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. convert the resulting ethanol into a synthetic jet fuel. The fuel production.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2021

IRMA advances responsible mining practice through a comprehensive set of standards covering the four principles of Business Integrity, Planning for Positive Legacies, Social Responsibility and Environmental Responsibility. GM already requires suppliers to meet its standards and adhere to company values throughout the supply chain.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2021

F-150 Lightning offers a standard-range battery targeting 230 miles of EPA-estimated range and an extended-range battery targeting 300 miles of EPA-estimated range. Standard on base trims is 2.4 kilowatts of power with the option for more, while Lariat and Platinum series come standard with 9.6 America’s No.

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F-150 Ford Extended Range Electric 526

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2010

Central to the project is the use of a compact high-speed flywheel as an energy store, recycling the kinetic energy that would otherwise be wasted whenever the vehicle brakes. Flywheel hybrids, just like electrical hybrids, recycle the kinetic energy that would otherwise be wasted when the vehicle brakes.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 9, 2024

The companies’ patented processes also eliminate the production of thousands of tons of sodium sulfate waste—a byproduct of traditional cathode production and recycling methods.

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Supplies Energy North America Batteries 52

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 14, 2016

Alphabet Energy is commercializing low-cost, efficient thermoelectric materials for power generation leveraging technology initially developed at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. connected, semiautonomous) while also achieving fuel efficiency standards (e.g., US EPA CAFE Standards). Earlier post.).

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Fuel Economy Energy Economy Fuel 150

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 18, 2020

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Reducing EMbodied-Energy and Decreasing Emissions (REMADE) Manufacturing Institute announced approximately $35 million to support research and development (R&D) that will enable US manufacturers to increase the recovery, recycling, reuse, and remanufacturing of plastics, metals, electronic waste, and fibers.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2019

The treated water streams can achieve the most stringent effluent water quality standards in the United States with a new cost-efficient, energy-positive model. Oregon State University (OSU) is developing a system for extracting clean irrigation water from hydraulic fracturing wastewater using low-grade solar or industrial waste heat.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

The funds will be used to develop novel membranes and lithium-metal anodes for the next generation of high-energy-density, low-cost batteries. Those inactive materials are expensive and wasteful. Using thick electrodes, the cell also stores more energy, bettering the performance of the battery as well as its cost.

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Li-ion Lithium Ion Energy Polymer 150

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2017

The gasification technology complements Aemetis’ current license with LanzaTech for syngas-to-ethanol conversion, providing Aemetis with a complete technology solution to produce locally-sourced, low-carbon cellulosic ethanol. —Eric McAfee, Chairman and CEO of Aemetis. per gallon, about $3.00

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India Renewable MIT Carbon 170

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

The Maverick Oasis factory-built Gas-to-Liquids (GTL) methanol plants are modular, and can be rapidly deployed onsite to produce thousands of gallons per day of methanol from natural gas or methane-rich waste gas. The plants are designed to be low-cost, highly efficient facilities optimized to generate an attractive project rate of return.

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Gas Affordable Waste Gas-Electric 210

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

The H2@Scale initiative will develop and enable the deployment of transformational technologies that produce and utilize green, low-cost hydrogen to achieve an economically competitive, deeply decarbonized future energy system across sectors. Click to enlarge. Increased energy system resiliency and flexibility.

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Hydrogen Energy Future Low Cost 150

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Chan Park of University of California, Riverside will receive $94,407 to develop a fuel sensing technology for natural gas vehicles.The technology has the potential to help the state attain its clean air standards and increase adoption of natural gas vehicles in California through the development of new sources of renewable natural gas.

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Gas-Electric California Gas Energy 230

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 4, 2016

The biomethane is made from the gas harvested through the processing of waste generated by food production, which is then injected directly into gas pipelines. Low processing, transportation and electricity charges make CNG a low-cost, clean solution.

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Renewable Fleet Fuel Gas-Electric 150

Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2015

When paired with anaerobic digesters that produce renewable biogas from organic waste, the Maverick Oasis BG product line is the first small-scale, economically viable solution that simultaneously reduces greenhouse gas emissions while helping to solve environmental problems associated with dairy and swine waste as well as other organic waste.

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Gas Waste Gas-Electric Convert 150

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 18, 2016

g/bhp-hr optional Near Zero NO x Emissions standards for medium-duty truck, urban bus, school bus and refuse applications. Cummins Westport states that this certification represents a 10-fold emissions reduction below current EPA NO x emissions standards, making it the cleanest engine in the industry.

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2016 Engine North America Los Angeles 150

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2011

Light-weighting materials : Five projects awarded to accelerate commercial availability of lighter weight vehicles using advanced materials that dramatically reduce vehicle weight while maintaining the highest safety standards. This project will develop a new process that enables low-cost, domestic manufacturing of magnesium.

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Carbon Fiber Lithium Ion Li-ion Vehicles 268

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

The more energy there is available at low cost, the more it will be used. We could not therefore use standard panels. The solar panels developed for Optifuel Lab 2 are therefore light in weight, deformable, equipped with 48 modules covering an area of 40 m² and generate 30% more power than standard panels.

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2015 Vehicles Solar Waste 247

Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2021

Life cycle analysis showed up to 165% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions relative to fossil jet if the food waste is diverted from landfills to produce VFA-SAF. Techno-economic analysis evaluated the major catalytic process cost-drivers, determining the minimum fuel selling price as a function of VFA production costs.

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Waste Fuel Carbon Renewable 243

Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2016

Formulated with up to 50% CO 2 -based polyols, the foam is showing promise as it meets rigorous automotive test standards. Novomer is commercializing a proprietary catalyst system that transforms waste CO 2 into high performance, low-cost polymers for a variety of applications, including foam and plastic that are easily recyclable.

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Ford Polymer CO2 Vehicles 150

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2023

This project will demonstrate the conversion of gaseous carbon wood wastes (terpenes) to renewable Terpenes SAF blending components. The pilot will consist of a low cost, easy to operate, air blown gasifier coupled with LanzaTech’s second generation bioreactor (2GBR).

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Production Carbon Conversion Mariner 225

Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2012

will receive $5 million to develop, build and test a pilot facility to demonstrate an innovative gasification process to produce renewable biomass diesel from local municipal solid waste, including green refuse, railroad ties, construction and demolition waste, and plastics that typically wind up in landfills. SacPort Biofuels Corp.

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California Transportation Green Energy 240

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

The projects will focus on new innovations that achieve breakthrough thermal efficiencies while meeting federal emission standards for passenger vehicles—cars and light trucks, as well as commercial vehicles, including long-haul tractor trailers. The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected four projects for up to $8.4

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Engine Eaton Fuel Economy General Motors 186

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2011

LanzaTech’s proprietary gas fermentation technology enables low cost production of sustainable alcohols and chemicals from waste gas resources that are completely outside the food value chain. The use of lignin opens up a new biomass waste stream for making economic renewable jet fuel. Earlier post.).

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Alternative Fuels Renewable 2011 Waste 265

Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Or, new-ish, at least—there's a ruggedized and ultra low-cost GelSight-style fingertip sensor, plus a nifty new kind of tactile sensing skin based on suspended magnetic particles and machine learning. I do believe that the human hand is possibly the golden standard that we should compare against. It's cool stuff, but why ?

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Low Cost MIT Environment Commercial 145

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

The first hydrogen TTO is focused on durable, high activity electrocatalyst with low platinum content and low cost for polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell applications. Conventional polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cell technology requires high content of platinum electrocatalyst, which raises manufacturing costs.

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Hydrogen Engine Fuel Electric Vehicles 150

Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2010

Included in the 34 FY2010 SBIR Phase I awards are the following biofuel and emissions-reduction projects: Technology Specialists, “Thermochemical Biofuels Production from Biomass Waste Materials”, $70,000. This project will develop and evaluate a new process for converting biomass waste into diesel fuel.

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Emissions EPA Waste Exhaust 225

Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2016

coal, biomass, or waste—is heated in the absence of molecular oxygen to produce a solid containing char and ash and volatile gases. lower cost) and gasification/F-T processes (e.g., In a patent application published 1 December 2015, Altex described the basic approach for its synthetic fuels processes. —US 9199889.

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Gasoline Coal Convert Conversion 150

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2010

The successful market implementation of these materials in vehicles requires that they be low cost and available in sufficient abundance to make a compelling business case. For this reason the focus of this AOI includes the development of low-cost approaches to the manufacturing of both magnesium and carbon fiber.

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Li-ion Carbon Fiber Vehicles Low Cost 231

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

This performance combined with low cost processing yields a competitive anode material that will have an immediate and direct application in lithium ion batteries, according to the research team. After being mixed with polyacrylonitrile (PAN) and pyrolyzed, MPSPs can alloy with lithium.

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Li-ion Universal Batteries Battery 240

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

Only in the case of high EV market share and a high renewable electricity standard (RES) do EVs make a material contribution to greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions, they found. The orange increment, in the 20% EV and 100% EV cases, is from linking fuel efficiency standards. Credit: ACS, Choi et al. Click to enlarge. —Choi et al.

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Low Cost Georgia Fuel Economy Gasoline-Electric 236

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Moreover, modern industrial biomass processes and catalytic reduction of CO 2 with H 2 can produce FA on a large scale and at low cost. Owing to the low operating temperature, the hydrogen release of this system can be driven by the waste heat of a standard PEM fuel cell without additional heat treatment.

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Clean Fleet Report

AUGUST 28, 2021

However, idling is a huge waste of fuel and money. Another low-cost modification is a vacuum gauge, which also can give you quick fuel economy data. Fuel-efficient vehicles are becoming more common and green optimizations are becoming more standard. It unnecessarily burns fuel your car should only use in order to move.

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Fuel Economy Economy Fuel Maintenance 104

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Sixty volts is defined by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) regulation R100 as the boundary between low and high voltage in a direct current circuit, and so is a critical point where a step change in system cost can be identified.

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Congress Hybrid Exhaust Gas-Electric 236

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2015

Areas of emphasis could include, but are not limited to, development of microbial strains or co-cultures with improved hydrogen yields; reactor designs to improve hydrogen production yields or reduce costs (e.g., Fuel Cell Technologies R&D: Low Platinum Group Metal Catalysts and Supports. 2 to 5 awards between $1M and $3M.

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Hydrogen Plug-in Fuel Plug 150

Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2015

Together, our inventions achieve what lithium-ion has yet to do—meet the ultra-low cost targets of the grid and transportation industries. By 2020 our battery costs will be less than $100 a kilowatt-hour (kWh). Those inactive materials are expensive and wasteful. Earlier post.). Manufacturing. Flexible and modular.

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Li-ion Lithium Ion 2020 Batteries 150

Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2015

Design, Deployment, and Validation of Advanced, Low-cost Mobile Hydrogen Refuelers. Areas of emphasis could include, but are not limited to: Development of microbial strains or co-cultures with improved hydrogen yields; Reactor designs to improve hydrogen production yields or reduce costs (e.g.,

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