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DECEMBER 2, 2021

The below zero carbon intensity, cellulosic hydrogen then is used to hydrotreat vegetable or other renewable oils to produce aviation and diesel fuel. The process technology is licensed from Axens (France), a global technology provider to the oil and chemical industries. American Airlines is also a oneworld Alliance member.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Waymo announced its plan to expand driverless testing to Los Angeles just a few weeks ago, beyond the company’s current operations in San Francisco and Phoenix, Arizona. “For all de facto purposes, Waymo is becoming the Standard Oil of autonomous driving,” said Grayson Brulte, head of insights firm Road to Autonomy.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2022

Phillips 66 made a final investment decision Wednesday to move forward with Rodeo Renewed, the project to convert its San Francisco Refinery in Rodeo, California, into one of the world’s largest renewable fuels facilities.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Settled on Thursday by Judge Jayne Lee in San Joaquin County state court, the lawsuit alleged that Tesla had been violating hazardous waste laws at 101 facilities across California, along with its Fremont factory. The automaker also said it had already begun screening its waste more carefully.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2017

US-based biotech startup Amfora and CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, the federal government agency for scientific research in Australia) signed an agreement to advance development and commercialization of technology to produce oil in the leaves and stems of plants as well as the seeds. Source: CSIRO.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The SAF is scheduled to be delivered to San Francisco International Airport (SFO) and Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) as blended fuel, and the RD is expected to be delivered to Northern California truck fueling locations.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2018

Higher crude oil prices in 2017 contributed to higher gasoline prices. Of the 10 cities for which EIA collects data, retail prices in San Francisco were the highest for all but 13 weeks of 2017. San Francisco prices peaked in November at $3.28/gal. US regular retail gasoline prices averaged $2.41

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2019

Rising crude oil prices and high levels of gasoline demand contributed to rising gasoline prices from January through May. West Coast (Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle). San Francisco gasoline prices peaked in October at $3.76/gal. gal at least once in 2018. per gallon between October and December.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2017

The California Energy Commission awarded more than $16 million to Equilon Enterprises, LLC, which does business as Shell Oil Products US, to develop seven new hydrogen stations in Northern California. Three will be located in San Francisco, one in Walnut Creek, one in Berkeley and two in the Sacramento region.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2022

These deals, together with the previously announced SAF introduction in the DHL network in San Francisco (SFO), East Midlands (EMA) and Amsterdam (AMS), will exceed 50% of DHL Express’ target to reach 10% SAF blending for all air transport by 2026. Both suppliers will provide SAF produced from waste oils.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Oil giant Shell announced plans to close its California hydrogen refueling stations this week, as much of the automotive industry is continuing to develop hydrogen fuel cell solutions alongside the popularization of electric vehicles (EVs).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2020

San Francisco-based Equilon Enterprises (doing business as Shell Oil Products U.S.) More than half of the stations approved today will be built in or near disadvantaged communities. Irvine-based FirstElement Fuel, Inc., received $15.5 received $7.3 Santa Clara-based Iwatani Corporation of America, received $1.9

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MAY 6, 2011

a renewable oils and bioproducts company, announced a two-year joint development agreement (JDA) with Bunge Limited to develop microbe-derived oils utilizing Brazilian sugar cane feedstock. Development will take place at Bunge’s facility in Moema, Brazil, and at Solazyme’s laboratories in South San Francisco and Campinas, Brazil.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Credit: peekaystudio/Instagram ) Tesla is said to use lubricating oils, brake fluids, lead acid batteries, aerosols, antifreeze, cleaning fluids, propane, paint, acetone, liquefied petroleum gas, adhesives, and diesel fuel at its Fremont Factory in Northern California. ” Tesla’s Fremont Factory.

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APRIL 7, 2024

percent yearly decrease on average, according to the study’s Lead Researcher and Professor, Executive Associate Dean at Berkeley’s College of Computing, Data Science and Society, Ronald Cohen in a report from the San Francisco Chronicle. “If The data shows a gradual decline in carbon dioxide emissions, representing a 1.8-percent

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

On 9 August, the California Energy Commission (Energy Commission) awarded a grant of $16,362,500 to Equilon Enterprises LLC, a subsidiary of Shell Oil Company, for the introduction of seven hydrogen refueling stations in Northern California.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2023

SAF can be produced from a wide array of renewable sources such as agricultural wastes and used cooking oils and can lower lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions by roughly 80% in its neat form when compared to traditional petroleum-based fuels. Shell has announced its ambition to have 10% of its aviation jet fuel sales as SAF by 2030.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Upon completion of the project, Kinder Morgan’s Harvey, Louisiana facility will serve as the primary hub where Neste will store a variety of raw materials including, for example, the used cooking oil it collects from more than 40,000 restaurants across the United States. More than 1 million gallons of SAF have been supplied into SFO to date.

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MAY 4, 2017

Singapore Airlines (SIA), in partnership with the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore ( CAAS ), has started operating a series of 12 “green package” flights over a three-month period on its non-stop San Francisco-Singapore route.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2020

As part of the collaboration, Shell Aviation and World Energy also announced that they have initiated the supply of SAF to Lufthansa Group at San Francisco International Airport (SFO). The SAF is produced by World Energy at its refinery in Paramount, California, from a feedstock of agricultural waste fats and oils.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2014

In working to elucidate the chemistry of hydrodeoxygenation (HDO) for the catalytic upgrading of pyrolytic bio-oil to fuel-grade products, researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have discovered that water in the conversion process helps form an impurity which, in turn, slows down key chemical reactions.

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MAY 1, 2023

The authors released a full report last week to the California Air Resources Board (CARB) with additional measurements of coal and petroleum coke (a byproduct of oil refining). in the San Francisco Bay area.” —Ostro et al. The study was funded by the California Air Resources Board Community Air Monitoring Grant Program.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2012

the developer of a process for harvesting algae and cleaning up oil & gas water, announced that its second original equipment manufacturer’s (OEM) agreement will target oil service companies in the Canadian oil sands market. LH was an early private investor in Athabasca Oil Corporation. OriginOil, Inc.,

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MARCH 20, 2014

Comparison plot showing mass fractions (F m ) of chemically characterized components of lubricating oils and POA. In contrast to BC, POA contains many thousands of organic compounds that are thought to be derived from unburned fuel, unburned lubricating oil, and as byproducts of incomplete combustion. Credit: ACS, Worton et al.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2018

Renewable diesel is a 100% hydrocarbon renewable fuel produced by hydrotreating fats and oils; it can be used in existing diesel engines without modification. Currently, San Francisco uses renewable diesel for its entire municipal fleet. New York City will be one of the first fleets to use renewable diesel in the northeast.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2018

state residents did not see the benefits of improved air quality from presumed reductions in harmful co-pollutants, such as particulate matter— according to a new study led by UC Berkeley and San Francisco State University researchers. The impact on these communities could be severe and long-lasting, the authors said.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2021

The California Energy Commission has approved a 4-million grant to Equilon Enterprises LLC (dba Shell Oil Products US) to develop and demonstrate the first multi-modal hydrogen refueling station in California. The Port of West Sacramento is a deep-water port which opened for commerce in 1963.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2016

Neste’s proprietary NEXBTL technology makes it possible to produce top-quality renewable diesel and other renewable products out of waste and residue materials and vegetable oils. —Mika Hyötyläinen, VP, Marketing at Neste Oil Retail.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2010

Growth of production of Canadian oil sands. The Canadian oil sands are now poised to become the number one source of US crude oil imports in 2010, according to new research from the IHS CERA Canadian Oil Sands Dialogue. The Role of Canadian Oil Sands in US Oil Supply”. Conventional oil uses 0.1

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

Following three years of research, a team of energy, biotechnology and agribusiness veterans has formed SG Biofuels , a San Diego, CA-based plant oil company specializing in the development of Jatropha as a low-cost, sustainably produced source of oil. Jatropha curcas is a non-edible shrub that is native to Central America.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2019

Gevo has signed on to a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with a group of eight airlines and certain fuel producers to work cooperatively on expanding the use of Sustainable Aviation Fuels at San Francisco International Airport (SFO). Earlier post.). Gevo’s ATJ has been used to power commercial flights since 2016.

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AUGUST 21, 2015

The Sonata Hybrid is available to rent at airports including Los Angeles, Orange County, San Francisco, Atlanta, Dulles International and Chicago, as well as cities such as San Jose, San Diego and Long Beach in California; Portland, Oregon; and Denver.

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That process began win 2021, when Aaple began deploying its first generation of autonomous battery-swapping stations around San Francisco. The company’s goal is to help enable 1 billion electric vehicles on roads worldwide someday.

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JANUARY 18, 2017

Neste MY Renewable Diesel—classified as Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil (HVO)—is a low-carbon drop-in renewable diesel fuel enabling up to 80% lower greenhouse gas emissions throughout the life cycle of the fuel compared to conventional petroleum diesel.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 7, 2012

A fire at an oil refinery in San Francisco Bay area has led to a warning to residents to remain indoors as plumes of smoke fill the air. The fire at Chevron’s Richmond plant in California broke yesterday evening around 6pm local time. By 10pm the fire was ‘contained’ but is still burning. A spokesperson [.].

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Air Liquide’s latest large-scale hydrogen production unit recently began operations on the site of ConocoPhillips’ San Francisco refinery in Rodeo, California, on the north eastern shore of the San Francisco Bay.

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The startup, headquartered in San Francisco, won this year’s CCU (Compania Cervecerias Unidas) Chile’s Innpacta Global Open Innovation Challenge. Headquarters San Francisco. Employees 16 “We had customers in the oil-and-gas industry, as well as construction companies, dealing with similar problems,” she says.

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