Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 28, 2019

The program represents the largest deployment of electric school buses in the United States. Jouley is powered by Proterra electric vehicle technology and configured with 220 kWh of total energy capacity, a two-speed transmission and a TBB-estimated operating range of up to 134 miles.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 28, 2019

Highview Power Storage, Inc., a provider of long duration energy storage solutions, and Encore Renewable Energy, a developer of renewable energy generation and storage projects, jointly announced plans to develop the United States’ first long-duration, liquid-air energy storage system.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2020

The major driver for the project is the need to decarbonize the electrical grid, protect it from cybersecurity attacks and make it more resilient. We will be replicating the entire California power grid on one campus. The goal is to make the testbed available to outside research teams and industry by 2025.

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Cars That Think

MAY 21, 2024

However, in the United States alone, more than 50,000 community water systems also represent a landscape of potential vulnerabilities that have provided a hacker’s playground in recent months. Over the years, this sense of urgency has increased, due to the introduction of new technologies such as IoT systems and expanded connectivity.

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Blink Charging

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In 2023, Kelley Blue Book reported an unprecedented purchase of 1,189,051 electric vehicles in the United States alone, while global EV sales are projected to range between 9.6 Recognizing this, grid regulators and utility companies are actively considering demand response strategies for electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2021

US President Joe Biden announced a new target for the United States to achieve a 50-52% reduction from 2005 levels in economy-wide net greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in 2030. As countries look to accelerate this transition, the modernization of power grids and integration of energy storage will also be increasingly important.

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MAY 30, 2023

Solar Systems, its distribution arm in the United States. to offer Tesla Powerwalls to its customers in California, with plans to expand to other states in the coming months. International renewable energy supplier BayWa r.e. The partnership will allow BayWa r.e. David Dunlap, VP of Product Strategy at BayWa r.e.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

As more power stations adopted the clocks, the frequency regulation allowed them to share electricity and create an interconnected power grid. But by the 1950s, clocks with improved batteries and oscillating quartz crystal resonators began to replace consumer electric clocks that synchronized with the power grid.

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Baua Electric

MAY 15, 2024

Photo: Zum An Oakland, California, school district is the first in the US to transition to a 100% electric school bus system with vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology. The fleet will be managed through Zum’s AI-enabled technology platform. gigawatt hours (GWh) of energy back to the power grid at scale annually.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2012

Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC), in cooperation with Duke Energy and non-profit industry initiative Energy Systems Network (ESN), will participate in a joint smart-grid pilot project in Indiana, the United States. The project is scheduled to begin in early 2013 and to run for approximately one year.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 11, 2023

Whenever new technologies are introduced into the power grid, there’s always a chance they could disrupt the system, possibly even leading to blackouts. Finding ways to deal with the impact on the grid caused by incorporating renewable energy has been the focus of Vijay Vittal ’s research for nearly 20 years.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2015

The first—“ Electric Vehicle Benefits and Costs in the United States ”—shows that the benefits of vehicle electrification vary based on vehicle type; driving style; climate; how supplying electricity is generated; and time of charge. —“Electric Vehicle Benefits and Costs in the United States”.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 29, 2022

That need for balance is true of electric power grids, too. Spiking demand for electric heat collided with supply problems created by frozen natural-gas equipment and below-average wind-power production. Packetized energy management (PEM) allows the power grid to flexibly handle a varying supply of renewable energy.

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EV Connect

JANUARY 24, 2022

And as electric-vehicle technology advances, it may simply become better than traditional combustion. But, there is a downside to this wave of EVs, especially in the United States. As it stands, the power grid is already run-down and outdated , built for the electric loads of a century ago, not for modern life.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Battelle has signed an exclusive licensing and collaboration agreement with the specialty grid management company Gridquant , bringing Gridquant’s advanced modeling and analysis technologies to the electricity transmission market. Gridquant Introduction from Gridquant on Vimeo. With HELM, they’ll have a GPS.

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Cars That Think

MAY 12, 2023

His discovery paved the way for more efficient transistors critical in technologies that ushered in the Information Age. Despite Tanenbaum’s early work on silicon transistors, AT&T did not support further research or advancement of the technology. Tanenbaum instead worked on other new technologies in the decades that followed.

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EV Connect

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Edison championed DC power, which started as the standard electricity in the United States. DC Power DC electricity is current that constantly runs in one direction. This is the power found in fuel cells, solar cells and batteries. In the United States, AC power reverses direction 60 times per second.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Congress has provided hundreds of billions of dollars to speed the deployment of clean-energy technologies. power-grid transmission. If you ask a bunch of experts to predict the cost of a technology 10 years from now, they’re all over the map—9 out of 10 are wrong, and you don’t know which one is right.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

They wanted to see whether an electric vehicle could feed electricity back to the grid. The experiment seemed to prove the feasibility of the technology. The company’s president, Tom Gage , dubbed the system “vehicle to grid” or V2G. And indeed, that’s how promoters of vehicle-to-grid technology perceive the EV.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 30, 2021

2021 was a big year for energy-related news, what with the ongoing hunt for new forms of energy storage and cleaner if not carbon-free electricity and events and research that spotlighted the weak links in our power grid. IEEE Spectrum did its best to cover those developments, and these were the stories that our readers liked best.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2023

In late January, civil servants in the United States and European Union promised that the two would join forces and support development of AI models in five socially critical areas, including healthcare and the climate. However, their agreement has yet to translate into concrete action. “In

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2013

Included in the acquisition, which has received approval from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), are A123’s automotive, grid and commercial business assets, including technology, products, customer contracts and U.S. A123’s joint venture with Shanghai Automotive. Lead-Acid Replacement.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 24, 2023

The early forays to the moon employed throwaway technologies, designed to function during the two-week period of lunar daylight, then to perish in the freeze of the equally long night. Fuel cells, rather than solar cells, provided power, because solar cells of the 1960s and 1970s had a prohibitively high weight-to-power ratio.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2014

H 2 FIRST’s technical goal is to develop and apply physical testing, numerical simulation and technology validation to help create low-cost, high-performance materials, components and station architectures. Earlier post.). We are excited to be joined by such prestigious partners in this effort. —Air Resources Board Chairman Mary D.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

An updated roadmap for the Smart Grid is now available from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), which recently finished reviewing and incorporating public comments into the NIST Framework and Roadmap for Smart Grid Interoperability Standards, Release 2.0. Further improvements and additions to the 1.0

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

DES systems consist of small, stationary batteries installed in neighborhoods, buildings, homes and electricity substations, which can be networked together using smart grid communications technology. The coalition was assembled by the National Alliance for Advanced Technology Batteries ( NAATBatt ). value proposition.

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Driivz

DECEMBER 20, 2023

This includes allowing customers to pay using their preferred methods, including plug-and-charge capabilities as the market matures around this technology. The business value is ultimately transforming the EV charging energy challenge into a solution by using EV batteries and vehicle-to-grid technology to balance the grid and reduce demand.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2010

A group of US and Canadian power grid operators, who manage most of the North American bulk electric grid collectively, studied the effect that plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) would have on the electric power grid. ISO RTO operating regions. Click to enlarge.

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Blink Charging

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The Environmental Protection Agency notes that in recent years, trends in the vehicle market shifted from smaller sedans and wagons to SUVs and pickup trucks, with SUVs making up 45% and pickups making up 15% of the model year 2021 light-duty vehicle market in the United States. mph” in the United States.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2010

The California South Coast Air Quality Management District (AQMD) has awarded AC Propulsion a $300,000 grant to integrate its electric drive system technology into commercial service vans ( three Ford E250 vans supplied by Comcast) in Southern California. induction motor, inverter, charger and 12V power supply. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2009

However, the report concludes, initiating deployment of these technologies is urgent; actions taken—or not taken—between now and 2020 to develop and demonstrate several key technologies will largely determine the nation’s energy options for many decades to come. Source: America’s Energy Future, Fig. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 15, 2014

in the past few years important factors have emerged that are re-accelerating the commercialization of hydrogen and fuel cell technologies. Low-cost shale gas has improved the prospects for natural gas-derived hydrogen, especially in the United States, where it is a major force in the resurgence of federal interest in hydrogen energy.

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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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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2014

More than 300 megawatts of large, cargo container-sized sodium-beta batteries are running in the United States, Japan and Europe, according to Dupont Energy Consulting. Running at lower temperatures can make a big difference for sodium-beta batteries and may enable batteries to store more renewable energy and strengthen the power grid.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The pressurized-water plant provides electricity to the majority of the state’s businesses and residents and to customers beyond Arkansas. Our nuclear plant is like a river that meets the ocean, supplying power to the larger electric power grid that provides electricity across North America,” Ansari says.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2016

At least six transmission lines currently proposed or in permitting review, such as the Great Northern Transmission Line, the New England Clean Power Link, and the Nogales Interconnection, would add approximately 5,000 megawatts (MW) of new cross-border transmission capacity.

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Blink Charging

JULY 27, 2023

In 2030, McKinsey estimates that there may be as many as 48 million EVs plugging into the US power grid, which means that utility providers are already preparing for the increased load. Some businesses use BESS to store power generated by solar panels for use in the evening or during a power outage.

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