Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2011

Dabiri suggests using optimized arrays of smaller vertical-axis wind turbines to increase the power density and reduce the cost, and visual, acoustic, radar and environmental impacts, of wind farms using giant horizontal-axis turbines. constraint limits the amount of power that can be extracted from a given wind farm footprint.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The United States is not building enough transmission lines to connect regional power networks. A transmission network contains webs of connections, which create a reliable, redundant power-supply system of massive scale. system fragmented into about a dozen regions with limited connectivity between them.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2020

It will provide 840 MW of reliable energy to the IPA purchasers it serves, including Los Angeles and municipalities in other parts of California and Utah. The power plant is connected to the Los Angeles power grid by an existing high-voltage direct-current (HVDC) transmission line. and Hitachi, Ltd.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2020

Unlike the horizontally wound structure of a conventional lithium-ion cell, 3D architecture allows for an integrated stainless-steel constraint to apply stack pressure and maintain silicon particle connection for uniform discharge. The result is both a significant increase in energy density and high cycle life. Source: Enovix.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 5, 2021

by Charles Morris There’s an intimate connection between electric vehicles and renewable energy, and that connection — both literally and symbolically — runs directly through the electrical grid. Originally posted on EVANNEX.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 2, 2016

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) released its initial draft plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 40% below 1990 levels by 2030—the most ambitious target in North America. Managing farm and rangelands, forests and wetlands so they can store carbon. Source: 2030 Target Scoping Plan Discussion Draft. Click to enlarge.

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California Climate Change Climate Pollution 150

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2017

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) released the proposed scoping plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 40% below 1990 levels by 2030—the most ambitious target in North America. For the past decade, California has been reducing emissions through a series of actions, innovative solutions and advances in technology.

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EV Obssesion

JUNE 4, 2021

Originally posted on EVANNEX by Charles Morris There’s an intimate connection between electric vehicles and renewable energy, and that connection—both literally and symbolically—runs directly through the electrical grid.

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Driivz

MAY 15, 2023

California, the EV adoption and clean energy leader in the U.S., Obstacles to rolling out V2G Creators of the proposed California legislation understand that interoperability is essential to realizing this vision. All eyes on California With what is currently the largest EV marketplace in the U.S.,

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Climate Protection Grid Climate California 52

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2013

A new Energy Department study conducted by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) indicates that by 2025 wind and solar power electricity generation could become cost-competitive without federal subsidies, if new renewable energy development occurs in the most productive locations. mmBtu and $8.43/mmBtu. Source: Hurlbut et al.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2011

The California Energy Commission has awarded $1,585,490 to spur research on projects including a solid-state Li-ion battery system for grid-scale energy storage. University of California at San Diego will receive $95,000 to reduce the cost of biomass power generation by removing tar from the producer gas in the gasifier.

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Teslarati

MAY 25, 2021

Easterly winds brought the Falcon 9 exhaust plume back around the rocket a few seconds after this evening’s static fire. Some degree of processing was completed at the pad’s facilities before the once-flown rocket was shipped from California to Florida in March 2021.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2016

The development shows that even without cameras, which rely on light, Ford’s LiDAR (units from Velodyne), working with the car’s virtual driver software, is robust enough to steer flawlessly around winding roads. Sure enough, it stayed precisely on track along those winding roads.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2015

Cargill is collaborating with Tesla and Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) to install a 1 MWh Tesla energy storage product at the company’s Fresno, California beef processing facility. Using its SchwarmDirigent IT platform, the company links decentralized producers and storage systems and connects them to the energy markets. Earlier post.).

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 29, 2021

About 160 kilometers northwest of Beijing, the city of Zhangjiakou with its rugged terrain boasts some of the richest wind and solar resources in China. Renewables account for nearly half of the city’s electricity output with less than a third of its full solar and wind potential of 70 gigawatts installed so far.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

These magnets will enable further market penetration of hybrid vehicles and wind turbine generators, while enhancing US competitiveness in rare-earth mineral based products. Alameda, CA): Airborne Wind Turbine. University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) (Los Angeles, CA): Thermal Energy Storage with Supercritical Fluids.

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Molten Salt Los Angeles Power Powered 231

Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2015

The California Energy Commission has awarded a $1.5 By leveraging an international standard for how EVs share data with grid operators, our work will enable reliable, secure and scalable integration of California’s growing fleet of EVs with the low-carbon electrical grid of the future.

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Standards San Diego Grid Charging 150

Baua Electric

JUNE 5, 2024

I had wondered if a vacation without my phone would reprogram my iPhone-addled brain, whether it might deepen the connections I made or improve my travel experiences. A bit like sleepaway camp We’d come from all over the United States, including Texas, Alabama, California and Minnesota, and most of us were meeting for the very first time.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2019

Remote Area Modular Monitoring for Critical Facilities, $300,000 Embedded Planet, Cleveland, Ohio Simulation Tool for Energy-Efficient Connected and Automated Vehicle Control Development, $600,000 Hyundai America Technical Center, Superior Township, Mich. TerraPower LLC, Bellevue, Wash. El Centro, Calif. Raleigh, N.C. Tesla, Palo Alto, Calif.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 18, 2022

America’s largest panel producer, Sunrun of California has teamed up with Ford to offer solar roof panels integrated into the transfer switch setup in sync with Ford’s “Intelligent Backup Power” installation. Even so, world events are putting wind in the sails for backup power. Not so independent.

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GM Ford Power Powered 94

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. 355,938,600 Southern California Edison Company. Tehachapi Wind Energy Storage Project. Notrees Wind Storage.

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Baua Electric

MAY 21, 2024

Though between the noise of splashing water, buffeting wind and 500 horsepower, things get a bit noisier when getting up to the electronically-limited top speed of 40 knots. Arc said it took the boat out to Catalina Island, which is 26 miles across the sea from the California coastline.

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Water Electric Electrical Tahoe 52

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 18, 2009

when electricity rates are cheaper, or when the grid is using only renewable energy such as wind or solar power. In 2007, Ford announced a partnership with Southern California Edison, the electric utility with the nation’s largest and most advanced electric vehicle fleet. Southern California Edison. Earlier post.).

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Clean Fleet Report

APRIL 5, 2023

Toyota invited the automotive media to Carlsbad, California, in late March for the first drives of what turns-out to be a significantly improved Prius Prime. Driving Impressions: Hitting the Road Always in control Our driving time was spent on wet and dry pavement negotiating San Diego County highways and back country winding roads.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 16, 2024

The group headed down Devil’s Elbow, a winding intermediate run. Taos Ski Valley, in New Mexico and Mammoth Mountain, in California, have similar rules, and a number of resorts offer steep discounts. Our social connections are tied to all sorts of physical health conditions,” he explained, from memory to heart disease.

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Electric Auto Association

APRIL 5, 2022

Electricity is ubiquitous, EVs refuelable by wind, hydro, geothermal, solar, or traditional energy sources. In California, it is 134 mpg. not internet-connected) and networked (internet-connected). Learn the charging lexicon It is important to be familiar with charging level terminology.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2016

Frank (email: afrank@efficientdrivetrains.com) Dr. Frank is Professor Emeritus, Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering at the University of California, Davis, where he established the Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS-Davis), and was director of the US Department of Energy’s National Center of Hybrid Excellence at UC Davis.

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Clean Fleet Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In the 210 miles we put on the CUV, averaging 65 miles per hour traversing Southern California highways, we had an average of 41.5 Connectivity is through two front and rear USB-C ports and a USB-A port in the center console. Voice commands connect with Siri EyesFree and Google Assistant by saying “Hey, Lexus” or “Hi, Lexus.”

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Starting around the middle of 2024, the Shetlands—and also part of mainland Scotland—will be powered by the 443-megawatt Viking wind farm , consisting of 103 wind turbines on the main island of Shetland. According to Plet, wind energy is driving an acceleration of HVDC installations in Europe.

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Clean Fleet Report

DECEMBER 26, 2023

It was a challenge to not tromp on the accelerator, because this is a Maserati, of course, but in our 327 miles driving through Southern California we had a 100-mile all-freeway run at 65 mph deliver 30.6 Through the Maserati Connected Services there are Bluetooth voice commands for the radio and telephone by just saying “Hey Maserati.”

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Hybrid MPG SUV Clean 61

Baua Electric

APRIL 18, 2024

As part of our visit, Lucid Motors also invited us behind the scenes at its design studio in California, where we got a look at the progress of its upcoming “Mid-Size” EVs. Lucid Motors ($LCID) began its entry into the EV segment with its flagship Air sedan, which arrived as a 2022 model.

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MPH San Francisco Design Motor 52

Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2013

seconds); efficient (combined city/highway 119 MPGe); affordable (as low as $17,495 in California net after Federal and state rebates); fun-to-drive electric vehicle targeted for the urban environment. In California, one of the key initial markets, the Spark EV would be a slam dunk for the hills of San Francisco.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 11, 2024

Individual parks set limits each year, some like Death Valley in California and Nevada restrict the collection of foods like nuts and berries to a quart a day, and only for personal consumption. The mushrooms pop to the surface where they release spores that are borne by the wind, as part of mycelium reproduction.

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Electric Auto Association

JANUARY 5, 2023

Founding EVA chapter connects with entrepreneurial stars. He was also the owner of the California Poppy Porsche 914. Eventually moving to Alameda, California, the manufacturer was later renamed REVO Powertrains. He’s also a guest scientist at Livermore Labs ” in Livermore, California. That was quite a conversion.”

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Clean Fleet Report

JULY 1, 2023

In 217 miles driving mostly on Southern California freeways, we averaged 25.3 The G90 has limited wind and road noise partly due to the low 0.27 Bluetooth connection for up to two devices, USB C-type power and data ports, wireless phone charging and a Wi-Fi Hotspot complete the technology.

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Clean Fleet Report

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Autobahn roaming Southern California. There was good lateral stability in the chassis making for solid and confident highway cruising, no wind buffeting from passing big rigs, and tight cornering even with the before mentioned all-season tires. coefficient of drag (C d ) helped it slice through the wind.

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Clean Fleet Report

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Kia invited media to the Alila Marea Beach Resort in Encinitas, California, from which we ventured out over the Cuyamaca Mountains and through the Cleveland National Forest to the 1800s silver mining town of Julian , with an elevation of 4,245 feet. Driving Experience: On the Road. The center dash houses the 10.25-inch

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