Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2011

MIT and the IEA both have newly released reports exploring the potential for and impact of a major expansion in global usage of natural gas, given the current re-evaluation of global supplies. MIT: leaning toward conversion for light-duty vehicles. Earlier post.) I.e., on an energy basis at the point of use, the CO 2.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2011

” The MIT report said that natural gas should be seen as a “ bridge ” to a low-carbon regime, rather than as the ultimate long-term solution itself. MIT: The Future of Natural Gas. An interim report with some of this study’s major findings and recommendations was released in June 2010. Source: IEA.

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MIT Gas Climate Gas-Electric 210

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Conversion kits also will be available to switch medium-duty gasoline vehicles to run on propane. Researchers at MIT had earlier demonstrated the ability to make biopropane (LPG from corn or sugarcane) using a supercritical water process, and created a startup (C3 BioEnergy) in 2007 that attempted to commercialize the technology.

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USA Engine Alternative Fuels Gasoline 239

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2011

A recent white paper by Leslie Bromberg of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center and Wai K. Large scale production of methanol from natural gas and coal is a well-developed. technology and there is progress on the economic conversion of biomass to. methanol using thermo-chemical processes. use could be developed.

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Transportation Fuel Coal Gasoline 257

Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

So when I went to MIT to do my Ph.D., The second reason is that the grid we have is built out to places where there were coal mines and hydropower dams, not where there’s the best wind and sun. A year ago, we weren’t even having this conversation. I and Nestor Sepulveda , who was also a Ph.D.

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Clean Cleaning Energy Emissions 109

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

GM has announced plans for public sales in 2010, and almost every carmaker now says it will sell PHEVs or highway-speed battery electric vehicles (BEVs) sometime after 2010. Committed to sales of 10,000 or more vehicles in late 2010, with increasing production in 2011. Aims to get Saturn Vue on road in 2010; no production goal.

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