Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2010

The new 1,400-horsepower Hornblower Hybrid will run on a combination of energy generated by Tier 2 diesel engines, hydrogen fuel cells, solar panels and wind turbines. The New York Hornblower Hybrid follows the 2008 launch of the San Francisco Hornblower Hybrid, the United States’ first hybrid ferry. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2019

Johnson Matthey, Billingham, UK Enabling Autonomous Wind Plants through Consensus Control, $250,000 RES Group, Broomfield, Colo. SunPower, San Jose, Calif. Sunrun, San Francisco, Calif. Vivint Solar, Lehi, Utah Wind Turbine Drivetrain Reliability Assessment and Remaining Useful Life Prediction, $100,000 WindESCo, Boston, Mass.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2020

As we transition away from fossil fuels in favor of solar and wind energy and electric vehicles, there will be big changes in ozone pollution. We can really look at the state’s energy and transportation systems and be quantitative about how those things might help or hurt agriculture. Mueller, N.D., Burney, J.A.

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Ozone Davis San Diego Pollution 186

Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2011

The CCSE project team includes the UC Davis’s Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle Research Center; the UC Berkeley, Transportation Sustainability Research Center (TSRC); UC San Diego Strategic Energy Initiatives; San Diego Gas & Electric; and AeroVironment.

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Li-ion San Diego Batteries Battery 225

Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2015

This two-way data exchange will create a means to use EV batteries to help manage variable grid conditions, generation oversupply and other challenges associated with the state’s goals to decarbonize its electricity sector with renewable energy resources such as solar and wind.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 28, 2009

The 500 kW PowerCube will be built and installed at Axion’ New Castle battery manufacturing facility and will be designed to enhance a Smart Grid electrical distribution system, including a future solar-powered electric vehicle charging station and a potential wind-powered energy system. The $248,650 grant is part of $1.5

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 1, 2012

To date, all of the proprietary electrode material used in Maxwell ultracapacitor products has been produced at the company’s San Diego facility. The new electrode plant will be housed in a 123,000 square-foot facility the company has leased in Peoria, Arizona, near Phoenix.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 29, 2021

About 160 kilometers northwest of Beijing, the city of Zhangjiakou with its rugged terrain boasts some of the richest wind and solar resources in China. Renewables account for nearly half of the city’s electricity output with less than a third of its full solar and wind potential of 70 gigawatts installed so far.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

The draft Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan ( DRECP ) proposes to protect areas in the California desert important for wildlife, recreation and other uses while streamlining permitting in areas appropriate for siting of solar, wind and geothermal energy projects and associated transmission.

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California Renewable Energy San Diego 252

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Variable speed mechanical output with a fixed input mechanical speed is achieved by exporting/importing electrical power through a set of control windings—splitting the power along a “variator” path. winding copper losses). MAGSPLIT is intended to replace mechanical eCVTs with a combination motor/magnetic gear. Click to enlarge.

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Clean Fleet Report

APRIL 8, 2023

Clean Fleet Report got a chance to sample the model at a recent media event in San Diego. There is a choice of eight colors—Jet Black Mica, Cypress, Celestite, Wind Chill Pearl (with a $425 added cost) and Sonic Silver Metallic, Barcelona Red Metallic, Blue Crush Metallic and Acidic Blast. It combines a 2.0-liter,

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Toyota Hybrid San Diego MPG 84

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2015

They can be generated from fossil natural gas or bio-gas or through a power-to-liquids process that uses renewable sources such as solar or wind power together with CO 2 captured from the air. Alternative, renewable fuels like methyl ethers will play a pivotal role in the future.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

GM has simplified the two-mode hybrid system for application in front-wheel drive vehicles—the Saturn VUE being the first instance ( earlier post )—while retaining its functionality and capability, according to Mark Selogie, Senior Manager Power Electronics, GM Powertrain, speaking at the SAE Hybrid Symposium in San Diego (11-12 Feb).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 1, 2011

The team presented the results of its high-end computer simulations, carried out as part of a Special Research Program funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF , in an invited presentation at the annual meeting of the The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society ( TMS 2011 ) in San Diego, California. The team at St.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2011

Before moving D cell assembly, Maxwell had produced approximately 7 million D cells, mainly for wind turbine blade pitch mechanisms, at its Swiss production facility. The proprietary electrode material used in all BOOSTCAP cell types is produced only in the company’s San Diego facility.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2011

University of California at San Diego will receive $95,000 to reduce the cost of biomass power generation by removing tar from the producer gas in the gasifier. This technology would increase efficiency and lower production costs. Membrane Technology and Research Inc.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2014

Southern Company; Northeast Utilities; Southern California Edison; Pacific Gas & Electric Company; San Diego Gas & Electric; Commonwealth Edison; TVA; Manitoba Hydro; Austin Energy; Con Edison; and CPS Energy. Electric (Battery) Infrastructure Smart charging Smart Grid Standards V2X'

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 14, 2011

The company has a global biofuels technology center, located in San Diego in the US and is investing $500 million over 10 years in the Energy Biosciences Institute (EBI), at which biotechnologists are investigating applications of biotechnology to energy. Since 2006, BP has announced investments of more than $1.5

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Brazil San Diego Carbon 2006 199

Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2009

a positive feedback), according to a new study of the NE Pacific by researchers from the University of Miami and UC San Diego. Low-level stratiform clouds—which play an important climatic role because of their net cooling effect on the global climate—appear to dissipate as the ocean warms, thereby enhancing the warming (i.e.,

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Climate Change Climate San Diego 2009 186

Clean Fleet Report

APRIL 5, 2023

Driving Impressions: Hitting the Road Always in control Our driving time was spent on wet and dry pavement negotiating San Diego County highways and back country winding roads. coefficient of drag (C d ), which helps it cut through the wind and deliver excellent fuel economy. The aerodynamic design has a 0.27

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Get Electric Vehicle

DECEMBER 30, 2023

For instance, AI can schedule charging when there is a surplus of solar or wind energy available, leading to a more sustainable energy consumption pattern. This not only helps users save on costs by avoiding peak energy periods but also aids in balancing the grid’s load and integrating more renewable energy sources.

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 12, 2009

Last month, I completed my GRID Alternatives volunteer training in San Diego and this Monday and Tuesday I’ll be in El Cajon, California as one of the volunteers installing a solar PV system on a new Habitat for Humanity home. Free, Clean, Renewable Electricity From The Wind: Visiting PacWind with Dency & J.R.

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Al Gore Solar Climate Change Gore 150

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

Electric vehicles have the potential to benefit the grid by using their batteries to help manage electricity loads throughout the day—a growing concern as renewable solar and wind energy continue to grow in California.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2009

Long-stator propulsion uses an electrically powered linear motor winding in the guideway; short-stator propulsion uses a linear induction motor (LIM) winding onboard the vehicle and a passive guideway with a magnetically receptive material (e.g., ferromagnetic aluminum, copper, etc.) installed along the rail surface.

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Clean Fleet Report

JANUARY 16, 2023

After driving 246 miles through Southern California counties of Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego, we had 30 miles of range remaining on the dash gauge. The GV60 has limited wind and road noise partly due to the low 0.29 The Advance can go 248 miles while the Performance is rated by the U.S. EPA at 235 miles.

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Clean Fleet Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

San Diego to San Francisco? Not much can knock around the Pacifica, including wind gusts and passing big rigs, all of which had a minimal effect on the stability and sure-footed feel. We would like to meet and talk with those people! The bottom line is the Pacifica Hybrid, with a full 16.5-gallon Charlotte to Orlando?

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Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2018

Following a pilot program at University of California San Diego (UCSD), this second-life battery system has been unveiled at an operational EVgo fast charging station located in Union City, CA at 3960 Smith Street.

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Grid Charging Batteries Battery 240

Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

FEBRUARY 7, 2009

The PHEV3A mission is to educate America one town (or in this case one school) at a time on getting its own energy independence back by moving away from imported oil to using home grown electrons preferably from renewable energy sources like solar, wind and hydro-power.

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Clean Fleet Report

JUNE 16, 2021

San Diego to San Francisco? Wind gusts or passing big rigs had no effect on the stability and sure footed feel. The bottom line is the Pacifica Hybrid, with the 16.5 gallon fuel tank, has an estimated 570 mile total driving range. Charlotte to Orlando? New York City to Toledo? Yep, all on one tank. Smooth sailing shoes.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2018

The situation is dramatically improved using renewable hydrogen, such as that made from biogas, or by water electrolysis using wind or low-carbon nuclear power. Mapping or installing equipment on the ocean floor requires a vessel to be stable over a single point for long periods, even if there is wind or waves. This WTW CO 2 (eq.)

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Driivz

MARCH 31, 2021

It comes from natural sources that continuously regenerate, such as sunlight, wind, water (in motion), and geothermal. Solar and wind are the easiest to locate, scale, and convert to energy. Wind turbines can be placed anywhere, on land and in the sea, generally on floating platforms. What is Renewable Energy? Better Together.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2021

Oberon Fuels (San Diego, California). Offshore Wind Turbine Digital Twin for the Prediction of Component Failures, $200,000. Assessment Robot for Resilient Optimized Wind Energy ARROW(e), $1,000,000. Additive Manufacturing of Carbon-Carbon Composites with Tailored Thermal Transport Properties, $1,349,659. IP Group, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 27, 2020

University of California, San Diego. The University of California, San Diego (UCSD) aims to develop a high-efficiency and low-carbon energy storage and power generation (ESPG) system operating on bio-LNG for electric aviation. They will also develop reforming catalysts for synfuel and biojet fuel. Marquette University.

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Carbon Hybrid Electric Electrical 218

Clean Fleet Report

OCTOBER 9, 2021

That is San Diego to San Francisco, with about 100 miles of range remaining. We don’t have the coefficient of drag yet, but expect it to be a low number as Lexus designers have made the NX 350h and 450h+ to slip through the wind. With the 14.5-gallon The 2022 NX 450h+ has these plug-in charge times. 120V Level 1 12.3

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2015

These capabilities are expected to become even more valuable in future facilitation of higher penetrations of solar- and wind-based generation. Even with these variables, the system has been operating successfully since late 2013. —Mike Ferry, Center for Sustainable Energy.

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Grid Batteries Battery Energy Storage 150

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

for High Power Wind Generators The University of Houston will develop a new, low-cost. superconducting wire that can be used in future advanced wind turbine generators. used to make a wind turbine generator lighter, more powerful, and more efficient. has traditionally been too expensive to use in wind generators.

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Clean Fleet Report

JANUARY 30, 2023

In 340 miles of driving through Southern California counties of Orange, San Diego and Los Angeles, we averaged 4.1 The Niro EV comes in two trims–Wind and Wave–with the difference being added features on the Wave, which is the model we drove. Wind $40,875 Wave $45,875 Observations: 2023 Kia Niro EV Practical and affordable.

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