Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2021

The EU-funded research project HyFlexFuel recently successfully produced biocrudes via hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) from a variety of biomasses, including sewage sludge, food waste, manure, wheat straw, corn stover, pine sawdust, miscanthus and microalgae in a pilot-scale continuous HTL plant at Aarhus University (Denmark).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Italy-based energy infrastructure operator Snam and national multi-utility company Hera Group signed a Letter of Intent for a technological collaboration aimed at developing hydrogen, for their own areas of activity respectively. The accord involves several areas of action, starting from the collaboration on power-to-gas technology.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2023

Lamborghini unveiled the Lanzador electric concept at Monterey Car Week—a vision of a future purely-electric fourth series production Lamborghini. The Lanzador is a preview of the production vehicle that Lamborghini will present in 2028. The interior is made almost entirely of sustainable materials, all made in Italy.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2023

Solvay is investing at its Livorno, Italy site to launch the company’s first unit of circular highly dispersible silica (HDS) made with bio-based sodium silicate derived from rice husk ash (RHA). Rice husk is an abundantly available agricultural waste. Production is expected to start by the end of 2024.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2023

The Germany Spoke utilizes Li-Cycle’s Generation 3 Spoke technology to directly process all forms of lithium-ion battery waste, including full electric vehicle (EV) battery packs, without the need for discharging, dismantling or thermal processing. A definitive feasibility study for the project is currently underway.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2022

Umicore will supply ACC’s future large-scale European battery plants with next-generation high-nickel cathode materials out of its greenfield production plant in Nysa, Poland. The plant will start commercial production in the second quarter of 2022 and will employ 400 people. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2010

Enel has inaugurated an industrial-scale hydrogen-fuelled combined cycle power plant at Fusina (Venice, Italy). The industrial-scale plant—the first facility of its kind—has an overall capacity of 16 MW. In addition, Fusina is a leader in waste disposal. That is the equivalent of the waste produced by 300,000 people.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2019

The European Commission has approved under EU State aid rules an Important Project of Common European interest (IPCEI) jointly notified by Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Poland and Sweden to support research and innovation in the common European priority area of batteries.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

emissions from fossil fuel use and cement production per region. Global emissions of CO 2 have increased by 45% between 1990 and 2010, and reached an all-time high of 33 billion tonnes in 2010 despite emission reductions in industrialized countries during the same period. Global CO 2. Source: JRC. Click to enlarge. Indexed global CO 2.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2011

—Revealing the costs of air pollution from industrial facilities in Europe. The recognized benefits of industrial facilities, including manufacturing products, employment and tax revenues, are not addressed in the report. Half of the total damage cost (between €51–85 billion) was caused by just 191 facilities.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2018

The innovative, commercial scale facility was created in cooperation with the partners thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions, the research center for the German Association for Gas and Water (DVGW), and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and will be in operation for analysis over the next 24 months.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2018

Researchers from Istituto Motori - CNR in Italy and Eni report in a paper in the journal Fuel that blends of hydrocracked fossil oil (HCK) and Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil (HVO) as diesel fuels deliver fuel consumption (FC) and CO 2 savings based on the NEDC cycle.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 21, 2017

Other main findings include: In 2016, China, US, EU28, India, Russia and Japan, the world’s largest emitters in decreasing order of CO 2 emissions, accounted for 51% of the population, 65% of global Gross Domestic Product, 67% of the total primary energy supply and emitted 68% of total global CO 2 and circa 65% of total global GHGs.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2010

To do this, it has put together a project consortium that covers the whole biomass production chain, including researchers, companies in the (bio)chemical industry and European organizations. Finally, the plants should produce zero waste.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 20, 2024

The shipping industry has been trying to cut its carbon emissions for years, and with little to show for it. The industry now faces serious pressure to pick up the pace. body that governs the industry, representatives doubled down on carbon-reduction ambitions, setting a net-zero emissions goal for 2050.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2009

NEMO will focus on novel enzymes for hydrolysis and novel microorganisms for cellulosic ethanol production to identify the most eco-efficient and economic process options for cellulosic ethanol. cerevisiae strains used in ethanol production. Source: Universita Degli Studi di Milano. Click to enlarge. million (US$8.4 million (US$8.4

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2020

While China remains, for now, the world’s leading magnesium producer, alternative green technology-driven projects elsewhere are attracting attention as the industry in general looks to reduce its carbon footprint, and even China starts to close inefficient capacities, according to Roskill Information Services.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2012

Honeywell’s UOP—a major international supplier and licensor of technology for petroleum refining, gas processing, petrochemical production and major manufacturing industries—has also been an early leader in developing technologies for the production of renewable drop-in hydrocarbon fuels. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2009

As another panelist pointed out, “ The New York Times is well-equipped to write the article about how Stimulus Funds have been wasted ”. Who is going to take the lead on building the transmission capability that is needed: private industry, states or the federal government? Anderson has worked in power industry finance since 1992.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2015

Wind, solar, biomass and waste-to-power, geothermal, small hydro and marine power contributed an estimated 9.1% billion, a 10-year low; biomass and waste-to-energy dropping 10% to $8.4 Southern Europe is still almost a no-go area for investors because of retroactive policy changes, most recently those affecting solar farms in Italy.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 1, 2016

Projections, based on initial testing, indicate that the range of a future production supercar under battery power alone will be up to 150 km (93 miles). Of equal importance is that the new foil enables the mass production of the bearing liner at the required production tolerances to be achieved at a high volume scale at low cost.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2013

Focused on meeting a growing customer demand for ‘downsized’ engines offering strong power with reduced fuel consumption and CO2 emissions, the new gasoline and diesel powertrains are being progressively introduced across the Opel product range. VGT and waste-gate. SIDI Turbo gasoline engine. Compared to Opel’s previous 1.6-liter

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