Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

Ford Motor Company is partnering with Wind Energy Corporation to deliver a new source of clean energy to its dealers. Under a pilot program exclusive to Ford, Wind Energy will install wind sail and solar panel systems at four Ford dealerships, a nearly $750,000 investment, to help power dealer facilities.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Supercharger, kinetic energy recovery and transmission specialist Torotrak will acquire , pending shareholder approval, the remaining 80% of flywheel hybrid innovator Flybrid for up to £23.0 Torotrak uses Flybrid’s flywheel module in its Mechanical Kinetic Energy Recovery System (M-KERS). Torotrak’s M-KERS unit. Click to enlarge.

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MARCH 21, 2018

Delek US Holdings has sold AltAir Paramount, LLC and Delek’s Paramount, California refining and pipeline assets to an affiliate of Boston-based World Energy, LLC, a major biodiesel producer. For its first commercial project, AltAir partnered with Alon Energy USA to use its existing refinery in Paramount. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2014

The car will launch in Japan before April 2015, and preparations are underway for launches in the US and European markets in the summer of 2015. Toyota’s vision of a sustainable society is based on the use of diverse energy sources—including fossil fuels—with electricity and hydrogen infrastructures. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

The CO 2 molecules react through natural mineralization processes with the basalt rock and are converted to carbonates over a period of several years, thus permanently storing the CO 2 underground. The particularly high geothermal energy means that the Earth’s heat can be converted to electricity cost-effectively and virtually CO 2 neutrally.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2023

Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) and BMW of North America (BMW) are collaborating to test how vehicle-to-everything (V2X) technology can serve as a solution to offset growing demand on the power grid, improve reliability for electric customers, and maximize the usage of renewable energy. In California 1.4

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Four companies—Pathfinder Renewable Wind Energy, Magnum Energy, Dresser-Rand and Duke-American Transmission—have proposed a first-in-the-US, $8-billion green energy initiative that would bring large amounts of clean electricity to the Los Angeles area by 2023. million megawatt-hours per year vs. 3.9

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2015

In the 2015 FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) and in the Le Mans 24 Hours as the season’s pinnacle event, Audi will compete with a thoroughly revised R18 e-tron quattro diesel hybrid racer in the 4-megajoule class. During braking, energy is recovered which the system subsequently feeds back to the front axle on acceleration.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2018

Being upwards compatible, these will offer about 35% more energy and contribute to an improved range in 2020. Instead of currently 25 kWh storage capacity per battery pack, the second generation will be able to store 33 kWh per battery pack. —AKASOL CEO Sven Schulz.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2016

BMW i announced a home stationary energy storage system solution integrating its BMW i3 vehicle battery at EVS 29 in Montréal. The battery storage system also includes a voltage converter and power electronics to manage the energy flow between renewable energy sources, the house interface, and the Li-Ion high-voltage battery from the BMW i3.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

Toshiba Corporation and Kawasaki City will conduct a cooperative demonstration experiment of an independent energy supply system utilizing solar power and hydrogen. The demonstration will run from April 2015 (the beginning of fiscal 2015) until the end of fiscal 2020 (March 2021).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2018

Propelled by growing public concerns about the environment and thanks to incentive policies, the enthusiasm among consumers in China for new-energy vehicles (mainly electric cars) has been steadily increasing, with consumers also expecting breakthroughs in battery technology, according to a recent J.D. in China in 2016. Power China.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Researchers from Purdue University and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland are proposing a new integrated process involving the co-production of hydrogen and electricity from solar thermal energy—a concept they label “hydricity”. —Gençer et al.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2014

The hybrid NIC stores charge both electrostatically and electrochemically, and sits between ultracapacitors and batteries in terms of power (ultracaps) and energy (batteries) storage capability. The NIC features an ion-adsorption cathode and an ion-intercalation anode. doi: 10.1039/C4EE02986K. Batteries'

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2013

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced more than $60 million in nuclear energy research awards and improvements to university research reactors and infrastructure. In the next few years, about 30% of nuclear energy industry workers, many of whom joined the field in the 1960s and 1970s, will be eligible for retirement.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2019

In November, Hydro-Québec published a snapshot of its energy resources which presents the company’s forecasts regarding its future electricity needs and the means by which it will meet them. Overall, Hydro-Québec can count on over 40 terawatthours (TWh) of available energy annually over the coming years.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2017

This glass unit is designed to enhance energy savings of buildings such as car showrooms, capable of being flexibly opened or closed in response to weather conditions. In 2015, TMC formulated its “Toyota Environmental Challenge 2050” as part of its aim to create a society in which people and cars coexist in harmony with nature.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Daimler AG, with its wholly owned subsidiary ACCUMOTIVE, and enercity (Stadtwerke Hannover AG) will begin construction of a new stationary energy storage system (ESS) this year; the facility also functions as a spare parts storage facility for electromotive battery systems. Daimler’s stationary storage business.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

These figures will be announced during the first quarter of 2015. Optifuel Lab 2 has 20 technologies on board, each one of which addresses the four main issues associated with consumption: energy management, aerodynamics, wheel resistance and driving aids. The more energy there is available at low cost, the more it will be used.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2014

The German Parliamentary Secretary of State to the Federal Transport Minister, Katherina Reiche, refueled a fuel cell vehicle for the first time at the “Green Hydrogen Hub” ( H 2 BER ) of the Total multi-energy fueling station at Berlin-Schönefeld. By 2016, the H 2 BER partner companies will invest more than €10 million (US$13.7

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2015

Engineers at The Ohio State University have developed a new welding technique—Vaporized Foil Actuator Welding (VFAW)—that consumes 80% less energy than a common welding technique, yet creates bonds that are 50% stronger. Over the last decade, Daehn and his team have been trying to find ways around those problems.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2016

The US Department of Energy will invest $16 million over the next four years to accelerate the design of new materials through use of supercomputers. We expect this work to spur major advances in how we produce cleaner energy, how we store it for use, and to improve the efficiency of devices that use energy.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2015

Bloomberg reports that the Volkswagen Group will decide by July how to proceed with solid state energy storage technology under development by Quantumscape ( earlier post) , citing Prof. The all solid-state system would enable high energy density, high power density, and reversibility of a lithium-air battery, according to the claims.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2020

An open-access paper on their work appears in the Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy , from AIP Publishing. However, these processes consume energy and time, and the preprepared alloys are easily passivated. In 2015, Zhang et al. In 2015, Zhang et al. The hydrogen is then used in a PEM fuel cell.

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JULY 10, 2023

It is stored in the soil, water and living organisms, impacting the entire food chain. According to a report from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), emissions of mercury to the atmosphere increased by an estimated 20% from 2010 to 2015. The process is also highly energy-efficient. 2c00417

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DECEMBER 9, 2022

Previously, the generator had been providing energy support to the community since the 1950s. “Megapack is quieter and supports the local electric grid with energy shifting and stabilizing services and seamless integration with more renewable sources,” Tesla said in its video. — Tesla (@Tesla) December 9, 2022.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2022

Using an inexpensive polymer called melamine, researchers from UC Berkeley, Texas A&M and Stanford have created a cheap, easy and energy-efficient way to capture carbon dioxide from smokestacks. The energy savings come from not having to heat the substance to high temperatures. Haiyan Mao et al.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have developed a new zinc-polyiodide redox flow battery offering more than two times the energy density of the next-best flow battery used to store renewable energy and support the power grid. c) Typical charge–discharge curves at 1.5?M ZnI 2 at a current density of 20?mA?cm

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2016

Exxon Mobil Corporation and FuelCell Energy, Inc. As the fuel cell generates power, the carbon dioxide becomes more concentrated, allowing it to be more easily and affordably captured from the cell’s exhaust and stored. In 2015, ExxonMobil captured 6.9

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FEBRUARY 26, 2011

Cella Energy, developer of a novel hydrogen storage technology ( earlier post ), was named the UK winner for the Shell Springboard Awards 2011. Cella Energy’s invention uses nanotechnology to store hydrogen safely in tiny micro-beads (smaller than a grain of sand) which then release hydrogen when heated.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2017

The pressure difference between the hydrogen tank, which stores the gas at several hundred bar, and the fuel cell, which is fed at five bar, is used to start the reaction process. One reactor cools the air conditioning system, and the other generates heat that is dissipated into the surroundings. 2010.11.101. 2010.11.101.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

In 2015, these will be followed by the world’s largest electric ferry, which will regularly cross Norway’s largest fjord. Electricity stored in batteries on board ships is another opportunity in the future energy mix and another technology race has started. Hybrid systems will reduce energy consumption.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Scientists from a team spanning Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard Medical School and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University have developed a scalable, integrated bioelectrochemical system that uses bacteria to convert solar energy into a liquid fuel. Earlier post.). 1424872112.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2019

Furthermore, the company said, it is of crucial importance for CO 2 emissions whether the propulsion energy is generated from fossil or regenerative sources. A corresponding vehicle with electric drive emits only 62 g CO 2 /km during this phase, which results from energy generation and supply. In 2015, the figure was 43.6

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2016

Renewable Energy Group, Inc. REG) announced that its Danville , Illinois operation now has more than 14 million gallons of tank capacity to store both biodiesel and feedstocks. REG Danville, LLC recently purchased the tank complex at the adjacent Bunge Milling, Inc. facility for approximately $1.5

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2015

The battery will be at the 2015 SAE World Congress next week in Detroit. During operation, the battery pack provides 200 kW of peak power and 80 kW of continuous power with a stored energy content of 10.4 The modules within the battery pack are liquid-cooled Li-Ion cells, each with nominal energy content of 1.3

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Motors as brakes—recovering more than 50% of kinetic energy when braking. Super-capacitors to store this energy and provide most of the power for acceleration. The car is very light, with a target weight of 520 kg. It embodies various key features: Four electric motors, one in each wheel.

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