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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Wallbox

JANUARY 4, 2021

This article is your lighthouse: it will give you some background on what bidirectional EV charging means and how it works. 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. V2G: Vehicle to Grid.

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Charged EVs

MAY 2, 2024

An off-grid energy system basically consists of just four key components: 1) a battery to store energy; 2) one or more renewable energy sources (e.g. solar panels, wind turbines, hydroelectric turbines); 3) an appropriate DC-input charger for said source; and 4) a DC-to-AC inverter to power the house, EV charger, well pump, etc.

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Charged EVs

AUGUST 21, 2024

There are still some technical details that need to be figured out, like integrating grid codes, but the CharIN community is interested and invested in solving some of those challenges. Erika Myers: CharIN absolutely thinks there’s some opportunity for vehicle-to-grid integration. ” Out with CCS, in with NACS?

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Baua Electric

AUGUST 21, 2024

In the previous article on off-grid EV charging , the focus was on the energy storage battery and the DC-AC inverter that supplies the EV charger (and all of the other AC loads). Secondly, most residential-scale wind generators (i.e. This time the focus will be on the renewable energy sources themselves.

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Baua Electric

AUGUST 21, 2024

There are still some technical details that need to be figured out, like integrating grid codes, but the CharIN community is interested and invested in solving some of those challenges. Erika Myers: CharIN absolutely thinks there’s some opportunity for vehicle-to-grid integration.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 3, 2014

An article in the latest issue of IEA Energy: The Journal of the International Energy Agency reports that Estonia, which has the most developed oil shale industry in the world, is collaborating in pursuing wider use of oil shale in a cleaner, more sustainable manner. Different that shale oil—i.e.,

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Get Electric Vehicle

JUNE 7, 2023

An electric vehicle is a type of vehicle that uses one or more electric motors for propulsion instead of an internal combustion engine that runs on fossil fuels like gasoline or diesel. BEVs do not have an internal combustion engine and produce zero tailpipe emissions. . #2 What are electric vehicles and what are their classifications?

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Baua Electric

MAY 2, 2024

An off-grid energy system basically consists of just four key components: 1) a battery to store energy; 2) one or more renewable energy sources (e.g. solar panels, wind turbines, hydroelectric turbines); 3) an appropriate DC-input charger for said source; and 4) a DC-to-AC inverter to power the house, EV charger, well pump, etc.

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Charged EVs

MAY 31, 2022

Either type of dyno can use a 3-phase motor and an inverter operating in regeneration mode as the load, and by doing so can either recycle most of the traction motor’s output back into the battery pack, or even to the mains (though that requires another inverter operating at a fixed frequency and synchronized to the mains, or grid-tied ).

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 4, 2023

This sponsored article is brought to you by NYU Tandon School of Engineering. These and other international regulations on greenhouse emissions could threaten up to 12 percent of all U.S. exports (US $220 billion). The task is clearly enormous, not just for the chemical manufacturing industry itself but for the larger economy.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 25, 2023

This sponsored article is brought to you by COMSOL. Moving Wind Power Offshore The offshore wind (OFW) industry is one of the most rapidly advancing sources of power around the world. It makes sense: Wind is stronger and more consistent over the open ocean than it is on land. Laws, Whitehouse received five minutes signal.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

It offers the solution to several significant transitions we need: moving society from burning fossil fuels to substituting renewable resource fuels such as solar, wind and biofuels; and from using fossil materials as fuel to using them for other recyclable uses. Distributed Solar and Wind with the PHEV. Conclusions. slow charge.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 31, 2023

So when he called me on a Friday afternoon in the summer of 2021 to propose an article delving into the complexities of the global transition to electric vehicles, I knew that he’d do the research at a deeper level than any tech journalist, and that he’d explore angles that wouldn’t even occur to them. Take power-grid transformers.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

APRIL 6, 2010

From the article: ‘The New York study anticipates that by 2015, electric vehicle prices should decline because of reduced battery costs, that there will be a sufficient supply of electric vehicles to purchase, and that consumers will take advantage of the existing federal tax credit of $7,500 for new electric cars. On the Grid.

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Get Electric Vehicle

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

In this article let us look at some of the trends that are being caught in the EV industry now and for the years to come. The charge point operator (CPO) can store grid energy when it is affordable or locally produced solar energy and utilise it as backup power for rapid DC charging or during peak hours when electricity is costly.  

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 7, 2023

Public Utility Commissions (PUCs)] and many state and federal agencies,” states a report by the non-profit group Americans for a Clean Energy Grid. Affordability is expected to be just one highly contentious issue: Who, exactly, is going to pay for grid upgrades?

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2009

As another panelist pointed out, “ The New York Times is well-equipped to write the article about how Stimulus Funds have been wasted ”. From 2005 until 2007 JP Morgan estimated that close to 60% of the MWs of wind capacity installed in the US were from projects that used tax equity financing. Earlier post.).

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Perhaps you should have checked that before posting. as stated. I suspect that the correct plug will be of a twist-lock design as is typical of many higher voltage and amperage plugs used in commercial service and for industrial equipment. 5 Clayton B. About Gas 2.0 on It’s On! is a Green Options Media Production.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 7, 2022

As Gill Pratt wrote in a recent article he authored on Medium, “ carbon is our enemy.” There has been some criticism of Toyota’s approach here—specifically, that Toyota should focus more on BEVs rather than continuing to produce a substantial amount of cars that use internal combustion in some form. How would you respond to that?

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

This article was first published as “The longest survivor loses its grip.” International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers , the union representing many Zenith employees, has also expressed interest in bidding, but seems not yet to have done so. “If It appeared in the August 1988 issue of IEEE Spectrum.

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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. But Bradley thought the article was fine in telling the basic details of his story. If you’re going to do it, take the homes off the grid.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Electric cars and a smart electric grid have a bright future, according to panelists at a roundtable discussion on the subject that I attended last Friday in Boston. “I Vehicle-to-grid is, I believe, the salvation of the automotive industry in the United States,” declared Marc Spitzer, an agency commissioner who was also on the panel.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

This sponsored article is brought to you by Technology Innovation Institute. Similar tactics that leveraged physical and mobile autonomous things could extend the blast radius beyond IT infrastructure to destroy physical infrastructure like factories, pipelines, electric grids, or worse. The Zero Trust Security Paradigm. IEEE, 2017.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Solar, Wind and Biofuels Grew 53 Percent in 2008 Green Education = Environmental Religion? Vehicle to Grid (V2G) technology is a bi-directional electric grid interface that allows a plug-in to take energy from the grid or put it back on the grid. The T-Word Barking up the Wrong Tree: Forests vs the CDM in t.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Remember the Balqon container truck I wrote about a while back, the Port of Long Beach truck that can haul 60,000 lbs and that’s starting to replace diesel spewing internal combustion trucks? Plugging into the SoCal grid, in this case, SoCal Edison, this PHEV tug is significantly cleaner than its diesel burning brethren.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

A January 2007 Pacific National Laboratory study shows that if we woke up tomorrow and all our vehicles could plug in, todays grid could support more than three-quarters of them charging at night without building a single power plant. But its monumentally less pollution , even on the national (half-coal) grid.

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Drive Electric

AUGUST 9, 2022

To answer these questions, we collaborated with Envirostrat to investigate some of the most common questions and concerns about the environmental impact that increased EV uptake will have on NZ, and in particular, how they really compare to ICEVs (internal combustion engine vehicles). The New Zealand Power Grid. THE BOTTOM LINE.

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Drive Electric

AUGUST 9, 2022

To answer these questions, we collaborated with Envirostrat to investigate some of the most common questions and concerns about the environmental impact that increased EV uptake will have on NZ, and in particular, how they really compare to ICEVs (internal combustion engine vehicles). The New Zealand Power Grid. THE BOTTOM LINE.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

And, if you consider lifetime costs of owning an EV versus owning a traditional internal combustion car, even if the initial purchase price of the EV is much more than your combustion car and you have to replace a battery for $4,000 after 7-10 years, the EV still costs less to operate. link] — Adam Carter 11.

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