Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2013

Mobility company Transdev , through its subsidiary Proxiway, which specializes in car sharing, has launched, in partnership with the Toshiba group, an innovative car sharing service using solar energy and quick-charge points in the eco-district of La Confluence, Lyon, France. The project will run for two years until December 2015.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2014

The station is owned and operated by a major European infrastructure provider and is part of a planned 50 station network in the country by 2015, as part of the previously announced €350-million (US$485-million) H 2 Mobility Germany initiative. The fueling station will be fueling a variety of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles (FCV).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Researchers from Purdue University and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland are proposing a new integrated process involving the co-production of hydrogen and electricity from solar thermal energy—a concept they label “hydricity”. —Gençer et al. Emre Gençer, Dharik S. 1513488112.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2016

Seneca Resource Corporation (Seneca) has applied for LCFS credits for producing crude oil using solar generated electricity. The Seneca Solar Project is a 3.13 MW alternating current fixed-tilt solar photovoltaic project located near the city of Taft in Kern County, California, at Seneca’s North Midway Sunset oil field.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

This H 2 filling station—the eleventh in the TOTAL network and the tenth in the German federal state of Baden-Württemberg—is differentiated by producing hydrogen on-site through steam electrolysis, using electricity generated by a solar array. The electrolysis system is supplied by Dresden company Sunfire.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2013

MW solar park at Chattanooga is owned and operated by Silicon Ranch; VW has signed a 20-year power purchase agreement. Volkswagen inaugurated its largest solar facility in the world—also the largest solar facility operated by an automaker in the US—at its plant in Chattanooga, TN, which produces the Passat model for North America.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2014

The car will launch in Japan before April 2015, and preparations are underway for launches in the US and European markets in the summer of 2015. Toyota’s stance is that hydrogen is a particularly promising alternative fuel since it can be produced using a wide variety of primary energy sources, including solar and wind power.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2023

Globally, the battery industry needs to invest at least $514 billion across the whole supply chain to meet expected demand in 2030, and $920 billion by 2035, according to a new analysis by Benchmark. This includes spending on renewables such as wind and solar as well as grid and other infrastructure. trillion in 2022, IRENA said.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2011

Chevrolet, in what it is calling its Green Zone initiative, will install solar-powered electric charging stations for its Volts at dealerships in North America. are the first US dealerships to complete their solar charging capability by installing Green Zones on their property. American Chevrolet in Modesto, Calif., Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

by Steven Pleging, CEO/President of Quantum Solar Power Corp. I believe that the loss of industry players Solyndra, Evergreen, and SpectraWatt opens the market for more innovative solar companies to succeed with smarter tactics and mainstream products that fit into existing manufacturing models.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2015

A team from Bauhaus Luftfahrt in Germany has analyzed the climate impact and economic performance of solar thermochemical jet fuel production. Schematic of solar thermochemical fuel production path. A solar tower or dish concentration system can deliver the required level of radiative flux. kg CO 2 ‐equiv /L. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

These figures will be announced during the first quarter of 2015. We then multiplied the sources of electrical energy for power units by adding solar panels and installing an exhaust gas heat energy recovery system based on the Rankine cycle. Optifuel Lab 2 operates in response to the supply and demand of an energy market.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 31, 2020

It means lost jobs and economic opportunities today, as well as lost energy supply that we might well need tomorrow once the economy recovers. Companies with weakened balance sheets and more uncertain demand outlooks are cutting back on investment while projects are also being hampered by lockdowns and disrupted supply chains.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2015

The system, they suggest in a paper published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society , provides an alternative route to artificial photosynthesis for directly harvesting and storing solar energy in the form of chemical fuel. C 6 H 12 (g) → C 6 H 6 (g) + 3H 2 (g), ΔH (298K) = 206 kJ/mol (1). —Li et al. 5b03505.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Audi has set the goal of successively reducing vehicle-specific CO 2 emissions by 30% by 2025 compared with reference year 2015 and over the entire product lifecycle. As electric cars are more energy-intensive to manufacture than models with combustion engines, Audi has set itself the long-term goal of decarbonizing the supply chain.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2011

In the third contract awarded to REV by TARDEC, REV is to supply the US Army with two more REV 300ACX V2G-capable electric vehicles for the project, bringing the total to 6. Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) has selected REV Technologies Inc. These vehicles all have built-in connectivity to REV’s AutoGrid Network.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2015

Coal still supplies more power in the US than anything else, with natural gas next. The first eye-opener for large scale solar was the Austin Energy PPA last year that was priced at 5 cents. New cars in 2015 get 25 mpg.) They had better think seriously about financing solar and wind arrays. It really isn’t a fair fight.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

electric utility company, battery manufacturers Exide and beta-motion and inverter manufacturer SMA Solar Technology AG (SMA) have joined forces to build the first multi-technology, modular large-scale 5MW battery storage system. Batteries Power Generation Solar Wind' Energy Research Center at RWTH Aachen University, E.ON

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2020

In 2015, Total set an ambition to become the responsible energy major. With that in mind, we acquired Saft, a major battery maker, in 2016, primarily to develop energy storage to support the growth of intermittent renewable energies such as solar and wind.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Renault and distributed energy storage company Connected Energy are partnering to develop sustainable and efficient ways of using electric vehicle batteries at the end of their useable in-vehicle life in order to supply innovative and more affordable vehicle charging solutions. Connected Energy Ltd. E-STOR diagram. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2020

According to the brief, the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) projects a 28% increase in average world energy consumption between 2015-2040, with fossil fuels continuing to take up 50-80% of that consumption. Potential applications for a burgeoning carbon supply chain would need to move beyond the traditional markets.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Toyota is progressing with initiatives toward the fulfillment of the Plant Zero CO 2 Emissions Challenge that was announced at the 2015 Toyota Environmental Forum. These are supplemented by solar power—which generates changeable supply of power, in combination with storage batteries.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2017

In 2015, Airbus Defence and Space and Sion Power Corporation signed a three-year Collaborative Agreement under which Sion Power enhanced and supplied proprietary lithium sulfur (Li-S) batteries for use in Zephyr aircraft. Earlier post.) —Jana Rosenmann, Airbus Head of Unmanned Aerial Systems.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2017

In REmap—IRENA’s global roadmap for the transition—energy demand by 2050 could be about the same as in 2015, due to significant energy efficiency improvements. The supply mix however, would change substantially, with the share of renewables in total primary energy supply reaching two thirds by 2050. trillion in 2015.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2017

The 630kW/460 kWh Battery Energy Storage System connected to main grid is capable of supplying electricity to 60 households for 24 hours. The battery storage solution will account for a significant part of the energy system, in which solar and wind energy will provide the majority of electricity production.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

The CEME site has one of the largest arrays of photo voltaics in the south of England, consisting of 717 panels designed to supply 115 kW, which will provide power to the station. This resulted in an award of contract to supply three ITM Power electrolyzer-based refueling stations.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2013

A redox flow (RF) battery has the electrolyte including these active materials in external containers, such as tanks, and charges and discharges electricity by supplying the electrolyte to the flow type cell by pumps or other means. Delivery of the battery, which has about a 20-year lifespan, is planned for 2015.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Recognizing the benefits of alternative energy, Secretary Mabus stood up the Renewable Energy Program Office (REPO) in order to accelerate his goals and bring one gigawatt of renewable energy into procurement by the end of 2015—which REPO completed in just 18 months.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2015

Landfill gas is piped from a landfill to the manufacturing facility to power its two gas turbines, which generate approximately 11 MW of electricity for the factory, and also to supply hot water for cooling, heating, and hot water needs. Apple takes the second spot, with 112,064,200 kWh (17%) from biogas and solar.

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Blink Charging

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

A BESS is a type of technology that utilizes batteries to store and supply reliable electricity when needed at desired levels and quality. If your energy comes primarily from renewables, the BESS enables you to store that energy for times when renewables may not be available, like at night for when solar panels are inactive.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2017

The 2017 edition of the BP Energy Outlook , published today, forecasts that global demand for energy will increase by around 30% between 2015 and 2035, an average growth of 1.3% billion cars in 2015 to 1.8 Shale gas production accounts for two-thirds of the increase in gas supplies, led by growth in the US. billion by 2035.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2015

The project will run from 2015 to 2020 in a redevelopment area of the Methil Docks in Methil, Fife, Scotland’s third largest council area. Electricity generated by wind and solar power will be used to power a hydrogen-producing water electrolysis system. This marks Toshiba’s first hydrogen research project outside Japan.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2015

BMW i ChargeForward is designed to explore how to better match the impact of electric vehicles with other dynamic energy supply and demand sources. BMW will begin accepting applications at www.bmwichargeforward.com in January, and the program will kick off in July 2015. Program participation.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2011

Offers for supplying green electricity by CNR at Renault’s production sites. At present it has over 3,200 MW of installed capacity in hydropower, wind power and solar power and aims to reach 5,000 MW in France by 2015.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 4, 2023

Gore worked at Tesla for approximately 6 years and 11 months, from September 2015 to July 2022. Gore also has ties to Solar City before its acquisition by Tesla. At Solar City, Gore was Deputy Director of Policy and Electricity Market. Gore will be taking over ZETA’s Executive Director position from Joe Britton.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2013

German Li-ion battery systems specialist AKASOL is supplying Li-ion battery systems for Bombardier’s PRIMOVE system. Under the Bombardier partnership, AKASOL will supply 5-10 MWh of its Li-ion battery systems to Bombardier by the end of 2014 for use in various applications and at sites of operation around the world. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

In 2015, GM required 9 terawatt hours of electricity to build its vehicles and power its offices, technical centers and warehouses around the world. Today GM saves $5 million annually from using renewable energy, a number it anticipates will increase as more projects come online and the supply of renewable energy increases.

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