Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

The winds had barely died down when electric-power specialists and others began calling for a radical overhaul of Puerto Rico’s electricity networks, one that would emphasize renewable energy, distributed generation, and, critically, microgrids. A microgrid is like a miniaturized, tightly controlled version of a power grid.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Before the 2016 electrification project, the monks and the temple's acolytes conducted pujas—Buddhist prayer ceremonies—in the dark or with little light at dawn and dusk, Sonam Dorje, Linghsed's mayor, told Loomba in a recent interview. The monks were dependent on kerosene lamps, not only for light but also to heat the monastery.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

trafficThis scenario is highly desirable to automotive manufacturers, who harbor great concerns about battery warranty if vehicle-to-grid discharging is allowed. V2GFull varies not only the charging of the vehicle battery, but also can vary the discharging of the battery back into the power grid.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2018

The plant will start operating in 2019. A key element of this change is the conversion of production micro-grids from an alternating current (AC) to a direct current (DC) architecture—“Industrial Smart DC Grids”. However, today’s production grids are powered by alternating current—which has to be converted.

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Drive Electric

JULY 7, 2022

There’s general anxiety for Kiwis that New Zealand’s infrastructure simply couldn’t handle a significant increase in EVs on our roads, risking overloading the power grid. Reassuringly, EECA estimates that even if all light vehicles in New Zealand were electric, our current total electricity demand would only increase by 20%.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 24, 2023

Minigrids use distributed off-grid energy solutions that operate independently from the national transmission grid. Orajaka says his off-grid system of the first of its kind developed and implemented in Nigeria. The London Stock Exchange identified GVE as one of the fastest-growing private companies in Africa in 2019.

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Blink Charging

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The Global Environmental Edge of EVs The transportation sector is the dominant contributor to carbon emissions and the release of greenhouse gases, and while light-duty passenger cars were an early focus for the EV industry, larger cars and fleet vehicles represent a new opportunity for emissions reductions. mph” in the United States.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 19, 2021

And this was on top of a 2018 fire season that burned more than 700,000 hectares of land in California, and a 2019-to-2020 wildfire season in Australia that torched nearly 18 million hectares. AI and machine learning have begun to be deployed to detect faults and breakages in power lines. Multiple power utilities, including.

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Cars That Think

MAY 21, 2022

Although researchers revisit the idea of solar-power satellites with some regularity, those performing actual demonstrations of power beaming have struggled to surpass the high-water mark for efficiency, distance, and power level reached in 1975. During a 2019 demonstration at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Bethesda, Md.,

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 30, 2022

A Sea-Monster-Proof Internet The initial segment of what will be the first underwater fiber-optic link to skirt the North Pole, connecting Japan and Europe, will light up in early 2023. The competition kicked off in 2019, and XPrize’s net investment is US $10 million. This stretch, called Iris, will link Iceland to Ireland.

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