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AUGUST 14, 2020

NYK Line, Japan Marine United Corporation (JMU), and Nippon Kaiji Kyokai (ClassNK) signed a joint R&D agreement for the commercialization of an ammonia-fueled ammonia gas carrier (AFAGC) that would use ammonia as the main fuel, in addition to an ammonia floating storage and regasification barge (A-FSRB).

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MARCH 9, 2021

announced that the ISX12N+Endurant HD N powertrain from its Integrated power portfolio is now available for heavy-duty customers, delivering a fully integrated natural gas powertrain. Cummins Inc. and Cummins Westport Inc. This reduces smog-forming NO x emissions by 90% (to 0.02

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CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 18, 2025

continued] The post The End of the Gas-Powered Vehicle Era Look at the Numbers appeared first on CleanTechnica. Responding to an article yesterday about the potential effect of repealing the US EV tax credit, one of our readers provided a great, long comment on a topic I’ve been meaning to cover for months.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2022

A development team from CoorsTek Membrane Sciences, in collaboration with international research partners, have successfully used ceramic membrane technology to develop a scalable hydrogen generator that makes hydrogen from electricity and fuels including natural gas, biogas and ammonia with near zero energy loss.

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MARCH 18, 2022

In this case—which reflects only current laws and regulations—renewable energy is the fastest-growing energy source through 2050, while petroleum remains the largest share of energy consumption throughout that period, followed by natural gas.

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DECEMBER 24, 2024

A new survey of electric vehicle owners around the world finds that only 1% of electric vehicle owners would buy a pure gas-powered (or diesel-powered) car for their next vehicle. continued] The post Only 1% of EV Drivers Would Go Back to a Gas Car* appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2023

a developer of ammonia power solutions, announced the successful testing of the first ammonia-powered, zero-emission semi truck. After integrating its technology into a 5 kW drone in July 2021 and 100kW John Deere tractor in May 2022, Amogy has scaled its ammonia-to-power technology to 300 kW. Amogy Inc.,

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MAY 5, 2023

will be updated with a Cummins X15N natural gas engine ( earlier post ) that will run on Shell Renewable Natural Gas (RNG). will capitalize on some of the latest available technology, including being powered by renewable natural gas. At ACT Expo in Anaheim, Shell announced that Shell Starship 3.0 Shell Starship 3.0

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OCTOBER 14, 2021

will bring to market a 15-liter natural gas engine for heavy-duty trucks. The 15-liter natural gas engine is an important part of Cummins strategy for its path to zero emissions. Cummins Inc. —Srikanth Padmanabhan, President, Engine Business, Cummins. gCO 2 e/MJ. gCO 2 e/MJ.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 5, 2025

Lithography technology, and potentially the nearly trillion-dollar electronics industry, would stagnate unless we could create a powerful source of shorter-wavelength, EUV light. The task of achieving such a huge power increase was so daunting that I debated with my family about the wisdom of starting a career in EUV lithography.

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JUNE 14, 2022

Chevron USA, a subsidiary of Chevron Corporation, announced definitive agreements to supply fuel linked to renewable natural gas for a Walmart Inc. demonstration of Cummins’s new 15-liter natural gas engine for heavy-duty trucks ( earlier post ). —Andy Walz, president of Americas Fuels & Lubricants for Chevron.

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AUGUST 3, 2021

Komatsu and its mining customers Rio Tinto, BHP, Codelco and Boliden have formed the Komatsu Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Alliance. Komatsu’s power-agnostic development truck undergoes testing at a Komatsu facility in the United States.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2022

Austria-based OMV, an international, integrated oil, gas and chemicals company, announced its intention to become a net-zero (Scope 1, 2 and 3) company by no later than 2050. The gradual decline foresees a decrease in crude oil production by around 30% and natural gas production by around 15% by 2030.

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The Truth About Cars

MARCH 12, 2025

The Porsche Macan EV is finally out, but the automaker has continued selling the gas model alongside its newest counterpart. European buyers have already lost access to gas-powered Macan models, and the shift is expected to hit North American buyers within the next year.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2021

“Blue” hydrogen—produced through steam methane reforming (SMR) of natural gas or coal gasification, but with CO 2 capture and storage—is being described as having low or zero carbon emissions. For our default assumptions (3.5% Even if true though, the use of blue hydrogen appears difficult to justify on climate grounds.

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APRIL 9, 2022

Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) and Seaborg signed a partnership agreement to develop floating nuclear power plants based on Seaborg’s inherently safe Compact Molten Salt Reactor (CMSR). The floating nuclear power plant comes as a turn-key product, ready to be moored at an industrial harbor. This provides significant safety benefits.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2022

Hyliion and Cummins are partnering to optimize the Cummins natural gas engine as the generator for the Hyliion Hypertruck ERX powertrain ( earlier post ). The Hyliion Hypertruck ERX is an electric range extender semi-truck powertrain solution using onboard power generation to recharge the batteries.

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JUNE 24, 2022

Movements to reduce greenhouse gas emissions are accelerating rapidly in the mobility industry. In doing so, conventional fossil fuel gas will gradually be replaced by sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). The 2MW is approximately 500 mm in diameter and 700 mm in length (excluding the shaft).

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MAY 27, 2022

EIA expects that level of decrease in hydropower generation would lead to an 8% increase in California’s electricity generation from natural gas, a 6% increase in energy-related carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions in the state, and an average 5% increase in wholesale electricity prices throughout the West given the current system configuration.

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JULY 13, 2022

The objective of this agreement is to develop a project to repower and put into service 400 switcher and line-haul freight locomotives, all 100% powered by compressed natural gas (CNG) and/or renewable natural gas (RNG) with low or zero emissions, in line with the Argentina’s decarbonization goals.

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AUGUST 4, 2021

Spain-based global energy company Repsol and Talgo, a manufacturer of intercity, standard, and high speed passenger trains, will promote a renewable-hydrogen-powered train, fostering emission-free rail transport in the Iberian Peninsula. The Vittal One renewable hydrogen-powered train uses electric motors powered by hydrogen fuel cells.

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AUGUST 22, 2022

Sandia National Laboratories researchers recently delivered electricity produced by a new power-generating system to the Sandia-Kirtland Air Force Base electrical grid. Supercritical carbon dioxide is a non-toxic, stable material that is under so much pressure it acts like both a liquid and a gas.

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MAY 13, 2021

Mitsubishi Power Americas and Texas Brine Company are collaborating to develop large-scale long-duration hydrogen storage solutions to support decarbonization efforts across the eastern United States. Texas Brine gas storage cavern wellhead. Hydrogen has been stored in salt caverns for decades in the US Gulf Coast.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2022

The SL 43 features an M139 in-line two-liter, four-cylinder gasoline engine with an electric exhaust gas turbocharger—used for the first time in a production vehicle. The electric exhaust gas turbocharger is a fascinating example of the extensive transfer between Formula 1 technology and the development of production vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2022

Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) and Tesla Inc. have launched a new pilot program that creates a virtual power plant (VPP) to help support electric grid reliability and save customers money. Virtual Power Plants. Participating customers will receive compensation for the energy their Powerwalls discharge.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

a developer of energy-dense ammonia power solutions ( earlier post ), and Amon Maritime, an ammonia-powered shipping and technology company, signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to advance carbon-free, ammonia power solutions for the global shipping industry. Amogy Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

thyssenkrupp will build a €2B hydrogen-powered direct reduction plant at its Duisberg site. As part of its tkH2Steel transformation project, coal-based blast furnaces will be replaced by hydrogen-powered direct reduction plants. That is already five percent of the Ruhr region’s greenhouse gas emissions. Capacity will be 2.5

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Cars That Think

MARCH 12, 2025

This green energy corridor could help shore up energy security in the European Union, replacing the Russian natural gas that Europe used to import. The Black Sea is almost 1,200 kilometers long, and the proposed undersea power cable would need to run the length of it, making it the longest and deepest in the world.

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MAY 5, 2023

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) is designing innovative hydrogen combustion systems for gas turbines used in power generation. However, one of the things that is especially challenging is that it’s highly reactive, which makes it more difficult to work with than natural gas or the liquid fuels on which gas turbines typically run.

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MARCH 21, 2021

The flagship project MethanQuest was launched in September 2018, and on it a total of 29 partners from research, industry and the energy sector have come together to work on processes for producing hydrogen and methane from renewables and for using them to achieve climate-neutral mobility and power generation.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2023

At this year’s demopark open-air exhibition, Mercedes-Benz is presenting a prototype of the Unimog based on the U 430 with hydrogen-powered combustion engine as part of the publicly funded “WaVe” project. Here, gas is compressed or expanded by a change in oil volume, which creates a resilient effect.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Audi is adding a new member to its A3 family: the A3 Sportback 30 g-tron natural gas vehicle. Operation with natural gas or biomethane makes the compact model economical and more climate-friendly with low emissions. With full gas tanks, the car has an NEDC range of up to 495 (307.6 The A3 Sportback 30 g-tron 1.5

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2021

Rolls-Royce Power Systems has outlined its road map for climate neutrality: Net Zero@Power Systems. By 2030, the Rolls-Royce business unit is to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 35% compared to its 2019 level through the use of new net zero and zero carbon technologies. This is not yet relevant for Rolls-Royce applications.

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JUNE 17, 2022

Wholesale prices are especially tied to natural gas prices because natural gas-fired units are often the most expensive (marginal) generators dispatched to supply power. The natural gas price at the Henry Hub averaged $8.14 EIA expects the price of natural gas delivered to electric generators to average $8.81/MMBtu

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2022

The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) will install an innovative clean energy microgrid and EV fleet charging system with Proterra and Scale Microgrid Solutions to help power the agency’s transition to a 100% zero-emission bus fleet, following a grant that was awarded for the project by the California Energy Commission this week.

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DECEMBER 27, 2021

This vessel was developed to provide a means of transporting liquefied hydrogen at 1/800 of its original gas-state volume, cooled to –253°C, safely and in large quantities over long distances by sea. J-POWER) to form the CO 2 -free Hydrogen Energy Supply-chain Technology Research Association (HySTRA). IMO) standards, in early December.

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JANUARY 23, 2022

After declining in 2020, the combined production of US fossil fuels (including natural gas, crude oil, and coal) increased by 2% in 2021 to 77.14 Of the total US fossil fuel production in 2021, dry natural gas accounted for 46%, the largest share. Crude oil accounted for 30%, coal for 15%, and natural gas plant liquids (NGPLs) for 9%.

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