Volkswagen of America, Inc. has opened the renewable fuels door wider now that its two-year Renewable Diesel Evaluation Program in collaboration with Solazyme, Inc. and Amyris, Inc., two of the ...

Marlborough-based Aquaflow Bionomic Corporation announced today that it had produced its first sample of home-grown bio-diesel fuel with algae sourced from local sewerage ponds. “We believe this is ...

Various combinations of algal species were grown in 80 cattle tanks at the University of Michigan's E.S. George Reserve near Pinckney. Photo provided l Daryl Marshke/Michigan Photography. ANN ARBOR, ...

Algae-based biodiesel has been hyped in the past as a renewable fuel that can be produced here in the U.S., lowering greenhouse-gas emissions without displacing food crops or taxing water supplies.

Environmentally conscious drivers may have a new way of fueling up: a diesel fuel blend that consists of 20 percent algae-derived biofuel and 80 percent regular diesel arrived at four gas stations in ...

Researchers at the University of Michigan are working on a way to make renewable diesel fuel from algae. A new $2 million grant from the Department of Energy will help those researchers successfully ...

A California biotech firm is betting algae is a fuel of the future, and to prove the stuff works, it's driving around the Sundance Film Festival in car powered by algae-derived biofuel it calls ...