Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Replacing fossil fuels with Neste’s renewable fuels reduced global climate emissions altogether by a 8.3 The emission reduction is calculated by comparing the life cycle greenhouse gas emissions of the renewable fuels that Neste produces in a year to the life cycle emissions of conventional European diesel. million metric tons—8.3

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2013

Neste Oil is beginning the commercial use of tall oil pitch as a feedstock for refining into transportation fuel. Up until now, it has not been possible to use tall oil pitch, a residue produced by tall oil refiners ( earlier post ), as a commercial-scale feedstock for fuel refining purposes. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2022

Toyota’s toughest, body-on-frame models in Europe are to be made compatible with HVO100 diesel, a non-fossil fuel made from 100% renewable sources such as waste cooking oil. HVO100 (hydrated vegetable oil) meets the EN 15940 European quality standard for paraffinic diesel.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Hamburg airport in Germany has started using Neste’s renewable diesel as a solution to reduce its reliance on fossil fuels. The fuel had a very good engine start performance in addition to which the vehicles did not need as frequent maintenance work due to less soot and less oil dilution.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2018

Propane-rich off-gas is produced during Neste’s NExBTL renewable diesel process; the gas is usually recovered during the Stabilization and Recycle stages of the process. BioLPG is Calor’s first renewable product offering that sees the company commit to reducing its carbon footprint and to become fully renewable by 2040.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 20, 2014

At the end of December 2013, Volvo Construction Equipment’s (CE) Braås facility, a 45,000 m 2 -site in southern Sweden, which specializes in the design and manufacture of articulated haulers, became powered entirely by renewable energy sources, including wind, biomass and hydropower. generated from renewable sources).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 3, 2014

An article in the latest issue of IEA Energy: The Journal of the International Energy Agency reports that Estonia, which has the most developed oil shale industry in the world, is collaborating in pursuing wider use of oil shale in a cleaner, more sustainable manner. Different that shale oil—i.e., million (US$12.8

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2010

million), two-year project aimed at developing technology for producing and fractionating bio-oil components as a basis for a biorefinery producing green chemicals, transportation fuels and energy. Aston University’s (UK) Bioenergy Research Group (BERG) is involved in a £1.4-million million (US$2.2

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2010

We’re currently in a transition period, moving from decades of dependence on oil to a society built on renewable fuels. The start of the field tests coincides with the inauguration of Sweden’s first public filling station for liquefied methane gas at Stigs Center in Göteborg.

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Electric Auto Association

JULY 5, 2021

The outreach efforts of the Houston Electric Auto Association (HEAA), founded 34 years ago in the heart of American oil country, have not always been met with a positive response. “We We have a lot of Tesla drivers in Houston because the oil execs see them as a status symbol with cool technology. Showing a home-brew EV.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2010

Soot particulates generated from the combustion of renewable diesel fuels produced from hydrotreated vegetable oils have similar oxidation properties and surface structures to those generated from fossil diesel, according to a new study by researchers from Finland and Sweden. Fuel doi: 10.1016/j.fuel.2010.06.006. 2010.06.006.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2017

Preem, the largest fuel company in Sweden, and Vattenfall have concluded an agreement to investigate the potential Vattenfall’s providing of hydrogen gas in the large scale production of biofuel for the Swedish market. Many different solutions are also needed. Preem’s contribution is to make fuels that are as green and efficient as possible.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2016

Researchers in Sweden and Spain have devised a three-step process for the conversion of precipitated kraft lignin from black liquor into green diesel. This makes black liquor the fifth most important fuel in the world, next to coal, oil, natural gas, and gasoline. Their paper appears in the journal ChemSusChem. Globally over 1.3

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2022

Austria-based OMV, an international, integrated oil, gas and chemicals company, announced its intention to become a net-zero (Scope 1, 2 and 3) company by no later than 2050. On top of this, the OMV Group intends to take a leading position in the field of renewable and circular economy solutions.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have identified two main challenges for renewable biofuel production from cheap sources: lowering the cost of developing microbial cell factories; and establishing more efficient methods for hydrolysis of biomass to sugars for fermentation. That is in line with our research too.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

Norwegian saw mill company Bergene Holm AS and the Swedish oil company Preem AB have entered into a cooperation, with the intention to realize full scale biofuel production sites in Norway through Biozin Holding AS. The product will be refined by one of Preem’s refineries in Sweden.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2015

This basic concept is in line with the fundamental approach (CO 2 + water + renewable energy → drop-in fuels) being taken by Audi (a member of the Volkswagen Group) in its e-fuels initiatives. In addition to the Volkswagen Group, participants in Photofuel include: Uppsala Universitets, Sweden. Neste Oil Corporation, Finland.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Promoting renewable energy and circular economy—including the shared use of vehicles and product design that supports reuse and recycling—will help maximize the benefits of shifting to electric vehicles, according to the report. So far, only two EU Member States (Austria and Sweden) have reached the 10% target.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2015

The country has implemented a mandate to increase the share of renewable energy in transport up to 20% by 2020. It is owned by North European Bio Tech Oy (NEB), and the production capacity of the plant will be leased to North European Oil Trade Oy (NEOT).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

The Swedish Energy R&D Board will provide an investment grant for the demonstration at industrial scale of the Chemrec technology for production of the renewable motor fuels BioDME (dimethyl ether) and Biomethanol. billion liters) of diesel oil annually, Chemrec says. Earlier post.). billion gallons US, or about 34.8

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Portugal-based energy company Galp and Sweden-based battery manufacturer Northvolt have agreed to set up a joint company, Aurora, that aims to become a steppingstone for the development of an integrated lithium-battery value-chain aligned with Portuguese and European ambitions.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2022

Achates Power is backed by the Oil and Gas Climate Investments and other investors. Combustion and Propulsion Systems, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden. The core business is the production of renewable fuels and clean, efficient energy conversion technologies. Aramco Americas.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2013

The classical HVDC technique was first introduced in Sweden (Gotland link) in 1954 by ASEA (a founding company of ABB). ABB pioneered HVDC technology nearly 60 years ago and has been awarded around 90 HVDC projects representing a total installed capacity of more than 95,000 megawatts (MW), accounting for about half the global installed base.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2009

It is based on renewable raw materials (acrylate functional resin system derived from soya oil). The Aurora urban hybrid concept. Click to enlarge. Cognis’ Tribest is a patented resin used to make matrices for composite materials. The KTH Eco Cars student project team built the car body out of Tribest and hemp fibers.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Issues covered in the briefing include emissions, air pollution, noise and renewable energy and the impact of transport on ecosystems and biodiversity. Oil consumption by the transport sector will need to fall by more than two-thirds to meet the objective of reducing consumption by 70% by 2050 compared with 2008 levels.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2018

More than 90% of such vehicles are powered by internal combustion engines burning oil-derived fuels. The difference these policies can make, if applied in a multi-pronged strategy, can already be seen in countries that strongly support the use of alternative-fuel vehicles, such as China, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The first SCoPEx test was originally planned for early 2021 in northern Sweden, but backlash from environmental and indigenous groups prompted the team to. record levels , mostly because of the coal, oil, and natural gas that gets burned for electricity, heat, and transportation. cancel the launch. Swedish Space Corp.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Increased availability of low CO 2 sources of electricity and hydrogen could counter-intuitively delay, rather than accelerate, a large-scale transition to an electric and/or hydrogen vehicle fleet, according to a new study by researchers from Ford Motor Company and Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden.

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Driivz

MARCH 31, 2021

This is the second post of our renewable energy and EV charging series. Sources of clean and renewable energy are increasingly being integrated by utilities around the world. What is Renewable Energy? Basically, renewable energy , also known as clean energy or green energy, never runs out. Renewables & EV Charging.

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Driivz

APRIL 3, 2024

Energy Management – optimal EV charging through advanced algorithms, smart grid access, use of local renewables, and demand-side response. states offer tax incentives for purchase and operation of EVs and use of renewable energy to power them. EV Charging Billing – monetization of EV charging networks via billing and settlement.

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Plug In Partners

APRIL 21, 2008

Ø In 2008, the House of Representatives will try once again to pass a renewable energy and energy efficiency tax credits bill that will include a tax credit for Plug in Hybrids. The bill, HR 5351 includes a credit for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. This is the same bill that the House passed in 2007. The bill (H.R.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2021

A team at Chalmers University (Sweden) has tested blends of OME 3-5 , HVO and RME in a light- and heavy-duty CI engine. Josefine Preuß, Karin Munch, Ingemar Denbratt (2021) “Performance and emissions of renewable blends with OME3-5 and HVO in heavy duty and light duty compression ignition engines,” Fuel , Volume 303 doi: 10.1016/j.fuel.2021.121275.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2017

The tested fuel—Catalytic Hydrothermal Conversion Jet fuel (CHCJ-5)—was made from rapeseed oil. Through a bilateral agreement between Sweden and the United States, the US Navy and US Air Force have contributed with valuable knowledge and experience regarding certification of biofuel. McDaniel, A., Dickerson, T.,

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APRIL 30, 2024

in China and Northvolt AB in Sweden — are pursuing sodium-ion technology, betting it has advantages over lithium that will give it a place in the fast-growing battery market. have committed to lowering their emissions, and batteries connected to renewable grids could provide one avenue to do it. and Amazon.com Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2013

Volvo has been testing Bio-DME in Sweden since 2009. However, notes Dr. Rebecca Boudreaux, Oberon’s president, oil was at $16 per barrel back then. Now, she says, the landscape has changed with the high price of oil. Earlier post.). DME engine in 2015. Earlier post.)

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MAY 15, 2024

If we can be in a professional hearing protector to use on airports, construction sites, mines, whatever you use, factories, oil rig platforms, you can do almost anything. We run the factories on 100 percent renewable energy. Because Sweden stayed open during COVID, which was great. So that’s where we are totally unique.

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