Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Concept diagram of an SMA heat engine for power generation from waste engine heat. million (subject to final negotiation with DOE) to support building a prototype thermomechanical waste heat recovery system using a Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) heat engine to generate electricity from the heat in automotive exhaust. Source: GM.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2017

Last Christmas, 40,000 Finnish households donated the waste fat from their Christmas hams to the charity campaign “Kinkkutemppu”—which literally translates into Ham Trick. From this waste ham fat, Neste produced 10,000 liters of Neste MY Renewable Diesel at its Porvoo refinery for sale at Neste stations. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

Capturing this waste carbon then allows for algae to be cultivated into a variety of biofuels and bioproducts. The funding opportunity announcement ( DE-FOA-0002654 ) specifically aims to increase the capability of algal systems to capture CO 2 and put it to productive use.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 1, 2024

It’s pretty clear Asimov had no idea how a system like the Converter would actually work, except in the most basic terms. Harnessing the power of the sun in space is certainly an enticing idea. Most of the story centers around Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics and the humans’ relationship with the robot. For example, U.K.-based

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2016

A team of researchers University of South Florida is using naturally occurring fungi to drive an environmentally friendly recycling process to extract cobalt and lithium from tons of waste batteries. Although a global problem, the US leads the way as the largest generator of electronic waste.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 15, 2021

The built environment is a big contributor to carbon emissions, global energy demand, resource consumption and waste generation. The idea being that tall buildings make optimal use of space, reduce operational energy use for heating and cooling and enable more people to be accommodated per square meter of land.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

In a recent post on its YouTube channel, Edmunds noted that the Model S Plaid is “a “waste of money,” and that it’s not worth its price of $130,000. . He also argued that the idea of releasing a car with that much power was “daft.” But then, so is the whole idea of 1,020 horsepower four-door sedan.

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Innovation News Network

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Researchers are integrating tested technologies and developing new ones to break down plastic waste for conversion into useful materials. Researchers are developing new technologies, such as plasma that shoots ‘bullet’ electrons, to break down plastic waste to convert it into useful materials.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Waste generated by the facility, which manufactures all Volvo trucks sold in North America, is now recycled, composted or converted to electricity. NRV began in 2003 by first identifying and evaluating all solid and liquid waste streams within the plant. Volvo’s New River Valley (NRV) assembly plant in Dublin, Va.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2017

Last Christmas, Neste jointly cooperated with the Chemical Industry Federation of Finland and other partners in its Christmas waste ham fat campaign. There are many new uses for waste and residues. At the same time, the companies also want to remind home doughnut makers of the correct means of final disposal of waste frying oil.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 2, 2013

Sometimes the best ideas are also the simplest. That was our first thought on seeing one gas-saving idea from nothing less than an oil company in South Korea.

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Oil South Korea Gas Companies 160

Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2021

Waste tires have been used mainly for recovering energy sources; only small proportions of the carbon black contained in these tires are recycled, since mineral ash accounts for around 20% of its content. Over the longer term, the idea is to make the transition from a batch process to a continuous process.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 2, 2022

In 2012, with California in the midst of a severe drought, Schneider, then a mechanical engineering graduate student at Stanford University , once again tossed out a “cool idea.” With such a device, he thought, people could enjoy a long shower without wasting water. You’d waste more water than you saved.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 30, 2013

Ford Fusion is the first global vehicle program from any automaker to use seat fabric made from recycled material, with the potential to recycle enough plastic bottles and post-industrial waste to make 1.5 She says the idea is to one day have all Ford fabrics consist of recycled material. million yards of fabric annually.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 1, 2025

The idea was seductive: turn Punes mountains of garbage into clean hydrogen fuel. The citys waste problem would be solved, and India would get a head start in the global hydrogen economy. That was the pitch when Pune Municipal Corporation and The Green Billions Limited announced Indias first waste-to-hydrogen project.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Waste gas is one example of a source of syngas. Evonik scientists are now working to optimize these ideas and develop them still further. Evonik Industries has demonstrated the use of bacteria to convert syngas to pure 2-hydroxyisobutyric acid (2-HIBA) under industrial conditions. 2-HIBA can also be produced via chemical synthesis.

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Conversion Waste Convert Industry 199

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Dr. Sargent said he developed the idea from reading about the emergence of life on Earth, both in primary literature and popular science books. The investigators used a special pressurized bioreactor filled with H 2 and CO 2 to make the gases available to the microbes. We wanted to try this in the lab.”.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2009

In particular, one of the projects will explore the idea of using cheap and widely available magnesium oxide-based mineral silicates to trap carbon dioxide from industry flue gases via a process known as dry mineral carbonation. The by-products of this can be used as construction or landfill materials.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

DiMatteo says he hopes eventually to commercialize Hagelstein’s new idea. There’s a gold mine in waste heat, if you could convert it. Tags: Materials Vehicle Systems Waste Heat Recovery. A lot of heat is generated to go places, and a lot is lost. If you could recover that, your transportation technology is going to work better.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2018

The team which wins the “BA 2119: Future of Fuels Challenge” will receive £25,000 (US$31,900) to help fund further research and a commitment from the airline to work alongside them to incubate their idea. The challenge is being launched as part of British Airways’ Centenary celebrations.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Recycling technologies for end-of-life lithium ion batteries (LIBs) are not keeping pace with the rapid rise of electric vehicles, setting up a potentially huge waste management problem for the future, according to a new study led by researchers at the University of Birmingham. Landfill is clearly not an option for this amount of waste.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 22, 2020

When a car burns gas while sitting at a stop light or idling at the curb, it’s wasting the valuable high-octane fuel better used for acceleration. These and other PNNL advances in chemical separations and vehicle emissions research prompted the separation ideas the team pursued.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2013

A new new forum for the advocacy and development of liquid air as an alternative technology to harness waste and surplus energy within power and transport—the Liquid Air Energy Network (LAEN)—has formed in the UK. The main potential applications are in electricity storage, transport and the recovery of waste heat.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

environmental program remains on track to meet its 2018 goals of reducing energy and water consumption as well as the share in waste, CO 2 and solvent emissions at all Volkswagen plants throughout the world by 25% compared with 2010 levels by 2018. The Volkswagen brand’s “Think Blue.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

The US Department of Energy estimates that idling from heavy- and light-duty vehicles combined wastes about 6 billion gallons of fuel per year. As vehicles idle at intersections and other locations, fuel is wasted. The fuel savings potential is substantial. —Tom Karnowski.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

The idea is to take as little energy as possible from the internal combustion engine. Waste heat recovery. Renault Trucks has developed a system to recover the waste heat contained in exhaust gases. Diesel Driver Assistance Systems Fuel Efficiency Heavy-duty Vehicle Systems Waste Heat Recovery'

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2022

This simplifies recycling and is a significant step towards greater circularity, while also reducing weight and waste. Polestar plans to launch three new cars over the coming three years, starting in 2022, each of which has potential gradually to realize some of the ideas presented by these concept cars.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

The winning ideas proffer solutions to the problems posed by the need to travel in crowded urban areas. Past LowCVP Challenges have focused on innovative technologies for passenger cars and heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) and also brought forward new ideas in the areas of policy, marketing and community engagement.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2012

Canadian Natural Resources Limited (CNRL) has been adding waste CO 2 into the tailings streams in order to reduce the size of their tailings ponds. The process works by treating the soft middle layer of a tailings pond with waste CO 2 and a reagent, which binds the solids together and releases the water.

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Oil-Sands Canada Oil Water 252

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2009

After all, those fluids protect the vehicle’s most important operating systems—the engine and driveline—and running them too high or too low simply wastes energy. This drive opens up our capability to collaborate and help with materials and development support to bring new ideas to market faster than ever.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2019

The special fuel, developed by long-time series partner Aral, consists of 50% high-quality renewable components derived from waste products. We are excited about the idea of reducing CO 2 emissions through the use of waste. It’s great that motorsport is once again playing a pioneering role.

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Aston Martin Audi Carbon Fuel 207

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2013

Technologies to address barriers to the use of municipal solid waste and sewage sludge as feedstocks for alternative fuels. Municipal solid waste and sewage are waste products that are produced at massive scale.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2014

EPIC is a multi-year, research investment program focused on electricity-related innovations, finding new energy solutions and bringing clean energy ideas to the marketplace. Colony Energy Partners Tulare, LLC: $5 million to construct a digester for processing waste that will produce 2.8

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2023

Running these experiments on supercomputers instead of in the real world allows manufacturers to test new ideas while saving energy, time, and resources. Siemens and Oak Ridge National Laboratory will use HPC to enable high-resolution modeling of the C-PCM microstructure to design better materials for waste heat capture.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 13, 2025

I dont have a problem with the idea that there are engineers who are 10 times as productive as other engineers. When your systems are designed to be used by normal engineers, all that excess brilliance they have can get poured into the product itself, instead of wasting it on navigating the system. It just feels true.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Volvo Cars’ strategic partnership with Ericsson builds further on the idea of the Networked Society by examining a host of consumer centric concepts around the “Connected Vehicle Cloud” that will see the driving experience revolutionized over the coming years.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2012

Ford noted that while great strides have been made with green technology, the world faces the pressures of a growing global population and the new challenge of global gridlock—the potential that the world will face a never-ending traffic jam that wastes time, energy and resources. Earlier post.). —Bill Ford.

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