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2019 Keeling Curve Prize winners include Opus 12; conversion of CO2 into fuels and chemicals

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water and electricity to produce higher-energy carbon-based products and a co-product of pure oxygen. This reaction is energetically uphill, so electricity must be added to drive the reaction forward, and it is not possible without a new family of CO?-reducing reducing catalysts. Energy Access. Transportation.

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BYD has no plans to enter the US Market amid “complications’ [Feature]

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BYD Executive Vice President and CEO of BYD Americas sat down with Yahoo Finance , and talked about the Chinese automaker’s lack of presence in the US Market and the global electric vehicle (EV) market. However, some argue there is strong EV demand in the United States, just not for the electric vehicles GM and Ford offer.

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BYD has no plans to launch EVs in the US, says the market is too confusing for buyers

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Li sat down for an interview with Yahoo Finance Anchor Akiki Fujita to discuss the global EV market. After confirming that BYD will officially announce a new manufacturing facility in Mexico, likely in the second half of the year, Li shut down rumors the automaker was planning to enter the US. They are not eager to invest.”

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China’s EV brands are coming to bury US automakers—or are they? – Charged EVs

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Now they’re ramping up production and building a fleet of gigantic auto-carrier ships—it certainly appears that they’re planning to flood the global market (they’re exporting gas-burners too). It’s building factories in Brazil, Thailand, Hungary and Uzbekistan, and will soon break ground on a plant in Mexico. You will die.

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USDA closes on $105M loan guarantee to Fulcrum for biorefinery converting municipal waste to renewable jet fuel; first USDA loan for biojet

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Fulcrum will gasify 147,000 tons of municipal solid waste to produce synthesis gas which it then will catalytically convert to synthetic paraffinic kerosene/jet fuel via a Fischer-Tropsch (FT) process. A venturi scrubber captures and removes any entrained particulate, and the syngas is further cooled in a packed gas cooler scrubber.

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VW ID.4 review, Audi Q6 E-Tron preview, Lexus RX PHEV, Trump EV tariff: The Week in Reverse

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Green Car Reports also drove the 2024 Lexus RX 450h+ and found it to have a usable electric-only range and comfortable ride but rather expensive and unimpressive in its infotainment interface. Fisker Ocean Shell announced this week that it’s planning to shed some gas stations in favor of EV charging.

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DOE to award $11M to 20 new Clean Cities projects for alt fuel cars and trucks

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The US Department of Energy (DOE) is [link] about $11 million to 20 new projects to help states and local governments to develop the infrastructure, training, and regional planning needed to help meet the demand for alternative fuel cars and trucks, including vehicles that run on natural gas, electricity, and propane. Gas Technology.

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