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Generating Electricity from Air Flow

Green Car Congress

A group of researchers at the City College of New York is developing a new way to generate power for planes and road vehicles based on short, flexible piezoelectric cantilever beams which convert the kinetic energy of motion into electricity. a car or truck—at Reynolds numbers of 10,000. a car or truck—at Reynolds numbers of 10,000.

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Could electricity come from the air?

Green Cars News

Using short, flexible piezoelectric cantilever beams which convert the kinetic energy of motion into electricity, the researchers believe the power generated could scavenge otherwise wasted energy from the environment. When the device is placed in the wake of a cylinder the flow of air causes the devices to vibrate in resonance.

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US DOT Awards $100M in Recovery Act Funds to 43 Transit Projects to Reduce Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Green Car Congress

The project includes quick-charging stations at this terminal layover in route to recharge bus batteries. Grid sourced electrical energy used to recharge the bus batteries will be augmented with solar energy collected with panels procured and installed under this project. Minneapolis-St. Link Transit, Washington: $2,925,000.

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Summer Update

Plug In Partners

Andy Frank and Mark Duvall of EPRI , I spoke to the need to fund battery research and demonstration vehicles. Additionally, other local governments and state agencies are joining the coalition. Afterward several members of Congress went outside for test drives in a plug-in hybrid brought to Washington by Cal-Cars.

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The Aftershocks of the EV Transition Could Be Ugly

Cars That Think

The introduction of any new system causes perturbations within the current operating environment, which in turn, create behavioral responses, some predictable, many not. There must be another room, somewhere down the hall, where the real meeting is happening, where the real experts are, making the real decisions.”

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Where Plug-In Hybrid Conversions (mostly Priuses) Are

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Below is a chronology of hybrid Toyota Priuses and Ford Escapes that have been converted. If youre interested in converting your Prius, see the information at How To Get a Plug-In Hybrid. by EAA-PHEV with Nilar NiMH batteries, May 2007 (Centennial, CO) contact: info@nilar.com Small photo. Unless otherwise noted, all are Prius.

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