Green Car Congress
JANUARY 2, 2014
Ford Motor Company announced the C-MAX Solar Energi Concept, a sun-powered hybrid vehicle that can deliver the efficiency of a plug-in hybrid without depending on the electric grid for recharging. and Georgia Tech. This could be especially important in places where the electric grid is underdeveloped, unreliable or expensive to use.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 26, 2013
Top 15 LEAF market year-to-date in 2013. Nissan LEAF sales in the United States are up by 335% year-over-year since the launch of the enhanced 2013 model in March. Nissan has sold 11,703 LEAFs in the US during the first 7 months of 2013—an increase of 230% from the 3,543 units for the same period in 2012. Earlier post.)
Green Car Congress
JULY 6, 2013
Electric grid transmission and distribution efficiency (from power plants to end-use customers) is the third component. Brown (2013) Electric Urban Delivery Trucks: Energy Use, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, and Cost-Effectiveness. The second upstream efficiency component is the electric power plant’s generation efficiency (η pp ).
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 26, 2013
Researchers at Georgia Tech have compared medium-duty (MD) electric and diesel urban delivery trucks in terms of life-cycle energy consumption, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and total cost of ownership (TCO). —Marilyn Brown, co-author and a professor in Georgia Tech’s School of Public Policy. Credit: ACS, Lee et al.
Green Car Congress
MAY 27, 2015
Ford introduced a MyEnergi Lifestyle collaboration for the US in 2013, working with Whirlpool, SunPower and Eaton. If every home in the United States were to implement these energy-saving technologies, it would be the equivalent of taking all the homes in California, New York and Texas—32 million homes—off the power grid.
Green Car Congress
JULY 21, 2016
Enable smart charging and vehicle grid integration through solutions such as demand response, and other energy storage and load management strategies. Georgia Power. National Grid. Southern Company: Georgia Power. Florida Power and Light Company. General Motors. Hawaiian Electric. Hawai`i Electric Light. Maui Electric.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 18, 2015
The work is part of a newly signed Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) between ASU and Sandia to collaborate on algae-based biofuels, solar fuels, concentrating solar technologies, photovoltaics, electric grid modernization and the energy-water nexus.
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