Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2018

The study determined that bitumen can be used for producing PAN (from cracked gas propane) and potentially a pitch product, utilizing the high-asphaltene content that makes oil sands bitumen unique. Vanadium flow batteries for electricity storage. Oil sands facilities already have concentrated Vanadium in current streams (i.e.,

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2010

The California Center for Sustainable Energy (CCSE) will lead a joint research study of how the useful lifespan of electric vehicle batteries could be extended by repurposing them as household electric storage devices with a $992,000 grant from the University of California. Tags: Batteries Electric (Battery).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

Alexander Dennis Limited (ADL), Britain’s biggest bus and coach manufacturer, has chosen GKN Hybrid Power as a preferred partner and committed to the purchase of 250 of its Gyrodrive electric flywheel hybrid systems ( earlier post ). Heavy-duty Hybrids Vehicle Systems' —Colin Robertson, CEO of Alexander Dennis.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 15, 2014

Fuel cell vehicles (FCVs) are technically ready; what is still to be determined is the required confidence in hydrogen’s future for investors, fuel suppliers, automakers and consumers, they suggest. in the past few years important factors have emerged that are re-accelerating the commercialization of hydrogen and fuel cell technologies.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2016

The Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle with Long Electric Range (PHEVLER - pronounced “fevler”) is a new category emerging in the electric vehicle marketplace. PHEVLERs are defined as PHEVs with sufficient battery capacity for all electric driving of twice the average daily distance. [ About the authors.

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JANUARY 4, 2021

The proportion of grid electricity generated by renewables such as wind and solar energy fluctuates depending on how hard the wind is blowing or how strong the sun is shining. Until recently most power stations relied on coal and gas to power generators. Now countries’ electrical grids are increasingly powered by renewables.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 19, 2017

The hybrid powertrain is optionally available for a large number of model variants of the best-selling urban bus, even for the natural-gas-engined Citaro NGT. The electric motor on the Citaro hybrid assists the combustion engine when high levels of power are required, particularly when moving off.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2015

The BMW Group Technology Office, together with Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), have launched an 18-month pilot of the BMW i ChargeForward Program in the San Francisco Bay Area. The study has two parts: (1) a managed charge pilot program involving BMW i3 owners; and (2) a battery second-life energy storage system.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Extended range electric vehicle powertrain company ALTe ( earlier post ) is tracking to produce a limited number of production-caliber vehicle powertrains by December, and plans to ramp up production in the first quarter of 2013, said CEO John Thomas in a recent interview with Green Car Congress. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

French electric vehicle participating companies providing One-on-One Meetings include: DBT : a manufacturer of level 2 and level 3 charging stations. FAM AUTOMOBILES : a company specialized in electric vehicle (2- and 4-wheel) conception and production.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2015

At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, BMW announced the BMW i ChargeForward Program—a pilot study to be undertaken by the BMW Group Technology Office, together with Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E). EV battery “second life” system using MINI E vehicle batteries.

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Blink Charging

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

We previously discussed how electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE) can help you collect Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) credits. To make parking spots EV charger ready, each spot must have a dedicated electrical circuit with sufficient capacity to host a charger.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

All eyes these days may be on Elon Musk's space venture—which has just put people in orbit —but here on Earth you can now get your monthly electric bill courtesy of a different Musk enterprise. In Germany, the large industrial utility RWE started its own battery unit and is now operating small energy storage sites in Germany and in Arizona.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2009

The authors point out their study looked at only two criteria, kilometers travelled and greenhouse gas offsets, but did not examine the performance of electricity and ethanol for other policy-relevant criteria such as water consumption, air pollution or economic costs. “We

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Charged EVs

AUGUST 2, 2023

The electric road ahead for heavy trucks is not exactly clear, and there are several roadblocks, some obvious and some far less so. Fleets don’t want to go electric at scale until they’ve done years-long pilots, but the Advanced Clean Trucks regulation will artificially constrict that timeframe. Soon they won’t have a choice.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2013

The California Energy Commission (CEC) approved $5,580,773 for clean-energy transportation projects including biodiesel production, power control electronics for medium-and heavy-duty battery electric vehicles, and buydowns for propane vehicles. Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program awards.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2013

Starting this April, Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) will sell an electricity management system that uses recycled nickel-metal hydride batteries from hybrid vehicles to Toyota vehicle dealers throughout Japan. The 10 kWh systems will be sold via TMC’s energy business company, Toyota Turbine and Systems Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2014

The projects, which are funded through ARPA-E’s new Reliable Electricity Based on ELectrochemical Systems (REBELS) program, are focused on improving grid stability, balancing intermittent renewable technologies, and reducing CO 2 emissions using electrochemical distributed power generation systems. United Technologies Research Center.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2013

The main potential applications are in electricity storage, transport and the recovery of waste heat. Sources of low-grade waste heat include power stations to factories to vehicle engines. The expansion of the liquid air when heat is reintroduced can be used to drive a piston engine or turbine to do useful work.

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Drive Electric

APRIL 12, 2023

Lithium is commonly used for rechargeable batteries, particularly in Electric Vehicles (EVs). Here’s some insight on this from the experts at Drive Electric. For example, Tesla reports that nearly half of all its vehicles produced in the first quarter of 2022 use nickel and cobalt-free iron phosphate batteries.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2011

Classification of potential electrical storage for stationary applications. To be successful, systems will need to evolve—in some cases, considerably—to compete financially with the cost of natural gas production. The most commonly used systems today work by converting electricity to kinetic (e.g.,

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Driivz

MAY 31, 2022

Smart EV Charging and Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G). Smart EV charging uses intelligence to manage when and how an electric vehicle plugged into a smart charger will receive power for charging based on the cost of electricity, its availability, and the needs of the driver. What are the Benefits of Smart EV Charging?

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

Subscribe Green News Events Manufacturers Region New Cars Used Cars Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Chrysler , Dodge , AutoblogGreen Exclusive , SAE World Congress Dodge Circuit EV First Drive: electric car makes grand promises on Earth Day by Sebastian Blanco on Apr 22nd 2009 at 7:48PM Two months ago we went for a ride in the Dodge Circuit EV.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 6, 2021

It’s getting cleaner and prospects are improving BY TIM BENFORD: PRESIDENT OF DRIVE ELECTRIC DAYTON, PAST VICE-PRESIDENT OF ELECTRIC AUTO ASSOCIATION. Scientists inform us that today’s transportation sector is the largest contributor to US greenhouse gas emissions driving climate change, but how clean are lithium-ion batteries?

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 6, 2021

It’s getting cleaner and prospects are improving BY TIM BENFORD: PRESIDENT OF DRIVE ELECTRIC DAYTON, PAST VICE-PRESIDENT OF ELECTRIC AUTO ASSOCIATION. Scientists inform us that today’s transportation sector is the largest contributor to US greenhouse gas emissions driving climate change, but how clean are lithium-ion batteries?

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