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Audi opens power-to-gas facility in Werlte/Emsland; e-gas from water, green electricity and CO2

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In return, this plant supplies the highly concentrated CO 2 required as a basic building block for the e-gas. This enables them to take part in an accounting process that ensures that the amount of gas that they put in their vehicle at the natural gas filling station is supplied to the grid by the Audi e-gas plant.

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LichtBlick begins installing home combined heat and power plants powered by VW 2.0L EcoBlue gas engine

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With EcoBlue technology from Volkswagen, energy consumption is reduced by up to 40% compared with conventional heat and power supply, according to VW. The electric power generated will supplement fluctuating power from wind farms and solar facilities. Earlier post.) We intend to change the German energy landscape fundamentally.

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Audi TechDay e-mobility, Part 2: systems and components

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It also integrates the DC converter that supplies the 12 V electrical system from the high-voltage system. The German Automobile Industry Association is working together with automotive manufacturers on uniform cell standards, Audi said. Audi distinguishes between two basic types of lithium-ion battery. Energy recuperation.

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The Magnet That Made the Modern World

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The global market for these magnets is expected to reach $20 billion a year within a couple of years, as the automobile industry shifts towards electric vehicles and as utilities turn increasingly to wind turbines to meet growing demand. Today, some 95 percent of permanent magnets are neodymium-iron-boron. It was in 1982.

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GM Says Chevrolet Volt Won't 'Pay the Rent' | Autopia from Wired.com

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Then consider that in order to actually go any farther than the neighbood store, one still had to have ANOTHER car. If our country is going to spend money like a drunk sailor we should have spent it on building renewable energy power plants like Wind and Geothermal. run the hardware store and buy a new one. Never again.

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