Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2016

The first trials on the demo plant in Leuna were successfully completed, within schedule, in the fall of 2016 and Global Bioenergies announced first production of green isobutene via fermentation. Global Bioenergies is now entering the final phase of demonstrating its technology for converting renewable carbon into hydrocarbons.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2015

Global Bioenergies announced that its bio-isobutene process has reached 70% of the commercial yield at R&D scale. The targeted commercial yield is 3.84 tons of low-cost, industrial-grade sugar for 1 ton of high-purity high-value bio-isobutene. This is a huge milestone.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2020

The move follows three years of internal development supported by commercial customers and the US Department of Energy (DOE). Now that we can match the performance of a best-in-class commercial NMC-622 in a volume production plasma, it became clear that we have something very unique and should accelerate efforts. Aaron Bent, CEO of 6K.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

Co-locating the demo plant at Usina Vale’s commercial site will accelerate the technology scale-up from demo to full-scale, and the technology will then be deployed at affiliated ethanol plants.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

The SunSprings plant is designed to demonstrate the complete Joule process with its advantages in cost, scale and efficiency, all at the multi-acre scale that directly translates to full scale through modular replication. Joule Fuels will initially commercialize Sunflow-E, with Sunflow-D for the global diesel market to follow.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 30, 2016

The LanzaTech facility will recycle industrial waste gases from steel manufacturing to produce a low cost ethanol intermediate: “Lanzanol.” The fuel meets all the specifications required for use in commercial aviation. The LanzaTech award was one of six totaling $12.9 Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2018

With further intensification and optimization, this process is a promising new approach towards commercial production of low-cost and low-impact lignocellulosic biofuels. —Sundstrom et al.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2013

The new plant incorporates and validates every aspect of the low-cost continuous-flow manufacturing process. Biosynthetic Technologies is now moving forward with development of a full-scale commercial production plant. Locations are being evaluated, including locations in the company’s home state of California.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2015

Znyth battery technology uses a safe aqueous electrolyte and a novel zinc-hybrid cathode to enable extremely low-cost electricity storage and long life. Highly standardized manufacturing processes such as metal stamping and injection molding to keep manufacturing costs low.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 29, 2017

idea Solutions Design, and JB Mechanical to integrate and install a commercial 1000 Watt Atrex Energy fuel cell power generator fueled with compressed natural gas in an all-electric Polaris Ranger ATV. The project was supported by a $146,283 Energy Innovations Small Grant (EISG) from the California Energy Commission. Atrex Energy.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Biofuels towards achieving the technical approval required for using new fuel types in commercial aircraft. A demo flight with the new fuel is planned in 12-18 months, with commercialization targeted for 2014. in Shanghai this year, and the first commercial operation will be in place in China by 2014.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2018

It will secure fast and cost efficient fueling of Nikola’s fleet of hydrogen trucks, delivering support to major customers like Anheuser-Busch, as well as a growing fleet of Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles. —Jon André Løkke, Chief Executive Officer of Nel.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2011

G2BioChem’s process design and patents, applied across the three phases of the planned demo plant. per gallon, and a capex for the first-in-kind commercial plant of $6 per gallon, reduced to $4 per gallon for subsequent plants. Source: G2BioChem. Click to enlarge. —Barry Wortzman. This is the core of the G2BioChem process.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2011

Volpe Center, to accelerate commercial availability of alcohol-to-jet (ATJ) renewable drop-in aviation fuel. million announced by the FAA to help advance alternative, environmentally-friendly, sustainable sources for commercial jet fuel. Earlier post.). The award was the largest of eight contracts worth a total of $7.7 Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2011

Light-weighting materials : Five projects awarded to accelerate commercial availability of lighter weight vehicles using advanced materials that dramatically reduce vehicle weight while maintaining the highest safety standards. This project will develop a new process that enables low-cost, domestic manufacturing of magnesium.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

The initiative can culminate in a demo flight, by early 2012, of an Embraer E-Jet using GE engines and belonging to Azul Linhas Aéreas. Amyris has proven this technology through the delivery of its first successful commercial scale technologies to sanofi-aventis for the production of artemisinin, a low cost anti-malarial drug.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2016

lower cost) and gasification/F-T processes (e.g., finer product control) with oligomerization of the light olefins produced, the process embodiments of the invention enable the production of synthetic fuel from carbonaceous material at a relatively low cost. —US 9199889.

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Charged EVs

AUGUST 4, 2022

The BMW iX demo will use generation one, [which] contains nickel and cobalt. Steven Kaye: ONE’s anode-free cell advantages include high energy density (thin lithium metal anode), low cost (no anode present during cell assembly, low-cost liquid electrolyte), and abundant raw materials (mostly manganese, zero cobalt).

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 2, 2022

Tesla Bot Development Platform Demo. Tesla After the very brief live demo, Musk showed some video clips of the prototype robot doing other things (starting at 19:30 in the livestream). Tesla Bot Latest Generation Demo. And it is expected to cost much less than a car—much less than $20,000 would be my guess.

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Get Electric Vehicle

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Related to machines, we can have a comparative study of different machines for electric vehicles (reluctance motor, Induction, PMSM, etc) and propose the best one for different applications (passenger cars, scooters, commercial vehicles, etc.). #22 A BMS with low cost, high efficiency, etc. BMS for EVs would be a good project.

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