Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2019

Partners of the P2X Kopernikus project on the premises of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany have demonstrated the production of fuel from air-captured CO2 using—for the first time—a container-based test facility integrating all four chemical process steps needed to implement a continuous process.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2018

With “bioliq” ( earlier post ) and the “Energy Lab 2.0”, KIT already has two platforms for the production of reFuels. It will also examine how regenerative fuels affect the pollutant emissions of the existing fleet and the function of vehicles and individual components. The Energy Lab 2.0,

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 31, 2013

No power means no hot water for washing, no refrigerated food, and often, no way of cooking. Last year's East Coast power outages caused by Hurricane Sandy illustrated just how much we rely on electricity in our daily lives. Virtually everything we rely on day to day requires power.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2014

The HELMETH (“Integrated High-temperature ELectrolysis and METHanation for Effective Power to Gas Conversion”) project, coordinated by Karlsruhe Institue of Technology (KIT) is targeting power-to-gas (PtG) system efficiencies of more than 85% through better synergies with existing process steps. Power-to-gas (e.g., The 3-year, €3.8-million

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2010

Researchers from BASF, Energie Baden-Württemberg AG (EnBW), Heidelberg University and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) are seeking to develop a process for the photocatalytic conversion of CO 2 into methanol for use in fuel cells or internal combustion engines. million) over two years. Dr. Henning Bockhorn.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2023

Researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and their partners have now launched the REF4FU (“Refineries for Future”) project to determine the refuel quantities needed and what future green refineries will have to look like to supply these quantities. Scheme of the planned process network.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

We are delighted to have signed the SuperBattery development deal with Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and combine forces to bring to market a technology that will blow existing EV charging solutions out of the water. —Maximilian Fichtner, Research Unit leader at the KIT and director at the Helmholtz-Institute Ulm.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2009

The Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) and NASA recently launched the first test rocket using an environmentally-friendly, safe propellant comprising nanoscale aluminum powder and water ice (ALICE). It consists of an all-carbon-fiber, minimum-diameter high-power rocketry kit. Credit: Dr. Steven F.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2022

Hydrous ethanol (also sometimes known as azeotropic ethanol) typically ranges from 186 proof (93% ethanol, 7% water) to 192 proof (96% ethanol, 4% water). It’s a good, fast way to adapt technology into an existing engine by manufacturing a retrofit kit that can be installed on current engines or on newer engines. Earlier post.).

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Electrek

APRIL 3, 2024

That includes tankless electric water heaters at $405 and an outdoor electric tool starter kit. The all-new Greenworks Venture All-Terrain Mountain e-bike is dropping for the first time down to $1,575 to go alongside all of today’s other best deals. Plus, all of the other best new Green Deals landing this week.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology ICT are working together with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology KIT to develop a new cooling concept that will enable polymers to be used as EV electric motor housing materials, thereby reducing the weight of the motor and thus, the EV itself.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2019

Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the University of Toronto have proposed a method enabling air conditioning and ventilation systems to produce synthetic fuels from CO 2 and water from the ambient air. Envisioned modular, on-site renewable hydrocarbon synthesis system based on CO 2 capture from thin air.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2010

Following BP CEO Tony Hayward’s admission that his company did not have a “tool-kit” to respond to a sizeable spill from a deepwater well, Markey introduced the bill to create a research program to develop oil safety and spill response technologies. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) Text of the SOS Act.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2012

The Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), which coordinates the Alliance, and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) are pooling their competences in this network together with other Helmholtz centers and universities in Europe. Liquid metals can store energy in large quantities and dissipate heat effectively.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2019

ABB signed a formal agreement with SAIC Volkswagen to provide robotics painting solutions for the first New Energy Vehicle (NEV) factory of the Volkswagen Group based on the Modular Electric Driver Kit (MEB), an automotive platform specifically designed for the mass production of electric vehicles. Financial details were not disclosed.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2019

SUNFIRE-SYNLINK —a co-electrolyzer based on solid oxide cell (SOC) technology—enables the highly efficient production (a projected ~80% efficiency on an industrial scale) of synthesis gas in a single step using water, CO 2 and green electricity. Background: high temperature co-electrolysis.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 4, 2010

Researchers from the Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) in Germany have shown that hydrocarbon yield and energy efficiency can be increased in a Fischer-Tropsch (FT) biomass-to-liquids (BTL) process through the use of a hydrophilic membrane enabling the in situ removal of water from the catalyst bed. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2010

This prototype Fuel Cell Black Cab, which emits only water from its tailpipe, is an exciting glimpse of how hydrogen technology could soon play a vital role in cleaning up air quality for urban dwellers. London’s Deputy Mayor for Policing and Chair of the London Hydrogen Partnership, Kit Malthouse. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

The new contracts result from a plan recommended by SCE in response to state forecasts of local reliability needs due to the closure of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station and anticipated retirement of older, natural gas generation plants along the Southern California coastline that rely on ocean water for their cooling needs.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2009

Leo’s “kit” consists of a 60 kW water-cooled AC motor with controller, a 30 kWh or a 16 kWh lithium polymer power pack with multi-battery management system (BMS), and charger. The price of the kit is $20,000 with a 16kWh power pack. The kit is available now from Leo Motors on an order basis.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 16, 2015

The dry reforming process differs from steam reforming, which combines CH 4 and water (H 2 O) in the form of steam to produce the syngas. Producing the steam is energy-intensive; dry reforming requires far less water, and hence avoids the energy burden of steam production. Milanov, A., Schunk, S. Behrens, A. and Schödel, N.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2013

Sedach, Man Kit Jack Siu, Simon Trudel, and Curtis P. Berlinguette (2013) Photochemical Route for Accessing Amorphous Metal Oxide Materials for Water Oxidation Catalysis. FireWater Fuel Corp. Smith, Mathieu S. Prévot, Randal D. Fagan, Zhipan Zhang, Pavel A. Science doi: 10.1126/science.1233638. 1233638.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The higher-tier kit is a step above the standard Starlink system, with its larger dish that features double the antenna capability to its faster internet speeds. SpaceX notes that the high-performance Starlink kit would be best for users who reside in harsh environments, such as those who are in hot or cold climates.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2022

The IP-rated enclosures provide protection against mechanical and electrical incidents and keep water and contaminants out in the event of a thermal runaway while keeping noxious gases/flames in and routed out via a sealed exhaust system. All parts of the system are protected against water ingress.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2013

Echo’s Chief Technology Officer is John Waters, the founder & CEO of Bright Automotive ( earlier post ). This $3,000,000 infusion of working capital will allow us to ramp up our order fulfillment operations and meet the growing demand for EchoDrive kits more quickly. Echo Automotive, Inc., —Dan Kennedy, Echo’s CEO.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 3, 2010

Projects will be developed in the areas of intelligent infrastructure and cities, water treatment and energy efficiency, among others. Transportation, water and other critical infrastructure are essential components of a sustainable and efficient energy future. —Rafael del Pino, Chairman of Ferrovial.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Materials that cannot be separated mechanically will be split at comparably low temperatures with the help of water and chemicals. Among the partners of LiBinfinity are KIT, Mercedes-Benz AG, Daimler Truck AG, Primobius GmbH, SMG group GmbH, Clausthal University of Technology, and Technische Universität Berlin.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2014

The technology under development—based on the Control Architecture for Robotic Agent Command and Sensing ( CARACaS ) developed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)—can be put into a transportable kit and installed on almost any boat.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Researchers of the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies ( IASS ) in Potsdam and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have achieved the proof-of-principle for a innovative technique to extract hydrogen (H 2 ) from methane (CH 4 ) without the formation of CO 2 as a byproduct. —Professor Carlo Rubbia.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Some aftermarket CNG-conversion kit manufacturers conduct only a barrier test. The tanks also undergo hydrostatic burst testing, in which tanks are filled with water until they bursts; tanks must hold up to at least 8,100 PSI. The tank''s normal operating pressure is 3,600 PSI.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2013

The ceramic brakes make a sound similar to sliding out on gravel, or swooshing through water. The XL1 is not a product of any of Volkswagen’s modular Baukästen (assembly kits such as the MQB, MLB or MSB, earlier post ). The mechanical water pump actively cools the engine only when operating conditions require it.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Volkswagen Group China is beginning construction in Anting of the Group’s first factory specifically designed for the Modular Electric Drive Kit (MEB) platform. It utilizes 27 types of environmentally-friendly technologies with a special focus on water preservation, energy saving and the reduction of carbon dioxide.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2020

The aftermarket components include an electric power steering kit, an electric pump providing vacuum to the stock brake system, and an electronic controller to drive inputs to the vintage Blazer gauges—such as displaying the battery’s state of charge on the original fuel gauge. eCrate Installer Certification Program.

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DIY Electric Car

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

For starters you can other solar options like solar water heaters or solar cookers. There are kits available for home owners to take advantage of the sun's abundant energy. Most of these kits can be assembled over a weekend for the basic installation, but the more complex system can take a little longer.

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Baua Electric

MAY 21, 2024

Swytch, makers of the self-proclaimed “most affordable” electric bike conversion kits out there, announced its newest model this morning. The UK-based company’s new Swytch GO kit comes with a super low pre-order price of just £299 (or US $349 for North American customers), though there’s a bit of a catch.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2013

—Kit Malthouse, London Deputy Mayor for Business and Enterprise and Chairman of the London Hydrogen Partnership. So as well as producing a clean fuel we would be reducing the amount of waste we put into landfill. These are early days, but I am tremendously excited by the prospects of London’s hydrogen future.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2017

With Catalytic Innovations he is developing a high-pressure reactor design for the selective synthesis of ethanol from carbon dioxide reduction and water oxidation. They also visited the Battery and Electrochemistry Laboratory BELLA in Karlsruhe, which has been funded equally by KIT and BASF SE since 2011.

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