Green Car Congress

APRIL 26, 2010

Electric taxi driving through Ginza in Tokyo. Better Place launched a 90-day switchable-battery electric taxi in Tokyo in partnership with the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry, and Nihon Kotsu, Tokyo’s largest taxi operator. Battery being lifted into the underbelly of the electric taxi during battery switch process.

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Taxi Convert Israel Batteries 262

Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2009

Poway, California-based Plug In Conversions Corp. kWh NiMH plug-in hybrid (PHEV) conversion kit that enables all-electric mode driving at speeds of up to 70 miles per hour (until the battery pack is depleted) in a converted Prius. The car is no longer limited to 34 miles per hour, all-electric. Andrew Ewert.

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NiMH Kits Prius Conversion 207

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2009

ALTe’a electric drive system, designed to replace a base V-8 internal combustion engine powertrain, improves fuel economy from 80% to 200%. The idea of converting existing vehicles that had very low fuel economy with Range Extended Electric Powertrains is an advanced idea especially considering the patents that come with it.

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Chrysler Extended Range Conversion Electric Vehicles 225

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2011

Six research institutions and seven industrial partners from Europe will participate in the new BioBoost project, aimed at converting residual biomass into energy carriers for the production of high-quality and engine-compatible fuels and chemicals as well as for the generation of electricity and heat. above 1000 °C.

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Open Source Civic EV Kit

APRIL 7, 2008

After spending the past year and a half converting a Porsche 914 to an electric vehicle, I decided to expand my horizons by designing an open-source electric vehicle (EV) conversion kit for a commonly used car. This project started about a month ago when I became co-chair of the Oregon Electric Vehicles Association.

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Kits Conversion Golf Cart Saturn 185

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 20, 2010

AC Propulsion and AutoPort , an automotive conversion, restyling and processing company, will partner in engineering, development and conversion to provide an Electric Vehicle conversion prototype and report for the United States Postal Service.

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Conversion Delaware Gasoline-Electric Convert 199

Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2010

The authors highlight three possible strategies for CO 2 conversion by physico-chemical approaches: sustainable (or renewable) synthetic methanol; syngas production derived from flue gases from coal-, gas- or oil-fired electric power stations; and photochemical production of synthetic fuels. Jiang et al.

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Conversion Transportation Fuel CO2 218

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

A research team at the University of Wisconsin–Madison has identified a new way to convert ammonia to nitrogen gas through a process that could be a step toward ammonia replacing carbon-based fuels. This process can be harnessed to produce electricity, with protons and nitrogen gas as byproducts. —Christian Wallen, co-author.

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Energy Wisconsin Hydrogen Gas-Electric 418

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

The United States Postal Service (USPS) has awarded electric vehicle provider ZAP an engineering contract for the design and development of an electric version of its Long Life Vehicle (LLV). ZAP will convert the gasoline mail truck to run on electricity as specified by the USPS at facilities in Santa Rosa, California.

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Conversion Convert New York Gasoline-Electric 218

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2012

The advance paves the way for researchers to convert biomass molecules such as glucose into hexanes, which are significant components of gasoline currently derived by refining crude oil. Unlike other technologies that use large quantities of hydrogen gas to convert biomass to biofuels, the team’s process is driven by electricity.

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Convert Fuel South Korea Massachusetts 210

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2013

Direct land use, life cycle GHG emissions (excluding indirect land use change), and life cycle fossil fuel requirements to generate the transportation services provided by 17.8 × 10 12 MJ NCV of gasoline, the amount used in transportation in the US in 2009. Credit: ACS, Geyer et al. Click to enlarge.

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Transportation Carbon Li-ion Conversion 319

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

The electric Transit Connect. Ford Motor Company is unveiling the all-electric version of the Ford Transit Connect at the Chicago Auto Show; the small electric van will be in fleet operators’ hands later this year, according to the company. Electric Transit Connect. TDK, 100A output DC/DC converter. Earlier post.)

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Transit Connect Taxi Chicago Conversion 210

Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2009

One of SDG&E’s converted PHEVs. The third phase of a SDG&E multi-year in-use study on plug-in hybrid electric vehicles showed that plug-in hybrids offer significant improvements in gas mileage and reductions in emissions when compared with standard hybrid-electric and gasoline internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles.

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Gasoline-Electric San Diego Gasoline PHEV 186

Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2014

ZAP, over the last few years has been pursuing the EV fleet market in the US, and developed a custom designed power train for a US delivery fleet with the goal of becoming a supplier for the electric powertrain which will replace the gasoline ones currently being used.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 4, 2012

For as long as electric cars have existed, enterprising individuals around the U.S. have sought to convert gasoline cars to electric power.

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Convert Gasoline-Electric Conversion Cars 147

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

Audi’s latest e-fuels project is participation in a a pilot plant project in Dresden that produces diesel fuel from water, CO 2 and green electricity. The sunfire plant, which operates according to the “power-to-liquid” (PtL) principle, requires carbon dioxide, water and electricity as raw materials. gasoline with Global Bioenergies.

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Audi Water Diesel Fuel 400

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2013

The US Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is working with Ecopetrol, the largest oil company in Colombia, to process the residue from sugar cane and palm oil harvesting into fuel ethanol for blending with gasoline. NREL has a pilot plant at its Golden, Colo.,

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Conversion Colombia Waste Juice 186

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 26, 2023

Renault is launching electric retrofit kits in France in partnership with R-FIT. The Renault 5 electric retrofit kit will go on sale in France in September 2023 while the kit for the Twingo will be made available at a later date. These kits can be installed on the popular Renault 4, Renault 5 and first generation Twingo.

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Kits France Gasoline-Electric Electric 307

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2018

Jaguar Classic has confirmed it will offer all-electric E-types for sale. An EV conversion service for existing E-type owners will also be offered. To preserve the authenticity of the base vehicle, the EV conversion will be fully reversible. Deliveries of the first electric E-type vehicles are expected to start from summer 2020.

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Land Rover Conversion Gasoline-Electric Lithium Ion 247

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

conversion to fuel molecules or to electrons—depends on market and regulatory contexts that are outside the scope of attributional life cycle assessments (LCA). suggested that converting biomass into electricity for EVs abates more GHG emissions than does converting biomass into liquid fuels for use in today’s conventional vehicles.

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Fuel Market Gasoline-Electric Gasoline 324

Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2021

As a result, there is a critical need to create new pathways for biofuel conversion that reduces carbon waste, prevents the loss of CO 2 emissions, and in turn, maximizes the amount of renewable fuel a conversion process yields. The awardees are: LanzaTech, Inc. Carbon-Negative Chemical Production Platform - $4,160,262.57.

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Carbon Production Conversion Universal 303

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 25, 2014

Testing showed that blending EEB with diesel significantly reduces soot emissions, similar to how ethanol reduces emissions when blended with gasoline. EEB can also be blended with gasoline or burned to produce electricity. Vitruvian has modeled production costs at $2.58-3.73 per gallon.

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Gasoline-Electric Gasoline Diesel Alabama 290

Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2020

Researchers led by a team at Washington State University (WSU) have developed a unique and inexpensive nanoparticle catalyst that allows a solid-oxide fuel cell to convert logistic liquid fuels such as gasoline to electricity without stalling out during the electrochemical process. —Qusay Bkour, lead author. Saunders, M.

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Gasoline Fuel Gasoline-Electric Hydrogen 262

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2019

and its strategic Mobile Energy Group (MEG) announced a strategic partnership with the China National Petroleum Corporation Nanjing (CNPC or PetroChina) to begin converting existing fossil fuel gas stations in the city of Nanjing. Ideanomics Inc. We are very pleased to be working with Ideanomics’ MEG Group.

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Cleaning Clean Energy China 275

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2022

Vertimass and European Energy have completed a Letter of Intent (LOI) to integrate technologies for capturing carbon dioxide and converting it into hydrocarbon products around the world. The team completed an initial proof of concept laboratory research for coupling their technologies earlier this year. —Vertimass CEO Charles Wyman.

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Energy CO2 Renewable Carbon 342

Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2009

The converted EV. Electric vehicle manufacturer Think Global and Ener1, one of its battery partners, are supplying a fully integrated electric drivetrain powered by a lithium-ion battery system to Japan Post for the conversion of delivery vehicles as part of a comprehensive road-testing program. Click to enlarge.

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Japan Conversion Supplies i-MiEV 150

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

A team from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and Idaho National Laboratory has evaluated the process economics and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for the conversion of 11 biomass feedstocks to produce transportation fuels via fast pyrolysis and then pyrolysis oil upgrading via hydrodeoxygenation. g CO 2 -e/MJ. Meyer et al.

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Fuel Convert Idaho Oil 207

Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2010

It requires an on-site water and electricity supply but is otherwise an autonomous solution for refuelling hydrogen-powered vehicles. The conversion features Ford’s 2.3-liter liter 4-cylinder gasoline engine, to which Revolve added a belt-driven supercharger with intercooler. Revolve Hydrogen ICE Transit.

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Hydrogen London Ford Convert 218

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2011

Current case design block flow diagram of thermochemical gasoline from biomass-derived methanol and the methanol-to-gasoline process. Gasoline has a higher energy content than ethanol.) Source: NREL. Click to enlarge. gallon US ($0.52/liter). gallon US ($0.52/liter). gallon ($0.37/liter). per gallon ($0.41 per liter) and $1.49

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Gasoline Gasoline-Electric Gas-Electric Convert 225

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Gas chromatograph traces of conventional 87 octane gasoline (top) and CoolPlanetBioFuels drop-in gasoline produced from corn cobs. Two fractionators in a module can produce one million gallons of gasoline per year, with capex of $0.50/gallon Source: CoolPlanetBioFuels. Click to enlarge. gallon to install—i.e.,

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Gasoline Energy Gasoline-Electric Carbon 247

Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2013

PNNL’s thermochemical conversion device is installed in front of a concentrating solar power dish. The system converts natural gas into syngas—with higher energy content than natural gas—using a thermochemical conversion device installed in front of a concentrating solar power dish. Photo: PNNL. Click to enlarge.

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Solar Gas Fuel Powered 265

Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2010

Once further optimized and energy conversion elements, such as thermoelectric converters, are added, the cell could produce electricity. One thing that frustrates me to no end, is that I don’t know how to convert this energy directly.

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Fusion Power Powered Batteries 326

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

If CNG were to be eventually used in hybrids, the advantage of the electric generation/EV option shrinks. Because the use of natural gas for transportation requires compressing, liquefying, or conversion, it is important to determine the best use of natural gas as a transportation fuel. —Curran et al. L/100 km).

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Gas-Electric Gas Fuel Economy Economy 345

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Methane Converter to Electricity and Fuel. Bio2Electric will develop a small-scale reactor that converts natural. In contrast, this reactor produces electricity as a byproduct of fuel production. provide not only liquid fuel but also electricity, increasing the. Natural Gas Reactor for Remote Chemical Conversion.

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2012 Energy Lithium Sulfur Gas-Electric 240

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

One program, Reducing Emissions using Methanotrophic Organisms for Transportation Energy (REMOTE, earlier post ), provides $34 million to 15 projects to find advanced biocatalyst technologies that can convert natural gas to liquid fuel for transportation. process intensification approaches for biological methane conversion.

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Gas Conversion Low Cost Universal 259

Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2010

Researchers at Columbia University’s Lenfest Center for Sustainable Energy, in collaboration with Risø National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy, DTU, are investigating the high-temperature co-electrolysis of CO 2 and H 2 O using solid oxide electrolysis cells (SOECs) to produce a syngas for conversion into liquid hydrocarbon fuels.

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Fuel CO2 Production Conversion 255

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 1, 2011

A 1966 article in ACS’ Chemical & Engineering News described a General Motors press conference at which the automaker outlined research work being done on non-gasoline-based automotive power sources, with a heavy emphasis on the electrical. But the emphasis was clearly electrical. 24, page 55). Resources.

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