Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2015

and Gazprom of Russia’s subsidiary Gazprom Gazomotornoye Toplivo (Gazprom) have signed a market development agreement focused on expanding the use of natural gas vehicles in Russia and the localization of manufacturing of Westport’s Emer brand natural gas products. Westport Innovations Inc.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 27, 2014

Nissan’s all-new fourth-generation Pathfinder—which will be built in Russia—will be available with a standard 3.5L liter gasoline engine and an electric motor paired with a compact Li-ion battery. The 15 kW electric motor and gas engine work in tandem to provide performance similar to the conventional Pathfinder.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Thanks to a single, sweeping decree, Russia could soon become a much more hospitable place for electric cars. The country is currently home to just a small number of electric cars, and its charging infrstructure is relatively undeveloped.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 18, 2022

Just a few hours before massed Russian troops and missiles surged over borders with deadly force last month, Ukraine’s grid operator opened a series of high-voltage breakers, disconnecting the nation’s grid from those of Belarus, Russia and the rest of the giant UPS/IPS synchronous AC power zone controlled from Moscow.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

As the first batch of pilot projects of CNPC in the new energy field, the hydrogen stations in operation lay a foundation for the company’s future extensive deployment of hydrogen stations and the construction of hybrid stations of oil, gas, electricity, and hydrogen. CNPC) is an integrated international energy company.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2022

Sanctioning Russian nickel will slow the adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) and hinder the decarbonization of Western economies, according to GlobalData. The data and analytics company notes that such actions will simply mean Western countries will be more reliant on Russian oil and gas for longer.

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Teslarati

MARCH 10, 2022

Tesla is reportedly seeing increased order rates in the United States this week after soaring gas prices have helped some drivers transition to electric vehicles to avoid paying astronomical amounts at the pump. AAA data suggests the average cost of a gallon of gas is currently $4.318, up nearly 60 cents since last week and nearly $1.50

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Electric Vehicles India

MARCH 22, 2022

Now, both Ukraine and Russia play a pivotal role in the global semiconductor supply chain. Russia is the leading producer of Palladium, which is essential for memory and sensor chips. Ukraine on the other hand is a leading exporter of Neon gas. It also produces several other rare-earth metals such as Scandium.

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Teslarati

APRIL 28, 2022

Germany vice-chancellor Robert Habeck, who made headlines earlier this year by stating that the country must transform its power system “at Tesla speed,” is now calling for significant efforts to reduce the country’s reliance on Russian gas. ” . “Now it is time for construction. There has to be pile driving.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 1, 2022

Oil and gas prices are skyrocketing as a result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, with gas prices exceeding $4 a gallon in the United States in March 2022 and more than $10 a gallon in other countries. There’s never been a better time to reduce reliance on fossil fuels.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

As energy represents a high proportion—more than a third—of production costs, the sharp increase in the price of gas has a huge impact on companies’ profitability, especially in Europe where the price of natural gas has increased by almost 550% from December 2020 to December 2021, according to the World Bank.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2011

The Nikkei reports that a Russian-Japanese liquefied natural gas project in Vladivostok will kick off with an eye toward producing 10 million tons of LNG a year, twice as much as initially planned. Following the nuclear accident at Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Japan is the world’s No. A consortium comprising Itochu Corp.,

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Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2020

In an open-access study in the EGU journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics , an international team of researchers reports that the greenhouse gas sulfur hexafluoride (SF 6 ) is rapidly accumulating in the atmosphere, driven by the demand for SF 6 -insulated switchgear in developing countries. Simmonds et al. —Simmonds et al.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 4, 2020

—Catherine Robinson, Executive Director, Hydrogen and Renewable Gas, IHS Markit. By 2030, IHS Markit expect that green hydrogen costs could drop below $2/kg where it would compete with hydrogen produced from natural gas with carbon capture. Hydrogen production has the potential to become a whole new sector of electricity demand.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 28, 2011

Microturbine company Capstone Turbine’s ( earlier post ) sales to the oil and gas industry worldwide are at a record pace, according to Jim Crouse, Capstone’s Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing. In the CHP applications, the microturbines’ exhaust heat will be used for building and onsite fuel-gas heating.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 4, 2011

Gas-flaring countries and trends. A newly released GE study — Flare Gas Reduction: Recent Global Trends and Policy Considerations —estimates that 5% of the world’s natural gas production is wasted by burning or “flaring” unused gas each year, despite some progress on the flaring issue. Click to enlarge.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 20, 2023

Over the years, Musk has clarified on Twitter that he actually supports solutions such as nuclear energy, and amidst the Russia-Ukraine war, the CEO highlighted the need for greater oil and gas output. In a recent response on Twitter, Musk predicted that the use of oil and gas would likely peak within the coming years.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2021

Electrolysis of water using low-carbon electricity (“yellow” and / or “green” hydrogen) and steam reforming of methane in combination with carbon capture technologies (“blue” hydrogen) are considered as possible means for hydrogen production. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

L-Charge, a Russian manufacturer of mobile rapid charging infrastructure for electric vehicles, has raised investment of $1.5 In July, L-Charge presented its rapid mobile charging station for electric vehicles and launched its test operation in Moscow.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2020

SGH2’s gasification process uses a plasma-enhanced thermal catalytic conversion process optimized with oxygen-enriched gas. The end result is high purity hydrogen and a small amount of biogenic carbon dioxide, which is not additive to greenhouse gas emissions. But, until now, it has been too expensive to adopt at scale.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine war have further increased the interest of Europe and Western countries to invest in the hydrogen economy as an alternative to fossil fuels. At standard temperature and pressure, air is a gas, but under certain conditions, it can become a liquid or solid. Montanari, P., Schneider, P.,

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Steel is responsible for around 7% of man-made greenhouse gas emissions every year and is one of the world’s most polluting industries. Converting a significant portion of the fleet to hydrogen would require more DRI plants and more electric furnaces. This would be a major shift in the type of furnaces and fuels used to produce steel.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2021

Russian Railways accounts for less than 1% of Russia’s total volume of greenhouse emissions. From 2025, we plan to purchase only electric locomotives, as well as locomotives operating on alternative energy sources such as natural gas and hydrogen. This will enable us to further reduce the environmental burden on the environment.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2017

This was the result of growing renewable power generation, switches from coal to natural gas, improvements in energy efficiency, as well as structural changes in the global economy. The decline was driven by a surge in shale gas supplies and more attractive renewable power that displaced coal.

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Plug in America

APRIL 29, 2022

The Russian war against Ukraine is being paid for by exports of oil and gas, just like all of Putin’s previous wars. If everybody in our countries drove electric vehicles and their electricity came from renewables, this war would probably not be happening. And Russia is just today’s example of oil exporters fueling wars.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2022

Under the plan, 95% of electricity by 2030 could be low-carbon, the government said. This would represent up to around 25% of projected electricity demand—three times more than now. The strategy will see a significant acceleration of nuclear, with an ambition of up to 24GW by 2050.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 29, 2022

Musk on Oil, Gas, and a Renewable System. Before the event, Musk talked about the need for gas and oil to sustain current society. When asked about oil and gas levels, Elon Musk replied: “I think realistically we do need to use oil and gas in the short term because otherwise, civilization would crumble.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2014

Ukraine’s next crisis will be a devastatingly economic one, as violent conflict destroys critical infrastructure in the east and brings key industry to a halt, furthering weakening the energy sector by crippling coal-based electricity production. The plan was to rely more on coal in order to reduce dependence on Russian natural gas.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2022

The global push to convert the world to electric vehicles will cause supply chain complexities that could undermine the alternative energy transition in the United States, according to a new report from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. The detailed report— Need Nickel? —Baker Institute report Need Nickel?

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2011

World primary energy demand by fuel in the IEA high gas scenario. Separately, the International Energy Agency (IEA) released its own report exploring the potential for a “golden age” of gas. Both reports also emphasized that although natural gas is the lowest carbon fossil fuel, it is still a fossil fuel. Source: IEA.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2023

Russia-based Nornickel, the world’s largest producer of palladium and high-grade nickel and a major producer of platinum and copper, presented its eleventh review of the nickel and platinum group metals (PGM) markets based on the fundamental analysis of world economic and industry data.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The most notable new policies include the US “Inflation Reduction Act”, legislation providing more than $369 billion in funding for clean technologies, and the European Union’s REPowerEU plan, which sets ambitious targets to reduce reliance on gas from Russia. advancing or delaying the time of electricity dispatch.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 28, 2022

Incidentally, Musk has been helping Zelenzkyy by providing Ukraine with Starlink satellite internet kits to keep the country connected to the internet despite its ongoing war with Russia. The Tesla CEO also warned about the dangers of letting the oil and gas industry deplete the Earth of its fossil resources at the 2014 ONS.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Harmony Energy, based in North Yorkshire, developed the facility using Tesla Megapacks , though construction was managed by the American electric vehicle maker. Elon Musk has lauded the facility , noting that “Tesla Megapacks are highly effective in addressing electricity demand spikes that cause power outages.”

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

This long-term trend of Asian energy consumption to support growing economies strongly influences the extraction, refining, and transport of oil, natural gas, and other fuels. OECD electric light-duty vehicle stocks increase from 3.5 Given these overall economic patterns, natural gas trade and infrastructure face similar shifts.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2017

India is the third-largest steel producer in the world after China and Japan, having surpassed other large steel-making countries such as the United States, Russia, and South Korea over the previous decade, according to the World Steel Association. Iron ore is used mostly in pellet and/or lumpy form. million tonnes); and. of 2016 production.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

First, these subsidies generally apply only to oil, gas, and electricity. The largest effects of removing subsidies were found in areas that export oil and gas, such as Russia, Latin America, and the Middle East and North Africa. Click to enlarge. The reason for this small overall effect is two-fold.

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