Cars That Think

JANUARY 18, 2023

When we turn up the heat in our homes and workplaces, we must balance our personal need for warmth with the global impact of burning fossil fuels like oil, gas, coal, and biomass. But even with recent advances in battery technology, storing electric power remains relatively expensive, especially at the scale required for heating buildings.

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EV Info

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Yet whenever we troublemakers raised this issue, we were told not to worry – it would resolve itself, they said, either because wind is usually blowing somewhere, or through the development of electricity storage in giant battery farms. This was plain wrong. Energy Solutions. Gas is the only answer.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2014

Plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs), including plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) and battery electric vehicles (BEVs), create additional electricity demand, resulting in additional air emissions from power plants. Electric (Battery) Hybrids Plug-ins Power Generation Smart charging' 2013.10.017.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2015

During the late innings of the ICE-age (as in the Internal Combustion Engine age) it has become clear that feeding gasoline and diesel to the next billion new cars is not going to be easy, or cheap. Coal still supplies more power in the US than anything else, with natural gas next. It really isn’t a fair fight. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2015

The carbons simultaneously exhibit electrical conductivity more than 3x more than activated carbons; very high electrochemical activity at high mass loading; and high stability, as demonstrated by supercapacitors and lithium–sulfur batteries with excellent performance. Furthermore, they are generally synthesized from coal or biomass (e.g.,

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Plugs and Cars

JUNE 9, 2011

And three types of electric busses - legacy trolleys with catenary wires, battery busses, and super capacitor busses. We really don’t need more cheap gas cars. Largely dependent on domestic coal, cities are smothered in smog. It had no subway system. Today Shanghai has the world’s largest.

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EV Info

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

We have closed most of the coal plants and several the aging nuclear plants are moving offline as they close for repair of reach end of life. Why, simple the US embraced Fracking to produce bountifully supplies of cheap gas. Needs – Solar and Battery. These have no replacements planned to open in the short and medium term.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2017

Cheap gas prices and a strong economy are creating increased goods movement and prompting Californians to drive more. The decade-long nationwide slide in emissions from power production reflects the electric power sector shifting away from coal and toward less carbon-intensive fuels. billion in 2014, up 0.08% from the previous year.

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My Electric Car

AUGUST 21, 2020

Recent developments in lithium ion batteries, and the consequential range improvements of EVs has significantly dampened enthusiasm for hydrogen fuel cells. The Honda FCX Clarity FCEV and the Toyota Mirai FCEV, both use an electric drive motor and a battery pack. The reasons are numerous. .

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Currently that means burning coal, coke, fuel oil, or natural gas, often along with waste plastics and tires. These pilot programs will need to scale up without eating profits—something that eluded the coal industry when it tried CCS decades ago.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

Oil and the Transport Sector: Reconfirming the End of Cheap Oil. The use of coal—which met almost half of the increase in global energy demand over the last decade—rises 65% by 2035. Prospects for coal are especially sensitive to energy policies – notably in China, which today accounts for almost half of global demand.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Email ECOtality CEO: Fast Charging and Why Battery Swapping Is Doomed Jonathan Read discusses why electric vehicles and fast-charging systems, not battery-replacement systems such as the one touted by Project Better Place, are the future. Battery technologies are advancing rapidly. Electricity costs are relatively inexpensive.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

If you want it to perform like a sports car instead of a slug in a sportscars skin, youre going to need that 10k for the ac drive system alone, and then maybe another 15k for a lithium battery pack. I also think it will be cheap, which is why I think someone will buy the group. from coal. Which puts you at 50k, plus labor.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

And in a true smart grid, electric cars will not only be able to draw on electricity to run their motors, they will also be able to do the reverse: send electricity stored in their batteries back into the grid when it is needed. We will own the battery. We will always own the batteries,&# said Mr. Thesen.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Why hes banking on an obscure Chinese electric car company and a CEO who - no joke - drinks his own battery fluid. BYD CEO Wang Chuan-Fu figured out how to make cheaper batteries than the Japanese by replacing machines with migrant workers. By about 2000, BYD had become one of the worlds largest manufacturers of cellphone batteries.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Blog Archive ▼ 2009 (52) ▼ April (6) Waxman-Markey and REDD BlogRoll Review: Space Beams, Leaded Batteries, an. Renewables That Even Coal-Based Utilities Can Love. Several early models of passenger vehicles have enough energy stored in advanced batteries to power several homes for hours.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 19, 2024

New factories producing EVs and their batteries are bringing more jobs to the Southeast, but utilities are trying to meet the power demands of these factories with natural-gas power plants rather than renewable energy, reports Energy News Network.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

April 10, 2009 10:09 am Link It amazes me that in the vast debate about electric cars world wide including here in Norway, no one ever mention the fact that the batteries in such cars need replacement in no more than five years. So imagine a million electric cars on US roads which all need to change these batteries in say 2015.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

It was started by a chemist and government researcher named Wang Chuan-Fu in 1995 (same year as Yahoo) to make rechargeable batteries, which it learned to do very well. Within a few years, BYD’s batteries were cheaper and just as reliable as those made by industry giants ony and Sanyo. BYD is an amazing company.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2009

Experts predict that by the year 2060 global warming, if left unchecked, could result in a temperature rise of seven degrees Fahrenheit higher than temperatures before the Industrial Revolution when man started widespread use of coal and other fossil fuels. The fact is, about half the world’s electricity comes from coal.

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