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First Drive: 2016 Hyundai Sonata PHEV and HEV

Green Car Congress

Hyundai began the US rollout of the 2016 Hyundai Sonata Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV) ( earlier post ) and its conventional hybrid sibling (HEV) with a series of media drives in California—one of the main markets for the PHEV, which offers some 24 miles (38.6 The 2016 Sonata PHEV features a 9.8 kWh Li poly pack.

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12 Exciting Engineering Milestones to Look for in 2022

Cars That Think

Green hydrogen is hydrogen produced in sustainable ways, using solar or wind-powered electrolyzers to split water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen. The station, China’s first long-term space habitat, was preceded by the Tiangong-1 and Tiangong-2 stations, which orbited from 2011 to 2018 and 2016 to 2019, respectively.

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USDOT awarding $55M to support purchase of Low-No buses; electric buses and infrastructure

Green Car Congress

This project is unique in that the buses will be charged during the day to take advantage of the renewable energy made available by the abundant solar and wind energy available on the island. Vermont Agency of Transportation. The Vermont Agency of Transportation will receive funding to purchase electric buses.

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How to Prevent Blackouts by Packetizing the Power Grid

Cars That Think

Spiking demand for electric heat collided with supply problems created by frozen natural-gas equipment and below-average wind-power production. Instead of drastically scaling up power-grid infrastructure, our work at the University of Vermont has focused on how to coordinate demand in real time to match the increasingly variable supply.

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The origins of NDEW and DEED

Plug in America

But, with the audacity of hope—and the confidence born of years driving these cars—we’re asking Obama to accelerate his plan and make it happen three years sooner, then to boost that number to ten million plug-ins by 2016.”. And media from Vermont to Alabama to Hawaii and beyond continue to carry our message of change. million total.

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