Creative Greenius

DECEMBER 2, 2008

As we move into the final month of the year 2008 I keep looking up at my rooftop longingly. People like Sascha Deri of the Alternative Energy Store in Hudson, Massachusetts. But there are people out there who have already done it, so I’ll talk to them first.

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AUGUST 30, 2009

The oil price shocks of the 1970s led the Brazilian government to address the strain high prices were placing on its fragile economy. This process accumulates a certain amount of latent (stored) energy. Previous assumptions held that ethanol’s lower energy content directly correlates with lower fuel economy for automobiles.

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MAY 20, 2009

in 2008 to 5,802 million metric tons of carbon dioxide (MMTCO 2 ), down from 5,967 MMTCO 2 in 2007, according to preliminary estimates released by the Energy Information Administration (EIA). Only one other year in the 1990 to 2008 time period experienced a decline: 1.2% Energy-related CO 2 emissions declined by 2.8% Source: EIA.

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JULY 31, 2009

Improvements result from an optimistic scenario achieving doubling of new vehicle fuel economy in 2035 from today’s value. million barrels per day in 2008) will be challenging. from liquid-fuel production plants is captured and stored geologically. Source: America’s Energy Future, Fig. Click to enlarge.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2009

as compared to 1990 emissions, to be achieved between 2008 and 2012. April, 2008 : In an article entitled Dangerous Assumptions ( earlier post ), Roger Pielke, Jr., July, 2008 : The Australian government published the Garnaut Report, a comprehensive study of the effects of climate change on the country’s economy ( earlier post ).

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

While only 5 per cent of all new vehicles in Europe were equipped with start-stop systems in 2008, Bosch predicts that this will increase to 50 percent by 2012. This ensures that the engine is only stopped if the battery has stored enough energy to start the engine again quickly. New alternator series for even greater fuel savings.

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OCTOBER 5, 2009

Biofuels production has had mixed effects on US agriculture with respect to land use, crop selection, livestock production, rural economies, and food prices, the report found. DOE and USDA, the principal federal sponsors of biofuels R&D, obligated about $500 million to develop advanced cellulosic biofuels in fiscal year 2008.

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APRIL 22, 2021

Those policy options, when combined, could lead to a zero-carbon transportation system by 2045, while also improving equity, health and the economy. SB 375, passed in 2008, required each regional planning agency to submit a plan to reduce emissions, with a focus on reducing VMT.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

JANUARY 28, 2009

Deffeyes "The Party's Over", by Richard Heinberg "Power Down: Options and actions for a post-carbon world", by Richard Heinberg, 2004 "The Solar Economy", by Herman Scheer "Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Oil Shock", by Matt Simmons Return to top Copyright © 2005-2009 Plug In America. 1 Point Reyes EVs Did You Know?

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 27, 2022

Around the world, many of Kim’s protégés were lauded for their brilliant success in transforming the economy of a nation that had just started assembling radio sets in 1959 and was fabricating outdated memory chips in the early ’80s. That success can be traced in part to Kim, now an emeritus professor at KAIST. South Korea’s Founding Lab.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 17, 2009

Drivers will need to select the "stealth" mode to rely exclusively on electricity stored in the battery. The Roadster runs exclusively on power stored in its battery: it does not have an onboard generator to extend its range. The stealth mode is a holdover from the origins of the vehicles propulsion system.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The second charger was added to allow people such as apartment owners, who dont normally have access to a plug in their parking area, or who have to park on the street, be able to get a charge at charging stations set up at places like shopping centers and convenience stores.

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DECEMBER 5, 2012

The operating mode indicator and the fuel economy and tank level gauges in the instrument cluster are also based on engine controller computations. The electronic gas pressure regulator has been used in a similar form since 2008 in the larger CNG models from Volkswagen. The engine controller was also modified in the eco up!

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FEBRUARY 6, 2009

Wal-Mart Stores has set of goal of increasing total fleet efficiency by 100% from 2005 to 2015, and has already exceeded its 2008 interim goal of a 25% increase, according to Chris Sultemeier, Wal-Mart’s Senior Vice President of Transportation. How we load the trailer, the effects of packaging.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Currently, there’s an ongoing debate about the future of the electric vehicle, which Hyundai condensed into two approaches: Store more electricity on-board using more/larger batteries. The energy is stored in a 24 kWh lithium-ion polymer battery, jointly developed with LG Chemical. Hyundai is taking the second approach. Earlier post.)

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

JANUARY 15, 2009

Ford Ranger EV Drivers Page :great info on a great EV Megawatt Motorworks : An electric vehicle information center with links to hundreds of electricvehicle websites, an online store for educational material, and more. Discover the potential! DeepCycle Battery FAQ : Everything you need to know.

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Plug In Partners

JUNE 14, 2007

It is anticipated that approximately 6000 Air Cars will be cruising the streets of India by 2008. The compressed air technology is basically just a way of storing electrical energy without the need for costly, heavy, and occasionally toxic batteries. 37% Higher fuel economy. So, in a sense, this is an electric car.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

In late 2008, BYD started selling the first production PHEV in China. First Escape PHEV delivered to SCE Nov 2007; 20 in 2008-2009. Beginning in 2005, we excerpted individual statements of intentions by carmakers, but by the start of 2008, the number of comments became too numerous for us to track. Batteries not ready.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

And in a true smart grid, electric cars will not only be able to draw on electricity to run their motors, they will also be able to do the reverse: send electricity stored in their batteries back into the grid when it is needed. “Electric vehicles could be connected to the grid and could store energy at times when too much is produced

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Revenues, which have grown by about 45% annually during the past five years, reached $4 billion in 2008. He was paid about $265,000 in 2008, and he lives in a BYD-owned apartment complex with other engineers. Each of BYDs business units - batteries, mobile-phone components, and autos - was profitable in 2008, albeit on a small scale.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Solar, Wind and Biofuels Grew 53 Percent in 2008 Green Education = Environmental Religion? Review of Forestry Carbon Standards 2008 Ford Partners to Commercialize Electric Vehicles A New "Green" Deal.Direction for the economic re. The T-Word Barking up the Wrong Tree: Forests vs the CDM in t. 2:54 PM Anonymous said.

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JUNE 29, 2009

Situated near the controller, the converter converts the 400V DC stored in the traction battery into 12V DC to feed Renault Kangoo be bop Z.E.’s The four cells of each module store 8.4V, making a combined total of 400V for the 48 modules which make up the battery. Concept which was shown at the 2008 Paris Motor Show.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

As if that were not enough, I’m hearing now that BYD is on the verge of a breakthrough in the solar power business and that the company has big plans to make rechargeable batteries at a utility scale to store energy from intermittent, renewable sources like wind and solar.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

based technology will actually achieve any economy in production. It was a Manufacturing Failure, as GM NEVER planned to build the car in Volume, so No Economies of Scale were ever achieved. Then consider that in order to actually go any farther than the neighbood store, one still had to have ANOTHER car. Thats right.

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