Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2022

The company began construction on a CO 2 -to-fuels demo in Tucson, Arizona in 2021. At the Tucson site, they are using electricity from the Arizona grid, which gets an increasing amount of power from local solar panels. Commissioning of the facility has already begun, and it is set to begin operation this July.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2022

Volkswagen of America (VWoA) opened its Battery Engineering Lab (BEL) in Chattanooga, to test and optimize batteries for all electric vehicles in the American marketplace. Building the Battery Engineering Lab from the ground up allowed Volkswagen to install highly specialized equipment such as the electrical Multi-Axial Shaker Table (eMAST).

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Clean Fleet Report

DECEMBER 21, 2021

That will shift next season as Subaru will introduce an electric Nitro Rallycross Supercar based on a compact SUV chassis. With 1,000 horsepower in the all-electric power plant, it is expected to launch from 0-60 in 1.5 With 1,000 horsepower in the all-electric power plant, it is expected to launch from 0-60 in 1.5

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2020

Lucid Motors announced the Lucid Air will be the fastest charging electric vehicle yet offered with the capability to charge at rates of up to 20 miles per minute. Ultra-high voltage 900V+ electrical architecture. Home charging with car-to-grid bi-directional functionality. On-the-road charging.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

On Thursday afternoon, the San Diego, California region lost both major grid connections, resulting in loss of power for some 1.4 million customers of San Diego Gas and Electric, plus some consumers in Arizona and Mexico.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2011

The loan guarantee will support the construction of the Agua Caliente Solar Project , a 290-megawatt photovoltaic solar generating facility in Yuma County, Arizona that will use thin film solar panels manufactured by First Solar, Inc. Pacific Gas & Electric Company will purchase power generated from the project.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 29, 2019

Natural gas and grid electricity are used for biogas upgrading and compression. LNG facility in Topock, Arizona and transported to CNG/LNG stations in California by truck. The upgrading facility produces pipeline-quality RNG.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Geologic storage of hydrogen gas could make it economically possible to produce and distribute large quantities of hydrogen fuel for a growing fuel cell electric vehicle market. Salt formations in Arizona are thicker than those for Detroit and Pittsburgh, with larger and fewer caverns.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Under the FOCUS program, projects will develop advanced solar converters that turn sunlight into electricity for immediate use, while also producing heat that can be stored at low cost for later use as well as innovative storage systems that accept both heat and electricity from variable solar sources. Arizona State University.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 11, 2009

a provider of smart grid software, will provide its latest generation of electric vehicle management software ( earlier post ), Smart Charging 3.0, to support the eTEC/Nissan LEAF deployment of electric vehicles and charging infrastructure—the largest yet in the US. Tags: Plug-ins Smart Grid. GridPoint, Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2015

One of these, the Engineering Research Center for Power Optimization for Electro-Thermal Systems (POETS), aims to enhance or increase the electric power density available in tightly constrained mobile environments by changing the design. The two other new ERCs are: Off-grid drinking water. Nature-inspired soil engineering.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2011

Chrysler will deliver the first 20 units of its coming 140-unit plug-in hybrid RAM pickup test truck fleet ( earlier post )—10 to Clark County, Nevada and 10 to Yuma, Arizona—later this month, said Chrysler’s Abdullah A. The Chrysler PHEV pickup project is a $97.4-million The Chrysler PHEV pickup project is a $97.4-million

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2012

Since its inception, PACE has mobilized more than $1 billion dollars towards clean energy projects, including smart grid development; energy efficiency in buildings, appliances, and industries; and a wide range of renewable energy technologies, including solar, wind, and advanced biofuels. MEMC Corporation; and Solarmer Energy Inc. .;

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2023

Heliostats are mirrors that track the sun in order to reflect highly concentrated sunlight to a receiver, where it can be stored as heat for long-duration energy storage and converted into electricity. Low-cost heliostats offer significant renewable energy potential.

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Setec Powerr

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

As electric vehicles gain traction and renewable energy rises in prominence, an increasing number of drivers are contemplating the shift to solar power for charging their vehicles. The efficiency of solar panels varies by geographic location, meaning the amount of electricity they produce can differ from one region to another.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2012

Subject to regulatory and other approvals, Tesoro will acquire the 266,000 barrel per day refinery near Los Angeles as well as the associated logistics network of pipelines and storage terminals and the ARCO-branded retail marketing network in Southern California, Arizona and Nevada. The closing is expected to happen before mid-2013.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2014

Compared to silicon-based technologies, wide bandgap semiconductors can operate at higher temperatures and have greater durability and reliability at higher voltages and frequencies—ultimately achieving higher performance while using less electricity. reducing the size of a sub-station to a suit case).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2015

At that rate, the cost to operate an electric vehicle is 2 cents per mile. This is still roughly two orders of magnitude less output per acre than Warren Buffett’s Agua Caliente array in Arizona. Agua Caliente PV Plant: Yuma Arizona. Hydropower in Seattle will push you around for the same price. Click to enlarge.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 12, 2009

The Plug-In 2009 Conference and Exposition in Long Beach, California, was marked with an announcement by GridPoint, a provider of smart grid software, that it will provide its latest generation electric vehicle management software to support the deployment of the Nissan LEAF. Smart charging 3.0

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2015

Sandia National Laboratories and Arizona State University (ASU) have teamed up to improve computational models of algae growth in raceway ponds that can predict performance, improve pond design and operation and discover ways to improve algae yield outdoors.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Car Companies Standardize Plug for Electric Vehicles Written by Jerry James Stone Published on April 19th, 2009 34 Comments Posted in Electric Cars (EVs) , Plug-in hybrid EVs Just a few hours after General Motors called for a standardized EV plug , one has been created! More on Electric Cars: It’s On! Like this post?

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The new ARPA-E selections focus on accelerating innovations in clean technology while increasing US competitiveness in rare earth alternatives and breakthroughs in biofuels, thermal storage, grid controls, and solar power electronics. GENI: Green Electricity Network Integration ($36.4 Plants Engineered to Replace Oil (PETRO).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2021

Enhancement of PyARC for Westinghouse Electric Company’s Lead Fast Reactor design and modeling, $450,000. Westinghouse Electric Company (Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania). MASTERRI: Modeling and Simulation for Targeted Electrical Resilience and Reliability Improvements, $125,000. Tucson, Arizona). Caltrode, Inc.

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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. Write For GO About Advertise Contact Login Explore GO Media: News & Opinion Family & Lifestyle Business & Technology Gas 2.0 Like this post? I agree with sebastian.

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Creative Greenius

MAY 14, 2009

Nick Green of the Breeze did a good job reporting. 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. If you’re going to do it, take the homes off the grid. That’s pretty mean to the rest of the grid. Everything else is wireless.”.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Peter Rubin/JPL-Caltech/Arizona State University/NASA. Lindy Elkins-Tanton of Arizona State University and managed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory , the Psyche mission will test astronomers’ theories about planetary-core formation and composition while it explores a world with a landscape unlike any that space probes have visited so far.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2011

The majority of EV service equipment (EVSE) will be networked and managed via information technology (IT) and communications systems that will aggregate power demand and enable a coordinated response to changing grid conditions. Pike Research anticipates that worldwide investment in electric vehicle IT systems will reach $1.5

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Revenge of the Electric Car

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Cities Prepare for Life With the Electric Car. In nearby Silicon Valley, companies are ordering workplace charging stations in the belief that their employees will be first in line when electric cars begin arriving in showrooms. Cities Prepare for Life With the Electric Car. Photo by Jim Wilson, New York Times.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2013

These devices are critical to infrastructure because all electronics—from laptops to electric motors—rely on them to control or converted electrical energy from a high voltage to low a voltage in order to properly operate. Description. Avogy, Inc. Vertical GaN Transistors on Bulk GaN Substrates. iBeam Materials, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2016

Iron nitride also could serve as a more robust, high-performance transformer core material across the nation’s electrical grid. They will require only air cooling, another important space saver. —Stan Atcitty. Team members from Sandia and UC Irvine have filed a patent application for the materials synthesis process.

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Creative Greenius

AUGUST 21, 2017

But it seemed pretty impossible once I became The Godfather of Community Choice Power in Los Angeles County – The Big Green Mafia Don as the wing nut fossil fuel lovers dubbed me. That’s exactly what I did, going to work for the South Bay Environmental Services Center, GRID Alternatives and of course 350.org

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Methane Converter to Electricity and Fuel. In contrast, this reactor produces electricity as a byproduct of fuel production. provide not only liquid fuel but also electricity, increasing the. electricity production (5 quadrillion. electric vehicle motors with alternative higher-performance. The increased energy.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2009

Nissan and the Maricopa Association of Governments (MAG), which represents the Phoenix, Arizona metropolitan region, are forming a partnership to advance zero-emission mobility by promoting the development of an electric vehicle (EV) charging network. Tags: Electric (Battery) Infrastructure Plug-ins. ECOtality Inc.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2009

Nissan; the Pima Association of Governments ( PAG ), which represents the Tucson, Arizona region; and ECOtality are forming a partnership to promote the development of an electric vehicle (EV) charging network in the area. In 2007, ECOtality acquired Electric Transportation Engineering Corporation (eTec). Earlier post.).

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Imagine small, nimble electric vehicles that know where other moving objects are and avoid running into them. Photos: GM, Segway purr about PUMA Martin LaMonica is a senior writer for CNETs Green Tech blog. Reddit Recent posts from Green Tech EPA calls greenhouse gases a public threat U.S. GM is touting other features as well.

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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. Earlier post.) ENERGY STORAGE.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2009

Singapore is well-positioned for the deployment of EVs due to our relative small size, urban environment, robust electrical grid and IT infrastructure. The taskforce will set aside funding for interested parties to develop infrastructure and buy electric vehicle during the test-bedding process.

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