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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. Heavy Coal Using States Accounted for Only 10% of EV Sales in 2020. And so “EVs are bad.” of EV sales in 2020.
Green Car Congress
MAY 29, 2015
Daimler’s first industrial-scale lithium-ion unit is already on the grid and is being operated by the partner companies The Mobility House AG and GETEC Energie AG. The 96-module ESS currently has a total capacity of more than 500 kWh; it will be increased step-by-step to 3000 kWh by the partners in the coming weeks.
Green Car Congress
JULY 11, 2013
is shown with both UK and French grid mixes. Renault recently made public the findings of an internal study, published first in October 2011, detailing and comparing the lifecycle assessments (LCAs) of the battery-electric and two internal combustion engined versions (gasoline and diesel) of the Renault Fluence. Click to enlarge.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 15, 2013
Following the Fukushima disaster in 2011, the Federal government oversaw the immediate closure of eight nuclear plants, with the rest of the stations to be shut down by 2022. The country should give greater priority to high-efficiency combined cycle power plants and wind power, the company suggests.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 13, 2015
Solar accounted for 32% of US new generating capacity in 2014, beating out both wind energy and coal for the second year in a row. The utility-scale segment broke the GW mark in 2011 and has since grown by nearly 1 GW annually. GW) is coal-fired generation. In 2014, 3.9 The additions are dominated by wind (9.8
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 21, 2009
Small long-term evaluation program, including modeling of vehicle-to-grid building benefits and economics, begun with Southern California Edison, joined by EPRI, other utilities, US DOE. Shifted earlier focus to all-electric Focus in 2011 with Magna. Hybrid Sonata model year 2011, possible PHEV version in 2013.
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