Baua Electric

MARCH 8, 2024

Although Rivian and Tesla are making headlines with planned expansions into mass-market electric vehicles, Kia is set to launch two affordable EVs of its own. More affordable EVs are coming Rivian unveiled its highly anticipated R2 electric SUV Thursday. Kia has found recent success with its first three-row EV9 electric SUV.

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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.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

In the first group, 16 awards totaling $435 million will support fully integrated, regional Smart Grid demonstrations in 21 states, representing more than 50 utilities and electricity organizations with a combined customer base of almost 100 million consumers. A full list by state of the all the projects is available here.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

In April, 46 percent of all mining took place in China, according to data from the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance. In a matter of weeks, all that mining capacity went offline. It can take six to twelve months to build up those kinds of facilities." But building a bitcoin mine is about more than just the chips.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 26, 2022

The heart of any electric motor consists of a rotor that revolves around a stationary part, called a stator. Expect it to save weight and thus energy in just about everything that uses electricity to impart motive force. The layered components of an Infinitum Electric axial-flux motor are shown here, in exploded form.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Obama also launched a competition for a new manufacturing innovation institute to build US strength in manufacturing advanced composites, the first of four new competitions to be launched this year. In the wind energy industry, doubling the length of a turbine blade can quadruple the amount of electricity generated.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Ford Motor Company will build two new massive, environmentally and technologically advanced campuses in Tennessee and Kentucky that will produce the next generation of electric F-Series trucks and the batteries to power future electric Ford and Lincoln vehicles. An all-new $5.6-billion Ford Blue Oval City.

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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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Clean Fleet Report

JUNE 8, 2022

All-New, All Hybrid. Toyota has added another model to its ever increasing stable of electrified vehicles with the all-new 2023 Sequoia now exclusively hybrid powered. headquarters in Plano, Texas, the first week of June to be among the first to drive the all-new 2023 Sequoia. Power and Efficiency.

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Charged EVs

MAY 11, 2022

The 2022 Ford F-150 Lightning pickup truck may be the first real mass-market electric vehicle sold in the US. We drove several F-150 Lightnings, in various trims, with and without payloads or trailers, out of San Antonio and through the winding roads of Texas hill country during the first week of May.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

The project will demonstrate an inexpensive and modular heat exchanger that can recover heat from a typical simulated flue gas stream that will be resistant to corrosion compared to traditional metallic heat exchangers and provide greater heat recovery than comparable all-plastic heat exchanger designs. University of Texas at Dallas.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Stationary Fuel Cells and Hybrid Transit Buses Incremental Costs: The purchase of diesel-electric hybrid transit buses and stationary fuel cells for use in the statewide bus system in Connecticut. VIA Metropolitan Transit, Texas: $5,000,000. The largest PV installation in Georgia. City of Santa Clarita, California: $4,620,000.

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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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Plug In Partners

APRIL 3, 2007

In Quest for Cleaner Energy, Texas City Touts Plug-In Car John J. Fialka Wall Street Journal March 26, 2007 AUSTIN, Texas -- Of all the plans cooked up by cities to combat pollution and global warming, the one hatched here is among the most ambitious -- and, some say, one of the more quixotic. But that's not all.

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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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Cars That Think

JULY 30, 2023

It was manufactured in small volumes by Exxon, appeared at an electric vehicle show in Chicago in 1977, and served briefly as a coin cell battery. The University of Texas at Austin It was the first of many false starts for the rechargeable lithium battery. The first iteration, developed by M. But then Exxon dropped it.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 29, 2010

It can also help urban planners predict what will happen and how to address congestion when a new office building, sports arena or other major facility is built. If successful, the result will be a lightweight, powerful and rechargeable battery capable of powering for everything from electric cars to consumer devices. shake and dial.

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All Cars Electric

OCTOBER 6, 2009

The saga of the Zenn Motors and EEStor continues to wind on. For those that don't know, EEStor is a Texas-startup reportedly secretly building a powerful new energy storage medium that is far lighter, faster-charging, cheaper and longer-lived than lithium ion cells. Zenn is a Canadian company, and 10.7%

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All Cars Electric

OCTOBER 6, 2009

The saga of the Zenn Motors and EEStor continues to wind on. For those that don't know, EEStor is a Texas-startup reportedly secretly building a powerful new energy storage medium that is far lighter, faster-charging, cheaper and longer-lived than lithium ion cells. Zenn is a Canadian company, and 10.7%

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ZENN Motor Motors Motoring 41

Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2015

Daimler Trucks North America’s (DTNA) SuperTruck program has achieved 115% freight efficiency improvement (gallons of fuel consumed per ton of goods moved per mile traveled)—surpassing the Department of Energy (DOE) program’s goal of 50% improvement and exhibiting the best results of all reporting OEMs. Earlier post.) mpg (19.26

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2020

The City of Fort Worth, Texas has approved a $68.9-million million economic incentive package for electric-motor-manufacturer Linear Labs ( earlier post ) to further solidify the city as the next tech innovation hub. —Brad Hunstable, Co-Founder and CEO of Linear Labs. 3D flux path. Copper savings. Large Lorentz force.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 20, 2024

Moore , who follows a semiconductor beat for us like a charge carrier in an electric field. And as such, it’s got all kinds of cool stuff. Cass: So while we’re there, we send you this monster thing and ask you to fish out— They’re not all going to be— Let’s be honest. They’re not all going to be gangbusters. Moore: Right.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 26, 2021

In the case of the 2017 Tubbs Fire, the 2018 Camp Fire, and the 2020 August Complex Fires, high winds blasted flames through populated areas in the early morning hours while residents were sleeping. sensor units mounted on buildings to stream data via Wi-Fi to Web-based mapping programs. These particular networks use.

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Creative Greenius

MAY 14, 2009

Its wholly interpretive guidelines can be used to approve or disapprove a building, addition or remodel completely on subjective principles. These zoning decisions blow in whatever direction the development winds are gusting in the city at the moment and there is no consistency, logic or equity in the decisions made. What happened?”.

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Solar Installation California Building 210

Teslarati

APRIL 23, 2021

Sustainable/electric cars are the future!! Excited to see this announcement from Ford, as it will encourage other carmakers to go electric too. When CR first tested the Tesla Model 3, we complained about the ride, seat comfort, wind noise, controls, and brakes. Tesla OTOH improved all those things. No regrets.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2010

A study of natural gas is more complex because gas is a major fuel for multiple end uses—electricity, industry, heating—and is increasingly discussed as a potential pathway to reduced oil dependence for transportation, the study team noted. Require disclosure of all components of hydraulic fracture fluids.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Perhaps most importantly, though, they’re essential components of the permanent magnets used in the motors of most electric vehicles and many appliances, and also in the generators in most wind turbines. Wind turbines, too. And I’ve seen-- For all the rare earth elements? access to rare earths. So magnets go into motors.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

GENI: Green Electricity Network Integration ($36.4 Solar ADEPT: Solar Agile Delivery of Electrical Power Technology ($14.7 The goal of this project is to combine all of these genes. Texas Agrilife Research. Terpenoid Pathways Texas A&M University will address a major inefficiency of. Lead organization. Description.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2010

ARPA-E’s first solicitation awarded $151 million to 37 projects aimed at transformational innovations in energy storage, biofuels, carbon capture, renewable power, building efficiency, vehicles, and other areas. Electrofuels: Biofuels from Electricity. Earlier post.) Electrofuels. Reducing equivalent: Electrons; Organism: E.

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 11, 2022

America ’s Best-Selling Truck Is Now All-New and All-Electric. Ford says the all-new, all-electric 2022 F-150 Lighting is “the truck of the future.” These buyers will have one thing in common: feeling the joy that comes from driving an all-electric pickup. Not electric trucks, but trucks.

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F-150 Ford All-Electric Miles 96

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 27, 2020

The US Department of Energy announced $33 million in funding for 17 projects as part of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy’s (ARPA-E) Aviation-class Synergistically Cooled Electric-motors with iNtegrated Drives (ASCEND) and Range Extenders for Electric Aviation with Low Carbon and High Efficiency (REEACH) programs.

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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

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Since 2000, electricity has been the only economic sector that has seen continuous and significant improvements in reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Electricity sector gains mask challenges from transportation, buildings, and industry. In 2018, battery electric, plug-in hybrid, and hydrogen vehicles accounted for 1.5%

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2018

Molecular Factories work by combining processes such as catalysis, separation, purification, and molecular-scale manipulation by nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) to make things from molecular building blocks. The basic building block of a Mattershift Molecular Factory is the Programmable Molecular Gateway. —Rob McGinnis.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 17, 2022

It could power trucks, cars, planes, and ships and generate electricity, either in fuel cells or combustion turbines. It prescribes new spending of $437 billion over 10 years, of which some $370 billion is directed towards a sprawling range of renewable-energy, electric-vehicle, and other greenhouse-gas reduction measures.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 5, 2023

I’m part of a team testing Peregrine—a fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) equipped with miniaturized ice-penetrating radar, which can image the glacial ice all the way down to the bedrock below. Thomas Teisberg, an electrical engineering Ph.D. Our phones, laptops, and cameras are rapidly failing. At the time, two U.S.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2015

Globally, water demand is threatening to dangerously outpace supply, while in the US, dry states such as Texas and California are suffering from shortages and the future forebodes more suffering. How communities in Texas can be spared drought. We’re looking at continual drought and predictions of a new ‘mega drought’ for Texas.

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