Cars That Think

JANUARY 29, 2022

That need for balance is true of electric power grids, too. We got a heartrending reminder of this fact in February 2021, when Texas experienced an. Spiking demand for electric heat collided with supply problems created by frozen natural-gas equipment and below-average wind-power production. There are a few possibilities.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Findings from the North American Electric Reliability Corporation’s (NERC’s) 2021 Long-Term Reliability Assessment (LTRA) indicate there is a high probability of insufficient resources and energy to serve electricity demand, as early as Summer 2022, in many parts of the Western Interconnection.

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Teslarati

JULY 13, 2021

Last week, Elon Musk announced Tesla’s first involvement in a major housing development project in Austin, Texas. The project aims to build the first Tesla Solar neighborhood, making a sustainable residential community. Today I'm directing the @PUCTX to take immediate action to improve electric reliability across the state.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Jenkins has also helped push Congress to think more seriously about the power grid, releasing a report last year that showed that much of the 43 percent emissions reduction expected by 2030 would be squandered if the United States doesn’t double the pace of transmission upgrades. power-grid transmission.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

The US Department of Energy is awarding $620 million for projects around the country to demonstrate advanced Smart Grid technologies and integrated systems. A full list by state of the all the projects is available here. These technologies are estimated to improve the reliability and efficiency of the distribution system 30-40%.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2020

million electric vehicles in its service areas by 2030. If realized, EVs would make up 20% of all vehicles on the road in those areas—more than 30 times the number today. Xcel services customers in Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, North and South Dakota, Texas and Wisconsin. Powering 1.5

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Teslarati

MAY 14, 2021

A few years ago, Tesla teamed up with the Government of South Australia and various energy authorities to build South Australia’s Virtual Power Plant. “Even if all lights go out in the neighborhood, you will still have power. And we can also, in working with the utilities, use the Powerwalls to stabilize the overall grid.

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EV Match

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Ironically, Governor Abbott targeted renewable energy just as The New York Times was writing that Texas’ grid trouble is a sign of disruption to come as climate change induces more and more extreme weather events. Frozen natural gas pipes in Texas. Credit: The Texas Tribune. The Push to Decarbonize by 2035.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

After a one-day delay to replace a failed grid fin actuator, SpaceX is now less than 24 hours from the second test flight of Starship. Booster 9 features many upgrades over the last booster to take flight, including better engine shielding and a switch from hydraulic thrust vector controls to electric TVC.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 27, 2016

The multi-disciplinary consortium includes leaders from DOE national labs, universities and industry, all of which are working together to make smaller, lighter and less expensive batteries that can be adopted by manufacturers. University of Texas at Austin. Idaho National Laboratory. SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 24, 2023

At the 2023 Indianapolis 500 on May 28 in Indianapolis, Indiana, all 33 cars will be running on Shell 100-percent renewable biofuel, using carbon neutral motor oil, and rolling on Firestone Firehawk tires made with recycled plastics. Let’s talk about what you did at the Texas IndyCar race in April. It worked great all race weekend.

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Charged EVs

JANUARY 31, 2024

Q&A with Alex Urist, Vice President of XCharge North America Battery storage, once considered a nifty additional feature for large-scale charging infrastructure projects, is steadily becoming de rigueur for public and commercial charging deployments of all sizes. A battery-buffered system is just taking energy from the grid.

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Baua Electric

MAY 10, 2024

don’t run the pool pump and the dryer at the same time as everything else), though all of this depends on how energy-hungry your house is. GM wants to see this product rolled out in as many houses as possible, and in service of that, plans to have V2H support on all of it’s electric vehicles by 2026.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2010

Ford, Detroit Edison and Xtreme Power are teaming up to establish one of Michigan’s largest solar power generation systems and electric vehicle charging stations at Ford’s Michigan Assembly Plant in Wayne, Mich. Xtreme Power of Austin, Texas, is supplying its Dynamic Power Resource on-site energy storage and power management system.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 6, 2024

You just come to expect it, and we all live with it. One of the things that struck me was that Bert’s making the argument that you don’t actually need now an army of programmers to create bloated software— to get all those millions of lines of code. All of these large language models that are being applied to software development.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The new ARPA-E selections focus on accelerating innovations in clean technology while increasing US competitiveness in rare earth alternatives and breakthroughs in biofuels, thermal storage, grid controls, and solar power electronics. GENI: Green Electricity Network Integration ($36.4 Texas Agrilife Research. Lead organization.

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EV Connect

MARCH 20, 2023

Myth, Misunderstanding, and Misinformation Whether it’s mythology, misunderstanding, or outright lies, most false stories build themselves around a kernel of truth. In the case of the former, the myth holds that electric vehicles will result in increased use of fossil fuels to power the electrical grid. As for the future?

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2010

has purchased six ChargePoint Networked Charging Stations for its 464-unit apartment community located at 2500 Bennett Street in Dallas, Texas. The Belmont project is being constructed to energy efficient Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) guidelines and will apply for certification through the US Green Building Council.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 31, 2024

Q&A with Alex Urist, Vice President of XCharge North America Battery storage, once considered a nifty additional feature for large-scale charging infrastructure projects, is steadily becoming de rigueur for public and commercial charging deployments of all sizes. A battery-buffered system is just taking energy from the grid.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 4, 2022

An empty battery electric vehicle (BEV) battery may take up to 40-50 hours to charge the US Department of Transportation says , and a plug-in-hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) 5-6 hours. An empty BEV battery may take 4-10 hours to charge, while a plug-in-hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) 1-2 hours.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2011

The project will also include a 50-kilowatt-hour facility to demonstrate the potential reuse of vehicle electric batteries for stationary energy storage. Xtreme Power of Austin, Texas, is supplying its Dynamic Power Resource on-site energy storage and power management system.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The enlarged, cylindrical 4680 cell , which Tesla first teased at its Battery Day last September , brings its own sky-high hopes and challenges: If Tesla can pull off in-house, vertically integrated battery manufacturing, and the cell performs as advertised, the 4680 could fuel Musk's dreams to build millions of EVs a year around the world.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2012

Tendril, provider of a cloud-based energy management platform, and the BMW Group Technology Office USA are partnering to build out a demonstration smart energy home in Mountain View, Calif. to prepare for the roll-out and integration of the new BMW ActiveE electric vehicle (EV). —Adrian Tuck, CEO at Tendril.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2016

The collaboration, forged by the White House in partnership with DOE and the Department of Transportation (DOT), the US Air Force and US Army, and the Environmental Protection Agency, is centered on a set of Guiding Principles to Promote Electric Vehicles and Charging Infrastructure. Electric vehicle coalition.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Schoolchildren didn’t have access to the Internet or reliable electric lighting for studying after dark. The effect that access to reliable electricity has had on the village is amazing,” says Morgan Kiani , an engineering professor at Texas Christian University , in Fort Worth.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 4, 2022

The telecommunications technology is used by all major U.S. He began his career at Ferranti , an electrical engineering and equipment company in Manchester, England. First used in Apple ’s iTunes program, it now can be found in all smartphones. before joining Texas Instruments in Dallas. telephone companies.

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Cars That Think

JULY 20, 2021

The electricity utility, Consolidated Edison, was able to fully restore service in Manhattan within a few hours. Meanwhile, in the surrounding boroughs of the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island, thousands of customers remained without electricity for days. COVID-19 changed all that.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2011

US Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced that to date, more than 1,800 electric vehicle chargers have been installed under the Recovery Act. The event marked the installation of the 500 th electric vehicle (EV) charger by Coulomb, which received a $15-million award under the Recovery Act. New York, NY; Orlando, Fla.; Redmond, Wash.;

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My Energi

AUGUST 12, 2021

All of Greenland’s cities are built along the 27,394-mile coastline as it’s the only area in the country that’s ice-free. state of Texas. Hydropower is the main renewable source that provides 60-70% of Greenland’s entire electricity needs. The island covers about 836,000 sq. Environmental Data. Unique Factors about Greenland.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

Electric vehicles at scale alter the terms of both basic currencies concurrently. For example, the mineral requirements for an EV’s batteries and electric motors are six times that of an ICE vehicle, which can increase the average weight of an EV by 340 kgs (750 pounds). observed. "A report by the International Energy Agency (IEA).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

The vast majority of the funded projects are for battery-electric buses and infrastructure; two projects are receiving a total of $3.2 Transitioning the fleet to all electric will eliminate emissions from diesel buses and emissions from shipping diesel fuel by barge 900 miles from Seattle. million for hydrogen fuel cell buses.

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EV Info

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Wind farms stand idle for days on end, a fire interrupts a vital cable from France, a combination of post-Covid economic recovery and Russia tightening supply means the gas price has shot through the roof – and so the market price of both home heating and electricity is rocketing. Climate Change. This was plain wrong. Energy Solutions.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2016

SuperTruck II builds on the successful SuperTruck I program, which has already led to more than twenty fuel saving technologies that have reached the commercial market, said Acting Assistant Secretary David Friedman. By area of interest, the awards are: EV Everywhere Plug‐In Electric Vehicle Local Showcases (Area of Interest 1).

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EV Adoption

MARCH 9, 2021

This past week was a whirlwind of EV news and developments from FedEx’s plans to electrify its fleet by 2040, VW saying it expects 50% of its US sales to be from EVs, to GM’s likely plans to build a second battery factory with LG Chem, and much more … Automaker/EV Models. VW expects half of U.S. Batteries and Charging.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2010

Coulomb Technologies, in partnership with Ford, Chevrolet and smart USA, will provide 4,600 free home and public ChargePoint Networked Charging Stations for electric vehicles throughout the United States through the ChargePoint America program. Generating revenue for station owners to offset electricity and maintenance costs.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2015

If every home in the United States were to implement these energy-saving technologies, it would be the equivalent of taking all the homes in California, New York and Texas—32 million homes—off the power grid. Delta Electric Vehicle Charging Station. Trina Solar Photovoltaic Power Generation System.

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Plugs and Cars

MARCH 30, 2011

[The following is an article I wrote in Earth Island Journal last year to answer the question "Public Transit or Electric Car? " ] Greater support for mass transit and appropriate land use policies that make mass transit accessible are essential. There is, however, an alternative path: Electricity.

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