Cars That Think

MARCH 23, 2022

We feature all images on our site, and one also appears on our monthly print edition. On the roof of a skyscraper in the middle of a metropolis, sits a vertiport, a transit hub where vertical-takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) vehicles such as Vertical Aerospace’s VA-X4 electrically powered, four-passenger aircraft will alight between flights.

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Teslarati

APRIL 4, 2022

Tesla’s Class 8 all-electric truck was recently sighted at the Gigafactory Texas complex. The Tesla Semi spotted in the Texas-based site appears to be the company’s updated variant of the vehicle, which has been spotted across the United States since last year. 4 April 2022 Giga Texas IMAGES!

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Findings from the North American Electric Reliability Corporation’s (NERC’s) 2021 Long-Term Reliability Assessment (LTRA) indicate there is a high probability of insufficient resources and energy to serve electricity demand, as early as Summer 2022, in many parts of the Western Interconnection.

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Teslarati

JULY 13, 2021

Last week, Elon Musk announced Tesla’s first involvement in a major housing development project in Austin, Texas. SunHouse is expected to comprise a few thousand homes, and according to Brad Chelton, president of Brookfield Residential Texas, the Tesla Solar and Powerwalls would be available even to entry-level homes.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

They are essential inputs to many critical defense and commercial technologies, particularly permanent magnets instrumental to the performance of electric vehicles, wind turbines, drones, and missile systems. HREEs have higher atomic weights and are generally less abundant than light rare earth elements (LREEs). Earlier post.).

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

—Jesse Jenkins, Princeton University When I entered the field, commercial wind was starting to scale up and the questions were about engineering feasibility. What was the maximum share of wind that we could have in the system without blowing it up—5 percent or 20 percent or 30 percent? What about the pitfalls with energy modeling?

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 10, 2024

The Electric Reliability Council of Texas in December said it expects around 4.46 US battery storage capacity could increase by 89% by the end of 2024 if all planned energy storage systems are brought online at the targeted time, the Energy Information Administration said on Tuesday. GW and 3.2 GW and 3.2

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2020

More than half of all air-quality-related early deaths in the United States are a result of emissions originating outside of the state in which those deaths occur, MIT researchers report in a paper in the journal Nature. Electric power generation is the greatest contributor to out-of-state pollution-related deaths, the findings suggest.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 29, 2022

In total last year, Tesla delivered 936,172 electric vehicles. So this is going to be very important for storing renewable energy — so, for solar and wind. ” “If you have those three legs of the stool, then you can create a sustainable energy future for as long as the sun shines and the wind blows.”

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2021

Renewables are expanding quickly but not enough to satisfy a strong rebound in global electricity demand this year, resulting in a sharp rise in the use of coal power that risks pushing carbon dioxide emissions from the electricity sector to record levels next year, according to a new report from the International Energy Agency.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2016

Toyota Motor North America has awarded MP2 Energy, a full-service power company based in The Woodlands, Texas, a five-year retail electricity contract to provide 100% renewable energy solutions to Toyota’s new North American headquarters in Plano, Texas. The five-year deal also supports 7.75

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Electric Auto Association

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Help us turn Route 66 into Electric Avenue Historic Route 66 Arizona Fun Run map The 34th annual Historic Route 66 Arizona Fun Run , going electric this year with the sponsorship of the Electric Vehicle Association in partnership with the Scottsdale EVA , is scheduled for Friday, May 5 through Sunday, May 7.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The deficit is driving up electricity prices, reducing grid reliability, and hobbling renewable energy deployment. The rules that orchestrate the movement of electricity through this network determine who generates power, and how much. The United States is not building enough transmission lines to connect regional power networks.

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Electric Auto Association

JULY 5, 2021

Houston chapter leads toward clean energy in Texas. The outreach efforts of the Houston Electric Auto Association (HEAA), founded 34 years ago in the heart of American oil country, have not always been met with a positive response. “We A demonstration of plug-in hybrids and full battery electrics at an HEAA meeting.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2011

Researchers at the University of Texas, including Dr. John Goodenough, are proposing a strategy for high-capacity next-generation alkali (lithium or sodium)-ion batteries using water-soluble redox couples as the cathode. Example of a lithium-water rechargeable battery. Credit: ACS, Lu et al. Click to enlarge. —Lu et al. John Goodenough.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 21, 2022

We feature all images on our site, and one also appears on our monthly print edition. Sebastian Gollnow/Getty Images Blowin' in the Wind. Nature has crafted the spores so that they can catch a gust of wind and travel as far as a kilometer before landing and putting down roots that will eventually yield a new flower.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2013

received a project award from Apex Compressed Air Energy Storage, LLC for the supply of equipment to be used in a new 317 MW compressed air energy storage (CAES) facility to be constructed near Tennessee Colony, Texas in the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) market. Dresser-Rand Group Inc.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

IROS 2023 : 1–5 October 2023, DETROIT CLAWAR 2023 : 2–4 October 2023, FLORIANOPOLIS, BRAZIL ROSCon 2023 : 18–20 October 2023, NEW ORLEANS Humanoids 2023 : 12–14 December 2023, AUSTIN, TEXAS Cybathlon Challenges : 02 February 2024, ZURICH Enjoy today’s videos! Okay, all robotics videos definitely need confetti cannons. GRASP Lab ]

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Baua Electric

MARCH 8, 2024

Although Rivian and Tesla are making headlines with planned expansions into mass-market electric vehicles, Kia is set to launch two affordable EVs of its own. More affordable EVs are coming Rivian unveiled its highly anticipated R2 electric SUV Thursday. Kia has found recent success with its first three-row EV9 electric SUV.

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EV Info

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Wind farms stand idle for days on end, a fire interrupts a vital cable from France, a combination of post-Covid economic recovery and Russia tightening supply means the gas price has shot through the roof – and so the market price of both home heating and electricity is rocketing. Climate Change. This was plain wrong.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin, including Prof. The glass also contains electric dipoles that endow it with a large dielectric constant. Schematic of an all-solid-state Li-S cell with the glass electrolyte; during discharge the metallic-lithium anode is plated on the cathode carbon-copper composite current collector.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 15, 2014

SwRI’s V2G aggregation system allows electric delivery truck fleet owners to make money by using normal vehicle charge times to assist in managing grid frequency. The SwRI system suspends vehicle charging when the electric grid frequency drops too far below 60 Hertz, the normal operating frequency. Click to enlarge.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 30, 2021

2021 was a big year for energy-related news, what with the ongoing hunt for new forms of energy storage and cleaner if not carbon-free electricity and events and research that spotlighted the weak links in our power grid. And most green hydrogen production still relies on electrolyzers, which themselves consume lots of electricity.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

In the first group, 16 awards totaling $435 million will support fully integrated, regional Smart Grid demonstrations in 21 states, representing more than 50 utilities and electricity organizations with a combined customer base of almost 100 million consumers. A full list by state of the all the projects is available here.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 26, 2022

The heart of any electric motor consists of a rotor that revolves around a stationary part, called a stator. Expect it to save weight and thus energy in just about everything that uses electricity to impart motive force. The layered components of an Infinitum Electric axial-flux motor are shown here, in exploded form.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

In April, 46 percent of all mining took place in China, according to data from the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance. In a matter of weeks, all that mining capacity went offline. That's probably the second biggest factor now, after electricity, and it might actually be number one for many people."

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Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 20, 2023

Flash Drive: 2023 Genesis GV70 EV AWD American-Built Electric Luxury Genesis is on an electric roll. Beginning as upscale models in the Hyundai line-up, Genesis has created its own identity with unique styling and making the commitment to only offer all-electric cars and SUVs by 2030. No worries, we had it all the way!

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Colorado Association for Manufacturing & Technology; Cray; Dassault Systems; Deere & Company; DMG Mori; Evolved Analytics LLC; General Dynamics - Ordnance & Tactical Systems; General Electric; Haas Automation; Honeywell; Illinois Tool Works; Imagecom Inc. .; Boeing; Caron Engineering Inc.; Caterpillar; CG Tech; Cincinnati Inc.;

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

American Electric Power has signed on as a corporate sponsor of The Pickens Plan, proposed by oil and gas industry veteran T. Without mechanisms to support faster deployment of a very efficient interstate transmission system, we won't be able to achieve renewable electricity generation at 20 to 30 percent levels. Boone Pickens.

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Clean Fleet Report

JUNE 8, 2022

All-New, All Hybrid. Toyota has added another model to its ever increasing stable of electrified vehicles with the all-new 2023 Sequoia now exclusively hybrid powered. headquarters in Plano, Texas, the first week of June to be among the first to drive the all-new 2023 Sequoia. Power and Efficiency.

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Charged EVs

MAY 11, 2022

The 2022 Ford F-150 Lightning pickup truck may be the first real mass-market electric vehicle sold in the US. We drove several F-150 Lightnings, in various trims, with and without payloads or trailers, out of San Antonio and through the winding roads of Texas hill country during the first week of May.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2016

The Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle with Long Electric Range (PHEVLER - pronounced “fevler”) is a new category emerging in the electric vehicle marketplace. PHEVLERs are defined as PHEVs with sufficient battery capacity for all electric driving of twice the average daily distance. [ Dr. Bruce R.

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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

MARCH 5, 2013

Once operational, this unit will supply LNG along the Mississippi River, the Intra-Coastal Waterway and to the offshore Gulf of Mexico and the onshore oil and gas exploration areas of Texas and Louisiana. Once operational, this project will supply LNG fuel to all five Great Lakes, their bordering US states and Canadian provinces and the St.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2011

In Germany, renewable electricity generation will be 35 percent by 2020, and 50 percent by 2050. Why then do we not have the same clarity of goal for the electricity generating industry here in the USA? The same can be said for the electricity companies that generate power in the USA. in Texas, a 15% swing.) Source: EIA.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 6, 2024

You just come to expect it, and we all live with it. One of the things that struck me was that Bert’s making the argument that you don’t actually need now an army of programmers to create bloated software— to get all those millions of lines of code. All of these large language models that are being applied to software development.

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Plug In Partners

APRIL 3, 2007

In Quest for Cleaner Energy, Texas City Touts Plug-In Car John J. Fialka Wall Street Journal March 26, 2007 AUSTIN, Texas -- Of all the plans cooked up by cities to combat pollution and global warming, the one hatched here is among the most ambitious -- and, some say, one of the more quixotic. But that's not all.

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