Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2012

The limited global supply of platinum not only drives up price, but casts doubts on its long-term viability, Muckerman said, adding that “ There may not be enough of it to support a global hydrogen economy.”. —Wei-Fu Chen. The research was funded by Brookhaven’s Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 17, 2023

Alexander Gabay, a researcher at the University of Delaware, states flatly: “I am skeptical that any non-rare-earth permanent magnet could be used in a synchronous traction motor in the near future.” Ferrite magnets, based on a form of iron oxide, are cheap and account for nearly 30 percent of the permanent-magnet market by sales.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

Then, as electricity entrepreneurs expanded power generation and transmission capacity, they faced the new problem of what to do with all the cheap off-peak, nighttime electricity they could now produce. By the 1950s, the grid was moving electricity across time zones and national borders, tying in diverse sources of supply and demand.

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Charged EVs

APRIL 19, 2023

Companies that can secure adequate supplies of energy up front—staking out the electrical real estate, so to speak—have an ace in the hole. Washington state has an abundance of power very cheap from all the hydro. I watched the BMW i3s at Delaware University [an early V2X pilot], and my mind was blown. His name is Tom Gage.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

“I would say that electricity is a vastly superior fuel for the light vehicle fleet,” said Willett Kempton , a professor and alternative energy specialist at the University of Delaware. Electric cars in the garages would double as battery packs for when energy supplies are scarce. The elegance of that is wonderful. The best part?

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

It covers ten Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic states (Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont). Over the long term, capital adjustments can occur in the electricity supply technology and other production activities. Developing New Technologies.

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