Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Researchers from London South Bank University (LSBU), School of the Built Environment and Architecture, are investigating the use of metal hydrides to absorb, release and store hydrogen for fuel cell buses. On demand, the hydrogen is released from the hydride (endothermic reaction), utilizing the waste heat of the fuel cell.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

British Airways has entered a partnership with Velocys to design a series of waste plants that convert household waste into renewable jet fuel to power its fleet. As well as helping the airline industry reduce its carbon emissions this initiative will also significantly reduce the amount of waste going to landfill.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Dearman, the UK-based developer of clean cold power systems based on its engine powered by liquid nitrogen ( earlier post ), has identified a diesel loophole in the new London T-Charge levy on the most polluting vehicles. Earlier post.). mostly vehicles registered before 2006.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2021

It will be produced from sustainable waste feedstock at the Humber Refinery, which will deliver its SAF supply to British Airways via existing pipeline infrastructure that feeds directly into UK airports. We’re currently refining almost half a million liters of sustainable waste feedstocks a day, and this is just a start.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2016

Internet of Things (IoT) platform company Drayson Technologies is partnering with Inmarsat and courier company Gophr to capture real-time data on carbon monoxide pollution levels in London. The data will feed into the Air Map, an interactive map that will show the pollution levels at the location of each courier, in real time. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2022

The LEVC TX and VN5 are manufactured by London EV Company (LEVC), a subsidiary of Geely. Biomethane and biopropane can both be made from waste feedstocks such as food waste, farm waste and sewage and both are in volume production already.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2014

The Dearman project is to deliver a production-feasible waste-heat recovery system for urban commercial vehicles, which offers life-cycle CO 2 savings of up to 40%; fuel savings of 25%, with the potential of up to almost 50%; and potential payback in less than three years. Engines Vehicle Systems Waste Heat Recovery' Earlier post. ).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

The waste plastics to hydrocarbon fuels liquefaction technology is based on pyrolysis and distillation. The objective of the new agreement is to build 10 UK plants dealing with 60,000 tonnes of mixed plastic waste per year and to commission the first plant in London by end 2011. Cynar system.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Alitalia and the Solena Group have signed a letter of intent to initiate a study on the feasibility of the construction of a plant capable of converting municipal solid waste in a significant portion of the jet fuel needed by the. The agreement between Alitalia and Solena Group is part of the program called Green Sky. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2023

This month, Purolator will begin deploying 25 Ford E-Transit vans in London, Ont.; It also plans to reduce emissions from electricity by 100% through the use of renewable sources and by diverting more than 70% of its waste from landfill. Richmond, B.C.; and Québec City.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2013

A new study published in the journal Nature Materials has found a way to suppress the thermal conductivity in sodium cobaltate so that it can be used to harvest waste energy, with potential applications such as automotive waste heat recovery. —Voneshen et al.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

A new briefing paper from Imperial College London estimates that in 2021, 52% of all small particle pollution from road transport came from tires and brakes. Six million tonnes of tire wear particles (TWP) are released globally each year, and in London alone, 2.6 Imperial College London (2023). Imperial College London.

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Green Cars News

MARCH 22, 2011

An innovative fund of at least £70million has been introduced by the Mayor of London Boris Johnson to finance low carbon waste and recycling infrastructure.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2017

In Lewisham, a district in the southeast of London, a Mercedes-Benz Econic 1838 4x2 with an electric tipper and crusher body has recently been put into service. Around 40 Econics are used in the narrow streets of this London borough. The battery pack is charged overnight in the depot (plug-in).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Virgin Atlantic announced the development of a low-carbon, synthetic jet fuel kerosene produced from industrial waste gases with half the carbon footprint of the standard fossil fuel alternative in partnership with LanzaTech and Swedish Biofuels. process recycles waste gases that would otherwise be burnt into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

The figure equals removal of 3 million passenger cars from the roads for a full year—more than the amount of cars in the city of London, UK, for example. Waste and residues account nearly 80% of Neste’s renewable raw material usage. million metric tons—8.3

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Jaguar Land Rover Automotive is expanding the use of recycled aluminum in its car bodies to cut waste and reduce carbon emissions. REALCAR began as a partnership between Jaguar Land Rover, Innovate UK, Novelis, Norton aluminum, Stadco, Brunel University London, Zyomax and Innoval Technology. A £2-million (US$2.6-million)

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2021

Battery modeling , led by Dr Gregory Offer, Imperial College London, with researchers from the Universities of Bath, Birmingham, Lancaster, Oxford, Portsmouth, Southampton, Warwick and UCL. Degradation mechanisms can occur on length-scales from the nano to the macroscopic, and timescales from seconds up to years.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2019

London-based AP Ventures has made a follow-on investment in Greyrock Energy , Inc. a provider of small-scale gas-to-liquids (GTL) technology. Greyrock’s systems are designed to transform a variety of gas resources (including natural gas, flare gas, bio-gas, natural gas liquids, and other feedstocks) into premium transportation fuels.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

The plant will gasify waste biomass, and use a Fischer-Tropsch process to convert the resulting syngas to biojet fuel and bionaphtha. Four sites in the east of London are among those under consideration for the construction of the bio-jet fuel plant. —The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2020

The eEconic will at first be offered in the configuration 6x2/N NLA and will mainly be in demand as a waste-collection vehicle. More than 140 FUSO eCanter light-duty trucks are already in use with customer in cities worldwide, including New York City, Tokyo, Berlin, London, Amsterdam, Paris and Lisbon.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2012

After a formal evaluation of available technologies performed by Fluor Corporation on behalf of Solena, Oxford Catalysts was selected by Solena as the sole supplier of FT technology for GreenSky London. In the second step of the overall process, Solena uses the Fischer-Tropsch reaction to transform the syngas into light FT liquids and FT wax.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 2, 2011

to build the world’s second commercial-scale plant to produce jet fuel from waste for its aircraft. The BA-Solena plant in London will convert more than 500,000 metric tonnes of waste biomass feedstock into synthesis gas (BioSynGas) every year, using Solena’s proprietary plasma gasification technology. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Researchers at Imperial College London have developed a membrane-based extraction system for the production of biofuels which uses less than 25% of the energy of current processes and produces ten times more biofuel with more than 99.5% The open-access findings are published in the RSC journal Energy & Environmental Science.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 24, 2023

King Charles III’s Crown Estate said that it had begun court proceedings against Twitter over alleged unpaid rent on its London headquarters, Reuters reported. Although the estate hasn’t shared how much rent Twitter allegedly owed, it said it brought the action after making contact with Twitter. .”

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Much of Borkowski’s work involves improving the environmental impact of ice cream production by cutting waste and reducing the amount of energy needed to keep products frozen. Unilever is targeting sustainability across the company, so cutting waste and improving energy efficiency are key. It wasn’t easy.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Funded by Ford, the trial will initially run for 12 months, in cooperation with municipal fleets serving the public sector, complementing testing in London, UK and Valencia, Spain with larger fleets and small-to-medium fleets respectively. Ford recognizes Cologne as a city of strategic importance regarding future mobility.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2012

Led by VantagePoint Capital Partners, a global investor in energy innovation and efficiency, the financing also included existing Ostara investor, London-based Frog Capital and a group of new investors including Waste Resources Fund L.P., a fund managed by FourWinds Capital Management.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

ADL will focus initially on the introduction of the low emission technology to bus fleets in London and Oxford but anticipates rapid deployment across the UK in the next few years. Instead, the flywheel is a very efficient, short duration energy accumulator, that can capture and re-deploy large cumulative amounts of energy with little waste.

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Green Cars News

JULY 31, 2012

If drivers in London turned off their engines rather than idling for one minute on every journey, this alone would reduce CO2 emissions by more than 100 million kg a year, new research shows. According to analysis by the Energy Saving Trust, this would also collectively save drivers over £60 million in fuel. With congestion [.].

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2019

Other mostly European destinations, such as Geneva; London; San Sebastien, Spain; Copenhagen; Prague; Stockholm; Oslo; and Reykjavik had consistently lower levels of air pollution. Some destinations studied—Beijing, Shanghai, and Milan—are heavily polluted during certain months but have relatively cleaner air at other times.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2013

Five Hyundai ix35 Fuel Cell models ( earlier post ) are joining the London Hydrogen Network Expansion (LNHE) project. Two hydrogen fuel stations are already open in London—one of which has public access—with a third to come as part of the LHNE project. The ix35 Fuel Cell. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

The facility will convert more than 500,000 metric tonnes of waste biomass feedstock into synthesis gas (BioSynGas) every year, using Solena’s proprietary plasma gasification technology. Solena’s fuel-flexible proprietary gasification technology will utilize waste biomass normally destined for landfill. The Solena Group, Inc.,

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Green Cars News

MAY 6, 2009

A London council is trailing a switch-off of traffic lights in the area in a bid to cut congestion. David Millican, a Conservative councillor and Ealing’s Cabinet member for transport, told The Times: “We want to end the situation where no one is moving and time and space are being wasted.

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Charged EVs

APRIL 1, 2024

Several companies are developing chemical processes, but these are still at pilot scale, and Aqua’s execs see serious challenges in delivering the required product purity and dealing with waste streams. There are real challenges with waste streams—they yield a lot of sulfuric acid and sodium sulfate, which will need to get landfilled.

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Drive Electric

MARCH 25, 2021

Regenerative braking is built into all electric vehicles and is a feature that helps you maximise range, and makes the process of braking less wasteful. In comparison – a combustion engine car’s brakes convert kinetic energy into wasted heat to slow the vehicle. What is regenerative braking?

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2013

Originally developed for the 2009 Williams Formula One car, Williams Hybrid Power’s energy storage technology has since been introduced into applications such as London buses and the Le Mans-winning Audi R18 e-tron quattro. it is ideally suited to kinetic energy recovery on trams because of their stop-start nature and high mass.

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