Cars That Think

JULY 24, 2025

The Baltimore-based company has begun to build mobile battery units that can store enough energy to back up an entire hospital or, in this case, energize a harbor cleanup crew. As batteries get better and cheaper, consumer EV charging stations can go off grid. But the power would need to be mobile. But next time could be different.

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Power Powered Lithium Ion Volvo 68

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2010

Baltimore Gas and Electric Company (BGE), a subsidiary of Constellation Energy, has launched a multiyear plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) demonstration project using GridPoint’s smart charging software ( earlier post ). BGE will also evaluate the impact a PHEV fleet has on the company’s carbon footprint.

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Baltimore Grid Gas-Electric Plug-in 199

Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2014

The company’s processing center in Swartz Creek and engine plant in Flint will feature 150 kW ground-mount solar arrays expected to generate a combined 400,000 kWh of renewable energy per year to the facilities’ grids. The new installations bring GM closer to reaching its goal to increase renewable energy use globally to 125 MW by 2020.

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Michigan Solar GM Baltimore 265

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2011

Marine classification society ABS has issued its first Approval in Principle (AIP) for a new concept renewable energy design in which a moored spar uses ammonia in a closed-cycle process to produce electrical power for a commercial utility grid. OTEC power cycle. Click to enlarge.

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Renewable Energy Mariner Baltimore 296

Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2015

The greening of the General Motors Baltimore Operations complex included the addition of 580 kilowatts of solar to the roof of its e-Motor building. Baltimore joins 70 achievers in GM, which is the global leader of the challenge. Together with a 1.23-megawatt Together with a 1.23-megawatt

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Baltimore Renewable Motors Motoring 150

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Laredo Bus Facility Solar Canopies: Provide shade structures with integrated, grid tied photovoltaic cells to be erected on the bus storage lot at the Laredo Bus Maintenance Facility. The largest PV installation in Georgia. An additional manual charging station would be installed at Operations Base.

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Emissions Gas Energy Maintenance 256

Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2018

Electric distribution spending is affected by the number of customers served, the amount of electricity sold, the number of miles of electric distribution wire installed (line miles), and the maximum amount of load on the lines at one time (peak load).

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