Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2017

smart has unveiled the smart vision EQ fortwo, embodying a new vision of urban mobility and individualized highly flexible, efficient local public transport: the autonomous concept vehicle picks up its passengers directly from their chosen location. Currently, a car2go vehicle is hired somewhere in the world every 1.4

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2009

GM is embracing the use of communications standards that operate with optional data transports to enable smart charging and integration with the emerging smart grid. A network of smart loads with communications to report their current state and act on smart grid commands. EVSE=Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment. Source: GM. Source: GM.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2020

The 580 EV is powered by a 480-volt, 90 kWh lithium-ion battery pack that can be charged by any 220-volt/three-phase connection. Two units have already been sold to utilities in the United States: NYSEG and RG&E, AVANGRID companies, and National Grid. —Eric Zieser, director — global compact equipment product line, CASE.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

The Fit EV concept. President and CEO Takanobu Ito unveiled the Fit EV Concept electric vehicle and the platform for a mid-size plug-in hybrid electric vehicle at the Los Angeles Auto Show. hours using a 120-volt outlet and 1 to 1.5 hours using a 240-volt outlet. Click to enlarge. Honda Motor Co. Click to enlarge.

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Los Angeles Honda Plug-in Plug 273

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2011

The California Energy Commission has awarded $1,585,490 to spur research on projects including a solid-state Li-ion battery system for grid-scale energy storage. The project is intended to help validate the performance advantages of the company’s technology for use in grid-tied energy storage and community energy storage—i.e.,

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Baua Electric

MARCH 28, 2024

Whenever you’re home, plug into a 240-volt home charger for a couple hours and with about $4.00 Honda is embarking on multiple projects for electric trucks, tracking the results of a stationary fuel-cell concept for backup power at its data center, and even looking toward space applications. Nowhere in sight.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2009

Moreover, our battery team is already starting work on new concepts that will further decrease the cost of the Volt battery pack quite substantially in a second-generation Volt pack. Actually, as I read the conclusions of the study I had a feeling of déjà vu.

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Electric Vehicles India

MAY 25, 2021

Audi is working on its own rapid-charging concept for its electric cars and is going to develop the second half of the year to test a possible series application. The concept is based on a modular container cube that can also be used as lithium-ion batteries as buffer storage. This is consistent with the premium concept.”.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Concept electric vehicle at the Frankfurt Motor Show. With a 230-Volt household outlet, maximum charge time is five hours. Energy is supplied via a high-power pulse-control inverter, which is combined with the 12-Volt electrical system DC/DC converter and the charger. 3+1 seating concept. Click to enlarge. Integral drive.

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Plugs and Cars

APRIL 22, 2007

In January GM announced the Volt, a smart idea that makes use of the two existing primary energy infrastructures - the electric grid and gasoline stations. With NiMH batteries - those that provide energy to every hybrid on the road and thousands of all-electric cars - the Volt plug-in hybrid could go into production today.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Building on previous lessons learned, this year’s event focused on expanded evaluation to consider more real-world cases for safety and durability within the standard, which specifies compatibility with up to 1,250 volts and 3,000 amps. —Andrew Meintz, who manages NREL’s electric vehicle grid integration team.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Chevrolet confirmed production of a next-generation battery-electric vehicle based on the Bolt EV concept introduced last month at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. The Bolt EV concept makes its debut in Detroit. The message from consumers about the Bolt EV concept was clear and unequivocal: Build it.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2021

Mercedes-AMG laid out its new electrified drive strategy , which is based on two pillars: Performance hybrids with a completely independent drive concept under the technology label E PERFORMANCE. When developing our new E PERFORMANCE hybrid strategy, it was therefore immediately clear that we would pursue an independent concept for AMG.

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Plugs and Cars

JANUARY 7, 2007

Amidst the well-deserved hoopla about GM's plug-in serial hybrid Chevy Volt , Ford is touting its own equally ugly plug-in hybrid concept car. GM's vehicle is eminently buildable today, as it relies on two energy sources that are available: grid electricity and gasoline. Classic concept car fare.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2021

With the conclusion of Phase 2 of the project, the Triumph TE-1 partners—Triumph Motorcycles, Williams Advanced Engineering, Integral Powertrain Ltd, and WMG at the University of Warwic—have revealed the battery, powertrain, and design sketches for the electric motorcycle concept.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2011

The BMW Brilliance plug-in hybrid concept. have presented a concept plug-in hybrid sedan based on the long wheelbase version of the BMW 5 Series Sedan. The electrical motor draws its energy from a high-voltage battery pack, housed in the luggage compartment, which can be charged via the grid. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

Audi’s e-gas, earlier post ); it could also play an important role in the transition of the energy system and the stabilization of grids. The researchers also demonstrated a concept for constructing the cell stacks. The cells had a current density of 0.5 amperes per square centimeter and a cell voltage of up to 1.1

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2009

The BMW Concept ActiveE. BMW has introduced the Concept ActiveE, the latest electric vehicle project under BMW Group’s initiative to produce vehicles that explore solutions to minimize environmental impacts while preserving the kinetic driving experience for which BMW has long been known—the i Megacity Vehicle initiative.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

TDI quattro plug-in hybrid ( earlier post ); the Audi A7 h-tron quattro fuel cell vehicle ( earlier post ); the Audi e-tron quattro concept battery-electric SUV ( earlier post ); the Audi TT clubsport turbo concept ( earlier post ); the Audi RS 5 TDI competition concept ( earlier post ); and the Audi R18 e-tron quattro ( earlier post ).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

At present, PHEV technology alone is equipped to improve the current electric grid. The car can refuel during periods of low demand on the grid, and if equipped with a bi-directional charger, can actually replenish the grid with excess energy gleaned from a renewable resource. Appendix D: Vehicle Driving Statistics. slow charge.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2011

Under the new contracts, the teams will now develop concepts and models that can be tested in computer simulations, laboratories and wind tunnels. Aircraft and Technology Concepts for N+3 Subsonic Transport, $4.6 The new contract will allow the team to start collecting higher fidelity data on its concepts. million, three years.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2014

For the near term, they have been working on a dual-battery combining a lithium-ion battery with a 12-volt lead-acid battery that could enable regenerative braking technology in non-hybrid vehicles for greater fuel savings. The ultra-lightweight battery concept offers a weight reduction of up to 40%, or 12 pounds (5.4

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2009

For each of two automotive firms—the Swiss concept car manufacturer Rinspeed and the German company RUF Automobile GmbH—the Siemens research team developed an integrated system consisting of a motor/generator, power electronics and an interface with a battery connection. A later version is expected to feature a twin-motor design.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 6, 2024

It’s very similar to the infrastructure for electric cars because the idea, ultimately, for electric cars is that you also are revamping your grid to facilitate, whatchamacallit, intermittent renewable energy sources, like wind and solar, because having an electric car that runs off a coal-fired power plant is defeating the purpose, essentially.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

The concept vehicle has an all-electric range of up to 30 km (19 miles). The drive system in the concept car consists of three main components: a 3.5-liter In accordance with the modular concept, the powertrain design for the Vision S 500 Plug-in HYBRID is basically the same as that for the S 400 HYBRID.

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Plug-in Mercedes Plug Hybrid 210

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

In 2014 and the coming years, automakers will deliver concept and production EVs with large batteries that have capacities of approximately 40 kWh, which equates to at least a 150-mile (241 km) range. Ford has presented its C-MAX Solar Energi Concept, which uses a solar panel on the roof of the car.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2010

Audi’s A1 e-tron, introduced at the Geneva Motor Show ( earlier post ), is a range-extended electric city concept vehicle featuring a 75 kW (102 hp) peak power electric traction motor and a single-rotor single-rotor Wankel engine coupled with an electrical generator with a charge rating of up to 15 kW. The A1 e-tron. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2009

Those wishing to participate will be able to tie into the multi-site webchat from Green Car Congress tomorrow, as well as directly on GM’s FastLane Blog , the EV World site, or the GM-Volt site. Mark Duvall of EPRI said the grid would be able to handle “ as many [plug-ins] as you want. ” Bob Hayden.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2012

Since the Chevrolet Volt extended range electric vehicle launched in late 2010, drivers have been able to manage vehicle charging, including the option to charge during off-peak hours through the OnStar RemoteLink Mobile App. The current version of the application is a concept.

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Charging Range GM Connect 271

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2018

VIZZION, Volkswagen has already presented four concepts. With the MEB, vehicle concept and design can be structured in a more flexible way than ever before: the spectrum ranges from compact cars to SUVs and MPVs. Meanwhile, a DC/DC converter supplies the onboard electronics with 12-volt power. With the I.D., CROZZ, the I.D.

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Creative Greenius

MARCH 31, 2009

I have to admit that for the first few hours of day one in PV101: Introduction to Photovoltaics I was dazed and confused by all the foreign concepts I was trying to grasp at once. Now my head was swimming with concepts of Joules, Coulombs and electrons all dancing about in the mysterious ways they create electricity. How cool is that?

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2012

48-Volt batteries. Several battery manufacturers including AllCell Technologies, Balqon, and Saft are stepping up with 48-volt lead-acid and Li-ion offerings for increasingly power-hungry vehicles with Stop-Start systems. Pike Research expects several automakers to design vehicles to take advantage of 48-volt batteries.

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EV Info

MARCH 26, 2021

The standard unit of electrical power is the watt, which is defined as a current of one ampere, at a voltage of one volt. More simply, volts x amps = watts. In the UK, the standard wall socket delivers 240 volts. Your power comes from the grid as 240 Volts AC. A quick note on power compared to energy. With the 4.8

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Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2016

An international team from MIT, Argonne National Laboratory and Peking University has demonstrated a lab-scale proof-of-concept of a new type of cathode for Li-air batteries that could overcome the current drawbacks to the technology, including a high potential gap (>1.2 V) volts to 0.24 V versus Li/Li +.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The new ARPA-E selections focus on accelerating innovations in clean technology while increasing US competitiveness in rare earth alternatives and breakthroughs in biofuels, thermal storage, grid controls, and solar power electronics. will conduct a one-year “proof-of-concept seedling” program. Laboratory, Grid. power grid.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2015

However, with today’s electricity grids, usage of PEVs could cut greenhouse gas emissions by 80—98% in British Columbia, around 45% in Alberta, and 58—70% in Ontario. Most PEV Pioneer respondents owned either the Nissan Leaf (46%), Chevrolet Volt (24%), or Tesla Model S (10%). kWh/day per vehicle.

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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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