CleanTechnica EVs

JANUARY 4, 2023

In 7 years of electrification and deployment of wind and solar, the US barely budged the needle, in fact declining slightly to more wasted energy in 2016 and 2017 before improving again in 2018 and onward.

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AUGUST 15, 2014

million), of which 30% is covered by an investment subsidy granted by the Ministry of Employment and the Economy for biorefineries producing transport biofuels. The plant is projected to begin production in mid-2016. The Cellunolix plant to be built in Kajaani represents an overall investment of €40 million (US$53.5

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

The UOP Ecofining process technology converts waste oils, fats, and greases into Honeywell Green Jet Fuel, a drop-in replacement for jet fuel. When using a feedstock such as used cooking oils, lifecycle GHG emissions can be reduced by 80% at this stage compared to conventional petroleum jet fuel. Earlier post.).

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FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Global oil and gas major Shell has outlined how it will achieve its target to be a net-zero emissions energy business by 2050, in step with society’s progress towards achieving net zero. Crucially, it includes emissions from the oil and gas that others produce and Shell then sells as products to customers, making the target comprehensive.

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2016); Chuck (2016b); FAPESP, Boeing, Embraer, & UNICAMP (2013); Lorne (2016); Mawhood, Cobas, & Slade (2014); and Sizmann, Roth, & Jeßberger (2016). Only AJF from lignocellulosic energy crops, agricultural residues and waste feedstocks are shown to provide substantial emission reductions compared to conventional jet fuel.

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JANUARY 27, 2023

Made from widely available domestic feedstocks and advanced refining technologies, energy-dense biofuels provide a pathway for low-carbon fuels that can lower greenhouse gas emissions throughout the transportation sector and accelerate the bioeconomy. The envisioned system will be developed to support production of at least 0.5

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NOVEMBER 1, 2017

ExxonMobil signed an agreement with REG in January 2016 to study the production of biodiesel through fermentation of renewable cellulosic sugars from sources such as agricultural waste. A breakthrough in cellulosic biodiesel production could have broad implications for the transportation sector.

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JULY 9, 2015

The roadmap explored the use of six feedstocks: municipal waste, microalgae, natural oils, waste food oil, non-edible biomass and woody biomass. For business development, the report authors noted, “ more substantive discussions are needed ” which are based on the plan. Commencement of fuel supplies in FY 2020.

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Clean Fleet Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Big Goals The Walt Disney Company is four years into its 2030 Environmental Goals plan that focuses on water, waste, materials, sustainable design and, most interesting to Clean Fleet Report , greenhouse gas emissions, which directly affects one of the oldest rides at the park. It didn’t matter—it was a blast!

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Clean Fleet Report

JULY 20, 2024

This is no flying car (July 18, 1955) The Walt Disney Company is four years into its 2030 Environmental Goals plan that focuses on water, waste, materials, sustainable design and, most interesting to Clean Fleet Report , greenhouse gas emissions, which are front and center at one of the oldest rides at the park. Honda’s Next Move?

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APRIL 25, 2011

This is accomplished by separately pumping steam and the feedstock oil at high temperature and pressures into a Colgate-Emery reactor. The n-alkanes derived using the RWP from the fat-containing oils are in the ranges needed for diesel and jet fuel. This mitigates transportation costs of both the feedstock and the produced fuel.

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JUNE 30, 2016

The action plan also encompasses a range of initiatives, including a focus on clean transportation. In addition, the SmartWay freight transportation program will be extended to Mexico. A key element of that partnership is a goal for North America to strive to achieve 50% clean power generation by 2025.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2012

At least 38 national governments have enacted blending mandates or targets to accelerate the expansion of biofuels production and consumption in the transportation sector. BGPY in 2011) would represent just 7% of the estimated global transportation fuels market in 2021. However, despite strong. BGPY of biofuels demand. industry.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Paulo Sergio Kakinoff, chief executive officer of GOL, and Van Rex Gallard, vice president of Sales for Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Boeing Commercial Airplanes, signed a memorandum of understanding for biofuel collaboration at the Latin America and Caribbean Air Transport Association (ALTA) Airline Leaders Forum 2013.

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APRIL 22, 2016

The 2016 Chevrolet Volt with an electric range of 53 miles [ 2 ] is the first commercial car that almost qualifies as a PHEVLER. PHEVLERs [ 3 ] are a disruptive technology that will help revolutionize both the clean transportation and the clean stationary energy sectors of our economy.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2014

Leveraging the Sayaringo STaGE’s capacity for transporting North American shale gas, MHI plans to undertake extensive business activities promoting the new vessel as a strategic product among its LNG carrier offerings. The tanks adopted on the Sayaringo STaGE have an apple-like shape—the upper half bulges more than the lower half.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2016

The major sources of methane in California are livestock (~30% of the state’s methane emissions), followed by landfills and oil and gas production. This aligns with the federal government’s current goal of reducing methane emissions from oil and gas operations by 40–45% below 2012 levels by 2025.

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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. In 2014, we achieved a 14.1%

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

A new analysis by the NGO Transport & Environment (T&E) concludes that diesel cars emit more CO 2 than equivalent cars on a full lifecycle basis—i.e., The composition of the biodiesel itself uses the average shares of rapeseed oil (48%), palm oil (27%), waste oils (15%), soya oil (5%), tallow & grease (4%), etc.

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MARCH 9, 2016

Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory have analyzed the water consumption for transportation fuels in the United States using an extended lifecycle system boundary that includes the water embedded in intermediate processing steps. Well-to-wheels pathways for transportation fuels and passenger vehicles analyzed by Lampert et al.

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OCTOBER 5, 2016

New feedstock approvals for cellulosic biofuels produced from short-rotation poplar and willow trees, cellulosic diesel produced from co-processing cellulosic feedstocks with petroleum, and renewable diesel and biodiesel produced from non-cellulosic portions of separated food waste.

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OCTOBER 13, 2011

between 2017 and 2021, as a combination of higher oil prices, emerging mandate. Multiple aims include the reduction of dependence on imported oil, mitigation of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and driving economic development. Demand for diesel in ground transportation markets will reach at least 427 BGPY. commercialization.

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AUGUST 23, 2016

Low-temperature PEM fuel cells that use Nafion are at present being commercialized in fuel cell vehicles, but these cells can operate only at relatively low temperatures and high hydration levels; therefore, they require humidified inlet streams and large radiators to dissipate waste heat. Kwan-Soo Lee, Jacob S. 2016.120.

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JULY 12, 2011

Chesapeake is the second-largest producer of natural gas, a Top 15 producer of oil and natural gas liquids and the most active driller of new wells in the US. Natural gas is added to the biomass feedstock to create a two-to-one hydrogen-to-carbon ratio necessary for “drop-in” transportation fuels that can be used in today’s engines.

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AUGUST 9, 2011

For purposes of the new HD National Program, the heavy-duty fleet incorporates all on-road vehicles rated at a gross vehicle weight at or above 8,500 pounds, and the engines that power them, except those covered by the current GHG emissions and Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards for model year 2012-2016 passenger vehicles.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2010

And we want to get up 10 commercial demonstration projects, get those up and running by 2016. By 2022, we will more than double the amount of biofuels we produce to 36 billion gallons, which will decrease our dependence on foreign oil by hundreds of millions of barrels per year. Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS2). Earlier post.)

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MAY 13, 2010

Decreasing Dependence on Foreign Oil. The bill provides more than $7 billion annually to improve transportation infrastructure and efficiency, including highways and mass transit systems. Industrial sources will not enter the program until 2016. Reducing Transportation Emissions. Transportation and refined products.

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OCTOBER 13, 2015

This will be quickly followed with the 2016 introduction of SYNC 3. Ford’s partnerships with leading-edge companies—such as a recently completed project with Dida, China’s leading carpooling service—are a key element of the company’s efforts to change the way the world moves with comprehensive transportation solutions.

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My Electric Car

AUGUST 21, 2020

The only by products are water and a fair degree of heat, the latter indicating a degree of inefficiency and wasted energy. Second, while hydrogen can be otherwise produced through the electrolysis of water, this process requires huge amounts of clean and fresh water – a vital and highly valuable commodity of life that can’t be wasted.

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MAY 4, 2018

This FOA addresses gaps in current research and development (R&D) which hinder better utilizing waste streams (e.g. Topic Area 4: Biofuels and Bioproducts from Wet Organic Waste Streams. Wet organic waste streams represent valuable potential feedstocks for the bioeconomy. distance transportation is rarely economically viable.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2014

President Obama has directed the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Transportation (DOT) to develop and to issue the next phase of medium- and heavy-duty vehicle fuel efficiency and greenhouse gas standards by March 2016. Earlier post.) Earlier post.) Earlier post.)

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JUNE 19, 2015

Medium- and heavy-duty vehicles currently account for about 20% of GHG emissions and oil use in the US transportation sector, but only comprise about five percent of vehicles on the road. Globally, oil consumption and GHG emissions from heavy-duty vehicles are expected to surpass that of passenger vehicles by 2030.

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JULY 17, 2015

If PHEVs became the major form of transportation, the use of fossil fuels would be cut dramatically. 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. To ignore this potential is wasteful and foolish.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2015

This makes it possible for the waste heat from the electrical drive components to be made available to the interior of the Q7 e-tron quattro. The Q7 PHEV will arrive in dealerships in Germany in 2016, and will likely come to the US, although perhaps with a gasoline-engine variant. Audi e-tron quattro concept SUV. Audi A4 Avant g-tron.

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