Cars That Think

JANUARY 18, 2023

When we turn up the heat in our homes and workplaces, we must balance our personal need for warmth with the global impact of burning fossil fuels like oil, gas, coal, and biomass. The electrical grid also supports the efficient distribution of power and makes use of energy generated through renewable means like wind and solar.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

Improved energy storage technologies will allow for expanded integration of renewable energy resources like wind and photovoltaic systems and will improve frequency regulation and peak energy management. The selected projects include advanced battery systems (including flow batteries), flywheels, and compressed air energy systems.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2012

We need innovative, affordable and reliable energy solutions for the 21 st century, a set of investments that will meet our energy needs today while creating job opportunities and economic prosperity for our future. The council recommended: Allowing more access to oil, natural gas and coal opportunities on federal lands.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2013

billion, as the world’s population grows and more people in developing economies are able to afford cars. This slower growth is attributed to the relatively higher cost of the vehicles, driven by the cost of batteries. Wind, solar and biofuels are likely to make up about 4% of energy supplies in 2040, up from 1% in 2010.

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Oil-Sands Energy Hybrid Sale 309

Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2013

The plan as outlined also calls for further work on advanced biofuels, advanced batteries and fuel cell technologies in every transportation mode. Burning natural gas is about one-half as carbon-intensive as coal, which can make it a “bridge fuel” for many countries as the world transitions to even cleaner sources of energy.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Significant cost reductions can be achieved by front-loading the deployment of renewables, mainly wind and solar photovoltaic, and by utilizing the technologies needed to balance their inherent intermittency, such as energy storage and thermal balancing power plants. — IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol.

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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. However, building more coal and gas power plants to make miles for transport is counter-productive if the game plan is to reduce carbon output. They had better think seriously about financing solar and wind arrays.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2017

In addition, the housing affordability and availability crisis is forcing people to live increasingly farther away from work, driving up total vehicle miles traveled in the state by 2.7 Cheap gas prices and a strong economy are creating increased goods movement and prompting Californians to drive more. below their 2006 levels.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2011

That’s why, in my State of the Union Address, I called for a new Clean Energy Standard for America: by 2035, 80 percent of our electricity will come from an array of clean energy sources, from renewables like wind and solar to efficient natural gas to clean coal and nuclear power.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

The breakthrough could revolutionize electric car battery technology and pave the way for ultra-fast charging electric vehicles in as little as two years. For electric vehicles with large battery packs, the biggest limiter is already in the circuit panel. Subscribe to our RSS feed and stay up to date. by RSS or sign up by email.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2021

The report is the first comprehensive study of how to transition to a net zero energy system by 2050 while ensuring stable and affordable energy supplies, providing universal energy access, and enabling robust economic growth. The pathway calls for annual additions of solar PV to reach 630 GW by 2030, and those of wind power to reach 390 GW.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Since the Obama administration took office, the US has gradually been pouring more and more cash into advanced vehicle technologies including the development of plug-in hybrid and full battery electric vehicles. Why is so much money dedicated to fossil fuels?

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Planar Na-beta Batteries for Renewable Integration and Grid Applications. Eagle Picher, in partnership with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, will develop a new generation of high energy, low cost planar liquid sodium beta batteries for grid scale electrical power storage applications. High Energy Density Lithium Batteries.

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Creative Greenius

MAY 14, 2009

These zoning decisions blow in whatever direction the development winds are gusting in the city at the moment and there is no consistency, logic or equity in the decisions made. I went and spoke to their City Council and said “For $50,000 a house I’ll put in solar AND battery systems and take you off the grid. 50,000 per house.

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Plug in America

AUGUST 14, 2023

The IRA provides funds for a variety of activities from increasing solar and wind energy capacity and home improvements to save money on energy to installing EV charging and reducing the upfront cost of EVs. billion investment in a new EV battery manufacturing facility in Marshall, Michigan, which will create 2,500 good-paying jobs.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

How Real, How Soon, and What Must Happen Next,” which concludes the costs of creating an automotive market dominated by electric and hybrid cars are prohibitively high for the foreseeable future – as high as $49 billion for Europe alone (along with another $21 billion for battery-charging infrastructure). Volt will survive and prosper,” G.M.’s

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 20, 2009

The benefit of a higher voltage connector has nothing to do with the speed at which the battery will charge it has to do with the conductor size. Neutral Kaitou KID @ Apr 19th 2009 4:45PM not if the electricity is from ultra efficient solar panels, hydroelectric dams or wind. excluding coal power in china. Neutral who? @

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Why hes banking on an obscure Chinese electric car company and a CEO who - no joke - drinks his own battery fluid. BYD CEO Wang Chuan-Fu figured out how to make cheaper batteries than the Japanese by replacing machines with migrant workers. By about 2000, BYD had become one of the worlds largest manufacturers of cellphone batteries.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The four-door sedan will deliver 40 miles on a charge; a small gasoline engine will recharge the battery as it approaches depletion, extending its range by as much as 200 miles. They leased a few (at a loss) to those that could afford it. About every other month, a battery would fry and hed have to have it towed to the dealership.

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