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MAY 8, 2024

Kia confirms the EV3 for production. Rivian revamps its Illinois plant for R2 production. EVs are already having a big effect on gasoline demand. Rivian is rejiggering the production capacity of its plant in Normal, Illinois, to accommodate up to 155,000 of its more. And how small of an EV is big enough?

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MARCH 15, 2023

In October 2022, Honda announced that it would invest $700 million to retool several of its existing auto and powertrain plants to establish the new EV Hub in Ohio, to prepare for the production of battery electric vehicles in 2026. Following are key next steps involving several of Honda’s US production facilities.

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DECEMBER 11, 2021

Opel has begun production of the hydrogen fuel cell variant of the Vivaro van, and has delievered the first one to the German manufacturer of premium domestic appliances, Miele. It takes only three minutes to refuel with hydrogen —about the same time needed to fill up a conventional diesel or gasoline vehicle.

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APRIL 13, 2023

This change came after OPEC and its partner countries (OPEC+) announced crude oil production cuts for 2023. Despite OPEC+ announcing it would cut crude oil production by 1.2 Despite OPEC+ announcing it would cut crude oil production by 1.2 per gallon this summer, peaking between $3.60/gal gal and $3.70/gal gal in June.

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APRIL 2, 2021

A team from Fraunhofer IPT is developing a continuous production line that will be able to process fuel cell components in cycles lasting just seconds. Moreover, they plan to transfer the action plan and the individual technologies for the production of fuel cells from research to industrial application. © Fraunhofer IPT.

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JANUARY 27, 2021

A new study by a team from Environmental Health & Engineering (EH&E) has found that greenhouse gas emissions from corn ethanol are 46% lower than those from gasoline—a decrease in emissions from the estimated 39% done by previous modeling. gCO 2 e/MJ) which is 46% lower than the average carbon intensity for neat gasoline.

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MARCH 24, 2020

BASF launched Fourtune—a new Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) catalyst product for gasoil feedstock. Fourtune is the latest product based on BASF’s Multiple Framework Topology (MFT) technology. Refiners need to reduce the sulfur content of their gasoline pool to meet the 10 ppm requirement.

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MAY 4, 2021

Following on the introduction of R33 Blue Diesel ( earlier post ), Bosch, Shell, and Volkswagen have now developed a low-carbon gasoline. The new fuel, called Blue Gasoline, similarly contains up to 33% renewables, ensuring a well-to-wheel reduction in carbon emissions of at least 20% per kilometer driven. Every bit of CO?

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MARCH 10, 2022

This legislation would make the sale of E15 year-round permanent; create a tax credit for higher biofuel blends; streamline E15 labeling; provide funding for E15 infrastructure; extend the biodiesel tax credit for three more years; and ban imports of Russian petroleum products. Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.),

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NOVEMBER 3, 2019

However, the reaction products of traditional F-T synthesis follow the Anderson-Schulz-Flory (ASF) distribution law, and the resulting carbon number distribution is wide and complex with a high content of heavy hydrocarbons. Fischer-Tropsch (F-T) synthesis converts syngas to liquid fuels. at 260 °C, 2?MPa, MPa, H 2 /CO?=?2, 2, and 1,064?h

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DECEMBER 12, 2019

along with a global petrochemical company as a joint venture partner, has commissioned a Front End Engineering and Design (FEED) study with IHI E&C International Corporation for a first of its kind natural gas-to-gasoline plant in Texas. The proposed Texas plant will consume 28 MMcf/d of natural gas and produce 2,800 bbl/d of gasoline.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Texas (Toyota Texas, TMMTX) has started production for the all-new, all-hybrid 2023 Toyota Sequoia. While the electric motor does the bulk of the work at lower speeds, once above 18 mph, the gasoline engine assumes primary operation for excellent performance in the mid- and high-speed range. Earlier post.)

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San Antonio Hybrid Tundra Production 435

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MAY 11, 2022

The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) forecasts that US crude oil production will average 11.9 million barrels per day in 2023, which would surpass the record average production of 12.3 US coal production will total 598 million short tons in 2022, which is a 3% increase from 2021. million barrels per day set in 2019.

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JUNE 26, 2018

Corning Incorporated’s Environmental Technologies business reached a significant production milestone at its Kaiserslautern, Germany manufacturing facility with the production of its 1 millionth Corning DuraTrap GC gasoline particulate filter (GPF) for automotive emissions control.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2023

In January 2023, state taxes and fees on gasoline and diesel fuel averaged $0.3163 per gallon (gal) of gasoline and $0.3388/gal of diesel fuel, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). For example, New York State taxes for both diesel and gasoline rose $0.088/gal in January 2023 compared with July 2022.

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APRIL 29, 2022

China processed record amounts of crude oil in 2021 to meet rising domestic consumption of petroleum products, according to analysis by the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). Beginning in August 2021, several COVID-19 outbreaks in China led to mobility restrictions, which in turn reduced domestic demand for petroleum products.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

In the first half of 2022 (January–June), US exports of petroleum products averaged nearly 6 million barrels per day (b/d), the most first-half-of-year exports in Petroleum Supply Monthly data, going back to 1973, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). US propane exports averaged 1.4

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Russia Production Oil Ukraine 284

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Topsoe will deliver basic engineering and license for methanol synthesis and TIGAS gasoline synthesis technologies. This is our first involvement in a commercial scale Power-to-X facility producing gasoline. The gasoline synthesis from methanol has been commercially proven in a 15000-bpd plant in Turkmenistan since 2019.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Texas-based Nacero, a company seeking to produce low- and zero-lifecycle carbon footprint gasoline blendstock ( earlier post ) has awarded a subsidiary of NextEra Energy Resources, LLC a 20-year power purchase agreement to supply wind power to Nacero’s planned flagship manufacturing facility in Penwell, Texas. Hydrogen co-production.

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Wind Texas Gasoline Purchase 418

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DECEMBER 16, 2013

A team at the University of Idaho has demonstrated that glycerol, a byproduct from biodiesel production, could be used as a substrate for producing drop-in gasoline-range biofuel. The technology of converting methanol into gasoline was discovered and commercialized more than 3 decades ago. Tropsch synthesis (FTS).

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DECEMBER 22, 2020

The average annual price of gasoline has fluctuated greatly over the past several decades, but when adjusted for inflation (constant dollars), the price of gasoline in 2019 was only nine cents higher than in 1929, according to the US Department of Energy (DOE). The graph below shows the effect of the oil embargo in the early 1980s.

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JULY 24, 2018

A team at UC Davis has optimized the levulinic ester self-condensation reaction and the efficient conversion of its products—which are highly branched cyclopentadienes—into a mixture of substituted cyclopentanes with high octane ratings and excellent density and flow properties. Zheng Li, Andrew L.

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JANUARY 25, 2021

This spring, Blue Bird will begin production of its propane and gasoline Vision school buses integrating Ford’s all-new 7.3L The advanced fuel system technology was developed by ROUSH CleanTech, the same company that has manufactured more than 30,000 propane and gasoline fuel systems for Blue Bird buses equipped with Ford’s 6.8L

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JULY 5, 2022

Emotors , a 50/50 joint venture between Stellantis and Nidec Leroy-Somer Holding (a Nidec Group company), will start production this year of its range of electric motors at the Stellantis Trémery plant, formerly the world’s largest diesel plant, and now Stellantis’ first facility to produce electric motors.

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OCTOBER 31, 2022

General Motors is slowing down the its EV production ramp, but still appears committed to an EV-heavy future. That move, which comes after GM reported a big increase in gasoline truck.

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JANUARY 27, 2023

The US Department of Energy (DOE) will award some $118 million in funding for 17 projects to accelerate the production of sustainable biofuels. Topic Area 1: Pre-Pilot Scale-Up of Integrated Biorefineries Algenesis Corporation, “Pre-Pilot Scale Production of Algae-based Jet Fuel and Polyurethane Monomers”, $4,987,974.

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Production Carbon Conversion Mariner 225

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APRIL 20, 2022

The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) forecasts that retail gasoline prices will average $3.84 After adjusting for inflation, this summer’s forecast national average price would mark the highest retail gasoline and diesel prices since 2014. US gasoline and diesel consumption continue to remain below their 2019 averages.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Bentley will cease production of its 12-cylinder gasoline engine in April 2024, by which time more than 100,000 examples of the iconic W12 will have been handcrafted in the company’s Dream Factory in Crewe, England. Since the first introduction of the 6.0-liter,

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JUNE 5, 2022

A team at the University of Madison-Wisconsin studied critical sooting equivalence ratios and subsequent particulate formation during spark-ignition combustion for blends of ethanol, isobutanol (2-methyl-1-propanol), and methylbutenol (2-methyl-3-buten-2-ol) with gasoline using premixed prevaporized (PMPV) fueling.

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AUGUST 9, 2023

In the gasoline-engined version of the new protection saloon, a latest-generation 4.4-liter The instantaneous power delivery, distribution of power to all four wheels and intelligent networking of all the powertrain and chassis systems guarantees exceptional traction, directional stability and dynamic prowess.

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BMW Production MPH Electric 370

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APRIL 1, 2023

Nacero will transition its current pre-construction, multi-billion USD facility in Penwell, Texas—designed to produce low carbon gasoline—to the production of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and lower carbon aviation fuel (LCAF). TIGAS efficiently produces high-value gasoline from natural gas, shale gas, or associated gas.

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JUNE 19, 2021

The BMW i Hydrogen NEXT uses fuel cells from the product development cooperation with the Toyota Motor Corporation. As a result, the system delivers an output of 275 kW/374 hp that corresponds exactly to that of the most powerful six-cylinder in-line gasoline engine currently used in BMW models.

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MAY 29, 2021

The average retail price for regular gasoline in the United States on 24 May, the Monday before the Memorial Day weekend, was $3.02 per gallon (gal), the highest gasoline price before Memorial Day since 2014, according to the US Energy Information Administration’s (EIA’s) weekly Gasoline and Diesel Fuel Update.

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DECEMBER 19, 2022

Synhelion has developed a solar thermal process for the production of syngas, which is then used in standard industrial processes to synthesize liquid fuels, such as kerosene, gasoline, or diesel, that are compatible with conventional jet engines and internal combustion engines. This ultra-clean solar fuel closes the carbon cycle.

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Solar Fuel Production Carbon 210

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

In 2014, at KU Leuven’s Centre for Surface Chemistry and Catalysis, researchers succeeded in converting sawdust into building blocks for gasoline. These hydrocarbons can be used as an additive in gasoline. A chemical process made it possible to convert the cellulose in the sawdust into hydrocarbon chains. Earlier post.).

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JUNE 12, 2022

We’re already using ethanol-containing gasoline at every gas station. The electrochemical system the team developed uses less than half the electricity of pure water splitting, another method that researchers have studied for de-carbonized hydrogen production. Kee, Wei-Jyun Wang, Osman Akpolat, Patrick Littlewood, James P.

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Hydrogen Production Water Gas-Electric 243

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JUNE 28, 2012

a gasification-based drop-in advanced biofuels company, finalized a licensing agreement to use ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company’s methanol-to-gasoline ( MTG ) technology to be incorporated into a “green gasoline” production facility. MTG reactor product is separated into gas, raw gasoline and water.

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