Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

The average cost of a Li-ion battery cell—used to power electric vehicles and to provide flexibility in the power grid as more renewables, such as solar and wind, are added will fall below $100 per kilowatt hour (kWh) in the next three years, according to a new analysis by IHS Markit. Cost is the name of the game.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 1, 2021

Global aviation data firm Cirium released its new Airline Insights Review 2020 which reveals the deep impact on aviation of worldwide travel restrictions to curb COVID-19. In comparison to last year, passenger traffic is estimated to be down 67% in 2020. This marks an extraordinary 86% reduction in flights. million flights to just 16.8

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2014

Lower costs redox flow batteries will likely carve out a 360 MWh market for stationary energy storage in 2020, worth $190 million, according to Lux Research. In the optimistic case, significant project cost reduction could yield a $380-million opportunity or 760 MWh of flow battery systems in 2020.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Lux Research’s new report—“ The Tesla-Panasonic Battery Gigafactory: Analysis of Li-ion Cost Trends, EV Price Reduction, and Capacity Utilization ”—projects sales of some 240,000 Tesla cars in 2020, leading to razor-thin margins to Panasonic and 57% overcapacity. Panasonic faces risks. billion, with questionable margins.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2020

This brief analysis examines the relative cost of the energy from milk and gasoline. The average price of conventional (not organic) whole milk in September 2020 was $3.56 Therefore, the cost of 1,000 Btu from conventional whole milk was $0.37. The average price of regular gasoline in September 2020 was $2.183 per gallon.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

IDTechEx expects electric motorcycle sales in Europe to have grown at least 50% year-on-year in 2020, building on the momentum of recent years. 2020 is an IDTechEx estimate based on Q1 - Q3 2020 data. 2020 is an IDTechEx estimate based on Q1 - Q3 2020 data. Source: ACEM, IDTechEx.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2021

General Motors is voluntarily expanding the current Chevrolet Bolt EV recall ( earlier post ) to cover the remaining 2019 and all 2020-2022 model year vehicles, including the new Bolt EUV. GM will replace defective battery modules in Chevrolet Bolt EVs and EUVs with new modules, with an expected additional cost of approximately $1 billion.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

The results from this study suggested a cost of hydrogen as low as ¥17 to ¥27/Nm 3 (US$0.16 - $0.25) using a combination of technologies and the achievement of ambitious individual cost targets for batteries, PV, and electrolyzers. For comparison, the US DOE’s 2020 target for the levelized cost of hydrogen (production only) is $2.30/kg.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Wide-band-gap semiconductor materials such as gallium nitride (GaN) offer far higher performance than traditional silicon but cost significantly more. Bulk GaN is very expensive today, costing about $1,900 or more for a two-inch substrate, compared with $25 to $50 for a far larger six-inch silicon substrate. Performance boost is key.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2020

A team from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and the Idaho National Laboratory has produced a detailed assessment of the current levelized cost of light-duty electric-vehicle charging (LCOC) in the United States, considering when, where, and how EVs are charged. kWh); however, costs vary considerably (e.g., from $0.08/kWh

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 15, 2020

Similar processes could greatly reduce the cost of producing biofuels from waste biomass like corn stalks and leaves. It can greatly reduce the cost of biofuels production because enzymes can account for about 15% to 20% of the cost of making biofuels such as ethanol from biomass. —lead author Shishir P. Shishir P.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2021

This work affords a cost-efficient surface engineering method to steer commercial Ni foam into robust OER catalysts for seawater electrolysis, which has important implications for both the hydrogen economy and environmental remediation. That requires substantial amounts of energy and drives up the cost. —Zhifeng Ren.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Market analysis firm FutureBridge expects that cost-parity between Li-ion and solid-state batteries could be achieved in another five years. 2020 saw a growing number of research projects to improve cycle life, energy density, and ionic conductivity—the main three challenges for mass-adoption of SSBs for EVs.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2013

Provisional 2030 economic impact of achieving the 2020 targets in the two Phase I scenarios—Current Policy Initiatives and Tech 1— compared to baseline. In the second scenario, Tech 1, cars and vans achieve slightly higher efficiency levels in 2020 and continue along a similar trajectory of around 3% annual improvement.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 1, 2020

For at least a short time, the swoopier, racier-looking 2020 Audi E-Tron Sportback—the version that looks faster—is a step ahead of the E-Tron SUV in something that definitely matters: range.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 27, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic is having a lasting impact on people’s mobility habits all over the world, according to the findings of the Continental Mobility Study 2020. Respondents who do not have their own car stated that this was primarily for cost reasons, while others said they have no need for one.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Almost half of global consumers (46%) are considering purchasing a car in the next 12 months, an increase from 35% in April 2020. 81% of consumers said they will avoid using car-pool services owing to health and safety concerns, compared with just 42% in April 2020. Younger consumers are most likely to buy.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2020

In response to the COVID-19 public health emergency and changing economic situation within the US, ARPA-E is altering the SCALEUP FOA by decreasing cost share requirements and deferring these cost share payments for the first year of awards. The new deadline for Preliminary Application submissions is 7 May 2020.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2021

The enhanced D13 Turbo Compound (D13TC) engine from Volvo Trucks is now standard on all Volvo VNL models, providing enhanced fuel efficiency and reducing overall cost of ownership. Confidence continues to grow among Volvo Trucks North America customers as orders increase following the next-generation release of the D13TC engine in 2020.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 15, 2018

Renewable-energy generation costs are falling like photons onto a solar panel. By 2020, it's expected all types of renewable-energy generation will be able to compete with fossil fuels on cost. That's right: saving our environment will actually save electric utilities some money, too.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2012

Researchers at Daimler AG and a colleague at Albstadt-Sigmaringen University have developed a new cost forecast model for hydrogen fuel cell stacks and Li-ion batteries using a two-factor experience curve approach. The endogenous cost degression in the model is driven by output and patent publications. —Mayer et al.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Injecting hydrogen-rich coke oven gas is an efficient, cost effective method that allows steelmakers to reduce CO 2 emissions now. ArcelorMittal Europe is also implementing projects in almost all its Flat Products sites to use gases from different sources for blast furnace injection.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced an approximately $150-million cost-shared award with American Centrifuge Operating (ACO), a subsidiary of Centrus Energy Corp, to demonstrate the ability to produce high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU)—a crucial material needed to develop and deploy advanced reactors in the United States.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2018

Toyota projects that global sales of fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEV) will increase significantly after 2020 to at least 30,000 per year from today’s 3,000. Manufacturing both components at scale is critical to achieving lower system costs and wider availability for further growth and sales of FCEVs. Expanding sales.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

We created five easy-to-choose option packages for Fisker Ocean that will be available to our reservation holders closer to the end of 2020. Customers will be able to see the vehicles and option packages at select Fisker experience centers in 2020 as well as schedule test drives through their mobile app in 2021.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2020

However, despite the ongoing downturn for LFP in the passenger EV market, it remains the dominant cathode of choice for commercial and special purpose vehicle batteries in China due to its low-cost and reliability, Adamas notes. a full multiplier of 1.0 is granted for pack energy density ? a full multiplier of 1.0 160 Wh/kg).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2013

Cumulative natural gas vehicles in use by segment, world markets: 2013-2020. million by 2020. The increase is largely driven due to a combination of low-cost natural gas and sustained higher prices for gasoline and diesel in many countries, Navigant suggests. Source: Navigant Research. Click to enlarge. Forecasts Natural Gas'

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Researchers at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, led by Miguel Modestino, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have developed a novel ion-conducting polymer (ionomer) that increases the power and lowers the cost of fuel cells. Weber, Yoshiyuki Okamoto, Ahmet Kusoglu, and Miguel A.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2019

The US Department of Energy’s Vehicle Technologies Office published a notice of intent to issue a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) titled “Fiscal Year 2020 Advanced Vehicle Technologies Research FOA.” Low-cost electric traction drive systems using no heavy rare earth materials. DOE plans to issue the FOA in January/February 2020.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Global automotive semiconductor revenue for 2020 will exceed initial expectations, primarily due to an increase in the average semiconductor value per car sold this year, according to a new forecast by IHS Markit. IHS Markit now expects semiconductor revenue to contract in 2020 by -9.6%

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Teslarati

AUGUST 24, 2023

From its previous price of RMB 3,980 ($546), the upgrade’s cost has been reduced by RMB 1,000 ($137) to just RMB 2,980 ($408). The Tesla Model 3 refresh in late 2020 introduced a number of key improvements to the all-electric sedan. The post Tesla China cuts Model 3 powered trunk upgrade cost appeared first on TESLARATI.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Global average battery prices fell 6% between 2020 and 2021, but they might be on the rise going forward, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance's (BNEF) annual battery price survey. Lithium-ion battery pack prices averaged $132 per kwh in 2021—down from $140 per kwh in 2020—and $101 per kwh on a cell basis, the report said.

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JULY 26, 2022

The average American household spent $9,826 on transportation in 2020, which accounted for 16% of all annual household expenditures. and public transportation costs. Transportation expenditures include vehicle purchases, gasoline and motor oil, other vehicle expenses (maintenance, insurance, etc.),

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2015

Udo Wolz, the president of Bosch Japan, told reporters that Bosch and its partner GS Yuasa ( earlier post ) “ are on a good path ” in developing a lithium-ion battery with twice the energy density at half the cost, according to a report in Automotive News Europe. The companies intend to produce such a battery by 2020, Wolz said.

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JULY 19, 2021

In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): The US produced more petroleum and natural gas than any other country in 2020. Average US solar construction costs continued to fall in 2019. 1 producer of natural gas and petroleum in 2020 appeared first on Electrek. Click here to learn more and get your quotes. — *ad.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2022

By helping industrialize the traditionally manual manufacturing environment, Comau expects to reduce manufacturing costs by up to 20%. Green Hydrogen generation will also boost the demand for electrolyzers, from an estimated 120 MW installed in 2020 to more than 20 GW expected in 2030.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 21, 2020

The 2020 Hyundai Sonata Hybrid offers the best EPA-rated highway rating of any sedan on the market. While that is going to save some gas money, the automaker announced Wednesday that the new sedan will cost more than its predecessor, a difference that may take longer to pay off with savings from the pumps.

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