article thumbnail

A wood-burning EV charger? – Charged EVs

Baua Electric

Florida-based Air Burners, a manufacturer of air curtain burner systems, collaborated with Rolls-Royce and Volvo Construction Equipment to develop a portable machine that turns biomass waste into energy. The BioCharger is designed to provide off-grid power from vegetative waste.

article thumbnail

Fossil Fuels Renewable Energy and EV Modern Life

Setec Powerr

A critical issue in decarbonization will also be the role of the electrical grid itself. Wind and solar farms are alternatives to fossil fuel-fired power plants. With current technology, these new forms of power plants require a great deal of land along with adequate transmission lines. We need off-grid and on-grid solutions.

article thumbnail

Report: sustainable batteries represent the best prospect for meeting Paris climate goals; requires $550B investment over 10 years

Green Car Congress

This includes making sure the entire value chain is “circular”, whereby batteries are reused, repurposed or recycled at the end of their life cycle or simply used more efficiently. Without focusing on waste and workers, such uncoordinated growth could even place more environmental and societal strain on our world.

Climate 191
article thumbnail

The Volt in Winter

Green Car Congress

Typical northern winters take an even bigger toll on battery-powered vehicles than on traditional internal combustion-powered cars and trucks. Engines produce plenty of waste heat that can be used to warm the air in the cabin and keep things comfortable.

Volt 199
article thumbnail

ORNL study finds best current use of natural gas for cars is efficient production of electricity for EVs

Green Car Congress

The WTW analysis focused solely on the fuel-motive power cycle, disregarding the vehicle cycle—i.e., the associated energy and emissions for the battery, power electronics, and auxiliary systems found only on battery EVs and for the CNG tank and auxiliary systems only found on natural gas vehicles. Click to enlarge.

article thumbnail

Wind-to-Hydrogen Tech Goes to Sea

Cars That Think

Airplanes, for example, won’t be able to fly long distances on battery power. In contrast, electricity produced by offshore wind power typically requires multiple conversions and transmission across long distances before it’s fed into the grid or an electrolyzer onshore, processes that siphon off power and reduce efficiency.

Wind 95
article thumbnail

Lessons from a year with solar power

EV Info

Is controls all aspects of power generation and use. Your power comes from the grid as 240 Volts AC. The panels generate DC current that varies with the solar power. After moving to Octopus Energy we moved to the then Beta version of Octopus Go and this is the killer app for solar and battery power. .

Solar 81