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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Baua Electric

MAY 7, 2024

New Way Trucks and the hydrogen fuel cell experts at Hyzon just revealed North America’s first hydrogen fuel cell-powered electric refuse truck at Waste Expo in Las Vegas. Electrek’s Take Hyzon compact hydrogen fuel cell; image by Hyzon.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2020

Redeem was the first commercially available RNG vehicle fuel, derived from capturing biogenic methane that is produced from the decomposition of organic waste from dairies, landfills, and wastewater treatment plants. The City of Tucson, AZ has signed a multi-year maintenance agreement with Clean Energy.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2018

The Synthetic Fuels Division was launched in 2014 as part of the acquisition of Syntroleum ( earlier post ) that included the 75 million gallon per year nameplate capacity biorefinery located in Geismar, Louisiana. Currently, San Francisco uses renewable diesel for its entire municipal fleet.

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Plugs and Cars

MARCH 3, 2011

I wrote back in December about my unhappy experience attempting to charge my loaner LEAF at San Francisco City Hall's electric car charging stations. A threat taken seriously in San Francisco. Plugging in to public charge stations is part of the process of introducing Americans to electric cars.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

This purchase marks Proterra’s first airport electric bus deployment in the San Francisco Bay Area. Funded in part by a $3.8-million These include recycling and composting programs supporting a zero-waste commitment by 2022; a 1MW, 3.4-acre

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2010

Researchers from the Berner Fachhochschule and EMPA, a Swiss research and services group, are developing a thermoelectric generator for vehicle waste heat recovery that is integrated in the muffler, rather than being installed as a separate thermoelectric generator (TEG) unit on the exhaust line. Thermoelectric waste heat recovery.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2020

JetBlue also announced plans to start flying with sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) in mid-2020 on flights from San Francisco International Airport. Neste MY Renewable Jet Fuel is produced 100% from waste and residue raw materials. Over the lifecycle, it has up to 80% smaller carbon footprint compared to fossil jet fuel.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Compared to Starlink’s sky-cluttering swarms of tiny satellites, San Francisco–based Astranis’s plans may seem old school. The first power plant using NuScale’s technology is set to start generating electricity in 2029 at the Idaho National Laboratory, as part of the Carbon Free Power Project. Several U.S.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2013

The award was announced as part of a larger $3,994,121 award package for five research projects. Other projects receiving funding include: Foresight Renewable Solutions of San Francisco will receive $1.7 million to demonstrate renewable energy management using a compressed air energy storage system.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2010

parts per million (ppm) to 50 ppm. In research reported at the 239 th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in San Francisco, Saido and colleagues revealed that the light, white-foamed plastic commonly known as Styrofoam decomposed rapidly at temperatures commonly found in the oceans. Katsuhiko Saido.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2015

Bio-based feedstocks from fats, plant oils and waste residues are converted to renewable diesel using advanced refining technologies. Neste produces NEXBTL renewable diesel from a variety of feedstocks including more than half from waste and residues. The companies making pledges as part of today’s launch represent more than $1.3

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2011

The project will divert approximately 550,000 metric tons of waste that otherwise would go to a landfill while producing jet fuel with lower emissions of greenhouse gases and local pollutants than petroleum-based fuels. Earlier post.).

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Creative Greenius

JULY 26, 2012

Tomorrow morning I’ll be in Long Beach, California for another project ribbon cutting at City Hall for their new sustainable edible gardens that Waste Management’s EcoAd is providing the financial support for. .

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Cars That Think

JULY 29, 2022

Unfortunately, only viewers in a few select markets—Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco—could actually see the show in color. I peg much of its enduring popularity to the fact that it was in almost nonstop syndication for decades as part of the Saturday morning cartoon lineup.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2016

This approach minimizes energy waste, effectively reducing energy costs on a day-to-day basis. The study has two parts: a managed charge pilot program involving BMW i3 owners and a Battery 2nd Life energy storage system. This system can enable energy produced from solar panels to be used more efficiently.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2019

Brightmark Energy , a San Francisco-based waste and energy development company, closed a $260-million financing package for the construction of the US’ first commercial-scale plastics-to-fuel plant, which will be located in Ashley, Indiana.

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Creative Greenius

JULY 26, 2012

Tomorrow morning I’ll be in Long Beach, California for another project ribbon cutting at City Hall for their new sustainable edible gardens that Waste Management’s EcoAd is providing the financial support for. .

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Al Gore Gore Climate Maryland 150

Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2010

The well-to-retail pump part of the emissions (before vehicle use) accounts for some 20-30% of the total life-cycle GHG emissions, the company says. Oil sands mines produce waste material called tailings; the waste materials have been difficult to reclaim and have grown larger than projected.

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Cars That Think

JULY 9, 2022

He was born in 1921 in Azerbaijan, then part of the Soviet Union, and moved to Iran at age 10. Favorite periodicals Four newspapers daily ( The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner, The Wall St. Part of the problem was the name—“fuzzy” is hardly proper terminology. Lotfi Zadeh.

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Charged EVs

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The idea from day one was hydrogen fuel cell-based drivetrains, but it’s hydrogen-electric, so you have to build the electric part. You have waste heat, much less of it than a turbine because of higher efficiency, but still you need to get rid of it. You have to build the battery powertrain first, and add the fuel cell system.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2010

“cold fusion”) to process an energy release from an electrolytic cell operating at low temperature and that could be competitive with a Li-ion battery or a fuel cell—at the 239 th national meeting of the American Chemical Society, which began Sunday in San Francisco. —Prof. He is with Dixie State College in St.

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EV Adoption

MARCH 3, 2021

Tesla, suspended production of Model 3 and Model Y electric cars at its Fremont factory, with CEO Elon Musk reportedly citing a “parts shortage”. Power Finds The Best Way To Sell EVs Is Getting Butts In Seats – As part of its Electric Vehicle Consideration Study, J.D. – February 24, via San Francisco Chronicle.

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

And in the next three months he’ll be in Cambridge, Massachusetts; back in Minneapolis; the Port of Los Angeles; Long Beach, California; Long Island, New York and Denver Colorado for the latest batch of environmental projects EcoAds have helped to fund.

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Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

JULY 29, 2009

They created the Renew America Roadtrip that traveled from New York to San Francisco from July 15th – 31 st. The Element Hotel is part of the Westin hotel chain and Starwood Resorts. Six other electric cars joined the Tesla Roadster and “Spirit of DC” Plug-in Toyota Prius as part of the exhibition.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

505,381 to San Francisco-based Mission Motor Company to help it bring its prototype electric vehicle components to commercial production. San Jose may also be able to sell excess heat and electricity created by the project. . The goal is to ramp up production to 2,500 trucks by 2020, creating 1,500 high-paying jobs.

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Cars That Think

MAY 18, 2024

It was wasteful, made being a hardware manufacturer more costly, and added to consumer confusion. PCI was a chess piece—a part of a different game than the one PC manufacturers were playing. In fact, devices you use daily—that Intel played zero part in creating—have benefited greatly from the company’s standards work.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2021

Bright Silicon Technologies (San Francisco, California). Robust Carbonic Anhydrases for Novel Biological, Sustainable and Low Energy CO2 Scrubbing Process from Waste Gases, $250,000. Leveraging Artificial Intelligence to Enable Reliable Non-Destructive Characterization of Additively Manufactured Parts using X-ray CT, $756,689.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Unfortunately, while companies chip away and move closer to this goal, the lack of knowledge on the part of DMVs at the current time was shocking. Essentially, the preparedness of government agencies to cater to those with disorders could result in even more time wasted for those who are affected. Meanwhile, Waymo and Pony.ai

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Two battery switching stations, at the international airports in San Francisco and San Jose, and six taxis that use switchable batteries will be used. Data regarding their operation will be collected as part of the project. Working with Better Place Mobility Services, Inc., Valley Garbage and Rubbish Co.,

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Audi unveiled its all-electric Audi e-tron mid-size SUV—its first fully electric production model—in an event in San Francisco. In what is a particularly resourceful solution, the gel evenly transfers the waste heat to the coolant via the battery housing. seconds (with boost engaged) and reach a top speed of 124 mph.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

The A3 e-tron BEV pilot program will run in the San Francisco, Los Angeles, Washington DC, and Denver markets throughout the year and provide actionable feedback and telematics data to Audi engineering teams in the US and Germany. Audi introduced the battery-electric Audi A3 e-tron US pilot program at TED2012 in Long Beach, California.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2013

Concurrent Technologies Corporation will receive $2 million to share costs in a US Department of Defense vehicle-to-grid demonstration project at the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, in the western Mojave Desert region that includes parts of Kern, San Bernardino and Inyo counties. Waste Management of California, Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Waste Management. In addition, four public workshops were held over the summer in Los Angeles, Fresno, Sacramento and San Francisco in an effort to consider comments prior to developing the draft. The focus areas include: Energy. Transportation, Land Use, Fuels, and Infrastructure. Agriculture. Natural and Working Lands.

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China EV

OCTOBER 28, 2018

It also just announced a deal with Linamar Corp. , a huge Canadian automotive parts manufacturer, under which Linamar will manufacture Protean’s in-wheel motors for both the commercial and passenger car segments. Waste delivery vehicles is a promising area, says Chan. That pudding is beginning to gel. Given its growing U.S.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

To ignore this potential is wasteful and foolish. Another strikingly different concept evidenced by the PHEV is that it is essentially a large, portable battery that can store energy gathered during one part of the day, and then use it later to power not only itself but also the vehicle owner’s home. But use of petroleum will continue.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 4, 2022

When I asked him how he got one, he told me that he went around to the various laboratories, collected parts that people owed him, and put it together himself.” It was based in part on the Alohanet, a packet radio network developed at the University of Hawaii in the late 1960s. I can’t imagine it not being exciting somewhere.”.

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