Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2013

developer of a low-cost hybrid electric powertrain designed specifically for class 1 to 4 commercial fleet use ( earlier post ), unveiled its third-generation XL3 product release for model year 2014 vehicles. The system is available in the US and Canada. Click to enlarge. XL Hybrids, Inc., Conversions Fleets Hybrids'

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The 5 E-Tech will become available in three different electric motor configurations, offering 70 kW, 90 kW, or 110 kW of power, and its max battery size of 52 kWh will deliver a WLTP range of up to 400 km (249 miles). Plus, it’s free to use and you won’t get sales calls until you select an installer and share your phone number with them.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2015

Eos Energy Storage announced the commercial availability of its MW-scale Aurora system for deliveries starting in 2016. The Aurora product employs Eos’s patented Znyth battery technology that uses a safe aqueous electrolyte and a novel zinc-hybrid cathode to enable extremely low-cost electricity storage and long life.

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Driivz

MARCH 26, 2023

Workplace EV charging benefits employers For employers, making EV charging available to employees offers benefits beyond contributing to advancing EV adoption. Free or low-cost workplace EV charging is itself an attractive benefit for existing and prospective employees. These include: Establishing a “green” brand.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

is introducing a 56-volt ultracapacitor module designed specifically to address the short-term ride-through and bridge power requirements of uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems for mission-critical installations such as data centers, hospitals, factories and telecommunication facilities. Maxwell Technologies, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2023

Researchers from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and their Canadian partners have designed a low-cost photoreactor design for solar-driven synthesis. The photoreactors have a low level of complexity, are readily manufacturable via mass fabrication techniques in polymers, and are easy to adapt to diverse photocatalysts.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency—Energy (ARPA-E) will make $30 million available for a new research competition in the coming months focused on natural gas vehicles ( DE-FOA-0000672 ). DOE will also make $14 million available ( DE-FOA-0000615 ) to support research and development into biofuels from algae.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2014

The specific objective of the FOA is to detect and measure methane leaks as small as 1 ton per year from a site 10 m x 10 m in area with a certainty that would allow 90% reduction in methane loss for an annual site cost of $3,000.

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EV Connect

AUGUST 28, 2023

To put that in context, we need to explore the cost of charging an electric car at a public charging station, and see how businesses can reduce EV charging station costs. The cost of Level 2 charging varies depending on electricity rates, time of day, and location.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2014

Their low cost and ability to start the engine at cold temperatures sets them apart in conventional and basic micro-hybrid vehicles, and as auxiliary batteries in all other automotive applications, according to the report. In these applications, they are currently the only technology available for the mass-market.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2015

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced ( DOE-FOA-0001224 ) up to $35 million in available funding to advance fuel cell and hydrogen technologies, and to enable early adoption of fuel cell applications, such as light duty fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs). Low PGM Cathode Catalysts. Earlier post.). Loss in performance at 1.5

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2015

The cost of generating power from renewable energy sources has reached parity or dropped below the cost of fossil fuels for many technologies in many parts of the world, according to a new report released by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). Real weighted average cost of capital is 7.5% Source: IRENA.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2013

The FOA includes the following topics: Topic Area 1: Reducing the cost of compressed hydrogen storage systems. Approximately 50% of the cost of carbon fiber production is due to the precursor fiber with the other 50% due to the conversion processing. develop novel, advanced hydrogen storage technologies. Currently, high-pressure (i.e.,

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

The Flybus system, which the developers suggest should cost significantly less than current electric hybrid systems, uses a Ricardo Kinergy flywheel ( earlier post ) as the energy storage medium and a Torotrak continuously variable transmission (CVT) as the means of transferring energy between the wheels and the flywheel.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) will award up to $30 million to fund a new program focused on the development of transformational electrochemical technologies to enable low-cost distributed power generation. DE-FOA-0001026 ). Source: ARPA-E. Click to enlarge. Source: ARPA-E.

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EV Connect

MAY 10, 2021

As an approved network provider in the program, EV Connect helped install more than 300 charging ports in cities such as Fontana, CA, resorts such as the Marriott Palm Desert Springs Villa and corporate headquarters such as Panda Restaurant Group. What Rebates Are Available With the SCE Charge Ready Program?

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2012

The plasma reformer, installed into the engine compartment, convert fuel into hydrogen. The liquid desiccant design allows for the utilization of solar or waste heat sources, paving the way for net-zero energy retrofits to existing buildings with costs comparable to conventional HVAC.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2010

These technologies have the potential to reduce carbon emissions in real-world applications at low cost. The project will fund a mobile clean up facility’(to upgrade raw biogas into biomethane of a quality that can be used as a transport fuel or injected into the gas grid) and fund the additional costs of vehicles using biogas.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

There are tailored solutions that can move milliwatts at very low cost—compact and inexpensive to implement— all the way to throwing kilowatts into EVs. As the cost [of batteries] comes down, and the size grows, right in parallel, we are going to higher and higher power transfer. In addition to the 3.3 kW solution.

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Plugs and Cars

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

The charge stations and installations were paid for with federal stimulus and California Energy Commission grants won by Coulomb. And if you're located in California, the California Energy Commission portion of the grant to Coulomb will pay for installation. As Richard Lowenthal said to me at the event: "Great deal!" But for whom?

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Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2011

The site also includes a map of public charging stations in the city, a cost calculator link to help potential owners understand the total cost of an electric vehicle versus a conventional vehicle—including fuel costs—and describes how electric cars work in everyday use.

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Plugs and Cars

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

And he points out one place where public charging solutions will be easier and cheaper to install than I first thought. Solar Dave writes: "My first thought was, “hey that is not fair” and that is why is (sic) costs so much to park at DIA." He raises a question that should be settled quickly. This is not new, actually.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2019

The authors assert that “zero emissions” BEVs will not replace IC engines in commercial transport to any significant degree because of the weight, size and cost of the batteries required. Transportation contributes about 10%. Reitz et al. Gas exchange. Other areas of importance include: Engine after-treatment.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2009

Linc Energy will purchase the first Alpha Fuel Cell System for £200,000, payable in instalments based on delivery milestones, with delivery to Linc Energy’s demonstration facility in Chinchilla, Australia anticipated by late March 2010 but no later than five months from the date of the agreement. Once the 3.5

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

A full list by state of the all the projects is available here. This three-year project incorporates engineering of fleet control, manufacturing and installation of seven 500-kW/6-hour TransFlow 2000 energy storage systems in California, Massachusetts, and New York to lower peak energy demand and reduce the costs of power interruptions.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2015

Areas of emphasis could include, but are not limited to, development of microbial strains or co-cultures with improved hydrogen yields; reactor designs to improve hydrogen production yields or reduce costs (e.g., Fuel Cell Technologies R&D: Low Platinum Group Metal Catalysts and Supports. 2 to 5 awards between $1M and $3M.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2016

Promote electric vehicle adoption by increasing access to charging infrastructure and supporting the development of plug-in electric vehicles that are as accessible, available, and convenient as gasoline-powered vehicles. Technology innovation. The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) will host an EV hackathon this fall.

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Charged EVs

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

We are able to own those types of assets, and we are structured in a way that can bring a low cost of capital to finance those assets. The total cost of operation for those vehicles is already positive in terms of switching to electrified vehicles. Neha Palmer: We are here to help fleets in general. Neha Palmer: Absolutely.

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Cars That Think

JULY 16, 2022

resolution and can be installed on satellites, but it consumes a lot of power —a standard automotive unit with a range of several hundred meters can burn 25 watts. That severely limits the options available.”. Navy is developing the Low-Cost Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Swarming Technology , for conducting surveillance missions.

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Electric Vehicles India

JANUARY 2, 2023

Additionally, the cost of EVs has been steadily decreasing, making them more affordable for the average consumer. However, it is difficult to predict exactly how quickly solid-state batteries will be adopted, as it will depend on a variety of factors, such as cost, performance, and the availability of materials.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

This funding is intended to help demonstrate and commercialize innovative technologies to lower the high initial costs of geothermal development and help make the operational deployment of low temperature geothermal units more economical. Highly Pressurized or Geopressured Fluid.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

(Boston, Massachusetts) will develop a cost-effective, high efficiency, power take-off system for a wave energy converter, a mechanism to convert water’s mechanical energy into usable electricity. The project will assess the cost of manufacturing these systems at various scales. DOE Funding: $160,000. Total Project Value: $200,000.

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EV Info

MARCH 26, 2021

According to the Department for Business, the average cost for standard electricity in the UK in 2020 was 17.2p/kWh. That rate would give the LEAF a cost of 17.2 * 24 to drive 100 miles. In March 2020 we installed 9 solar panels an inverter and 2 battery packs. Sources: Solar installation: Contract Solar. Power is watts.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2013

However, the cost of permanent magnet materials is an issue, as is the potential for thermal damage to the magnets. Switched reluctance motors are potentially the lowest-cost candidates (no magnets), and are simple and robust. The rotor can be designed in many different structures to provide both magnet and reluctance torques.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2016

SBV is a collaborative, national effort that provides $20 million for US companies to help improve industry awareness of national laboratory capabilities and provide small and mid-size businesses access to the resources available within the national laboratory system. Vouchers range from $50,000-300,000. Big Delta Systems, working with ANL.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2021

The European Commission’s Joint Research Center (JRC) published a policy brief showing that delivery of large amounts of renewable hydrogen over long distances could be cost-effective. This finding is important because access to sufficient amounts of renewable hydrogen at low cost is essential for achieving a climate neutral Europe by 2050.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2013

Schematic comparing the cost and dispatchability of PV to CSP with thermal storage. The “PV+Storage” box includes the high cost of electrical storage for PV. The term “dispatchable” indicates availability as needed. The FOCUS Program target zone for electricity generation is indicated. Source: ARPA-E. Click to enlarge.

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