Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2010

The companies are currently working with a variety of utilities to develop hardware and software needed to effectively manage the smart charging of electric vehicles. Tags: Brief. ClipperCreek , Inc., Jemena Electricity Networks Limited and United Energy Distribution, among others.

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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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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2010

Traditionally, investors, entrepreneurs, and companies have faced substantial barriers when identifying clean energy technologies to license. It can also connect investors and organizations to the proper licensing contact. Tags: Brief.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2010

The new PEP Station is aimed at building a solid charging infrastructure as the electric vehicle market begins to grow. James Blain Associates is a Michigan-based design and architectural company. Tags: Brief.

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EV Connect

AUGUST 22, 2022

When you install EV charging stations in your dealership and connect to a charging network, you can quickly gain visibility with this growing swath of eco-conscious consumers. Keep Costs Manageable The price tag of installing EV charging stations can be a hurdle for auto dealerships, but there are options to lower this barrier.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

JR Tokai aims to win an order for a 130 km [81 miles] line connecting the cities of Tampa and Orlando. It hopes to build a system based on the Tokai shinkansen bullet train it operates in Japan. Tags: Brief. (JR Tokai) plans to team up with 11 partners to bid for a high-speed rail system in Florida. Nippon Sharyo Ltd.;

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2010

Ford Motor Company will invest an additional $450 million in its electric vehicle plan, paving the way to build its next-generation hybrid and plug-in hybrid vehicle vehicles in Michigan beginning in 2012. from a large SUV factory to build the all-new Focus starting in 2010 and Focus Electric pure battery electric vehicle in 2011.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2010

Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil and Shell plan to build and deploy a rapid response system that will be available to capture and contain oil in the event of a potential future underwater well blowout in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico. The companies have committed $1 billion to fund the initial costs of the system.

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Teslarati

APRIL 7, 2022

Known as MicroGEO, the comparatively tiny satellites Astranis is building aim to offer prospective customers an alternative to the immense, expensive satellites that dominate modern geostationary (GEO) communications. link] — John Gedmark (@Gedmark) April 5, 2022.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2010

connected vehicles. Mainly through its labs based in Grenoble, the CEA aims at developing new energy technologies and focus on three keys areas: electrical technologies for transportation; solar energy and low energy consumption buildings; nanomaterials for energy. Bernard Bigot, Chairman of the CEA. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2010

Ford Motor Company said it will. The future of Lincoln is building from a base that includes the new flagship MKS large sedan, the all-new MKT seven-passenger crossover and a significantly refreshed MKZ mid-size sedan—all now in showrooms. Tags: Fuel Efficiency Vehicle Manufacturers. Earlier post.). in 2005 to 6.3%

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Ford Motor Company and the New York Power Authority (NYPA) are coordinating efforts to help prepare the state of New York for the operation of electric vehicles. The collaboration between Ford and the New York Power Authority builds on an existing partnership involving the Ford Escape Plug-in Hybrid Vehicle Demonstration Program.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Today the Massachusetts company is the largest telematics service provider in the world. Insurance companies, car manufacturers, rideshare services, and public agencies use CMT data to assess driver behavior, encourage safer driving, dispatch roadside assistance, and more. He is also a CMT cofounder and the company’s CEO.

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Plugs and Cars

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

The profiled fixer, Ely Calil, is a well-connected businessman. While he continues to be an operator in oil, he sees an new opportunity to make money on his connections to potentates and oil executives. Tags: harpers magazine oil business ely calil. It's not a pretty picture, but it's how the oil business works.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Ford Motor Company announced that a consortium led by Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co. Lewis Booth, Ford Motor Company executive vice president and chief financial officer. Tags: Brief. is its preferred bidder in the ongoing discussions concerning the possible sale of Volvo Car Corporation.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2009

has initiated a comprehensive feasibility study of a possible long-term CO 2 pipeline project which would connect proposed gasification plants in the Midwest to Denbury’s existing CO 2 pipeline infrastructure in Mississippi or Louisiana. Tags: Brief. Denbury Resources Inc. Denbury Resources Inc. Denbury Resources Inc.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2010

Ford Motor Company and Microsoft Corp. Hohm is also intended to help utility companies manage the added demands of electric vehicles on the electric grid. In North America, these include the Transit Connect Electric later this year, Focus Electric in 2011, a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle and two next-generation hybrids in 2012.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 18, 2009

Ford Motor Company has developed an intelligent vehicle-to-grid communications and control system for its plug-in hybrid electric vehicles that communicates directly with the electric grid. and its parent, Atlanta-based Southern Company. The Ford PHEV charge settings user interface. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2010

In addition, Ford’s Bridgend Engine Plant in Wales was the first site retrofitted with one of the largest integrated, grid-connected solar photovoltaic installations at a car manufacturing plant in Europe. Through this initiative, the company is reducing its CO 2 emissions 190,000 tons per year.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2009

Through its UK partner, The Tanfield Group Plc, SEV US Corp is also working with Ford Motor Company to electrify the Ford Transit Connect as a BEV (battery electric vehicle) light-duty van scheduled for production in 2010. SEV US Corp is also leasing 8,600 square feet of office space at the Ambassador Building at KCI.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2010

The Focus Electric battery packs will leverage CPI and parent company LG Chem’s expertise in advanced prismatic lithium-ion cells and advanced liquid-cooled modules and battery management systems. All of the vehicles will be built off the company’s new global C-car platform. Tags: Batteries Electric (Battery). Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2010

Ford Motor Company, moving to create a center of excellence in Michigan for vehicle electrification, is investing $135 million to design, engineer and produce key components for the company’s next-generation hybrid-electric vehicles. will build the electric drive transaxles beginning in 2012.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Energy investor Good Energies, Google and Marubeni Corporation are investing in the Atlantic Wind Connection (AWC) backbone transmission project. The AWC project is led by independent transmission company Trans-Elect. Tags: Brief. million households, when fully complete.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Kinetic Traction was formed earlier this year in the wake of the collapse of advanced flywheel energy storage company Pentadyne. The systems are capable of delivering more than 1,000 charge-discharge cycles per day for 20 years with minimal maintenance, the company says. KTSi builds on this technology, pioneered in the 1990s.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 21, 2022

Its costs have been projected as high as US $23 trillion in reduced annual global economic output , according to Swiss Re, a reinsurance company. Engineers and computer professionals can use them to help make buildings, energy production, farms, health care, and manufacturing greener.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2009

Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) will add the first test unit to its fleet to conduct routine and emergency overhead line work in PG&E’s northern and central California service area. This unit is the first all-electric aerial utility truck to be put into operation by a major utility company before being brought to the market.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 5, 2010

company prepares to introduce battery-powered models as early as next year. company prepares to introduce battery-powered models as early as next year. The company is already trying out battery-powered vehicles in London, Meier said. “Ford Motor Co. 4 as the U.S. By Chris Reiter. 28 (Bloomberg) — Ford Motor Co.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 26, 2009

The municipal government of Toyota City, Aichi Prefecture plans to build 21 such stations at 11 locations such as the municipal office and branch offices. The station is grid connected, and also captures power generated by the 1.9 Excess solar power can be used for facilities in the system, or sold to a utility company.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2009

By using a series of sensors and a Bluetooth connection to the user’s iPhone, which can be mounted on the handlebars, the wheel can monitor the bicycle’s speed, direction and distance traveled, as well as picking up data on pollution in the air, and even the proximity of the rider’s friends. Tags: Brief. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 11, 2009

The company made the announcement at the Plug-In 2009 Conference and Exposition in Long Beach, CA. To date, utility-led smart charging trials have been limited by the availability of grid-connected vehicles. Tags: Plug-ins Smart Grid. GridPoint, Inc., Earlier post.) S mart Charging 3.0. Smart Charging 3.0

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

ZAP is a 15-year-old California EV company and Jonway Auto is a wholly owned subsidiary of Jonway Group, a 20-year-old Chinese vehicle manufacturer. The new company creates an integrated worldwide sales and manufacturing operation. Tags: China Electric (Battery) Vehicle Manufacturers. million in cash. Earlier post.).

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Cars That Think

MAY 13, 2024

A recent Bluetooth connection between a device on Earth and a satellite in orbit signals a potential new space race—this time, for global location-tracking networks. Alex Haro, Hubble Network The caveat, however, is that the connection is device-to-satellite only. Tags are also able to perform only minimal signal processing.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2009

You now have hundreds, thousands of different entities, whether it is a municipal government, a retail shop owner, or someone who manages parking garages or a utility or someone else who has to make decision about well, what are we going to do, how are we going to build this infrastructure? ” —Felix Kramer, founder, CalCars.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2010

To achieve this goal, Mazda has implemented an internal Building Block Strategy to be completed by 2015. All the technologies that are developed based on the Building Block Strategy will fall under the SKYACTIV umbrella. Tags: Emissions Engines Materials Transmissions Vehicle Manufacturers Vehicle Systems. SKYACTIV-Chassis.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2009

Houston-based Ingrain , a provider of digital rock physics services to oil and gas companies worldwide, is now using a Carl Zeiss SMT AURIGA CrossBeam workstation to improve the analysis of shale rock’s porosity and permeability in order to more accurately predict the shale’s suitability for the commercial extraction of oil or gas.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2010

It is embedded into the fabric of our company, along with other technologies.Long term we see electrification as part of the fuel diversity plan going forward. Focus, Transit Connect, C-Max, S-Max), the C-sized platform represents more than 2 million units a year. Nancy Gioia. With 12 different top hats (e.g., Nancy Gioia.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

Truck manufacturers that effectively employ telematics to build solutions for their customers stand to successfully differentiate and redefine their brands. Today&rs quo;s vehicle diagnostic techniques typically require the technician to physically connect to the vehicle. Tags: Fleets Heavy-duty Hybrids Telematics.

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