EV Info

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Wind farms stand idle for days on end, a fire interrupts a vital cable from France, a combination of post-Covid economic recovery and Russia tightening supply means the gas price has shot through the roof – and so the market price of both home heating and electricity is rocketing. This was plain wrong. Energy Solutions.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2018

The study is based on a set of scenarios for 2050 of electrification in five European countries: Austria (AT), Belgium (BE), France (FR), Germany (DE) and the Netherlands (NL). Except for NL and possibly BE, the capacity of the gas networks will have to be extended.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 19, 2023

In France, for example, the hydrogen producer Lhyfe is operating a pilot project called SEM-REV off the coast of Saint-Nazaire, which has been producing small amounts of hydrogen since September 2022. Airplanes, for example, won’t be able to fly long distances on battery power. It turns out that the former option is better.

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EV Info

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

We have closed most of the coal plants and several the aging nuclear plants are moving offline as they close for repair of reach end of life. With the demise of the North Sea production as the fields empty we are increasingly reliant on the pipe that winds its way across Europe pumping Russian gas into Germany, France and other on route.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 20, 2024

Hedging its bets, the industry is exploring ammonia, batteries, and hydrogen, among other options for powering ships. At the same time, it’s becoming apparent that alternative-fuel solutions we’re looking at have big drawbacks, and that producing these fuels will take a lot of green power that will be needed to replace coal and gas on shore.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2017

The decade-long nationwide slide in emissions from power production reflects the electric power sector shifting away from coal and toward less carbon-intensive fuels. Effective grid management to incorporate this level of renewables remains a key challenge for the state. below their 2006 levels. from 2014 to 2015.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 26, 2023

Some continue to burn coal, for example, because there are no other economically feasible choices for them. “We Efficient coal-burning plants Shutting down coal power plants completely is unlikely to happen anytime soon, he predicted, especially since many countries are building new ones that have 40-year life spans.

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Cars That Think

MAY 9, 2024

The accelerating buildout of solar farms on Earth is already hitting speed bumps, including public pushback against the large tracts of land required and a ballooning backlog of requests for new transmission lines and grid connections. That’s more than two-thirds the size of Bordeaux, France, where I live.

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Push EVs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

On June 9, the EU assembly voted in Strasbourg, France to require automakers to cut carbon-dioxide emissions by 100 percent by the middle of the next decade. While EVs don’t produce emissions, the electricity they use could be produced from a coal or gas-powered power plant. How To Use Solar EV Charging?

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

“A car must be able to be recharged in Italy in exactly the same way as in Denmark, Germany or France,&# she was quoted saying in an edition of Die Welt to appear Monday. » See also: 9 Electric Cars 100 Years Old or More » Get Gas 2.0 by RSS or sign up by email. is a Green Options Media Production.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2009

France-based MDI (Moteur Development International), the developer of a compressed air powertrain and several derivative vehicles, officially handed over the keys to two AirPods to KLM earlier in December. Batteries are common and improving almost daily, while the compressed-air cycle has no present role in any popular automobile platform.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Electric cars and a smart electric grid have a bright future, according to panelists at a roundtable discussion on the subject that I attended last Friday in Boston. Most days, most cars are going to have lots of extra battery capacity,” said Mr. ’s power generation, he said. We will own the battery.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Blog Archive ▼ 2009 (52) ▼ April (6) Waxman-Markey and REDD BlogRoll Review: Space Beams, Leaded Batteries, an. Renewables That Even Coal-Based Utilities Can Love. Vehicle to Grid (V2G) technology is a bi-directional electric grid interface that allows a plug-in to take energy from the grid or put it back on the grid.

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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. Batteries not ready. Hyundai Partnering with Korean battery companies for hybrids. 2010 Prius designed to be manufactured with NiMH or Lithium batteries.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 20, 2009

Caroline Reichert, an RWE spokeswoman, noted that the idea here is to ensure that "a car can be recharged in Italy in exactly the same way as in Denmark, Germany or France." The benefit of a higher voltage connector has nothing to do with the speed at which the battery will charge it has to do with the conductor size.

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