Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2021

While NERC’s risk scenario analysis shows adequate resources and energy for most of North America, Texas, New England, MISO and parts of the West are at an “elevated risk” of energy emergencies. for this summer as a result of adding new wind, solar, and battery resources. ERCOT’s anticipated reserve margin increased from 12.9%

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Cars That Think

MARCH 23, 2022

This group of wind-turbine fan blades, fresh from Siemens Gamesa’s new RecycleBlade manufacturing process at England’s largest such factory, await shipment to the various points around the globe where they will serve 20- to 30-year stints generating electricity at wind farms before they’re recalled and reincarnated. What’s Next?

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2021

The US Department of Energy (DOE) awarded $19 million for 13 projects in traditionally fossil-fuel-producing communities across the country to support production of rare earth elements and critical minerals essential to the manufacturing of batteries, magnets, and other components important to the clean energy economy.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

They are essential inputs to many critical defense and commercial technologies, particularly permanent magnets instrumental to the performance of electric vehicles, wind turbines, drones, and missile systems. HREEs have higher atomic weights and are generally less abundant than light rare earth elements (LREEs). Earlier post.).

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 30, 2021

As power grids everywhere increasingly rely on intermittent renewable energy, batteries and other forms of energy storage that can even out the bumps in supply and demand are taking on a crucial role. No battery is perfect, however, so engineers keep pushing for new and improved ways to store those electrons.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2020

USA Rare Earth, LLC, the funding and development partner of the Round Top Heavy Rare Earth and Critical Minerals Project in West Texas, has purchased the neodymium iron boron (NdFeB) permanent magnet manufacturing equipment formerly owned and operated in North Carolina by Hitachi Metals America, Ltd.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Extreme weather-related events and performance issues associated with some inverter-based resources, such as solar, wind and new battery or hybrid generation, may also have a potential negative impact on reliability. Developing sufficient flexible resources to support increasing levels of variable generation uncertainty.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

“Over the past 15 years, the emphasis has moved toward using [these materials] less as high-temperature superconductors and more as high-field superconductors,” says Venkat Selvamanickam , who directs the Applied Research Hub of the Texas Center for Superconductivity at the University of Houston.

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Clean Fleet Report

DECEMBER 3, 2022

It was a destructive, Category 4 hurricane, bringing catastrophic storm surges, heavy rainfall and intense, sustained winds. EV batteries don’t like salt water. In 2017, flooding rains from Hurricane Harvey were strong enough to disable water supply infrastructure in Beaumont, Texas, leaving 118,000 residents without water.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 15, 2014

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has deployed the first vehicle-to-grid (V2G) aggregation system qualified by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) to manage charging activities for a fleet of electric delivery trucks. Electric vehicle batteries can respond in milliseconds, making them an asset suited for FRRS services.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2018

The vision of the technology and capital goods group is to move away from coal and coke via bridging technologies based on natural gas, as is already the case at the direct reduction plant in Texas, and finally on to the greatest possible use of green hydrogen. —Wolfgang Anzengruber, CEO of VERBUND.

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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. This was plain wrong. Energy Solutions.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

Improved energy storage technologies will allow for expanded integration of renewable energy resources like wind and photovoltaic systems and will improve frequency regulation and peak energy management. The selected projects include advanced battery systems (including flow batteries), flywheels, and compressed air energy systems.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2010

The system will be integrated with a 750 kW energy storage facility that can store 2 MWh of energy using batteries—enough to power 100 average Michigan homes for a year. Xtreme Power of Austin, Texas, is supplying its Dynamic Power Resource on-site energy storage and power management system.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2014

Automotive revenue for Q2 included $23 million of powertrain sales to Daimler and Toyota, reflecting the start of production deliveries to Daimler for the Mercedes-Benz B Class Electric Drive and the wind down of sales to Toyota for the RAV4 EV. Electric (Battery) Sales Vehicle Manufacturers' on a GAAP basis. Earlier post.)

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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. billion BlueOvalSK Battery Park—creating 5,000 jobs.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2016

PHEVLERs are defined as PHEVs with sufficient battery capacity for all electric driving of twice the average daily distance. [ Most homeowners have or can easily set up for plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) battery charging overnight while the driver sleeps. [ 5 ] Increasing numbers of drivers can get PEV charging at their workplace. [

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2010

The second round was focused specifically on three areas of technology representing new approaches for advanced microbial biofuels (electrofuels); much higher capacity and less expensive batteries for electric vehicles; and carbon capture. Better Batteries - Batteries for Electrical Energy Storage in Transportation (BEEST).

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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. Here's part of his story.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2013

The initiative includes private sector partnerships, new funding from the Department, and enhanced analysis of the clean energy manufacturing supply chain that will guide DOE’s future funding decisions. University of Texas at Austin. As a part of its increased focus on manufacturing research and development, DOE also awarded $23.5

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2021

NovaCentrix (Austin, Texas). Offshore Wind Turbine Digital Twin for the Prediction of Component Failures, $200,000. Particle Thermal Energy Storage and Efficient Heat Exchanger for Carbon-Free Industry Heat Supply, $249,500. Utility Global (Houston, Texas). Treverity (Coppell, Texas). Framatome Inc. IP Group, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Texas Agrilife Research. Terpenoid Pathways Texas A&M University will address a major inefficiency of. for High Power Wind Generators The University of Houston will develop a new, low-cost. superconducting wire that can be used in future advanced wind turbine generators. superconducting wind generators more practical for.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 29, 2022

Bad things happen when demand outstrips supply. We learned that lesson too well at the start of the pandemic, when demand for toilet paper, disinfecting wipes, masks, and ventilators outstripped the available supply. Clearly, balancing the supply and demand of goods is critical for a stable, normal, functional society.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 27, 2020

The proposed propulsion system includes an efficient AC electric powertrain for turboelectric cruise, with battery boost for takeoff and climb flight phases. The proposed system concept is a fuel cell, battery, and gas turbine hybrid system that incorporates a novel solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) stack technology. Fuceltech Inc.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The EDISON (Electric Vehicles in a Distributed and Integrated Market using Sustainable Energy and Open Networks) research consortium will seek to match power generation from wind turbines on the island of Bornholm, Denmark, with the power consumption of charging plug-in electric cars. The project is partly funded by the government of Denmark.

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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. High-Speed Rail Unlocks Intermodal Potential Texas Excess Ford Expands Hybrid Success to Electric Vehicles ► March (17) Carbon Capture and Storage: To Be or Not To Be?

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EV Match

AUGUST 29, 2022

on a path to reducing emissions more than 40% below 2005 levels, per a Princeton University analysis of the measure’s impacts : expanded tax credits for EVs, batteries, solar panels and wind turbines. Tesla just opened its new Austin, Texas factory in April . billion US factory to supply its electric vehicles.

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