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Profiteering Hampers U.S. Grid Expansion

Cars That Think

The United States is not building enough transmission lines to connect regional power networks. About 40 corporations, valued at a trillion dollars, own the vast majority of transmission lines in the United States. system fragmented into about a dozen regions with limited connectivity between them.

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NuScale and Prodigy sign MoU for marine-deployed generating station powered by NuScale SMR

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Once berthed, the plant would be connected to the existing shore-side transmission system, avoiding the significant capital costs associated with terrestrial nuclear power plant deployments. This translates to lower costs and shorter schedules in comparison to land-based deployments.

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Lordstown seeks purchaser amid Foxconn fiasco; negative takers to this point

Baua Electric

As Lordstown was once privately navigating the Foxconn do business in, it was once publicly pausing manufacturing and deliveries of the Perpetuity and recalling 19 pickups, each in buyer arms and in utility internally, for {an electrical} connection disease. Its field and payload are under the trade usual.

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Toyota and DENSO develop of device enabling real-time vehicle data collection and transmission

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Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) and DENSO Corporation (DENSO) jointly have developed an onboard communications network device, CAN-Gateway ECU (Controller Area Network-Gateway Electronic Control Unit), that can take data gathered while driving and apply it to create a virtual simulation. Densan System Co.,

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Toyota to pioneer use of biosynthetic rubber in engine and drive system hoses

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Jointly developed by Toyota, Zeon Corporation , and Sumitomo Riko Co., Since plants absorb CO 2 from the atmosphere during their lifespan, such bio-materials achieve an estimated 20% reduction in material lifecycle carbon emissions in comparison to conventional petroleum-based hydrin rubber.

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CEO Mary Barra & General Motors Make Sure The Greenius Is Rewarded For His Many Years Of EV Advocacy

Creative Greenius

As a former top corporate subject matter expert, I took a very deep made myself a environmental resource for others in my reincarnation as The Creative Greenius and author of this blog. I started learning about, writing about, and promoting electric cars in 2007. The 2007 EV Parade in Santa Monica with State Senator Fran Pavley.

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The environmental impact of electric cars

Drive Electric

The UK also hopes to connect more and more EVs to the electricity grid to share power at peak times, in something called vehicle to grid charging (V2G). In comparison – a combustion engine car’s brakes convert kinetic energy into wasted heat to slow the vehicle. Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a big deal these days.