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Argonne releases GREET 2020

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road, air, marine, and rail) and other end-use sectors, and energy systems. GREET 2020 updates the specific energy and bill-of-materials (BOMs) of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) for electric vehicles (EVs), including battery electric vehicles (BEVs), hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs), and plug-in electric vehicles (PHEVs). O 2 (NMC 532).

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EIA projects decline in transportation sector energy consumption through 2037 despite increase in VMT, followed by increase

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Domestic marine shipments decline modestly during the projection period, continuing a historical trend related to logistical and economic competition with other freight modes. California’s Zero-Emission Vehicle regulation, which nine additional states have adopted, requires a minimum percentage of vehicle sales of BEV and PHEV.

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Argonne team releases 2018 GREET LCA model

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road, air, marine, and rail). The new pathway reflects a new attempt to use oil extracted from brassica carinata seeds to produce jet fuels via the HEFA conversion pathway. GREET 2017 already included aviation fuels produced from soybean, palm, jatropha, rapeseed, and camelina, and canola through HEFA conversion.

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Canada Awards C$40M to 18 Clean Technology Projects, Including Li-ion Batteries and Renewable Hydrocarbon Fuels

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million) to 18 clean technology projects in the transportation, oil and gas and wastewater treatment sectors. for algal oil for transportation fuels; and an award to Targeted Growth Canada to demonstrate a process utilizing camelina as a feedstock for renewable jet fuel. billion (US$1.5 Electrovaya. Targeted Growth Canada Inc.

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Navigant forecasts US military spending on non-tactical alt drive vehicles to more than double to $926M by 2020 from 2013; 11.4% CAGR

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According the CIA’s 2007 World Factbook , only 35 countries consume more oil than the US Department of Defense (DOD), and only three countries consume more oil per capita. The US military is the largest consumer of energy and fossil fuels on the planet. Fossil fuel consumption varies by use in times of combat operations and peace.

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Accenture Reports Identifies 12 Disruptive Technologies Most Likely to Transform Supply and Demand of Transport Fuels and Cut Emissions Within Next 10 Years

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Will be competitive at an oil price of $45 to $90 at their commercial date. Marine scrubbers. This technology could avoid both the need for significant capital investment to upgrade refineries to produce more low sulfur fuel oil (LSFO) and greater dependence on costlier, low sulfur crudes.

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Inaugural Quadrennial Technology Review report concludes DOE is underinvested in transport; greatest efforts to go to electrification

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In the transportation sector, DOE will focus on technologies that significantly reduce oil consumption and diversify fuel sources for on-road transportation. Electrification is the next greatest opportunity to dramatically reduce or eliminate oil consumption in the light-duty vehicle fleet.