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Raven SR waste-to-hydrogen plant in California to be powered by INNIO Jenbacher’s Ready-for-H2 engines

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Raven SR plans to use INNIO’s Jenbacher engines [60 Hz] with a “Ready for H2” option to produce renewable energy. INNIO’s Jenbacher engines will allow the Raven facility to generate a significant amount of their own electricity, reducing demand on California’s electrical grid. Earlier post.). Olaf Berlien, President and CEO of INNIO.

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Rolls-Royce releasing mtu rail engines for sustainable fuels

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Rolls-Royce is releasing mtu rail engines for use with sustainable fuels. Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil (HVO or renewable diesel), which is already commercially available today, reduces CO 2 emissions by up to 90%. Series 1600 and versions of Series 4000 engines will follow in the near future.

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Hyliion acquires KARNO fuel-agnostic generator technology from GE for range-extended electric truck

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The technology is expected to achieve a 20%+ efficiency improvement over today’s conventional generators and could be more efficient than most available fuel cells. The technology should also provide for significant reductions in noise, vibration, moving parts and maintenance as compared to current combustion engines.

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Ford confirms construction of Rouge EV center to be home of electric F-150; production by mid-2022

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The electric F-150, which is undergoing tens of thousands of hours of torture testing and targeting millions of simulated, laboratory and real world test miles, will be more powerful than any F-150 available today and deliver commercial and personal customers the lowest expected lifetime total cost of operation among F-Series trucks.

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Houston start-up proposes different approach to hydrogen refueling: thousands of small networked outlets and smart app

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Hydrogen-XT said its station is designed to be extremely cost-effective, estimated to be 100-times less expensive than conventional H 2 stations available today. Their patent application on the basics of the Fuel Distribution Network is available here. The station is also easily upgraded due to its modular design.

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Bi-fuel evolutions of the LEVC TX taxi and VN5 van; range extender engines run on LPG/biopropane and CNG/biomethane

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HP Taxis, Prins Alternative Fuel Systems and SBL-Automotive revealed [link] of the plug-in hybrid range-extended electric LEVC TX taxi and VN5 van allowing the range extender engine to run on LPG and CNG and their renewable counterparts of biopropane and biomethane. For CNG/biomethane the engine bay layout is similar. Bi-fuel ECU.

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Toyota’s second turbocharged gasoline engine now available in Auris in Japan; 36% thermal efficiency

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Toyota Motor has introduced its second turbocharged engine (following the 2.0-liter liter in the Lexus NX 200t turbo last year, earlier post ) from a series of new engines with improved thermal and fuel efficiency. Toyota announced the new engine in March at the Geneva Motor Show. Engines Fuel Efficiency' Earlier post.)

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