Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Arun Raju, director of the Center for Renewable Natural Gas at UC Riverside, recently received a $146,000 grant from Southern California Gas Co. However, discussions also are underway in Sacramento to further tighten those requirements to 50% as early as 2025 and 100% by 2045.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

PM emissions from current vehicles in Beijing could be reduced by approximately 19% by simply blending 20% synthetic diesel with currently available diesel, according to a new study by Tsinghua University, the Desert Research Institute in Nevada and Greyrock Energy, a developer of gas-to-liquids technology.

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Diesel Emissions Gas Sacramento 150

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2012

The Rotopress modular technology, combined with a decoupled tractor-trailer configuration using natural gas as its fuel source, provides a number of operational and environmental benefits. This combined with the use of natural gas engines will greatly reduce noise levels. Sacramento, Calif., Milwaukee, Wis.

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North America Waste America Gas 210

Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2017

A team from the California Air Resources Board (ARB), in partnership with the City of Sacramento, has characterized the in-use emissions from model year (MY) 2010 or newer diesel, liquefied natural gas (LNG) and hydraulic hybrid diesel engines during real-world refuse truck operation. g NO x /bhp-hr) or interim MY 2010 (0.5

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2017

The municipal engineering department of Porvoo and the free summer bus Rinkeli will start using the product immediately. Neste MY Renewable Diesel is an excellent solution for many cities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In California in the US, our products are already used in Sacramento and San Diego.

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Diesel Renewable San Diego Finland 150

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

The projects, funded under the ARB’s Innovative Clean Air Technologies program, include demonstrations of a big-rig truck trailer aerodynamic device, a hydraulic hybrid drivetrain for commercial vehicles and a stationary biogas engine. Advanced Transit Dynamics, Inc. Eaton Corp.

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The Truth About Cars

OCTOBER 30, 2023

It was the Chevrolet Sprint ER , and I've found a nicely intact example in a car graveyard just east of Sacramento. If you want to be picky, the 198 6 Sprint ER was the gas-mileage king of 1980s America, rated at 44 city and 53 highway miles per gallon. liter Suzuki three-cylinder engine, rated at 49 horsepower. per gallon.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2012

This set of awards supports a diversity of alternative fuel and vehicle types, including biodiesel production, natural gas vehicle technologies and incentives, hybrid and plug-in vehicles, and E85 fueling stations. million as a share of the cost to install 101 new E85 (ethanol) fueling facilities at existing gas fueling stations statewide.

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California Transportation Green Energy 240

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2011

For the first time in more than a decade, BMW will once again offer a four-cylinder engine in the United States, said Jim O’Donnell, president BMW North America, in remarks at the Washington DC Auto Show. We know there is still great potential for the continuing development of the internal combustion engine. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Utilizing Neste’s NEXBTL renewable diesel, Propel’s Diesel HPR is a low-carbon, drop-in renewable fuel that meets the ASTM D-976 petroleum diesel specifications for use in diesel engines, while offering drivers better performance and lower emissions. Performance features include a 75 cetane rating, 40 percent higher than regular diesel.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2019

The CEC formally approved the award at its monthly Business Meeting yesterday in Sacramento. This project is a building block to statewide production of rDME from California’s methane, removing this greenhouse gas from waste streams and converting it to an ultra-low carbon or carbon-negative transportation fuel.

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Grant Renewable California Fuel 170

Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2009

The test was conducted on a 2008 40 foot Orion VII Low Floor natural gas bus powered by an ISL G 280, driven by a Sacramento Regional Transit bus driver on city and highway routes. Sensors Inc. concluded that emissions were significantly lower than the 2010 EPA Heavy Duty in use emission requirements. The Cummins Westport (CWI) 8.9

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2010 Emissions Sacramento EPA 170

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 31, 2015

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) has tentaively scheduled the first Advanced Clean Transit Advisory Committee meeting for 29 January 2016 in Sacramento.

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Clean Cleaning California Purchase 150

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 8, 2018

CARB will conduct a public hearing on 27 September in Sacramento to consider the proposed ICT Regulation. Use of low NO x engines. Starting 1 January 2020, transit agencies would be required to purchase low NOx engines if available for the bus and fuel type being purchased. Use of renewable fuels.

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Purchase California Clean Cleaning 276

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2013

DME is non-toxic and non-carcinogenic and can be produced from natural gas (NG), coal, biomass, or even directly from carbon dioxide. There are over half a million vehicles currently using liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) in Australia, all of which could be powered using DME. —Prof. Suresh Bhargava RMIT.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2013

A team from the California Air Resources Board (ARB) reports on their evaluation of the in-use emissions performance of four different heavy-duty diesel engines certified to the MY 2010 or interim MY 2010 NO x standards over a wide range of driving conditions in California in a paper published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology.

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Exhaust 2010 Emissions Diesel 246

Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2019

Concentric Ring Gas Atomization Die Design for Optimized Particle Production, $150,000 Praxair, Indianapolis, Ind. High-fidelity ignition models to boost engine thermal efficiency, $720,000 Convergent Science Inc., Development of low-cost magnetocaloric materials, $150,000 General Engineering and Research, L.L.C., Madison, Wis.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2014

NFPA 2 provides fundamental safeguards for the generation, installation, storage, piping, use and handling of hydrogen in compressed gas or cryogenic (low temperature) liquid form and is referenced by many fire officials in the permitting process for hydrogen fueling stations. Fuel Cells Hydrogen Infrastructure Safety'

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Hydrogen Design Fuel Sacramento 246

Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2013

The staff of the California Air Resources Board (ARB) is holding a public meeting on 23 April in Sacramento to discuss regulatory concepts for establishing fuel requirements for alternative diesel fuels (ADF), including biodiesel, renewable diesel and other emerging diesel fuel substitutes.

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Diesel California Fuel Renewable 247

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

LLC, a Sacramento, California-based biofuels company, has licensed a biomass pyrolysis process from the University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc (UGARF). Lead inventor of the technology is Tom Adams, a retired member of the University of Georgia Faculty of Engineering. Tolero Energy.

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Georgia Sacramento Waste Oil 191

Green Car Congress

MARCH 1, 2015

Aerojet Rocketdyne was awarded a contract to research and to develop environmentally sustainable monopropellants and gas generators for rocket and missile propulsion and Divert Attitude Control Systems. Parallel efforts will ensure that these compositions are safe to handle and leave a minimal environmental footprint.

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Green Sacramento 2010 Store 150

Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2016

The proposed regulations incorporate advanced principles of safer engineering and management, as well as attention to the human and organizational elements of safety. A public hearing on the Process Safety Management regulation will be held in Sacramento on 15 September; a public hearing on the CalARP regulation has not yet been scheduled.

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Oil California Chevron Sacramento 150

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Chrysler will also distribute 5 of the Ram PHEVs to Central Hudson Gas & Electric and National Grid officials as part of a national demonstration program for evaluation and testing of the trucks for three years. Other cities that have received the demonstration Ram 1500 pickups include San Francisco and Sacramento, Calif., Albany, N.Y.,

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Chrysler PHEV Parts San Francisco 199

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2012

Still, scientists agree that black carbon in the atmosphere has a significant effect on global and regional climate, with earlier studies ranking the warming effects of black carbon particles second only to carbon dioxide gas. Cappa, a professor of engineering at the University of California, Davis, and Timothy B.

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Climate Climate Change Carbon Boston 261

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2011

The 12 EISG projects approved were: CHA Corporation of McClellan will receive $95,000 for a project to demonstrate microwave-based hydrogen production from biogas for reciprocating engines and fuel cells. of Menlo Park will receive $94,995 to reduce the environmental impacts of the natural gas dehydration process.

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Li-ion Grid Energy California 186

Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2010

As with any recommendation engine, Hohm will provide increasingly more accurate and relevant suggestions for energy conservation as its users contribute home energy input and feedback. It’s our desire that this [Ford-Microsoft] partnership minimize the transition for consumers from gas to electric vehicles. —Ed Pleet.

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EV Smart Ford Charging North America 210

Plugs and Cars

DECEMBER 4, 2006

According to this review, "BMW has created an energy-guzzling engine that only seems to be environmentally friendly -- a farcical ecomobile whose only true merit is that of illustrating the cardinal dilemma of a possible hydrogen-based economy." I took this car on a little drive in Sacramento in September at the CARB ZEVTech.

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Hydrogen Green Sacramento BMW 100

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

The goal of the revised ZEV program should be to help demonstration-stage, low-GHG emitting technologies to commercialization, include fuel cell vehicles (FCVs); battery-electric vehicles (BEVs); and Enhanced AT PZEVs, which currently include plug-in HEVs (PHEV) and hydrogen internal combustion engine (HICE) vehicles.

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Emissions California Climate Change Vehicles 210

Charged EVs

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Among its first announced customers, back in December 2017, was Pepsi, which reserved 100 of the trucks and plans to use them in the California regions of Modesto and Sacramento. The small number of operators who run mixed-fuel fleets (diesel and gasoline, or diesel and natural gas) will understand these tradeoffs better.

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Volvo Fleet Electric Electrical 132

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

A 500cc motorcycle engine is used, housed in a small, aerodynamic package. Amazingly, even with all the conversion losses added up, the gas mileage of this combo is comparable or BETTER than the pure gasoline version of the same vehicle. There were many obstacles to this project seeing the light of day - most of them bureaucratic.

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RAV4EV EV1 Sacramento Gasoline 62

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

NSTAR Electric & Gas Corporation (MA). New York State Electric & Gas Corporation. Pacific Gas & Electric Company (CA). Premium Power Distributed Energy Storage System Demonstration for National Grid and Sacramento Municipal Utility District. 29,561,142. 125,006,103. 25,000,000. 16,080,554. 10,792,045.

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Energy Storage Grid Energy Wind 270

Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2013

In addition, CEC awarded $1,815,274 to fund 20 energy research projects in the areas of transportation, electricity, and natural gas. Its benefits include the reduction of an estimated 32,000 tons of greenhouse gas emissions annually—roughly equivalent to the greenhouse gas emissions produced by 5,850 gasoline vehicles in a year.

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San Diego California Energy Transportation 346

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2018

The ICT is part of a statewide effort to reduce emissions from the transportation sector, which accounts for 40% of greenhouse gas emissions and 80-90% of smog-forming pollutants. Their buses drive in stop-and-go traffic where conventional internal combustion engines waste fuel while idling.

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Fleet Emissions 2019 Purchase 353

Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2013

At an event in Sacramento, California, Volvo Trucks announced that it will commercialize dimethyl ether (DME)-powered heavy-duty commercial vehicles in North America, with limited production beginning in 2015. DME engine in 2015. Volvo is currently in development with the DME engine that will enter production in 2015.

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Volvo 2015 Production North America 270

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2014

The event, to be held 16 October at the Sacramento (California) Municipal Utility District’s Customer Service Center, is open to the public and will begin at 9 a.m. and Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. .; and Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.

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EPRI Grid San Diego Sacramento 265

Cars That Think

DECEMBER 5, 2022

He eventually discovered biomedical engineering and was inspired to focus his career on developing assistive technology. These days, Cooper and his team at the University of Pittsburgh ’s Human Engineering Research Laboratories are working to develop advancements including a wheelchair that can travel on rough terrain.

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Universal Engine California Sacramento 90

Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2016

The companies receiving funds have the engineering resources, manufacturing capabilities and distribution networks to support commercialization of advanced technologies related to moving freight to and from the ports. Volvo will be deploying a plug-in hybrid electric diesel truck under the Mack brand. Earlier post.).

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Peterbilt Kenworth California BYD 150