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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Cars That Think

JUNE 24, 2022

Greenhouse gas emissions will certainly grow too, because India’s energy generation is dominated by fossil fuels—coal-fired power plants for electricity, coal- and gas-fired furnaces for industrial heating, liquid petroleum gas for cooking, and gasoline and diesel for transportation. cents per kilowatt-hour, and wind power to 3.4

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Revenge of the Electric Car

MARCH 20, 2009

Here’s a quote from the LA Times article By Maeve Reston: Obama unveils $2.4-billion “Even as our economy has been transformed by new forms of technology, our electric grid looks largely the same as it did half a century ago,&# Obama said. Read the full LA Times article and the complete Town Hall Transcript.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 19, 2023

Almost all hydrogen produced today is designated as brown, black, or gray, meaning it was generated by burning natural gas or coal. Regardless of whether hydrogen or PtX products are being generated, the production islands won’t be directly connected to an onshore power grid, and so they’ll need to operate reliably on their own.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 6, 2024

It’s very similar to the infrastructure for electric cars because the idea, ultimately, for electric cars is that you also are revamping your grid to facilitate, whatchamacallit, intermittent renewable energy sources, like wind and solar, because having an electric car that runs off a coal-fired power plant is defeating the purpose, essentially.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 28, 2023

The 260-kilometer, 320-kilovolt high-voltage direct-current (HVDC) transmission system, based on technology from Hitachi Energy , in Zurich, marks a milestone in an ongoing transformation of the European power grid: It will plug into the first truly dynamic multiterminal HVDC network in Europe. electrical engineers with HVDC expertise.

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Cars That Think

MAY 21, 2022

This is, after all, how all the energy stored in wood, coal, oil, and natural gas originally got here: It was transmitted 150 million kilometers through space as electromagnetic waves—sunlight—most of it millions of years ago. This article appears in the June 2022 print issue as “Spooky Power at a Distance.”.

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Get Electric Vehicle

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Vehicle to Grid is a really interesting area to do projects. The idea here is that you can connect your EV to the power grid and flow power from your EV to the Grid. An electric car acts as a load or micro-generating station for the grid. Advantages of V2G in grid perspective 2. Thank you. #16

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

Chambers Williams III • THE TENNESSEAN• April 26, 2009 Print this page E-mail this article Share Del.icio.us Alternatives that would reduce pollution include nuclear energy and renewable sources, such as wind and solar power. See instructions for fixing the problem.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

“Vehicle-to-grid is, I believe, the salvation of the automotive industry in the United States,” declared Marc Spitzer, an agency commissioner who was also on the panel. The vision is fuelled by the fear of climate change and the need to find green alternatives to dirty coal, unpopular nuclear power and unreliable gas imports from Russia.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

A January 2007 Pacific National Laboratory study shows that if we woke up tomorrow and all our vehicles could plug in, todays grid could support more than three-quarters of them charging at night without building a single power plant. Dont PHEVs just shift pollution from gasoline cars to power plants? What about battery safety?

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The Truth About Cars

APRIL 10, 2024

That effectively makes this piece an addendum to our recent Gas War article pertaining to the Californian emissions waiver. This depends heavily upon whether the local power grid is broken down to prioritize renewable, coal, natural gas, or nuclear energy. Not that this matters for New Mexico.

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