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LLNL’s Energy Flow Diagrams Show That The US Isn’t Moving The Needle On Climate Action

CleanTechnica EVs

In 7 years of electrification and deployment of wind and solar, the US barely budged the needle, in fact declining slightly to more wasted energy in 2016 and 2017 before improving again in 2018 and onward.

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smart introduces fourth-generation electric drive technology across its full range

Green Car Congress

Market launch will start in early 2017. With this construction there is an excitation winding on the rotor that is magnetized when current flows. From the autumn of 2017 a particularly powerful 22 kW fast charger will be available as an option in Europe. Electric energy consumption on the NEDC is 13.1 – 12.9 kWh/100 km.

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New Gen4 smart electric drive; electrification of all smart models

Green Car Congress

The market launch will start in the spring of 2017. This configuration incorporates an excitation winding on the rotor that is magnetized when current flows. With the onboard charger, in the USA and the UK the charging time is 2.5 From the autumn of 2017 a 22 kW fast charger will be available as an option in Europe.

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Obama Administration Announces $8.33B in Loan Guarantees for New Nuclear Power Reactors in Georgia; First New US Nuclear Power Plant Project in Nearly 3 Decades

Green Car Congress

To meet our growing energy needs and prevent the worst consequences of climate change, we need to increase our supply of nuclear power and today’s announcement helps to move us down that path. That is why we need comprehensive energy and climate legislation to create a system of incentives to make clean energy profitable.

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Audi highlights its range of electrification efforts; Q7 diesel PHEV, A7 fuel cell PHEV, BEV, 48V and more; 750 Wh/l by 2025

Green Car Congress

Alternatively they can serve as buffers for renewables such as wind and solar power—whether as part of the grid or as home installations. Market launch is scheduled to begin in 2017. The company hopes to launch AWC in 2017. With Audi e-gas, Audi already offers A3 g-tron customers climate-neutral mobility.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Asked when there might be one million electric vehicles on the road that could also feed their battery capacity back into the grid in a two-way exchange, the panelists generally said between 2017 and 2020. Bolivia is no friend of the USA. In the city of the future, could power suppliers be rivalled by innovative construction firms?

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