Cars That Think

MARCH 24, 2023

Now residential and commercial buildings can be outfitted with roofing tiles that double as solar panels, or with rooftop boxes like this low-profile unit that transforms gusts of wind into electric current. meters tall, and has a 4-square-meter footprint (leaving plenty of space for solar panels or tiles). household).

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Renewable South Korea Davis Juice 75

Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2013

Standardizing PEV batteries could reduce the purchase and ownership costs of PEVS, as well as addressing additional consumer issues such as maintenance and safety. The system will integrate solar photovoltaic technology to capture solar energy to compress air into above-ground tanks packaged in standard shipping containers.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2011

The cost of Li-ion batteries currently affects the affordability of plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles (PHEV/EV) for consumers. Such second-use applications could significantly increase the total lifetime value of the battery, and thus reduce its cost to the automotive user.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2010

This could particularly be an issue with marine shipping, where the industry currently consumes the lowest-cost fuels available, namely residual fuel oil. liquefied natural gas and marine diesel oil) or to other renewable energy sources, such as wind or solar power. —McCollum et al.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

The continuous production system improves the energy conversion efficiency and reduces the operational cost. Justin Ungerer, Ling Tao, Mark Davis, Maria Ghirardi, Pin-Ching Maness and Jianping Yu (2012) Sustained photosynthetic conversion of CO 2 to ethylene in recombinant cyanobacterium Synechocystis 6803. Energy Environ.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2011

The University of California, Davis and the BMW Group released the largest publicly available study of electric-car users yet conducted, including more than 120 families who drove the fully electric MINI E automobile more than 1 million miles in California, New York and New Jersey from June 2009 to June 2010.

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Mini E Davis BMW New Jersey 225

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2023

plans to develop a novel membrane system from Osmoses’ proprietary polymer composition that can produce enriched oxygen from air for integration into modular gasification systems for low-cost hydrogen production.

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Hydrogen Clean Cleaning Gas-Electric 150

Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2010

Electrofuels approaches will use organisms able to extract energy from other sources, such as solar-derived electricity or hydrogen or earth-abundant metal ions. Easel Biotechnologies, UC Davis). The team anticipates at least a twofold productivity improvement over current levels and a cost that can be competitive with gasoline.

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Director at the ETA, Andrew Davis, said: “Whilst the report is not intended to dampen enthusiasm for electric vehicles, their introduction should not be viewed as a panacea; significant changes to the way we produce and tax power are needed before we will reap any benefits.&#. Key findings of report include: Performance. CO2 emissions.

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Emissions Electric Cars CO2 Cars 88

Electric Auto Association

JANUARY 5, 2023

When that company was bought out by ENEL X , Miftakhov used the substantial profit to launch ZeroAvia in Hollister, California to develop and manufacture fuel cell-powered electric aircraft using green hydrogen (locally produced by electrolysis of water using solar or wind power). It’s very cool." Tom Gage speaking to EAASV.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2015

for weatherizing homes, installing solar panels, and buying hybrid and electric vehicles—went to the top income quintile in the US (above $200,000 per year). As a result of the work, Borenstein and Davis conclude that tax credits are likely to be much less attractive on distributional grounds than market mechanisms to reduce GHGs.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2013

Funds for these projects—which span areas as diverse as a new crossover valve for the split-cycle Tour Engine ( earlier post ) to a new solar thermal storage device capable of integration with utility scale solar thermal power plants—come from Commission’s Energy Innovations Small Grant (EISG) program. Tour Engine, Inc. ,

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2009

Attendees believe that renewable energy needs two elements to be successful: technical progress leading to lower costs and a price on carbon. Costs are also falling due to classic economics. Costs are also falling due to classic economics. It is not how can we get low cost capital to take more risk. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

and UC-Davis Emeritus and Catherine JJ DeMauro. It offers the solution to several significant transitions we need: moving society from burning fossil fuels to substituting renewable resource fuels such as solar, wind and biofuels; and from using fossil materials as fuel to using them for other recyclable uses. Table of Contents.

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PHEV Plug-in Renewable Energy 150

Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2021

To date, the TCF has funded more than 380 projects by unlocking more than $170 million in funding from more than 300 private sector partners, including automotive manufacturers, energy storage companies, utilities, bioenergy companies, solar providers, and aerospace companies. Marrone Bio Innovations (Davis, California).

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 22, 2009

That is amistake that could cost the United States everything - especially ifthis recession is followed by a period of fast growth." PC Magazine, the PCMag.com logo and Gearlog are registered trademarks of Ziff Davis Publishing Holdings Inc. Add our RSS Feed to your favorite feed reader. automakers. Enter Yours Today! is prohibited.

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Plugs and Cars

JUNE 4, 2009

I suspect without some explicit direction from the top, prodded from those of us below, the automakers will do everything to achieve the requirements with conventional vehicles, eschewing the greater near term cost and long-term benefit of transitioning toward plug-in electric drive components and batteries.

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Plug-in Plug Cars Obama 100

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2020

However, lithium is sourced almost exclusively from other countries, either concentrated using a solar evaporation process from natural brine sources or recovered from ore. The sorbent’s thermochemical properties were also characterized using differential scanning calorimetry and thermogravimetry at the University of California-Davis.

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Plug In Partners

JANUARY 26, 2006

FIALKA Staff Reporter THE WALL STREET JOURNAL January 25, 2006 DAVIS, Calif. -- In the 1950s, an aspiring Pasadena hot-rodder named Andrew Frank shocked the competition by powering his 1936 Ford with a Cadillac V-12 engine. "It While running on electricity, the plug-in's fuel cost drops to 70 cents a gallon, or lower, Dr. Frank estimates.

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Electric Auto Association

AUGUST 2, 2022

We live in a small 1991 townhouse in Davis, California. My dream and goal has always been to transition from our current natural gas system and into using solar energy for our home as well as our vehicles. I would need a bigger and thicker cable coming up into the house, and cost estimates to make that happen are in the $30,000 range.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2015

NREL paired techno-economic analyses with laboratory and field testing to better understand battery degradation issues, the ever-evolving world of energy storage, and the true potential costs and benefits of reuse. B2U Repurposing Cost Calculator.

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Grid Batteries Battery Energy Storage 150

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Public-private investment initiatives, government funding for infrastructure and consumer subsidies, falling production costs and notably, the commitment to future OEM launches of fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs)—all indicate a clear road to adoption. The cost of making fuel cell vehicles has recently dropped dramatically.

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Fuel Electric Vehicles Market Hydrogen 281

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

The other program, Modern Electro/Thermochemical Advancements for Light-metal Systems (METALS, earlier post ), provides $32 million to 18 projects to find cost-effective and energy-efficient manufacturing techniques to process and recycle metals for lightweight vehicles. process intensification approaches for biological methane conversion.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Its like having a second fuel tank that you always use first -- only you fill up at home, from a regular outlet, at an equivalent cost of under $1/gallon. Lifetime service costs are lower for a vehicle that is mainly electric. At $3 for a gallon of gas, driving a non-hybrid car costs 8-20 cents/mile (depending on MPG).

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EV Connect

OCTOBER 25, 2021

If you use solar power to generate electricity for your EV charging station, you can reduce the carbon footprint of running an EV down to virtually zero. Especially if you use clean solar or wind power for EV charging, you’ll eliminate tapping into fossil fuels to power your car. Hybrid vs. Electric: Which Is Greener?

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Revenge of the Electric Car

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Much of the attention on electric cars has been on the vehicles’ design, cost and performance. They cost drivers on average only 2.5 cents a mile for fuel, less than a third of the cost for a highly efficient gasoline car, according to proponents. Battery-powered motors are more efficient than gasoline engines.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Individuals and businesses lose months and connect fees when they add solar and other forms of renewable energy to the grid. Smart Grid City will easily support up to 1,000 easily dispatched distributed generation technologies including PHEVs, distributed batteries, solar and wind.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

There are choices for 110 volt versus 220 volt, slow versus quick charges, and solar options. This is a much bigger call than choosing VHS over Betamax, because owning a dead end technology could cost you $50,000. Considering the cost of batteries, these are disposable cars. Maybe they can sell it on the ability to be recycled.

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