Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

As a leading producer in the Gulf of Mexico with approximately 150 million barrels of oil each year, Shell also operates extensive onshore facilities in Louisiana, including its Norco and Geismar plants, a major training center in Robert, and corporate offices in New Orleans. billion and create 740 direct jobs, should the project be built.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Joule, a pioneer in producing liquid fuels from recycled CO 2 , and Red Rock Biofuels, a leading developer of renewable jet and diesel fuel bio-refineries using the Fischer-Tropsch process, announced that they intend to merge. The project is supported by a $70-million grant from the U.S. —Serge Tchuruk.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2014

Hydraulic pumps/motors and an accumulator (power storage unit) are added to gasoline, diesel, propane or CNG engines to store braking energy and use the captured energy to accelerate the vehicle, significantly saving fuel and brakes and cutting emissions. On this cycle, CO 2 emissions are reduced by 16% and NO x emissions are reduced by 67%.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2015

Specifically, USDA will administer competitive grants to match funding for state-led efforts to test and evaluate innovative and comprehensive approaches to market higher blends of renewable fuel, such as E15 and E85. USDA will post a Notice of Solicitation of Applications in June.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2012

Green Diesel. The hydroprocessing technology used in the Green Diesel process—and also used for Green Jet—is relatively mature, Rekoske noted. UOP is moving faster commercially on the Green Diesel side, with the Diamond Green project with Darling International and Valero Energy nearly complete. —Jim Rekoske.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2015

Engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder and New Mexico State University have developed a simpler process that can simultaneously remove both salts and organic contaminants from the wastewater, all while producing additional energy. Ren and Forrestal also worked with researchers Zachary Stoll and Pei Xu at New Mexico State University.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2016

Researchers from the University of New Mexico, Washington State University, and GM Global R&D have developed a novel approach to trap platinum atoms used in catalysts, preventing their agglomeration and the resultant reduction of catalyst efficiency. This is the primary reason catalytic converters are tested regularly for effectiveness.

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EV Adoption

MARCH 23, 2021

Audi Will Stop Developing Internal Combustion Engines – According to Audi CEO Marcus Duesmann, the automaker will not develop any new internal combustion engines, and will begin phasing out the current gasoline and diesel engines and replacing them with electric powertrains. Regulations and Incentives.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2016

The Mayor of London Sadiq Khan recently committed to phasing out purchasing new pure diesel buses from the capital. No more pure diesel double-deck buses will be added to the capital’s fleet from 2018 and all new single-decks for central London will be zero-emission. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

Though the PHEV combines the two types of energy and power, it is not merely a temporary “transition” between gasoline and diesel cars to pure electric cars. The plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV), a subset of the PEV, uses electricity plus a different energy source (at present gasoline or diesel) to run its second engine.

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Charged EVs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

To be eligible for the full credit, a vehicle must be assembled in the US; at least 50% of the components in the battery must come from the US, Canada or Mexico by 2024, and 100% by 2028; and at least 40% of the raw minerals in the battery must come from the US or “a trade ally” in 2024, and 80% in 2026.

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The Truth About Cars

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Automotive News reported that the proposed bill would strip the EPA of authority to grant that waiver, adding that California has already received waivers from the EPA to set its own emissions limits for heavy trucks and other vehicles.

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