Cars That Think
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
Congress has provided hundreds of billions of dollars to speed the deployment of clean-energy technologies. As legislation worked its way through Congress, Jenkins’s team provided elected officials, staffers, and stakeholders with a running tally of the possible trade-offs and payoffs in emissions, jobs, and economic growth.
Cars That Think
JULY 14, 2023
This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. One useful application of direct control is adjusting electrolyzers’ energy consumption based on the power grid ’s current energy mix. Hydrogen has great promise as a low-emission fuel source.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 31, 2020
Further, natural gas can be used to keep the power grid stable as solar and wind power fluctuate. Link to original article: [link]. Natural gas does produce about 28% less CO2 emissions than heating oil and 50% less than coal for the same amount of energy when burned.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 24, 2011
Much recent research on batteries, including other work done by Cui’s research group, has focused on lithium-ion batteries, which have a high energy density; however, energy density really doesn’t matter for storage on the power grid. Nature Communications 2, Article number: 550 doi: 10.1038/ncomms1563. —Colin Wessells.
Green Car Congress
MAY 25, 2010
Another concern associated with EVs is that they could increase emissions of criteria pollutants like SO 2 and NO x because power plants are believed to be the largest contributor to China’s SO 2. Generation mix of the six interprovincial power grids in 2008. Article ASAP doi: 10.1021/es100520c. and NO x emissions.
Revenge of the Electric Car
NOVEMBER 19, 2009
All stressed that plug-in technology already exists and just needs a push on the financial front from Congress.&#. Here’s the text of the entire article, in case the link goes bad: [link]. Updated to attribute projection on “smart-grid&# earnings to FERC Chairman.). November 16, 2009: 06:01 PM ET. starting next year.
Revenge of the Electric Car
JANUARY 30, 2009
While the timing of charging can be handled through the use of these smart meters, this does not preclude the need for upgrading the grid, a project that will save massive numbers of kWh that are currently being wasted due to the incredibly old and cobbled together grid we’ve got now. By Rebecca Kimitch, Staff Writer.
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