Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2020

U-Haul has purchased its first million gallons of renewable propane, which is available to customers at U-Haul autogas facilities across Southern California. Suburban Propane also recently invested in renewable DME provider Oberon Fuels. to supply the fuel. Earlier post.). —John Barnett, U-Haul propane program manager.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2020

and Toyota Tsusho Corporation agreed to establish Toyota Green Energy LLP for the purposes of obtaining and managing renewable energy sources in Japan and supplying electric power from renewable energy sources to the Toyota Group in the future. Toyota Motor Corporation, Chubu Electric Power Co.,

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

The European Parliament approved binding 2030 target for renewables (32%) and an indicative target on energy efficiency (32.5%) that will play a crucial role in meeting the EU’s climate goals. The EU Renewable Energy Directive creates a predictable investment environment for biofuels. Both targets are to be reviewed by 2023.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 12, 2022

According to Tesla, California’s proposed rules would adversely affect the adoption of sustainable solutions, as it would disincentivize homeowners from adopting renewable energy systems like residential solar. “If adopted, this would be the highest solar fee anywhere in the country, including states hostile to renewable energy.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 17, 2020

Renewable energy is not just better for the environment, it's also becoming cheaper than coal for electricity generation in many parts of the world, according to a new report.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2020

ATCO’s Clean Energy Innovation Hub has been generating and testing the use of renewable hydrogen for more than six months in gas blending and power applications. The Hub provides a fantastic base from which to partner with Fortescue to contribute to Western Australia’s burgeoning renewable hydrogen industry.

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MARCH 1, 2018

The Department of Energy announced a funding opportunity totaling $3 million to support projects between US industry and DOE national laboratories related to improving materials in severe or complex environments through the new High Performance Computing for Materials in Applied Energy Technologies ( HPC4Mtls ) Program. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 21, 2021

Although Americans are closely divided on whether to phase out internal combustion engines in the near future, they do agree more decidedly on the environmental merits of EVs and that we should have more renewable energy—as a couple of recent Pew polls suggest.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 31, 2019

Rotterdam The Hague Airport and a European consortium led by EDL Anlagenbau Gesellschaft mbH signed a cooperation agreement to develop a demonstration plant that produces renewable jet fuel from air. This plant aims to be the first worldwide to offer renewable jet fuel from air to the market.

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Electrek

MAY 25, 2022

The EU plans to transition to renewables more than twice as fast as Japan by 2030, according to new analysis released by global energy think tank Ember ahead of the G7 environment, climate, and energy ministers meeting, which kicks off today in Berlin.

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APRIL 21, 2023

2023) “Origin of active sites on silica–magnesia catalysts and control of reactive environment in the one-step ethanol-to-butadiene process.” 6b01728 Chung, SH., Shoinkhorova, T. Nat Catal doi: 10.1038/s41929-023-00945-0

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AUGUST 24, 2017

Airport services provider Finavia will fuel 20 Helsinki Airport buses with Neste MY Renewable Diesel. Using Neste MY Renewable Diesel as our vehicle fuel is a fixed part of our emissions solutions. In addition to reduced emissions, another reason to select Neste MY Renewable Diesel was its easy adoption.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Researchers from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and their colleagues have devised a novel catalytic method to produce renewable acrylonitrile (ACN) using 3-hydroxypropionic acid (3-HP), which can be biologically produced from sugars. Conceptual process diagram for renewable ACN production from biomass sugars.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

Neste Oil is expanding its algae research ( earlier post ) with the launch of a joint algae research program with the Marine Research Centre at Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE). The program is part of Neste Oil’s efforts aimed at using algae oil as a raw material for producing NExBTL renewable diesel in the future.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Progress on increasing the use of renewable energy and improving energy efficiency is slowing across the European Union, putting at risk the EU’s ability to achieve its energy and emissions reduction targets. Renewed efforts will also be necessary to meet the 2030 climate and energy targets. Progress on renewables.

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Setec Powerr

DECEMBER 5, 2022

In any case, when we switch from fossil fuels to renewable energy, we reduce but do not eliminate environmental damage. Current versions of renewable energy such as solar cells and windmills do far less damage to the environment than oil rigs, fracking, and strip mining, but they do damage the environment.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2023

Delivery fleets, marine vessels, recreational vehicles, renewable energy storage, and construction equipment all use this standard. Germany-based Liacon, one of Europe’s largest battery manufacturers, has released a new, more versatile lithium-iron-phosphate (LFP) battery that can replace all Group 31 lead-acid units.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 26, 2021

Originally published on Transport & Environment. By Sam Hargreaves The UK will have enough renewable resources to meet its electricity demand for transport in 2050, a new T&E analysis finds. However, this is only possible if it reserves the use of e-fuels for shipping and aviation.

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

There seems to be a renewed rush of FUD (fear, uncertainty, and doubt) being spread about electric vehicles these days. And it’s either by “environmental groups” or other groups pushing environmental groups to “lead the charge” against EVs.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced a new high-performance computing (HPC) initiative to help US industry accelerate the development of new or improved materials for use in severe environments. The program will focus on developing improved lightweight material technologies, as well.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2018

An initial project will connect the JuiceNet EV charging platform to one of LO3’s transactive energy marketplaces, activating local renewable energy to be traded between the microgrid and electric vehicle owners. Local energy trading platforms are taking a foothold as a scalable and cost-effective way to enable flexibility management.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Pertamina and Eni signed a Memorandum of Understanding to investigates synergies of their respective technologies, expertises and know-how, for jointly evaluating new collaboration opportunities in the areas of circular economy, driver for strategic development for Eni and its subsidiaries Syndial (Environment) and Versalis (Chemicals).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2016

Avantherm , a Swedish company specializing in heat transfer media products, has started using Neste Renewable Isoalkane to produce the next generation, high-performance and more environmentally friendly heat transfer media. Avantherm thus becomes one of the first companies to market Heat Transfer Media produced from renewable raw materials.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2017

Ryder System, a leader in commercial fleet management, dedicated transportation, and supply chain solutions, has begun to offer 100% renewable diesel (RD) fuel at its San Francisco fueling facility. Renewable diesel is an excellent transition fuel as we move toward our zero-emission vehicle future powered by 100% renewable energy or biofuels.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2023

The Bridgestone Turanza EV tire is the first replacement market tire in North America to feature ENLITEN technology ( earlier post ), which is engineered to help optimize all-season performance, provide longer wear life, and allow for the incorporation of renewable and recycled materials in its tire products.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 28, 2018

With a carbon intensity under the California Low Carbon Fuel Standard of about negative 300, dairy biomethane is highly valuable, but needs to be collected at the dairy, pipelined to a central processing facility, then cleaned and compressed for use as Renewable Natural Gas in converted diesel trucks and other natural gas vehicles.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 13, 2019

If electric cars are supposed to clean up the environment and reduce global warming—and they are—EV drivers would like to rely on 100 percent renewable energy to do charge. And charging networks are striving to provide it.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

The city of San Diego, California has begun using Neste renewable diesel in its vehicle fleet. The City expects to begin using renewable diesel at fire stations in the coming weeks, which will result in all of the City’s 1,125 diesel-powered vehicles being powered by renewable diesel. —Major Kevin Faulconer.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2021

Electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) is a promising approach to solve both renewable energy storage and carbon-neutral energy cycle. Here, we demonstrated a rational strategy to synthesize the Cu catalyst under a CO-rich environment to induce the growth of defect-rich sites that are best for the adsorption of CO.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

billion gasoline-equivalent gallons per year nationwide, according to a new study by a team at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). The paper is published in Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment. High adoption of shared micromobility in the US coud save 2.3 2021.103012.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Neste has begun design of a new production line in its Singapore refinery for the production of renewable diesel, renewable aviation fuel and raw materials for various biochemical uses. We investigated the strengths of both potential operating environments, and also revisited our outlooks for raw materials and demand.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 26, 2023

Current proposals for decarbonizing the steel sector rely on phasing out existing plants and introducing electric arc furnaces powered by renewable electricity. The perovskite can be regenerated to its original form in a chemical reaction that takes place in a low oxygen environment. Kildahl et al.

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Innovation News Network

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The post COP28: World leaders commit to slash fossil fuels and triple renewable energy appeared first on Innovation News Network. Countries worldwide have confirmed their commitment to reduce the use of fossil fuels and boost green energy at COP28.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2014

SG Preston (SGP) announced the planned development of a 120-million gallon per year renewable diesel facility in Lawrence County, Ohio. The SGP South Point facility will have a total investment of $400 million and reportedly will use Honeywell’s UOP technology.

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 26, 2016

Real leadership is coming from The Carson Coalition and Communities for a Better Environment and from all the Bernie Sanders for President supporters. I’ve been working on the local 100% renewable energy solution nonstop for the last two years personally, so I know we can get all of L.A. County powered by renewables by 2026.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2023

The partners said that the successful test validates the feasibility and stability of direct seawater electrolysis technology in a real ocean environment. This project was a joint effort by DEC and a research team led by Academician Xie Heping from the Chinese Academy of Engineering. A paper describing the project is published in Nature.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Europe’s transport sector is making only mixed progress in meeting its environment, health and climate policy targets, according to the latest European Environment Agency (EEA) assessment which tracks the short and long-term environmental performance of this key economic sector across the European Union. in 2015 to 7.1%

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