Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

There have been vigorous debates pro and con in the United States and elsewhere over whether electric grids can support EVs at scale. Further, the system was designed for one-way power, not for distributed renewable-energy devices sending power back into the system. The answer is a nuanced “perhaps.” million miles of power lines.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2012

System framework for M-tech Labo. The purpose of this project is to demonstrate load shifting by charging at night when demand is low, storing power produced from renewable sources in rechargeable batteries, and supplying such power back to the grid when factory facilities and offices face peak demand. Click to enlarge.

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My Energi

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Commenting on the announcement, Jordan Brompton, co-founder and CMO of myenergi, said: “Bringing an increasing number of tech innovations into the scope of VAT relief on ESMs is a major step forward. In addition, it will help to further accelerate the government’s legally-binding commitment to reach net zero by 2050 – a good move all round.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 2, 2014

Ford Motor Company announced the C-MAX Solar Energi Concept, a sun-powered hybrid vehicle that can deliver the efficiency of a plug-in hybrid without depending on the electric grid for recharging. and Georgia Tech. This could be especially important in places where the electric grid is underdeveloped, unreliable or expensive to use.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The advancement is aimed at accelerating the production of electric vehicles and energy storage solutions for the power grid. is evaluating a location for an R&D and prototyping facility in the US to scale these technologies to meet the demands of customers in the mobility and grid sectors. SPARKZ Inc. —Ilias Belharouak.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

OnStar, a wholly owned subsidiary of GM, is inviting utilities, energy companies and tech firms to develop Smart Grid solutions using a set of proprietary OnStar application programming (APIs). The Smart Grid set of APIs is among the first to be offered outside of the company. Earlier post.) Earlier post.) Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

New analysis based on big data analysis by Lux Research suggests that innovation interest in renewables is declining, after peaking about four years ago. Without continued innovation momentum, the market research firm noted, long-term success driven by further clean energy technology improvements is thrown into question.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 19, 2023

In mid-2022, the International Renewable Energy Agency counted 32 countries that had adopted hydrogen strategies and 11 others that were preparing such plans. If the electricity used to produce the hydrogen and the fuels derived from it comes from renewable sources, these products are considered “green.”

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My Electric Car

AUGUST 23, 2023

Vehicle-to-Grid Integration : AI can enable bidirectional communication between EVs and the electric grid, allowing vehicles to function as energy storage devices that can feed surplus energy back into the grid during peak demand, thus supporting the grid’s stability.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2022

How that happens exactly—whether from on-site renewables or grid supplied—is a site-by-site discussion. Using flight demand data from NASA’s contractors at the National Institute of Aerospace and at Georgia Tech, NREL is modeling scenarios that could play out with electrified and regional air transit.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2020

FLECCS project teams will work to develop carbon capture and storage (CCS) processes that better enable technologies, such as natural gas power generators, to be responsive to grid conditions in a high variable renewable energy (VRE) penetration environment. Phase 1 FLECCS projects are: GE Global Research. 8 Rivers Capital.

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Driivz

MAY 10, 2022

Part 1 of this two-part blog discusses the challenges facing electric utilities – both electricity generators and grid operators – with electric vehicle (EV) adoption coinciding with the electrification of buildings, heating, and industry. That is one way to balance the load on the grid. Leveraging EVs as grid assets.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Auburn University researchers are leading a $2-million US Department of Energy Co-Optima project ( earlier post ) that will evaluate renewable butyl acetate (BA) as a bio-based fuel additive that can be blended with diesel fuel to reduce soot and greenhouse gas emissions and yield cleaner engine operation in cold-weather conditions.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2020

As an ambitious high-tech company with a competent technical development core, we will work with Volkswagen to create a solid foundation to support the success of electric vehicles. The built-in battery pack can store a buffer of energy meaning that it can be disconnected from the grid.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Lithium, a critical material used in high-charge-density batteries for electric vehicles and grid-scale electricity storage, is a crucial element in the clean energy supply chain. Texas Tech University – Tech Desal. is administered by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and funded by the Geothermal Technologies Office.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

The US Department of Energy is awarding $620 million for projects around the country to demonstrate advanced Smart Grid technologies and integrated systems. Smart grid regional demonstrations involving plug-in vehicles include (ranked by DOE funding): Columbus Southern Power Company (doing business as AEP Ohio).

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My Energi

MARCH 13, 2023

Charging your EV with mains electricity is typical today, but with decentralised domestic energy generation becoming ever-more commonplace across the UK, drivers should specify a device compatible with renewables to prevent buying twice.” It does this without taking any energy from the grid in its most eco-smart mode.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Fluence is helping accelerate the adoption of renewables and is allowing utilities and power producers to incorporate renewables at scale. Its technologies provide storage solutions for energy produced by wind farms and other renewable sources.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 25, 2024

The California Energy Commission (CEC) has awarded a $3-million grant to BorgWarner , Fermata Energy and Lion Electric to bring grid-supporting and cost-saving vehicle-to-grid (V2G) solutions to electric school buses.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2018

The proposed XFC design is expected to offer grid-to-vehicle efficiency up to 96.5%—four —four times less weight and half the size of conventional DC fast EV chargers (DCFC), as well as a high voltage direct current (HVDC) port to utilize energy storage and renewable energy systems, minimizing demand on the power grid.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2017

Specifically, the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)—explicitly not a contract or a treaty—expands cooperation on the advancement of low-carbon, renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies such as zero-emission vehicles, energy storage, grid modernization and low-carbon urban development.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Jenkins has also helped push Congress to think more seriously about the power grid, releasing a report last year that showed that much of the 43 percent emissions reduction expected by 2030 would be squandered if the United States doesn’t double the pace of transmission upgrades. clean-tech legislation. power-grid transmission.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 26, 2021

Department of Energy (DOE) funded 16 National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) awards through its Technology Commercialization Fund (TCF). The $5 million funded by DOE — roughly a third of the available TCF budget allocated to the DOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable […]. This year, the U.S.

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My Energi

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

To tackle the seemingly looming energy crisis, more households than ever are turning towards renewable energy generation as a solution to safeguard against an unpredictable market. But while increasing renewable uptake should be commended from an environmental perspective, will self-generation really protect you from escalating energy bills?

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Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2016

Climate & Renewables North America, LLC (E.ON) signed an agreement with Tucson Electric Power (TEP) to provide frequency response and voltage control from a grid-scale, 10 megawatt (MW) battery energy storage facility with a 2 MW solar array. In addition to supplementing TEP’s grid management, E.ON MW Tech Park Solar and 13.2

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2009

The US Department of Energy delivered more than $47 million in funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act for eight projects to further smart grid demonstration projects in seven states. The $47 million in new Recovery Act awards will support existing projects that are advancing demonstration-scale smart grid technologies.

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My Energi

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Lee Sutton and Jordan Brompton founded UK-based myenergi in 2016 with the purpose of removing the barriers to a greener future, including the technological, behavioural and financial challenges relating to fast adoption of smart energy products, setting the company on a mission to pioneer a simple transition to renewable energy.

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Electra Vehicles

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) innovations are quickly overtaking the electric vehicle and CleanTech conversations worldwide as OEMs and grid companies alike search for solutions to common EV and energy issues. Big Data for Local V2G Smart Grids KALUZA. Bidirectional Charging for EV Fleets NUVVE.

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Creative Greenius

JUNE 30, 2009

I attended today’s Bryan Cave Clean Tech Roundtable at the Broad Stage at Santa Monica College – thanks to my pal Donna Gentry. It was a terrific day spent on Renewable Energy and if you follow my Twitter feed you got some of the highlights during the three hour agenda.

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My Energi

AUGUST 17, 2023

myenergi, the eco-smart tech manufacturer, has announced a major partnership agreement with online car marketplace cinch that aims to bring EV home charging to the masses. Grid-compatible as standard, it also has optional charging modes capable of utilising 100% green energy generated by consumers’ own renewable power.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2011

On December 16, 2010 the US DOE Energy Information Agency (EIA) published a report projecting that renewable energy will still only constitute 12 percent of the USA’s energy sources by 2035. In France, renewable energy consumption will be 20 percent by 2020. EIA projections of renewables penetration. Source: EIA.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Photo: China News Service Renewable energy costs in Asia last year were 13% cheaper than coal and are expected to be 32% cheaper by 2030, according to a new study. This is significant because it marks a shift toward making renewables increasingly competitive with coal, a mainstay in APAC’s energy mix.

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Charged EVs

MAY 2, 2024

An off-grid energy system basically consists of just four key components: 1) a battery to store energy; 2) one or more renewable energy sources (e.g. An off-grid energy system basically consists of just four key components: 1) a battery to store energy; 2) one or more renewable energy sources (e.g. from the battery.

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Wallbox

JANUARY 4, 2021

Whilst with unidirectional (one-way) EV chargers, electricity flows from the electric grid into the electric vehicle, with bidirectional (two-way) EV chargers, electricity can flow both ways. This also helps avoid situations in which a large proportion of EV owners charge at the same time, overloading the energy supply grid.

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Charged EVs

MAY 8, 2023

In recent testimony, Nuvve CEO Gregory Poilasne told the lawmakers that bidirectional charging can reduce the total cost of EV ownership, and that it’s essential for integrating more renewable energy into the grid. The bill is agnostic in terms of how V2X tech is implemented. That’s one way.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

The two companies are collaborating to determine how the Volt’s 16-kWh lithium-ion batteries can be used to provide stationary electric grid storage systems once the batteries have fulfilled their usefulness in customers’ vehicles. Bly announced the partnership Tuesday at the EV Battery Tech conference in Troy, Michigan.

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My Energi

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Thanks to the latest developments in eco-smart home energy management technology, not only can householders slash their energy bills, they can also significantly reduce the payback period of their investment into renewables. In the past, this scenario has somewhat dissuaded domestic investment into renewable self-generation.

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