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Sumitomo Corporation has developed and installed the first large-scale power storage system which utilizes used batteries collected from electric vehicles. This commercial scale storage system, built on Yume-shima Island, Osaka, will begin operating in February 2014. Earlier post.)

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MAY 9, 2013

The California Energy Commission unanimously adopted the 2013-2014 Investment Plan Update to support the development and use of green vehicles and alternative fuels. 20 million for hydrogen fueling infrastructure. Green Charge’s California offices are located in Huntington Beach (Orange County).

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Generation 6 combines autonomous technology and software, human oversight of every flight, and an overall simplified design to deliver a safe passenger transport systems in commercial aviation. Wisk is backed by The Boeing Company and Kitty Hawk Corporation.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2014

Kaiser Aluminum Corporation and Boeing have formed a closed-loop scrap recycling program that is expected to involve approximately 22 million pounds of aluminum during the 2014-2015 production period. Kaiser Aluminum Corporation, headquartered in Foothill Ranch, Calif.,

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OCTOBER 21, 2014

megawatt ground-mounted solar array will be complete by the end of 2014 at its Lordstown Complex, home of the Chevrolet Cruze. With more solar installations than any other automotive company and the second-highest percentage of solar among all commercial users, GM shows that manufacturing and the use of renewable energy can go hand-in-hand.

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MARCH 6, 2012

While Envia Systems is the first integrated cell producer to announce success with that type of combination, other providers of Si-C materials or IP—such as, but not limited to, Nanosys and the DOE’s own Argonne National Laboratory, respectively—are also currently deep in the process of development and/or commercialization.

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APRIL 21, 2014

In conjunction with the start of Auto China 2014 in Beijing, GM China President Matt Tsien announced that GM’s China joint ventures will make capital expenditures of about $12 billion between 2014 and 2017. With additional facility expansion between 2014 and 2020, GM China’s manufacturing capacity will increase by 65%.

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JULY 3, 2014

DENSO Corporation and DENSO International Asia Co. DIAT), a DENSO group company in Thailand, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in February 2014 with Thai Intelligent Transport System (ITS). This collaboration launched in March 2014 and will continue until March 2015.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Balqon Corporation, a developer of electric drive system technology for commercial vehicles ( earlier post ), has entered into a Joint Development Agreement with Polar Power Inc. XRE-20 battery-electric yard tractor. Click to enlarge. to develop a series plug-in hybrid system for Balqon’s line of heavy-duty electric trucks and buses.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2014

introduced the “National Rare Earth Cooperative Act of 2014” this week, bipartisan legislation to encourage US production of rare earth metals (and thorium), relieving US dependence on China’s rare earth minerals. US Senators Roy Blunt (Mo.) and Joe Manchin (W.

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JANUARY 24, 2013

The lithium-ion battery system installed on the vehicle was developed by 4R Energy Corporation. Nissan is working to develop and sell commercial electric vehicles (EVs), in addition to passenger EVs, such as the Nissan LEAF. ATLAS F24 Refrigerator Truck by Li-ion Battery”. Click to enlarge.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2014

The first assessment is expected to be completed by December 2014. Airbus supports the certification and development of commercial quantities of sustainable alternative fuels for aviation through promoting innovative regional projects world-wide.

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The equipment will be put into operation this March at a DENSO Fukushima Corporation plant, which will serve as a technology implementation venue to promote its widespread use going forward. To this end, Toyota is working with various industry partners in the areas of producing, transporting, storing, and using hydrogen.

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JUNE 19, 2014

California-based US Hybrid Corporation has been awarded a contract by the Hawaii Center for Advanced Transportation Technologies (HCATT) for the design, integration and delivery of its H 2 Ride Fuel Cell Plug-In Shuttle Bus for operation by the County of Hawaii Mass Transit Agency’s (MTA) HELE-ON Big Island bus service. Click to enlarge.

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AUGUST 18, 2013

Skyonic Corporation, developer of the SkyMine mineralization process which can serve as a potential replacement for existing scrubber technology ( earlier post ), recently awarded the $117M construction contract for the Capitol SkyMine plant in San Antonio, Texas, to Toyo-Thai-USA Corporation (TTUS).

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MARCH 10, 2012

Bridgestone Corporation (BSJ) announced plans for an extensive research project in the United States dedicated to developing Guayule as a commercially viable, renewable source of high-quality natural rubber and as an alternative to the Hevea tree. The facility is expected to be fully operational in 2014.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2011

According to the group, the newly-developed material is expected to be applied commercially in 2014 in China by some automakers, including Beijing Hyundai and FAW-Volkswagen, a major passenger sedan manufacturer jointly ventured by First Automobile Works Group Corporation of China and Volkswagen AG, Audi AG and Volkswagen Automobile (China) Investment (..)

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MAY 21, 2014

Intelligent Energy introduced its Gen4 air-cooled fuel cell power unit, designed for easy integration into two-wheel and four-wheel vehicles, at the 2014 JSAE (Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan) Annual Congress in Yokohama. The technology has been developed in collaboration with the Suzuki Motor Corporation.

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OCTOBER 11, 2011

Celanese Corporation, developer of a hydrocarbons-to-ethanol production process derived from its acetyl technology ( earlier post ) announced plans in June to enter the industrial ethanol market in China by revamping the market entry strategy to allow the company to enter 6-12 months sooner than originally planned. Earlier post.).

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JULY 1, 2014

and NEC Corporation will introduce Japan’s first large-scale charging services for Electric Vehicles (EV) and Plug-in Hybrid Vehicles (PHV) at a commercial facility beginning in December 2014. Mitsui Fudosan Co.,

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NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Toyota Motor Corporation will carry out verification tests in Aichi Prefecture, Japan from November 15, 2013 to March 15, 2014 to assess the practicality of the widespread deployment of chargers for plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHVs) and electric vehicles (EVs). Additional coin-operated chargers (¥100 / US$1.02

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DECEMBER 2, 2015

plans to produce and supply biojet and renewable diesel in Japan at commercial scale in the 2020s with support from the City of Yokohama, Chiyoda Corporation, Itochu Enex Co., drop-in hydrocarbon) renewable diesel production from Euglena since June 2014. Japan-based euglena Co. Isuzu Motors and All Nippon Airways (ANA).

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EPIC Fuels , a fuel supplier to the general and commercial aviation industries, provided expertise in fuel blending as well as technical and logistical support to Alaska and Gevo, Inc., a next generation biofuels company, to enable the first commercial flights using a blend of petroleum based fuel and Gevo’s alcohol-to-jet fuel (ATJ).

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APRIL 10, 2012

Alcohol is attractive as a feedstock for the production of renewable jet fuel partly because the steps required are currently in use at commercial scale in the petrochemical industry. Manager of Corporate Social Responsibility, Environment and Fuel Projects. million gallons per year of renewable jet fuel by mid-2014.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Cool Planet will use a portion of the equity raise to finalize engineering design for the company’s first commercial facility. This work will be supported by leading international engineering firm, URS Corporation, as the company recently announced.

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OCTOBER 21, 2013

US Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced the availability of $181 million via its Biorefinery Assistance Program to develop commercial-scale biorefineries or retrofit existing facilities with appropriate technology to develop advanced biofuels. million loan guarantee to build a refined alga oil commercial facility.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2015

Shell marked the official opening of the Quest carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in Alberta, Canada, and the start of commercial operations there. Quest is now operating at commercial scale after successful testing earlier this year, during which it captured and stored more than 200,000 tonnes of CO 2.

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JANUARY 3, 2012

Devon Energy Corporation has signed an agreement with Sinopec International Petroleum Exploration & Production Corporation (SIPC) whereby SIPC will invest $2.2 billion carry to be realized by year-end 2014. The company is also responsible for commercially marketing all production from these plays into the North American market.

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JULY 6, 2011

Australia-based airline Virgin Australia is partnering with Renewable Oil Corporation (ROC), Dynamotive Energy Systems Corporation and Future Farm Industries Co-operative Research Centre (FFI CRC) to develop a sustainable aviation biofuel that also has benefits for the Australian farming community and the environment.

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JULY 3, 2014

The US Department of the Interior (DOI) will offer nearly 80,000 acres offshore Maryland for commercial wind energy development in a 19 August 2014 competitive lease sale. Seawind Renewable Energy Corporation, LLC. Offshore Maryland lease areas. Click to enlarge. Iberdrola Renewables, Inc. Maryland Offshore Wind, LLC.

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OCTOBER 7, 2014

The time is not yet ripe for a commercial-scale microbial oil plant, however. However, in 2012, Neste Oil said that commercial-scale production was expected by 2015 at the earliest. Lignocellulose material is not a financially competitive industrial feedstock for producing renewable diesel using the microbial oil process at the moment.

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Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota) sold more than 1.52 —Shigeki Terashi, executive vice president, Toyota Motor Corporation. Since the introduction of its first commercially available electrified powertrain on the Prius in Japan in 1997, Toyota has worked at improving the technology as the basis for its electrification efforts.

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JULY 29, 2014

In March 2014, Honda launched Honda Smart Home US at the University of California, Davis, which seeks to investigate the integration of the home with distributed renewable energy, the smart grid and the electric vehicle. BMW announced its Smart Charging App for mobile devices in June 2014 following the launch of the BMW i3 electric vehicle.

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The first system was successfully installed on ANGP’s 2014 Ford F-150 pick-up truck equipped with Ford’s CNG/LPG-ready 3.7 Worthington Industries and Ingevity Corporation worked closely to achieve the seamless closure of the ANGP ANG cylinder around the monoliths; and. liter V6 bi-fuel engine for gasoline or natural gas operation.

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MAY 14, 2013

Volvo Buses expects to commence commercial manufacturing of plug-in hybrids in a couple of years, and the technology is now to be tested in the three buses that will be put into service in Gothenburg. A demonstration project has also been planned for 2014 involving eight plug-in hybrids in Stockholm. Hybrids Plug-ins'

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Israel-based Ampal-American Israel Corporation signed an option exercise agreement with Merhav (M.N.F) The Project is expected to start commercial production during 2012, and reach its full production capacity of 112 million liters (30 million gallons US) of ethanol annually in 2014.

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DECEMBER 11, 2013

Funds from USDA’s Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) will assist the effort. The program gets underway with a bulk fuels solicitation in 2014, with deliveries expected in mid-2015. 2014, at which stakeholders can learn more about Farm-to-Fleet. USDA and Navy also are collaborating on an Industry Day, 30 Jan.

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