Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Audi is systematically building on its e-fuels strategy. Together with the partners Ineratec GmbH ( earlier post ) and Energiedienst Holding AG , the company has plans for a new pilot facility for the production of e-diesel in Laufenburg, in Canton Aargau (Switzerland). Earlier post.) Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2022

An opposed piston engine with hydrogen combustion could well provide the best-known thermal efficiency from a reciprocating engine, with the potential to match the in-vehicle efficiency of a hydrogen fuel cell. with an air/fuel equivalence ratio (lambda) ? ? Fuel Injection. The only criteria emission of concern is NO x.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2019

The Mercedes-Benz eActros heavy-duty electric truck, with a range of up to 200 km, is in intensive use by customers in Germany and Switzerland as part of the eActros “innovation fleet”. At Daimler Trucks & Buses we are clearly committed to the goals of the Paris Climate Protection Agreement and thus to the decarbonization of our industry.

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Teslarati

MARCH 20, 2023

TotalEnergies, a prominent French gas station chain, has announced it plans to sell its gas station locations in Germany and the Netherlands as it pursues EV charging and hydrogen fueling. One industry that is set for dramatic change with the switch from gas to electric vehicles is the gas station industry. billion euros ($3.3

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Baua Electric

APRIL 8, 2024

It also dominates global supplies of many other industrial metals needed for the energy transition: a source of worry for western leaders with net zero targets to meet. It also dominates global supplies of many other industrial metals needed for the energy transition: a source of worry for western leaders with net zero targets to meet.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2015

In an event in Bern, Switzerland, Swiss National Council member and president of the Clean Fuel Now initiative Thomas Böhni filled up his Audi A2 with 100% synthetic diesel (Audi e-diesel) produced by sunfire GmbH to draw attention to the need to remove what he terms unjustified Swiss restrictions on synthetic fuels.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2012

The 6 th Aviation and Environment Summit , recently held in Geneva, Switzerland, concluded with the adoption of an industry declaration titled “Aviation Benefits Beyond Boundaries,” as a joint message to the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD, or Rio+20).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2018

Exide Industries Ltd, India’s largest manufacturer of lead acid storage batteries and power storage solutions provider, and Switzerland-based Li-ion battery manufacturer Leclanché SA announced a joint venture to build lithium-ion batteries and provide energy storage systems for India’s electric vehicle market and grid-based applications.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

has entered into a collaboration and joint development agreement with Firmenich, the largest privately-owned fragrance and flavor company, based in Geneva, Switzerland. Amyris’s technology platform may be applied to produce an array of ingredients currently used in the fragrance and flavor industry in addition to fuels and other chemicals.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Stafford Sheehan for his excellent research in the area of new catalysts for renewable fuels. Rupp is Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge (USA) and affiliated to ETH Zurich (Switzerland). Dr. Jennifer L.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 21, 2022

Researchers from DeepMind and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), in Lausanne, Switzerland, are using this particular one to get us closer to harnessing fusion power for generating electricity. They’ve also been aware that we would need a whole heck of a lot of it if it is to make a dent in our reliance on fossil fuels.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2015

Unlike the others, however, Audi over the past few years has embarked on a comprehensive approach to developing a range of new CO₂-neutral fuels as part of its overall strategy for sustainable, carbon-neutral mobility: Audi e-fuels. Audi’s basic goal is to combine renewable energy (e.g.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2009

The NEMO project seeks to provide the most realistic but widely applicable technologies for delivering the biomass sugars and then fermenting the sugars that could be exploited broadly by European industry. The project is focusing on: Identifying and improving enzymes for hydrolysis of biomasses relevant for Europe. NEMO (CORDIS).

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 9, 2024

At the CES 2024, Hyundai Motor announced that it would expand HTWO, its existing fuel cell brand, into the Group’s hydrogen value chain business brand, and announced a ‘HTWO Grid’ solution that will accelerate the transition to a hydrogen society. Electrolysis plants operate on renewable energy sources, such as wind, solar and hydropower.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Beginning in 2019 and over a five-year period, Hyundai Motor and H2 Energy will provide 1,000 heavy-duty fuel cell electric trucks ( earlier post ) and an adequate supply chain for renewable hydrogen. The fuel cell electric truck is being developed according to European regulations.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Over the next three years, the two Swiss research institutes will jointly search for practical ways of linking carbon dioxide and hydrogen to form longer-chain molecules and thus produce synthetic fuels. Aviation fuels are the fuels with the highest quality. A synthetic fuel must have the same properties. —Thomas J.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 17, 2022

Hydrogen produced from renewable energy or nuclear power, with minimal greenhouse-gas emissions, could be piped or transported pretty much anywhere, using mostly existing infrastructure. It could power trucks, cars, planes, and ships and generate electricity, either in fuel cells or combustion turbines. There’s just so much activity.”

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

A team led by Dr. Michael Grätzel at EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) in Switzerland has developed a highly efficient and low-cost water-splitting cell combining an advanced perovskite tandem solar cell and a bi-functional Earth-abundant catalyst. Jingshan Luo, post-doctoral researcher, explains how. Credit: EPFL.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

At issue is the 2012 expiration of the Kyoto Protocol, a binding but effectively unenforceable 1997 treaty that had set greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets for 40 industrialized countries, referred to as Annex 1 countries, yielding an average GHG reduction of 5.2% ” [ 1 ]. ºF) increase. Earlier post.)

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