Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Elon Musk is the Chairman of Solar City, and Chairman and CEO of Tesla Motors. The US experienced 679 major weather-related power outages between 2003 – 2012, including 7 of the 10 costliest storms in American history. Time is money, but so are control and predictability. —Tesla CTO and co-founder JB Straubel.

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Creative Greenius

MARCH 8, 2009

In a deal brokered by the city’s newly commissioned Citizens Environmental Task Force, Exxon/Mobil, owners of the Exxon/Mobil Refinery in the City of Torrance agreed today to fund a bond that will make low cost financing of solar energy systems for home and apartment owners. It’s a pretty good idea isn’t it?

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

NRV began in 2003 by first identifying and evaluating all solid and liquid waste streams within the plant. While technologies such as building automation systems, solar hot water heaters and infrared heaters helped drive NRV’s energy reductions, many of the energy-saving ideas have come from employees.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2011

By rapidly ramping up and down in response to fluctuations in wind and solar power, the technology will enable the integration of more renewable resources into the power grid. In addition, the high performance of the 9FB gas turbines offers great potential for meeting not only regular power but also cogeneration needs in China.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2009

ITOCHU, which began its strategic relationship with Ener1 in 2003, purchased 3.2 million shares of common stock from Ener1 at a price of $6.18 Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 22, 2013

For the first seven years since its founding in 2003, Tesla was funded entirely with private funds, led by Elon Musk. In addition to payments made in 2012 and Q1 2013, today’s wire of almost half a billion dollars ($451.8M) repays the full loan facility with interest.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2009

US-based lithium-ion battery producer EnerDel will supply the advanced battery systems at the heart of a new project, based in Tsukuba City, Japan, combining electric vehicles (EVs), stationary grid storage, solar power and a rapid charging infrastructure a in a real-world operating environment. Earlier post.). Earlier post.)

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Kuka ] In the summer of 2003, two NASA rovers began their journeys to Mars at a time when the Red Planet and Earth were the nearest they had been to each other in 60,000 years. Researchers, developers and young entrepreneurs from all over the world submitted their concepts for the “Robotics in Healthcare Challenge”.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 5, 2024

Photo: Primergy Solar Solar topped coal’s output in Texas for the first time in any month, sending 3.26 The decline began a decade ago but has picked up speed since 2016-17, when solar first showed up in the generation data, reports the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis ( IEEFA ) today. million MWh in March.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2016

Just as the Rouge manufacturing renovation completed in 2003 set a new standard for sustainability, we expect to do the same as we transform our campuses into a modern, efficient complex that enhances the environment. —Bill Ford, Ford executive chairman. A lot of this we learned about by refurbishing facilities over last 15 years.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2011

This comprehensive energy management system features several Honda-developed energy production technologies, for example, a gas engine cogeneration unit and a solar power system. Honda also plans to construct and test its Honda Smart Home System in Saitama in the spring of next year. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2010

In November, EnerDel was selected to supply the batteries that will power a DOE-funded smart grid energy storage project by Oregon's Portland General Electric (PGE) that will help manage peak demand and smooth the variations in power from renewable sources like wind and solar. since 2003.

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Creative Greenius

JANUARY 17, 2009

She lives in a solar powered house and drives an electric car. Meanwhile the plug-in EV RAV-4s they made in 1997-2003 are still working just fine - the ones they didn’t crush and actually allowed people to buy. That’s right those are solar panels that all electric Toyota RAV4 is towing. You could too.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2009

Visibility in the clear sky is reduced by the presence of aerosols, whose types and concentrations have a large impact on the amount of solar radiation that reaches Earth’s surface. Increased aerosols in the atmosphere block solar radiation, and have thus caused a net “global dimming.”

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2012

Hydro-electric output grew just 1.6%, the weakest growth since 2003. Solar powergen rose 86.3%, though from a low base. Nuclear and hydro. Nuclear output fell 4.3%, the largest decline on record driven by Japan (-44.3%) and Germany (-23.2%). Renewables. or 10,000 bpd equivalent), the lowest rise seen since 2000.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2011

Obama noted that last year, US oil production reached its highest level since 2003 and that for the first time in more than a decade, imported oil accounted for less than half the liquid fuel consumed. Now, in light of ongoing events in Japan, I want to say another word about nuclear power.

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JANUARY 5, 2023

When that company was bought out by ENEL X , Miftakhov used the substantial profit to launch ZeroAvia in Hollister, California to develop and manufacture fuel cell-powered electric aircraft using green hydrogen (locally produced by electrolysis of water using solar or wind power). It’s very cool."

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

The five warmest years since the late 1880s, according to NASA, are in descending order 2005, 1998, 2002, 2003 and 2006. At the same time, the difference in temperature between 1998 and the cooler 2008 year, which was affected by a La Niña, does not show an overall cooling trend; 2008 was still the tenth warmest year on record.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 27, 2009

It says that Tsutsumi meets half of its electricity requirements thanks to an array of solar panels, while the rest are met by an efficient gas co-generation system. Between 2003 and 2007, CO2 emissions have also been slashed by 36 per cent. It aims to eventually cut this amount down to zero.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2012

He or she owns a home, which is perhaps solar-powered. The RAV4 EV’s gauge system includes a “turtle light”, or reduced power indicator, which Toyota last used on its 2001-2003 first-generation (North America) Prius. Based on its research, Toyota has a clear customer in mind, Fay said. The pool of buyers ,” noted Fay, “ is small. ”.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

At the same time, solar output was at its lowest level of the satellite era, which would normally be expected to create another temporary cooling influence. Anthropogenic and solar variability influences on global. For example, a La Niña climate pattern was active in 2008. However, 2008 was the ninth warmest year on record. Atmosphere.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2010

The first two reports dealt with nuclear power (2003) and coal (2007). The introduction of large intermittent power generation from, for example, wind and solar, will have specific short and long term effects on the mix of generation technologies.

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Clean Fleet Report

APRIL 12, 2024

The first Honda hydrogen vehicle–the FCX EV Plus 1997-99 Insight Hatchback Hybrid 1999-2006 Civic Hybrid 2003-* (offered intermittently in various generations of Civics starting with the 7 th generation in 2003; note: An all-new Civic Hybrid will be released in 2025.) That comparas to the 270 AER of the CR-V e:FCEV.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Plus more people are installing rooftop solar photovoltaic systems, and clean wind power is vastly expanding nationally (see study by eminent environmentalist Lester Brown cited at CalCars Kudos ). In 2003-04, the US Marine Corps demonstrated a diesel-electric PHEV-20 HUMVEE.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 30, 2009

Bush in 2003 committed$1.2 When that time comes, fuelcells, solar panels, hydrogen, those will be the key words,”Fukui said. “We Honda’s American depositary receipts fell 66 cents, or2.3 percent, to $27.65 at 4:01 p.m. in New York Stock Exchangecomposite trading. They have gained 30 percent this year. Former U.S. President George W.

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Get Electric Vehicle

MARCH 9, 2021

The Beginning (2003). Martin Eberhard , Marc Tarpenning the company’s first CEO and CFO respectively, started the company in 2003 and named it Tesla motors in the honors of Nikola Tesla a great inventor of all time and who changed the course of electrical technology with his A.C Contrary to common belief, Elon Musk did not found Tesla.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 6, 2021

The football-field-sized array of pressurized modules, support girders, solar arrays, radiator panels, robotic arms, and other mechanisms was designed to operate in a weightless environment. By then the warped NASA management culture that soon enabled the Columbia disaster in 2003 was fully in place.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

The size of China’s high-tech manufacturing industry increased nearly six-fold between 2003 and 2012, raising China’s global share of high-tech manufacturing from 8% to 24% during that decade, closing in on the US share of 27%. In addition, emerging economies now invest more in clean energy than advanced economies.

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Plug In India

OCTOBER 11, 2022

BYD entered the Lithium-Ion battery business in 1996 They enter the passenger car market in 2003 Warren Buffet acquires a stake in BYD in 2008 In 2011, BYD's electric bus fleet is put in operation. Here are some of the highlights. BYD has presence in 400 cities, 70 countries. BYD are a tech company and 1.4 B $ was spent on RnD last year.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 29, 2022

Similar mismatches in supply and demand contributed to massive cascading blackouts in August 2003 in the northeastern United States and Canada, in July 2012 in India , and in March 2019 in Venezuela. The situation is unlikely to get better anytime soon, for three reasons. during the summer, when usage is historically high.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 27, 2009

Volkswagen: German manufacturer Volkswagen has taken an alternative route to early success in the green car race by placing the emphasis on clean diesel models, which it has been marketing in Europe since 2003. It developed turbocharged direct injection technology for diesel engines and has a wide range of TDI powertrains.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 20, 2009

Neutral Kaitou KID @ Apr 19th 2009 4:45PM not if the electricity is from ultra efficient solar panels, hydroelectric dams or wind. Highly Ranked catachip @ Apr 19th 2009 4:57PM @ Elodie As long as the electricity is generated from wind, hydro, solar, or nuclear then there are zero emissions. Neutral who? @

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Despite this, a 2003 EPRI study , assuming only $2/gallon gas , zero buying incentives, and a PHEV premium of $3-$5,000 more than standard hybrids, shows that the total lifetime cost of ownership for a PHEV will be lower than that of any other vehicle type -- so the payback will be there. [See Power and Associates 2004 report ].

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

They think BYD has a shot at becoming the worlds largest automaker, primarily by selling electric cars, as well as a leader in the fast-growing solar power industry. Wang entered the automobile business in 2003 by buying a Chinese state-owned car company that was all but defunct. "With better technology, we can reduce the costs.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Mauro Rampini, 2004 Prius by Rampini Mauro, using EAA-PHEV method with components from Plugin Supply , May 10, 2008 (Arluno, Italy, EU), contact solare. Tom, Prius by 3Prong Power , converted April 2008 (Berkeley, CA) Raja Cherukuri, 2007 Prius by Luscious Garage , May 8, 2008 (Elk Grove, CA), contact raja.

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Creative Greenius

MARCH 5, 2009

Then in 2003 we presented a forum on Iraq, “Voices From the Streets.&# Other Forums the EPN has presented since 2003 include: Depleted Uranium: Wonder Weapon or Toxic Hazard? Other Forums the EPN has presented since 2003 include: Depleted Uranium: Wonder Weapon or Toxic Hazard? Diesel Fuel Emissions: A Public Forum - 2003.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

For instance, they may have solar panels on their roof or could, via their utility, opt for energy from renewable sources. Jason ↓ ↑ report 7 jharlan 10:41PM (4/09/2009) Home recharge with your home solar recharge station would be the most desirable for commuting from the suburbs. It does not reflect well upon you.

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