Cars That Think

JUNE 12, 2023

The shipping containers, which house a Frankenstein-like assortment of machine parts—motors repurposed from Volvo truck engines, giant tanks of compressed air, huge silos of piping hot sand—are produced by a company called Cheesecake Energy. Getting a 100 percent decarbonized grid is nothing but an optimization problem.”—Matthew

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Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2016

—Ju Li, the Battelle Energy Alliance Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering at MIT. Overall, the new battery system is “ very scalable, cheap, and much safer ” than lithium-air batteries, Li says. The carbonate they use as the liquid electrolyte in this battery “ is the cheapest kind ” of electrolyte, he says.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2019

Professor Kondo-Francois Aguey-Zinsou and his team at UNSW’s School of Chemical Engineering have developed a system that provides cheap storage and transportation of hydrogen which they expect will provide a new alternative for energy storage within two years. —Professor Aguey-Zinsou.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2019

Fuel cell plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (FC-PHEVs) can have extended range while utilizing cheap grid electricity, but has poor durability of onboard fuel cells due to dynamic loading. With our design approach, the cost could be comparable or even cheaper than gasoline engines. The future is very bright. 2019.02.040.

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My Energi

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

And that’s not all, while the purchase price of EVs has continued to tumble, comparable finance rates are still far higher than their internal combustion engine (ICE) counterparts. 40 i (40 kWh) – Cheap to run, cheap to buy, the Renault Zoe is the perfect all-rounder. Renault ZOE Z.E.40

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Improved battery technology plus access to cheap renewable electricity open the possibility of battery-electric rail. In diesel-electric trains, a diesel engine is connected to an alternator that then supplies electricity to electric motors connected to the locomotive axles. Popovich, N.D., Rajagopal, D.,

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The Truth About Cars

OCTOBER 30, 2023

For ages, this writer used a gasoline-powered pressure washer, firm in the belief it ran better and more reliably than any cheap electric plug-in unit ever would. The battery is a large cube and sits where the gasoline engine resided on my old pressure washer, consuming about the same amount of space. Its total capacity is just over 1.0

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2014

To compensate for the increased amounts of these inherently–variable sources of electricity, the power grid requires additional flexibility to manage fluctuations in generation. But allowing grid operators to control electric vehicle charging speed could reduce these costs further. —Weis et al.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 18, 2023

Their journey began with a question posed by its founders, Tommi Eronen and Markku Ylönen, when they were university classmates: “Is it possible to build an energy-self-sufficient and cost-effective hippie commune for engineers using only solar power?” Sand is efficient, nontoxic, portable, and cheap!”. “We Eronen says, laughing.

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EV Central

OCTOBER 20, 2022

litre combustion petrol engine allied with twin electric motors, a 20kWh lithium-ion battery pack and all-wheel-drive. Even when you stomp on the throttle the petrol engine maintains its slumber. You hardly notice the shift from pure EV running to the petrol engine firing up, and that’s rare indeed in PHEVs.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2009

The funding from A*STAR’s Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC) will support research teams from A*STAR research institutes and local institutes of higher learning to develop solutions to manage environmental deterioration, pressures on natural resources and climate change brought on by rapid growth and urbanization.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 23, 2023

At one point they passed a fire engine, which the car’s software mistook for a mere truck: a bug, though no one was endangered. People build a safety-critical system, then they put a cheap commercial software product in the middle of it. I know of no examples of someone shutting down a grid with malware. What’s next?

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My Energi

AUGUST 18, 2023

While perceived battery life is still a concern for some motorists, experts suggest that the average electric vehicle battery (EVB) can last almost 20 years, or 200,000 miles – a significantly longer lifespan than the typical internal combustion engine and far longer than today’s average length of vehicle ownership.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2010

The most popular time to charge vehicles is overnight but as around eight in 10 journeys use less than 18% of the battery and five average length journeys could be completed on one charge, there is now evidence to support the need for intelligent technology that will allow electric vehicles to interact with the national grid.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

To help California mitigate its ever-growing wildfires, this year CalSEED has included companies that are innovating in technologies that will build wildfire resiliency into the grid. This novel technology would deliver safe, reliable, resilient, and cost-effective electric power in the grid.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2009

While OEMs and utilities continue to define and refine hardware standards and communication protocols for smart charging, a tremendous amount of work needs to be done in preparing both the grid and the process to accommodate the expected influx of plug-ins, and to make the process as easy as possible for consumers.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2015

During the late innings of the ICE-age (as in the Internal Combustion Engine age) it has become clear that feeding gasoline and diesel to the next billion new cars is not going to be easy, or cheap. Silicon based PV, on the other hand, is hugely scalable and relatively cheap. by Henry Hewitt for Oilprice.com. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2009

ARPA-E requests innovative proposals which can overcome these challenges through the utilization of metabolic engineering and synthetic biological approaches for the efficient conversion of carbon dioxide to liquid transportation fuels. Although photosynthetic routes show promise, overall efficiencies remain low.

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Charged EVs

AUGUST 2, 2023

Most commercial trucks are engineered for 1.2 Most commercial trucks are engineered for 1.2 million miles, so the engineering that goes into making those vehicles be able to perform and last that long has to apply to the battery pack as well. This project is currently at the stage of conducting grid readiness assessments.]

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2009

Systematica, a design and engineering firm based in Italy with clients throughout the world, combines a traditional engineering company with an urban planning studio. They are the responsible for providing the system engineering for Masdar’s PRT network. Earlier post.) LG : I do not have an answer to this question, sorry.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Updated to attribute projection on “smart-grid&# earnings to FERC Chairman.). By contrast, hybrid vehicles that mix traditional internal- combustion engines with electric power accounted for less than 3% of car sales in 2008, more than a decade after their introduction. UPDATE:Group Seeks US Tax Credits To Spur Electric Car Use.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2020

Sodium-ion batteries (SIBs), with the intrinsic advantages of resource abundance and geographic uniformity, are desired alternative battery technology to Li-ion batteries (LIBs) for grid-scale energy storage and transportation applications. A paper on their work is published in the journal, ACS Energy Letters.

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My Electric Car

AUGUST 21, 2020

There has been much discussion for over thirty years or more around the use of hydrogen fuel cells as an alternative to the internal combustion engine. Fuel cells had been promoted in some sectors as the best alternative to the internal combustion engine. Hence its supply would not be cheap, renewable nor sustainable in the long term.

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The Truth About Cars

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Although it looks cheap, the feel of the door handle is more premium than you might expect. Outside the LE there’s a constant reminder of base trim via some very cheap-looking plastic wheel covers. A backup camera is standard on all models and has decent clarity and grid lines to indicate how close objects are. cubic feet.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 30, 2024

Their main raw input — sodium — is abundant and cheap. For some uses, such as the high-capacity batteries that back up solar power plants or support the electric grid, physical size doesn’t matter much. have committed to lowering their emissions, and batteries connected to renewable grids could provide one avenue to do it.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2018

The new one needs only about 500 degrees—a notch cooler than automobile combustion engines, which run at around 600 degrees Celsius. The researchers feel confident that engineers can design electric power units around this fuel cell with reasonable effort, something that has eluded previous methane fuel cells.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 17, 2009

Fully charged, the 150Kw engine Lotus Elises will have a range of between 200km and 300km, and accelerate from 0km  100km/h in 4.7 The VW Golfs have smaller 75Kw engines, and make 100km/h in nine seconds, with a range of 200km. The cost of batteries is not a problem when this is organized in the right way.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

JANUARY 28, 2009

charger is also required, though ideally the existing motor controllers might be used as grid chargers. Vehicle-to-grid interface technology is also particularly well suited to Plug-in vehicles. Recharge a Car, Recharge the Grid, Recharge the Planet Google.org supports PHEV & V2G with [link] project. In English-system (vs.

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Charged EVs

APRIL 19, 2023

I saw them from day one, and I realized that they didn’t have enough capital or engineering power to keep up. And they assigned us every bit of capacity that was available on the grid. Washington state has an abundance of power very cheap from all the hydro. Vehicle-to-grid (V2G) tech is a hot topic these days.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Electric cars and a smart electric grid have a bright future, according to panelists at a roundtable discussion on the subject that I attended last Friday in Boston. “I Vehicle-to-grid is, I believe, the salvation of the automotive industry in the United States,” declared Marc Spitzer, an agency commissioner who was also on the panel.

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Green Charging

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

We do not want to waste money on cheap, low-quality commodities. It’s because a motor drives these vehicles, while the rechargeable batteries provide power to run the engine. Smart charging involves intelligent management of how your EV charges, by connecting it to a grid or a solar pv network. We want to save money.

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Cars That Think

JULY 21, 2021

“We confirmed 100 days durability, which is one of the longest periods among experimentally confirmed PEC water splitting materials,” says Masashi Kato , a professor of electrical and mechanical engineering at Nagoya Institute of Technology. Devices aren’t cheap, efficient, or durable enough yet to move out of the lab. .

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Cars That Think

APRIL 7, 2022

In front of me, I see a large wooden board, painted black and punctuated by a grid of metal holes. Adjusted for inflation, they cost about US $8,000 and weren’t even a thousandth as fast as a cheap gaming computer today. Which brings me back to the skydiving engineers testing experimental parachutes. The board is real.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2009

In general, the sponsor’s goal is to use as much cheap debt financing and as little equity as possible to complete the deal. Generally, there are three parties involved: The sponsor or developer, equity investors and debt lenders. The sponsor is the person who is responsible for the overall execution and has the greatest risk/reward.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Millions will plug-in their electric vehicles (EV), plug-in hybrids (PHEV) and fuel cell vehicles (FCV) at night when electricity is cheap, then plug-in during the day when energy is expensive and sell those extra electrons at a profit. Smart Grid City will use a realtime high-speed two-way communication throughout the distribution grid.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 2, 2022

Right before the robot was brought on stage, one of the engineers made clear that this was going to be the first time that the robot would be walking untethered and unsupported. “I think there’s some potential that what we’re doing here at Tesla could make a meaningful contribution to AGI.” Yeah, I’m not touching that.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Millions will plug-in their electric vehicles [EV], plug-in hybrids [PHEV] and fuel cell vehicles [FCV] at night when electricity is cheap, then plug-in during the day when energy is expensive and sell those extra electrons at a profit. Smart Grid City will use a realtime high-speed two-way communication throughout the distribution grid.

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