Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Environmental costs are often not shown on financial statements because the bearers of such costs can be either particular individuals or society at large, are often both non-monetary and problematic to quantify for comparison with monetary values. Source: KPMG. Click to enlarge. billion by 2032.

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Drive Electric

MARCH 25, 2021

Regenerative braking is built into all electric vehicles and is a feature that helps you maximise range, and makes the process of braking less wasteful. In comparison – a combustion engine car’s brakes convert kinetic energy into wasted heat to slow the vehicle. As an example, the new Volkswagen ID.3

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 20, 2024

The IMO’s previous goal was a 50 percent reduction by 2050 in comparison with 2008 levels. The first was the American NS Savannah , built in the late 1950s at a cost of $46.9 Another plus for nuclear-propelled ships is easy access to an endless supply of cooling water. Cost also played a big role in NuScale Power Corp.’s

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Get Electric Vehicle

JUNE 7, 2023

The battery pack stores electrical energy and supplies power to the electric motor. 7 DC-DC Converter: A DC-DC converter converts high voltage DC supply from the battery to low voltage supply. Electric motors have higher efficiency rates compared to internal combustion engines, which waste a significant amount of energy as heat.

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EV Adoption

MARCH 3, 2021

Lucid’s top executive said the pandemic has affected the startup’s testing activities, supply chain, and its preparations for sales and service. The recall effort is expected to cost $900 million, which will make it the most expensive electric car recall ever. Batteries, Charging and Supply Chains.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2009

The Coskata process can produce more than 100 gallons of ethanol per ton of dry, ash-free biomass material at a cost competitive with expected gasoline prices—around $1.00 Actual production cost will vary, either below or above $1.00 per gallon, based on the cost of feedstock and the cost of power for the specific plant, he noted.

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My Electric Car

AUGUST 21, 2020

The only by products are water and a fair degree of heat, the latter indicating a degree of inefficiency and wasted energy. Hence its supply would not be cheap, renewable nor sustainable in the long term. The cost of platinum makes hydrogen fuel cells an expensive proposition even in comparison to lithium-ion batteries.

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Charged EVs

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Val Miftakhov: As you can imagine, we did a lot of this [comparison] early on as well. With biofuels, if you look at the relative efficiency of converting solar energy into biofuel versus solar energy into hydrogen, it’s not even a comparison, it’s ridiculous, it’s 500 times difference. It makes a lot of sense.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2013

These capacitors must meet demanding performance targets while achieving significant reductions in cost to meet future commercial demands. One potential approach to cabin preconditioning might be the utilization of waste heat generated within the battery and/or charging circuit during charging.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

The LCA was based on the average US driving and electricity supply conditions. In particular, silicon nanowires (SiNW) are widely studied as a promising anode material for high-capacity LIBs due to its low cost of fabrication and volume production potential. The study is published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2015

This research revealed utility energy storage as the most promising of possible applications, with a relatively low expense and abundant battery supply. While the value to the original automotive battery owner is restricted primarily to the elimination of end of service costs (battery extraction, disposal, recycling, etc.),

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

Appendix B: Car of the Future: A Comparison of Alternative Vehicles. The potential is enormous because the current grid has sufficient energy capacity to supply every vehicle in the United States if every one of them was a PHEV. To ignore this potential is wasteful and foolish. How PHEV enhances The Electric Infrastructure.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 26, 2023

Virtually everywhere that alternating current must be transformed to direct current or vice versa, there will be fewer wasted watts. In the effort to mitigate climate change, eliminating waste in power consumption is the low-hanging fruit, and these semiconductors are the way we’ll harvest it.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

Subsidies that encourage wasteful consumption of fossil fuels jumped to over $400 billion. The Current Policies Scenario assumes no new policies are added to those in place as of mid-2011, and is used as a basis for comparison with the New POlicies Scenario. Major changes in liquids supply in the New Policies Scenario, 2010-2035.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

That means less carbon and lower cost of ownership. And we are the best in operating costs. The Electric Power Control Unit (EPCU) features a highly integrated and high-power-density inverter, which supplies power to the motor and transfors AC to DC current to charge the HV battery system. —Ryan Miller.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

That means less carbon and lower cost of ownership. And we are the best in operating costs. The Electric Power Control Unit (EPCU) features a highly integrated and high-power-density inverter, which supplies power to the motor and transfors AC to DC current to charge the HV battery system. —Ryan Miller.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The three leading new options to re-supply our autos with energy are charging at home, battery swap stations and fast charge stations. Hit the jump for a comparison that includes plenty of pics and video. Well take a look at these three different energy resupply methods and outline some of their strengths as well as weaknesses.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

It is simply the cost of doing business. "On some products, the costs, particularly in advanced technologies, are high," he said in a lengthy interview with Automotive News (free subscription required). That way you have a fair basis of comparison, you know, apples to apples and all that jazz.

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