Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

The BMW Group has been analyzing battery cells since 2008, allowing it to draw on many years of experience and, as a result, extensive expertise in the field. The relevant agreements guarantee a reliable supply of these materials until 2025 and beyond. The BMW Group has launched several major innovations with this in mind.

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The Truth About Cars

JANUARY 31, 2024

Andretti-Cadillac's bid to join the Formula One grid has been officially rejected, confusing plenty of people that thought the team had a good chance of being the first American entrant since Haas. While Ferrari remains competitive, it hasn’t actually won the World Constructors' Championship since 2008. “We

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2018

UPS also works with manufacturers, governments and utilities to leverage innovative technology, such as smart grid charging in London that enables the company’s electric-vehicle fleet to charge without an expensive power supply grid update. UPS now has more than 1,000 electric and hybrid electric vehicles deployed worldwide.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 24, 2023

When Ifeanyi Orajaka was an undergraduate engineering student in 2008, he had his career all mapped out. In 2008 only about half of Nigeria’s 152 million citizens had electricity, according to a Macrotrends report. Minigrids use distributed off-grid energy solutions that operate independently from the national transmission grid.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2012

In partnership with the City of Riverside and Riverside Public Utilities, UC Riverside engineers will design methods to direct the solar energy to electric vehicle charging in a way that minimizes loads on the grid and demands for electricity generated from non-renewable resources.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 29, 2024

In 2008, Woskov began intensively studying whether the approach could be an affordable improvement on mechanical drilling. So it wasn’t much of a jump to make the connection that if we can melt steel chambers and vaporize them, we could melt rocks.” They can retire the boiler, and we’ll give them 500º C steam on-site.”

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2010

Xtreme Power of Austin, Texas, is supplying its Dynamic Power Resource on-site energy storage and power management system. Renewable or green power supplies 3% of Ford’s energy needs worldwide. A secondary, smaller solar energy system will be integrated at a later date to power lighting systems at Michigan Assembly.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2013

Decrease the ancillary services cost per additional MW of solar power on the grid by 50%, if the proposed forecasting model was used operationally. Test compatibility of tools in commercial scheduler/optimizers to enable supply, storage and load adjustments on a microgrid. MW of fuel cells in operation.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2010

This initial system will convert more than 500,000 BTUs of exhaust heat from the customer’s glass manufacturing furnaces into electricity, which will be supplied back to the power grid. The final system is expected to be cash positive in 12 months and provide a full payback to Bent Glass within three years.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

A new European Joint Research Centre (JRC) study looking into the supply of raw materials for the manufacture of low-carbon energy technologies found that eight metals were at high risk of shortages. The SET Plan was launched in 2008 with the objective to accelerate the development and deployment of cost-effective low carbon technologies.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Since November 2008, two axial turbines with a combined capacity of 1.2 MW have been feeding power into the grid to supply about 1500 homes. GWh of electricity into the grid. MCT has already successfully implemented its first commercial-scale demonstrator project SeaGen in Strangford Lough in Northern Ireland.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2018

Traditional forecasts of aggregate VMT began losing accuracy following the Great Recession of 2008, well before the sharing and autonomy disruptions had much of an effect. Unfortunately, few of the conditions that make this aggregate approach useful hold today.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Funded through DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, the projects will also improve materials, manufacturing processes, and supply chains for a wide range of photovoltaic (PV) solar cells and components of solar energy systems. Solar Energy Grid Integration Systems: Advanced Concepts: Eight projects to receive $25.9

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2015

The conclusions are based on a detailed modeling study of low-carbon fuel technologies and production pathways, estimating the future availability of low carbon fuels given policy incentives to supply them in the Pacific Coast region. Oregon and Washington are both working toward the adoption of Clean Fuels Standards. Galarza, S.,

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2015

On 6 January, the two power companies—Northeast Utilities and National Grid—that had agreed to buy energy from Cape Wind terminated their contracts, saying Cape Wind had missed the 31 December deadline to obtain financing and begin construction. of Cape Wind output; National Grid had agreed to buy 50%.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 14, 2011

The mills will be able to supply both Brazilian and international markets with ethanol. Each mill will also have the capacity to supply approximately 340GWh of electricity per year to the grid. Since 2008, BP has held a 50% share in Tropical BioEnergia S.A., —Bob Dudley, BP Group Chief Executive.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2013

In this paper, we investigate variation in life cycle cost and emission benefits of hybrid and plug-in vehicles under a range of driving conditions with a sensitivity analysis to critical factors such as gasoline prices, vehicle costs and electricity grid mix. —Karabasoglu and Michalek. Life-cycle cost.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

This agreement valued at $4 million over five years is part of the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI), which Total joined as a member in November 2008. The ARPA-E award is supported the development of the liquid metal grid-scale battery for low-cost, large scale storage of electrical energy. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2013

The batteries supplied by Exide as part of the C3 Project performed well under the HEV screening test, especially at high temperatures. In the funding arrangement with the DOE, ALABC representatives engaged Ecotality North America to retrofit a Honda Civic HEV by replacing its NiMH batteries with UltraBattery modules supplied by East Penn.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2013

This product will certainly play an important role in the world’s energy future, ultimately improving the performance of a wide variety of energy storage devices—everything from hybrid and electric vehicles, to industrial cranes and forklifts, to a cleaner and more efficient global energy grid. Aaron Feaver.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 15, 2014

Worldwide,the UC Davis team notes, public funding for RD&D and policies supporting hydrogen is trending upwards (with the notable exception of the United States where federal support has fallen by about 60% from its peak in 2008, although states have moved to support hydrogen). Transition issues.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

The electricity would then be stored and supplied to the in-hub motors in the wheels of the plane when it needed to taxi. Theoretically, an energy recovery system integrated into a plane’s landing gear might be able to provide all the power needed for taxiing from a runway back to the airport terminal. —Professor Stewart.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2009

In December 2008, Celgard received a $2.3-million Celgard is one of the largest participants in the United States lithium battery supply chain. They feature a uniform submicron pore structure with high chemical and thermal stability, and oxidation resistance for excellent cycling and trickle charge performance. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2009

Penetration rates for the PHEV-10 and the PHEV-40 were compared to a Reference Case that assumes high oil prices and fuel economy standards specified by EISA 2007 (with modest increases after 2020, when those standards level off), as described in the 2008 Hydrogen Report from NRC. Click to enlarge.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Electric cars and a smart electric grid have a bright future, according to panelists at a roundtable discussion on the subject that I attended last Friday in Boston. “I Vehicle-to-grid is, I believe, the salvation of the automotive industry in the United States,” declared Marc Spitzer, an agency commissioner who was also on the panel.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2010

The JU publishes annual calls for proposals (from 2008-2013), on the basis of which funding is granted for research, technological development and demonstration projects. Finally, pre-normative research on power grid integration and management of stationary fuel cell systems for development of RCS is proposed. million (US$110 million).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

The agreement requires a reduction in the production and supply of HFCs for developed countries, including the US, as follows: 10% reduction in 2019; 40% in 2024, 70% in 2029, 80% in 2034, and 85% in 2036. Organic wastes converted to biogas could supply enough renewable natural gas for about 2 million residential units.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Common concerns included the areas of battery safety, quality assurance, logistics and supply chains, warranty issues, and lack of a cohesive industry voice. Café attendees explored issues facing an industry with many activities taking place concurrently in a wide open market that lacks a central focus.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2009

The report ( America’s Energy Future: Technology and Transformation ) of the Committee on America’s Energy Future addresses a potential new portfolio of energy-supply and end-use technologies—their states of development, costs, implementation barriers, and impacts—both at present and projected over the next two to three decades.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2010

A new industrial approach based on clean and energy efficient vehicles will boost the competitiveness of the European industry, provide new jobs in the automotive industry and in other sectors in the supply chain and support restructuring. Recycling and transportation of batteries. A European strategy on clean and energy efficient vehicles”.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 3, 2014

In 2012, 70% of Estonia’s total primary energy supply (TPES) came from oil shale. However, the National Development Plan for Oil Shale Use for 2008-15 calls for reducing annual extraction while preserving the country’s strong energy security. Estonia has more than 4 billion tonnes of estimated reserves—just over 1.1%

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2011

The power plant will provide renewable electricity for the ethanol refinery and will supply approximately 20% of Sierra Leone’s national grid. Addax Bioenergy is a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Addax and Oryx Group Limited (AOG), formed in 2008 to develop a sustainable investment model for biofuels in Africa.

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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. A Perfect Storm for Water Counting Calories and Counting Carbon: The Role of.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2011

Volkswagen, in cooperation with 6 project partners and the German Ministry of the Environment, presented in Berlin the current status of the “Fleet study in electric mobility” that was initiated in July 2008. In addition, a DC/DC converter is used to supply the 12V onboard electrical system with its required voltage. Earlier post.)

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Revenge of the Electric Car

APRIL 6, 2010

From the article: ‘The New York study anticipates that by 2015, electric vehicle prices should decline because of reduced battery costs, that there will be a sufficient supply of electric vehicles to purchase, and that consumers will take advantage of the existing federal tax credit of $7,500 for new electric cars. Electric Options.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Vehicle to Grid [V2G] technology is a bi-directional electric grid interface that allows a plug-in to take energy from the grid or put it back on the grid. Smart Grid City will use a realtime high-speed two-way communication throughout the distribution grid. Smart meters and substations will be integral.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

In the past, the baseline was the manufacturers’ confidential plans for each model year; in the new analysis, the baseline is each manufacturer’s MY 2008 fleet. This motor/generator uses the engine to either charge the battery or supply additional power to the drive motor.

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