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Australia Goes All-in on Green Hydrogen

Cars That Think

The 124-megawatt solar plant adjacent to Korea Zinc’s Townsville refinery, completed in 2018, cut a quarter of the coal-heavy grid power it had been using to run its power-intensive electrolytic process. Why a hydrogen truck? The coming fuel-cell trucks will trim its diesel consumption. In 2021, Ark Energy took a stake in.

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Cash for Volts?

Revenge of the Electric Car

“A coalition of auto makers, battery manufacturers, utility operators and shipping companies wants the U.S. to offer tax credits for buying all-electric plug-in vehicles as part of a $128 billion program to get seven million such cars on the road by 2018. More details at: Group Seeks US Tax Credits To Spur Electric Car Use.

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Coming Soon – The Electric City

Revenge of the Electric Car

And at the headquarters of Pacific Gas and Electric, utility executives are preparing “heat maps” of neighborhoods that they fear may overload the power grid in their exuberance for electric cars.&#. And local electrical grids may need reinforcement. Battery-powered motors are more efficient than gasoline engines.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Small long-term evaluation program, including modeling of vehicle-to-grid building benefits and economics, begun with Southern California Edison, joined by EPRI, other utilities, US DOE. Batteries not ready. Plug-in hybrid electric vehicle technologies are not yet competitive due primarily to the high cost of advanced batteries.

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