Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

million to seven projects to develop medium- and heavy-duty electric vehicle (EV) charging and hydrogen corridor infrastructure plans across 23 states. Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator: First to Last Mile: Creating an Integrated Goods Movement Charging Network around the I-710 Corridor. National Grid: Northeast Electric Highways Study.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

The US Department of Energy is awarding $620 million for projects around the country to demonstrate advanced Smart Grid technologies and integrated systems. Smart grid regional demonstrations involving plug-in vehicles include (ranked by DOE funding): Columbus Southern Power Company (doing business as AEP Ohio).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2015

Results from the study also suggest that with sufficient coal plant retirement and sufficient wind power, controlled charging could result in positive net benefits instead of negative. Reduction in annual generation cost and external emissions costs due to controlled charging compared to uncontrolled charging ($2010).

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Electric Auto Association

MAY 3, 2022

Submitted to the Ohio Senate Energy and Public Utilities Committee in support of Senate Bill 307: Accelerating Ohio's Auto Industry By Tim Benford, president of Drive Electric Dayton. I love that my EV is so efficient: EVs convert over 77% of the electrical energy from the grid to power at the wheels.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2021

GM’s focus will be offering zero-emissions vehicles across a range of price points and working with all stakeholders, including EDF, to build out the necessary charging infrastructure and promote consumer acceptance while maintaining high quality jobs, which will all be needed to meet these ambitious goals.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 31, 2023

NASA Battery Tech to Deliver for the Grid EnerVenue’s nickel-hydrogen battery cells are 1.8 EnerVenue If you don’t discharge and then recharge them all the way, lithium-ion batteries can last for thousands of charge-discharge cycles. Now imagine a battery that can last through tens of thousands of charge-discharge cycles.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2020

AOI 03: Utility Managed Smart Charging Research and Demonstration. e-Mosaic: Electrification Mosaic Platform for Grid- Informed Smart Charging Management. Resilient-Interoperable-Smart Charge Management Control Systems Architecture for EVs at scale. Utility Managed Smart Charging for Consumer and Grid Benefits.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2016

US Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx announced that Columbus, OH has been selected as the winner of the US Department of Transportation’s Smart City Challenge. Earlier post.) As winner of the Challenge, Columbus will receive up to $40 million from US DOT and up to $10 million from Paul G. Allen’s Vulcan Inc.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2016

The collaboration, forged by the White House in partnership with DOE and the Department of Transportation (DOT), the US Air Force and US Army, and the Environmental Protection Agency, is centered on a set of Guiding Principles to Promote Electric Vehicles and Charging Infrastructure. 46 organizations have signed on to the principles so far.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2012

and will launch manufacturing later this year at its newly expanded facility near Toledo, Ohio. This includes a reinforced plastic case, a venting system that better maintains the seal over life, increased charge acceptance on the negative grid, and higher density material on the positive grid to improve cycling.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2015

Toshiba Corporation has received an order to supply a large-scale battery energy storage system (BESS) for a power frequency regulation project in Hamilton, Ohio. Toshiba’s SCiB charges and discharges efficiently in a wide range of temperatures, high and low. The BESS started operation in January this year.

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Plug in America

JULY 21, 2023

Plus, if you are able to charge at home, it’s really convenient. Like your smartphone, you plug it in when you arrive home and forget about it until you wake in the morning to a fully-charged battery. Depending on your electric utility, you may be able to save even more money by setting your car to charge at off-peak rates.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2014

The project, funded by DTE Energy, will provide employees with 360 covered parking spaces and 30 charging stations for plug-in electric vehicles such as the company’s Ford Fusion Energi and C-MAX Hybrid Energi. Ford Motor Company is teaming with DTE Energy to build Michigan’s largest solar array at Ford World Headquarters.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2015

announced another win for its retrofitted vehicle electrification system, with the successful installation of the XL3 Hybrid Electric Drive System in the fleet of Watkins Heating & Cooling, a family-owned and operated HVAC service company headquartered in Springboro, Ohio. XL Hybrids, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

The first project, in partnership with the Ohio State University, PACCAR, NREL and Argonne National Laboratory and funded with $4.5 The buses will use an on-board 20 kW charger for off-duty charging; for an external in-route fast-charger, the team will use a 450 kW charger. Fast charge time of 5 minutes. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

The US Department of Energy announced $35 million in awards for 12 projects that find new ways to harness medium-voltage electricity for applications in industry, transportation, on the grid and beyond. GE Global Research, Inline Gas Discharge Tube Breaker for Meshed MVDC Grids – $4,350,686.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 24, 2009

An intelligent vehicle-to-grid communications and control system for its plug-in hybrid electric vehicles that “talks” directly with the nation’s electric grid has been unveiled today courtesy of carmaker, Ford. The first of the specially equipped plug-in hybrids has been delivered to American Electric Power of Columbus, Ohio.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

American Electric Power of Columbus, Ohio. National Grid of Waltham, Mass. This allows EPRI and Ford, which first entered into a three-year agreement in March, to study regional differences and the impact on the electric grid as well as the vehicles. Consolidated Edison of New York. Alabama Power of Birmingham, Ala.;

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2016

A team at the Ohio State University has developed a membrane that regulates bi-directional ion transport across it as a function of its redox state and that could be used as a programmable smart membrane separator in future supercapacitors and redox flow batteries. plugin EVs to Tesla’s 85 kWh battery pack). Herya and Sundaresan (2016).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2012

According to testing performed to date at the Ohio State University’s Center for Automotive Research (CAR) and the very low observed rate of aging, cells built with A123’s Nanophosphate EXT are expected to be capable of retaining more than 90% of initial capacity after 2,000 full charge-discharge cycles at 45 C. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2016

Demonstrate plug‐in electric vehicles through local showcases in key markets throughout major metropolitan areas in seven Midwest states: Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and North Dakota. Grid Modernization for Electric Vehicles (Area of Interest 2). Ohio State University. Drive Oregon. Description.

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The Truth About Cars

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

It does, however, limit the overall range on a full charge to around 274 miles, which requires selecting the “Conserve” mode on the center touchscreen.& When dealing with a vehicle with relatively few public charging options, having all of the data possible when managing a road trip is crucial. I’m not quite there yet in my world.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 20, 2010

David Greene, Corporate Fellow, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Dr. Joan Ogden, Professor and Research Director, University of California, Davis; and Dr. Giorgio Rizzoni, Professor and Research Director, Ohio State University—were invited to provide independent scientific advice on the ZEV documents released by staff on 25 November 2009.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Field-Focused Load-Leveled Dynamic Wireless Charging System for Electric Vehicles - $1,425,000. Cornell University seeks to develop a breakthrough wireless charging system for stationary and dynamic charging of electric vehicles (EVs), with significant improvements compared with state-of-the-art solutions. Stanford University.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2009

Finally, they believe that during the launch and operation of their business, located in Appalachian Ohio, they will bring economic opportunity to a rural community that has been struggling financially over the last several decades. We can make our facilities custom tailored for a site, corn in Ohio, it might be sorghum in Texas.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Laredo Bus Facility Solar Canopies: Provide shade structures with integrated, grid tied photovoltaic cells to be erected on the bus storage lot at the Laredo Bus Maintenance Facility. The project includes quick-charging stations at this terminal layover in route to recharge bus batteries.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2021

De Nora Tech, LLC (Concord, Ohio). Grid-Edge Intelligent Distribution Automation System for Self-Healing Distribution Grids, $550,000. Hydrogen Based Power Grid Support Using ElectrolyzeRs with Value Stacking (HYPER-V), $250,000. High-Power Oak Ridge Converter (ORC) for Extreme Fast Charging (XFC) Applications, $750,000.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2015

After debuting the first solar air battery—a photo-assisted charging Li-O 2 battery—last fall ( earlier post ), researchers at The Ohio State University led by Professor Yiying Wu have now developed a new system combining a solar cell and a battery into a single device. Credit: ACS, Yu et al. Click to enlarge.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 7, 2023

Public Utility Commissions (PUCs)] and many state and federal agencies,” states a report by the non-profit group Americans for a Clean Energy Grid. Affordability is expected to be just one highly contentious issue: Who, exactly, is going to pay for grid upgrades?

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Electric Auto Association

JUNE 18, 2021

Uniting with PG&E as a grid resource BMW and the California utility are expanding their ChargeForward pilot program to promote better use of the grid. 7-Eleven charging stations. Charging stations Thank heaven for… 7-Eleven announced the addition of 500 EV ports by the end of 2022. Tesla climate control.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Green Energy Ohio plant in Dayton, OH. Whereas, battery EVs fueled on average grid electricity emit 105–124 g CO2 eq./km, UCS also reported that once the grid is fully renewable, the number for EVs is reduced to 41 g CO2 eq./km. years if the car is charged using renewable energy. km over their lifetime.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Green Energy Ohio plant in Dayton, OH. Whereas, battery EVs fueled on average grid electricity emit 105–124 g CO2 eq./km, UCS also reported that once the grid is fully renewable, the number for EVs is reduced to 41 g CO2 eq./km. years if the car is charged using renewable energy. km over their lifetime.

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EV Adoption

MARCH 9, 2021

Beginning with 2022 model-year, Volvo EVs will come with an expanded Care by Volvo package that includes service, roadside assistance, home charging, and insurance where possible. Batteries and Charging. The sales process will lock in “transparent and set pricing models”—and technically makes its EVs available online.

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