Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2023

Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation (USNC), a US-based vertical integrator of nuclear technologies and services, Hyundai Engineering and SK E&C are teaming up to conduct research and development for carbon-free hydrogen production. It is also participating in a government-led green hydrogen production demonstration project.

Hydrogen 435

Hydrogen Hyundai Engine Production 435

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Researchers at the University of Oxford have developed a method to convert CO 2 directly into aviation fuel using a novel, inexpensive iron-based catalyst. Jet fuel can then be obtained from the products after industrially recognized treatments such as distillation or hydro-isomerization. —Yao et al.

Convert 505

Convert Fuel CO2 Conversion 505

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2023

University of Queensland researchers, working in collaboration with the Technical University of Munich (TUM), have found a way to convert sugarcane into isobutanol— a building block of aviation fuel and other products—more efficiently. This has led to much higher yields of isobutanol with fewer unwanted side products.

Convert 448

Convert Insight Environment Universal 448

Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2021

Washington State University researchers have developed an innovative way to convert waste polyethylene plastic to ingredients for jet fuel and other valuable products, making it easier and more cost-effective to reuse plastics. In the recycling industry, the cost of recycling is key. wt %, respectively. —Jia et al.

Convert 436

Convert Waste Fuel Washington 436

Green Car Congress

JULY 27, 2020

In a review paper published in the journal ChemSusChem , researchers from Australia’s CSIRO conclude that the combination of synthetic biology and materials chemistry will provide many viable options to allow the use of nitrogenase for energy applications, such as the production of green ammonia for use as a preferred liquid carrier for hydrogen.

Green 488

Green Production Hydrogen Renewable 488

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2022

Polestar, the Swedish electric performance car company, confirmed plans to put the Polestar electric roadster concept into production. The production car is expected to launch in 2026 as the Polestar 6 electric performance roadster. The hard-top convertible will be built on Polestar’s bespoke bonded aluminum platform.

Concept 433

Concept Los Angeles Production Electric 433

Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2021

Production of the Audi Q4 e-tron has finally started in Zwickau. At the multi-brand plant in Zwickau, the Audi Q4 e-tron will be rolling off the same production line as the Volkswagen ID.4 The Volkswagen plant there has been converted to an all-electric plant and is now an integral part of the Group’s electric offensive.

Audi 435

Audi Production Fully Electric Porsche 435

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Methanol fuel cell developer and manufacturer Blue World Technologies ( earlier post ) is starting limited production—the first step in commercializing its methanol fuel cell technology. Methanol reforming is a relatively simple process that converts a mix of methanol and water into a hydrogen-rich gas.

Fuel 418

Fuel Production Hydrogen Clean Alternative 418

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2020

These new prototypes not only use production-intent hardware, they will also allow us to start looking beyond drayage into broader applications of this proven technology. Converting the drayage trucks that currently serve these ports to electric drivetrains would move us closer to that goal. Port fleet rollout.

Los Angeles 546

Los Angeles Kenworth Long Beach Toyota 546

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

In this regard, photocatalytic water splitting has attracted significant interest as a cost-effective means to convert sustainable solar energy into valuable chemicals. Efficiency accreditation and testing protocols for particulate photocatalysts toward solar fuel production. Credit: DICP. 2021.01.001.

Solar 418

Solar Standards Fuel Production 418

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 24, 2020

The last e-Golf has rolled off the production line at the Transparent Factory in Dresden. At the beginning of the new year 2021, the production area of the Transparent Factory will be reconstructed for three weeks before the first ID.3 In 2017, the Transparent Factory started production in parallel to meet the high demand.

Production 435

Production Kits 2017 Conversion 435

Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2021

The BMW i Hydrogen NEXT is a pure electric vehicle that uses hydrogen as fuel by converting it into electricity in a fuel cell. The BMW i Hydrogen NEXT uses fuel cells from the product development cooperation with the Toyota Motor Corporation. The fuel cell system delivers an electrical output of 125 kW/170 hp.

BMW 482

BMW Hydrogen Production Carbon Fiber 482

Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2023

Additionally, it is noted that ammonia commonly acts as a hydrogen carrier, meaning that the end product is likely to be hydrogen. Hence, there is a need to convert ammonia into hydrogen at the destination port or onboard. To date, existing literature primarily focuses on hydrogen production in general. 2023.128900

Qatar 370

Qatar Hydrogen Production Solar 370

Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2022

Volkswagen is expanding its global production network for electric vehicles by now starting to make the all-electric ID.4 4) and Hanover will also commence production this year. Volkswagen has invested around €1 million in converting the Emden plant with its 8,000 employees. In addition, production of the iconic ID.

Global 435

Global Production Ireland Finland 435

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Transform Materials has developed a novel and sustainable microwave plasma reactor process to convert natural gas into high-value hydrogen and acetylene, thereby opening up a new pathway for green chemical manufacturing. Oxidation of methane also introduces impurities in the product stream.

Convert 395

Convert Hydrogen Gas Low Cost 395

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2020

A team of researchers from Canada and the US has developed a system that quickly and efficiently converts carbon dioxide into simple chemicals via CO 2 electrolysis. The electrode architecture enables production of two-carbon products such as ethylene and ethanol at current densities just over an ampere per square centimeter.

CO2 414

CO2 Production Polymer Water 414

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2021

Volkswagen’s Transparent Factory in Dresden has begun series production of the battery-electric ID.3. This makes it the second production site for the ID.3 family—from initial advice and test drives, to production visits, co-constructing the ID.3 MEB production network. family and the MEB. 4 CROZZ and ID.4

Production 435

Production Chinese 2020 Manufacturer 435

Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2023

Idemitsu Kosan, one of Japan’s leading producers and suppliers of energy, has launched a feasibility study of clean hydrogen production in Japan generated from waste, including municipal waste. The goal is to launch a first hydrogen production facility around 2030 capable of processing 200-300 tons of waste per day.

Waste 360

Waste Japan Hydrogen Cleaning 360

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2021

The USDA ARS and BIOF are cooperating to develop production methods which can be used to increase the productivity of land in Florida formerly used for orange production prior to the devastation of the industry by citrus greening. Lignin may be further converted into biodegradable bioplastics or used in ion exchange resins.

Production 396

Production Florida Waste United States 396

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards and Air Products Chairman, President, and CEO Seifi Ghasemi announced a $4.5-billion Air Products is a world-leading industrial gas company that produces and transports hydrogen and other essential industrial gases to many customer facilities in Louisiana, across the US Gulf Coast and around the world.

Louisiana 391

Louisiana Hydrogen Cleaning Clean 391

Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2023

A pathway toward sustainable steel production via ammonia-based direct reduction. A pathway toward sustainable steel production via ammonia-based direct reduction. b) Future steel industry with deploying intermittent renewable energy mediated by green ammonia.

Production 444

Production Hydrogen Renewable Australia 444

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2023

Researchers at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), with colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Illinois at Chicago have developed an electrolyzer capable of converting carbon dioxide into propane in a manner that is both scalable and economically viable. —Esmaeilirad et al.

Convert 370

Convert CO2 Illinois Pennsylvania 370

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2021

VERBIO has commenced production at its new plant in Nevada, Iowa. We have expanded the plant to include biomethane production based on the model we use at our German locations, and now we are providing green fuels for the American market manufactured from excess maize straw. —Claus Sauter, CEO of VERBIO AG.

Iowa 393

Iowa Production Climate Protection Nevada 393

Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2021

Researchers from the University of Houston, with colleagues at the University of São Paolo in Brazil, have demonstrated how copper-resistant bacterium from a copper mine in Brazil convert CuSO 4 (copper sulfate) ions into zero-valent Cu (metallic copper). An open-access paper on their research is published in Science Advances. Gracioso et al.

Convert 429

Convert Houston Brazil Universal 429

Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2021

The standard model of the eActros is planned to roll off the production line in Wörth am Rhein (Germany) from autumn 2021. The findings from the "eActros innovation fleet" which started in 2018 and the close exchanges with customers have been incorporated into the development of the series-production model.

Mercedes 448

Mercedes Production Electric Electrical 448

Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2021

Volkswagen is pressing ahead with the use of 3D printers in car production. Using the binder jetting component reduces costs and increases productivity—for example, the components weigh only half as much as those made from sheet steel. Until now, the production of larger volumes was not cost-effective enough.

Production 345

Production Manufacturer Germany Building 345

Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2022

The Abfallentsorgungs-Gesellschaft Ruhrgebiet mbH ( AGR ), a waste management company in Herten, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, has put a converted DAF CF 340 hydrogen fuel cell truck into operation as part of the EU-funded HECTOR (Hydrogen Waste Collection Vehicles in North West Europe) project.

Convert 444

Convert Hydrogen Parts Fuel 444

Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2022

This work will see Twelve converting CO 2 to CO, which will in turn be converted by LanzaTech’s proprietary microbe to isopropyl alcohol (IPA). Polypropylene is a major polymer used in key applications, including medical devices like syringes and IV bags, automotive, furniture, textiles, and other durable products.

Convert 324

Convert CO2 Carbon Polymer 324

Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2023

The aim of the funding project is to ensure the mass production and series ramp-up of the decentralized SOFC technology up to the start of series production. The heart of the system is the SOFC stack, where chemical energy is converted into electrical energy. A hotbox will contain several stacks.

Fuel 360

Fuel Production Hydrogen Germany 360

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

With the final site approval, NEO has now additionally doubled the initial target annual silicon anode production capacity to 240 tons on the same mass-production lines and has consequently renamed the semi-commercial plant into a commercial-scale plant facility to accommodate for industry capacity standards.

Commercial 370

Commercial Lithium Ion Production South Korea 370

Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2021

The production of HTL fuels from three different feedstock classes shows the flexibility of the process. HTL has several key-advantages, of which the most important are: Flexible production potential: The HTL conversion technology taps into a huge global bio-resource with local variety of primary biomasses.

Convert 418

Convert Denmark Waste Universal 418

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 3, 2022

estimated that with conversion by hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) and upgrading, the wet waste resource availability in the United States could be converted to jet fuel that is equivalent to about 24% of the U.S. Skaggs et al. demand in 2016.

Waste 434

Waste Diesel Renewable Convert 434

Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2021

Desktop Metal, a provider of mass-production additive-manufacturing (AM) solutions, has qualified the use of 4140 low-alloy steel for the Production System platform, which leverages patent-pending Single Pass Jetting (SPJ) technology designed to achieve the fastest build speeds in the metal additive manufacturing industry.

Parts 397

Parts Manufacturer Production Industrial 397

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2023

Researchers from University of Girona (Spain) successfully used electrically efficient microbial electrosynthesis cells (MES) to convert CO 2 to butyric acid. mΩ m 2 ) cells in a batch-fed mode, alternating high CO 2 and hydrogen (H 2 ) availability to promote the production of acetic acid and ethanol. At an applied current of 1.0

Convert 369

Convert CO2 Spain Conversion 369

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 8, 2023

EE North America intends to construct a Power-to-X facility in Texas that would take the biogenic CO 2 from Montauk’s locations and use it in the production of e-methanol. Montauk Renewables captures methane, preventing it from being released into the atmosphere, and converts it into either RNG or electrical power for the electrical grid.

Texas 370

Texas Renewable North America Pennsylvania 370

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Excess energy produced by photovoltaics and wind energy could be stored through the electrocatalytic production of fuels from CO 2. However, the electrocatalytic formation of products with two or more carbon atoms (C 2+ ) is very challenging. In contrast, pure copper foil produces C 1 products but hardly any C 2+ products.

Convert 435

Convert CO2 Conversion Carbon 435

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2023

The new system mimics a natural chloroplast to convert carbon dioxide in water into methane, very efficiently using light. However, it is difficult to convert carbon dioxide in water because many photosensitizers or catalysts degrade in water. A paper on this team’s latest work was published in Nature Catalysis. over 24 hours.

Convert 369

Convert Carbon Fuel Water 369