Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2018

In addition to the fuel savings, electric vehicles typically require less maintenance than traditional internal combustion engine vehicles, which means lower maintenance costs. —Scott Phillippi, UPS senior director of automotive maintenance and engineering.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2017

At the Geneva Auto Show, the China-based Hybrid Kinetic group unveiled the H600 microturbine range-extended electric vehicle sedan concept, produced together with its vehicle design and engineering partner, Pininfarina. The 60 kW microturbine range extender delivers 40% efficiency, low emissions, and a 10000-hour maintenance interval.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

The company is collaborating with Workhorse Group, Inc. Electric vehicle technology is rapidly improving with battery, charging and smart grid advances that allow us to specify our delivery vehicles to eliminate emissions, noise and dependence on diesel and gasoline. —Steve Burns, CEO of Workhorse Group.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2013

Currently the electrical grid cannot tolerate large and sudden power fluctuations caused by wide swings in sunlight and wind. Among the most promising batteries for intermittent grid storage today are “flow” batteries, as it is relatively simple to scale their tanks, pumps and pipes to the sizes needed to handle large capacities of energy.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 4, 2024

Technologies such as AI-based predictive maintenance and advanced digital systems are poised to make urban traffic cleaner and more efficient in the future. AI and IoT-powered predictive maintenance guarantees optimal performance of car parts, cutting downtime and prolonging the life of electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

ABB’s connected chargers are ready to be connected to any smart electricity distribution system or smart grid. —Hans Streng SVP, GM Product Group EV Charging Infrastructure. In addition to supplying the fast chargers, ABB will also deliver support services and maintenance.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2020

e-Mosaic: Electrification Mosaic Platform for Grid- Informed Smart Charging Management. Utility Managed Smart Charging for Consumer and Grid Benefits. AOI 04: Platinum Group Metals (PGM) Content Reduction to Enable Cost-Effective Aftertreatment for Gasoline and Diesel Engines. Dream Team Co LLC. Exelon Corporation. 350,000.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2010

In January, HVE introduced new cells targeted at plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, a first for the Hitachi Group. This business will also include maintenance and other services related to the above applications. Earlier post.). Battery Systems Company will aim for revenues of ¥250 billion (US$2.7 billion )in 2018, Hitachi said.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2018

The industrial consortium includes automotive manufacturers the BMW Group and Dr. Ing. For the connection to the public power grid in Jettingen-Scheppach, a loading container with two charging connections was realized in the project: one connection has a charging capacity of max. 450 kW, the second gives up to 175 kW.

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Cars That Think

MAY 21, 2024

In January, infiltrators linked to a Russian hacktivist group penetrated the water system of a Texas town near the New Mexico border. s power grid is relatively well-resourced and hardened against cyber attack, at least when compared to American water systems. In neither case did the attacks cause any substantial damage to the systems.

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Blink Charging

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

While ICE vehicles require a visit to a gas station, which stores gasoline in a tank before transferring to the vehicle, EVs only need to plug into the electrical grid. Once the network is built, it will require constant maintenance. You don’t have to worry about network maintenance or updates.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

and Oregon-based InSpec Group will commence contract services for the construction of manufacturing plants for secondary batteries, such as lithium-ion batteries, and a range of ancillary facilities. Japan-based ITOCHU Corporation, its wholly owned US industrial machinery sales company, TEXMAC Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2020

It can also provide lowest-cost long-term storage for electrical grids relying on renewable energy. —Hanna Breunig, PhD, of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s Sustainable Energy Systems Group. Hydrogen can also reduce and potentially replace natural gas in all applications.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2012

The fully integrated system will allow for monitoring, charging and maintenance of the EVs, parking, an energy supply and an automated mechanism for handling all related transactions. Other features of the system include vehicle locating devices to ensure easy arrivals, departures and safe parking. For example, 0.5

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2019

Industry-Informed Physics-Based Monitoring for Asset Management and Maintenance Optimization, $500,000 Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, Calif. “DUSST”: NREL’s Low Maintenance Soiling Station, $50,000 Atonometrics Inc., Performance advantaged acrylonitrile, $300,000 Zoltek (Toray Group), Bridgeton, Mo.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2016

Although the high-power (600kW, 20s) charging of the high-power density batteries on the bus could result in load peaks affecting the local grid, the flash charger station flattens out the demand by charging batteries located on the wayside over a period of a few minutes while drawing a lower current from the grid.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2010

The University of Delaware has signed the first license for its vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology with AutoPort, Inc., A minimum of 60 vehicles is needed to produce one megawatt of power when the vehicles are plugged into the grid. Vehicle to Grid Technology (Univ. Components of a V2G system. Source: PJM. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Greenlots, a member of the Shell Group, has led the buildout of the FordPass Charging Network. While all chargers participating in this program will be networked together for Ford customers, the operation and maintenance of each specific station will remain within the responsibility of each individual infrastructure provider.

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Electric Auto Association

MAY 3, 2022

As a battery electric vehicle (EV) owner for almost four years now (a Tesla Model 3 Long Range) and founder in 2017 of a group of some 500+ EV enthusiasts in the Miami Valley, I am in full support of SB 307: Accelerating Ohio's Auto Industry (AOAI). My EV battery is warrantied for a minimum of 100K miles and eight years.

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Cars That Think

JULY 20, 2021

A 2017 study estimated that about 685,000 Americans who live at home and have medical insurance are electricity dependent; of that group, roughly one fifth are vulnerable to even short power outages of 3 to 4 hours. To help implement this strategy, my group at New York University has been developing a Power Outage Dashboard for New York City.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

ABB, a leading power and automation technology group, and Fincantieri, the Italian merchant and naval shipbuilder, have signed an agreement to collaborate on the construction, marketing and supply of high-voltage shore connection (HVSC) systems to provide electricity to vessels in port. Diagram of HVSC system. Click to enlarge.

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EV Connect

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Largely, these are grouped into two categories: incentives that help refund or pay for installation and maintenance , or cost-reduction programs that knock down the charges before they even hit your bank. But they also have one major strength over the incentives listed above: they can also help reduce maintenance costs.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2012

In line with the government’s plan to develop a national e-vehicle industry, the project will support the establishment of an e-vehicle parts industry, battery supply chain, and charging stations, including five off-grid solar charging stations. —Juan Miranda, Director General of ADB’s South Asia Department. million.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2017

Appendix C outlines four areas of qualified investments: ZEV infrastructure (including the development and maintenance of ZEV charging stations), public awareness, increasing ZEV access, and a green city. ARB may approve, partially approve or disapprove the Plan. liter Consent Decree. VW California ZEV Investment Plan: Cycle 1.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2014

Volumes will initially be low: in the hundreds, said Gil Castillo, senior US group manager for Hyundai’s alternative vehicle program. This includes unlimited free hydrogen refueling in the area, and free maintenance. —Dave Zuchowski, president and CEO, Hyundai Motor America. Source: UC Irvine APEP. Click to enlarge.

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Driivz

JULY 25, 2021

EVgo is offering turnkey charging solutions – everything from site design, permits, construction, procurement, installation, and power connectivity to long-term maintenance and self-service customer portals and apps. Joining the eMobility Revolution. Market challenges require that retailers continuously reinvent themselves.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Discussion at this café was focused on identifying issues having a positive or negative impact on creation and maintenance of a market-driven US battery industry. For much of the discussion, café participants were grouped by topic: (1) vehicular batteries (BEVs and PHEVs), or (2) stationary batteries for energy storage applications.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 27, 2021

But their reliance on mechanical components and intricate design presents drawbacks, including highly specialized maintenance needs, while flow batteries' electrolytes can be costly, corrosive or toxic. In theory, they should be a good choice for applications, such as storing surplus energy from renewables.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2016

Midwest Energy Group, working with NREL. Grid Logic, working with ORNL. Grid Logic will develop a method for additively manufacturing large-scale metallic parts through In-Process Binder Decomposition and the Sintering of 3-dimensional parts formed with a metal injection molded process. Lucid Design Group, working with LBNL.

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Setec Powerr

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Third, from the perspective of the target buyer group, large enterprise customers are mainly gas stations and grid operators, home appliance installation engineers, small OEMs, and secondary supporting factories, distributed photovoltaic business operators, and leading accessories brands.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2017

We need new storage technologies if more renewables are to be used on the electrical grid; similarly, the electrification of transport requires much cheaper and longer-lasting batteries. Abundances for alkali and alkali earth metals are shown in blue, transition metals in red and main group elements in green. Source: Grey and Tarascon.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 27, 2021

But their reliance on mechanical components and intricate design presents drawbacks, including highly specialized maintenance needs, while flow batteries' electrolytes can be costly, corrosive or toxic. In theory, they should be a good choice for applications, such as storing surplus energy from renewables.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 20, 2024

A small but growing group of analysts, though, are pushing for a zero-emissions technology that already plows the oceans: nuclear propulsion. For shipping, nuclear is really the only abundant, realistic, carbon-free option, according to Håvard Lien, vice president of research and innovation at the Norwegian shipbuilding company Vard Group.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2012

The primary transportation application where this is noteworthy is in the micro-hybrid space ,” said Jeff Kessen, A123’s director of global marketing for the Automotive Solutions group. “ We feel that we have erased the cold cranking deficit—the Achilles heel [for Li-ion] from a performance perspective against lead acid. ”

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

To help California mitigate its ever-growing wildfires, this year CalSEED has included companies that are innovating in technologies that will build wildfire resiliency into the grid. This novel technology would deliver safe, reliable, resilient, and cost-effective electric power in the grid. Innovasion Labs PINC, Inc. is developing a?rechargeable

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

The Department of Energy is working with industry, universities, national laboratories, and other groups to develop technologies capable of harnessing these resources to generate environmentally sustainable, cost-competitive power. The project will assess the cost of manufacturing these systems at various scales. DOE Funding: $160,000.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2011

And besides technical improvements, the systems will need to be built to last, using materials that are safe and durable so that batteries could operate more than 15 years and require very little maintenance over their lifetime. Carrying charges, operation and maintenances (O&M), and replacement costs are not included.

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