Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Since its inception, the US electric grid has mostly operated smoothly as one synchronous machine with a one-directional flow of electricity to meet the nation’s predictable power needs. US power outages are up 64% this decade compared to the previous decade. But that premise is quickly changing.

Grid 170

Grid Re-Charge Power Grid Water 170

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The challenge: when modeling a hypothetical well-to-wheel scenario of aggressive battery electric vehicle (BEV) adoption, powered by hypothetical full switch to fossil-free power sources in parallel, there is still a GHG emission overshoot, unless upstream scope 3 (supply chain emissions) are simultaneously tackled.

Industrial 195

Industrial Industry Emissions Supplies 195

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2019

The electric car will play an important role as a power consumer in the digital energy world. As an energy storage device, the electric car has great potential to drive the energy transition forward and absorb peak loads resulting from regenerative generation. depending on the type of device and the variety of functions).

Connect 220

Connect Connected Audi Standards 220

Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2022

Steel produced by electric arc furnace (EAF) steelmakers in the US has a carbon intensity that is approximately 75% lower than traditional blast furnace steelmakers. This is the finding of an independent study of steelmakers worldwide conducted by CRU Group, a global business intelligence firm specializing in metals manufacturing.

Carbon 186

Carbon Emissions Climate Change Power Grid 186

Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2018

The Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) issued a funding opportunity announcement ( DE-FOA-0001952 ) of up to $5 million for research and development of algorithms to modernize the electric grid. the generating plant’s control set points of active and reactive power output and terminal voltage.

Grid 150

Grid Power Grid Grant Power 150

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

V2GFull varies not only the charging of the vehicle battery, but also can vary the discharging of the battery back into the power grid. trafficThis scenario is currently less desirable to automotive manufacturers, but provides an additional resource benefit to PHEV/BEVs by theoretically doubling their capacity value to the grid.

Wind 210

Wind Grid PHEV Power Grid 210

Teslarati

JULY 13, 2021

Customers could choose between Tesla solar panels or Solar Roof, but all solar products would be installed with a Powerwall. Today I'm directing the @PUCTX to take immediate action to improve electric reliability across the state. After the Texas power crisis, many have supported the idea of switching to a renewable power grid.

Neighborhood 145

Neighborhood Austin Solar Renewable 145

Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2017

Nissan, Mitsubishi Corporation, Mitsubishi Motors Corporation, PSA Groupe, NUVVE, Frederiksberg Forsyning, Enel, Insero and DTU (Technical University of Denmark) Electrical Engineering (PowerLabDK) are partnering in the Danish project Parker to develop a universal definition for grid integration for electric vehicles.

Grid 231

Grid Universal Power Grid Mitsubishi 231

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2021

Vulcan Energy Resources has agreed to acquire an operational geothermal renewable energy power plant in the Upper Rhine Valley at Insheim, Germany, through the acquisition of 100% of the shares in the entity which owns and operates the plant. MW of electricity on average. The plant is producing 2.9 million and an EBITDA of €2.9

Carbon 243

Carbon Companies Renewable Luxembourg 243

Teslarati

AUGUST 9, 2022

Together with the grid-scale battery packs, the site also features a solar canopy and infrastructure that’s ready for bi-directional electric vehicle chargers. Similar to other battery storage systems that Tesla has built in the past, the Megapack site in the Bronx is designed to make the local grid more robust.

New York City 109

New York City Energy Storage Power Powered 109

EV Connect

JANUARY 24, 2022

Electric vehicles (EVs) are looking to be a huge part of our future. As the costs of climate change and the price of oil both become too high to bear, auto manufacturers will shift more of their vehicle fleets to electric. And as electric-vehicle technology advances, it may simply become better than traditional combustion.

Grid 71

Grid Fleet Power Grid Power 71

Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Jenkins has also helped push Congress to think more seriously about the power grid, releasing a report last year that showed that much of the 43 percent emissions reduction expected by 2030 would be squandered if the United States doesn’t double the pace of transmission upgrades. power-grid transmission.

Clean 101

Clean Cleaning Energy Emissions 101

Drive Electric

APRIL 4, 2023

Electric Vehicles (EVs) are becoming increasingly popular worldwide, and New Zealand is no exception. If you want to learn more about whether EV’s are good for the environment, check out our previous resource here. Among its members are prominent organisations such as Vector , AA , WasteMINZ , and Drive Electric!

New Zealand 98

New Zealand Batteries Battery Waste 98

Cars That Think

JANUARY 29, 2022

That need for balance is true of electric power grids, too. Spiking demand for electric heat collided with supply problems created by frozen natural-gas equipment and below-average wind-power production. The brown line shows the uncoordinated load from 1,000 electric water heaters for reference. Here’s how.

Power Grid 107

Power Grid Grid Power Powered 107

Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

They wanted to see whether an electric vehicle could feed electricity back to the grid. The company’s president, Tom Gage , dubbed the system “vehicle to grid” or V2G. For the utilities, it promised an economical way of meeting rising demand for electricity. AC Propulsion’s experiment was timely.

Grid 138

Grid Power Powered Vehicles 138

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

The selection was part of a larger contracting for 2,221 MW of power from diverse new resources. The 2,221 megawatts will represent roughly 10% of SCE’s current total customer peak usage and is enough to power about 950,000 average homes. Resource type. All five of the SCE storage project winners are CESA members.

Energy Storage 244

Energy Storage Purchase California Grid 244

Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2021

The Volkswagen Group presented its technology roadmap for batteries and charging up to 2030 today on its first “Power Day”. The goal of the roadmap is to reduce the complexity and cost of the battery significantly in order to make the electric car attractive and viable for as many people as possible.

Charging 218

Charging Batteries Battery Spain 218

Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2013

The PNNL technology tells a vehicle’s battery charger when to start and stop charging based upon existing conditions on the electrical grid. The Grid Friendly EV Charger Controller technology notifies the car’s battery charger when to start and stop charging based upon existing conditions on the electrical grid.

Smart Charger 225

Smart Charger EV Smart Grid Power Grid 225

Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2013

BASF New Business GmbH has acquired all shares of the technology company Deutsche Nanoschicht GmbH. Superconductors carry current virtually without loss, so they allow potentially huge savings in generating and transporting electricity. In a layer, all crystals or grains have to be orientated for optimum features.

Companies 186

Companies Power Grid All-Electric Grid 186

Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2020

Communications, commerce and transportation are all witnessing an explosion of networks, sensors, and devices fueling a patchwork of AI, IoT, and 4G/5G technologies into an already rapidly deteriorating modern-day infrastructure design. Smart infrastructure will also be safer.

Connect 199

Connect Connected Power Grid Climate 199

Setec Powerr

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

The study found that after the financial crisis in 2008, the world economy entered a period of low-speed growth adjustment, and the power grid was facing the pressure of sustainable investment. Playing with a mobile phone is a lack of power.

Light 52

Light Power Powered Power Grid 52

Cars That Think

JUNE 24, 2023

Just exploring these craters will require a lot more power than that which is already required to sustain Artemis base operations. None of the Apollo missions attempted to produce enough power to survive the lunar night. Those missions were all carried out during lunar daytime so that the astronauts could work in the warmth of the sun.

Power Grid 106

Power Grid Grid Power Powered 106

Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2011

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) will partner with an industry-academia team led by the California Center for Sustainable Energy (CCSE) to investigate secondary applications for aged battery packs from electric drive vehicles. Assess the economic benefit of second uses.

San Diego 225

San Diego Li-ion Batteries Battery 225

Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2012

The US has offshore wind resources estimated at more than 4,000 gigawatts, with strong, consistent winds located in the Atlantic, Pacific, the Great Lakes and the Gulf of Mexico. LCOE is the sum of all annual costs divided by the amount of electricity produced per year.). Funding is subject to Congressional appropriations.

Wind 218

Wind Cost Of Energy Power Grid 218

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 11, 2017

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) is developing a measure to reduce emissions from Transport Refrigeration Units (TRUs) by transitioning to zero-emission technologies. TRU gensets are typically engine-powered generators designed to provide power to electrically driven refrigeration units.

California 150

California Emissions Store Sacramento 150

Electric Auto Association

APRIL 2, 2022

Next-gen GM and PG&E BY RON FREUND, Member, Electric Auto Association of silicon valley. There’s been a lot of talk about electric vehicles (EVs) acting as backup power for homes during blackouts—so much so that Ford is now using the concept as a central component of its marketing campaign for the F-150 Lightning.

Power 52

Power Powered F-150 Grid 52

Cars That Think

MAY 23, 2022

Therefore, a power grid will not simply keep the lights on and air pumping but also support the mining and fuel-processing facilities that will concurrently work to reduce the supply requirements from Earth. For that, energy storage and power management will be critical.

Solar 104

Solar Engine Energy Storage Power Grid 104

Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2013

Renault recently made public the findings of an internal study, published first in October 2011, detailing and comparing the lifecycle assessments (LCAs) of the battery-electric and two internal combustion engined versions (gasoline and diesel) of the Renault Fluence. dCi); gasoline Fluence 16V (1.6L); and the battery-electric Fluence Z.E. (22

Li-ion 364

Li-ion Gasoline-Electric Ozone Diesel 364

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2012

The California Independent System Operator Corporation (ISO), California’s non-profit grid operator, released its new five-year (2012-2016) strategic plan. Between now and 2020, wind and solar generation will quadruple within the ISO transmission grid at the same time electric vehicle charging increases significantly.

Grid 244

Grid Renewable California Electric Vehicles 244

EV Connect

MARCH 21, 2022

Sustainability helps drive the electric vehicle (EV) market forward; however, there are aspects of EV transportation that still have room to grow more sustainable. The term smart charging for EVs is multifaceted, but all aspects of the definition boil down to energy consumption. What Is Smart EV Charging?

Charging 52

Charging Power Grid Grid Energy 52

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2020

With battery storage able to provide a unique role in balancing a renewable electricity grid, Toby Gill, CEO of Intelligent Power Generation, asks could innovations in green hydrogen and biofuel technologies contribute to a more optimized and economical energy mix? A line of electricity pylons in the UK countryside.

Grid 332

Grid Power Powered Fuel 332

Driivz

DECEMBER 20, 2023

A Charge Point Operator (CPO) is an eMobility industry player that builds EV charging sites, installs hardware from a variety of electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE) vendors, and ensures optimal ongoing EV charging operations. Automation is key to reducing TCO.

Charging 98

Charging Fleet Grid United Kingdom 98

Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2018

In Germany, all Mercedes-Benz plants will be supplied with CO 2 -neutral energy. The preparations for exclusively green electricity for a climate-friendly production in Europe are already well advanced. Thereby, we completely forego coal-based electricity and obtain our electrical energy from only renewable sources.

Germany 170

Germany Mercedes CO2 Supplies 170

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

A new study by researchers at MIT’s Center for Transportation and Logistics (CTL), concludes that electric commercial vehicles can cost 9 to 12% less to operate than trucks powered by diesel engines when used to make deliveries on an everyday basis in big cities and when V2G (vehicle-to-grid) revenue is incorporated.

MIT 284

MIT Fleet Diesel Commercial 284

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Four California state agencies and the independent power grid operator have released a new plan and vision for California’s energy future in advance of the Air Resources Board consideration of a first-in-the-nation rule requiring that a third of California electricity come from renewable sources by 2020.

Plug-in 210

Plug-in California 2020 Transportation 210

Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2018

Together with other highly-flexible controllable systems in the BMW Group production network, they will contribute to the stability of the public grid outside of the plant. Electricity generation from variable renewable electricity sources (VRE) such as wind and solar power has grown rapidly and is expected to continue to do so.

Grid 191

Grid BMW Power Powered 191

Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2012

ZSE), the largest distributor and supplier of electricity in Slovakia, on a smart energy “feasibility” study that will help prepare the capital city Bratislava for electric vehicles (EVs). This highway will interconnect the two cities with a network of public charging stations for electric vehicles. Click to enlarge. —ZSE.

Slovakia 236

Slovakia Green Energy Grid Grid 236