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Filed under: Biodiesel , Diesel , Ford 2011 Ford “Scorpion” Power Stroke 6.7-liter diesel V8 – Click above for high-res image gallery From the sound of things, it seems that the ongoing power war amongst America’s many fullsize pickup trucks will continue unabated for at least the next few years. To wit, the next Power Stroke diesel engine from Ford that we’ve recently heard so much about is reportedly going to be quite a powerhouse. According to Straightline , the Blue Oval’s 6.7-liter V8 powerplant will put out 400 horsepower and a whopping 725 lb-ft of torque. That’s mighty impressive, to say the least. By way of comparison, the current 6.4-liter Power Stroke is competitive for its class with 350 horses and 650 lb-ft of torque. Fortunately, all that extra stump-pulling power will reportedly come along with both an increases in fuel efficiency and cleaner emissions. Plus, the new engine will be fully compatible with B20 biodiesel blends, unlike the current 6.4L diesel. [Source: Straightline ] REPORT: Ford’s 6.7L Power Stroke to put out 400 HP and 725 pound-feet originally appeared on Autoblog Green on Sat, 05 Sep 2009 09:13:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Read
Filed under: Biodiesel , Diesel , Ford 2011 Ford “Scorpion” Power-Stroke 6.7-liter diesel V8 – click above for high-res image gallery Ford’s ongoing issues with its long-time heavy duty diesel engine supplier, Navistar, will soon be coming to an end. The 2011 edition of the Ford Super Duty pickups will get an all-new, in-house designed diesel V8 code-named Scorpion. So, now, if Ford has any durability issues with its big diesels it will have no one to blame but itself. Officially the Scorpion retains the Power Stroke badge, but that and eight cylinders in a V-configuration are all that are carried over. The Scorpion engine picks up a variety of technologies that have been appearing on other recent engines both gas and diesel fueled, as well as adding a few new tricks, particularly the turbocharger. The biggest change for the architecture is the move to an inside-out layout. Since the early days of the V-engine configuration, most examples have had the intake system mounted in the valley between the banks with the exhaust on the outside. Like BMW’s new turbocharged gas V8 and GM’s currently-on-the-shelf Duramax 4500, the Scorpion switches this around. Read on after the jump to learn more. [Source: Ford] Continue reading Beware the biodiesel-ready Scorpion! 2011 Ford Super Duty gets all new 6.7-liter diesel V8 Beware the biodiesel-ready Scorpion! 2011 Ford Super Duty gets all new 6.7-liter diesel V8 originally appeared on Autoblog Green on Mon, 31 Aug 2009 00:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Filed under: Biodiesel , Diesel , Ford 2011 Ford “Scorpion” Power-Stroke 6.7-liter diesel V8 – click above for high-res image gallery Ford’s ongoing issues with its long-time heavy duty diesel engine supplier, Navistar, will soon be coming to an end. The 2011 edition of the Ford Super Duty pickups will get an all-new, in-house designed diesel V8 code-named Scorpion. So, now, if Ford has any durability issues with its big diesels it will have no one to blame but itself. Officially the Scorpion retains the Power Stroke badge, but that and eight cylinders in a V-configuration are all that are carried over. The Scorpion engine picks up a variety of technologies that have been appearing on other recent engines both gas and diesel fueled, as well as adding a few new tricks, particularly the turbocharger. The biggest change for the architecture is the move to an inside-out layout. Since the early days of the V-engine configuration, most examples have had the intake system mounted in the valley between the banks with the exhaust on the outside. Like BMW’s new turbocharged gas V8 and GM’s currently-on-the-shelf Duramax 4500, the Scorpion switches this around. Read on after the jump to learn more. [Source: Ford] Continue reading Beware the biodiesel-ready Scorpion! 2011 Ford Super Duty gets all new 6.7-liter diesel V8 Beware the biodiesel-ready Scorpion! 2011 Ford Super Duty gets all new 6.7-liter diesel V8 originally appeared on Autoblog Green on Mon, 31 Aug 2009 00:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Filed under: Biodiesel , Emerging Technologies lick above to watch the video after the jump SunEco Energy has been working with partner Global ReNergy Systems for several years to develop algae biodiesel and the company has been operating a pilot facility in Chino, California for two years. During this time, the company has been growing algae in open ponds and has had 18 harvests. Most recently, SunEco has been working with JB Hunt trucking to test its biodiesel fuel. The companies started their collaboration with a test program in a JB Hunt truck running on ultra low sulfur diesel, a B20 blend of ULSD and algae biodiesel and a B50 blend. The test initially measured the opacity of the fuels with ULSD getting 14 percent and the B50 coming out much clearer at 2.5 percent. When running on B50, the truck produced 82 percent fewer particulate emissions compared to the ULSD. Later, the truck was put on a chassis dynamometer and the power level was measured at an equal 370 hp on each fuel. When measuring the efficiency, the truck got 2.45 mpg on ULSD, a number that rose to 2.56 mpg on B20 and 2.52 mpg on B50. SunEco now plans to move forward with full scale production of algae biodiesel. A video describing the testing is after the jump . [Source: SunEco Energy] Continue reading VIDEO: SunEco and JB Hunt test algae biodiesel, 82% particulate reduction VIDEO: SunEco and JB Hunt test algae biodiesel, 82% particulate reduction originally appeared on Autoblog Green on Sun, 02 Aug 2009 16:13:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Filed under: Biodiesel , Etc. , Green Daily Kid Rock isn’t exactly your average environmentalist. Still, the Michigan rocker is pulling a Daryl Hannah with his new American Badass Beer, which just went on sale in the Mitten State . What’s unusual about the brew is that it’s made, in part, using biodiesel. The beer is brewed by Michigan Brewing Co., near Lansing, Michigan, which has been using biodiesel to power a steam generator used in the beer production process since 2007. Aside from pushing the green angle, Kid Rock – pictured above with the Mercedes BlueTEC-loving Sheryl Crow , Rock’s singing partner on “Picture” – is also a job creator : MBC got a $722,957 tax credit to make his new beer, creating 400 jobs. Sierra Nevada also uses biofuels to help make beer. While the “American-style lager” is currently only available in Michigan, a nationwide roll-out is planned for the next 12 months or so. After all, it’s not called Michigan Badass Beer, is it? [Source: Mother Nature Network | Source Photo by: Rick Diamond/Getty] Kid Rock’s new beer means biodiesel is bad ass originally appeared on Autoblog Green on Wed, 22 Jul 2009 11:46:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Read
Filed under: Biodiesel , Etc. , Green Daily Kid Rock isn’t exactly your average environmentalist. Still, the Michigan rocker is pulling a Daryl Hannah with his new American Badass Beer, which just went on sale in the Mitten State . What’s unusual about the brew is that it’s made, in part, using biodiesel. The beer is brewed by Michigan Brewing Co., near Lansing, Michigan, which has been using biodiesel to power a steam generator used in the beer production process since 2007. Aside from pushing the green angle, Kid Rock – pictured above with the Mercedes BlueTEC-loving Sheryl Crow , Rock’s singing partner on “Picture” – is also a job creator : MBC got a $722,957 tax credit to make his new beer, creating 400 jobs. Sierra Nevada also uses biofuels to help make beer. While the “American-style lager” is currently only available in Michigan, a nationwide roll-out is planned for the next 12 months or so. After all, it’s not called Michigan Badass Beer, is it? [Source: Mother Nature Network | Source Photo by: Rick Diamond/Getty] Kid Rock’s new beer means biodiesel is bad ass originally appeared on Autoblog Green on Wed, 22 Jul 2009 11:46:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Read
Filed under: Biodiesel , Etc. , Green Daily Kid Rock isn’t exactly your average environmentalist. Still, the Michigan rocker is pulling a Daryl Hannah with his new American Badass Beer, which just went on sale in the Mitten State . What’s unusual about the brew is that it’s made, in part, using biodiesel. The beer is brewed by Michigan Brewing Co., near Lansing, Michigan, which has been using biodiesel to power a steam generator used in the beer production process since 2007. Aside from pushing the green angle, Kid Rock – pictured above with the Mercedes BlueTEC-loving Sheryl Crow , Rock’s singing partner on “Picture” – is also a job creator : MBC got a $722,957 tax credit to make his new beer, creating 400 jobs. Sierra Nevada also uses biofuels to help make beer. While the “American-style lager” is currently only available in Michigan, a nationwide roll-out is planned for the next 12 months or so. After all, it’s not called Michigan Badass Beer, is it? [Source: Mother Nature Network | Source Photo by: Rick Diamond/Getty] Kid Rock’s new beer means biodiesel is bad ass originally appeared on Autoblog Green on Wed, 22 Jul 2009 11:46:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Read
Filed under: Biodiesel , Emerging Technologies , Ethanol , Legislation and Policy The DOE is getting ready to spend $85 billion on research to create biofuels made from algae and other advanced techniques. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds will be made available “for the development of algae-based biofuels and advanced, infrastructure-compatible biofuels” that can be brought “to market in an accelerated timeframe.” Interestingly, wiht this announcement, the DOE says it is not looking to fund any sort of cellulosic ethanol. Instead, the biofuels that the DOE is hopes to help create include aviation fuel, green gasoline and green diesel. Biofuels made from algae are high on the DOE’s funding hitlist, as are bio-based replacements for traditional hydrocarbon fuels. More details are available here . [Source: DOE ] Photo by *higetiger . Licensed under Creative Commons license 2.0 . DOE readies $85 billion for algal and advanced biofuels originally appeared on Autoblog Green on Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Read
Filed under: Biodiesel , Emerging Technologies , Ethanol Money talks, but how can we know what it’s saying? Exxon Mobil is investing $600 million into a 5- to 6-year algae biofuel project with biotech company Synthetic Genomics. The biofuel will be made from “sunlight, water and waste carbon dioxide by photosynthetic pond scum,” writes the New York Times . After the first $600 million is used and if the technology appears to be working, billions more could follow in order to get the produciton process ready for commercial application. The goal is to produe liquid fuels that act “a lot like today’s transportation fuels,” Emil Jacobs, vice president of research and development at Exxon Mobil Research and Engineering Co., told the TImes. $600 million followed by billions more? That’s not chump change, even for Exxon , and it might be a big enough amount to convince some environmentalists that Exxon is finally moving to renewables. Kert Davies, a research director at Greenpeace, said, “I’m guarding my optimism.” It’s a confusing time for oil/energy giants and their non-oil divisions. Recently, BP reduced the size of its alternative energy division . Craig Venter founded Synthetic Genomics in 2005 to produce energy sources from modified microorganisms and has dabbled in making hydrogen and ethanol from organisms . Venter is also interested in using DNA to make gasoline, as he once explained to Stephen Colbert . [Source: New York Times ] Photo by Basically Still . Licensed under Creative Commons license 2.0 . Is Exxon making a real, $600 million biofuel shift? originally appeared on Autoblog Green on Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:57:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Read
Filed under: Biodiesel , Emerging Technologies , Ethanol Money talks, but how can we know what it’s saying? Exxon Mobil is investing $600 million into a 5- to 6-year algae biofuel project with biotech company Synthetic Genomics. The biofuel will be made from “sunlight, water and waste carbon dioxide by photosynthetic pond scum,” writes the New York Times . After the first $600 million is used and if the technology appears to be working, billions more could follow in order to get the produciton process ready for commercial application. The goal is to produe liquid fuels that act “a lot like today’s transportation fuels,” Emil Jacobs, vice president of research and development at Exxon Mobil Research and Engineering Co., told the TImes. $600 million followed by billions more? That’s not chump change, even for Exxon , and it might be a big enough amount to convince some environmentalists that Exxon is finally moving to renewables. Kert Davies, a research director at Greenpeace, said, “I’m guarding my optimism.” It’s a confusing time for oil/energy giants and their non-oil divisions. Recently, BP reduced the size of its alternative energy division . Craig Venter founded Synthetic Genomics in 2005 to produce energy sources from modified microorganisms and has dabbled in making hydrogen and ethanol from organisms . Venter is also interested in using DNA to make gasoline, as he once explained to Stephen Colbert . [Source: New York Times ] Photo by Basically Still . Licensed under Creative Commons license 2.0 . Is Exxon making a real, $600 million biofuel shift? originally appeared on Autoblog Green on Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:57:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Read
Filed under: Biodiesel , Ethanol , Legislation and Policy Virent Energy Systems , a biofuel company based in Madison, Wisconsin, has received a Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge award for its low-energy water-based process for producing fuels. Using its proprietary BioForming process that uses nearly zero outside energy other than what’s generated by the fermentation process, Virent’s can generate the same range of hydrocarbon molecules now refined from petroleum. That means the same process can create gasoline, diesel or jet fuel from nearly any cellulosic biomass, including those not typically used for food. Further, the BioForming process can be quickly modified to produce fuel without altering the feedstock. Due to the low power requirements for the production of Virent’s biofuels, the firm boasts a 20- to 30-percent cost advantage over today’s ethanol. Soon, the company plans to compete directly with petroleum-based fuels on the open market with a 10,000-gallon-per-year pilot plant. If Virent’s analysis is correct, the company’s fuel will be competitive as long as fossil fuels hover around $60 per barrel. [Source: US EPA via Green Car Advisor ] Virent Energy Systems wins Presidential Green Chemistry award for efficient biofuel process originally appeared on Autoblog Green on Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:09:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Read
Filed under: Biodiesel , Ethanol , Legislation and Policy Virent Energy Systems , a biofuel company based in Madison, Wisconsin, has received a Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge award for its low-energy water-based process for producing fuels. Using its proprietary BioForming process that uses nearly zero outside energy other than what’s generated by the fermentation process, Virent’s can generate the same range of hydrocarbon molecules now refined from petroleum. That means the same process can create gasoline, diesel or jet fuel from nearly any cellulosic biomass, including those not typically used for food. Further, the BioForming process can be quickly modified to produce fuel without altering the feedstock. Due to the low power requirements for the production of Virent’s biofuels, the firm boasts a 20- to 30-percent cost advantage over today’s ethanol. Soon, the company plans to compete directly with petroleum-based fuels on the open market with a 10,000-gallon-per-year pilot plant. If Virent’s analysis is correct, the company’s fuel will be competitive as long as fossil fuels hover around $60 per barrel. [Source: US EPA via Green Car Advisor ] Virent Energy Systems wins Presidential Green Chemistry award for efficient biofuel process originally appeared on Autoblog Green on Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:09:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Read
Filed under: Biodiesel , Diesel , Emerging Technologies , Ethanol , EV/Plug-in , Green Culture , Hybrid , Hydrogen , USA , Racing Ever wanted to take your green vehicle to a world-renowned race track, show it off to the masses and maybe even try a little race-against-the-clock action? Well, soon you can. On July 19th, Speed Ventures is presenting a day at Laguna Seca for owners, builders and manufacturers of alternatively-fueled vehicles to showcase their rides to the general public in an event that will include parade laps, ride alongs, practice lap sessions and even a time-trial competition. While we don’t know who exactly will be in attendance (there are rumors that an electric motorcycle from the recent TTXGP will be present), we wouldn’t be surprised to see a Tesla or two considering that they are native to California and some Roadster owners are just a little competitive . Who knows, maybe Q’orianka Kilcher will want to flaunt her new Honda Clarity . To help maximize participation in their first alt-fuel event, organizers are not charging any vehicle entry fees beyond the $10 per person that will apply to all attendees. So, if you’re craving the corkscrew (pictured above), go ahead and get registered while there’s still space. Have fun and don’t forget your video cameras. [Source: Speed Ventures ] Photo by wickedchimp . Licensed under Creative Commons license 2.0 . Drive your green vehicle at Laguna Seca during Refuel originally appeared on Autoblog Green on Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:36:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Read
Filed under: Biodiesel , Mitsubishi , Tesla Motors , Germany , Daimler A recent test in Germany attempted to test claims by Neste that its biodiesel is sustainable. The tests involved 14 Daimler vehicles, DHL, the German Post, OMV and the Stuttgart bus company. The test involved about one million kilometers driven with NExBTL biodiesel that were produced from certified palm oil. The results stated that this fuel helped reduce NOx by 15 percent, compared to regular diesel, as well as CO 2 emissions by 60 percent. The test measured each step in the production chain to assess its environmental efficiency and found that certified biofuels are the way to go, as there is no point in using biofuels that were produced with too many pesticides or old and polluting machinery. [Source: Auto News ] German test with certified biodiesel shows great results originally appeared on Autoblog Green on Sun, 21 Jun 2009 08:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Read
Filed under: Biodiesel , Toyota Except in Europe, Toyota has shown little interest in diesel powerplants for anything but the Land Cruiser. Toyota even canceled plans to add a diesel engine to the U.S. Tundra pickup truck. But, a division of Toyota is currently in negotiations with the Philippine government for an investment in a jatropha plantation and biodiesel refinery. Trading company Toyota Tsusho will start off by planting and cultivating a one acre plot of jatropha and conducting a feasibility study of biodiesel refining. Toyota will partner with the government-run National Development Corp. (NDC). Toyota will fund the initial planting as well as research to be done by Philippine researchers. Depending on the initial results, Toyota and NDC will look at further collaborations on large scale cultivation and refining. Jatropha is a preferred biodiesel feedstock because it consists of 30-40 percent oil and it can’t be used as a food source. [Source: Manila Standard ] Toyota to invest in Philipines jatropha bio-diesel plant originally appeared on Autoblog Green on Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:09:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Read
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