues are proposing a new design for electrodes that, based on the long-sought goal of using pure lithium metal as the anode, could lead to longer-lived batteries with higher energy densities. We designed this structure that gives us three-dimensional electrodes, like a honeycomb. —Ju Li.

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Li-ion Design Molten Salt Battery

Hybrid biomass flow battery stores electricity and produces valuable chemicals at the same time

SoCalGas, H2U testing new Gramme 50 electroylzer for green hydrogen production

H2Carrier and Anori developing PtX project in Greenland; production of green ammonia on floating platform P2XFloater

Cummins provides 20MW PEM electrolyzer to Air Liquide for green hydrogen production

Nornickel investigating using mining tailings to capture and store CO2

Provaris receives ABS approval for design of H2Neo compressed hydrogen carrier

IIT, Argonne team designs Li2O-based Li-air battery with solid electrolyte; four-electron reaction for higher energy density

Fraunhofer IFF team designing hydrogen factory of the future

Australian researchers develop new hybrid plasma electrocatalytic process to produce green ammonia

GEV and Pacific Hydro sign MoU to explore export of green hydrogen using new compressed H2 ship

Chartwell secures £320k Innovate UK Smart Grant to develop methanol-fueled vessel design

Heliogen and Bloom Energy demonstrate production of low-cost green hydrogen; concentrated solar and high-temp electrolysis

Starfire Energy closes major funding round; green ammonia and hydrogen solutions

Where to Start with EV Charging for Convenience Stores & Truck Stops

ATI FlyZero project finds green liquid hydrogen most viable zero-carbon emission fuel for aircraft

Siemens Energy, FFI and GeoPura developing prototype ammonia cracker to produce hydrogen

Fusion Fuel Green partners with CCC to develop green hydrogen demonstrator plants in Middle East

Study suggests new strategy for storing hydrogen, using natural gas as stabilizer

Toyota introduces second-generation Mirai fuel cell electric vehicle as design and technology flagship

DOE closes on $504M loan guarantee for world’s largest clean hydrogen and energy storage project

SGH2 building largest green hydrogen production facility in California; gasification of waste into H2

MIT team exploring using LOHCs directly on-board hydrogen-fueled trucks

Wärtsilä, Höegh LNG and partners receive funding of €5.9M to develop ammonia as hydrogen carrier

Stanford team proposes new design strategy for electrolytes for lithium metal batteries

Uniper receives €2.375M funding notification for Krummhoern hydrogen storage pilot

Team at Naval Research Laboratory suggests design direction for structural batteries

Porsche commissions MAN electric eTruck for green logistics at Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen

Sion Power projects Licerion EV Li-metal batteries will have 420 Wh/kg and 700 Wh/L when scaled to commercial design

Strategic Biofuels successfully tests carbon capture and storage for renewable diesel plant

The Greening of Transportation

Bombardier (now Alstom) to convert AGC hybrid trains to full battery power

Kopernikus Project P2X integrated container-scale test facility produces first fuels from air-captured CO2 and green power

Carrier partners with ConMet to advance zero-emission transport refrigeration solutions

Kohl’s Department Stores expands charging station initiative with 18 additional locations; 101 stations in total

Toyota, Kenworth tout fuel cell electric truck capabilities with completion of truck operations for ZANZEFF

Study finds direct seawater splitting has substantial drawbacks to conventional water splitting, offers almost no advantage

Shell and Uniper to work together on blue hydrogen production facility in the UK

H2Carrier receives AiP from DNV for P2XFloater floating hydrogen and ammonia facility

Researchers use quantum computing method to optimize molecular photoswitches for solar energy harvesting

Ballard signs MOU with Global Energy Ventures for development of fuel-cell-powered hydrogen carrier C-H2

Summit Ag Group launches world’s largest CCS project; to reduce carbon footprint of biorefineries by up to 50%

BLive launched its first multi-brand EV store in Hyderabad

Toyota Mirai drives 1,003 km (623 miles) on one fill of hydrogen

Novel Li-metal electrode design could lead to more powerful solid-state batteries

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