Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2011

The report, “Flight Path to Sustainable Aviation”, examines a road map scenario under which the Australian and New Zealand aviation sectors achieve a 5% bio-derived jet fuel share in their fuel use by 2020, expanding that amount to 40% of their total fuel use by 2050. Source: CSIRO. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2010

A report from the New Zealand Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, Dr Jan Wright, is calling for a more strategic approach to biofuels. The purpose of the report is to consider strategically how biofuels might lessen the country’s dependence on fossil fuels and thus reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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Drive Electric

JUNE 25, 2023

As New Zealand embraces the urgent need for a sustainable future, the automotive industry plays a vital role in shaping how we move and consume energy. Firstly, the infrastructure for hydrogen refuelling stations is minimal and requires substantial expansion investments, which New Zealand is yet to commit to.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2021

One of the planned pilot projects, funded cooperatively by the DOE Office of Fossil Energy with industry cost share, combines the resources of the oil and gas industry with PNNL’s technology. Oil and gas extraction across the US and Canada pumps subsurface water to the surface as part of the extraction process. —Pete McGrail.

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Drive Electric

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

With the introduction of the Clean Car Discount in 2022, the skyrocketing prices of petrol and diesel across the country, and the increasing number of EVs available in New Zealand , we are seeing more EVs on our roads than ever before. Learn more about gas vs. electric car fires here. Most EVs have extensive safety systems.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 9, 2022

LanzaTech, a company that has developed gas fermentation technology to transform waste carbon into materials such as sustainable fuels, fabrics, packaging and other products that people use in their daily lives, will go public through a merger with AMCI Acquisition Corp. II (AMCI), a publicly-traded special purpose acquisition company (SPAC).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2014

The New Zealand Superannuation Fund has made a US$60 million equity investment in leading gas fermentation company LanzaTech. Founded in New Zealand in 2005 and now headquartered in Chicago, LanzaTech turns waste gas from steel mills into ethanol and other high value fuels and chemicals. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2015

LanzaTech’s gas fermentation process uses proprietary microbes to capture and reuse carbon rich waste gases, reducing emissions and pollutants from industrial processes such as steel manufacturing, while making fuels and chemicals that displace those made from fossil resources. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 20, 2011

It has investment from K1W1 (New Zealand), Khosla Ventures (US) and Qiming Ventures (China) as well as funding from the New Zealand and US governments. Noi-Ha Cho, chief technology officer of Posco, says gas fermentation technology creates more value from by-products of the steel process. million tons.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Rio Tinto and Japanese trader and business conglomerate Marubeni Corporation have agreed a first sale under a new strategic collaboration agreement to secure a sustainable and reliable supply of Rio Tinto’s Responsible aluminum products to Japanese downstream manufacturers.

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 25, 2023

It was organized to exploit my unusual timezone alignment with Oz as I spend a few weeks in New Zealand as a digital nomad. Not long ago, I had the opportunity to talk with over 300 mostly Australian participants in a Smart Energy Council webinar. Over 600 signed up, many from other time zones to […]

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2011

at Harsco’s world headquarters in Pennsylvania, taps into Harsco’s leadership serving the worldwide steel industry, in combination with LanzaTech’s proprietary bioenergy technologies for reducing the carbon footprint of integrated steelmaking operations by converting waste gas to ethanol and high value chemicals. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2014

ZeoGas LLC ( ZeoGas ), a developer of natural gas-to-gasoline projects, has entered into a license agreement to use ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company’s (ExxonMobil) methanol-to-gasoline (MTG) technology in the development of a natural gas-to-gasoline plant on the US Gulf Coast. —Timothy D.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

Neste has applied for a Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) pathway covering the RD produced from tallow obtained in New Zealand. This feedstock is rendered in New Zealand and shipped by ocean tanker an estimated 5,780 nautical miles to the Neste plant. Neste’s process generates a propane-rich off-gas as a co-product.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2011

The new process uses LanzaTech technology to capture and ferment waste gases from industrial steel production into ethanol ( earlier post ), and Swedish Biofuels technology to chemically. technology is currently being piloted in New Zealand, a larger demonstration facility will be commissioned. The fuel production.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2010

New Zealand-based Aquaflow Bionomic Corporation will collaborate , as a co-funding partner, with the US Gas Technology Institute (GTI) on an advanced biomass conversion technology program worth US$3.1 million that will be part funded by the US Department of Energy (DOE).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 30, 2016

LanzaTech captures the waste gas from refineries and manufacturing plants and feeds the CO-rich gas to microbes that consume the gas and produce ethanol. To demonstrate process versatility, ethanol from other waste gas streams will be converted, including cellulosic ethanol produced via fermentation of biomass syngas by Aemetis.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2018

The Porvoo renewable diesel (RD) plant uses mixed feedstocks to produce RD, naphtha, and a propane-rich off-gas. gCO 2 e/MJ. The RD produced is branded and marketed as Neste My Renewable Diesel.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Unfortunately for a Tesla Model X owner in Auckland, New Zealand, he ended up experiencing the latter. As shared by the Wham Baam Teslacam YouTube channel, Tesla Model X owner Geoff Gardiner was driving home after work in Auckland, New Zealand, when he passed a black Mitsubishi Galant.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2014

Neste has also filed applications for renewable diesel pathways for California (all from its Singapore plant) using Southeast Asian rendered fish oil ( earlier post ); New Zealand tallow ( earlier post ); North American tallow ( earlier post ), and Australian tallow ( earlier post ). Earlier post.) The yield is not feedstock specific.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2013

Evonik Industries and LanzaTech have signed a three-year research cooperation agreement which will see Evonik combining its existing biotechnology platforms with LanzaTech’s synthetic biology and gas fermentation expertise for the development of a route to bio-processed precursors for specialty plastics from waste-derived synthesis gas.

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Clean Fleet Report

OCTOBER 7, 2023

4 Things To Remember When Traveling Through New Zealand By Car Tips To Get the Most Out of Your Kiwi Time This article may contain affiliate links. Exploring the scenic beauty of New Zealand by car is an adventure like no other. Traveling New Zealand by car can be greatly rewarding 2.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

state reached a crucial tipping point, with BEVs making up 5 percent of new car sales in 2018, and adoption rates have jumped drastically since then. The news comes following a California mandate banning the sale of new gas cars by 2035 enacted last year. A number of U.S.

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Drive Electric

AUGUST 25, 2022

With almost 50,000 plug-in vehicles registered in New Zealand as of August 2021, it’s clear that our nation is committed to a large-scale transition to electric transport. In the New Zealand context, there is a lot of work to be done in this space. Learn more about the cost of an EV in New Zealand here.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 1, 2013

ZEEP) and New Zealand-based Todd Corp. The SLM methanol facility will be located in the Port of South Louisiana district, with access to interstate and intrastate natural gas and carbon dioxide pipelines. Austin, Texas-based Zero Emission Energy Plant Ltd. ZEEP and Todd Corp.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2019

Concentric Ring Gas Atomization Die Design for Optimized Particle Production, $150,000 Praxair, Indianapolis, Ind. Novel chemical looping process for conversion of natural gas to pure hydrogen, $150,000 CanmetENERGY, Ottawa, Canada Glowink Inc., Selected Labs and Partners. Ames Laboratory. Argonne National Laboratory. IsoTherm Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2013

LanzaTech has been operating a pilot plant in Auckland, New Zealand since 2008 utilizing raw steel mill gases. Siemens and LanzaTech are already pursuing several commercial gas fermentation project opportunities around the world.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2012

The MTG technology was originally developed in the 1970s and was successfully commercialized for a large-scale natural gas to gasoline plant during the 1980s in New Zealand. MTG reactor product is separated into gas, raw gasoline and water. The shape-selective catalyst limits the synthesis reactions to 10 carbons.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Overall, obesity is associated with approximately 20% greater greenhouse gas emissions when compared to people with normal weight. He added, “while the contribution of obesity to greenhouse gas emissions is small, acting on the underlying drivers of them both is of paramount importance.”. Swinburn wrote a commentary on the paper.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 18, 2024

With the ability to tow up to 11,000 lbs, Rivian’s R1T tops not only most electric trucks but gas-powered too. Rivian’s electric truck even made history as the first EV to win the Rebelle Rally last year, the longest off-road rally in the US. That’s more than the 2024 Ford F-150 (up to 9,400 lbs) and Chevy Silverado 1500 (up to 9,500 lbs).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2018

In addition, the brand will remain committed to vehicles powered with compressed natural gas (CNG) as well as internal combustion engines. With the Arona TGI we are launching this year we will have the only SUV in the world powered with natural gas. —Luca de Meo.

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OCTOBER 10, 2022

The Tesla Model Y also dominated in other markets, being the top-selling vehicle in New Zealand and the second-best-selling vehicle in the U.K. Nonetheless, Tesla has shown incredible resilience against new competition. Together with the Tesla Model 3, the two models represented just over 6% of the German car market.

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AUGUST 22, 2023

Power electronics and electrification of agricultural equipment can help change our world for the better by reducing the equipment’s greenhouse gas footprint, providing food and fiber to feed, house, and clothe the world, and helping farmers stay profitable,” Singh says. government program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

New Zealand-based Lanzatech, the developer of gas fermentation technology for producing ethanol and high value chemicals (e.g.: LanzaTech says that its microbe is able to use gas feeds containing mainly carbon monoxide and little to no hydrogen. Earlier post.) Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2012

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) released proposed regulations to link its cap-and-trade program to Québec’s to form a joint carbon market to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Québec has roughly one-sixth the amount of greenhouse gas emissions from industrial and other sources as does California. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2015

Following last night’s unveiling of Tesla Motors’ new lineup of stationary energy storage systems ( earlier post ), more early partners and pilots are emerging. Cargill is collaborating with Tesla and Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) to install a 1 MWh Tesla energy storage product at the company’s Fresno, California beef processing facility.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2010

New Zealand-based waste gas and syngas to fuels company LanzaTech ( earlier post ) has attracted US$18 million in Series B financing from investors led by China-focused venture capital firm Qiming Ventures. The funding will also see expansion of the company’s focus to include the use of CO 2 as a feedstock gas. —Dr

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