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Your Electric Car Out Of Juice? AAA Tests Roadside Recharging

Green Car Reports

Everyone makes mistakes once in a while, and we’re sure most drivers have run out of gasoline at least once in their life. But as the saying goes, it's hard to carry a gallon of electricity back to your plug-in car if the battery is completely out of charge.

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NREL and Ecopetrol in $2.3M CRADA agreement to optimize conversion of waste biomass to ethanol

Green Car Congress

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. The plant spoils quickly if the sugars aren’t squeezed out.

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California ARB considering four new low-carbon fuel pathways; Neste renewable diesel and sugarcane molasses ethanol

Green Car Congress

The baseline CI value for gasoline is 95.86 When data on the electrical and thermal energy consumption at the specific rendering plants supplying Neste’s plant becomes available, Neste will provide that data to staff in order to verify the carbon intensity of the feedstock rendering phase of Neste’s Australian tallow pathway.

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Toyota Hot and Cold on Plug-in Hybrids

Plugs and Cars

Asahi reports: "Electric vehicles that run only on electricity are said to be more environmentally friendly than hybrid vehicles because they have no emissions and do not use gasoline. However, the cars can run only short distances before they run out of juice.

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Investors Daily: Pull the Plug on Ethanol

Plugs and Cars

And they choose electricity, not ethanol. Ethanol has less power per gallon than gasoline. But IBD believes that the political juice of ethanol is distorting policy decisions. The utilities need to step up, declare the benefits of electricity in cars, and promote its product. IBD is ready to choose.

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As EV Sales Stall, Plug-In Hybrids Get a Reboot

Cars That Think

What they got wrong was assuming that all of those vehicles would run on battery power alone, with gasoline-electric hybrid technology bound for the technological scrap heap. Those numbers are a disappointment to automakers and regulators, who have looked to PHEVs as a bridge technology between gasoline vehicles and pure EVs.

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ARB posts six new LCFS pathway applications for comment; new PFAD biodiesel approach

Green Car Congress

The baseline carbon intensity for gasoline in the LCFS lookup table is 99.18 After the sugarcane has been crushed, the cane juice is filtered, treated with calcium hydroxide, decanted, and then sent to sugar production. However, the Raizen COPI mill exports surplus co-generated electricity to the public grid. gCO 2 e/MJ fuel.

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