Green Car Congress
JULY 5, 2020
The new report also predicts that global e-waste (discarded products with a battery or electrical plug) will reach 74 Mt by 2030—almost a doubling of e-waste tonnage in just 16 years. of global greenhouse gas emissions. In per capita terms, last year’s discarded e-waste averaged 7.3 kg per capita. kg and 2.5
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 19, 2017
The process allows for the flexible deposition and intercalation of lithium into custom substrates, which streamlines the manufacturing of batteries of all sizes. The flexibility of the process allows for production of lithium and compounds in a variety of form factors, for use in primary and rechargeable batteries.
Clean Fleet Report
DECEMBER 29, 2022
It sounds like a utopian dream: rows of electric vehicles staying cool and charging away beneath solar panels while their owners shop, dine and conduct business. The right changes to infrastructure, technology and policies could reduce greenhouse gas emissions by up to 70% by 2050—a crucial deadline for controlling rising temperatures.
Cars That Think
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
In 1911, Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes plunged a mercury wire into liquid helium and noticed that the wire’s electrical resistance vanished. Hybrid storage systems that combine the superfast discharge of SMES with the higher energy densities of batteries are a promising area of research.
Cars That Think
OCTOBER 26, 2021
Could it use batteries instead, at least one per sensor node? Pause for a moment to look at the smoke detector in the room where you're sitting and think about the last time you changed its battery. But in either case the computer must always be running, which means it will eventually drain the battery.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 1, 2010
announced at the New York International Auto Show that they are teaming up to implement the Microsoft Hohm energy management application for Ford’s electric vehicles. Ford is the first automaker to announce the planned use of Hohm, starting with the Focus Electric next year. Ford Motor Company and Microsoft Corp. —Ed Pleet.
Baua Electric
JANUARY 19, 2024
Unhappy campers have reported problems—cars delivered with low batteries, missing charging adapters, poorly functioning apps—that point to a lack of proper training on Hertz’s part. It isn’t clear if Hertz means to ditch all its Teslas, or just thin the herd. What happened?
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