Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Highways & Regional Routes: The new Cycle 2 investments will continue to build out a highway network of DCFC stations featuring charging power up to 350 kilowatts which can recharge a vehicle at up to 20 miles of range per minute.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2010

A study by Jonn Axsen and Ken Kurani from the Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Davis, estimates electricity and gasoline use under three recharging scenarios. Drivers are assumed to immediately plug-in and recharge whenever they are parked within 25 ft of an electrical outlet. —Axsen and Kurani. Plug and play.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2010

Recent results from EV trials show a typical carbon dioxide emissions rating to be around 100g/km, when the car is charged from a typical power supply in the UK. The need for a national energy system and smart grid that can recharge millions of electric vehicles using low-carbon electricity without overwhelming local distribution circuits.

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Green Cars News

JANUARY 22, 2010

Electric car infrastructure development firm, Reuben Power plc has signed an exclusive agreement with precision engineering specialist Dynamatic Technologies Ltd this week to create a new driving force in establishing a complete EV recharging support system in the UK.

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EV Connect

APRIL 12, 2021

That wave of public sentiment is what pushed a company like General Motors to make the stunning announcement that it would phase out all gas-powered vehicles by 2035. population, 94% of drivers use gas-powered vehicles. Davis - Preparing Rural America for the Electric Vehicle Revolution U.S. At the time of the study, the U.S.

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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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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2010

ARPA-E’s first solicitation awarded $151 million to 37 projects aimed at transformational innovations in energy storage, biofuels, carbon capture, renewable power, building efficiency, vehicles, and other areas. Easel Biotechnologies, UC Davis). Sion Power Corporation. Earlier post.). Earlier post.) BASF, LBNL, PNNL).

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Electric Auto Association

JANUARY 5, 2023

The car was powered by thousands of small lithium batteries,” Pohorsky explained. He had all these charts and graphs showing the power going into the motor. Wright also developed the Wrightspeed X1 , an EV sports car known for beating gasoline-powered sports cars in a drag race.“I Staubel Roadter intro at EAASV meeting.

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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 It had gobs of torque," he recalls. Hybrid automobiles work with two engines.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2009

Dr. Ken Kurani from the UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS) presented results from the latest in a series of electric drive consumer studies seeking to learn from consumers whether or not PHEVs are a good idea. Ken Kurani. A recent poll by the Pew Center found that global warming was the last.the last.of 20 concerns.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 20, 2010

We are especially concerned about the ability of the electric power sector to achieve “zero-carbon” electricity. Among the proposed technologies, PHEVs have gained most interest over the past decade for several reasons, including potential environmental benefits, reduced use of imported petroleum and ease of recharging.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2020

By some estimates, as much as 15,000 metric tons per year of lithium carbonate could be recovered from a single geothermal power plant in the Salton Sea area of California—one of the most mineral-rich brine sources in the United States. Those brines can contain as much as 250 to 300 parts-per-million lithium.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 27, 2009

By reducing wind resistance and weight, the company’s engineers effectively are reducing the amount of work an electric engine will have to perform to get the car up to driving speeds, which in turn conserves battery power.&#. The onboard gas engine largely exists to recharge the batteries for the electric engine.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2021

High Efficiency Power-to-Gas in a Modular Hybrid Electrobioreactor, $1,000,000. Kairos Power (Alameda, California). Marrone Bio Innovations (Davis, California). Hydrogen Based Power Grid Support Using ElectrolyzeRs with Value Stacking (HYPER-V), $250,000. Electrochaea GmbH (Munich, Germany). Nu:Ionic (Tulsa, Oklahoma).

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Plug In Partners

JANUARY 24, 2006

Plug-ins could be recharged by plugging into a standard wall socket, delivering “electric” gallons of gas for about 75 cents a gallon at prevailing electric rates. Already almost a dozen cities, over 100 public power utilities, businesses and a host of national policy groups have signed on to the “Plug-In Partners” campaign.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Despite the recent progress, a number of myths around the use, power efficiency and cost of fuel cells still exist. A hydrogen-powered version of Hyundai’s Tucson sport utility vehicle has already appeared in southern California showrooms. Of course, this also has the merit of producing so-called “green hydrogen”.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

A PHEV can provide power to an entire home in the case of an outage; A fleet of PHEVs could power critical systems during emergencies. Scientist have confirmed that unlike gasoline cars, plug-ins will get cleaner as they get older -- because our power grid is getting cleaner.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

and UC-Davis Emeritus and Catherine JJ DeMauro. Though the PHEV combines the two types of energy and power, it is not merely a temporary “transition” between gasoline and diesel cars to pure electric cars. Appendix C: Intricacies of the Grid—transfer of power vs. energy. by Professor Andrew Alfonso Frank. slow charge.

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EV Connect

OCTOBER 25, 2021

On the other hand, hybrids that don’t plug in draw their battery power from the engine and when the battery is drained, the car simply switches to gas power. 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.

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EV Adoption

JUNE 12, 2022

Thigpen at the Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Davis and published in The Journal of Transport and Land Use (Note: study PDF will automatically download) estimated that 37% of the households in the Sacramento, CA market they studied do not use their garage for parking cars. The study by Jamey M. Volker and Calvin G. Source: ZipCharge.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

And at the headquarters of Pacific Gas and Electric, utility executives are preparing “heat maps” of neighborhoods that they fear may overload the power grid in their exuberance for electric cars.&#. Battery-powered motors are more efficient than gasoline engines. February 15, 2010. Cities Prepare for Life With the Electric Car.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Volvo Ford-owned company exploring PHEVs "ReCharge" flex-fuel series 60-mile concept PHEV w/wheel motors. announced a partnership with utility Southern California Edison to test a fleet of rechargeable electric vehicles and said it expected to sell such plug-in hybrids within the next decade if battery technology keeps pace.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Vehicles converted by Professor Andy Frank and his team at the UC Davis Hybrid Center are listed at our History of PHEVs page , with further info at www.team-fate.net. Sonoma County Water Agency "Sparky" by Hymotion, May 2007, (Santa Rosa, CA), contact: sherwood@scwa.ca.gov Wisconsin Public Power Inc. Wisconsin Public Power Inc.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

Creature comforts include air conditioning, power steering, sunroof, and electric windows and mirrors. There are at least a half dozen different technologies to power cars with electricity under construction. He said that the superiority of the steam powered car over the ICE was that you got full power and torque immediately.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Several early models of passenger vehicles have enough energy stored in advanced batteries to power several homes for hours. Hybrid electric buses and heavy trucks could power many homes or a school or a hospital in an emergency. The current electrical grid is poorly designed for distributed generation of power.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

It was started by a chemist and government researcher named Wang Chuan-Fu in 1995 (same year as Yahoo) to make rechargeable batteries, which it learned to do very well. Within a few years, BYD’s batteries were cheaper and just as reliable as those made by industry giants ony and Sanyo.

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