Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2021

In most cases the existing technology grid can accommodate truck charging at depots. That perception is shifting, and our research suggests that certain short-haul operations can be electrified today with relatively low-power depot charging that won’t overwhelm the grid. Their paper appears in the journal Nature Energy. Borlaug, B.,

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2022

When anticipated improvements to electric vehicles and future electrical-grid decarbonization are factored in, a fully electric USPS delivery fleet would result in up to 63% lower greenhouse gas emissions than the agency estimated, over the lifetime of the fleet. An all-electric fleet would reduce lifetime greenhouse gas emissions by 14.7

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2022

Demand for lithium—a critical material used in batteries for electric vehicles, grid-scale electricity storage, phones, and laptops—has grown rapidly in recent years, with global demand expected to increase 500% by 2050. The winners will be announced in the fall of 2023 and receive $2 million total.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 20, 2010

The US Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) issued an initial list of standards, a preliminary cyber security strategy, and other elements of a framework to support transforming the nation’s aging electric power system into an interoperable Smart Grid. Earlier post.) Plug-in vehicles.

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AUGUST 29, 2018

The bill also establishes state policy that RPS-eligible and zero-carbon resources supply 100% of all retail sales of electricity to California end-use customers no later than 31 December 2045. 50% to 60% by 2030.

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Cars That Think

MAY 21, 2024

Katherine DeEmidio Ledesma, Dragos A 2021 review of cyber vulnerabilities in water systems, published in the journal Water , highlights the converging factors of increasingly AI-enhanced and internet-connected tools running more and bigger drinking water and wastewater systems. These attacks were not extremely sophisticated.” and the E.U.’s

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

US Commerce Secretary Gary Locke released the draft of an accelerated plan for Smart Grid interoperability. The Smart Grid will employ real-time, two-way digital information and communication technologies in the operation of the nation’s electricity grid. The draft will be posted for a 30-day period of public comment and review.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2022

This is the latest in a series of groundbreaking results over the past five years that show cryo-EM, which was developed as a tool for biology, opens “thrilling opportunities” in energy research, the team wrote in a separate review of the field published in July in Accounts of Chemical Research. Zewen Zhang/Stanford University). 1c00183.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

We have been studying potential impacts to the power grid. Now that this review has been completed, the Sandia team has received follow-on funding to tackle some of these gaps. We are focused on larger impacts to critical infrastructure as we electrify more of the transportation industry. doi: 10.3390/en15113931.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2009

The US will need to expand and modernize its outdated power transmission grid to incorporate more renewable energy sources, but balkanized ownership and regulation are going to make that process slow and difficult, according to a new Duke University analysis. —Chi-Jen Yang of the Duke-based Climate Change Policy Partnership (CCPP).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2009

GM is embracing the use of communications standards that operate with optional data transports to enable smart charging and integration with the emerging smart grid. A network of smart loads with communications to report their current state and act on smart grid commands. EVSE=Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment. Source: GM. Source: GM.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

State officials have approved requirements for the power grid to consist of 50% renewable energy by 2030. California has a largely untapped available renewable resource – biogas from dairies, landfills and wastewater treatment plants, which can be conditioned or upgraded to renewable natural gas.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2020

Such reasons include advantages to the electrical grid such as load balancing and energy storage, increased jobs and economic development, reduced stormwater pollution and consumer savings. The Washington bill, drafted according to the legal path identified in the law review article, required all new cars to be electric by 2030.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2013

is shown with both UK and French grid mixes. Renault also had a panel of experts review the report the ensure full compliance with ISO 14 030 norms related to LCA; the company also published that review report. Abiotic Resource Depletion Potential (kg Sb equivalent). consumption leading to resources and abiotic depletion.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

A new report from the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) reviews the major advantages and disadvantages associated with battery-electric vehicles (BEVs) and fuel-cell vehicles (FCVs). BEVs currently offer the most readily available alternative fuel source via the existing electric grid. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2021

GCxN provides promising early-stage cleantech startups with resources to accelerate product commercialization while de-risking investment. GCxN startups are referred by the program’s network partners—more than 60 cross-industry cleantech incubators, accelerators and universities—before undergoing in-depth review by Shell and NREL.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

It also puts the state on track to wean itself off of the energy from the plant with significant renewable-energy procurement by investing $1 billion to support a Clean Energy Reliability Investment Plan to accelerate deployment of clean energy resources, demand response and reliability improvements.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2009

Smart Grid electric transportation applications summary communications diagram. The US Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released for public review a report that identifies issues and proposes priorities for developing technical standards and an architecture for a US Smart Grid.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

The US Department of Energy released its inaugural Quadrennial Technology Review report (DOE-QTR)—an assessment of the Department’s energy technology research and development portfolios. Within the stationary heat and power sector, the DOE-QTR finds that the Department should increase emphasis on efficiency and understanding the grid.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2020

The results of the study were published in the Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists. Another study by Assoc Prof Salvo that was published in 2018 found that households consumed more water from the grid when exposed to air pollution. 40% of the developing world’s population live in the tropics, and PM 2.5

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2020

Ample natural gas resources exist to support demand growth, but greater gas infrastructure development is needed to support growth in the medium term. India is planning to almost double the length of its gas transmission grid, while China will grow its gas network about 60% by 2025. —Snam CEO Marco Alverà. Source: BloombergNEF.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2013

Amprius’ plan, outlined at the DOE Merit Review in 2012, is to start with consumer electronics and move to vehicle and grid storage markets. Silicon Nanostructure-based Technology for Next Generation Energy Storage (Amprius, 2012 DOE Merit Review). Source: DOE. Click to enlarge. Amprius Inc., Batteries'

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 20, 2010

The staff of the California Air Resources Board has posted the expert review reports of the Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) technical analysis. ARB should enact policies to accelerate the “greening” of California’s electrical transmission grids. 2009 Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) Review. Four external experts—Dr.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Analysts at the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) have reviewed recent research into the greenhouse gas emissions from the manufacturing of lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles. Grid decarbonization offers a significant opportunity to reduce the impact of battery manufacturing.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Upon review of the motion, the CPUC issued a decision extending that exemption to medium- and heavy-duty charging station providers and directed Southern California Edison (SCE) and Pacific Gas & Electric to modify their respective Electric Rule 18 tariffs to allow this resale of electricity as a motor fuel for EVs.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

Among the requirements of the decision is that at least 50 MW must be procured from energy storage resources. and at least 150 MW through preferred resources (energy efficiency, demand response, and distributed generation). This approach is a major step forward in our efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Following an outside peer-review process, the Commission will publish a final report, and engage local, state, and national officials, key stakeholder groups and the public to act on the recommendations. Scott Keogh, President, Audi of America (Co-Chair); Dean Seavers, President, National Grid U.S.

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Blink Charging

APRIL 20, 2023

And while the energy grid is slowly becoming more “clean” as suppliers switch to renewable sources, business owners can also make a difference. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory states in one report , “The emissions benefits of workplace charging increase as the carbon intensity of the grid is reduced.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2010

The grid-enable vehicle could become the communication focal point for a fully integrated energy system, the report suggests, with the vehicle integrating electric power generation and grid, homes, and the transportation infrastructure. The initial grid-enabled model. The integrated energy transportation efficiency model.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2012

Martino Tran and his colleagues reviewed the literature on electric vehicles, with a focus on market diffusion of full battery electric vehicles (BEVs). In their review, they assessed the key interactions between technology and behavior across different scales: system level, local level and consumer adoption. —Tran et al.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2012

Regional patterns of impact for the US electricity grid mix for five impact assessment categories. Colored boxes show each grid cell’s contribution to the total regionalized LCA score of the USA grid mix. In this paper, we review some key geographic concepts needed to work with regionalized data. Credit: ACS, Mutel et al.

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EV Connect

JANUARY 9, 2023

With bidirectional charging, the batteries in our vehicles can not only provide fuel for the road but energy for our homes and even our shared electrical grid. Vehicle to grid (V2G) : This is the most common application of bidirectional charging. University of Rochester - Can Electric Cars Help Strengthen Electrical Grids?

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Teslarati

JANUARY 13, 2022

In the document, the commission argued that the existing net energy metering tariff “negatively impacts non-participating customers; is not cost-effective; and disproportionately harms low-income ratepayers” since homeowners without solar are being shouldered with the price of maintaining the grid. proposal. .

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2009

California Air Resources Board Chairman Mary Nichols met with US Energy Secretary Steven Chu in May and followed up that meeting with a letter, urging the continuation of funding to support research, development and deployment of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. Source: DOE Hydrogen Program & Vehicle Technologies Program, 2009 Merit Review.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2012

In the excerpt from the study presented at the Review, Dr. Greene noted H 2 prices ranging from $2.0/gallon in a separate study presented at the Merit Review, Dr. Brian Bush of NREL computed a long-term (out to 2050) levelized delivered cost of hydrogen of $6/kg.). David Greene, DOE 2012 Merit Review).

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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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Setec Powerr

MAY 24, 2023

DC fast charging requires a lot of power, so you’ll need a licensed electrician to confirm if the existing grid connection is suitable. If not, it may be necessary to contact your regional power provider to ensure the grid can handle the demand of your charging infrastructure.

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