Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Funded through a $25-million DOE award, the public-private consortium aims to enable power-sector decarbonization through 2035. Maintaining grid reliability amid increasing renewable energy penetration involves fundamental changes to power system operation and the resources leveraged to provide grid services.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 21, 2024

The Washington, DC Auto Show official website revealed that Tesla is bringing some of its latest vehicles at the event. As seen in social media posts from the Washington, DC Auto Show, Tesla brought a red upgraded Tesla Model 3 sedan, a Model Y crossover, and the Tesla Cybertruck to its booth.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 18, 2024

Washington State’s energy board cut the size of what would have been the state’s largest wind farm in half yesterday – here’s why. Wind farm controversy in Washington State The $1.7 In 2023, wind provided almost 8% of the state’s power. Photo: “Ferruginous Hawk Head” by ahisgett is licensed under CC BY 2.0.

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Cars That Think

MAY 27, 2023

For more than a century, utility companies have used electromechanical relays to protect power systems against damage that might occur during severe weather, accidents, and other abnormal conditions. Today SEL manufactures hundreds of products that protect, monitor, control, and automate electric power systems in more than 165 countries.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2019

Ford Motor Company is teaming up with Solid Power ( earlier post ) to develop all solid-state batteries (ASSB) for next-generation electric vehicles. Solid Power’s solid-state technology combines a cathode, metallic lithium anode, and a safe, inorganic solid electrolyte layer. —Doug Campbell, Solid Power’s co-founder and CEO.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Earlier this week, New Jersey officials announced plans to ban the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035. The state Department of Environment Protection announced that it will prohibit the sale of new gas-powered cars precisely on January 1, 2035. Consumers may still purchase used gasoline-powered vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2022

Powered with hydropower, the facility is located on 160-acres of land close to rail lines for convenient and efficient shipping. This is enough material to power batteries in up to 100,000-500,000 premium electric vehicles and 500 million mobile phones annually. Sila materials today power WHOOP 4.0,

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2021

Proterra Inc has been selected by the Washington State Department of Enterprise Services as a vendor to supply zero-emission battery-electric transit buses and charging infrastructure under the state’s regional Cooperative Purchasing Contract.

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Washington Energy Storage Purchase Electric 170

Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2023

Ballard Power Systems and First Mode announced a purchase order for Ballard to supply First Mode with 30 hydrogen fuel cell modules—totaling 3 megawatts—to power several hybrid hydrogen and battery ultra-class mining haul trucks. This is the equivalent of approximately 4,000 horsepower.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

On a planet aspiring to become carbon neutral, the once-stalwart coal power plant is an emerging anachronism. Some analysts have proposed a solution that, on the surface, seems almost too elegant: turning old coal plants into nuclear power plants. Are all of these sites going to get nuclear power plants? In Kemmerer, Wyo.,

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Energy Institute at HAAS

AUGUST 1, 2022

Can the private sector lead on climate while Washington dithers? Twenty-eight US states had heat advisories last week, temperatures topped 115 degrees in Texas and Oklahoma, and record heat waves … Continue Reading Voluntary Green Power to the Rescue?

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Green Oklahoma Power Powered 93

Electrek

MARCH 11, 2022

Washington state has passed a bill that would ban the sale, purchase, and registration of new gas-powered vehicles of the model year 2030 or later. The post Washington passes bill to ban gas car sales by 2030 – for real this time? The bill passed yesterday and will now be delivered to Governor Jay Inslee for his signature.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2019

On 26 July, the first flue gas from the natural gas power plant, the Shepard Energy Center in Calgary, Canada, was directly transformed by the C2CNT process ( earlier post ) into carbon nanotubes. In a related new study in the Journal of CO 2 Utilization (Wang et al. )

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Electric Cars Report

AUGUST 18, 2022

In this growth spurt, owners in high EV volume markets like California, Texas and Washington, for instance, are finding the charging infrastructure inadequate and plagued with non-functioning stations. Power Charging Study appeared first on Electric Cars Report.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

According to the American Public Transit Association (APTA), alternative fuels and advanced hybrid drivetrains powered more than half of all transit buses in 2017 and 2018. Source: American Public Transportation Association, 2019 Public Transportation Fact Book, Washington, DC, April 2019, Figure 14.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

AMPLY Power and AECOM have announced a strategic partnership to help bus fleet owners address and accelerate their zero-emission initiatives. AMPLY Power recently broke ground on a project with the Anaheim Transportation Network (ATN), where they estimated a potential $4.8

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2012

Axion Power International, Inc., for participation in a Zero Energy Building in the Washington DC Naval Yard. The mini-Cube, which will provide demand response energy storage that will be grid-network tied, will be linked to a 32kW solar panel array and will supply standby power service for this Zero Energy Administration Building.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2023

However, the emissions of electric vehicles depend greatly on the energy source used to generate the electricity that powers them. For example, the dominant source in Rhode Island is natural gas (90.9%), in West Virginia it is coal (90.8%), in Washington it is hydro (64.6%), and in New Hampshire it is nuclear (56.5%). Natural gas 87.9

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EV Adoption

MAY 25, 2021

One of the common arguments you hear from people in America who are not fans of the idea of electric vehicles is that they are mostly charged from electricity produced from coal power plants. The argument that EVs are powered mostly from coal simply isn’t true. of EV sales in 2020. of electric vehicle sales in the US.

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Coal West Virginia Power Powered 145

Baua Electric

JANUARY 16, 2024

Costco contracted Washington-based Trinity Structures to design and build an off-grid rooftop solar system at its distribution center in Mira Loma. The “solar electrification structure,” as Trinity calls it, is not connected to the grid and provides direct, on-site power, similar to a microgrid.

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Grid Solar Installation Fleet 52

Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2023

The concept machine is powered entirely by two Volvo Penta batteries, matched to the duty cycle of the excavator, which fit neatly into the existing engine bay. The zero-emissions concept machine, named EL41H4, is on display at the Gradall Booth, W41500.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2014

million project ($6 million in funding support from the DOE) to design and to build a next-generation power inverter capable of 55 kW peak/30 kW continuous power. The inverter is to improve the cost of the power electronics to $3.30/kW GM is almost two-thirds of the way through a $16.6-million

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Electrek

MARCH 30, 2022

Redmond, Washington-based electric bicycle company Propella has just launched the brand’s most up-market e-bike yet, the Propella 9S Pro. The post Propella 9S Pro launched as lightweight urban electric bike with better parts, more power & speed appeared first on Electrek.

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Parts Power Powered Washington 98

Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2014

Researchers from Washington State University and Kyung Hee University in Korea have fabricated a solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) with a novel mixed conductivity MoO 2 -based anode that is fueled by direct feeding of premium gasoline without external reforming. Their fuel cell demonstrated a power density >3.0 Power density of ?2.0

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Electrek

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

The electric bus was “Proterra Powered” and traveled from Newark, California to Seattle, Washington and back using only public charging stations. ABC Companies, a North American motorcoach seller, announced it has completed a 1,700 mile trip across the Pacific Northwest using a Van Hool CX45E all-electric bus.

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Electrek

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Rad Power Bikes is the largest electric bicycle company in North America, meaning that when they make moves, the industry responds. And the latest move we could soon see from the Seattle, Washington-based e-bike manufacturer may be the introduction of a new low-cost electric bike to replace the RadMission. Here’s why.

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Low Cost Seattle North America Power 65

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Universal Hydrogen was granted a special airworthiness certificate in the experimental category by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to proceed with the first flight of its hydrogen-powered regional aircraft. The Dash 8-300 flying testbed has a megawatt-class hydrogen fuel cell powertrain installed in one of its nacelles.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Plug Power Inc. Through this application, Plug Power extends its reach into the on-road electric vehicle market, increasing its served market for fuel cell products and hydrogen fueling stations. Plug Power is developing this technology through a $3-million grant from the Department of Energy with FedEx.

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Los Angeles Plug Range Power 150

Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2020

American shipbuilding company Vigor Fab LLC has selected ABB as the hybrid-electric propulsion and energy storage system provider for the newest additions to the Washington State Ferry fleet—the largest US ferry system. The first hybrid-electric Olympic Class ferry will join Washington State Ferries’ fleet in 2024. Image: Vigor.

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Energy Storage Hybrid Washington Energy 221

Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2020

Of the 27 proposed sites, 16 are in California, five are in Oregon and six are in Washington. Those highways include Interstates 8, 10, 80, 210 and 710 and state routes 60 and 99 in California; I-84 in Oregon; and I-90 in Washington. HDR completed the study.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2014

Researchers at Washington State University, with colleagues at Kyung Hee University and Boeing Commercial Airplanes, have been developing liquid hydrocarbon/oxygenated hydrocarbon-fueled solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) for aviation (the “more electric” airplane) and other transportation applications, such as in cars. Power density of ?2.0

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2021

Following the completion of the current pilot program, Helbiz plans to deploy Lightning Electric Ford Transit 350HD vans throughout Miami and Washington DC to manage its intra-urban operations. The new vehicles are capable of achieving 61 MPGe, compared to 13 MPG for gasoline-powered vans.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2019

The buses will operate between the Sunset Transit Center and Washington Square Transit Center, with depot chargers installed at TriMet’s Merlo Operating Facility and one on-route charger installed at the Sunset Transit Center to rapidly recharge batteries each round trip.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2021

In December 2020, Insitu completed the first flight of the ScanEagle3 UAV powered by an all-electric, hydrogen fueled, PEM fuel cell. The tests verified operation performance metrics of the LH 2 tank in preparation for upcoming flights of ScanEagle3 equipped with a PEM fuel cell power system.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2013

distribution center and currently serves approximately 500 grocery stores in Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, West Virginia, Washington, D.C. To power the new trucks, Trillium CNG, a provider of compressed natural gas fueling solutions, built and will operate a fast-fill CNG station at SUPERVALU’s Mechanicsville distribution center.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 17, 2023

Listed below are highlights from the fresh episodes of ‘Day by day Power’, Car Information ‘ weekday podcast, June 12-15 hosted by way of Jamie Butters with Kellen Walker. “We The post Highlights from the fresh Day by day Power podcasts, June 12-15 appeared first on Bauaelectric Auto News.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 4, 2013

Clean Air Power exhibited its first prototype vehicle retrofitted with a Genesis-EDGE Dual-Fuel product suitable for the US market at the Alternative Clean Transportation EXPO in Washington DC. 1,000 miles were covered in Dual-Fuel operation with the balance in diesel.

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