Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Williams F1 and the Qatar Science & Technology Park (QSTP) formally signed an agreement to inaugurate the Williams Technology Center (WTC). The WTC will initially be tasked with the progression of two Formula One inspired R&D projects with clear commercial goals. CAD rendering of the MLC flywheel. Source: WHP. Click to enlarge.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Hawaiian Airlines is launching complimentary Wi-Fi to its passengers on board commercial flights this week. SpaceX Starlink available on Qatar Airways SpaceX officially launched Starlink Aviation in October 2022, with a few airlines already interested in the new production.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2022

Source: Graph by the US Energy Information Administration, based on data from Japan’s Ministry of Finance, China’s General Administration of Customs, South Korea’s Customs Institute, India’s Directorate General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics, and Taiwan’s Ministry of Finance via Global Trade Tracker. Bcf/d to 16.7

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2014

Shell PurePlus Technology base oil is manufactured at the Pearl GTL facility in Ras Laffan in Qatar, a partnership between Qatar Petroleum and Shell. We then took this technology and ultimately created Shell PurePlus base oil, which has been in large scale commercial development since late 2011.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 8, 2024

The new battery pack is designed to power commercial EVs such as buses and trucks. Yutong’s buses are sold in over 40 countries, including Italy, France, the UK, Spain and Qatar. Chinese battery supplier CATL and bus maker Yutong have partnered to launch an EV battery that’s warranted to last 1.5 million km (932,000 miles) or 15 years.

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Teslarati

JUNE 5, 2024

The Internet service is also being used on things like commercial airliners, cruise ships , and even large cargo ships to help crew members stay in touch with their families. SpaceX Starlink services to launch on Qatar Airways Boeing 777-300ER aircraft However, in order for this to happen, the service needs to be fast and reliable.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2011

The MoU between Williams F1 and TRL will see the two companies collaborate on joint research, marketing and business development initiatives and use Williams F1’s simulator technology to help improve road safety, fuel efficiency and other aspects of driver behavior in Qatar and internationally.

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Baua Electric

AUGUST 26, 2024

Commercial leasing company Volt Mobility boasts clients that include UPS, DHL, and FedEx. From there, Volt will lease the vehicles to its corporate customer base throughout the Gulf Cooperation Council (“GCC”) region, which includes Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Shell’s Gulf Coast GTL facility would be one of the first of its kind built to commercial scale in the United States. Shell built the first commercial GTL facility in Malaysia in 1993. In 2011, Shell began production at Pearl GTL in Qatar, a joint venture between Shell and Qatar Petroleum, the world’s largest GTL plant.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2011

The product, the first from the Qatar-based Pearl GTL plant to reach the Americas, will be stored at a hub in Houston and routed to Shell Lubricants’ GTL-enabled blending facilities throughout the United States. The plant uses natural gas from Qatar’s North Field to manufacture high-quality base oils and other GTL products.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Shell built the first commercial GTL facility in Malaysia in 1993. In 2011, Shell began production at Pearl GTL in Qatar, a joint venture between Shell and Qatar Petroleum, the world’s largest GTL plant.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Williams Advanced Engineering has been commercializing this technology since 2010, with previous projects including the development of road safety simulators to improve driving standards in Qatar.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2017

Shell integrated its supply chain with its gas value chain in Pearl GTL, Qatar, in order to provide Shell PurePlus Technology-enabled engine oils around the world. This world-scale facility is the largest source of GTL products and the only commercial source of GTL base oil today.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 3, 2019

TechnipFMC was the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractor for the Oryx GTL facility in Qatar and has performed a number of front-end engineering designs for GTL facilities, including the Uzbekistan GTL.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Sasol currently uses aerobic microbes to treat GTL and coal-to-liquids (CTL) effluents in ORYX GTL, Qatar and Synfuels, Secunda facilities. We will now continue to explore and develop this technology further with the potential for commercial application to our future GTL facilities.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

KLM Royal Dutch Airlines will operate a demonstration commercial passenger flight with a 50:50 bio-kerosene blend—the first such with that blend. In October, Qatar Airways became the first airline to operate a commercial flight on a 50:50 blend with synthetic GTL Jet Fuel. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2021

The companies plan to develop demonstrator plants in several countries in the region, namely Oman, Kuwait, and Qatar. Still in its infancy as a commercially viable fuel, hydrogen produced sustainably by using renewable energy to power the electrolysis of water can provide vast quantities of clean fuel.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

The co-operation will also see further development and enhancements to the GTR undertaken by Williams F1’s energy storage team based at the Williams Technology Centre in Qatar. With both companies commercializing flywheel energy storage based on common MLC technology, aligning our engineering, development and marketing makes sense.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2011

As a member of the Argentine commercial vehicle industry, TATSA is engaged in an expansion process in both domestic and international markets. Since 2005, the company has been building commercial vehicles at a plant in San Martin, Buenos Aires, and this year will start production in a new plant located in Maldonado, Uruguay.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

In addition to its efforts with TAM Airlines, in February 2008, an Airbus A380 aircraft successfully completed the first ever flight by a commercial aircraft using Gas-to-Liquid (GTL) fuel, and in October 2009 Airbus and Qatar Airways undertook the first commercial flight of 50% blended GTL.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

With a range of more than 8,200 nautical miles (15,185 km), the airplane will have the lowest operating cost per seat of any commercial airplane. The 777-9X offers seating for more than 400 passengers, depending on an airline’s configuration choices. Production is set to begin in 2017, with first delivery targeted for 2020.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2016

Researchers from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), with colleagues from the Korea Institute of Energy Research (KIER), Qatar University and major battery manufacturer LG Chem have developed a technique for the delicately controlled prelithiation of SiO x anodes for high-performance Li-ion batteries.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

But it is the tight liquids rich fairway (approximately 15-20 miles wide) that contains high concentrations of both free condensate and natural gas liquids that everyone is pursuing in what may very soon be one of the largest commercially viable plays in the world. Source: [link].

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

In October 2009, Williams F1 and the Qatar Science & Technology Park (QSTP) formally signed an agreement to inaugurate the Williams Technology Center (WTC). The WTC is initially tasked with the progression of two Formula One inspired R&D projects with clear commercial goals.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2011

The GTL pathway model they used is based on global current or imminent GTL production, representing “ an industrially relevant average ” of the GTL process (the model GTL facility is located in Qatar). The net effect is an increase in the overall efficiency of the entire system relative to the GTL process alone.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

The first quote modifies a GEICO commercial describing a free-range chicken (If you’re a free range chicken, you roam free, that’s what you do), the second, the famous John Maynard Keynes quote about markets (The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent), the third, another famous Keynes quote (In the long run, we’re all dead).

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Charged EVs

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Well, this is happening in the commercial space with trucks and buses. There’s obviously this technological synergy between what happens in Formula E and what makes it to the commercial model.”. The commercial interests of all the big manufacturers are aligned with a platform like Formula E. And that’s mostly due to the battery.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Oman exports liquefied natural gas (LNG) but imports some volumes of natural gas by pipeline from Qatar via the UAE. The UAE is a net exporter of LNG but increasingly imports natural gas by pipeline from Qatar. Oman increased oil production by 18% to 943,000 b/d and natural gas production by 32% to 2.8 Bcf/d from 2005 to 2014.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 24, 2010

More than 4,500 of Eaton’s hybrid systems are in use today on city buses, school buses, package delivery trucks, beverage delivery trucks, refrigerated delivery trucks, refuse and recycling trucks, utility vehicles and other commercial applications.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Anna Stone , who leads commercial strategy for a nonprofit called Good Dollar. Karl Widerquist , a professor of philosophy at Georgetown University–Qatar, says he’s skeptical of the potential of cryptocurrencies for boosting financial inclusion or enabling UBI. It’s just not yet clear how individual users will benefit.”. Jon Callas.

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