Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

South Africa-based Sasol and Japan-based ITOCHU Corporation have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) jointly to study and to develop the market and supply chain for green ammonia with a focus on its use as bunkering fuel and for power generation. Japan is expected to be a large importer of green ammonia in the future.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2014

Boeing, South African Airways (SAA) and SkyNRG are collaborating to make sustainable aviation biofuel from Solaris, a new hybrid tobacco plant optimized for seed production for energy applications. Initially, oil from the plants seeds will be converted into jet fuel. Aviation Bio-hydrocarbons'

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2023

Higher EV penetration reduces GHG emissions from fuel use regardless of the transportation energy transition, while those from fuel production are more sensitive to energy-sector decarbonization and could reach nearly “net zero” by 2040. —Zhang et al. (a) a) Annual demand and recycling potential with or without a second use.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2009

GE South African Technologies (GESAT), GE Transportation’s entity in South Africa, will supply 100 locomotives to Transnet Freight Rail (TFR). TFR is South Africa’s state-owned rail freight logistics utility; Transnet Limited is its parent company.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

The goal of the cooperation is to expand Europe’s hydrogen mobility ecosystem by implementing the use of fuel cell trucks. The joint entity began its active progress toward clean mobility in Switzerland with the company’s plans to deliver 1,600 fuel cell electric heavy-duty trucks by 2025.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

earlier post ) has signed a letter of intent (LOI) with ACIA Aero Leasing (ACIA), a regional aircraft lessor with offices in Ireland, France, Canada, Mauritius, and South Africa. The conversion consists of a fuel cell electric powertrain that replaces the existing turboprop engines. Universal Hydrogen Co.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 4, 2009

Exxaro Resources Limited, a South African-based mining group, has entered into a prospecting joint venture agreement with Sasol Mining Proprietary Limited (Sasol Mining) for the development of a new coal mine to supply Sasol’s potential new inland coal-to-liquids (CTL) project.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 1, 2022

South African retail firm TFG has bought 307 Tesla Powerwall battery storage units to support operations while state-owned power utility Eskom continues load shedding practices. . As of Thursday, September 29, South Africa experienced its 115th day of rolling blackouts in 2022. Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2012

Ballard Power Systems signed an agreement to acquire key assets from IdaTech, including its fuel cell product lines for backup power applications, distributor and customer relationships, as well as a license to intellectual property. IdaTech supplies both hydrogen- and methanol-fueled systems.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2022

Since then, Veolia has more than 450 installations worldwide for mills in Brazil, Indonesia, China, Japan, Australia, South Africa and several European countries. Veolia has been a major supplier to the pulp and paper industry since the 1960s for HPD black liquor evaporation systems. Metsä Fibre’s Äänekoski plant.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2021

Ammonia offers an energy density comparable to fossil fuels and significantly higher than Li-ion batteries and compressed or liquid hydrogen. Ammonia can be used directly as a fuel or it can be cracked, and its hydrogen harvested to provide a stable and efficient means of hydrogen storage and transportation.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 18, 2024

This technology has seen significant uptake due to its environmental benefits and improved fuel efficiency. One of the latest developments in the hybrid vehicle segment is the introduction of the Toyota Fortuner MHEV in South Africa. Under the hood, this SUV features a 2.8-liter diesel, courtesy of its hybrid technology.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2019

ENGIE is working with Anglo American, a global mining company, to develop a renewable hydrogen production and refueling solution to support a new hydrogen-powered mine haul vehicle that will be tested at one of its South African platinum mines.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2021

The CP hydrogen-powered locomotive pioneering project, first announced in December 2020, will retrofit a line-haul diesel freight locomotive with hydrogen fuel cells and Leclanché's European-manufactured lithium-ion batteries to power the locomotive's electric traction motors. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2021

Neo Performance Materials and Energy Fuels Inc. Energy Fuels will process the monazite sands into a mixed rare earth carbonate (RE Carbonate) in Utah for use as feed material for Neo’s value-added separated rare earth production plant in Europe.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Global mining company, Anglo American, has engaged Williams Advanced Engineering (WAE) to develop its new Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle (FCEV): a 290-tonne electrically powered mining haul truck, which is set to be the world’s largest electrified vehicle. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 3, 2021

TIFS has had a long-standing relationship with a supply of products in refrigerant, brake and fuel fluids with Mercedes-Benz. The fluid technologies developed for the Mercedes-Benz AG program was a collaborative global effort, specifically with teams in Germany, South Africa and China. Fluid systems—e.g.,

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Oorja, developer of methanol fuel cells in the power range from 1 kW to 20 kW, announced the close of a Series E investment round. The global fuel cell industry surpassed $1 billion in revenue in 2012, growing from $847.5 Earlier post.) million in 2011 to $1.3 billion in 2012, according to a 2013 report by Navigant Research.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2017

Ballard Power Systems’ subsidiary Protonex has received an initial order for its fuel cell propulsion system, together with design services, from FlyH2 Aerospace, a South African-based developer of hydrogen fuel cell powered unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for commercial applications.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2014

Oil from the plant’s seeds may be converted into bio-jet fuel as early as next year, with a test flight by SAA as soon as practicable. If the test farming in Limpopo is successful, the project will be expanded in South Africa and potentially to other countries.

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CleanTechnica EVs

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Anglo American is committed to carbon neutral mines by 2040 and is already using a prototype truck at its Mogalakwena platinum group metals mine in South Africa. Aurizon and Anglo American are working together to do just that. Aurizon is working towards carbon neutrality by 2050 […].

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2021

The study will explore the application of Anglo American’s proprietary hydrogen fuel cell and battery hybrid power units in heavy haul freight rail operations. An advanced trial of the prototype truck is being run at Anglo-American’s Mogalakwena platinum group metals mine in South Africa. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2013

Ballard Power Systems has shipped its 500 th methanol-fueled telecom backup power system, since expanding its product line in August 2012 via the acquisition of key assets from IdaTech. Ballard offers both ElectraGen-ME liquid-fueled methanol systems as well as ElectraGen-H2 gaseous hydrogen-fueled systems. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2016

In a cost-shared program supported by the US Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) and the Ohio Coal Development Office (OCDO) of the Ohio Development Services Agency (ODSA), a team at Battelle is demonstrating a new, hybrid, direct coal-to-liquids process for producing jet fuel using biomass-derived coal solvents.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

At this year’s Africa Aerospace & Defence (AAD) expo at AFB Waterkloof in Centurion, Rheinmetall AG is presenting turnkey, mobile modular solutions for producing, storing and transporting CO 2 -free hydrogen. The African Aerospace and Defence Exposition takes place every two years at AFB Waterkloof in Centurion, Gauteng, South Africa.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2017

South African engineering company Swayana has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with LanzaTech to collaborate on developing projects for the production of ethanol and higher value products from waste gases in the ferroalloy and titania smelting sectors. The possible impact of using off-gases from this sector is considerable.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Besides achieving a significant technical and performance milestone for hydrogen-on-demand enabled fuel cells, it is also the first time that a fuel cell has moved beyond the prototype stage and entered the standard products list of a UAV manufacturer. It took HES several years to achieve this performance.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2010

South Africa-based Sasol recently provided the synthetic jet fuel for the first passenger aircraft flight fully fueled by a synthetic fuel; demonstrations of aviation synfuels have so far been using 50% blends with petroleum-based jet fuel. To date, most of the aircraft leaving O.R.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2018

billion convertible issue from waste-to-energy specialist China Everbright International and a $311-million IPO by US fuel cell developer Bloom Energy. billion, the Enel Green Power South Africa portfolio, at $1.4 South Africa at $2.6 Public markets investment in clean energy jumped 120% to $3.1 billion for 300MW.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2010

A research collaboration between South Africa-based Sasol and the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at the University of Pretoria (UP) has led to the commissioning of high-tech equipment to gain better insights into the properties and performance of synthetic diesel fuels.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2013

Boeing and SAA believe that new developments in technology will enable the conversion of biomass into jet fuel in a more sustainable manner without competing with other sectors for food and water resources. Aviation biofuel refined to required standards has been approved for a blend of up to 50% with traditional jet fuel.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 29, 2022

Russia ranks second in the extraction of both crude oil (behind the United States and ahead of Saudi Arabia) and natural gas (behind the United States and ahead of Iran), and it is the sixth-largest producer of coal (behind Australia and ahead of South Africa). But Russian exports go far beyond fossil fuels; there is also food.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 22, 2024

Toyota recently introduced the hybrid version of the Fortuner in South Africa. Toyota claims the Fortuner MHEV is 5 percent more fuel-efficient than the standard 2.8 The Fortuner MHEV (Mild Hybrid Electric Vehicle) features a 2.8-liter liter diesel engine paired with a 48V mild-hybrid system, delivering 16hp and 42 Nm of torque.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2009

Alternative Fuels Corporation (AFC), a wholly-owned subsidiary of G4G Resources Ltd. Alternative Fuels Corporation (AFC), a wholly-owned subsidiary of G4G Resources Ltd. The agreement grants AFC exclusive rights to market the Wits conversion technology in the Americas.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2016

The key markets will be Argentina, Brazil, South Africa, Australia with New Zealand, and Europe. For example, to send navigation destinations to the vehicle or query where the pickup is parked and how much fuel is in the tank. The key markets are Brazil, Argentina, Australia, and South Africa. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Research will be conducted on biomass sourcing, fuel production, sustainability and lifecycle assessment, and aviation biofuel market development. Using sustainably produced biofuel reduces lifecycle carbon dioxide emissions by 50 to 80 percent compared to conventional petroleum fuel, according to the US Department of Energy.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2009

One of the outcomes of the meeting of G20 leaders in Pittsburgh this week was an agreement to phase out and rationalize over the medium-term inefficient fossil fuel subsidies while providing targeted support for the poorest. Many countries are reducing fossil fuel subsidies while preventing adverse impact on the poorest.

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