Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Jiangnan Shipyard, owned by China State Shipbuilding Corp (CSSC), has ordered an LPG (liquefied propane gas)-burning MAN B&W 6G60ME-LGIP engine in connection with the building of an 86,000-m 3 VLGC (Very Large Gas Carrier) for Tianjin Southwest Maritime (TSM), the Chinese shipping company. HFO-burning engines to 6G60ME-C9.5-LGIP

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 8, 2024

After calling off beats with GM to “beat out Tesla” with a cheap SUV, it has now emerged with news that it is mulling over a $14 billion EV and battery plant in Canada. So far, Volkswagen and its battery company PowerCo are building a gigafactory for cell manufacturing in St. Thomas, Ontario, with production starting in 2027.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The biggest leap forward happened in 2012 when it was discovered that USB stick TV tuners using the RTL2832U demodulator chip could be tapped to make very cheap but effective SDR receivers. Building off the demand stimulated by this activity, a number of manufacturers have started making premium, but still relatively cheap, SDRs.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The Pennsylvania Turnpike is attempting to power its EV charging stations with solar power facilities along the highway. With cheap energy generation, one high cost of EV charging can be removed, assisting organizations in achieving profitability. One of the biggest challenges facing EV charging is the question of profitability.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

It occurred in the wake of the California electricity crisis of 2000 and 2001, when mismanaged deregulation, market manipulation, and environmental catastrophe combined to unhinge the power grid. If too much or too little electricity is present in the power grid, the network can suddenly become unbalanced.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2017

On behalf of the Australian Government, ARENA has provided A$5 million (US$4 million) in funding to Wollongong-based AquaHydrex to develop commercially its new class of electrolyzer to produce cheap hydrogen from splitting water. When hydrogen burns, it produces only water vapor and no carbon dioxide.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

First Ammonia will operate all its plants dynamically to support existing renewable power markets. Ammonia can save humanity once again as the workhorse of the hydrogen economy, replacing petrochemicals to decarbonize agriculture, transportation and power storage and generation. —Joel Moser, CEO of First Ammonia.

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Driivz

AUGUST 30, 2023

Installing and operating EV charging stations offers businesses and owners of commercial and industrial buildings a winning proposition. Building owners can work with a charge point operator or EV service provider to install and manage the EV chargers. EV charging itself creates a new “green” revenue opportunity.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 20, 2021

At the time, e-bikes were still rather exotic, at least in the United States, so it seemed worth the expense and effort to build my own. I next needed to decide on an electronic speed controller (ESC) to power the motor. Applying the front brake cuts power to the motor without triggering regenerative braking. James Provost.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Source: Wood Mackenzie Asia Pacific Power & Renewable Services According to Wood Mackenzie’s latest analysis of the levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) for the Asia Pacific (APAC) region, the LCOE from renewables reached a historic low in 2023. As a result, utility solar is now the cheapest power source in 11 out of 15 APAC countries.

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Teslarati

APRIL 6, 2021

While a few ground starge tanks may look like a distraction in the scope of a program tasked with building the world’s largest (and fully reusable) rocket, the existence of those tanks is far more significant than it might initially appear. Instead, SpaceX has decided to design and build its own propellant storage tanks.

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EV Central

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

According to Automotive News , Hyundai is plotting to introduce a specially adapted battery-electric version of the small combustion-powered Hyundai Casper SUV it already sells in South Korea. Just build it! Read more: An electric Hyundai Casper? Hyundai is believed to be targeting a range between 200-300km.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2020

Coal-fired power generation fell by a record 18% year-on-year to its lowest level since 1975. An increase in natural gas generation offset some of the climate gains from this coal decline, but overall power sector emissions still decreased by almost 10%. Direct emissions from buildings increased by 2.2% increase in 2018.

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The Truth About Cars

APRIL 4, 2024

Though stout on specs, the new truck is far from cheap. Ford and Ram took a more traditional route with their electric trucks, opting to build vehicles that look and function similarly to their gas counterparts. It’s still a far cry from affordable, but it is more than the trucks' rivals’ starting prices.

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Teslarati

MARCH 20, 2024

While other companies are able to offer cheap and affordable EVs, new companies are placed in a strange spot as they risk being undercut and outsold by established names on the block. Tesla, on the other hand, has a strong reputation for building quality EVs that are supported by a strong charging infrastructure.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

The award-winning POWERPASTE technology is patented (EU, US) and offers advantages over other energy storage technologies, in particular in the power range from 100 W to 10 kW, Fraunhofer researchers said. POWERPASTE (left); POWERPASTE cartridge (middle); portable 100 W power supply unit (right). Source: Fraunhofer IFAM.

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Setec Powerr

AUGUST 9, 2022

The existing standard solution is to build EV charging stations to solve the range problem of electric vehicles. SETEC POWER mobile charging system. SETEC POWER has released a new mobile charging system with a built-in battery pack. Mobile EV charging is the new model that emerged from this situation. These are the advantages.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

A new report shows that building new renewable power can be cheaper than running old coal plants. California regulatory documents show range estimates for the new Subaru Crosstrek Hybrid. Automakers join forces to lobby for extending electric-car tax credits. And California preps for half a million electric cars.

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The Truth About Cars

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Icon’s vehicles have never been cheap, but its latest vehicle goes above and beyond. Icon employed a custom four-wheel independent chassis for the build, and power reaches the wheels through a 4L85 automatic transmission. Called the Reformer, the updated, hand-built SUV sports 1,000 horsepower and a $1.1 million starting price.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2018

The reuse and recycling of batteries is a key issue as increasing numbers of cities plan transition to electrically powered transport. This energy warehouse allows a larger proportion of Viva’s solar-generated electricity to be used for the housing association’s power needs.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

IDTechEx expects electric motorcycle sales in Europe to have grown at least 50% year-on-year in 2020, building on the momentum of recent years. This high-power need, coupled with the limited space on the motorcycle, means manufacturers rarely use off-the-shelf parts and design motors in-house from scratch.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 13, 2014

Scientists have found a cheap alternative to graphene which could be used to build supercapacitors to power electric cars – good ol’ hemp. According to researchers, fibres from the plant are packed with as much energy and power as graphene – the miracle material, long-touted as the ideal based to [.].

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Cars That Think

APRIL 11, 2024

Several recently published deep-dive analyses commissioned by NASA and the European Space Agency have thrown cold water on the hope that space solar power could affordably generate many gigawatts of clean energy in the near future. Ali Hajimiri is the codirector of Caltech’s space-based solar power project. And yet the dream lives on.

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Teslarati

MARCH 24, 2024

Credit: BYD At the same time, many automakers including Tesla are racing to build their next-generation, mass-market EVs, set to first be produced in Texas as soon as 2025 , then later at an upcoming factory in Mexico , and eventually at a yet-unannounced third location. While BYD said just last month that it has no plans to enter the U.S.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 12, 2022

In the late 1980s, Rod Brooks and Anita Flynn published a paper in The Journal of the British Interplanetary Society with the amazing title of Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control: A Robotic Invasion of the Solar System. They will power themselves from the sun or indoor lighting—which favors small scale. In total, this hardware weighs 6.2

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2014

The magnitude of these savings is ~5% to 15% higher in a system with 20% wind penetration compared to a system with no wind power, and the savings are 50–60% higher in a system that requires capacity expansion. More specifically, controlled charging can cut the cost of integrating PHEVs approximately in half. —Weis et al.

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EV Info

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

It comes upon us when we have barely started ripping out our gas boilers to make way for the expensive and inefficient heat pumps the Government is telling us to buy, or building the costly new power stations that will be needed to charge the electric cars we will all soon require. Energy Solutions.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2018

A battery, based on electrodes made of sodium and nickel chloride and using thea new type of metal mesh membrane, could be used for grid-scale installations to make intermittent power sources such as wind and solar capable of delivering reliable baseload electricity. —David Sadoway.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

Just last week, it seemed like Tesla had finally narrowed down the location where it would be building its newest facility in Mexico. Veracruz noted that it had an abundant supply of water and cheap electricity , thanks to Mexico’s only nuclear power plant. The Northern State of Nuevo Leon is close to the U.S.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 24, 2023

JUICE BOX For many years, environmentalists have looked forward to the coming of net-zero-energy buildings. Much effort was devoted to making lighting, heating, and cooling more efficient so buildings consumed less energy. This WindBox turbine, installed on the roof of a building in Rouen, France, is 1.6 household).

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Cars That Think

JUNE 12, 2023

The company is building these shipping container systems, which work like giant batteries that store energy as heat and pressurized air , rather than a chemical reaction (Cheesecake’s name is derived from a nerdy acronym for their technology.) Batteries have a powerful spigot, but that comes at the cost of a small tub.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The report “Decarbonizing Steel: A Net-Zero Pathway” outlines the path to making profitable, low-emissions steel and describes how a combination of falling hydrogen costs, cheap clean power, and increased recycling could reduce emissions to net zero, even while total output increases.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2018

BNEF predicts that lithium-ion battery prices, already down by nearly 80% per megawatt-hour since 2010, will continue to tumble as electric vehicle manufacturing builds up through the 2020s. trillion being invested globally in new power generation capacity between 2018 and 2050, with $8.4 NEO 2018 sees $11.5 BNEF sees $1.3

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Far and away our most popular article in the last five years has been “ Build Your Own Professional-Grade Audio Amp on the Sort of Cheap ” (November 2018). And a follow-up to that article, “ A Web-Enabled, High Quality, DIY Audio Amp ” (March 2022), comes in at No. Are there trends in DIY projects you think we’re missing?

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their colleagues have demonstrated a room-temperature method that could significantly reduce carbon dioxide levels in fossil-fuel power plant exhaust, one of the main sources of carbon emissions in the atmosphere.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2019

These include energy shifting (moving in time the dispatch of electricity to the grid, often from times of excess solar and wind generation), peaking in the bulk power system (to deal with demand spikes), as well as for customers looking to save on their energy bills by buying electricity at cheap hours and using it later.

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The Truth About Cars

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Automakers have also been building them a lot longer than their plug-in counterparts and they tend to be based on models that have been around for a while. “It However, the brand’s experience in building all-electric powertrains doesn’t seem to have helped it in every respect.

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