Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

We noted in December that the Society of Automotive Engineers, or SAE, was working to update standards for the interface between plug-in electric cars and the grid, and planned to agree on a set within months. And for this ecosystem to be robust, there must be commonality, especially when owners are plugging into the electrical grid.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2009

Commercialization of those technologies must start in the next decade, noted ARB Executive Officer Tom Cackette in a presentation at the recent Advanced Automotive Battery Conference. Earlier post. ). In her letter to Secretary Chu, Nichols attached a summary response from ARB technical staff responding to each of the Four Miracles.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

In conjunction with the annual Solar Power International conference, the US Department of Energy (DOE) released new research showing that the solar industry has achieved the 2020 utility-scale solar cost target set by the SunShot Initiative. gigawatts (GW) in 2007 to an estimated 47.1 Solar energy currently supplies about 1.5%

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Laredo Bus Facility Solar Canopies: Provide shade structures with integrated, grid tied photovoltaic cells to be erected on the bus storage lot at the Laredo Bus Maintenance Facility. CATS’ fleet and financial plans call for the replacement 1998, 1999 and 2007 year diesel buses with new diesel buses in fiscal year 2012.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2009

The morning session started out with an hour long press conference, the highlight being the unveiling of the Volt’s 230 mpg preliminary EPA city fuel economy finding ( earlier post ), as well as a tour showing selected elements from the studios of the four GM North American brands: Chevrolet, GMC, Buick and Cadillac. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2009

At a renewable energy conference in February of this year Doug Berven, the director of Corporate Affairs at ethanol producer POET, shared the following capacity projections for the ethanol business: At the beginning of this year the industry had 12.1 All of these issues are contributing to excess capacity in the industry. Earlier post.).

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Cars That Think

MARCH 26, 2023

GaN-based technologies alone could lead to a savings of over 1 billion tonnes of greenhouse gases in 2041 in just the United States and India , according to an analysis of publicly available data by Transphorm, a GaN-device company I cofounded in 2007. Today, grid-scale photovoltaic inverters are the domain of silicon IGBTs and SiC MOSFETs.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 7, 2022

After joining the Tokyo Institute of Technology as a professor of computer science in 1997, he became dean of its graduate school of information science and engineering in 2007. He gave presentations on IoT security; optimal monitoring and conditioning for the electric grid; Internet security; and the future of Silicon Valley.

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Creative Greenius

JUNE 11, 2009

With the coming solar feed-in tariff legislation moving through Sacramento that will pay us for the extra solar energy we produce and feed back into the grid. Howard’s team is holding a conference on June 24th for city managers throughout the county that I’ll be attending. Ted Flanigan, EcoMotion.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Ontological Shock An Open Letter to Fred Krupp Report from GridEcon Conference SGS Climate Change Head on the First Carbon Credit. Vehicle to Grid (V2G) technology is a bi-directional electric grid interface that allows a plug-in to take energy from the grid or put it back on the grid.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

A January 2007 Pacific National Laboratory study shows that if we woke up tomorrow and all our vehicles could plug in, todays grid could support more than three-quarters of them charging at night without building a single power plant. But its monumentally less pollution , even on the national (half-coal) grid.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Audi Volkswagen-owned company exploring PHEVs Metroproject Quattro Sub-compact PHEV Concept Car shown October 2007; PHEV of A1 Sportback under consideration Bright Automotive For-profit spin off from Rocky Mountain Institute designing lightweight PHEVs, successor to RMIs 1990s "Hypercar" concept. Batteries not ready.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Smart-grid technologies can help utilities better integrate renewable energy sources and run the transmission grid more efficiently, said Allan Schurr, the vice president of strategy and development at IBMs Global Energy and Utilities practice, which is participating in about 50 projects.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 20, 2022

Most automotive manufacturers say they plan to use renewable energy in the future, but for now, most battery production relies on electric grids largely powered by fossil fuels. That’s why operating EVs typically releases less carbon than operating gasoline vehicles of similar size, even in coal-heavy grids like Shandong or West Virginia.

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Electric Vehicles Vehicles West Virginia Electric 100

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2009

Unfortunately, this conference focused primarily on setting a cap on carbon emissions and providing financial aid to developing countries to build capacities to adapt to the negative impacts of climate change. The Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action (AWG-LCA) was established at the 2007 Bali COP. Kamiyama, C.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

The $787-billion stimulus bill (HR 1, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act) that emerged from the joint House-Senate conference committee this week provides funds for a large range of transportation-related projects. The conference agreement follows the Senate version with substantial modifications.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Notice in [link] that GM carefully avoids claiming to reduce CO2 by shifting to the grid, but leads people off the track by focusing on smog related issues. The intolerable act is to pretend that making cars into plug-ins will reduce CO2. GM knows better and guards against making fraudulent claims. Many others are not so careful.

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