Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2013

Specific goals are: 1) through R&D, make cellulosic biofuels competitive with petroleum-based fuels at a modeled cost for mature technology of $3 per gallon of gasoline equivalent (GGE) ($2011) based on EIA projected wholesale prices in 2017; and 2) help create an environment conducive to maximizing the production and use of biofuels by 2022.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 27, 2012

Ethylene is a highly flexible chemical intermediate that can be converted to lower-cost fuels, chemicals, and materials.The company had closed a $20-million Series B in September 2011. Current catalysts exhibit either high selectivity coupled with low conversion or high conversion with low selectivity. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Value of life-cycle emissions externality damages and oil premium costs from vehicles in 2010 $. A paper presenting the results of the group’s latest year-long study on the lifecycle air emissions and oil displacement benefits of plug-in vehicles was published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

billion in 2011 to $185.3 BGPY in 2011) would represent just 7% of the estimated global transportation fuels market in 2021. Ultimately, widespread commercialization will depend on whether these ventures can reach price. Number of off-take agreements with oil and chemical will increase, confirming the trend. industry.

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DIY Electric Car

MARCH 3, 2012

My professional life has kept me busy, but I still have made good progress on my conversion. Winter 2011-2012: Engine Bay and Under-car: The car is now completely gas-less. Motor volts, amps, temperature will be showed on 2 inch round dials in the place of oil temp, 12V battery voltage, and fuel level. Very good prices.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2013

China bioethanol pump price for five enzyme loading scenarios in ( a ) 2011 with a 16¢ per liter (60.6¢ In 2011, China contributed 29% of world carbon dioxide emissions and therefore the country has a significant potential to influence the present and future global energy situation. Click to enlarge. —Littlewood et al.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2013

PNNL’s thermochemical conversion device is installed in front of a concentrating solar power dish. The system converts natural gas into syngas—with higher energy content than natural gas—using a thermochemical conversion device installed in front of a concentrating solar power dish. Photo: PNNL. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2013

This decision follows an investment decision in 2011 on a similar corridor in Alberta, Canada. Once operational, this unit will supply LNG along the Mississippi River, the Intra-Coastal Waterway and to the offshore Gulf of Mexico and the onshore oil and gas exploration areas of Texas and Louisiana. Earlier post.) Gulf Coast.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2011

billion in 2011 to $185.3 compound annual growth rate (CAGR) between 2011 and 2021. between 2017 and 2021, as a combination of higher oil prices, emerging mandate. between 2017 and 2021, as a combination of higher oil prices, emerging mandate. billion by 2021. A more robust growth is expected.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2011

—The World Economic and Social Survey 2011. The past decade was the first in two centuries with increasing CO2 emissions intensities, owing to a “coal revival”, in contrast with the rapid conversion to natural gas in the 1990s. —The World Economic and Social Survey 2011. The report comes out yearly.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2011

In a paper presented at the US Department of Energy (DOE) Coal Liquefaction and Gas Conversion Contractors Review Conference in 1995, Joo et al. In the presentation to investors, Celanese executives said that TCX enables the company to produce ethanol at the equivalent of gasoline produced with $60 per barrel crude oil (around $1.50/gallon).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Estimated US supply of PEVs from 2011-2015. and model 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015. The cumulative impacts of the various policy initiatives, the experience of the early purchasers of electric-drive vehicles and future oil prices will all play a role in determining future consumer demand. Fisker Karma EREV. Fisker Nina EREV.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Tax credits and gasoline prices necessary for various electric vehicles to be cost-competitive with conventional vehicles at 2011 vehicle prices. That finding takes into account both the higher purchase price of an electric vehicle and the lower fuel costs over the vehicle’s life. Source: CBO. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

This method is not totally satisfying, the authors note, because of the problem of diesel fuel mixing together with engine oil (the oil dilution problem); this requires increasing the oil changing frequency. trap catalyst. At high engine load, the most suitable condition is reached for O/C = 1. —Lebouvier et al.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2011

aviation fuel at the scale or speed needed to achieve industry goals, the report focuses on a portfolio of options, including different conversion technologies and sources of potentially sustainable biomass, including oilseeds, forest residues, solid waste, and algae. —SAFN report. Lignocellulosic biomass processing. renewable diesel.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2011

The new report, part of the World Energy Outlook (WEO) 2011 series, examines the key factors that could result in a more prominent role for natural gas in the global energy mix, and the implications for other fuels, energy security and climate change. Better communication of oil- and gas-field best practices should be facilitated.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Will be competitive at an oil price of $45 to $90 at their commercial date. 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. Technologies that stretch today’s assets and resources.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 21, 2009

January 2009 | Conversations The Electric Car Returns (and This Time It’s Personal). Q: When gas prices went up, people started driving less, and interest in EVs soared. But now, gas prices have fallen below $2 in some places. A: Certainly, when oil prices are down, it makes it harder for the competition.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2012

Fats and greases and inedible oils are opportunity feedstocks, but the US supply of fats and greases is probably on the order of less than 10 million barrels, closer to 1-2 million barrels on an annual basis. Really the question is can the feedstocks be procured at a price competitive to petroleum oil.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2011

A commercially viable OCM process—which has been sought for some 30 years— would decouple the production of mainstream chemicals and fuels from crude oil and its current price instabilities, along with reducing energy consumed for processing. Today this molecule is made from oil, by a process known as steam cracking.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Estimate of synthetic fuel cost versus electricity price using (a) constant operation, (b) the same assumptions but with highly intermittent operation (a 20% capacity factor); and operating the electrolyzer at a higher current density with (c) constant operation and (d) highly intermittent operation. Graves et al. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) has selected 60 research projects for up to a combined $156 million in funding from the Fiscal Year 2011 budget. The technology areas ( earlier post ) receiving funding are: PETRO: Plants Engineered To Replace Oil ($36 million). produces more oil per acre.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2012

Very broadly, they found that an LCFS would buffer the economy against global oil price spikes, trim demand for petroleum, and lessen upward pressure on gas prices. Treat all crude oils as part of the overall pool of transportation fuels. We did not shy away from controversy. We are not advocates.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2013

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. Founded in 2011, Oberon Fuels has developed a patented, skid-mounted, modular design for DME production. DME engine in 2015. Oberon’s process.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2011

If the US military increases its use of alternative jet and naval fuels that can be produced from coal or various renewable resources, including seed oils, waste oils and algae, there will be no direct benefit to the nation’s armed forces, according to a new RAND Corporation study. ” —James Bartis, lead author.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2011

But in todays’ market, 2011, and for the foreseeable future, mid-size is where the majority of the vehicles are. An electric water pump, a roller-rocker type valvetrain and a variable-output oil pump help to reduce internal friction, boosting economy. Hybrid Transaxle and Inverter. The current model delivers 147 hp and 138 lb-ft.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2015

He also observed, in a conversation on the eve of the LAAS, that if an automaker can launch a defining product, the game changes. These use an electronically controlled multi-plate clutch mounted on the end of the propeller shaft; the clutch is supplied with oil from an electric pump. Audi’s first e-tron quattro: 2011.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 22, 2009

The conversion can double or even triple fuel economy, thereby severely limiting carbon dioxide emissions. General Motors plans to unveil the Chevy Volt, a plug-in hybrid, sometime in 2010, and Toyota may begin selling a plug-in Prius in late 2010 or early 2011. The conversion is simple.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Several after-market companies have done PHEV conversions of the Ford Escape hybrid and one has done a retrofit of the F-150 pickup -- see Where PHEVs Are and ICE-Conversions.) Shifted earlier focus to all-electric Focus in 2011 with Magna. Hybrid Sonata model year 2011, possible PHEV version in 2013. No announced plans.

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The Truth About Cars

MAY 22, 2024

Gasoline will be moved around 100,000-barrel batches and has been “timed and structured to maximize its impact on gasoline prices, helping to lower prices at the pump as Americans hit the road this summer.” “The It has likewise claimed to be combating oil companies on behalf of the environment. Central Time on May 28, 2024.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

The combination of harvesting whole forests and burning long-sequestered carbon sources such as coal or oil has impaired the Earth’s carbon cycle at an increasing pace. We also mined or extracted and burned coal and oil, releasing millions of years of stored solar energy indiscriminately, altering Earth’s climate.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

is hoping to launch the Volt in late 2010 with a price tag of about $40,000. It is also flex so that future biomass fuels such as cellulosic ethanol, methanol can be used (no oil). Also maintenance on these (no oil changes to speak of) etc will cost much less than an internal combution propelled car. — Volt Enthusiast 7.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Electric vehicles will be available for customers in 2011. Just as wireless service providers offer smartphones at discounted prices, Project Better Place will offer discounted electric vehicles with usage pricing plans. Millions of EVs and PHEVs would expand the sale of electricity as an alternative to oil. Email Neal.

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