Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2011

In its new report Energy Storage on the Grid (ESG), Pike Research forecasts that global spending in the ESG market will reach a little over $22 billion over the next 10 years. Electric grids require balance in order to function properly. Energy storage on the grid is reaching a turning point. 2010 vs 2011 forecasts.

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APRIL 11, 2024

A recent report by a group called Synapse Energy Economics examined how much electric car owners paid for electricity and compared that with the cost for utilities to build, generate, and distribute that electricity. The results of our analysis indicate that, since 2011, EVs have contributed much more in utility revenues than costs.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2011

China Southern Power Grid (CSG) and Better Place opened their Switchable Electric Car Experience Center in Guangzhou’s Pearl River New Town. CSG will promote the development of national technical standards and build a smart EV network. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 18, 2009

Ford Motor Company has developed an intelligent vehicle-to-grid communications and control system for its plug-in hybrid electric vehicles that communicates directly with the electric grid. All 21 of Ford’s fleet of plug-in hybrid Escapes eventually will be equipped with the vehicle-to-grid communications technology.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2021

eNow has pioneered the development of mobile solar battery charging systems to the commercial fleet market since 2011. XL Grid will support customers that require new charging or expanded charging infrastructure, or energy solutions.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2021

After leaving GM in 2009, Dr. Burns was a Professor of Engineering Practice at the University of Michigan (2011-2015), and Director of the Program for Sustainable Mobility at Columbia University (2010-2014). He received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from General Motors Institute (now Kettering University), an M.S.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2018

CATL) is building its first plant outside of China in Thuringia, Germany. CATL) was founded in 2011 and listed on the stock exchange in 2018. Energy storage system customers: State Grid. The Chinese EV battery manufacturer Contemporary Amperex Technology Ltd. GWh in 2017—making it Nº 1 globally.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

National Grid -- the company responsible for maintaining the entire U.K. high-voltage electrical grid -- has just taken delivery of four 2011 Nissan Leafs which will help it complete a massive eight-year project to construct new power-conduit tunnels throughout he city of London.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2018

CATL) is building its first plant outside of China in Thuringia, Germany. CATL) was founded in 2011 and listed on the stock exchange in 2018. Energy storage system customers: State Grid. The Chinese EV battery manufacturer Contemporary Amperex Technology Ltd. GWh in 2017—making it Nº 1 globally.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 17, 2024

There’s a lot of speculation about the effects widespread EV adoption will have on the electrical grid, but until now, little hard data. A recent study has found that, so far, EVs are having a salutary effect on the grid, saving ratepayers billions of dollars on their electricity bills.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Siemens is building up a fleet of 100 electric vehicles for use and testing by employees. Siemens expects there will be more than one million electric cars on the road worldwide in the foreseeable future, when they will form part of a smart grid. Siemens EV. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

trafficThis scenario is highly desirable to automotive manufacturers, who harbor great concerns about battery warranty if vehicle-to-grid discharging is allowed. V2GFull varies not only the charging of the vehicle battery, but also can vary the discharging of the battery back into the power grid.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2011

The California Energy Commission has awarded $1,585,490 to spur research on projects including a solid-state Li-ion battery system for grid-scale energy storage. The project is intended to help validate the performance advantages of the company’s technology for use in grid-tied energy storage and community energy storage—i.e.,

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

For electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles the carbon intensity of the power grid is also a key factor in terms of the vehicle’s full life cycle emissions. This new analysis – “Understanding the life cycle GHG emissions for different vehicle types and powertrain technologies” builds on earlier work for the LowCVP.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2012

The expansion, which is scheduled to start next year, includes the building of a new mill. The mill will also be able to export approximately 340 GWh of electric energy to the Brazilian national grid. The mill is expected to be operating at full capacity by the end of 2014 or early 2015.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2010

In addition, the ministers, in their communication, urged European standardization bodies to develop, as a matter of priority by mid-2011, a harmonized solution for the interoperability between electric vehicles and the charging infrastructure and to address safety risks and electromagnetic compatibility.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

The information received from the RFI will be used to update the analyses in DOE’s Critical Material Strategy Reports that were released in 2010 and 2011. Grid storage. Control rods Cooling fluids Control absorbers or neutron shielding materials Fuel rod cladding Fuel assembly grid plates Alloys. Vehicles in all vehicle classes.

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Molten Salt Fuel Energy Grid 150

Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2013

The site is on the campus of the University of California, Davis; the building process will be documented and shared through the Honda Smart Home US website. PV-to-EV charging will decrease CO 2 emitted in the lifecycle of an electric vehicle by avoiding the carbon associated with grid electricity production. American Honda Motor Co.,

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2011

The system will be installed at the Hawi wind farm on the island of Hawai’i and connected to the Hawai’i Electric Light Company (HELCO) utility grid. The project is expected to be operational by the third quarter of 2011. The equipment purchase and associated service contracts, valued at approximately $1.8

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2014

Honda’s HEMS leverages the battery to balance, shift and buffer loads to minimize the home’s impact to the electric grid. The system will also enable Honda to evaluate the second life, or re-use, of EV batteries in grid applications, home-to-grid (H2G) connectivity and other concepts. EPA’s Energy Star.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Percentage of consumers having extremely or very favorable views of 13 clean energy technologies, 2009-2011. Topping the favorables were solar power (77% in 2011, down from 81% in 2009); wind energy (71% in 2011, down from 79% in 2009); and hybrid vehicles (61% in 2011, down from 70% in 2009). Data: Pike Research.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 14, 2021

a software company that provides buildings with energy efficiency solutions. He is a Distinguished Lecturer for IEEE PES, and has given lectures in more than 30 countries on topics such as the smart grid, energy-efficient buildings, and sensor integration. Rahman is also the founder and chairman of BEM Controls in McLean, Va.,

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2009

In spring 2011, the plant will start to produce SCiB cells and modules for application in battery-powered electric vehicles (EV). Construction is scheduled to start in April 2010, with a completion date of October 2010. The company aims to achieve net sales of ¥200 billion (US$2.2 billion) from the SCiB business by fiscal year 2015.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 3, 2011

In addition to its relationships with car makers THINK and Volvo, Ener1 says it has made “substantial progress” with US and international customers in the heavy-duty transportation market, a key company focus for 2011 and beyond. The first installment is due on 1 July 2011. —Chairman and CEO Charles Gassenheimer.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

The ALTI-ESS system, by providing frequency control for the grid, is intended to enable INE to better utilize its electricity generation facilities. The complete system is expected to be operational in early 2012 with the manufacture of the battery system components to begin in the first half of 2011.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 8, 2012

in 2Q 2011) on total 2Q 2012 revenue of $17.0 million in the second quarter of 2011). A123 offers industry-leading technology for vehicle electrification and grid-scale energy storage, as well as strong manufacturing and systems engineering capabilities in Michigan and Massachusetts. million in the second quarter of 2011.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2012

The companies deployed and demonstrated a 150 kW fuel cell system near the 17 th Conference of the Parties (COP17) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change held in Durban, South Africa in late-2011. COP17 was a high-level summit on climate change.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2010

The renewable energy captured by the project’s primary solar energy system will help power the production of fuel-efficient small cars, including Ford’s all-new Focus and Focus Electric going into production in 2011, and a next-generation hybrid vehicle and a plug-in hybrid vehicle coming in 2012. Electric vehicle battery charging.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2018

Founded by a team of PhDs with more than four decades of experience in advanced electronics and battery systems, ION is building deep technology to optimize battery performance and life-extension for electric vehicles, energy storage, and connected devices. This product can be use standalone or in a Master Slave architecture.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2012

Power-to-Gas is a novel way to store energy at utility scale, whereby surplus electrical grid power is converted into hydrogen gas. In 2011, generation from renewable sources in Germany accounted for 20% of total electricity generation. —Daryl Wilson, President and CEO of Hydrogenics.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2012

This project builds on the success of an initial partnership between the two companies, both subsidiaries of the AES Corporation, to develop a 12MW energy storage system integrated with AES Gener’s Norgener power plant. AES Energy Storage worked with AES Gener throughout the design, development, and installation of the Angamos BESS.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2016

Expanding into an area outside of the oil supermajors’ expertise is risky—batteries are a hard business to win even for industry veterans—but action is key as transportation and the grid increasingly march toward more electrification, Lux suggests.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2015

Using our technology, India can leapfrog into an information-driven future without assuming the costs and experiencing the difficulties of first implementing a conventional energy grid. This deal demonstrates India’s long-term commitment to fuel-cells and builds on its recently announced deployment of hydrogen fuel cells on telecom towers.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2011

In a paper published in the RSC journal Energy & Environmental Science , the team said these steps include smart co-product utilization; decarbonization of the electricity and heat grids as well as indirect energy requirements for fertilizer; transport; and building material. and GHG emissions around 182 g CO 2eq /MJ fuel.

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Charged EVs

MARCH 17, 2023

By choosing the right product architecture, operators can serve more EVs with the same grid connection, delivering more efficiency and a better customer experience. Charged spoke with Tritium Chief Sales Officer David Nicholl about building cost-effective EV charging sites that provide top-notch service to drivers.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2012

Users in the car have access to streaming content from the cloud enabled by the Verizon 4G LTE network and building on OnStar’s Advanced Telematics Operating System (ATOMS). Home Energy Management: OnStar allows users to control the home thermostat, lights, garage door and other systems directly from the vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

The Energy Sciences Building (ESB) will provide an environment that will accelerate the pace of discovery by bringing together interdisciplinary teams of researchers in a space that can be adjusted to accommodate an evolving energy-related science agenda. Construction is scheduled to begin during fiscal year 2011.

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