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PHEVLERs are the Zero CO2 Clean Green Machines of the Future

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and UC-Davis Emeritus and Bruce R. Frank is Professor Emeritus, Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering at the University of California, Davis, where he established the Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS-Davis), and was director of the US Department of Energy’s National Center of Hybrid Excellence at UC Davis.

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Royal Academy of Engineering Report Says EV Success Depends on Low-Carbon Electricity, Universal Broadband Provision and Smart Grids

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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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UC Davis study highlights results of MINI E field trial in US; MINI E met 90% of daily driving needs

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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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Best speakers ever

Electric Auto Association

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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ARPA-E Selects 37 Projects for $106M in Funding in Second Round; Electrofuels, Better Batteries and Carbon Capture

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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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Bright’s Plug-In Car: Aerodynamics Are Key

Revenge of the Electric Car

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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DOE announces more than $65M in public and private funding to commercialize promising energy technologies

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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).