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Iron-air batteries, dynamic wireless charging, EQS first drive: Today’s Car News

Green Car Reports

A dynamic wireless charging project could put the tech on the Interstate in Indiana. And are iron-air batteries good for a smart-energy grid? The 2022 Mercedes-Benz EQS establishes the serene side of a growing cohort of large electric luxury cars. This and more, here at Green Car Reports.

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Electric Vehicles 101: V2G Charging & The Grid

CleanTechnica EVs

Do more EVs mean more pain, or more HELP for the aging US energy grid?

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GM Opens New Global Battery Systems Lab

Green Car Congress

four times larger than GM’s previous Tech Center battery lab—and will be used by GM’s growing team of more than 1,000 engineers working on advanced batteries and electrically driven vehicles. Approximately 90% of the electricity used for battery testing can be returned to the local energy grid for use by homeowners and businesses.

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ARPA-E awards $35M to 12 new projects to support medium-voltage devices for grid, industry and transportation

Green Car Congress

A fast MVDC breaker is an important component to enable uprating existing alternating-current distribution corridors in congested urban areas to MVDC, and connect distributed renewable energy sources to concentrated demand for growing applications such as electric vehicle charging.

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Solar-to-Hydrogen Water Splitter Outlasts Next Best Tech By 14x

Cars That Think

Using solar energy (or other renewable energy sources ) to split water delivers sustainability , while recent research has made key inroads toward efficiency and scalability. To split water into hydrogen on a large scale, we need technologies that are sustainable, efficient, scalable and durable.

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IEEE Discusses 6 Simple Solutions to Climate Change at COP27

Cars That Think

Rahman, a power expert and professor of electrical and computer engineering at Virginia Tech , is the former chair of the IEEE ad hoc committee on climate change. He also said low-cost, low-carbon hydrogen fuel should be considered as part of the renewable energy mix.

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CalSEED awards $4.2M to early-stage clean energy innovations

Green Car Congress

Five of the 28 innovations will help protect the grid from wildfires/PSPSs, four of these five will provide climate and weather risk prediction to electric infrastructure and services, and one is a hard tech innovation to reinforce transmission lines.

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