Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

All eyes these days may be on Elon Musk's space venture—which has just put people in orbit —but here on Earth you can now get your monthly electric bill courtesy of a different Musk enterprise. But industrial-scale energy storage is crucial to any renewable operation: the wind dies down, the sun doesn't always shine.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2021

All three scenarios assume accelerated electrification to meet climate goals, with a high market share for electrified vehicles (Battery-electric vehicles, plug-in hybrid electric vehicles and full hybrid electric vehicles) by 2030 of more than 50%, almost 80%, and close to 100%, respectively.

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Cars That Think

JULY 19, 2021

With wind and solar prices dropping, it can be easy to forget that two-thirds of the globe’s renewable energy comes from hydropower. They help stop floods and supply farms and families with water, but they’re not generating electricity—especially in developing countries. Most dams weren’t, in fact, actually built for hydropower.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2011

Alstom has taken a 40% equity share in Scottish renewable energy company AWS Ocean Energy , representing Alstom’s entry to the wave energy market. The AWS-III system is a 12-sided floating device which sits on the surface of the ocean and uses the action of the waves to produce electricity. today to around 30% by 2020.

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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?

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Wallbox

JANUARY 4, 2021

Whilst with unidirectional (one-way) EV chargers, electricity flows from the electric grid into the electric vehicle, with bidirectional (two-way) EV chargers, electricity can flow both ways. Although currently there aren’t many bidirectional EV chargers out there, all contain internal converters.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2013

Aspirational targets among seven countries participating in the Electric Vehicle Initiative would see growth from just under 2 million EV and PHEVs to just under 20 million by 2020. Source: “Electric Vehicle Grid Integration”. Within the EU, it cites examples from France, Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom, and Denmark.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2014

Issues that are particularly critical for the future competitiveness of CO 2 -derived methanol, according to the report, include: The level of priority awarded in transport policy to environmental considerations—first of all CO 2 abatement—and to security of supply concerns. Market-driven approach. 2009, earlier post.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 17, 2023

And then, out of nowhere, came an absolute bombshell: “We have designed our next drive unit, which uses a permanent-magnet motor, to not use any rare-earth elements at all,” declared Colin Campbell , Tesla’s director of power train engineering. All of the candidates today fail to tick one or more of these boxes.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2010

At the Clean Energy Ministerial in Washington, DC, 19-20 July, ministers reaffirmed their commitment to previously-announced targets for the deployment of electric vehicles, which the International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates will create global market momentum leading to at least 20 million electric vehicles on the road worldwide by 2020.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 9, 2024

Ahead of its arrival, GoAuto flew to Spain to sample a pre-production model on the picturesque – and beautifully smooth – roads surrounding Madrid. Both launch variants feature a rear-biased dual-motor all-wheel drive powertrain configuration. POLESTAR is just about ready to launch its first-ever SUV, the Polestar 3, Down Under.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2014

The new Vito is also the first van in the mid-size segment to offer three different drive system variants—rear-wheel, all-wheel, and, new, front wheel drive systems. The new front-wheel drive Vito is a very light vehicle, and is being marketed at a very attractive price. OM 651 with rear or all-wheel drive. t and 3.05

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Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2023

Mercedes-Benz announced that starting in 2026, all newly developed vans from Mercedes-Benz will be based on just one single innovative, modular and scalable architecture called VAN.EA, short for Van Electric Architecture. According to the “electric-only” strategy, VAN.EA The module is the same in all VAN.EA

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Baua Electric

MARCH 20, 2024

Old Monterey The oldest part of Monterey — an outpost of Spain and then Mexico dating back to the 17th century — lies just over a mile south of Cannery Row in a pedestrian-friendly downtown where signs flag historic adobe buildings. Atop vertiginous cliffs, a trail wound bravely through the wind-sculpted trees. I started at the 2.4-acre

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Using the e-mobility service provider Digital Charging Solutions’ (DCS) green charging option, the company will ensure that, for every charge undertaken by customers via its pan-European integrated public charging service, the equivalent amount of energy is fed back into the grid as green electricity.

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Charged EVs

JANUARY 5, 2024

Choosing “best of” or “most important” new cars is always dicey, and doubly so with electric vehicles. We’re not holding our breath for that mythical $30,000 Chevrolet Equinox EV, but we figured retail versions of Chevy’s Silverado EV pickup truck and Blazer EV SUV would have reached the market by now. Now we’ve driven both.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 5, 2024

Choosing “best of” or “most important” new cars is always dicey, and doubly so with electric vehicles. We’re not holding our breath for that mythical $30,000 Chevrolet Equinox EV, but we figured retail versions of Chevy’s Silverado EV pickup truck and Blazer EV SUV would have reached the market by now. Now we’ve driven both.

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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. Oh how it dwarfs the normal sized other homes all around it. I want it to be all of California. Those are all cities that I don’t care for.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2009

The “smart” buoys, based on integrated patented hydrodynamics, electronics, energy conversion and computer control systems, capture and convert energy from the natural rising and falling of waves into low-cost, clean electricity. The USP provides control and SCADA capability for all connected PowerBuoys. and Japan Wind Development Co.

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