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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JANUARY 27, 2011

has been awarded a firm contract with the Hawai’i Natural Energy Institute (HNEI) of the University of Hawai’i at Manoa to supply a one-megawatt ALTI-ESS energy storage system for a test of wind energy integration. The project is expected to be operational by the third quarter of 2011. Altair Nanotechnologies, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

The applications, i.e. technologies, of particular concern as a result are electric vehicles, wind and solar energy, and lighting. Dysprosium was identified as being the most at risk, as the EU is expected to require 25% of the expected world supply in 2020-2030 to meet the Union’s demand for hybrid and electric vehicles and wind turbines.

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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. Wind turbines. Control rods Cooling fluids Control absorbers or neutron shielding materials Fuel rod cladding Fuel assembly grid plates Alloys.

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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

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

APRIL 25, 2013

Researchers at MIT are proposing using a variation on pumped hydroelectric systems for storage of electricity produced by offshore wind farms. The key to this Ocean Renewable Energy Storage (ORES) system is the placement of 30-meter-diameter hollow concrete spheres on the seafloor under the wind turbines. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2013

Relying on a higher share of efficient, low-emission combined cycle power plants and wind energy could save €150 billion (US$200 billion) by 2030 while attaining the same CO 2 targets, Siemens says. The country should give greater priority to high-efficiency combined cycle power plants and wind power, the company suggests.

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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

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

AUGUST 15, 2014

NextSTEPS is a four-year (2011-2014) multidisciplinary research consortium, part of the Institute of Transportation Studies University of California, Davis. A few regions (notably California, Japan and Germany) have committed significant funds to support the next crucial steps forward on infrastructure build-out. Transition issues.

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Blink Charging

MARCH 3, 2022

The idea of using electric vehicles to provide power during emergencies was generated during the 2011 tsunami. The Leaf models were used as portable power stations , with enough juice to power the average Japanese home for four days, power 6,200 smartphones, or run 100 elevator round trips in a 48-story building. .

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2009

MHI) has decided to build a commercial production verification plant in Nagasaki Prefecture and launch its operation by autumn 2010 in a move toward the company’s full-scale entry into the lithium-ion secondary (rechargeable) battery market. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2014

TWh/year, roughly 128% of the average 2002–2011 net annual generation from existing plants (272 TWh/year; EIA, 2013). Hydropower also provides reliable baseload power day and night, providing greater flexibility and diversity to the electric grid and allowing utilities to integrate intermittent renewable sources such as wind and solar power.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2014

EPA is using four “building blocks” to determine state-specific goals: Reducing the carbon intensity of generation at individual affected electric generating units (EGUs) through heat-rate improvements. Each of these goal approaches use the four building blocks described above at different levels of stringency. million in 2030 (2011$).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2012

Mercedes-Benz delivered the first vehicles for field testing to testing partners in Berlin at the beginning of September 2010, and in Stuttgart in January 2011. In Stuttgart, the Integrated Concept for Sustainable Electric Mobility project (IKONE) is being funded by the German Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 3, 2014

In 2011, public research, development and demonstration (RD&D) expenditures exceeded €9.4 In the US state of Utah, Eesti Energia purchased Oil Shale Exploration Company in 2011. million (US$12.8 million), with the oil shale sector accounting for one-third. Properties owned or controlled by Enefit contain an estimated 2.6

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JUNE 25, 2013

In 2011, the Obama Administration finalized the first fuel economy standards for Model Year 2014-2018 for medium- and heavy-duty trucks, buses, and vans. The plan also calls for accelerating the permitting for renewable power generation on public lands and upgrading the grid. Expanding the Better Buildings Challenge.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2010

To lead off the effort, China is organizing an International Forum on Electric Vehicle Demonstration Cities, as well as building a “demonstration zone” in one of its pilot cities as a platform for the pilot. EVI will explore opportunities to build upon existing international initiatives. International Smart Grid Action Network (ISGAN).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2012

In its 2011 year-end report, Road Map to Renewal , the President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness (Jobs Council) made a number of recommendations to create jobs in the short run and improve US competitiveness over the long term. All levels of government can encourage home energy testing.

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JULY 31, 2008

One week earlier, former Vice President Al Gore issued his well-received challenge to make the American grid 100% renewable in ten years. Nissan and Renault have now promised tens of thousands of EVs on three continents by 2011. I wish I knew what’s holding Gore back from full-throated support for plug-in cars.

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JULY 17, 2015

It offers the solution to several significant transitions we need: moving society from burning fossil fuels to substituting renewable resource fuels such as solar, wind and biofuels; and from using fossil materials as fuel to using them for other recyclable uses. Distributed Solar and Wind with the PHEV. Conclusions. slow charge.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) has selected 60 research projects for up to a combined $156 million in funding from the Fiscal Year 2011 budget. for High Power Wind Generators The University of Houston will develop a new, low-cost. superconducting wind generators more practical for.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2009

billion contract from independent power producer Caithness Energy to supply wind turbines and provide services for an 845-megawatt (MW) wind farm project to be located in Oregon. The wind farm, called Shepherds Flat, has received the majority of the necessary government permits to operate and is ready to be built.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2012

These include straightening curves, adding signals, building passing lanes and double tracks, constructing and expanding terminals, and running more efficient trains. In November of 2011, Axion commissioned a.5 The same building block technology is used in the manufacture of smaller cubes, 100 kW all the way down to 10kW.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2024

It has since built a complete battery materials supply chain in Europe, and is about to build a new cathode and precursor production facility near Kingston, Ontario, which will be its fourth global gigafactory. Robert Privette: Rechargeable batteries are among the building blocks for the green energy transition.

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Green Cars News

APRIL 30, 2009

The company car tax thresholds will tighten further with effect from 6th April 2011 by 5g per kilometre in addition to the 5g change announced last year, which takes effect from 6th April 2010. Models anticipated for 2011 include a plug-in Toyota Prius and Vauxhall Ampera. Greening the Grid. Company Car Tax. Emissions g/km.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2024

It has since built a complete battery materials supply chain in Europe, and is about to build a new cathode and precursor production facility near Kingston, Ontario, which will be its fourth global gigafactory. Robert Privette: Rechargeable batteries are among the building blocks for the green energy transition.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2015

Spider9, a 2011 spin-out from the University of Michigan, announced a technology licensing agreement with Samsung Electronics (“Samsung”) for use of Spider9’s proprietary Energy Operating System (OS E ) technology. Earlier post.) kWh Energy Vault delivers 6.0 kWh of usable energy compared to 4.3 kWh for a typical competing system).

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

The DOE mission in clean energy manufacturing involves the minimization of the energy and environmental impacts of the production, use, and disposal of manufactured goods, which range from fundamental commodities such as metals and chemicals to sophisticated final-use products such as automobiles and wind turbines. Technical Topic Areas.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2015

solar and wind), water and CO 2 to produce liquid or gaseous fuels with a very low carbon intensity. The e-gas project, announced in May 2011, was Audi’s first foray into e-fuels. The e-gas plant only operates when there is too much electricity from renewable sources in the grid. Audi e-gas. Earlier post.)

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Solar, Wind and Biofuels Grew 53 Percent in 2008 Green Education = Environmental Religion? 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. The T-Word Barking up the Wrong Tree: Forests vs the CDM in t.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

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. Smart Grid City will use a realtime high-speed two-way communication throughout the distribution grid. Smart meters and substations will be integral.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

With power drawn from the single-phase German household grid with its output of 230 volts, capacity extends up to 3.6 Six integrated sensors monitor the heat build-up. Vehicles to be put on the road there by mid-2011 will have the necessary hardware and software on board. Standard charging by cable is the most obvious option.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

In addition to a recent electric car deal with NISSAN Motors ( NSANY ), Portland General Electric, the Oregon state governor and GE have also announced a joint venture with Mitsubishi Motors ( MMTOF.PK ) to develop and sell the Miev electric car with 85 mile range by 2011. By 2011 look for a larger THINK Ox.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Some of these investments also support efforts that will shorten the overall timeline from prototype to production and streamline building codes, zoning laws, permitting rules, and business processes for installing solar energy systems. Solar Energy Grid Integration Systems: Advanced Concepts: Eight projects to receive $25.9

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Photo: General Motors See Also: Feds Say the Volt Wont Save GM Well See a Chevrolet Volt in June Design Under Constraint: How to Build a Streamlined, Mass-Produced Electric Car Stumble ShareThis Claiming that GM has 18 models that get 30 mpg or more is a bit of a false dichotomy. Forget the black helicopter conspiracies.

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