Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2011

Starting in 2013, Audi will begin series production of TCNG models whose engines—derived from TFSI units—will be powered by e-gas: synthetic methane produced via the methanation of hydrogen produced by electrolysis using renewable electricity. Wind turbines are the first significant component of the Audi e-gas project.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2013

The US Department of Energy (DOE) launched the Clean Energy Manufacturing Initiative (CEMI), which will focus on growing US manufacturing of clean energy products and boosting US competitiveness through major improvements in manufacturing energy productivity. Clean Energy Manufacturing Initiative. Earlier post.)

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MAY 13, 2018

It can be made available to a variety of markets, such as the manufacturing sector, the electricity, and heating market as well as the mobility sector. This stored energy is then available as backup whenever there is an insufficient supply of solar and wind power. Local consumers (low consumption; municipal region; rural area).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

A new European Joint Research Centre (JRC) study looking into the supply of raw materials for the manufacture of low-carbon energy technologies found that eight metals were at high risk of shortages. The applications, i.e. technologies, of particular concern as a result are electric vehicles, wind and solar energy, and lighting.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2013

Components: WT = wind turbine; Fnd = foundation; EC = electrical connections, including substation; Inst = installation; IOo = input-output, other; Mnt = Maintenance, excluding replacement parts; RP = replacement parts; EOL = end-of-life. ships and spare parts”—to the total life cycle impacts of offshore wind power.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2021

While all five companies aim to transition to 100% renewable energy by 2050, each will make independent efforts to achieve targets ahead of schedule, by as early as 2040, depending on energy supply and demand conditions at their respective overseas operations.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2010

Remy HVH windings have a shorter end turn space than conventional round wires and are well-suited to liquid cooling. is supplying Daimler with HVH (High Voltage Hairpin) electric motors for the two-mode hybrid transmissions used in the 2010 Mercedes-Benz ML450 Hybrid ( earlier post ) recently released to the United States market. (GM

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2015

According to the latest Top 30 list for organizations generating and consuming the most green power on-site within the EPA Green Power Partnership, BMW Manufacturing in Spartanburg, SC and General Motors’ Fort Wayne Assembly Plant rank fourth and fifth, respectively, with both using biogas.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2020

The stamping, injection and sheet metal activities, but also the available surface area (237 hectares, 67 of which are currently built), the network of suppliers, accessibility via road connections, and above all the excellence of the industrial operational system (standardisation, manufacturing 4.0,

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

McPhy Energy, a France-based developer and manufacturer of solid state hydrogen storage, presented the first system coupling an industrial-scale hydrogen generator with a 100 kg solid state hydrogen storage unit. The pilot presented today at our manufacturing site in La Motte-Fanjas is the first deliverable of the PUSHY project.

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Baua Electric

MAY 24, 2024

Nissan began building the LEAF at its Sunderland, UK plant in 2013, with over 280,000 built at the facility. However, it is “not without its handicaps,” according to Alan Johnson, vice president of the company’s regional manufacturing. Although over 650,000 LEAF models have been sold globally, new competition has slowed sales.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2013

Credit: Barnhart and Benson, 2013. As the percentage of electricity supply from wind and solar increases, grid operators will need to employ strategies and technologies, including energy storage, to balance supply with demand given the intermittency of the renewable supply. Click to enlarge. Barnhart and Sally M.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2015

If finalized, the loan would support the company’s Alcoa, Tennessee, manufacturing facility (Tennessee Operations), where the company will produce high-strength aluminum for North American automakers looking to lightweight their vehicles. Much of the volume for the automotive expansion is already secured under long-term supply agreements.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Leveraging TM4’s licensed technologies, the new company will develop, manufacture, sell and supporting electric traction systems for trucks and buses, as well as commercial, off-road and marine vehicles. TM4 will continue to supply the ASEAN markets with technologies related to light electric vehicles.

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EV Info

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Wind farms stand idle for days on end, a fire interrupts a vital cable from France, a combination of post-Covid economic recovery and Russia tightening supply means the gas price has shot through the roof – and so the market price of both home heating and electricity is rocketing. This was plain wrong.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2013

Backed by 27 companies in the sector, including supply chain companies, the commitment is expected to secure at least 30,000 jobs currently linked to producing engines and create many more in the supply chain. Supply chain: The domestic supply chain is relatively weak, the report says.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2015

However, regional expansion of wind and photovoltaic generation plants leads to increasingly larger load fluctuations. When the Audi e-gas plant runs, it supplies the hygienization and amine scrubbing systems in the biogas plant with heat. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2014

In addition, in December 2013, Honda supplied an Accord Plug-In Hybrid with a bi-directional on-board charger to the University of Delaware’s Science, Technology and Advanced Research (STAR) Campus. Participating auto manufacturers are American Honda Motor Co.; Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2015

One example of this is Nissan Mexico’s Aguascalientes A1 Plant, which has manufactured 500,000 vehicles through the use of clean energies, making it the first automotive company in Mexico, as well as the first manufacturing facility of the Renault-Nissan Alliance, to achieve this milestone.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2013

Audi has opened its e-gas plant in Werlte, making it the first automobile manufacturer to develop a chain of sustainable energy carriers. In return, this plant supplies the highly concentrated CO 2 required as a basic building block for the e-gas. Audi’s e-gas plant. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.). Components of the e-gas plant.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2014

MAN SE, one of Europe’s leading manufacturers of commercial vehicles, engines and mechanical engineering equipment, and mostly owned by the Volkswagen Group, prefers “power-to-gas” instead. For instance, MAN’s gas engines play a part in supplying decentralized power, especially as a back-up for electricity generated by wind or sun.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2017

They adapted cost and performance projections for LDV technologies from the National Research Council (2013) optimistic case. The model computes energy balances at all levels of an energy system from primary sources to energy services, supplies energy services at minimum total system cost, and balances commodities in each time period.

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Cars That Think

JULY 15, 2023

The Iter project has greatly increased researchers’ knowledge about magnetic-confinement fusion and spurred the development of the industry’s highly specialized global supply chain and workforce. To make YBCO tape, some manufacturers first use a laser to vaporize bulk YBCO into a plume.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 4, 2011

Rather, the report says, it is now China who is preparing for carbon markets by 2013 and, as the world’s largest manufacturing economy, it is stepping up to join the carbon markets in Europe. Climate change policy regimes around the world. Source: DBCCA. Click to enlarge. of total generation. billion) over the next five years.

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APRIL 3, 2014

The new Mark 7 Golf, which is MQB-based, offers gasoline; diesel; natural gas; plug-in hybrid (the GTE); and battery-electric (the e-Golf) versions, all of which can be manufactured bumper-to-bumper on the same assembly line. From a 2013 Volkswagen Group presentation. The MQB spans the A0 to C segments. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2011

Construction of the Kinross facility is anticipated to start in the next three to six months and is expected to be completed by year-end 2013. Mascoma and Valero will finalize certain ancillary agreements relating to the Kinross facility, including construction, feedstock supply and ethanol off-take marketing.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2011

Volkswagen, for example, has installed one of the highest performance wind power systems in the world at its German plant in Emden; it already supplies one-third of the factory’s energy requirements. sunshine duration, wind strength). In parallel, more and more electricity is being generated from solar and water power.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2013

The differences from AEO2013 to AEO2014 result from different fuel prices, updated manufacturer product offerings, changing technology attributes, and an updated view of consumer perceptions of infrastructure availability for E85 vehicles. In some areas, natural gas-fired generation replaces power formerly supplied by coal and nuclear plants.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2013

Currently, most of the major vehicle manufacturers are using permanent magnet motors in their hybrids and EVs (e.g., Very broadly, an induction motor uses AC current fed to the windings of the stationary outer stator to create a rotating magnetic field. US DRIVE Partnership Plan (March 2013). VTO Annual Progress Report 2012.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

The PEV market continues to grow in California with 20 models of full battery-electric vehicles and plug-in hybrid vehicles offered by almost every automobile manufacturer to California consumers. UrbanX Renewables Group: $5 million to construct a biorefinery in Southgate capable of producing at least 7.5

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

approval in 2013. In 2013, at the age of 36, Perk became one of the youngest people to receive an Argus II. But in 2013, after four years of regular use, Campbell’s system shut down in the subway station, and despite some repair attempts by Second Sight, never worked again. skiing and shooting arrows.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Significantly to reduce the CO 2 intensity and water use of its manufacturing operations. Another example of this effort is Honda’s Russells Point, Ohio, transmission plant, which is the first auto plant in America to utilize on-site wind power for a substantial portion of its energy use. million dollars. kg/auto to just 0.8

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Revenge of the Electric Car

APRIL 6, 2010

From the article: ‘The New York study anticipates that by 2015, electric vehicle prices should decline because of reduced battery costs, that there will be a sufficient supply of electric vehicles to purchase, and that consumers will take advantage of the existing federal tax credit of $7,500 for new electric cars. by Lars Vercelli.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2013

When the vehicle is on the move all the cells are used equally to supply energy. The power electronics, also developed in-house by BMW, serve both as an inverter for the power supply from the battery to the electric motor and as a voltage transducer interacting between the high-voltage battery and the 12-volt onboard power system.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2013

For me, hydrogen cracks all those problems and it also solves other issues along the way such as making best use of wind energy, for example. A fuel cell vehicle also requires a reliable supply of air (oxygen) for the electrochemical reaction within the fuel cell. Hyundai joined the LHP earlier this year. Earlier post.). Hydrogen tank.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 24, 2023

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is pursuing as part of a drive to ease the military’s deployment of all-electric supply vehicles by 2030 and of EV tactical vehicles by 2050. In 2013, the team received a three-year, US $3.44 Chris Philpot Using lithium-based batteries would create its own set of problems.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

In March 2013, the D’Arcinoff Group and its consortium partners announced the first phase deployment of the $4.6-billion The electric power for the manufacturing processes will come largely from renewable solar and wind energy. The facility, to be located in Hudspeth County, Texas, is expected to be operational by early 2016.

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