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A wood-burning EV charger? – Charged EVs

Baua Electric

The Battery Storage Module, which Air Burners developed in consultation with Rolls-Royce, can store 450 kWh of energy, and the attached charging station can recharge battery-electric machines and tools, from chainsaws to excavators. The three companies will host a demonstration event for the BioCharger in early 2024.

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4,000 Robots Roam the Oceans, Climate in Their Crosshairs

Cars That Think

In the puzzle of climate change, the Earth’s oceans are an immense and crucial piece. But gathering accurate and sufficient data about the oceans to feed climate and weather models has been a huge technical challenge. What the Argo system has discovered about the oceans and their role in climate change.

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New analysis find West Antarctic warming more than expected

Green Car Congress

Due to its location some 700 miles from the South Pole and near the center of the WAIS, conditions at Byrd Station are an important indicator of climate change throughout the region. The stakes would be much higher if a similar event occurred to an ice shelf restraining one of the enormous WAIS glaciers. degrees Fahrenheit (2.4

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EV Charging and Parking: a win-win for everyone

Driivz

Widespread EV adoption is essential to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and recharging the planet by mitigating climate change. Helping to meet climate goals while meeting the need for EV charging is a natural fit for parking lot and garage operators looking for revenue growth opportunities.

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Ricardo, National Grid study explores market potential for grid-balancing services for plug-in vehicles

Green Car Congress

Reserve services deal with variations in electricity demand and actual out-turn of variable generation output against forecasts, as well as to cover unplanned events such as generating plant failures. This can be required in order to aid system recovery or to cover predictable but dramatic changes in demand.

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2023’s Top Stories About Energy

Cars That Think

And yet more air conditioning exacerbates the very problem—climate change—that is driving the need for more air conditioning. EnerVenue If you don’t discharge and then recharge them all the way, lithium-ion batteries can last for thousands of charge-discharge cycles. What to do? Two words: heat pumps.

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Volvo To Go All Electric By 2030 – EV Week in Review: Feb 23-Mar 1

EV Adoption

Volvo reveals C40 Recharge “SUV coupe” – Volvo revealed its new C40 Recharge “SUV coupe” which according to the company “has all the benefits of an SUV but with a lower and sleeker design.” We are firmly committed to becoming an electric-only car maker and the transition should happen by 2030.”

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