Alternative Fuels, Mexico and Oil

Rasmussen Poll Finds 48% Likely To Buy Alternative Fuel Car Within Next 10 Years

Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2010

A new Rasmussen poll found that 48% of Americans are likely to purchase a car that runs on something other than gasoline within the next ten years; 45% say they are not likely to purchase an alternative fuel car. Within those findings, 22% say will very likely purchase an alternative fuel car, with 13% not at all likely.

Alternative Fuels

Alternative Fuels Buy Fuel Mexico

Air Canada to conduct biofuel flight from Toronto to Mexico City

Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2012

Flight AC991 from Toronto to Mexico City is expected to generate at least 40% fewer emissions by using jet fuel derived from recycled cooking oil and through other fuel-saving measures, making it the most environmentally-friendly flight ever flown by Air Canada.

Canada

Canada Mexico Taxi Alternative Fuels

Obama sets goal of reducing US oil imports by 1/3 by 2025; domestic and Western Hemisphere production, natural gas, biofuels, electric vehicles, fleet purchases

Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2011

Meeting the goal of cutting US oil dependence depends largely on two things, Obama said: finding and producing more oil at home, and reducing dependence on oil with cleaner alternative fuels and greater efficiency. The Administration is pushing the oil industry to produce on leases already held.

Obama

Obama Oil Gas-Electric Purchase

Study finds plausibly high volumes of Canadian oil sands crudes in US refineries in 2025 would lead to modest increases in refinery CO2 emissions

Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2012

An analysis of the US refining sector, based on linear programming (LP) modeling, finds that refining plausibly high volumes of Canadian oil sands crudes in US refineries in 2025 would lead to a modest increase in refinery CO 2 emissions (ranging between 5.4% to 9.3%) from a 2010 baseline, depending upon the supply scenario.

Oil-Sands

Oil-Sands Oil Emissions CO2

NSF Awards RAPID Response Grant to Modular Genetics and University Collaborators to Develop Bio-Dispersants for Oil Spill Clean-Up

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2010

and scientists and engineers at Columbia University, Iowa State University (ISU) and the Louisiana State University Agricultural Center to support work on production and testing of bio-dispersants that can replace the chemical dispersants currently used for oil spill management. Tags: Biomass Oil Synthetic Biology.

Universal

Universal Oil Grant Iowa

State Department releases final environmental impact statement on Keystone XL Pipeline Project; analysis of GHG emissions

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2011

Comparison of the percent differential for WTW (well-to-wheel) GHGs from gasoline produced from WCSB oil sands using different production processes relative to gasoline produced from reference crudes. The proposed Project is not likely to impact the amount of crude oil produced from the oil sands. Source: FEIS, Appendix V.

Oil-Sands

Oil-Sands Emissions Oil Oklahoma

15 Air Carriers Sign Non-Binding MOUs on Synthetic Jet Fuel Purchases with Two Providers: AltAir and RenTech

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2009

A core group of 15 commercial airlines has signed non-binding memoranda of understanding (MOUs) for negotiating purchases from two different producers of synthetic jet fuel: AltAir Fuels LLC and RenTech Inc. These alternative fuels will be more environmentally friendly, on a life cycle basis, than today’s petroleum-based jet fuels.

Purchase

Purchase Fuel Coal Alternative Fuels

Ground breaks on Washington West Coast Electric Highway

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 29, 2011

The transition from gasoline and foreign oil to alternative fuels, such as electricity, for transportation requires a huge first step—infrastructure. When complete, the network will enable electric vehicle drivers to travel 276 miles of I-5 between Washington’s borders with Oregon and Canada.

Washington

Washington i-MiEV Oregon DC

RAND reports suggest US DoD use less petroleum fuel to deal with high prices, not count on alternatives

Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2012

From a cost perspective, the potential of alternative fuels is of limited, if any value, according to the lead report written by James Bartis, a RAND senior policy researcher. Pending a major technical breakthrough, renewable jet and marine fuels will continue to be far more expensive than petroleum-based fuels, Bartis said.

Oil-Sands

Oil-Sands Price Turkey Fuel

Volkswagen Group opts for LNG-fueled car carriers

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Apart from LNG as an alternative fuel, we are also working on other projects which will continuously make our logistics processes more environmentally compatible. The two LNG ships will replace two of nine conventional freighters in the Siem fleet powered by heavy fuel oil from 2019 onwards.

Fuel

Fuel Mariner Cars North America

EIA projects decline in transportation sector energy consumption through 2037 despite increase in VMT, followed by increase

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2019

This growth arises from increases in air transportation outpacing increases in aircraft fuel efficiency. Motor gasoline and distillate fuel oil’s combined share of total transportation energy consumption decreases from 84% in 2018 to 74% in 2050 as the use of alternative fuels increases. Other findings.

Transportation

Transportation Energy Fuel Economy 2018

Air Canada to operate biofuel flights in support of environmental research on contrails and emissions

Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2017

Air Canada is participating in the Civil Aviation Alternate Fuel Contrail and Emissions Research project ( CAAFCER ), a research project led by the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) to test the environmental benefits of biofuel use on contrails.

Canada

Canada Emissions 2016 2012

PNNL study finds hydrates can be enhanced for improved hydrogen storage

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2012

Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have found that hydrates—an ice and natural gas compound that some researchers have explored as a source of alternative fuel or storage medium for CO 2 —can hold hydrogen at an optimal capacity of 5 wt %.

Hydrogen

Hydrogen Water Gas Store

Why Not Ethanol? Yet Another Reason

Plugs and Cars

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

And I'm not just talking about the price of tortillas in Mexico City. He points out that the market for liquid fuels for transportation is global, source doesn't determine price, and that any substitute liquid fuel will be priced in the context of petroleum. the percentage of oil we import is relatively unimportant.

Gasoline-Electric

Gasoline-Electric Oil Gasoline Escape

New Mahle piston ring coating for high-output GTDI engines; chromium nitride using high-velocity oxygen fuel process

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

The new coating also was developed to help meet requirements for new production engines planned for 2018-2020, which call for less cylinder-bore friction and the use of lower-viscosity oils and alternative fuels. Johns, Michigan plant and at Mahle’s facilities in Europe, South America and Aguascalientes, Mexico.

Engine

Engine Fuel Michigan 2011

GMs Expanding Gasoline Direct Injection Engine Portfolio

Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2009

Direct injection and flex fuels require a more robust valvetrain system due to the increased friction, higher thermal loads, increased oxidation and reduced lubrication associated with alternate fuels that do not contain some of the natural lubricants found in gasoline. Piston head and oil cooling jet. Click to enlarge.

Gasoline

Gasoline Engine Oil-Sands Saturn

GM introducing new generation of modular 3- and 4-cylinder Ecotec engines; 11 variants from 1.0L to 1.5L

Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2014

The architecture is also designed to support hybrid propulsion systems and alternative fuels. Shenyang, China; Szentgotthárd, Hungary; Toluca, Mexico; and Changwon, South Korea. A die-cast aluminum oil pan contributes additional structural strength. Efficiency-enhancing oiling system. Primary development of the 1.0L

Engine

Engine GM Oil-Sands Oil

Using the PHEV (Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle) to Transition Society Seamlessly and Profitably From Fossil Fuel to 100% Renewable Energy

Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

The alternative-fuel car evolved to reduce exhaust emissions and other problems derived from burning fossil fuels. The PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle), a subset of the electric car, combines a primary electric motor with a much smaller back-up engine fueled with a hydrocarbon/biofuel mix.

PHEV

PHEV Plug-in Renewable Energy

EV Driven

Rasmussen Poll Finds 48% Likely To Buy Alternative Fuel Car Within Next 10 Years

Air Canada to conduct biofuel flight from Toronto to Mexico City

Obama sets goal of reducing US oil imports by 1/3 by 2025; domestic and Western Hemisphere production, natural gas, biofuels, electric vehicles, fleet purchases

Study finds plausibly high volumes of Canadian oil sands crudes in US refineries in 2025 would lead to modest increases in refinery CO2 emissions

NSF Awards RAPID Response Grant to Modular Genetics and University Collaborators to Develop Bio-Dispersants for Oil Spill Clean-Up

State Department releases final environmental impact statement on Keystone XL Pipeline Project; analysis of GHG emissions

15 Air Carriers Sign Non-Binding MOUs on Synthetic Jet Fuel Purchases with Two Providers: AltAir and RenTech

Ground breaks on Washington West Coast Electric Highway

RAND reports suggest US DoD use less petroleum fuel to deal with high prices, not count on alternatives

Volkswagen Group opts for LNG-fueled car carriers

EIA projects decline in transportation sector energy consumption through 2037 despite increase in VMT, followed by increase

Air Canada to operate biofuel flights in support of environmental research on contrails and emissions

PNNL study finds hydrates can be enhanced for improved hydrogen storage

Why Not Ethanol? Yet Another Reason

New Mahle piston ring coating for high-output GTDI engines; chromium nitride using high-velocity oxygen fuel process

GMs Expanding Gasoline Direct Injection Engine Portfolio

GM introducing new generation of modular 3- and 4-cylinder Ecotec engines; 11 variants from 1.0L to 1.5L

Using the PHEV (Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle) to Transition Society Seamlessly and Profitably From Fossil Fuel to 100% Renewable Energy

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