The Truth About Cars

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

& On the other hand, it’s easy to forget about the cost of your electric bill, since you pay it once a month and unless you’re in Texas, electrical service is always right there. After all, being a full-time auto journalist doesn’t pay well enough to afford a vehicle like this. I’m not quite there yet in my world.

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Cars That Think

JULY 16, 2022

Governments once dominated space because the cost of building and launching satellites was so great. Commercial satellites equipped with SAR and other imaging instruments are now reaching resolutions that can compete with those of government satellites and offer access to customers at extremely affordable rates.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2016

A multi-partner team, led by PNNL as part of the Battery500 research consortium, will receive an award of up to $10 million per year for five years to drive progress on DOE’s goal of reducing the cost of vehicle battery technologies. Duke Energy Ohio. City of Seattle. Clean Future, Inc. Confluence Environmental Center. Con Edison.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2023

The US Department of Energy (DOE) awarded nearly $34 million to 19 industry- and university-led research projects that will advance technology solutions to make clean hydrogen a more available and affordable fuel for electricity generation, industrial decarbonization, and transportation. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

Smart grid regional demonstrations involving plug-in vehicles include (ranked by DOE funding): Columbus Southern Power Company (doing business as AEP Ohio). A full list by state of the all the projects is available here. 24,978,264. 53,510,209. Beacon Power Corporation (MA). Beacon Power 20MW Flywheel Frequency Regulation Plant. 16,080,554.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2019

Durable and affordable higher-temperature heat exchangers could make energy conversion much more efficient, which in turn could reduce fuel consumption, system footprint, capital and operational cost, and emissions. The Ohio State University. The waste heat from the device can be harvested for residential heating.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2015

This work supports the Energy Department’s efforts to make drop-in biofuels more accessible and affordable, as well as to meet the cost target equivalent of $3 per gallon of gasoline by 2022. Ohio University will receive up to $1.5 Additional projects selected for funding.

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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. Ohio is becoming a hub for solar manufacturing. 5,200 jobs have been created in the state since the passage of the IRA.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2015

After debuting the first solar air battery—a photo-assisted charging Li-O 2 battery—last fall ( earlier post ), researchers at The Ohio State University led by Professor Yiying Wu have now developed a new system combining a solar cell and a battery into a single device. Various kinds of solar fuels have been actively explored.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

If successfully developed, this transformational new energy storage technology would greatly reduce the cost of hybrid and electric vehicles. Sustainable, High-Energy Density, Low-Cost Electrochemical Energy Storage: Metal-Air Ionic Liquid (MAIL) Batteries. Affordable Energy from Water and Sunlight. DOE grant:$5,349,932).

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Charged EVs

AUGUST 16, 2022

We EVangelists have gotten used to smugly pointing to the steadily declining costs of batteries (and renewable energy). That said, with increased adoption of batteries, alongside improvements in technologies, the [long-term] trend is likely to still be towards lower battery costs and increased affordability, as economies of scale take hold.”.

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EV Adoption

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

The goal of using taxpayer dollars to increase sales of electric vehicles should serve two primary purposes: 1) To reduce the cost differential between comparable EV and ICE vehicles to make EVs more attractive and more affordable to more people. Option to Convert the Tax Credit to a Time of Purchase Rebate.

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Charged EVs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Some fear that the new rules will penalize startups such as Lucid and Rivian, which are selling pricey luxury vehicles, presumably as the first phase of an iterative strategy to work their way to more affordable EVs (as Tesla originally planned to do). Lucid’s sedans currently start at over $80,000, and Rivian’s pickups start at $72,500.

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