Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2022

Keliber, a Finnish mining and battery chemical company that aims to start the sustainable production of battery-grade lithium hydroxide, has analyzed the CO 2 emissions generated by its future production using two studies. The CO 2 emissions are more than 16 tonnes/produced tonne, due to the dominance of coal as the energy source.?.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

The partnership also includes a significant investment by ZF to support the planned construction of the world’s largest 200mm Silicon Carbide device fab in Ensdorf, Germany. The strategic partnership includes a joint research facility in Germany that will focus on real world e-mobility and renewable energy system level challenges.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Tesla expects to begin expansions on its Gigafactory in Grünheide, Germany early next year, according to statements made by the company at a recent public forum about the plans. Local companies using much more water include a coal plant, a waste facility, an oil refinery and a nearby asparagus farm.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 20, 2023

Northvolt AB, a Swedish sustainable battery corporate that’s exploring putting in store in Canada, gets a US$400-million funding from Ontario’s pension investmrent for presidency staff. The corporate, which already produces electric-vehicle batteries in Sweden, will worth the cash from Funding Control Corp. billion (US$55.5

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Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2015

The announcement comes four weeks after Tesla Motors announced its own entry into the ESS market with the home PowerWall Li-ion battery system ( earlier post ), although Daimler has been considering the move for several years. Daimler AG is planning to collaborate with EnBW AG for distribution to customers in Germany.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2019

Volkswagen selected LG Chem, SKI, CATL and Samsung as strategic battery cell suppliers to support the electric offensive. In view of the constantly increasing demand, Volkswagen is also taking a close look at possible participation in battery cell manufacturing facilities in Europe. 100 of these will be located in Germany.

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Teslarati

JULY 4, 2022

Elon Musk is arguably the world’s biggest clean energy advocate, and his company, Tesla, has built some of the biggest battery storage systems on the planet. Yet in recent comments, Musk has highlighted that he believes it’s a mistake to stigmatize nuclear energy today, especially as renewables like solar and batteries are still ramping up.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2020

This is equivalent to gas priced at $6-12/MMBtu, making it competitive with current natural gas prices in Brazil, China, India, Germany and Scandinavia on an energy-equivalent basis. Heavy trucks could also be cheaper to run on hydrogen than diesel by 2031, although batteries remain a cheaper solution for cars, buses and light trucks.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 23, 2022

A planned network of landing spots will let eVTOLs recharge their batteries between flights, keeping people above the hustle and bustle (and traffic tie-ups) that come standard with taking private cars or taxis on city streets. This flash Joule heating process can also extract rare earths from fly ash, a by-product of coal combustion.

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The Truth About Cars

MAY 17, 2023

But why bother at all when so many other manufacturers have deemed hydrogen too volatile to be safely utilized for combustion and too expensive to rationalize as a substitute for the large battery packs going into all-electric vehicles? Batteries are likewise constructed from rare earth minerals the country doesn’t have in abundance.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Once there is sufficient renewable output, battery storage and thermal balancing power plant capacity in the system, retire legacy inflexible plants, such as coal. coal and gas), significantly reducing the overall levelised cost of electricity.

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Teslarati

MARCH 4, 2022

It took a long time to get to this point, but after two years, it appears that Tesla’s Model Y factory in Germany is finally about to wake up. It should be noted that a nearby coal mine and an oil refinery in the area are consuming far more water annually than Tesla. Tesla is set to receive a supply of 1.4

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EV Info

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Yet whenever we troublemakers raised this issue, we were told not to worry – it would resolve itself, they said, either because wind is usually blowing somewhere, or through the development of electricity storage in giant battery farms. This was plain wrong. Energy Solutions. Gas is the only answer.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2012

The council recommended: Allowing more access to oil, natural gas and coal opportunities on federal lands. In addition, government research programs should continue to support advancements in battery and materials technologies and alternative fuels that can give America an edge in advanced technology vehicles.

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Wallbox

JANUARY 4, 2021

Until recently most power stations relied on coal and gas to power generators. According to Denmark’s national grid , Energinet, in 2019 half the country’s electricity was generated by renewables, while in Germany the figure was only slightly lower at 46%. . Now countries’ electrical grids are increasingly powered by renewables.

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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).

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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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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2016

Previous announcements of billion-dollar investments in battery factories by Volkswagen were largely brushed off by investors as deflections from their “Dieselgate” scandal. In some locations, grid-scale peaking applications have already been implemented, often in old coal power plants, re-using the building and grid connections.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

One is that their emissions are merely displaced as long as electricity is sourced from coal power plants – something that can only be addressed by the expansion of renewable energy (see article ). Another, is how electric car batteries will be disposed when they are no longer useful? The project runs through September 2011.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

We invented solar technology, but we’ve fallen behind countries like Germany and Japan in producing it. New plug-in hybrids roll off our assembly lines, but they will run on batteries made in Korea. And yet, it is China that has launched the largest effort in history to make their economy energy efficient.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 4, 2009

VW, Daimler subsidiary Daug and Varta developed a NimH battery in the early 90s, and the VW group put the Audi duo hybrid on the road in 1997. The result is massively false expectations by the customer.More than eight percent of drivers in Germany are rock solid convinced that the electric car is already here. Earlier post.).

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 19, 2023

And Germany isn’t the only country investing in hydrogen technologies. Airplanes, for example, won’t be able to fly long distances on battery power. Almost all hydrogen produced today is designated as brown, black, or gray, meaning it was generated by burning natural gas or coal. This is called black-start capability.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Caroline Reichert, a spokeswoman for the Germany energy company RWE , said leading automotive and energy companies have reached an agreement for a standardized plug for electric cars. Some of the automakers include in that agreement are Volkswagen, BMW, Ford, General Motors, Fiat, Toyota and Mitsubishi. . is a Green Options Media Production.

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Creative Greenius

MAY 14, 2009

I went and spoke to their City Council and said “For $50,000 a house I’ll put in solar AND battery systems and take you off the grid. Well you look at Germany and four companies vie for each roof space. THE HOLY GRAIL OF SOLAR: $3 A WATT, CHEAPER THAN COAL. And at sub $3 you’re cheaper than coal. 50,000 per house.

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Get Electric Vehicle

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Environmental impact of EV on its whole life (from the production to the disposal of batteries etc.) Battery manufacturing etc. Solar charging stations and Conventional charging stations (electricity from coal) comparison. Effect of regenerative braking on HEV battery 4. pollutes the environment. 8 I am pursuing a Ph.D.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 17, 2023

An obvious example involves the making of millions of EV batteries. needs over 100 battery cell manufacturing locations by 2035” to meet the projected EV demand. Currently, 15 battery factories are in operation or will be within five years. Of course, more EV battery factories creates more demand for raw materials.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2011

The MINI E is a conversion of the BMW Mini Cooper developed for trials with drivers, and deployed in several test sites world-wide, including Germany, UK and new sites in France, Japan and China. Drivers find value in using electricity as a fuel and in mastering their individual energy use through efficient driving behaviors.

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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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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2021

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. We’re facing a lack of renewable fuels and the technology to deliver cleaner power generation.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

If you want it to perform like a sports car instead of a slug in a sportscars skin, youre going to need that 10k for the ac drive system alone, and then maybe another 15k for a lithium battery pack. Reply ↓ ↑ report 18 Chris M 3:18AM (4/24/2009) You write just like Gorr, same anti-battery zealotry, same lack of logic.

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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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