Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2012

The Houston-Galveston Area Council (H-GAC) has been selected to negotiate the terms of a US Department of Energy (DOE) Zero Emission Cargo Transport (ZECT) Demonstration grant. In the State of Texas, a Cleantech Alliance made up of Vision Industries, Total Transportation Services, Inc. Earlier post.) Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2021

Air pollution monitoring by the Houston Health Department in 2019 and 2020 recorded levels of formaldehyde, a known carcinogen, along the Houston Ship Channel that pose potential health risks to surrounding neighborhoods. — “Formaldehyde Air Pollution in Houston”. parts per billion.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 13, 2023

Hertz this week announced plans to nearly triple its EV rental fleet in the heart of America's oil industry. The rental giant plans to bring 2,100 EVs to Houston, as well as an "EV fast-charging hub" at Houston Hobby airport that will serve both ride-hailing drivers and the general public, according to a company press release.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

At the Port of Houston, the project team will conduct a feasibility study for scaling up hydrogen production and use. The study will examine policies, regulations, and economics so that industry can develop a strategic action plan to present to policymakers to enable heavy-duty fuel cell transportation and energy systems.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2012

and the University of Houston will work together to further understanding of the geology and composition of crude oil. This collaboration with a premier energy university reaffirms our commitment, as the market leader in instruments for this industry, to continue to develop new technologies and applications for our customers.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2023

The JV tankers Stena Pro Marine and Stena Prosperous were refueled with methanol via barge while discharging petroleum products at a terminal in the Port of Houston in the first week of April. Bunkering Methanol is widely available in the Port of Houston, which is the United States’ busiest port in terms of foreign tonnage.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2022

ExxonMobil is planning a hydrogen production plant and one of the world’s largest carbon capture and storage projects at its integrated refining and petrochemical site at Baytown, Texas, supporting efforts to reduce emissions from company operations and local industry.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2021

Kodiak, which recently celebrated its third birthday, is building and operating self-driving trucks designed to operate on highway routes, making the freight industry safer and more efficient. Kodiak delivers freight daily for its customers between Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston, operating autonomously on the highway portion of the route.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

A chemical engineer from the University of Houston is leading a $2.1-million Fiat-Chrysler and Johnson Matthey will bring their industrial expertise in vehicles and catalysts, respectively.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2011

Gevo and Sasol Chemical Industries Limited (Sasol) have entered into a definitive commercial isobutanol off-take agreement commencing in 2012. In June 2011, Gevo and Toray Industries, Inc. Gevo broke ground on the its Luverne, MN retrofit on 31 May 2011 and construction is proceeding on schedule. In June 2011, Lanxess Inc.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

China-based Endurance Industry, a well-established manufacturer of oil and gas, environmental and auto equipment, has signed a memorandum of understanding with GE for the purchase of 260 CNG In A Box systems ( earlier post ) over the next three years. CNG fueling through the CNG In A Box solution reduces CO 2 emissions by 24% (2.2

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Hargrove, a full-service engineering, procurement, and construction management (EPC) firm, has extensive experience delivering large scale industrial projects in the power and chemicals sectors. CTR will open a satellite development office at Hargrove in Houston to support Hargrove in their delivery of the project.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

NEXT is a Houston-based company developing the biorefinery which, at full production, could produce up to 50,000 barrels per day of Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF), renewable diesel, and other renewable fuels. UAV could invest as much as $37.5 million into NEXT, as long as the company meets certain milestone targets.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The projects would also help improve air quality in underserved areas of major American cities, including New York, Los Angeles, Houston, Chicago, San Francisco, Oakland, and Salt Lake City. Gas Technology Institute: Houston to Los Angeles (H2LA)–I-10 Hydrogen Corridor Project.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2022

Now, a team of researchers at MIT, the University of Houston, and other institutions have shown that cubic boron arsenide overcomes these two limitations of silicon as a semiconductor material. Furthermore, silicon is not very good at conducting heat, which is why overheating issues and expensive cooling systems are common in computers.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 19, 2023

“Enable the next growth phase for Tesla’s charging business and the broader EV industry by joining a new team that is built around extending the reach of Tesla’s charging products. The chargers will first be installed in Houston, Phoenix, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Washington D.C. Below are the responsibilities of Tesla’s Sr.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2012

Celanese is one of the world’s largest producers of acetyl products (intermediate chemicals, such as acetic acid, for nearly all major industries); acetyl intermediates account for about 45% of Celanese’s total sales. The company’s global acetyl research and development center is also located at the facility.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

NASA and General Motors are working together to accelerate development of the next generation of humanoid robots and related technologies for use in the automotive and aerospace industries. The two organizations, with the help of engineers from Oceaneering Space Systems of Houston, developed and built the next iteration of Robonaut.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

To reduce the number of accidents in the global oil and gas industry caused by damaged pipelines, University of Houston researchers are developing an autonomous robot to identify potential pipeline leaks and structural failures during subsea inspections.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

PACCAR’s autonomously enabled trucks configured with the Aurora autonomous Driver are hauling FedEx loads between Dallas and Houston, a 500-mile round trip, along the I-45 corridor. As leaders in our respective fields, we have critical and unique perspectives on how to develop and deploy safe, self-driving truck solutions for this industry.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

Iwatani is Japan’s only fully integrated supplier of hydrogen and presently supplies its extensive base of light and heavy-duty hydrogen refueling stations and industrial customers via five liquid and ten gaseous hydrogen production plants throughout the country.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2021

Syzygy Plasmonics, a technology company developing a high-performance photocatalyst for the industrial gas, chemical and energy industries, announced a $23-million Series B financing led by Horizons Ventures with participation from new global investors including Equinor Ventures. Earlier post.).

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The idea was to combine Tesla’s “fast and reliable chargers” with bp pulse’s industry-leading, intelligent charge management software, called “Omega,” for a comprehensive solution for fleet customers.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The research follows government and industry investment to create infrastructure and markets for carbon-free liquid ammonia fuel that will not contribute to greenhouse warming. —Hossein Robatjazi, chief scientist at Houston-based Syzygy Plasmonics. —Yuan et al. Courtesy of Syzygy Plasmonics, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2021

McDermott International, a premier, fully-integrated provider of engineering and construction solutions (ECS) to the energy industry, has joined a consortium of public, private and academic partners collaborating on a US Department of Energy (DOE) project—Demonstration and Framework for H2@Scale in Texas and Beyond.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Bio-hydrogen not utilized for renewable diesel production will be made available by Grön Fuels for purchase by third parties for lowering the CO 2 emissions of power production, industrial processes, or transportation and can be shipped by the ~600 miles / 1,000 km of hydrogen pipelines operational and located near Grön Fuels’ site.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2009

The AMS is designed to give Houston-area electric consumers the ability to better monitor and manage electric use and cost in near real-time—a first step toward developing and deploying a full smart grid. More than 145,000 smart meters will be installed across the Houston area by the end of 2009. The MDS Mercury in its pole mounting.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2022

Based on its world-leading chlor-alkali electrolysis and decades of experience in industrial large-scale electrolysis applications, thyssenkrupp nucera has developed a modularized and cost-efficient solution for large scale hydrogen production. Earlier post.) —Denis Krude, Chief Executive Officer at thyssenkrupp nucera.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

SCALEUP ( earlier post ) provides a path to market for previously funded ARPA-E projects that have established market interest and proven successes within the respective industry. will show how innovative membrane modules used in industrial manufacturing processes can be readily applied to a variety of pulp and paper facilities.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Shell and the consortium partners—including McDermott’s CB&I Storage Solutions, NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, GenH2 and the University of Houston—have been selected by the U.S. The University of Houston will focus their efforts on the creation of detailed thermal models of the proposed insulation systems.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2020

Tradepoint Atlantic Terminal is VWGoA’s eighth port in the US, which includes locations in Benicia, CA, Davisville, RI, Houston, TX, Jacksonville, FL, Midlothian, TX, San Diego, CA and the Volkswagen Assembly Plant in Chattanooga, TN.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Audi of America announced an expansion of Traffic Light Information to include Green Light Optimized Speed Advisory (GLOSA), another industry first in vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) technologies from the brand. Houston, Kansas City, Kansas; Las Vegas, Los Angeles, New York City, Orlando, Fla.; Phoenix, Portland, Ore.;

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2022

The company is also expected to utilize the state’s Quality Jobs and Industrial Tax Exemption programs. To secure the Arbor Gas project in West Baton Rouge Parish, the State of Louisiana offered the company a competitive incentive package that includes the services of LED FastStart, the No.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 4, 2024

US food delivery company Sysco added ten Freightliner eCascadia electric semi trucks to its Houston, Texas fleet. The trucks bring the company’s electric vehicle fleet to 120 trucks – and the company plans to add hundreds more. Sysco is serous about EVs Sysco execs at the delivery ceremony; via CSRWire.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2021

This hydrogen is currently sold back to refineries and other industries where it is used to remove impurities such as sulfur during the refining process. Captured CO 2 can be directed to industries that require it for production, such as steel, or that assimilate it, such as cement.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

to construct a 210,000 barrel per day (bpd) crude-by-rail project at the Greens Port Industrial Park on the Houston Ship Channel. West Texas, the Bakken shale area and western Canada for delivery by rail into the Houston Ship Channel for distribution to various refiners via pipeline and barges. (KMP) and Watco Companies L.L.C.,

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2017

The joint venture will offer one of the broadest multistage completions portfolios in the market combined with one of the largest hydraulic fracturing fleets in the industry. Schlumberger is the world’s leading provider of technology for reservoir characterization, drilling, production, and processing to the oil and gas industry.

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