Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2016

Heavy-duty diesel vehicles were required to implement OBD for model year 2013 vehicles while implementation in alternative fueled heavy duty vehicles was delayed till 2018 due to the development burden of this new level of diagnostics and the comparatively small volume of heavy-duty alternative fueled vehicles being manufactured.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2014

Surplus electricity generated from renewables could be stored in batteries or could be converted via power-to-gas technology into synthetic methane (SNG), liquid fuels or hydrogen. Liquid Air technically does not store any energy, as energy has been removed to create it. Liquid Air. Earlier post.) Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2013

The Audi e-gas plant, which can convert 6MW of input power, utilizes renewable electricity for electrolysis to produce oxygen and hydrogen. The waste heat given off during methanation is used as process energy in the adjacent biogas plant, significantly increasing overall efficiency. Earlier post.). Components of the e-gas plant.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2016

The battery storage system also includes a voltage converter and power electronics to manage the energy flow between renewable energy sources, the house interface, and the Li-Ion high-voltage battery from the BMW i3. This approach minimizes energy waste, effectively reducing energy costs on a day-to-day basis.

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Energy Storage BMW Energy Batteries 210

Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2013

It uses two motor generator units (MGUs): an MGU-H for waste heat energy recovery and an MGU-K for kinetic energy recovery during braking. Under braking, the MGU-K operates as a generator to slow the car (reducing the heat dissipated in the brakes) and so recovers some of the kinetic energy and converts it into electricity.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2013

A new new forum for the advocacy and development of liquid air as an alternative technology to harness waste and surplus energy within power and transport—the Liquid Air Energy Network (LAEN)—has formed in the UK. The main potential applications are in electricity storage, transport and the recovery of waste heat.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

students a simple question: “What is the most efficient and practical way possible to convert chemical-bond energy into useful work?” As this happens, the molecules within the mixture collide faster and faster, until they at last break apart and re-form into different molecules, releasing the energy stored in their chemical bonds.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2013

We also produce a huge amount of waste and we are looking at schemes that convert biomass into hydrogen. So as well as producing a clean fuel we would be reducing the amount of waste we put into landfill. The result of development since 1998, the first production ix35 Fuel Cell rolled off the line at the end of February 2013.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2013

In making this award, the Commission also approved future consideration of adding $5 million to the rebate project in fiscal year 2013-2014, as proposed in the 2013-2014 Investment Plan Update for the Energy Commission’s Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program. Waste Management of California, Inc.,

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Alternative Fuels Los Angeles Hydrogen Fuel 170

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2013

The oxygen is released as waste and the protons and electrons are used to convert carbon dioxide into the carbohydrate sugars that plants use for energy. While artificial photosynthesis can be used to generate electricity, fuels can be a more effective means of storing and transporting energy. Sharp, and Gary F.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2016

For the first time in North America, Volvo’s 2017 D13 engine will be available with turbo compounding, a technology that recovers wasted exhaust heat and converts it to useable mechanical energy that is transferred back into the engine. The system stores up to 4,500 different hills. Volvo engine enhancements.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

Any computation generates waste heat. A The Heaven runtime was a fully virtual world, so Simon had converted the sky into a vast screen on which to project what was happening in the real world. The bowl cupped a spherical cloud of iron that acted as a radiator for the waste heat emitted by Paradise’s quadrillions of computing modules.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2017

Scientists have been trying to artificially replicate photosynthesis to convert solar energy to stored chemical energy, with the objective of producing environmentally friendly and sustainable fuels, such as hydrogen and methanol. —lead author Gerald Manbeck. Source: BNL.

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Hydrogen Production Light Virginia 150

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

This makes it possible for the waste heat from the electrical drive components to be made available to the interior of the Q7 e-tron quattro. While they store a high amount of energy compared to the other designs, their power output is comparatively low. The plate has an integrated primary coil and an inverter (AC/AC converter).

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Its three highly efficient engines converted electricity from solar arrays into thrust by ionizing a propellant gas and accelerating it though a high-voltage electric field. Remember, the power to run the thrusters comes from solar panels, and that power must be used as it is generated—there is no great big battery to store it.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2014

The fundamental challenge is to convert as much of the chemical energy in the fuel, into mechanical energy, as efficiently as possible at the prescribed flow rate. liter, normally-aspirated V8 engine used from 2006 to 2013 is replaced by a turbo 1.6-liter Conversion efficiency is now the key. The F1 W05. Click to enlarge.

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Charged EVs

DECEMBER 13, 2022

When we first covered the company, which was then known as Envision Solar, back in 2013, we immediately saw that its product would be handy for events, disaster relief and other applications requiring a stand-alone energy source that could be set up quickly. I would never have thought of that. And the thing is, you end up owning it.

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