Green Car Congress

AUGUST 11, 2010

Xcel Energy has released the preliminary results from its wind-to-battery (W2B) storage project in Minnesota, and termed the technology successful. In October 2008, Xcel began testing a one-megawatt sodium-sulfur (NaS) battery ( earlier post ) to demonstrate its ability to store wind energy and move it to the electricity grid when needed.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

billion) to accelerate the rollout of chargepoints for electric vehicles in homes, streets and on motorways across England, so people can more easily and conveniently charge their cars. The 10 main points of the overall plan are: Offshore wind: Producing enough offshore wind to power every home, quadrupling production to 40GW by 2030.

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Blink Charging

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

If an EV is charged with electricity that is produced by burning fossil fuel such as coal or natural gas, there are still greenhouse gas emissions associated with running the vehicle. View the Case Study How much funding is available for EV charging at school districts?

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2015

million grant to the Center for Sustainable Energy (CSE) to lead development of an advanced management platform for integrating electric vehicle (EV) charging with utility-scale energy systems. The California Energy Commission has awarded a $1.5 —Mike Ferry, PI and CSE’s senior manager for advanced energy projects.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2022

million in grant funding secured earlier this year. These materials can be used in electric car batteries increasing the energy and power density, speeding up the charge rate and improving the lifetime significantly. UP Catalyst uses a molten salt carbon capture and electrochemical transformation method to reprocess the CO 2.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2014

The California Energy Commission approved its first $10 million to fund Electric Program Investment Charge (EPIC) research and development (R&D) projects during its monthly business meeting today. 1 million to use high-fidelity solar forecasting to predict load impacts on California’s electricity grid and reduce solar integration costs.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Solar panel output depends on the weather, for example, as do wind turbines. At the other end of the grid, electric vehicles need charging for only a certain amount of time every day, and when not in use could be used as temporary batteries to store energy from renewables.

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Blink Charging

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

federal government is actively facilitating EV adoption, aiming to simplify the purchasing process for consumers , encourage companies to electrify their fleets , and assist businesses in installing EV charging stations. Installing a BESS on-site helps alleviate this grid demand for EV charging.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2019

million in Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II Release 2 grants to projects that demonstrate commercial feasibility for innovations during the second phase of their research. The US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) is awarding $43.6 Awards include: Accustrata Inc.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

—Glenn Grant, principal investigator. But reducing motor volume is limited by the materials used in current electric vehicles and electrical conductivity limitations of copper windings. Additionally, components need to fit within increasingly smaller spaces available in the vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 18, 2009

The Ford PHEV charge settings user interface. Using the system, for example, a vehicle owner could choose to accept a charge only during off-peak hours between midnight and 6 a.m. when electricity rates are cheaper, or when the grid is using only renewable energy such as wind or solar power. This grant will be matched by Ford.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2019

Supported by a new five-year, $500,000- grant from the National Science Foundation, a researcher from the University of Kansas is developing machine learning technology to monitor and prevent overheating in lithium-ion batteries. The problem is more pressing for large systems as they face higher vulnerabilities. —Huazhen Fang.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 1, 2024

A lot of fuss was made this winter when some Tesla owners in Chicago experienced difficulty charging – but that wasn’t the experience for the majority of EV owners. In Colorado’s West Grand School District, electric school buses didn’t perform as well as their diesel counterparts. They performed better.

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My Energi

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Zero rating will also be granted to products installed at commercial properties used solely for charitable purposes. The move essentially means that investing in next-generation solutions to improve energy efficiency and reduce energy bills will be easier and more cost-effective than ever before for UK households.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2013

Researchers at MIT are proposing using a variation on pumped hydroelectric systems for storage of electricity produced by offshore wind farms. The key to this Ocean Renewable Energy Storage (ORES) system is the placement of 30-meter-diameter hollow concrete spheres on the seafloor under the wind turbines. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 14, 2009

But the most immediate and pervasive risk to the economy is a wholesale collapse of the automotive supply base, Grant Thornton LLP partner Laura Marcero told the Automotive Press Association in Detroit. Grant Thornton LLP is the US member firm of Grant Thornton International Ltd, one of the six global audit, tax and advisory organizations.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 15, 2014

SwRI’s V2G aggregation system allows electric delivery truck fleet owners to make money by using normal vehicle charge times to assist in managing grid frequency. The SwRI system suspends vehicle charging when the electric grid frequency drops too far below 60 Hertz, the normal operating frequency. Click to enlarge.

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Plugs and Cars

MARCH 14, 2012

Some places have public charge stations. The USDOE counts over 5500 public charge stations. Is there public charging where you as a EV driver want to find it? Will you be able to simply plug in and charge? Will you be charged money? Drivers know only free beats home charging, unless you need it. per session.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2009

PSE will assist with the roll-out of charging stations for the Nissan LEAF and other EVs, and is studying how the increased use of EVs may impact the demand for energy and the energy infrastructure. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2011

The Clean Energy Patent Growth Index tracks the granting of US patents in solar, wind, hybrid/electric vehicles, fuel cells, hydroelectric, tidal/wave, geothermal, biomass/biofuels and clean, renewable energy. GM’s 135 patents represent nearly 14% of the total 1,881 received by 700 entities.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2014

This electricity is used to charge the flywheel, spinning it at up to 36,000 rpm. million) grant from the UK Technology Strategy Board (TSB), awarded in 2012. million (US$13-million) grant as part of a £15.6-million When the driver accelerates, the system works in reverse. In April, GKN and its partners received a £7.6-million

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

They say the smoke lowered the base of the clouds and increased wind shear, defined as wind speed variations with respect to altitude. In fact, the simulation including the smoke resulted in a lowered cloud base and greater wind shear. Together, those two conditions increased the likelihood of more severe tornadoes.

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Cars That Think

MAY 31, 2024

There’s another benefit to this battery, and this one will make EV drivers very happy: It will take only 10 minutes to reach an 80 percent charge in EVs powered by these batteries, Rustomji estimates. The tubes wind through servers, absorbing heat through cold plates, and return the warmed liquid to tanks in a cooling distribution unit.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2010

Remy HVH windings have a shorter end turn space than conventional round wires and are well-suited to liquid cooling. In contrast to conventional roundwire windings, the HVH stator winding uses precision-formed rectangular wires. The HVH windings are well-suited to liquid cooling that further enhances performance and reliability.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2019

solar, wind, hydroelectric, and nuclear) as compared to the eastern US (EUS), where the electricity market is dominated by pollutant and precursor emitting combustion sources (i.e., The research was supported by the Ubben Program for Carbon and Climate Science and the National Science Foundation (grant number CBET-1848683).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2010

Electric car company Aurica Motors, which plans to retool the NUMMI plant in California to build not only electric cars but compatible battery charging stations ( earlier post ), has entered two partnerships in support of its mission.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Energy is something we take for granted, because we just plug things into the wall, and it feels as inevitable as air. Through this process the biofuels generated enough electricity to power both the e-skin’s sensors and data transmission, continuously charging a capacitor from 1.5 volts for about 60 hours.

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Electric Auto Association

APRIL 5, 2022

Electricity is ubiquitous, EVs refuelable by wind, hydro, geothermal, solar, or traditional energy sources. An exponential increase in EVs will require exponential growth in the availability of locations to charge them. Learn the charging lexicon It is important to be familiar with charging level terminology.

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My Energi

JUNE 10, 2022

250 lucky fans will take away a pair of tickets, granting full entry to the exhibition and all breakout events. To be in with a chance of winning, simply ‘like’ myenergi on Facebook or Instagram and comment on the prize post tagging the person you’d most like to take with you.

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Get Electric Vehicle

JUNE 7, 2023

They need to be plugged into an external power source, such as a charging station or an electrical outlet, to recharge their batteries. #2 They have a larger battery pack than traditional hybrid vehicles, which can be charged by plugging into an external power source. . #3 3 What are the main components of an electric vehicle?

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2014

When the battery is being charged, some ions migrate through the insulating salt layer to collect at one of the terminals. Ambri has also received grants from the Office of Naval Research and the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

The US Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration (FTA) announced $55 million in grant selections through the Low or No Emission (Low-No) Vehicle program, which funds the development of transit buses and infrastructure that use advanced fuel technologies. Fifty-one projects in 39 states will receive a share of the funding.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Stanford University’s Precourt Institute for Energy (PIE), TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy and Precourt Energy Efficiency Center (PEEC) have awarded 9 faculty seed grants totaling $2.2 The long-term goal is to develop roadways that wirelessly charge electric cars and trucks cruising at highway speeds.

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Driivz

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The German government offers grants up to €9,000 plus tax reductions for fully electric passenger vehicles, €40,000 for small to medium-sized electric trucks and up to €500,000 for heavy-duty trucks. Bolstered by government funding, private companies drive growth in the EV charging infrastructure. million EVs on the road.

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 15, 2009

The bailout money they already got should grant us that right. Put Dr. Andrew Franks , Andy Grove and Elon Musk in charge of the new National Electric Motors Corporation. Sell every new plug-in car owner a solar or wind powered charging station for their car. The brain of GM has been dead for a long time now. No COBRA.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2016

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. [ Slow Level 1 charging [ 11 ] should be used to recharge PHEVLER batteries whenever possible.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Transit agencies began submitting their proposals after the FTA announced rules for the Transit Investments for Greenhouse Gas and Energy Reduction (TIGGER) grant program as part of the Recovery Act last March. Since President Obama signed ARRA into law in February, grants totaling more than $7.2 The DOT is making $48.1

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