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New UC Davis market-based sustainability forecasting approach concludes supplanting gasoline and diesel with renewable fuels could take 131 years

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

At the current pace of research and development, replacing gasoline and diesel with renewable fuel alternatives could take some 131 years, according to a new University of California, Davis, study using a new sustainability forecasting approach based on market expectations. The forecast was published online 8 Nov.

Davis

Davis Renewable Gasoline Diesel

Renewable wood-based biofuels for shipping

Green Car Congress

MAY 30, 2014

In marine transport there is a particular need to develop low-sulfur fuel alternatives to conventional fossil bunker oils due to upcoming regulations which demand that low-sulfur fuels shall be used in shipping in various regions. ReShip - Renewable wood-based biofuels for Shipping.

Renewable

Renewable Norway Mariner Oil

Neste opens four new renewable diesel filling stations in California

Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2020

Neste, the world’s leading producer of renewable diesel, has opened four new fueling stations in northern and central California, providing greater accessibility to 100% renewable diesel. The fueling stations are open 24/7 and provide a seamless and quick customer experience. billion gallons of fossil diesel.

Renewable

Renewable Diesel California San Jose

JBEI researchers produce high density jet fuel precursors from bacteria

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2018

The advanced biofuels, derived from higher alcohols, alkanes/alkenes, fatty acid esters and isoprenoids, are sustainable energy alternatives, with favorable properties and great market potential. cedrene, were hydrogenated to generate a fuel blend with 12% higher volumetric net heat of combustion than conventional jet fuel.

Fuel

Fuel Fuel Alternative Hydrogen Commercial

LanzaTech receives $3M contract from FAA for alcohol-to-jet project; one of 8 awards worth total of $7.7M

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. at an ICAO sustainable alternative fuels workshop in October.

Alternative Fuels

Alternative Fuels Renewable 2011 Waste

Study finds renewable fuel mandates alone not likely to lower carbon intensity of biofuels; the importance of localized LCAs and optimized low carbon fuel standards

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2011

The authors then incorporated the LCA results into multiple policy scenarios to demonstrate the effect of policy configurations on the use of alternative fuels. renewable fuel standards—and LCFSs. Uncertainty analysis is important to determine the risk of fuels’ environmental impacts. —Boies et al.

Carbon

Carbon Fuel Standards Renewable

DOE TEF project finds US can eliminate petroleum and reduce GHG by more than 80% in transportation by 2050; less use, more biofuels, expansion of electricity and hydrogen

Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2013

Getting to the point where biomass could provide 100% of vehicle liquid fuels requires reducing the need for fuel through efficiency and demand management, including deployment of electricity or hydrogen fuel alternatives. 3%), and these costs can be made up for in fuel cost savings of more efficient advanced vehicles.

Transportation

Transportation Hydrogen Fuel Light

WUSTL researchers demonstrate solar-panel-powered microbial electrosynthesis to produce n-butanol from light, CO2 and power

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

A team of biologists and engineers modified Rhodopseudomonas palustris TIE-1 (TIE-1) so that it can produce a biofuel using only three renewable and naturally abundant source ingredients: carbon dioxide, solar panel-generated electricity and light. We hope that it can be a steppingstone for future sustainable solar fuel production.

Solar

Solar Light St. Louis Powered

UK study finds Bio-SNG could offer 90% reduction in lifecycle CO2; lower cost of carbon abatement than electrical solutions for transport applications

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Although anaerobic digestion of organic material has been widely accepted as an important renewable energy technology, the production of Bio-SNG will required to move to higher levels of fossil fuel replacement, according to the report. Few other renewable vectors are as fungible, with so few demand-side constraints.

Carbon

Carbon Cost Of Transportation CO2

Co-Optima report highlights most significant R&D achievements in FY2019

Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2020

Further development and testing is needed to adapt DFI to engines for real-world use, but this approach combined with oxygenated fuel could translate into cleaner, more cost-effective MCCI engines that run on diesel with renewable content. Renewable Feedstocks to Produce Commercially Viable Diesel Blends.

Fuel Economy

Fuel Economy 2019 Diesel Fuel

MIT study concludes that absent climate policy, coal-to-liquids could account for around a third of global liquid fuels by 2050

Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2011

Production of CTL has a large carbon footprint, releasing more than twice the lifecycle greenhouse gases of conventional petroleum fuels. However, with the rise in energy prices that began in 2008 and concerns over energy security, there is renewed interest in the conversion technology, the report notes. —Chen et al. Henry, J.M.

Coal

Coal MIT Climate Global

Monash/Hokkaido team produces diesel blend fuel via CO2 hydrogenation in methanol over new catalyst

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Associate Professor Akshat Tanksale from the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Monash University and co-corresponding author, says OME (oxymethylene ethers) are among a number of fuel alternatives that are attracting increasing attention for their net-zero carbon emitting properties. —Dr G Valavarasu from HPCL.

Hydrogen

Hydrogen Diesel Fuel CO2

Ford Europe leading project investigating DME and OME1 as low carbon, near zero particulate fuels; power-to-liquids pathways using CO2

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2015

(The comparison to the electric vehicle is based on estimates which factor in the CO 2 emissions resulting from fuel production, with the DME-powered vehicle figure calculated from the use of renewable energy to generate the DME fuel, and the electric vehicle figure calculated from electricity generated from renewable resources.

Fuel

Fuel Ford Powered Power

UC Davis report finds LCFS compliance costs may rise rapidly; recommends offsetting measures

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 30, 2013

Due both to the unprecedented nature of the program as well as to the uncertainty regarding the ability of the renewable fuel industry to produce volumes of low CI fuels necessary to meet the required reductions, it is difficult to predict market outcomes and compliance scenarios in the market in coming years. Lade, Gabriel E.

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Davis Alternative Fuels Boston Consulting Group Price

Jülich evaluation of power-to-fuels recommends DME, OME3-5 and n-alkanes as diesel substitutes

Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2017

An evaluation of the implementation possibilities of power-to-fuel (PTF) technologies by a team from Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH in Germany recommends the PTF products DME, OME 3-5 and n-alkanes as suitable diesel alternatives for the transportation sector. A paper on the Jülich study is published in the journal Fuel.

Diesel

Diesel Fuel Powered Power

Study finds behavior-influencing policies remain critical for mass market success of low-carbon vehicles

Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2018

Policies to entice consumers away from fossil-fuel powered vehicles and normalize low carbon, alternative-fuel alternatives, such as electric vehicles, are vital if the world is to significantly reduce transport sector carbon pure-emissions, according to a new study. —David McCollum.

Carbon

Carbon Alternative Fuels Market Vehicles

Opinion: Alternatives to the RFS

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2015

Recently, the Energy Resources Center made headlines by saying the EPA’s shift on the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) would equal adding 1 million more passenger vehicles on the road. It’s also a political lightning rod given the stagnation of fuel consumption matched with accelerating ethanol blending. by Doug Williams.

Oil

Oil San Francisco Gasoline Fuel

IEA roadmap concludes biofuels can provide up to 27% of world transportation fuel by 2050

Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2011

The publication was prepared jointly by the International Energy Agency’s Renewable Energy Division (RED) and Energy Technology Policy Division (ETP). gigatonnes of CO2) of emission reductions in the transport sector. Technology Roadmap: Biofuels for Transport (IEA 2011).

Transportation

Transportation Fuel Conversion CO2

List of The Best 10 Alternative Fuels for Cars that Could Replace Gasoline

Get Electric Vehicle

JUNE 5, 2023

Disadvantages of fossil fuels Fossil fuels are a non-renewable source of energy which depletes and are not produced as fast as the rate of depletion. These examples of alternative fuels for cars are tested and proven technology in the automotive industry. Why fuel cells are important?

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CARB releases 2022 draft Scoping Plan update

Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2022

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has released the draft 2022 Climate Change Scoping Plan —the third update to the state’s initial 2008 Scoping Plan. The draft 2022 Climate Change Scoping Plan was developed by the California Air Resources Board in collaboration and coordination with multiple state agencies.

Climate Change

Climate Change Hydrogen Carbon Gas-Electric

USDA, DOE and US Navy to invest up to $510M over next 3 years to build out drop-in biofuel production capacity for military and commercial transportation

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2011

Advanced biomass-derived transportation fuels that use a domestic, renewable feedstock provide a secure alternative that reduces the risks associated with petroleum dependence, they said. Enhanced reliability of fuel supplies through diversification to advanced drop-in biofuels is also essential to sustain the U.S.

Commercial

Commercial Transportation Obama Production

Opinion: A More Level Playing Field for Advanced Biofuels

Clean Fleet Report

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

However, America’s clean energy transition has been characterized by siloed thinking and inflexibility despite significant advances in low-carbon fuel alternatives. But, there is still more that can be done to incorporate low-carbon fuel alternatives into our national climate strategy. It doesn’t have to be this way.

Tax Credit

Tax Credit Fuel Alternative Congress Tax

European Parliament backs 6% cap on land-based biofuels, switchover to advanced biofuels; no mandate

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

According to current legislation, member states must ensure that renewable energy accounts for at least 10% of energy consumption in transport by 2020. Brazilian sugarcane ethanol is classified as an advanced biofuel by the US Environmental Protection Agency and by California Air Resources Board, even when ILUC effects are taken into account.

2020

2020 Europe Waste Emissions

What about the Pickens Plan?

Plugs and Cars

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

Before greenhouse gasses became a global concern, before we came to terms with the inevitable limits of fossil fuels, natural gas would have been a logical fuel alternative to petroleum. And today natural gas is a critical fuel for electricity generation. Natural gas, like petroleum, is not forever.

Al Gore

Al Gore Gore Gas-Electric Gas

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New UC Davis market-based sustainability forecasting approach concludes supplanting gasoline and diesel with renewable fuels could take 131 years

Renewable wood-based biofuels for shipping

Neste opens four new renewable diesel filling stations in California

JBEI researchers produce high density jet fuel precursors from bacteria

LanzaTech receives $3M contract from FAA for alcohol-to-jet project; one of 8 awards worth total of $7.7M

Study finds renewable fuel mandates alone not likely to lower carbon intensity of biofuels; the importance of localized LCAs and optimized low carbon fuel standards

DOE TEF project finds US can eliminate petroleum and reduce GHG by more than 80% in transportation by 2050; less use, more biofuels, expansion of electricity and hydrogen

WUSTL researchers demonstrate solar-panel-powered microbial electrosynthesis to produce n-butanol from light, CO2 and power

UK study finds Bio-SNG could offer 90% reduction in lifecycle CO2; lower cost of carbon abatement than electrical solutions for transport applications

Co-Optima report highlights most significant R&D achievements in FY2019

MIT study concludes that absent climate policy, coal-to-liquids could account for around a third of global liquid fuels by 2050

Monash/Hokkaido team produces diesel blend fuel via CO2 hydrogenation in methanol over new catalyst

Ford Europe leading project investigating DME and OME1 as low carbon, near zero particulate fuels; power-to-liquids pathways using CO2

UC Davis report finds LCFS compliance costs may rise rapidly; recommends offsetting measures

Jülich evaluation of power-to-fuels recommends DME, OME3-5 and n-alkanes as diesel substitutes

Study finds behavior-influencing policies remain critical for mass market success of low-carbon vehicles

Opinion: Alternatives to the RFS

IEA roadmap concludes biofuels can provide up to 27% of world transportation fuel by 2050

List of The Best 10 Alternative Fuels for Cars that Could Replace Gasoline

CARB releases 2022 draft Scoping Plan update

USDA, DOE and US Navy to invest up to $510M over next 3 years to build out drop-in biofuel production capacity for military and commercial transportation

Opinion: A More Level Playing Field for Advanced Biofuels

European Parliament backs 6% cap on land-based biofuels, switchover to advanced biofuels; no mandate

What about the Pickens Plan?

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