Cars That Think

MAY 9, 2024

The accelerating buildout of solar farms on Earth is already hitting speed bumps, including public pushback against the large tracts of land required and a ballooning backlog of requests for new transmission lines and grid connections. The glamorous vision has inspired numerous futuristic proposals.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2019

For the Transportation sector, EIA projects that energy consumption will decline between 2019 and 2037 (in the Reference case) because increases in fuel economy more than offset growth in vehicle miles traveled (VMT). Light-duty vehicle miles traveled increases by 20% in the Reference case, growing from 2.9 trillion miles in 2018 to 3.5

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Transportation Energy Fuel Economy 2018 207

Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2011

For the report, central-station generation refers to >100 MW, with the exception of some renewable-resource-based technologies. impacts on existing generating plants from pending or anticipated environmental rules on emissions, use of water resources, and coal ash handling and disposal. The capital cost learning curve. Source: EPRI.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2016

A team led by Professor Jae Sung Lee at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), with colleagues at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), have developed a new pathway for the direct conversion of CO 2 to liquid transportation fuels by reaction with renewable hydrogen produced by solar water splitting.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 3, 2014

The reference vehicle has a mass of 1,350 kg (2,976 lbs), with 70 kW (94 hp) equivalent ICE power. Electricity sources include nuclear; combined cycle plant using natural gas; coal; oil; waste incineration; combined heat and power (wood, diesel, natural gas, biogas); wind; solar; hydro; and pumped storage.

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Alternative Fuels Emissions Fuel Switzerland 252

Baua Electric

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Renewable energy integration refers to the process of efficiently incorporating renewable energy sources into existing energy systems. This involves the seamless blending of renewable energy, such as solar, wind, hydro, and geothermal power, into the overall energy infrastructure to meet the growing demand for clean and sustainable energy.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

Bars for different years in the same pathway represent improvements in the costs of the specific pathway, based on specific reference data for the appropriate year and pathway. Progress continued in several key areas, including electrolysis, photoelectrochemical (PEC), biological, and solar-thermochemical hydrogen production.

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Hydrogen Renewable Carbon Production 225

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

A negative value means the case has a lower TCE than the reference case. They considered biomass, wind, solar, and municipal waste resources within the Eastern Interconnection eligible to meet RESs. increase in overall electric demand in 2030 relative to the reference case with no EVs. Credit: ACS, Choi et al. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2010

fuel cells, batteries, bio-hydrocarbon fuels and solar); the 10 papers from ES&T speak to how energy could—or should—be cleverly harnessed. This systems-level change, sometimes referred to as the New Industrial Revolution, will require novel materials as well as savvy analysis and modeling to ensure success.

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San Francisco Coal Solar Fuel 170

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 18, 2011

Consumption of coal, the most carbon-intensive fossil fuel, rose by 6% in 2010 after falling by 12% in 2009. The Reference case in our latest energy outlook projects significantly slower emissions growth over the next decade, averaging 0.2 A large drop in hydropower generation offset much of the increase in nuclear and wind and solar.

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2010 Carbon Emissions Energy 268

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JUNE 7, 2017

Compared to the reference case, in which gasoline vehicles (ICEVs) remain dominant through 2050 (BAU), OPT results in 16% and 36% reductions in LDV greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for 2030 and 2050, respectively, corresponding to 5% and 9% reductions in economy-wide emissions.

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JANUARY 25, 2012

nation’s electricity will come from clean sources, including renewable energy sources such as wind, solar, biomass, and hydropower; nuclear power; efficient natural gas; and lower emission coal. The EIA’s Reference case for 2035 projects 66% fossil (coal and natural gas), 18% nuclear and 16% from renewables.).

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MARCH 20, 2017

Primary CO 2 emissions reduction potential by technology in the Reference Case and REmap, 2015-2050. This is in addition to the investment of US$116 trillion already envisaged in the Reference Case. Coal use would decline most rapidly. Click to enlarge. Electric vehicles need to become the predominant car type in 2050.

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EV Info

AUGUST 13, 2021

Clueless ministers are scrambling to shore up a key part of the country’s net zero carbon strategy after the findings in a peer-reviewed study suggested that even hydrogen produced using allegedly low-emission methods can be more polluting than gas or coal. Hydrogen can also be generated by electrolysis of water.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2014

The value allocated here in EPA’s goal-setting formula was an average heat rate improvement of 6% for coal steam electric generating units (EGUs). EPA is proposing a BSER goal approach referred to as Option 1 and taking comment on a second approach (Option 2). the remainder from other sources, including wind and solar.

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JULY 17, 2015

In this paper PHEV refers solely to the long-range PHEV of 60 miles (100 km) electric-only range.) It solves the storage problems faced by the electric utility companies in absorbing and adapting to the highly variable power and energy generated by solar and wind. Distributed Solar and Wind with the PHEV. References.

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JULY 3, 2015

These 9 combinations became the reference scenarios with defined fuel requirements and GHG emissions. The reference case scenarios assume no change to GHG intensity from current levels. The climate-targeted scenarios included cellulosic biofuel substitution to reduce GHG from light duty transportation to 20% of the reference GHG.

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Carbon EPRI Gasoline-Electric Climate 150

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MARCH 6, 2010

coal-fired power plants) would either be required by the emissions cap. Methane (CH 4 ) emissions from landfills, livestock operations, or coal mines (GWP = 25). Supplementarity refers to the idea that the role of offsets in an emission reduction program should be secondary to reduction efforts at regulated emission sources.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 29, 2022

Second, conventional coal and nuclear plants are being retired for economic and policy reasons, removing stable sources from the grid. The brown line shows the uncoordinated load from 1,000 electric water heaters for reference. We think there’s a better way. during the summer, when usage is historically high. Mads Almassalkhi et al.,

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Power Grid Grid Power Powered 112

Charged EVs

DECEMBER 14, 2021

In this article we’ll be taking a closer look at ways to minimize charging losses that are under the control of either the manufacturer or the owner of the EV (in other words, excluding things like changing the electrical generation source from coal to nuclear or solar, as helpful as that would be).

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Get Electric Vehicle

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Solar charging stations and Conventional charging stations (electricity from coal) comparison. For calculations and formulae, you may refer NPTEL course, then you may get some information from IEEE I guess.😊 Solar-powered charging station for EV – Feasibility study. #61 Battery manufacturing etc. Thank you.

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IDEA Electric Vehicles Vehicles Electrical 98

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JULY 22, 2009

Auerbach adds that due to economies of scale and over capacity in the industry “ wind energy should have a 20% reduction in equipment costs within the next year ” and he has seen realistic projections of “ solar, with a 10% tax credit, being competitive with baseline generation in 2020 ”. Cap and Trade Disappointment.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 17, 2022

China, the world’s largest producer of hydrogen at upwards of 25 million tonnes a year, derives 62 percent of its total from coal, which creates 18 to 20 kg of CO 2 per kg of hydrogen. A massive substation at the coal-fired Intermountain Power Plant in Utah links the facility to transmission lines that deliver power to southern California.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

But when people talk about payback, they refer only to the net dollars to the driver. But its monumentally less pollution , even on the national (half-coal) grid. I love the idea of powering my car from solar power. Please see our Plug-In Hybrids page Wheres the payback? How about putting PV cells on the roof of a PHEV?

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

They think BYD has a shot at becoming the worlds largest automaker, primarily by selling electric cars, as well as a leader in the fast-growing solar power industry. His engineers investigate a wide array of technologies, from automobile air-conditioning systems that can run on batteries to the design of solar-powered streetlights.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 6, 2024

They certainly don’t understand the interdependencies, which are very similar to the software development processes you were just referring to. In fact, Ozzie Zehner wrote an article for us way back in the mid-Teens about the— the dirty secret behind your electric car is the coal that fuels it. I think that— Goldstein: But it’s true.

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Creative Greenius

JANUARY 15, 2009

And that’s exactly the way I’m feeling about the Los Angeles Times this week after reading two separate articles in the space of four days claiming that solar panels may do more harm than good. Your Creative Greenius says that’s too little, too late.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 20, 2022

The life cycle to which we refer has two parts: The vehicle cycle begins with mining the raw materials, refining them, turning them into components, and assembling them. 70 percent of lithium-ion batteries are produced in China, which derived 64 percent of its electricity from coal in 2020. But coal use varies, even within China.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

Cap-and-trade was first tried on a significant scale twenty years ago under the first Bush administration as a way to address the problem of airborne sulfur dioxide pollution–widely known as acid rain–from coal-burning power plants in the eastern United States. Graham recently declared, “ Economy-wide cap-and-trade is dead. ” Reduced Output.

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