article thumbnail

BMW providing 10 pre-owned i3 EVs to UC Davis for 18 months

Green Car Congress

BMW is providing the Institute of Transportation Studies at UC Davis with ten battery-electric, BMW i3 models for 18 months. Eight of the pre-owned vehicles will be available soon for UC Davis faculty and staff to rent through the campus’s UC Drive program, which is managed by the Fleet Services department. —Dahlia Garas.

Davis 291
article thumbnail

PHEVLERs are the Zero CO2 Clean Green Machines of the Future

Green Car Congress

and UC-Davis Emeritus and Bruce R. Frank is Professor Emeritus, Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering at the University of California, Davis, where he established the Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS-Davis), and was director of the US Department of Energy’s National Center of Hybrid Excellence at UC Davis.

Clean 150
article thumbnail

California makes first investments in $100M energy research & development program; also biogas and H2

Green Car Congress

The program’s 2012-2014 plan calls for investing $330 million between 2014 and 2015 in innovative technologies that provide benefits to electric ratepayers served by Pacific Gas and Electric Co., 1 million to use high-fidelity solar forecasting to predict load impacts on California’s electricity grid and reduce solar integration costs.

article thumbnail

NSF awards $55.5M to support 3 new Engineering Research Centers; one focused on power electronics

Green Car Congress

The two other new ERCs are: Off-grid drinking water. CBBG will be led by Arizona State University in partnership with the Georgia Institute of Technology, New Mexico State University, and the University of California, Davis.

El Paso 150
article thumbnail

ARB Staff Posts Expert Review Reports of the ZEV Technical Analysis

Green Car Congress

ARB should enact policies to accelerate the “greening” of California’s electrical transmission grids. The annual ZEV sales between 2015 and 2025 required to get on a “very fast” (scen 2) or “fast” (scen 1) trajectory are listed on p. Earlier post.). 2009 Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) Review.

Hydrogen 170
article thumbnail

NREL: battery second use offsets EV expense, improves grid stability; recommendations

Green Car Congress

Researchers at the US Department of Energy (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) are identifying battery second use (B2U) strategies capable of offsetting vehicle expenses while improving utility grid stability. —Mike Ferry, Center for Sustainable Energy. Resources. Neubauer, K. Wood, and A.

Grid 150
article thumbnail

Plug-in cars: Moving Forward

Plugs and Cars

President Obama has stated a commitment to 1 million plug-in cars by 2015. The National Hydrogen Association (members include Chevron, GM, Shell, Toyota, Honda, CARB and UC Davis), the California Hydrogen Business Council, and the US Fuel Cell Council are not happy with Chu’s cuts. Will we get our money’s worth? Such as the $1.1

Plug-in 100