Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2015

The electric motor and drive unit for the Chevrolet Spark EV are being manufactured in Maryland under a rooftop solar array in a newly LEED-certified building. The greening of the General Motors Baltimore Operations complex included the addition of 580 kilowatts of solar to the roof of its e-Motor building. Together with a 1.23-megawatt

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2021

In select markets within Colorado, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, and Rhode Island, Arcadia’s platform connects qualifying customers to community solar projects in their area. It was joined last year by the e-tron Sportback, which blends the utility of an SUV with a coupe-like design.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

A team of researchers led by Northwestern Engineering professor and fuel cell pioneer Sossina Haile has created a new protonic ceramic fuel cell (PCFC) offering both exceptional power densities and long-term stability at optimal temperatures, a discovery that heightens the viability of incorporating fuel cells into a sustainable energy future.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Highland reduces the complexity of going electric by providing customers a full-service solution of electric vehicles that are owned, powered, and maintained by the company. With technology solutions allowing vehicles to optimally charge and provide grid services, Highland is helping customers improve energy efficiency and resiliency.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

The 42-vehicle fleet marks a milestone in partnership between federal, state and private energy organizations, as well as in DoD’s demonstration of emerging vehicle-to-grid technology. The vehicles have the capability to direct power both to and from the electrical grid when they’re not being driven. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2009

GE recently completed the installation of variable frequency transformers (VFT) at the Linden, NJ cogeneration plant, which will allow power from the Pennsylvania-New Jersey-Maryland transmission system to flow into New York City. Smooth power control comes from regulating the torque through the drive system. VFT rotary system.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

IEEE Power & Energy Society president. Lambert was the IEEE Power & Energy Society 's 2020–2021 president. Past president of the IEEE Power Electronics Society. Ferreira was the 2015–2016 president of the IEEE Power Electronics Society. He established the Shenzen-Twente power electronics research program there.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2014

When decelerating or braking, a traction vehicle (train, tram or trolleybus) is feeding the regenerated braking energy back into the DC power network. Rather than having the braking energy be dissipated, the ENVILINE Energy Recuperation System (ERS) saves the surplus braking energy of the train by returning it back to the AC grid.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Zap and Helion are part of a renaissance in fusion-energy R&D aimed at achieving practical fusion power using much more modest facilities than the vast International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) being built in southern France, at a cost estimated to be north of US $22 billion by the time it’s completed.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Physicists first suspected more than a century ago that the fusing of hydrogen into helium powers the sun. 440 fission reactors operating worldwide, which together can generate about 400 gigawatts of power with zero carbon emissions. And modern spacecraft need more power than an RTG of reasonable size can provide. At nearly 1.4

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2014

The company’s processing center in Swartz Creek and engine plant in Flint will feature 150 kW ground-mount solar arrays expected to generate a combined 400,000 kWh of renewable energy per year to the facilities’ grids. That is equivalent to the annual energy use of 25 homes.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2014

Researchers at the University of Maryland, with colleagues at the University of Illinois at Chicago, report on a new method for expanding graphite for use as a superior anode for sodium-ion batteries in a paper in Nature Communications. They won’t be as powerful as lithium-ion batteries. 1 at a current density of 20?

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their colleagues have demonstrated a room-temperature method that could significantly reduce carbon dioxide levels in fossil-fuel power plant exhaust, one of the main sources of carbon emissions in the atmosphere.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2013

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced an award to NuScale Power LLC to support a new project to design, certify and help commercialize innovative small modular reactors (SMRs) in the United States. The smaller size could reduce both capital costs and construction times—helping to provide U.S.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2012

The technology is enabled as OnStar receives a signal from PJM Interconnection that shows the percentage of available renewable energy on the grid. Renewables in the US grid. The renewable energy technology is the latest addition to OnStar’s suite of Smart Grid solutions. was conventional hydropower. Time-of-Use (TOU) rates.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2011

Marine classification society ABS has issued its first Approval in Principle (AIP) for a new concept renewable energy design in which a moored spar uses ammonia in a closed-cycle process to produce electrical power for a commercial utility grid. OTEC power cycle. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2015

Results from the study also suggest that with sufficient coal plant retirement and sufficient wind power, controlled charging could result in positive net benefits instead of negative. SO 2 from power plants is a particular concern, as SO 2 is a precursor of particulate matter. other parts of the US and the world could be different.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

A second opposed-piston engine project is led by Achates Power ( earlier post ). Achates Power will develop a highly efficient opposed-piston engine for hybrid vehicles (“HOPE-Hybrid”) using a unique engine design that minimizes energy losses typical in conventional internal combustion engines. Georgia Tech Research Corporation.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2020

University of Maryland. Solid Power Inc. e-Mosaic: Electrification Mosaic Platform for Grid- Informed Smart Charging Management. Utility Managed Smart Charging for Consumer and Grid Benefits. Achates Power. Develop and demonstrate a propane powered cabin heating system for battery- electric buses.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

The Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) (Maryland) Board of Education approved a contract on Tuesday evening with Highland Electric Transportation, a provider of turnkey electric fleet solutions, to convert the MCPS school bus fleet to all-electric, starting with 326 school buses over the next four years.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2020

If a grid-ready fusion demonstration can be realized within approximately 20 years, while achieving cost competitiveness, then fusion can contribute to meeting low-carbon energy demand and achieving cost-effective deep decarbonization in the latter half of the 21 st century. University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries power much of our digital and mobile lifestyle. Lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries power much of our digital and mobile lifestyle. Most of these concerns come from the nonaqueous electrolytes needed to withstand the high voltages (>3.0 Volts to ~ 3.0 —Chunsheng Wang, UMD. According to Lt.

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Blink Charging

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Between the United States federal government, state, and local governments; power companies and utilities; and air pollution control districts, there are hundreds of incentives for fleet owners to switch from internal combustion engine vehicles to electric vehicles (EVs). Learn more about states that have verified Blink as a state vendor.

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 26, 2021

This transition will have a big impact on how utility companies deliver the energy needed to charge all of these new battery-powered cars. WeaveGrid’s mission is to drive rapid decarbonization in global transport and power sectors by intelligently connecting electric vehicles to the grid. That’s where WeaveGrid comes in.

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EV Match

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

would like to do more to contribute to a clean energy economy – for example, investing in solar power for their homes – but cannot do so due to living in a rental property or apartment building. All you need is a power bill — homeowners and renters alike can participate, because the solar panels don’t go on your property.

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Cars That Think

MAY 21, 2022

Wires have a lot going for them when it comes to moving electric power around, but they have their drawbacks too. Wires also challenge electric utilities: These companies must take pains to boost the voltage they apply to their transmission cables to very high values to avoid dissipating most of the power along the way.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

The Sonata Plug-in Hybrid will be distributed in California, Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island and Vermont, but customers in any of the other states can custom order the vehicle at their local Hyundai dealer. Hybrid system net power is 193 horsepower at 6,000 rpm.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

The plan focuses on overcoming three key challenges: the relatively high cost of offshore wind energy; technical challenges surrounding installation, operations, and grid interconnection; and. the lack of site data and experience with project permitting processes. Next-Generation Drivetrain (up to $7.5

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Since the first blockchain was conceptualized in 2009, primarily to power Bitcoin, Meling notes that that numerous other applications have been inspired by its potential. Both are now faculty members at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 27, 2022

An old-fashioned triode vacuum tube does that using a voltage applied to its grid electrode. Alexanderson alternator , which produced a high-power, high-frequency alternating current for the radio transmitter. In the Apollo missions to the moon during the 1960s and ’70s, magnetic amplifiers controlled power supplies and fan blowers.

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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. Shift Power Solutions, Inc. DOE Funding: $240,000. Total Project Value: $300,000. DOE Funding: $160,000.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Laredo Bus Facility Solar Canopies: Provide shade structures with integrated, grid tied photovoltaic cells to be erected on the bus storage lot at the Laredo Bus Maintenance Facility. PV canopies will produce power and reduce temperatures underneath canopies. Buses will be powered by an Azure Dynamics hybrid system of Michigan.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2014

Eight partnering states released their Multi-State ZEV Action Plan as the first promised milestone for the bi-coastal collaboration to pave the way for increasingly large numbers of zero emission vehicles: plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), battery electric vehicles (BEVs), and hydrogen-powered fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2016

million through the Advanced Vehicle Power Technology Alliance to support projects specifically focused on advanced high-voltage electrolytes for batteries and advanced engine and powertrain technologies to improve vehicle fuel efficiency. Grid Modernization for Electric Vehicles (Area of Interest 2). University of Maryland.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Solar Grid Storage selected AllCell Technologies as a preferred supplier of large lithium-ion battery systems for their PowerFactor solar + storage systems. The Solar Grid Storage PowerFactor™ system provides commercial solar project developers with a turnkey energy storage solution bundled with an inverter, reducing project costs.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Breaking the Board: Bringing Three-Dimensional Packaging and Thermal Management to Power Electronics - $2,746,501. Synteris is developing 3D-printable ceramic packaging for power electronic modules to improve their thermal management, power density, performance, and lifetime. Cornell University. Stanford University.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

grid by sector for use in coordinated climate model experiments. —a collaboration between the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the University of Maryland—and colleagues analyzed data about sulfur-emitting activities such as coal burning, copper smelting, or the use of petroleum.

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