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Sir Richard Branson Joins Solazyme Series D as Strategic Investor
Solazyme, Inc. announced that Sir Richard Branson has invested in Solazyme’s Series D financing. Sir Richard invested in Solazyme’s financing in a personal capacity, although the stake complements existing Virgin Group investments through the Virgin Green Fund in the renewable...
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Southern California Edison Introduces Online Plug-in Car Rate Assistant to Estimate Cost of Fueling Electric Vehicles
Southern California Edison has launched an online Plug-in Car Rate Assistant to help customers estimate the cost of fueling an electric vehicle and the impact on their electricity bill. After SCE customers provide facts such as location, daily power usage,...
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US DOE Launches Carbon Capture and Storage Simulation Initiative
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has created the Carbon Capture and Storage Simulation Initiative with an investment of up to $40 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. National Energy Technology Lab (NETL) and NETL’s Regional University Alliance...
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Mitsubishi Chemical Boosting Production of Li-ion Anode Materials by 130%
Mitsubishi Chemical will increase its production capacity of anode materials for rechargable lithium-ion batteries to 7,000 tons annually by next May from its current output level of 3,000 tons. The company currently produces an annual 3,000 tons of anode materials...
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Frito-Lay to Deploy 21 Electric Delivery Trucks in 2010, 155 More in 2011
Frito-Lay will deploy 21 electric delivery trucks this year. The company projects it will roll out 155 additional trucks in 2011, making Frito-Lay the largest commercial fleet of all-electric trucks in North America. The trucks, designed by Smith Electric Vehicles,...
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GM to Premier Aveo Hatchback at Paris Motor Show; Diesel with Start/Stop
The Aveo 5-door. Click to enlarge. GM will introduce the Aveo 5-door at the upcoming Paris Motor Show. The car will go on sale in the United States and Canada in 2011. The Aveo RS show car was displayed at...
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Coulomb Technologies Secures $15M in Series C Funding
Electric vehicle charging infrastructure company Coulomb Technologies has secured $15 million in Series C funding. Coulomb will use the funds to help accelerate product development of the ChargePoint Network, enhance customer support and drive sales. New investors Harbor Pacific Capital...
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Unilever Joins Solazymes Series D as Strategic Investor
Solazyme, Inc., an algal biotechnology company that produces renewable oils and biomaterials in standard fermentation facilities, announced that Unilever has joined its Series D financing round (earlier post) as a strategic investor. The strategic investment by Unilever adds to the...
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LanzaTech in Coal to Ethanol Project in China; New Bio Energy Research Center
New Zealand-based Lanzatech, the developer of gas fermentation technology for producing ethanol and high value chemicals (e.g.: MEK, Butadiene) from industrial waste gases, has signed a memorandum of understanding with one of the largest coal producers in China, Henan Coal...
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Bosch to Introduce 2200 Bar Version of MCRS Common Rail System for Large Marine Diesels in 2014
Bosch is developing a higher pressure version of its modular common-rail fuel injection system—MCRS—for large diesel engines that have high engine speeds, up to 2.2 MW of power, and more than 2.5 liters of displacement per cylinder. Bosch says it...
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ASTM Begins Work on New Specification for Butanol for Blending with Gasoline
ASTM Subcommittee D02.A0 has begun work on a new specification (ASTM WK30211) for butanol for blending with gasolines for use as a fuel in automotive spark-ignition engines. This specification covers butanol intended to be blended with unleaded gasolines at 1...
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Federal Report Finds No Dead Zones Observed or Expected as Part of BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill; Decreased, but Stabilized Levels of O2
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) released a report that showed dissolved oxygen levels have dropped by about 20% from their long-term average in...
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Valeo Launches Dual Direct Wiper System
Valeo has developed a dual direct drive windshield wiper system, which is currently applied in the Mercedes SLS AMG. Th system offers four major benefits in terms of volume, weight, safety and optimized wiping, according to Valeo. The elimination of...
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Quantum Awarded $30M Contract to Supply Key Components and Sub-Systems Related to Q-Drive Plug-In Hybrid Powertrain Systems for Fisker
Powertrain for the Karma. Source: Fisker Automotive. Click to enlarge. Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Worldwide, Inc. has received a $30-million purchase order for supplying key components and subsystems related to Quantum’s proprietary Q-Drive powertrain systems for the Fisker Karma production...
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Toyota, Aisin to Provide Improved Residential SOFCs for 2010 Test Project
Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) and Aisin Seiki Co., Ltd. (Aisin) plan to provide 60 2010-model residential, solid-oxide fuel-cell (SOFC) cogeneration systems jointly developed by Osaka Gas Co., Ltd. (Osaka Gas), Kyocera Corporation (Kyocera), TMC and Aisin to the New Energy...
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Neste Oil and Raisio Agree On Use of Domestic Rapeseed Oil Surplus as Feedstock for Renewable Diesel
Neste Oil and Raisio have agreed on long-term cooperation regarding the utilization of Raisio’ss rapeseed oil surplus as a feedstock for Neste Oil’s NExBTL process. According to the agreement, starting from October 2010 Neste Oil will use all the rapeseed...
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Dyadic Raises Additional $1M to Complete $4M Note Offering
Specialty enzyme company Dyadic International, Inc. has received an additional $1 million to complete its previously announced private placement of convertible subordinated secured promissory notes, which has provided Dyadic with total gross proceeds of $4 million. (Earlier post.) Three of...
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New Gasoline Direct Injection Engines in Mercedes-Benz CL- and S-Class Vehicles Cut Fuel Consumption By Up to 24%, Increase Output by Up to 12.5%
Mercedes-Benz is introducing new V6 and V8 gasoline direct injection engines for the CL and S Class that increase output by as much as 12.5% and decrease gasoline consumption by as much as 24%. Central to this enhanced efficiency is...
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Obama Announces Transportation Infrastructure Spending Plan
US President Barack Obama announced a transportation infrastructure spending plan to expand and renew US roads, railways and runways. The plan envisions a front-loaded $50-billion investment in the first year. The plan would also reform the way the US currently...
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CORE BioFuel Inc. Enters into Biogasoline Purchase and Distribution Agreement with Elbow River Marketing LP
CORE BioFuel Inc., a Canadian biofuel company that is commercializing its MKS Gasoline Synthesis Process to convert biomass to gasoline (earlier post), has entered into an agreement with Elbow River Marketing Limited Partnership for the purchase and distribution of 100%...
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California ARB Commissions Lotus Engineering for Second Stage of Study on Lightweight Vehicles
Lotus Engineering has been commissioned by the California Air Resources Board of California to undertake the second stage of a study investigating efficient, lightweight vehicles manufactured using lighter, stronger materials. Lotus Engineering will conduct a detailed structural design and analysis...
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Rhodia Signs Collaborative Agreement with the CNRS, the Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon and the East China Normal University on Green Chemistry
Specialty chemical producer Rhodia, the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), the Ecole Normale Superieure of Lyon (ENSL) and the East China Normal University (ECNU) of Shanghai recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding to strengthen their scientific collaboration focused...
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Daimler AG Launches car2gether Ride Sharing Pilot Project in Ulm
Daimler AG is launching a new ride sharing pilot project in Ulm, Germany. The new car2gether service can serve as a complement to the car2go car sharing service. (Earlier post.) car2gether is a web-based ride sharing community arranging incoming offers...
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US-Netherlands Research Finds Greenland and Western Antarctica Icecaps Melting at Approximately Half the Speed Previously Expected
The Greenland and West Antarctic ice caps are melting at half the speed previously predicted, according to research by a joint US/Dutch team from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, TU Delft and SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research. The scientists have...
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China Auto Ownership Expected to Exceed 200M in 2020
People’s Daily. Estimated automobile ownership in China will exceed 200 million by 2020, causing serious energy security and environmental issues, according to Wang Fuchang, director of the Department of Equipment Industry under China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. Wang...
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Peugeot Releases Specs, Pricing Package for the iOn EV
The iOn with (1) Motor, (2) Traction battery pack, (3) Inverter and (4) On-board charger. Click to enlarge. Peugeot has released the specifications for the iOn EV—based on the Mitsubishi iMiEV (earlier post)—in advance of the Paris Auto Show. Peugeot...
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Enbridge to Expand Athabasca Oil Sands Pipeline Capacity
Enbridge Inc. will undertake an expansion of its Athabasca Pipeline to accommodate recent shipping commitments by the Christina Lake oil sands project operated by Cenovus. The expansion, to be achieved through modifications at five existing pump station facilities, as well...
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Report: Suzuki To Open 3rd Plant at Manesar, India Site In 2013
The Nikkei reports that Suzuki Motor Corp. will build a third auto assembly plant in Manesar, near New Delhi, aiming to bring the facility online as early as 2013. With an annual capacity of 250,000 vehicles, the new plant will...
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New San Diego Albertsons Using UTC Power Fuel Cell for Nearly 90% of its Electricity
A new Albertsons supermarket in the San Diego, California community of Clairemont is generating nearly 90% of the electricity it needs with a PureCell 400 kW fuel cell from UTC Power, a United Technologies Corp. The PureCell 400 system uses...
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Ultrathin LiMn2O4 Nanowire Cathode Materials for Higher Li-ion Power Densities for HEV and EV Applications
Discharge curves at different rates after charging at 1C. Credit: ACS, Lee et al. Click to enlarge. A team of researchers from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca (Italy), and Stanford University have...
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