Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2019

With recent and projected cost declines in wind, solar, and lithium-ion batteries, electrification using batteries has become a viable option for applications compatible with the inherent range limitations and recharging time. A paper on the work is published in the journal Joule. Zhao et al.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2014

—Oliver Schmidt, general manager, Environment and Engineering Office, Volkswagen Group of America. SunPower: residential solar with energy storage. Combining solar with energy storage will help provide homeowners peace-of-mind and opportunity to access back-up power during a power outage. 3Degrees and carbon offsets.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

liter engine and more efficient hybrid system to enhance fuel efficiency as well as driving performance. PHEV models are equipped with a second-generation solar charging system that achieves a more efficient conversion of solar energy into electricity. The third generation Prius introduced a larger capacity 1.8-liter

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Green Cars News

JULY 4, 2011

The UK’s first publicly available solar-powered recharging points will be revealed on Wednesday (July 6, 2011). Opening at the Centre for Engineering and Manufacturing Excellence (CEME) in Rainham, Essex, the ‘eTap’ facility provides parking and charging bays for up to six cars situated under a solar panel canopy.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2012

The HSHS installed in this demonstration test house consists of CIGS (copper, indium, gallium, selenium) thin-film solar cell panels; a home battery unit (rechargeable battery); household gas-engine cogeneration unit and hot-water supply system; and the Smart e Mix Manager.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 4, 2024

Photo: Alsym Energy Boston-based Alsym Energy, which is developing a nonflammable rechargeable battery that’s cobalt and lithium-free, has announced a $78 million funding round. Alsym Energy, which was founded in April 2015, has developed a non-flammable, high-performance rechargeable battery chemistry that’s lithium- and cobalt-free.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Bosch and WEG will supply components; Semcon will provide engineering services; Meritor will provide the axles of the electric vehicles. And this involves, for example, analyzing and installing recharging terminals in customers’ garages anywhere in Brazil. Bus company Eletra is a strategic partner.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 27, 2018

The model will be 100% recharged with electric power from clean sources such as wind and solar. The regenerative brake acts before the pneumatic brake, to decelerate the vehicle, recovering up to 30% of energy during braking and using it to recharge the batteries. It uses LiFePO 4 lithium-ion battery packs.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2010

Ford, Detroit Edison and Xtreme Power are teaming up to establish one of Michigan’s largest solar power generation systems and electric vehicle charging stations at Ford’s Michigan Assembly Plant in Wayne, Mich. Ford will work with Detroit Edison to install a 500 kW solar photovoltaic panel system at Michigan Assembly.

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EV Central

AUGUST 18, 2023

That same well-heeled punter will also be offered in a Bentley showroom a very different Flying Spur, the Hybrid, which will still cost $456,000, but comes with just one V6 engine, a 2.9-litre I managed this in one hour and 50 minutes, on a sunny day, using my solar panels, and felt very smug.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2021

A team of engineers at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) recommends expanding fast-charging stations for electric vehicles as campuses and businesses start planning for a post-pandemic world. —Jan Kleissl, senior author. —Byron Washom, UCSD director of strategic energy initiatives and co-author.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2013

Belcher, who heads up the Biomolecular Materials Group at MIT, combines organic and inorganic materials to create novel electronic materials for a variety of applications, such as solar cells, fuel, environmentally friendly batteries and medical diagnostics. One of her recent inventions is a lithium-ion battery powered by engineered viruses.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 15, 2024

Researchers at Harvard University have developed a new solid state battery that can be recharged in 10 minutes. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) can also be charged and discharged at least 6,000 times — more than any other pouch battery cell. “In Get started here. –ad*

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Drive Electric

JUNE 25, 2023

With a growing emphasis on reducing greenhouse gas emissions and dependency on fossil fuels, two promising technologies have emerged as potential alternatives to internal combustion engines (ICE): Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicles (FCVs) and electric vehicles (EVs). Energy efficiency: FCEVs are more efficient than traditional combustion engines.

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Cars That Think

MAY 15, 2024

Here to talk about its so-called Powerfoyle solar cell technology is Exeger’s founder and CEO, Giovanni Fili. And if we could reduce or eliminate that problem, how would that actually influence the development of mobile and wearable tech beyond just not having to recharge as often? And the solar cell can take the shape.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 2, 2021

With motor sports moving hard and fast toward electric drive, a friend recently told me that electric drag-car racing just wouldn't be the same without the deafening roar of combustion engines and the smell of "nitro" fuel. One of the things I'll miss about combustion-engine cars is how easy it is to calculate their efficiency.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Both models provide maximum fuel efficiency by pairing the high-voltage lithium-ion battery and electric traction motor with a high-efficiency Atkinson-cycle gasoline engine. More precise controls to deliver higher levels of refinement as the powertrain transitions between engine and electric drive.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2016

Using their expertise in all facets of battery design and production, Romeo Power engineers crafted a system that is highly optimized to store more energy and deliver more power, more efficiently and safely. Co-Founder and CTO Porter Harris is a renowned battery engineer.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

The Zephyr 7 is a solar/battery powered electric UAV with a wing span of 70 feet (22.5 The Li-S battery pack was carefully engineered to minimize total pack weight. This flight represents a further major accomplishment for Sion’s lithium sulfur technology proving the viability of our high energy, rechargeable battery system.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

Gerry’s pursuit of renewable energy and electric drive began in the summer of 1997 when he spent time with some engineering students preparing a solar electric race car for the World Solar Challenge.

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Cars That Think

JULY 14, 2022

The IEEE member also belongs to the IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society. The startup offers marine data as a service using its solar-powered Data Xplorer ocean drones, which eliminate the need for traditional crewed vessels. The N3XT program showcases engineering-driven founders and entrepreneurial topics.

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Setec Powerr

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The word “hybrid” is of Greek origin and means “having two sources” As the name implies, a hybrid car gets its power from two different sources, so it has more than one drive system: an electric motor and an internal combustion engine. A hybrid’s gas engine tends to be meek and lack power.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 16, 2022

O’Connell also pointed out that Tesla didn’t help pay for the megachargers for the vehicles, but it provided design and engineering services for the facilities. The megachargers are equipped with solar and battery storage systems.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2013

The paper covers the basics of the electrochemistry of LIBs and the development of new materials and electrolytes in the search for higher capacities; it also addresses the challenge of energy storage in transportation applications with the target of displacing the internal combustion engine. —Goodenough and Park.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

liter, 98 hp (73 kW) engine, 60 kW traction motor, and NiMH battery pack, the car will accelerate from 0 to 62 mph in around 10 seconds, while returning what Toyota calls class-leading combined cycle fuel economy and sub-100g/km CO 2 emissions. Sales are scheduled to start during second half of 2010. Equipped with a 1.8-liter,

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 18, 2011

liter SIDI intelligent direct injection turbocharged engine complemented by a pair of electric motor generators in the Envision’s dual automatic/manual eight-speed transmission. A high-performance lithium battery and a solar energy roof with optical equipment serve as an alternative energy source independent from the engine.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

International Battery , a US manufacturer, designer and developer of large-format Lithium-ion (Li-ion) rechargeable cells, batteries and energy storage systems (ESS), has introduced IBexus—a 24-Volt, 4.1 kWh Li-ion energy storage system well suited for storage of solar and other renewable energy sources. Click to enlarge.

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Get Electric Vehicle

JUNE 7, 2023

An electric vehicle is a type of vehicle that uses one or more electric motors for propulsion instead of an internal combustion engine that runs on fossil fuels like gasoline or diesel. Electric vehicles are powered by electricity stored in rechargeable batteries or obtained from other sources such as hydrogen fuel cells.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2010

Itochu Corporation, Mazda, Family Mart, EnerDel and 11 other partners have launched a 3-year project in Tsukuba City, Japan—the “Green Crossover Project”—designed to showcase a real-world integration of the smart grid, stationary lithium-ion grid storage, electric vehicles, rapid recharging and renewable energy technologies.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 11, 2023

He is a professor of power systems engineering in the Fulton program at Arizona State University , in Tempe. Vijay Vittal Employer Arizona State University, in Tempe Title Regents professor of electrical, computer, and energy engineering Member grade Life Fellow Alma mater B.M.S. There is this system memory that is fast disappearing.”

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2015

This agreement extends the previously successful Zephyr 7 program in which Sion Power batteries were employed during the night, along with solar power during the day, to achieve record-breaking flights of more than 14 days without refueling or landing. The Li-S battery packs are engineered to minimize total pack weight. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2010

Starting in April 2010, the NUMMI workforce would be retrained in electric car manufacturing while the plant is retooled and the final engineering of the vehicle is completed, with the first car scheduled to come off the line within 2 years. The PEP station concept is not compatible with the Better Place system.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2016

This unit directly powers virtually any man-packable military equipment, recharges a squad’s batteries, and intelligently adjusts to changing mission conditions or requirement. To date more than 4,500 Power Managers have been trialed and deployed by the United States and allied militaries.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

Kendall Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering; postdoc Alexis Grimaud; and six others. These compounds could find use in fuel cells, advanced rechargeable metal-air batteries, and direct-solar splitting of water, they say. The work was conducted by Dr. Yang Shao-Horn, the Gail E.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2014

Up to 30 electric vehicles at a time can recharge in Fraunhofer IAO’s parking garage. This year will see the installation of a photovoltaic unit and a small wind power system at the Fraunhofer Institute Center Stuttgart IZS, where up to 30 electric vehicles at a time can recharge at AC charge spots in the Fraunhofer Campus parking garage.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

To prevent this damage to the battery pack—a component that accounts for a large chunk of an electric car’s total cost—battery engineers must test an exhaustive series of charging methods to find the ones that work best. The intensity of the faster charge puts greater strain on the battery, which often causes it to fail early.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

As part of its bankruptcy plan, ECD intends to sell through separate sales its wholly owned operating subsidiary United Solar Ovonic LLC (USO) and other assets, including its minority stake in Ovonyx, Inc. Sale of United Solar. We firmly believe there is a strong and sustainable commercial market for UNI-SOLAR products.

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