Cars That Think

APRIL 11, 2023

Whenever new technologies are introduced into the power grid, there’s always a chance they could disrupt the system, possibly even leading to blackouts. Finding ways to deal with the impact on the grid caused by incorporating renewable energy has been the focus of Vijay Vittal ’s research for nearly 20 years.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 19, 2015

General Motors is partnering with DTE Energy to build a new 800-kilowatt solar array at its Warren Transmission plant that will be GM’s largest solar installation in Michigan. The 2,800 solar panels will generate clean electricity that will go back to the grid. DTE Energy will own the array on 4.25

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 20, 2016

Hecate Canada Storage II, LLP, an emerging Canadian Project Development and Electrical Systems Integrator, has selected Switzerland-based Leclanché as the exclusive partner to provide 13MW / 53MWh Li-ion battery Energy Storage Systems in one of the largest Grid Ancillary Services energy storage projects in North America.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2022

Dimensional Energy was founded in Ithaca, New York, in 2016 and has spent the last six years refining its reactors and catalysts in both lab and real-world demonstrations. Dimensional has also received grants from the National Science Foundation and both the Department of Energy’s ARPA-e and Solar Energy Technology Office (SETO).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2018

This year’s outlook is the first to highlight the significant impact that falling battery costs will have on the electricity mix over the coming decades. BNEF predicts that lithium-ion battery prices, already down by nearly 80% per megawatt-hour since 2010, will continue to tumble as electric vehicle manufacturing builds up through the 2020s.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2012

The California Independent System Operator Corporation (ISO), California’s non-profit grid operator, released its new five-year (2012-2016) strategic plan. Between now and 2020, wind and solar generation will quadruple within the ISO transmission grid at the same time electric vehicle charging increases significantly.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 12, 2023

As countries transition away from fossil fuels to green sources of energy like wind and solar, there will be natural lulls in energy production due to weather conditions. Energy consumption also tends to peak during early evening hours , which is inconveniently right when solar energy output decreases.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2020

Further, according to Rystad Energy, Big Oil is expected to pump in $166B into new oil and gas ventures over the next five years, thus dwarfing the currently specified outlay of just $18B (less than 10% of capex) for solar and wind energy projects. NASDAQ:TSLA) a run for its money thanks to its 2016 acquisition of battery company Saft.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

In an effort to further understand and expand the possibilities of smart charging for electric vehicles (EVs) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), BMW of North America announced a second phase of its BMW ChargeForward program. Earlier post.) BMW was the first to showcase this technology in a real-world application.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2011

In its new report Energy Storage on the Grid (ESG), Pike Research forecasts that global spending in the ESG market will reach a little over $22 billion over the next 10 years. Electric grids require balance in order to function properly. Energy storage on the grid is reaching a turning point. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2016

The Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle with Long Electric Range (PHEVLER - pronounced “fevler”) is a new category emerging in the electric vehicle marketplace. PHEVLERs are defined as PHEVs with sufficient battery capacity for all electric driving of twice the average daily distance. [ Dr. Bruce R.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 24, 2023

When Ifeanyi Orajaka was an undergraduate engineering student in 2008, he had his career all mapped out. But during one of those internships, he visited some of the oil company’s facilities in a rural area and was shocked to see that people living nearby had no access to electricity. Winning the competition, he says, changed his life.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Electric vehicles charged in coal-heavy regions can create more human health and environmental damages from life cycle air emissions than gasoline vehicles, according to a new consequential life cycle analysis by researchers from Carnegie Mellon University. UC stands for uncontrolled charging and CC stands for controlled charging.

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Electric Auto Association

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Hudson Valley chapter works with LMI communities Mount Vernon, NY residents check out an EV The Greater Hudson Valley Electric Vehicle Association , founded in 2016, has turned its electric vehicle (EV) outreach efforts toward underrepresented markets, specifically Low-to-Moderate Income (LMI) communities in the Hudson Valley area.

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Creative Greenius

MAY 14, 2009

After a decade in the solar power installation business, Bradley Bartz is tired of being Mr. Nice Guy. He’s filed suit against Torrance, the proud home of Exxon/Mobil’s refinery, for stopping him from installing solar panels in the Hillside Overlay district. Oh how it dwarfs the normal sized other homes all around it.

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My Energi

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Russel Shepherd, electric vehicle advocate, expert and electrification pioneer, will be heading up the new Australian myenergi headquarters, located in Greater Melbourne, Victoria. With the highest levels of solar irradiation in the world, Australia is the perfect extension of our global operations. Sea Cliff Bridge, Australia.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2016

Kokam has successfully deployed two Lithium Nickel Manganese Cobalt (NMC) Oxide Energy Storage Systems (ESSs)—a 24-megawatt (MW) system / 9-megawatt hour (MWh) and a 16 MW / 6 MWh system—for frequency regulation on the South Korean electricity grid.

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My Energi

MARCH 29, 2021

Extreme E, the all-electric, all-terrain championship, will see SUVs race through some of the most demanding environments on earth, including the Arctic Circle and Amazon rainforest. In 2016 he made his debut in the British Rallycross Championship and the following season he fought for the title. About myenergi.

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My Energi

AUGUST 12, 2021

All of Greenland’s cities are built along the 27,394-mile coastline as it’s the only area in the country that’s ice-free. Hydropower is the main renewable source that provides 60-70% of Greenland’s entire electricity needs. Opportunity for mass solar fields in Greenland. Solar cells can reduce the import of diesel in Greenland.

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EV Central

MARCH 26, 2023

If there is one thing the popularity of Tesla proves it’s that the shift to electric vehicles has created the opportunity for new automotive brands to enter the fray. All are aspirational and have grand plans, although not all may survive the competition and challenges of establishing a car maker. Moskvitch 2023 Moskvitch 3.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2015

Battelle smart grid technology for human deep space missions. Battelle has completed work on a contract from NASA Glenn Research Center exploring how smart grid technology could help astronauts safely explore deep space. Saft is scheduled to deliver the battery system before the end of 2016 to meet ESA’s launch plans for 2018.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

At the same time, President Xi Jinping of China announced targets to peak that country’s CO 2 emissions around 2030, with the intention to try to peak early, and to increase the non-fossil fuel share of all energy to around 20% by 2030. Together, the US and China account for more than one third of global greenhouse gas emissions.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2017

Today around the world, new renewable power plants are being built that will generate electricity for less cost than fossil-fuel power plants. The report also describes how the energy sector transition needs to go beyond the power sector into all end-use sectors. Electric vehicles need to become the predominant car type in 2050.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

While renewable energy has made promising gains in just the last few years—the cost of solar dropped by about two-thirds from 2009 to 2014—new drilling and extraction techniques have made fossil fuels cheaper and markedly increased the amount of oil and gas available. for oil, 24% for coal, and 20% for natural gas.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 29, 2022

That need for balance is true of electric power grids, too. Spiking demand for electric heat collided with supply problems created by frozen natural-gas equipment and below-average wind-power production. Packetized energy management (PEM) allows the power grid to flexibly handle a varying supply of renewable energy.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2016

At full build out, Pasha will be the world’s first marine terminal able to generate all of its energy needs from renewable sources. Project implementation will start in June with the final design and construction of the solar-powered microgrid. PermaCity (solar energy installation). million project is funded in part by a $14.5-million

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2017

of emissions and overshadowing all other areas of the economy. Other transportation-related findings include: As of the end of 2016, about half of all zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs) ever sold in the US were bought in California. California’s electric-power sector was responsible for 19.1% Transportation. from 2014.

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EV Info

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

This is mainly due to our reliance on purchasing natural gas on the spot market to feed our power stations to make electricity and gas that is pumped into millions of homes for heating and the cost of gas has increased significantly over the last 6 months. Let’s look at the bigger picture: – What has Europe done? In the U.K.,

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My Energi

MARCH 7, 2023

Zero fossil fuels, zero reliance on the grid, zero emissions travel. We founded the business in 2016 with nothing – apart from a few good ideas and a serious passion for change. We couldn’t understand why there wasn’t a way for EV drivers to charge their cars via solar panels, so decided to create our own pioneering product.

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Cars That Think

MAY 9, 2024

The accelerating buildout of solar farms on Earth is already hitting speed bumps, including public pushback against the large tracts of land required and a ballooning backlog of requests for new transmission lines and grid connections. These rectennas would then convert the signal to usable DC electricity.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2011

In Germany, renewable electricity generation will be 35 percent by 2020, and 50 percent by 2050. mpg by 2016. Why then do we not have the same clarity of goal for the electricity generating industry here in the USA? The same can be said for the electricity companies that generate power in the USA. Source: EIA.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2015

This is a milestone in the commercialization of hydrogen in preparation for the next generation of electric vehicles that will be powered by hydrogen. for their work to advance the commercial success of hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles. The station is grid-tied. —Michael Dray. Top: Cal State L.A. to tour the facility.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2014

Under that, the plan sketches out 3 strategic goals: Strategic Objective One: Advance the goals and objectives in the President’s Climate Action Plan by supporting prudent development, deployment, and efficient use of “all of the above” energy resources that also create new jobs and industries. watt utility, $2.37/watt watt residential scale.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2018

EVgo, America’s largest public fast-charging network for electric vehicles (EVs), has launched a commercial installation of second-life battery storage at a public DC fast charging station. high power electric vehicle charging (50kW+).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

The vast majority of the funded projects are for battery-electric buses and infrastructure; two projects are receiving a total of $3.2 Transitioning the fleet to all electric will eliminate emissions from diesel buses and emissions from shipping diesel fuel by barge 900 miles from Seattle. million for hydrogen fuel cell buses.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

The PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle), a subset of the electric car, combines a primary electric motor with a much smaller back-up engine fueled with a hydrocarbon/biofuel mix. (In In this paper PHEV refers solely to the long-range PHEV of 60 miles (100 km) electric-only range.) It is much more than that.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

APRIL 6, 2010

This Tesla is one of a number of electric cars coming on the market. Will Electric Cars Give New York a Charge? The number of electric cars bought, according to the study, “may be significantly less if these assumptions do not materialize.&# ‘ Here is the text of the entire article, in case the link goes bad: [link].

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