Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2018

Leading steel and mining company ArcelorMittal has begun construction of new premises at its site in Ghent, Belgium, to house a new installation which will convert carbon-containing gas from its blast furnaces into bioethanol. This is the first application of a viable new business case where re-use of carbon is possible at large scale.

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APRIL 9, 2019

France-based global energy generator EDF has launched Hynamics , a new subsidiary for the Group that will be responsible for offering effective low-carbon hydrogen for industry and mobility. In 2018, EDF consolidated its interest in the emerging low-carbon hydrogen market by acquiring a 21.7%

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MAY 19, 2022

Located in Ghent, Belgium, the plant will supply ready-to-install batteries for Volvo Trucks’ full electric heavy-duty trucks. By 2030, at least 50 percent of all trucks we sell globally will be electric and by 2040, we will be a carbon-neutral company. Volvo Trucks is opening its first battery assembly plant.

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MAY 3, 2020

Their use as catalysts in the synthesis of high value-added chemical products such as fuels, alcohols, carbonates and polyurethanes will make it possible to reduce the amount of CO 2 currently generated.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2020

M/V Autosky will test BFO on its normal route between Zeebrugge, Belgium and Santander, Spain and will result in a reduction of more than 6,500 metric tonnes of CO 2 emissions on a well-to-wake basis. The announcement comes at a time when the industry is under increasing scrutiny to improve its sustainability and move towards decarbonisation.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2019

million, reaffirms its long-term commitment to the hydrogen energy markets and its ambition to be a major player in the supply of carbon-free hydrogen, particularly for industry and mobility markets. Indeed it enables the production of totally carbon-free hydrogen, thanks namely to renewable electricity.

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MARCH 18, 2020

For example, by implementing rail transport it reduced CO 2 emissions by almost 75% on the route between its Ghent, Belgium-based manufacturing plant and a purpose-built depot in northern Italy. Already now, cars are transported from its China-based manufacturing plants to the Ghent port in Belgium by train two times a week.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2018

The objective of H2-Share is to facilitate the development of a market for low-carbon heavy-duty vehicles run on hydrogen for logistic applications. The goal is to test the truck at six locations in Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium and France.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The expansion of its Smart Carbon route, also utilizing hydrogen. ArcelorMittal Europe owns Europe’s only DRI-EAF facility in Hamburg, where a project is planned to test the ability of hydrogen to reduce iron ore and form DRI on an industrial scale, as well as testing carbon-free DRI in the EAF steelmaking process.

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MARCH 7, 2025

Founded in 1947 in Belgium, Van Hool was a storied name in bus and coach manufacturing, known for producing a range of vehicles spanning diesel, hybrid, battery-electric, and hydrogen fuel-cell models. For decades, it supplied public and private transport fleets across Europe and beyond, cementing its reputation as an innovative.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

BASF will adopt unique process concepts in the syngas plant to reduce carbon emissions compared to conventional syngas plants, contributing to BASF’s sustainability goals. This world-scale syngas facility, fully integrated into the Verbund site, is scheduled to start up in 2025.

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JUNE 18, 2022

the Hinduja Group; Mercuria; and OurCrowd to join existing investors of Connected Energy: Engie New Ventures, Macquarie, and the Low Carbon Innovation Fund. Volvo Energy is one of five new investors including Caterpillar Venture Capital Inc.;

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2022

The move will significantly reduce Audi’s carbon emissions and also save money. Battery modules and cells needed in Belgium for the Audi e-tron and Audi e-tron Sportback were up to now transported by truck over the approximately 1,300-kilometer-long route from the supplier in Hungary. In Hungary and Belgium, Audi uses DBeco neutral.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2022

By adapting existing technologies and further leveraging existing investments, hydrogen combustion could lead to widespread, accessible carbon-reduction solutions faster, Toyota says. Toyota says it is now around 40% along the path to commercialization of products such as the Corolla Cross H2 Concept. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2017

The ASTM International Board of Directors approved the launch of a new technical committee dedicated to developing standards for the growing field of recovered carbon black (rCB). Carbon black is used as a reinforcing additive in rubber products—notably tires—where tensile and abrasion wear properties are critical.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 30, 2016

LanzaTech has been selected by the Department of Energy’s Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) to receive a $4-million award to design and plan a demonstration-scale facility using industrial off gases to produce 3 million gallons/year of low-carbon jet and diesel fuels. The LanzaTech award was one of six totaling $12.9 Earlier post.).

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JANUARY 2, 2023

Brussels Airlines, the flag carrier of Belgium and part of the Lufthansa Group, has started the new year by being the first airline receiving a delivery of Neste MY Sustainable Aviation Fuel at Brussels Airport for the first time using the NATO Central European Pipeline System (CEPS).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 4, 2020

The elevated investment outlook is attributed to falling costs and policy support from governments looking to shift towards low-carbon economies. By 2030, IHS Markit expect that green hydrogen costs could drop below $2/kg where it would compete with hydrogen produced from natural gas with carbon capture.

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MARCH 3, 2023

The Cajun Sun , operated by Methanex’s subsidiary Waterfront Shipping and chartered from MOL, departed from Geismar, US on 17 January and arrived in Antwerp, Belgium on 4 February.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Umicore last week inaugurated its carbon-neutral production facility for cathode active materials (CAM) for electric vehicles in Nysa, Poland. The Nysa plant is fully powered by renewable electricity from a nearby onshore wind farm, enabling Umicore’s carbon-neutral growth ambitions. Currently, Umicore in Nysa employs about 240 people.

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MARCH 3, 2021

The Audi e-tron and e-tron Sportback are assembled in Brussels, Belgium, in a plant certified as carbon-neutral, according to Belgian testing company Vinçotte, with suppliers also using sustainable production processes when and where possible.

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OCTOBER 8, 2019

a joint venture between carbon recycler, LanzaTech, Shougang Group, a leading Chinese iron and steel producer, and its New Zealand partner, TangMing, have successfully produced more than 9 million gallons of ethanol from recycled steel mill emissions in their first year of operation.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2011

Compared to using a conventional diesel engine, Keolis reduces carbon-dioxide emissions by 70% by using ethanol; for RME, the corresponding figure is 64%. Deliveries of the buses will take place from April until July, and the buses will start operating between June and August.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2011

The project is designed to help de-carbonize the grid—a key policy initiative for the European Union—and will provide feedback to ongoing EU consultation around the new TEN-T guidelines (2013-2020) and other initiatives shaping the future of transportation in Europe including CARS 21. million (US$7.1-million) million (US$14.2-million)

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OCTOBER 9, 2014

Electrochemical conversion of carbon gases to sustainable fuels and chemicals. Researchers will use computational analysis and experimental techniques to develop new catalysts that convert carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide into renewable fuels and chemicals. Batteries Carbon Capture and Conversion (CCC) Fuels Solar'

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Among other things, the carriers should have an environmental or sustainability strategy in place, measure their carbon footprint, and be transparent with their data. In this way, DHL not only can increase transparency for all stakeholders but also become more sustainable in road freight transportation.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2020

The aim is to demonstrate the truck and the mobile refueling station at 6 locations in Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and France. This gives our customers and us valuable knowledge on zero-emission transport solutions and will help us in taking the next steps towards more sustainable transport. —Marie-José Baartmans, BREYTNER.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2021

Sustainability: The HTL technology has the potential to produce fuels with a low carbon footprint over the entire life cycle, without competing with food and feed production. Solid particles and process waters, which also evolve during HTL conversion, contain a significant fraction of the carbon and the nutrients from the initial biomass.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2022

Up to 50% of the total production capacity from the facilities can be renewable propane that will support UGI’s ongoing efforts to provide innovative, low-carbon, sustainable energy solutions to its customers. It has up to 80% lower carbon footprint than that of conventional LPG.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2010

The seventeen EU countries that levy passenger car taxes partially or totally based on the car’s carbon dioxide emissions and/or fuel consumption are: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Latvia, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

An international team led by researchers at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have joined two unconventional forms of carbon—diamondoids and buckyballs—to create “buckydiamondoids”. Manoharan et al, Nature Communications) Click to enlarge. This is something neither component can do on its own.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2011

Tesla Motors has launched a recycling program in Europe for its Li-ion battery packs, and will recycle its battery packs at Umicore ’s UHT facility in Belgium. Earlier post.)

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JULY 27, 2021

As the world’s largest hydrogen producer, Air Products has experience across the full value chain for hydrogen and is driving sustainable growth by building, owning and operating the world’s largest production, gasification, carbon capture, transportation and fueling projects.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2022

A graphene nanotube is a unique form of carbon that can be imagined as a graphene sheet, with a thickness of one atom, rolled into a tube. One of the best electrical conductors on earth, graphene nanotubes are 100 times stronger than steel, but lighter than aluminum.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Following this journey, 13 race trucks which spent the summer shutdown in Belgium and three trucks from the UK, used locally sourced biofuel to travel 300km from Spa to Zandvoort and then 1100km from Zandvoort to Monza, with only the final 20km requiring the use of diesel fuel due to supply challenges.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2021

Vehicle production will begin in Ghent, Belgium this fall with the first US customer deliveries planned for the fourth quarter of 2021. With the ambition to be a carbon neutral company by 2040, Volvo Cars is working towards 50% of its global sales to consist of fully electric cars by 2025. min, compared to the standard $0.43/min.

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MAY 16, 2013

Volvo Car Group (Volvo Cars) is ramping up production of the V60 Plug-in Hybrid ( earlier post ) by 90% to meet demand, especially in Holland, Belgium and Italy. In the default hybrid mode, the carbon dioxide emissions are 48 g/km. All in all, Volvo Cars will produce 7,600 plug-in hybrids in 2013, with a 2014 target of 10,000 units.

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