Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

The solar system’s biggest planet has a big problem You are orbiting Jupiter, 779 million km from the sun, where physics and logic say it ought to be very, very cold. If solar heating were the only factor at play, the planet's upper atmosphere would average 70 degrees below zero Celsius. Where does this lead? Keck Observatory; A.

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Creative Greenius

MAY 14, 2009

After a decade in the solar power installation business, Bradley Bartz is tired of being Mr. Nice Guy. He’s filed suit against Torrance, the proud home of Exxon/Mobil’s refinery, for stopping him from installing solar panels in the Hillside Overlay district. “ Idiots ! “ Idiots !&#

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EV Adoption

MAY 25, 2021

Last year I wrote an article — Electric Vehicles Have Lower Well-to-Wheel Emissions in All 50 States and DC Than Gas-Powered Vehicles — looking at “well to wheel” from the US Department of Energy and my own analysis of EV sales and source of electricity by state. Said another way, residents of California purchased 390.9

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Teslarati

MARCH 21, 2023

Now, the company has shared yet another success story of placing a Tesla Megapack, this time in Oxnard, California. In Oxnard, California, the community came together to advocate against the installation of a new fossil fuel-powered peaker plant. What do you think of the article? Do you have any comments, questions, or concerns?

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Battery energy storage is following similar growth in large renewable energy projects, particularly solar and wind. The latest Tesla facility built in California is solely dedicated to Megapack production. What do you think of the article? And in turn, the EIA expects the “growth in battery storage [to] change the U.S.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 10, 2024

The large amount of existing and planned solar and wind capacity in California and Texas present a growing need for battery storage, with the two states currently holding 7.3 GW and 3.2 GW of installed battery storage capacity, respectively.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 24, 2023

Along with the company’s recently started solar panel production , it finally looks like the car is coming together. Aptera currently has just over 40,000 reservations, but through a production ramp, the company hopes to meet demand via its Carlsbad, California, over the coming years. What do you think of the article?

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EV Adoption

DECEMBER 9, 2023

For Hawaii, the islands tend to be rather small from a driving distance perspective — so most BEV owners likely have Level 2 chargers at home (perhaps also with solar) and can easily replenish their EV’s battery without the need for DCFCs. California, of course, has by far the most EVs on the road and the highest number of DC fast chargers.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

It occurred in the wake of the California electricity crisis of 2000 and 2001, when mismanaged deregulation, market manipulation, and environmental catastrophe combined to unhinge the power grid. ACP looked at other ways of marketing its technology and saw an opportunity in the California electricity crisis then unfolding.

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EV Match

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Southern California-based Mullen Automotive introduced their first vehicle at this year’s show. In addition to being fueled electrically, these dynamic vehicles are also solar-powered and boast distance ranges of up to 450 miles. Photo courtesty of dot.LA. We are very excited to see what this company does next. Yes, THAT Subaru.

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Baua Electric

MAY 29, 2024

Parking an electrolyzer near a wind farm, solar array or hydroelectric dam would be ideal because you can use renewable energy to deliver clean electricity directly to the hydrogen-production facility. each showed off hydrogen-power solutions at the Advanced Clean Transportation Expo in California last week. Hyundai Motor Co.

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Setec Powerr

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

This article can answer all your doubts. TOU rate structures are more common for commercial customers, but are now rolling out to residential customers in states like California. For companies that invest in EV charging, deploying battery storage can reduce power demand charges. So do you know what a demand charge is?

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Traditional orreries were mechanical models of the solar system. These often beautiful and intricate instruments were devised by skilled clockmakers to illustrate how the planets and their moons moved through the solar system. An abridged version of this article appears in the October 2023 print issue as “No Ordinary Orrery.”

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Baua Electric

MAY 7, 2024

Sunnyvale, California-based Chemix says its algorithms can help customers create custom batteries with specific properties, such as an ability to withstand high temperatures or exclude certain materials. . Now, there are financial and societal incentives to apply the same techniques to the battery and EV industry, he said.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 29, 2021

About 160 kilometers northwest of Beijing, the city of Zhangjiakou with its rugged terrain boasts some of the richest wind and solar resources in China. Renewables account for nearly half of the city’s electricity output with less than a third of its full solar and wind potential of 70 gigawatts installed so far.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 24, 2024

Sunnyvale, California-based Chemix says its algorithms can help customers create custom batteries with specific properties, such as an ability to withstand high temperatures or exclude certain materials. . Now, there are financial and societal incentives to apply the same techniques to the battery and EV industry, he said.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The Midwest offers copious amounts of wind power and some of the nation’s cheapest electricity, while areas like the South West and California offer a fantastic locations for solar. What do you think of the article? Northvolt is far from the only battery manufacturer looking to come to the U.S.;

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 1, 2022

As the number of electric vehicles on the world’s roads explodes, electric utilities are grappling with increasing demand while simultaneously having to stabilize their grids where more intermittent renewable-energy sources like wind and solar are coming online.

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Electric Auto Association

APRIL 19, 2021

Drive Electric Earth Day parade in Riverside, California. In Ventura, California, an EV movie night was headlined by ‘Who Killed the Electric Car,’ and participants in The Evie McWheely Contest were sent materials to draw the EV of their imaginations. Drive Electric Earth Day sets new records in attendance. DEED event on St.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 7, 2021

I will be updating this article in real-time, so please keep refreshing the page every minute or two to view the latest updates on this story. 15:38 PT – Elon highlights the importance of solar and batteries. Unfortunately, his friend had neither solar nor Powerwall, so they essentially froze themselves out in the dark.

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Creative Greenius

DECEMBER 2, 2008

So, it’s kind of hard to fulfill my global destiny as the pied piper of solar energy, the impassioned Solangelist preaching from my SunPowered pulpit at the big renewable revival meeting when my rooftop is still covering with nothing but asphalt shingles and raccoon scat. You can sense the source of my solar sadness, no?

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 28, 2023

For instance, Alexandre Milovanoff at the University of Toronto and his colleagues’ research (which is described in depth in a recent Spectrum article ) demonstrates the U.S. California admits getting to a zero-carbon transportation system by 2045 means car owners must travel 25 percent below 1990 levels by 2030 and even more by 2045.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2013

According to the findings by the team from the University of California, Santa Barbara and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology , even the most land-use efficient biomass-based pathway (i.e.,

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Revenge of the Electric Car

MARCH 20, 2009

During a visit to Southern California Edison’s Pomona EV test facility, he launched a $2.4 Obama At A Town Hall Meeting in Los Angeles, California - March 19, 2009. Here’s a quote from the LA Times article By Maeve Reston: Obama unveils $2.4-billion billion competitive grant program for US battery makers. The new $2.4-billion

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Green Car Congress

MAY 22, 2014

—Peidong Yang, a professor of chemistry at the University of California at Berkeley, who was not involved in the work. The MIT work was partially funded by the US Department of Energy, in part through the Solid-State Solar-Thermal Energy Conversion Center, and the US Air Force. Batteries Waste Heat Recovery'

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

He was a former professor and dean at several schools including Temple University , California State University, Northridge , and Ohio University. He also was a consultant to companies and government agencies, and he was involved in research and development projects in solar energy and software engineering.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

When Theodore Maiman demonstrated a laser at Hughes Research Laboratories, in California, in 1960, Porter immediately realized it was the light source he’d been waiting for. As he told an interviewer in 1975, “Our future, both from a food and an energy point of view, may well have to depend largely on photochemistry applied to solar energy.

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Cars That Think

JULY 8, 2022

As previous articles in this series have noted, JWST is parked at Lagrange point L2. The DSN consists of three antenna complexes : Canberra, Australia; Madrid, Spain; and Barstow, California. It’s a point of gravitational equilibrium located about 1.5 million kilometers beyond Earth on a straight line between the planet and the sun.

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Creative Greenius

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Bill McKibben’s “Do The Math” article in 2012′s Rolling Stone magazine taught us that we cannot burn any more than 565 gigatons of carbon if we want to stay at 2° or lower. You know how the Greenius loves a challenge and how little I fear anything… except maybe The Math itself.

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Plugs and Cars

DECEMBER 11, 2007

An Agence France Presse report has produced a small flurry of articles this past week, here and here , for example, that has a German company developing Lithium batteries that would be suitable for electric cars. German Greens have bought into hydrogen hype as much as California regulators.

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Teslarati

APRIL 26, 2021

I will be updating this article in real-time, so please keep refreshing the page to view the latest updates on this story. We’ll see a lot more of what we saw in Texas and California,” Musk said. This time it’s about the Solar Roof, its price increase, and its ramp. Credit: Tesla. 15:05 PT – Next question is up.

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Creative Greenius

JUNE 11, 2009

That’s certainly the case here in Torrance, California where I live and work. We’ve now got some Mo going with: California solar loan financing that will eliminate the big up front cost of solar. SOLAR FINANCING – WHO GETS IT AND WHO DOESN’T. Most have no idea.

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Get Electric Vehicle

DECEMBER 30, 2023

For instance, AI can schedule charging when there is a surplus of solar or wind energy available, leading to a more sustainable energy consumption pattern. This not only helps users save on costs by avoiding peak energy periods but also aids in balancing the grid’s load and integrating more renewable energy sources.

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Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

JANUARY 23, 2009

Cheers PHEV3A'rs, EVADC'rs, and EVnthusiasts, One & All - Go to www.sierramountaintimes.com on the right hand side, there's the article "Groveland Goes Green" listed. These include the utilization of solar, wind and hydro-electric power. See copied & pasted notice below. EVer, "Spirit" & EVJerr Groveland Goes Green!

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Creative Greenius

MARCH 4, 2010

It lifts the current “cap&# on rooftop solar from the crappy 2.5% The cap has to do with what percent of rooftop solar customers get to participate in the “net metering&# program that actually gives them credit for the solar power they produce and feed back into the grid. to a BFD level of 5%. No you do not.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 19, 2023

Wind and solar parks produce a large portion of their energy. Longer term, California, the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, Japan, and Western Australia are all looking to the sea to help meet their demands for hydrogen. Imagine this hopeful, and not impossible, energy scenario for the year 2040.

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Charged EVs

AUGUST 2, 2023

The site was built with maximum flexibility so that we could change things, swap out chargers, move things around and learn from the process of installing battery electric storage or putting solar on the site or what a megawatt charging unit would do under full power in partnership with the utility. What happens when we plug in 1.2-megawatt

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