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Special Report: Low-Carbon Mobility: Emerging Automobile Powering
Report Overview
Subjects Addressed:

Drivers for low carbon mobility developments

Lignocellulosic ethanol and other bio-alcohols
Renewable drop-in gasoline
Bio-CNG from anaerobic waste biomass digestion
Renewable hydrogen fuel cell cars
Electric vehicles using renewable electricity
Hybrids and dual fuel concepts
Refueling systems and logistics
Vehicle systems and issues
Life Cycle performance

The increasingly apparent Climate Change crisis is

driving governments and private interests to seek and
implement low-carbon transportation solutions. We see
stories daily in the general news media and in trade and
technical publications on UN and other agency reports of
the severity and urgency of the crisis.
In the United States and in many other industrialized
countries, transportation emissions, along with building
energy and power generation, are a major source of
manmade carbon emissions, but the other sectors
have regulation-driven and economically attractive
improvements underway. For light vehicles (cars and
small trucks), the emerging solutions are more diverse
than for aviation, marine, rail, and heavy trucks. These
solutions include drop-in renewable fuels for sparkignited (gasoline- or CNG-type) engines, electric vehicle
drives powered by batteries or fuel cells, or hybrid
systems with any of the on-board fuel platforms.
There are many different stakeholders in low carbon
vehicle solutions, including:

Biofuel, fuel cell, battery, and engine developers

Automobile value chain players
Petroleum and natural gas companies
Regulators and other government agencies
Electric grid stakeholders
Investors and other financial interests
Fleet owners, planners throughout the economy

The report, Low-Carbon Mobility: Emerging Automobile

Powering Options will address the following questions and
much more:

What are the policy drivers and supports available?

How do the identified leading solutions compare in terms

of:
-- Overall costs
-- Efficiency
-- Vehicle performance
-- Fuel/vehicle life cycle
-- Utilization of existing infrastructure, versus the typical
chicken/egg problem of alternative automotive
powering
-- Degree of demonstration, commercialization, and public
acceptance?

What additional Climate Change mitigations and/or other

environmental benefits may come with some of these,
such a bio-char production to actually remove carbon form
the atmosphere, or utilization of waste biomass that might
otherwise result in methane greenhouse gas production?

How do the electric vehicle solutions integrate with the

grid, the CNG solutions with the gas distribution system?
What is the role of, and what are benefits of distributed
generation in some of these solutions?

How about contrasts with the many forms of pollution that

result from conventional fossil fuel exploration, production,
transport, refining, and distribution?

How about reduction of other tailpipe air pollutants besides

carbon dioxide?

For information regarding the upcoming Low-Carbon Mobility:

Emerging Automobile Powering Options report, please contact
STMC@nexant.com.

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