Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2022

Parallel Systems, a company founded by former SpaceX engineers to reimagine the railroad system, has raised $49.55 million in Series A funds to build autonomous battery-electric rail vehicles that move freight. The funds will be used to build a fleet of rail vehicles, execute advanced testing programs and grow the team.

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JULY 17, 2020

EIT InnoEnergy, the European innovation engine for sustainable energy, announced a partnership with Vulcan Energy Resources Limited (Vulcan), a start-up lithium exploration company, to produce the world’s first completely carbon-neutral lithium in Germany. As a result, the carbon footprint of the production process could even be negative.

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JULY 6, 2012

A new policy brief published by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) International Transport Forum (ITF) notes that existing electricity systems will need to be reconfigured to support the widespread adoption of electric mobility and suggests that Smart Grid technologies and EVs and EVs could be mutually beneficial.

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JANUARY 21, 2023

In parallel, the company is starting to contract preferred suppliers for the plants, potential customers for hydrogen and CO 2 , and companies that can provide waste of suitable quantity and quality. FUREC is preparing the necessary grid connections to the hydrogen and CO 2 infrastructure.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2011

Siemens is building power converter stations for a high-voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission system with a record capacity of 2 x 1,000 megawatts. This system, which is being partially funded by the EU, connects the French and Spanish grids between Baixas and Santa Llogaia. billion) in sales in 2010.

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APRIL 26, 2021

Electric truck company Tevva and Vattenfall signed a Memorandum of Understanding to explore the opportunity to provide a complete zero-emission transport solution for businesses looking to reduce the overall carbon impact of their operations. Tevva is an electric truck company with optional range extension technology that allows its 7.5-19t

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MAY 5, 2021

Germany is adding another €100 million to its successful promotion of private charging stations for electric cars in residential buildings, bringing the total to €500 million. Electrical connection. Purchase and installation of the wallboxes are supported with a grant of €900. The grant is a flat rate of €900 per charging point.

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CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

The California Public Utilities Commission approved a new set of timelines to accelerate the connection of new residential buildings, commercial businesses, and electric. continued] The post California Adopts Nation’s First Deadlines for Utilities to Connect EV Chargers to the Grid appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2020

Volkswagen has begun expanding its Chattanooga factory to build a North American center for electric vehicles—not only for assembly, but for engineering the EVs of the future. There are two ways that auto companies approach the development of electric vehicle batteries. We are doing the latter.

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MARCH 13, 2021

Seven companies from the GET H2 initiative in Europe want to build a cross-border pipeline for green hydrogen. Most of the transport will take place via existing gas grid lines (shown in orange), which will be converted to hydrogen transport. The companies want to push ahead with the development of a hydrogen economy.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2021

PowerCell Sweden AB and Hitachi ABB Power Grids have signed an agreement regarding an in-depth collaboration around fuel cell based stationary power solutions. The intention is to combine the two companies’ technologies and to market fuel cell-based total solution offers that facilitates the transition to a more sustainable energy production.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Enphase Energy, a global energy technology company and the leading supplier of microinverter-based solar and battery systems, has agreed to acquire EVSE company ClipperCreek. The company has sold more than 110,000 Level 2 AC charging stations since its inception. Establishes a US manufacturing footprint for Enphase.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2012

GM and ABB partnered to produce a prototype back-up power storage unit that repackages five used Volt batteries into a modular unit that becomes an uninterruptible power supply and grid power balancing system. The system can be connected to single phase or three phase; the round-trip efficiency is just under 86%, ABB said.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

BMW Group, Ford Motor Company and American Honda Motor Co., have entered into an agreement to create ChargeScape, LLC, a new equally-owned company that will create a single, cost-effective platform connecting electric utilities, automakers and interested electric vehicle customers.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2014

The total cost for the three smart grid demonstration projects is $35.3 Avista is participating in the Pacific Northwest Smart Grid Demonstration Project and previously received a DOE Smart Grid Investment Grant. Three Washington state utilities have been awarded $14.3 million, including more than $21 million in non-state funds.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2022

The partnership aims to transform access to EV charging in key European markets by rapidly building a fast-charging network across Europe by 2024 and delivering a seamless experience for EV drivers. EV charging is one of the key engines driving bp’s transformation to an integrated energy company.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2020

Subscriptions of connected services for consumer and commercial Electric Vehicles (EVs), such as charging-station locator, eco-routing, and EV telematics, will grow 270% from 2020 to 2024, reaching 7 million subscribers by 2024, according to global tech market advisory firm, ABI Research. Connected services for consumer EVs will reach 26.37

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APRIL 9, 2020

Italy-based Snam, a global energy infrastructure company, and RINA, a global testing, inspection, certification and engineering consultancy services firm, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate in the hydrogen sector, in order to realize the significant potential of hydrogen as a fundamental energy carrier.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The United States is not building enough transmission lines to connect regional power networks. The deficit is driving up electricity prices, reducing grid reliability, and hobbling renewable energy deployment. grids demands public scrutiny and accountability. Their grip over the backbone of U.S.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Working with Fermata Energy, a vehicle-to-grid (V2G) systems company, Nissan North America is launching a new pilot program under the Nissan Energy Share initiative which leverages bi?directional The company will also develop new ways to reuse electric car batteries. Nissan Energy Home.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Within the framework of the initiative, the E-Mobility Group is bringing together the main players—e-truck customers, power grid operators, energy suppliers, charging hardware manufacturers and charging software providers—thus promoting shared infrastructure solutions for truck customers within the network.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 1, 2016

Nissan’s new regional office in France will house the largest grid-integrated electric vehicle (EV) system and second-life battery storage unit yet installed in a building, anywhere. The company hopes to extend this innovative battery technology to other major Nissan sites and facilities around the world over the next few years.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

To settle this case, the company agreed to pay $253,300 to the Air Pollution Control Fund to support efforts to improve air quality, and to comply with all applicable CARB regulations. The original At-Berth Regulation, adopted in 2007, requires vessel fleets to reduce their diesel engine power generation while docked.

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JULY 7, 2013

Power supply, building systems, intelligent power grids, and information and communication technologies will interact optimally. On 3 July the partners signed the contract establishing the company Aspern Smart City Research, which has a budget of almost €40 million (US$51 million). The company will start work 1 October.

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Austria Power Grid Grid Building 239

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MAY 14, 2021

AlphaStruxure will design, build, finance, own and operate the project to enable Ride On’s growing electric bus fleet. Climate Resilience & Operational Reliability: Ensures uninterrupted bus services during any long-term power outages caused by severe weather as well as any short-term disturbances or perturbations of the utility grid.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

A Sandia National Laboratories project team, including a number of industry partners, is designing and building a cold-ironing fuel cell system that will be deployed in the Port of Honolulu in 2015. Like many operators, the company uses diesel engine generators to provide power to refrigerated containers. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Charging and energy are becoming a core business for Volkswagen; the company is building a universal and seamless eco-system for charging its electric models. Customers can choose here between the basic version and two fully networked variants, which they can control using the We Connect ID. App on their smartphone.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

GE and Nissan have identified two key focus areas for the research efforts: the first relates to the integration of electric vehicles with homes and buildings; the second looks at electric vehicle charging dynamics and the future impact on the grid once millions of electric cars are on the road.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2021

We build the charging infrastructure where it is needed in everyday life and that is with the people “on site”—at supermarkets, hotels, restaurants, swimming pools or sports fields. Small and medium-sized companies can apply for funding from 12 April until the end of the year. —Federal Minister Andreas Scheuer.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2013

The next generation of urban transportation is about connecting transportation modes, services, and technologies, bringing diverse innovations together in ways that favor accessibility (meeting needs) over mobility (moving for the sake of moving), and that work significantly better for people, economies, and the planet.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2015

The two companies have agreed to collaborate on the following activities: Introduction of V2G services in the European market; Exploring the use of second-life EV batteries for stationary applications (including households, buildings, grid); and. Designing and evaluating potential affordable energy and mobility pack offers.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2019

Vantage Power is an award-winning London-based technology company specializing in developing electrified propulsion and connected vehicle technologies for medium- and heavy-duty vehicle manufacturers and their suppliers. Graziosi, President and CEO of Allison Transmission.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2022

As well as enabling EV owners to charge and discharge their electric vehicle to power their home or the grid, Wallbox’s latest innovation is designed to give EV drivers the ability to isolate their home from the grid and use their EV for backup power during a blackout. Providing up to 11.5

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

As more power stations adopted the clocks, the frequency regulation allowed them to share electricity and create an interconnected power grid. And Warren, who eventually solved the grid-frequency problem, was actually working on a different puzzle when he came across the answer. How Warren’s clocks regulated grid frequency Henry E.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

The Nissan/Eaton partnership offers xStorage Home, xStorage Buildings and xStorage Grid-scale products. xStorage Home comes with solar panel inverters already integrated; if a home is equipped with solar panels, the consumer can connect directly to xStorage Home, storing and then powering the home using renewable energy.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2021

Arriving in spring 2022, F-150 Lightning will be available in four series and two battery options at more than 2,300 EV-certified Ford dealers across the country, with the option for fleet customers to access Ford’s complete ecosystem of connected data and telematics services via Ford Commercial Solutions.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2012

Electrolysis company Hydrogenics Corporation has received an order from E.ON Power-to-Gas is a novel way to store energy at utility scale, whereby surplus electrical grid power is converted into hydrogen gas. for a “Power-to-Gas” project in Germany.

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