Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2017

The Volkswagen brand has set itself new, ambitious targets for reducing the environmental impact of production. By 2025, vehicles and components are to be produced in a way which is 45% more environmentally compatible than in 2010, the reference year for the current Think Blue. Liendel Chang, Head of Environmental Production.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2019

Carbon Recycling International has been awarded a €1.8-million The grant will allow CRI to accelerate efforts to commercialize large scale production plants, expanding the market for ETL technology and use of renewable methanol in Europe. In many ethanol production and biogas processes. million (US$2.0-million)

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

In the first phase, BTG-neXt will focus on building a pilot refinery for converting pyrolysis oil into 100% sustainable marine biodiesel for ships, in order to demonstrate that continuous production is feasible. In 2019, Empyro was acquired by the waste processing company Twence.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2012

National benefits of the CH 4 plus BC measures versus the reference scenario. Black carbon, a product of burning fossil fuels or biomass such as wood or dung, can worsen a number of respiratory and cardiovascular diseases. We refer to these seven as “BC measures,” although in practice, we consider all co-emitted species.

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The Truth About Cars

AUGUST 14, 2024

It’s possible to imagine there are very few people on this planet who enjoy wasting money for no good reason. Promoted Product: Blackhawk Ridgecrawler A/T Most of us who buy an all-terrain tire for our truck, SUV, or crossover want a couple of key things from the tire. That’s not a waste of money.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2014

The reactor under test had an external appearance of an alumina cylinder, 2 cm in diameter and 20 cm in length, ending on both sides with two cylindrical alumina blocks (4 cm in diameter, 4 cm in length), non-detachable from the body of the reactor (referred to as “caps” in the paper). mm high and 3.2 10 6 ± 10%) [W/kg].

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2021

The project FCH2RAIL was launched in January and the reference routes and operating scenarios for the prototype have now been defined as a first result. The international project team still has a number of technological challenges to solve. Where energy is available from overhead lines, the train takes the energy from them.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2016

Optimized internal combustion engines are the major contributor to the reduction of passenger car GHG emissions with significant improvements until 2020 and the subsequent penetration of more effective alternative technologies into the fleet. For the reference case, the model assumed extension of the existing legislation to 2030.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 7, 2021

They can all be categorized as ways to "Green IT," an umbrella term referring to environmentally sound information technologies and systems, applications, and practices. The wasteful approach of throwing more computing power at a problem to get better results has been dubbed red AI. For more details, refer to this article.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2016

coal, biomass, or waste—is heated in the absence of molecular oxygen to produce a solid containing char and ash and volatile gases. This use of light olefins as building blocks results in good control of the product composition as with a traditional gasification/F-T process. Carbonaceous materials—e.g., —US 9199889.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2012

The report represents the first global, government-level consensus on sustainability indicators for bioenergy and is intended as a resource in helping countries assess and develop sustainable production and use of bioenergy for electricity, heat and transport. Water use and efficiency. Water quality.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

emissions from fossil fuel use and cement production per region. emissions from fossil fuel use and cement production per sector (1970 = 100). emissions from fossil fuel use and cement production per country (left), per capita (center), and per unit of GDP (right). Global CO 2. Source: JRC. Click to enlarge. Indexed global CO 2.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

This topic seeks to address this barrier through demonstrating the successful production of > 100A, > 600V rated switches with either built-in Schottky diodes (lower cost) or used with external Schottky diodes suitable for use in electric drive vehicle traction motor inverters. Reciprocating internal combustion (e.g.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2011

Global benefits from full implementation of the identified measures in 2030 compared to the reference scenario. The findings were compiled by an international team of more than 50 researchers chaired by Drew Shindell of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Waste management. for 2030 and beyond. Source: UNEP.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2015

Until now, the energy storage field has had two options to try to drive down costs—high volume production or entirely new chemistries that may never move from the lab to the commercial floor. Those inactive materials are expensive and wasteful. 24M says it is presenting a third option. Flexible and modular.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2009

a Fischer-Tropsch process company, plans to build a plant in Rialto, California for the production of synthetic fuels and electric power from renewable waste biomass feedstocks. Biomass is mixed with hot sand (1,800 ºF), turning it into product gas and residual char. Product gas is cleaned in a scrubber. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2019

liter M 139 engine is the world’s most powerful turbocharged four-cylinder engine in series production. This product policy logic has already proved successful in the V8-powered AMG Performance models. The aspect of sustainability was also a fundamental part of the planning for the new M 139 production line.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

This includes the impacts from extracting raw materials, food processing, and manufacturing, transporting, and disposing of products. Materials management refers to how material resources are managed as they flow through the economy, from extraction or harvest of materials and food (e.g., encouraging smart growth.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2010

That claim fomented an international sensation because nuclear fusion holds potential for providing the world with a virtually limitless new source of energy. Research papers at the ACS symposium openly refer to “cold fusion” and some describe cold fusion as the “Fleishmann-Pons Effect” in honor of the pioneers, Marwan noted.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2012

To develop the new inventory, the team included 22 BC emission sources including both anthropogenic and natural sources (savanna and forest fires), and used emission factor values (EF BC ), references, and the detailed data sources for coke production, open-fire agricultural waste burning, and wildfires. Credit: ACS, Wang et al.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2014

These technologies include, but are not limited to, advanced aftertreatment and waste heat recovery; lean-burn plus lean-NO x emissions traps; integration of zero-emission miles technologies; further refinements in reducing friction and parasitic energy losses; and widespread utilization of renewable and natural gas and hydrogen blends.

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 8, 2021

Always Refer to the Owner’s Manual. Your car wastes more gas (or electricity) when running on underinflated tires. Active rust control products like BG Guard keep moving parts, such as brake cables lubricated. Your car with an internal combustion engine (ICE) works on metal, fluid and fire. Check the Fluids.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 30, 2024

The Indonesian-born Chinese American businessman is better known for founding SHI International Corp, a large private IT company that made him a billionaire. Dear leader” is a reference to Kim Jong-il, the former supreme leader of North Korea. He is also involved in academia and philanthropy. There wouldn’t be a Tesla without Musk.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2016

On the other hand, drivers of other vehicles waste considerable time making special trips to refuel their internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles at the liquid fuel station or their battery electric vehicle (BEV) at the rapid recharging station. 5 ] Increasing numbers of drivers can get PEV charging at their workplace. [

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2012

For this type of resource, USOS says, the Clark process is not effective; left-over bitumen sticks to the sand, resulting in low recovery and oil sand waste. is located in veins beneath 20 to 25 feet of overburden; production would use surface mining. Oil-wet sands, by contrast, have the bitumen directly coating the sand grains.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2013

of biofuels production worldwide (2,190,000 t/y), according to the report. of biofuels production worldwide (2,190,000 t/y), according to the report. The production capacity for biofuels from lignocellulosic feedstock has tripled since 2010 and currently accounts for some 140,000 tons per year.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2009

The SCOPE (Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment) International Biofuels Project, has published the full proceedings of its Rapid Assessment workshop on the environmental effects of biofuel technologies, 22-25 September 2008. SCOPE is part of the International Council for Science.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2009

Noting the references in scientific and policy literature to the need for fast-action mitigation to help avoid DAI and abrupt climate changes, the authors define “fast-action” to include regulatory measures that can begin within 2–3 years, be substantially implemented in 5–10 years, and produce a climate response within decades.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2010

In contrast, project developers determine offset emission data by comparing the expected reduced, avoided, or sequestered GHG emissions against a projected, business-as-usual scenario (sometimes referred to as a counter-factual scenario). REFERENCES. Donovan (20 December 2009). About the Author. Mr. Donovan is CEO of Renergie, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2013

The production version of the i3. In a simultaneous—and video linked—unveil in New York, London and Beijing, BMW introduced the production version of its i3 battery-electric vehicle on Monday. EVs in general currently have a larger carbon burden in the production phase than conventional vehicles (e.g., Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2013

In addition to applying and validating new techniques at a production-relevant scale, this AOI supports rigorous development of joining process-structure models and characterization of joints at a quality suitable for publication in peer-reviewed journals. mm and 5 mm thick. mm and 5 mm.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2009

BMW Vision EfficientDynamics is neither a mere variant of a production car built for maximum efficiency nor a purely visionary study completely separated from series development. Rather, all the technologies contributing to the car’s outstanding efficiency come from a development process conceived for regular production. Objectives.

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Cars That Think

JULY 29, 2021

It tries to make the output voltage (VDD) equal to the reference voltage by controlling the current through the power PFET. In the basic digital design [right], an independent clock triggers a comparator [triangle] that compares the reference voltage to VDD. V instead, wasting some power. V, but VIN is 0.95 Source: S.B.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The group involves five market-orientated companies, three RTOs and one International association; the members of the consortium, led by CTAG – Automotive Technology Centre of Galicia (Spain), include: ArcelorMittal Maizieres Research (France), Ford-Werke (Germany), Innerspec Technologies Europe (Spain), BATZ S.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2009

During the intervening six and half years in the US alone, the auto industry will sell a projected 70-80 million internal combustion engine cars, pointing out the importance of improving today’s technology. Cities account for 2% of the world’s area and yet they account for 75% of the resources and 75% of the waste ,” said Cervero.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2009

As another panelist pointed out, “ The New York Times is well-equipped to write the article about how Stimulus Funds have been wasted ”. Within the US electric power sector the biggest question was whether the Production Tax Credits (PTC) were going to be extended beyond 2008. Earlier post.). What is the PTC and why does it matter?

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2015

The six TERRA projects will receive a total of $30 million to accelerate energy crop development for the production of renewable transportation fuels from biomass and the 12 GENSETS projects are aimed at developing generator technologies that will improve efficiencies in residential Combined Heat and Power (CHP) generation.

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