Driivz

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

We found ourselves thinking about how Smart Energy Management for EV charging is connected to the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference; Countries from around the world continue to focus on reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as a key strategy for reducing the rate of global warming.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2022

As global automakers look to make good on their promises of an electrified future, consumer interest in adopting more sustainable powertrains is driven by reduced fuel costs, climate concerns and better driving experiences. Meanwhile, consumers in India, China and Southeast Asia plan to use both the regular grid and renewable power.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

The report— A Vision for a Sustainable Battery Value Chain in 2030 —suggests that, with a concerted push to put the right conditions in place, batteries could enable a 30% reduction in carbon emissions in both the transport and power sectors. This would also contribute to achieving the more ambitious 1.5°

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 11, 2024

Today I presented again to a large Indian audience, hosted by the India Smart Grid Forum. continued] The post The Short List Of Climate Actions That Will Work — India Edition Transcript appeared first on CleanTechnica. The theme was Electrify Everything Everywhere All At Once. In honor of the start of.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2021

Nissan anticipates increased collaboration with the energy sector to support the decarbonization of power grids; and. The company’s electrification and emissions reduction efforts support the aims of the UN Paris Agreement on climate change and global progress toward carbon neutrality by 2050.

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Driivz

MAY 15, 2023

The bill, SB-233 , aims to advance grid resilience and protect the climate by using EVs as “batteries on wheels,” tapping their stored energy to balance electricity supply and demand rather than bringing high-polluting peak generators online. Vehicle-to-building works much the same way but on a larger scale.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

They wanted to see whether an electric vehicle could feed electricity back to the grid. The company’s president, Tom Gage , dubbed the system “vehicle to grid” or V2G. And EV owners would become entrepreneurs, selling electricity back to the grid. And indeed, that’s how promoters of vehicle-to-grid technology perceive the EV.

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Teslarati

JULY 10, 2022

Tesla and Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) invitd 25,000 customers to create the world’s largest distributed battery to support grid reliability, the utility announced. The program allows homeowners with a Tesla Powerwall to send electricity to the grid when needed. The VPP pilot program has now been launched.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JULY 27, 2021

Only 100% battery electric vehicles (BEVs) have the potential to create the deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions in the transport sector that the world needs to avoid catastrophic climate change. BEVs will become more efficacious as the grid gets greener around the globe. Hybrids […].

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change , approximately 15 percent of net anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions come from the transportation sector. To meet global climate targets, we must devise ways to get people and goods from point A to point B without burning fossil fuels.

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Plug N Drive

JULY 16, 2020

On July 16, 2020, Plug’n Drive published a new report that demonstrates the economic value that electric vehicle (EV) batteries can provide to drivers and to Ontario’s electricity sector. EVs are often approached as an environmental solution to climate change,” said Cara Clairman, President and CEO of Plug’n Drive.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2015

At the 21 st UN Conference on Climate Change (COP21) in Paris this week, Nissan announced the development of a Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) system which will allow drivers to operate as individual energy hubs with the ability to store, use or return electricity to the grid. Endesa 10 kW bidirectional charging point for EVs.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

Starting a company to develop an energy technology that fights climate change is hard—a lot harder than starting a software company. Breakthroughs in battery technology, carbon sequestration, and other energy technologies that result in a five-fold improvement over current technology could literally change the world.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2016

ExxonMobil will invest $15 million as a leadership member of the University of Texas at Austin Energy Institute to pursue technologies to help meet growing energy demand while reducing environmental impacts and the risk of climate change.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2013

The US Department of Energy (DOE) released its Grid Energy Storage report to the members of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. of total electric production capacity) of grid storage, 95% of which is pumped storage hydro. Europe and Japan have notably higher fractions of grid storage. —“Grid Energy Storage”.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2020

BIT:ENI) recently unveiled what has been hailed as the most ambitious climate pledge yet by an oil supermajor. NASDAQ:TSLA) a run for its money thanks to its 2016 acquisition of battery company Saft. Further, natural gas can be used to keep the power grid stable as solar and wind power fluctuate.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 12, 2024

When work is being done off the grid in remote locations, it can be hard to keep construction equipment fueled up – regardless of whether that fuel is liquid or electric. The resulting heat is converted into electric energy and stored in a connected Battery Storage Module, or BSM. Volvo CE AirBurners BioCharger; image via Air Burners.

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Cars That Think

JULY 5, 2023

Instead, he and others are trying to invent new climate-control technology that doesn’t further exacerbate the dangers facing the planet’s climate. Winners of the 2021 Global Cooling Prize—both heat pumps—reduce cooling’s climate impact by as much as 80 percent. If, like 60 percent of the U.S. Still, in the U.S.,

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 15, 2024

Under the auspices of the India Smart Grid Forum, the think tank founded as an umbrella organization over India’s 28 state utilities to provide thought leadership, share leading practices, and bring international insights to India, I’m delivering bi-weekly webinars framed by the Short List of Climate Actions That Will Work.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

It is a strategy rooted in cross-cutting research and engineering to enable industry stakeholders, communities, government agencies, and early adopters to meet their climate goals. Optimally integrating transportation with buildings, the grid, and renewables to realize system-wide benefits.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2013

Among the transportation-related elements of US President Barack Obama’s new climate action plan, which he is outlining today in a speech at Georgetown University, is the development of new fuel economy standards for heavy-duty vehicles post-2018. Preparing the US for the impacts of climate change. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2022

The rise of electric vehicles running on increasingly renewable power will bring big environmental benefits to New York, reducing air pollution locally and carbon emissions that feed global climate change. Managed well, EV charging could bring many benefits for the electric grid.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 9, 2021

Scientists have made a major advance in harnessing machine learning to accelerate the design for better batteries. He said the results overturn long-held assumptions about how lithium-ion batteries charge and discharge and give researchers a new set of rules for engineering longer-lasting batteries.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2022

97 million for emerging opportunities such as aviation, locomotive, marine vessels and vehicle-grid integration. $15 . $118 million for ZEV manufacturing. $90 90 million for hydrogen refueling infrastructure. $97 15 million zero- and near-zero-carbon fuel production and supply. $15 15 million for low-carbon fuels. $10

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

It would also grant much needed certainty to the automotive industry and to grid operators, re-charging infrastructure operators and transport companies as well. The proposal would also aid the creation of one million jobs across the continent and help the EU meet its climate goals, according to the groups.

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EV Connect

JANUARY 24, 2022

As the costs of climate change and the price of oil both become too high to bear, auto manufacturers will shift more of their vehicle fleets to electric. As it stands, the power grid is already run-down and outdated , built for the electric loads of a century ago, not for modern life. OpenADR can even turn fleet into an asset.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 9, 2022

magine a future where everyone is driving an electric vehicle—and where that EV serves as a backup power option at home and more broadly as a resource for the grid. G&E and GM will test vehicles with bidirectional charging technology that can help safely power the essential needs of a properly equipped home.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2011

The report, Bucks for balancing: can plug-in vehicles of the future extract cash—and carbon—from the power grid? , is based on a research collaboration between a team of engineers from Ricardo and National Grid, the operator of the high voltage electricity transmission system within Great Britain (GB). Click to enlarge.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 30, 2021

2021 was a big year for energy-related news, what with the ongoing hunt for new forms of energy storage and cleaner if not carbon-free electricity and events and research that spotlighted the weak links in our power grid. No battery is perfect, however, so engineers keep pushing for new and improved ways to store those electrons.

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 25, 2021

That same year, in my role as founding organizer of climate action group, 350 South Bay Los Angeles, I was able to bring my skills and experience to a wider community and make the case for our need to switch to 100% fossil free transportation to stave off the impending climate crisis. Installing the 5.2

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Teslarati

JUNE 3, 2021

A team of battery researchers at Canada’s Dalhousie University are the recipients of a $6 million grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC). million to help develop advanced batteries from electric cars and grid energy storage. Increasing the content of sustainable materials in the batteries.

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Electric Vehicles India

OCTOBER 28, 2021

DOE announces $209 million for electric vehicles battery research . Department of Energy (DOE) has announced $209 million in funding for 26 new laboratory projects focusing on electric vehicles, advanced batteries and connected vehicles. Advancing extreme fast charging to allow for batteries to be fully charged in less than 15-minutes.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 25, 2018

Electric vehicles are not only zero-emission and quieter and more pleasant to drive, they also clearly lower emissions of the carbon dioxide linked to climate change under most circumstances.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2021

However, in climate-driven scenarios, these positions are reversed well before 2040. In climate-driven scenarios, mineral demand for use in batteries for electric vehicles and grid storage is a major force, growing at least thirty times to 2040. Wind takes the lead, bolstered by material-intensive offshore wind.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2011

million electric vehicles—plug-in hybrid and battery-electric—will be needed by 2020 and 6.4 million by 2030 if the UK is to achieve its climate change targets. The scenarios assume a 50:50 split between plug-in hybrid and battery-electric vehicles. A newly released report by WWF-UK concludes that at least 1.7

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2015

Stanford Professor Yi Cui has received one of this year’s five Resonate Awards from Caltech’s Resnick Sustainability Institute for engineering enhanced batteries and other sustainable energy related devices through innovations in nanotechnology. The Resonate Awards honor breakthrough achievements in energy science and sustainability.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The proposal calls for a discounted rate for excess power sold into the grid, as well as a monthly utility charge of $8 per kW to cover the cost of maintaining the state’s power infrastructure. Those opposed to the proposal warned that the initiative could undermine the state’s efforts to address climate change.

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