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Ferrari sees synthetic fuel as savior of ICE supercars

Baua Electric

Porsche and several partners already have a trial plant in Chile churning out synthetic fuel. If the energy used doesn’t come from renewable sources, synthetic fuel is no cleaner than fossil fuels. The main problem is the amount of energy needed to create synthetic fuel.

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Thermal Solar Goes Where PVs Can’t

Cars That Think

Even so, solar-thermal developments continue to unfurl across the planet's sunniest expanses, driven by the growing demand for energy storage and cleaner heat sources. Atacama Desert, Chile The US $1.4 Power Tower Cerro Dominator : 100-MW solar-thermal power tower + 100-MW solar PV plant. billion project began full operations in June.

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Thermal Solar Goes Where PVs Can’t

Cars That Think

Even so, solar-thermal developments continue to unfurl across the planet's sunniest expanses, driven by the growing demand for energy storage and cleaner heat sources. Atacama Desert, Chile The US $1.4 Power Tower Cerro Dominator : 100-MW solar-thermal power tower + 100-MW solar PV plant. billion project began full operations in June.

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UOP looking to biomass catalytic pyrolysis to expand volumes of renewable hydrocarbon fuels

Green Car Congress

Honeywell’s UOP—a major international supplier and licensor of technology for petroleum refining, gas processing, petrochemical production and major manufacturing industries—has also been an early leader in developing technologies for the production of renewable drop-in hydrocarbon fuels. Earlier post.) Hydroprocessing.

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EV myths busted: Are electric vehicles actually good for the environment?

Drive Electric

Regardless of whether your car is an EV or ICEV, the process to manufacture any vehicle is energy-intensive and requires the extraction and refinement of raw materials to build parts. Battery production is known to be the most energy-intensive part of the manufacturing process of an EV. Vehicle body and other car parts.

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EV myths busted: Are electric vehicles actually good for the environment?

Drive Electric

Regardless of whether your car is an EV or ICEV, the process to manufacture any vehicle is energy-intensive and requires the extraction and refinement of raw materials to build parts. Battery production is known to be the most energy-intensive part of the manufacturing process of an EV. Vehicle body and other car parts.

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The raw materials crunch: How bad, how long, how to solve it?

Charged EVs

We EVangelists have gotten used to smugly pointing to the steadily declining costs of batteries (and renewable energy). Primary supply sources are concentrated in the Democratic Republic of Congo for cobalt, Southeast Asia and Russia for nickel, and Australia/Chile/China for lithium,” says Litinsky. “In Farewell to falling prices.