Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2019

Researchers from Northwestern University and Princeton University have explored the impact on US air quality from an aggressive conversion of internal combustion vehicles to battery-powered electric vehicles (EVs). Winter O 3 increases due to reduced loss via traffic NO x. Winter while PM 2.5 at high EV adoption fractions.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2014

VTO is seeking projects that address the major challenges to developing and commercializing batteries for plug?in energy batteries. ion batteries is approximately four times too high on a kWh basis; current batteries are two to three times too heavy and large, and high? in electric vehicles (PEVs). energy lithium?ion

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 14, 2023

Experts retrofitted the baby blue 1968 model with an electric motor, which the company used to debut its conversion program. Jaguar hopes more people will convert their classic cars into electric vehicles to keep them on the road. Those who convert their internal combustion engines won’t miss a beat, either.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Now, researchers from the US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), collaborating with UCLA and UC Berkeley researchers, suggest that the US can retrofit diesel-electric trains with batteries in a way that is cost-competitive with diesel. a) Depiction of the TCO for battery-electric propulsion. (b)

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Electric Auto Association

APRIL 6, 2022

Regardless of how or where you charge, not all the electrical energy pulled from the grid—those watts—will make it into the “fuel tank” (battery). EV batteries store and produce DC electricity, not AC electricity. This is important because EV batteries are charged with DC power. Why does battery temperature matter?

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2014

The fuel cell and 28 kWh lithium-ion battery pack power the vehicle’s 200 kW powertrain, air conditioning, and auxiliary systems. Onboard batteries are recharged by regenerative braking as well as grid charging. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 26, 2015

This technology recharges the battery when it drops below a certain level and permits the vehicle to be refueled with 1.8 Symbio FCell provides mobility solutions based on the conversion of hydrogen to using PEM Fuel Cell systems, with power rating from 5 kW to 300 kW.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Because the use of natural gas for transportation requires compressing, liquefying, or conversion, it is important to determine the best use of natural gas as a transportation fuel. The WTW analysis focused solely on the fuel-motive power cycle, disregarding the vehicle cycle—i.e., —Curran et al. Curran, Robert M.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2017

Volkswagen is also highlighting its spectrum of efficiency and electrification solutions all the way to further optimized battery-powered propulsion as in the new e-Golf and the coming new MEB-based electric vehicles exemplified by its series of I.D. High-voltage battery system of the new Volkswagen e-Golf. liters/100 km.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2014

Using wide bandgap (WBG) materials such as silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN)s for power electronics can improve efficiency and thereby reduce the high cost of battery packs, according to a new report from Lux Research. Among their findings: Power saving threshold lower for EVs.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 19, 2023

Then, as now, wind farms are operating off the world’s coasts—but not all of these offshore sites are connected to the mainland via underwater power cables. They are highly automated production islands that directly convert wind energy to hydrogen, with a few of them processing the gas into fuels and other goods.

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Green Authority

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Electric bicycles are getting more popular, and if there’s something in you that wants to turn your conventional bike into an ebike, don’t worry because all it takes is to find the best electric bicycle conversion kit. These conversion kits work just like how you turn traditional skateboards into electric skateboards using conversion kits.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2021

Toyota Australia has partnered with BHP to trial a battery electric (BEV) LandCruiser 70 Series at a WA mine site. The small-scale trial involves a LandCruiser 70 Series single-cab ute that has been converted to a battery-electric vehicle by Toyota Australia’s Product Planning and Development division in Port Melbourne.

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Electric Auto Association

JANUARY 5, 2023

When Straubel—also known for his 1984 Porsche 944 EV conversion—left Tesla, he founded Redwood Materials , a leading lithium battery recycling company in Carson City, Nevada. The car was powered by thousands of small lithium batteries,” Pohorsky explained. That was quite a conversion.” It’s very cool."

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2009

Dominion Virginia Power has added two plug-in electric hybrid cars and two hybrid-powered bucket trucks to its fleet as part of its efforts to determine the impact of plug-in vehicles on electricity demand and to find ways to conserve energy and reduce vehicle emissions.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Mercedes-Benz is convinced of the advantages of battery-electric vans and is preparing to go fully electric before the end of the decade wherever market conditions allow. Customers, fleet operators and vehicle body builders can already choose from four battery-electric models: the eVito panel van, the eSprinter, the eVito Tourer and the EQV.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2017

CIRCUITS project teams will accelerate the development and deployment of a new class of efficient, lightweight, and reliable power converters, based on wide-bandgap (WBG) semiconductors. data center energy consumption and operating cost while creating a high-volume commercial market for SiC-based power converters.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2013

VTO focuses on a mix of near- and long-term vehicle technologies including advanced batteries, power electronics and electric motors, lightweight and propulsion materials, advanced combustion engines, advanced fuels and lubricants, and other enabling technologies. kW, specific power of 14.1 kW/kg, power density of 13.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2019

BorgWarner introduced its Onboard Battery Charger (OBC), adding to the company’s impressive portfolio of technologies for plug-in hybrid and pure-electric vehicles. This technology uses silicon carbide technology and is best-in-class for power density, power conversion efficiency and safety compliance, the company says.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2016

It has been estimated that as much as 80% of electricity could pass through power electronics between generation and consumption by 2030; 30% of electrical energy passed through power electronics converters in 2005. Achieving high power conversion efficiency in these systems requires low-loss power semiconductor switches.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2017

Half-bridge circuits are the centerpiece of many voltage converters. In power electronics components, this is the standard volt class for grid-connected electrical devices, ranging from tablets and washing machines to e-bikes and electric cars. A switching frequency of up to 3 MHz allows us to achieve a much greater power density.

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My Electric Car

AUGUST 21, 2020

Recent developments in lithium ion batteries, and the consequential range improvements of EVs has significantly dampened enthusiasm for hydrogen fuel cells. The Honda FCX Clarity FCEV and the Toyota Mirai FCEV, both use an electric drive motor and a battery pack.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

The project includes quick-charging stations at this terminal layover in route to recharge bus batteries. Grid sourced electrical energy used to recharge the bus batteries will be augmented with solar energy collected with panels procured and installed under this project. City of Santa Clarita, California: $4,620,000.

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Plug In Partners

AUGUST 4, 2006

New York to Convert 600 Hybrids to PHEVs New York Governor George E. Bruno today announced a new $10 million State program to convert vehicles in the State fleet to plug-in hybrids (PHEVs) and plans for the construction of a state-of-the-art alternative fuel research laboratory at the Saratoga Technology + Energy Park (STEP).

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Plugs and Cars

OCTOBER 27, 2007

Paradox 1 - Soot: There's an apparent emissions paradox with plug-in hybrids (PHEV): Driving longer distances on battery power means more cold starts as the internal combustion engine (ICE) stops and starts up again after the batteries deplete. Third-party and DIY converters can't muck with every system on a car.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2020

The inverter—which converts DC power from the traction battery to AC power that drives the motor—is a key part of the electric drive chain. This conversion comes from a complex sequence of switching events which reconstruct an AC signal from the DC output of the battery.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Its fuel stores about 43 megajoules of energy per kilogram, and a current-model engine can convert that stored energy into thrust with an efficiency of around 40 percent. Advanced semiconductors, motors, and batteries are enabling energy conversion efficiencies above 90 percent and continuously improving the ratio of power to weight.

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The Truth About Cars

JANUARY 5, 2024

The newly established company planned to introduce a whole line of PHEV vehicles, and their industry connection for completed passenger vehicles to convert (Lutz) was already in place. & The V6 or V8 engine operated only as a generator to supply electricity to the electric drive unit once batteries were empty. liter V8.

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

One North East has invested £314,000 to sponsor the ECO2Trans project, which is converting two electric Gulliver U500EUK buses into hydrogen vehicles using a fuel cell, battery and capacitor combination. The ECO2Trans project is helping AMAP to trial new energy storage devices, novel motor technology and develop new control technology.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2011

published in the ACS journal Chemical Reviews , reviews in detail four stationary storage systems considered the most promising candidates for electrochemical energy storage: vanadium redox flow; sodium-beta alumina membrane; lithium-ion; and lead-carbon batteries. Vanadium redox flow battery. In their study, Yang et al.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

TDI quattro plug-in hybrid ( earlier post ); the Audi A7 h-tron quattro fuel cell vehicle ( earlier post ); the Audi e-tron quattro concept battery-electric SUV ( earlier post ); the Audi TT clubsport turbo concept ( earlier post ); the Audi RS 5 TDI competition concept ( earlier post ); and the Audi R18 e-tron quattro ( earlier post ).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2015

Smooth, unobtrusive, power on demand regardless of whether the vehicle is operating in EV or range extended mode. The major components of the propulsion system are the battery pack, the drive unit, and the engine. At the low end of the power band, the engine remains off during many of the low speed and power conditions.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

GM has announced plans for public sales in 2010, and almost every carmaker now says it will sell PHEVs or highway-speed battery electric vehicles (BEVs) sometime after 2010. Fisker $80,000 Karma series luxury 50-mile range series PHEV, S Sunset convertible version.Partnering with Quantum Technologies. Batteries not ready.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2021

We’re facing a lack of renewable fuels and the technology to deliver cleaner power generation. We’re seeing a rise in battery-powered passenger vehicles, but the high power demands of the aviation, locomotive, shipping, and long-haul trucking industries will continue to require energy-dense hydrocarbons for the foreseeable future.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

Reply ↓ ↑ report 6 CaramelZappa 3:20AM (4/23/2009) Yea, you COULD convert a lotus for $10k but the conversion wouldnt be terribly satisfying. link] This guy has a very nice looking conversion, he managed to do it for about 25k. As more renewables come online, battery electrics just keep getting cleaner and greener.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 22, 2009

Postal Service Minivan - Click above for high-res gallery Chrysler is celebrating Earth Day today by unveiling the first four of what will be a fleet of 250 battery-powered minivans for the U.S. However, the electric drive portion of the vehicles, including the motor, electronics and A123 System lithium ion battery pack is identical.

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