Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2022

OptiFuel’s rail engine solutions are powered by their EPA-certified locomotive CNG/RNG engine rated at 0.00 For Argentina, OptiFuel will build locomotive kits in the US that will be shipped for local assembly in Argentina, creating new jobs and enhancing business in both countries. This led us to OptiFuel’s modular, affordable designs.

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AUGUST 9, 2022

NineDot Energy’s community-scale Tesla Megapack battery storage system in the Bronx, New York was unveiled today. The clean energy storage installation is expected to be a model for urban clean energy projects. As noted by NineDot Energy in a press release , the 3.08 The Bronx Megapack received $1.2

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2018

The European H2FUTURE project consortium, comprising voestalpine, Siemens, VERBUND, and Austrian Power Grid, together with the research partners K1-MET and ECN, officially gave the green light to the construction of a 6 MW “green” hydrogen pilot production plant—the world’s largest—at a voestalpine Linz steel plant.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Electrification of global energy systems combined with the distributed build out of storage supply chains will further accelerate market uptake of battery storage. Battery energy storage systems all have battery cells as their core component, which dictate performance, safety, and cost.

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Cars That Think

MAY 23, 2022

For the Artemis program , NASA and its collaborators want to build a sustained presence on the moon, which includes setting up a base where astronauts can live and work. One of the crucial elements for a functioning lunar base is a power supply. For that, energy storage and power management will be critical.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2014

Using the MCS, PowerStream can determine when it is most economical to use the resources powering its microgrid or when they need to revert to using power from the provincial power grid.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Reliability and Security ( SPIDERS )—a joint effort between the US Departments of Defense, Energy and Homeland Security. independent from the bulk power grid (i.e., infrastructure from power loss. electrical power and. Focused on three distinct military. installations—Joint Base Pearl.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2019

Thorsten Nicklaß, formerly CEO of the Digital Energy Solutions joint venture and now designated CEO of Elli, announced that the new Volkswagen Group company would also offer to customers outside the Group green power from renewable sources that was 100% CO 2 -neutral. —Thorsten Nicklaß.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2014

The traditional design of sodium-beta batteries consists of two electrodes separated by a solid membrane made of the ceramic material beta alumina. Running at lower temperatures can make a big difference for sodium-beta batteries and may enable batteries to store more renewable energy and strengthen the power grid.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

The new Competence Center maps the entire value chain of battery cell technology—from research and development to a cell’s composition and design, and its suitability for large-scale manufacture. When designing the battery cells, the BMW Group sets out to ensure that it will be possible to recycle them efficiently at a later stage.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 29, 2022

That need for balance is true of electric power grids, too. Spiking demand for electric heat collided with supply problems created by frozen natural-gas equipment and below-average wind-power production. One is to do a modernized version of what we have done in the past: Build giant, centralized infrastructure.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Duke Energy and Tokyo-based ITOCHU Corp. signed an agreement to collaborate on advanced energy technologies, starting with the evaluation and testing of second-life applications for electric vehicle batteries. This pilot project will help Duke Energy and ITOCHU validate potential business models for future commercialization.

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Blink Charging

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

While electric vehicles are celebrated for their eco-friendly and efficient design, they present a challenge to the power grid during peak hours or certain energy events. Recognizing this, grid regulators and utility companies are actively considering demand response strategies for electric vehicles.

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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. Once electricity is generated and passes into the grid, it is typically used almost immediately.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2010

The awards in this tranche focus on power electronics, grid-scale energy storage, and building efficiency; of the 43, three are categorized specifically for the automotive market—power electronics projects led by HRL Laboratories, LLC; Arkansas Power Electronics International, Inc.;

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 30, 2022

China's Big Hydro Plans China is in the midst of a gigantic buildup of hydro-energy capabilities. The world’s largest pumped-energy-storage station—a technique that stores energy by pumping it uphill to a reservoir—is set to complete phase two of its construction in 2023.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 19, 2023

Sweden’s Vattenfall is aiming to build an offshore, hydrogen-producing wind-turbine demonstrator in the same area. Denmark is planning a hydrogen island designed to generate about 1 million tonnes of offshore hydrogen starting in 2030. Airplanes, for example, won’t be able to fly long distances on battery power.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The awardees went through a rigorous process including a review with CalSEED’s curated technical advisory committee, who volunteered their time and expertise to select the most promising future clean energy technologies. that boosts the energy capacity via nanotechnology-enabled self-assembly of functional nanocomponents, reducing?the

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Cars That Think

JUNE 24, 2022

As renewable energy capacity grows, the only way to drastically reduce coal in the electricity mix is by adding energy storage. Although some of the newer solar plants and wind farms are being set up with large amounts of battery storage, it could be decades before such investments have a significant impact.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

The US Department of Energy announced $35 million in awards for 12 projects that find new ways to harness medium-voltage electricity for applications in industry, transportation, on the grid and beyond. The breaker is designed to protect MVDC systems from electrical faults and expected to respond in 500 microseconds.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2021

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced more than $30 million in federal funding, matched by more than $35 million in private sector funds, for 68 projects that will accelerate the commercialization of promising energy technologies—ranging from clean energy and advanced manufacturing, to building efficiency and next-generation materials.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Honda has joined a demonstration project for experimental vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology aimed at providing a potentially valuable energy storage resource to the electrical grid while providing for more cost-effective ownership of plug-in electric vehicles. through their eV2g joint venture ( earlier post ).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

to produce useful, high-energy fuel molecules directly within. Energy Plant Design The University of California, Los Angeles, will re-engineer. plants so that they use energy more efficiently. The pine tree developed for this project is designed both to. increase the turpentine storage capacity of the wood and to.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2017

CIRCUITS project teams will accelerate the development and deployment of a new class of efficient, lightweight, and reliable power converters, based on wide-bandgap (WBG) semiconductors. CIRCUITS focuses on new circuit topologies and system designs, ensuring the performance benefits of these new WBG devices are maximized. Organization.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2016

FuelCell Energy, Inc. Protonic Ceramics for Energy Storage and Electricity Generation with Ammonia (Category 1 & 2) The FuelCell Energy, Inc. team will build a reversible electrochemical cell to produce ammonia from nitrogen and water or consume ammonia to generate electricity. Giner, Inc. 2,300,000. .

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2017

ChargePoint’s stance is bolstered by a new MIT study that suggests , in part, that electric cars that plug into the grid, could, collectively, act as a massive “virtual battery” for grid energy storage. In the power grid, supply and demand need to match exactly. ChargePoint envisions that at scale—i.e.,

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2009

Serial arrangement of the lithium-polymer cells serves to generate nominal voltage of 364 V, and the gross storage capacity of the battery is 10.8 Overall weight of the entire energy storage system is 85 kg or 187 lb. Forward-looking Energy Management. kWh for driving the car. gallons US). Measuring only 1.24

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Driivz

AUGUST 21, 2022

Rapid growth in EV adoption, bolstered by government initiatives to reduce CO2 emissions, has created an immediate need to build EV charging infrastructure to support the growin g demand for EV charging. That means building out charger networks today to meet tomorrow’s future demand. . One study found that up to 6.8

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Environmental Effects and Benefits to top Wont all these cars require us to build even more power plants? Dont PHEVs just shift pollution from gasoline cars to power plants? And utilities are increasingly being mandated to increase their percentage of power from renewable sources. Just the opposite.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Audi Volkswagen-owned company exploring PHEVs Metroproject Quattro Sub-compact PHEV Concept Car shown October 2007; PHEV of A1 Sportback under consideration Bright Automotive For-profit spin off from Rocky Mountain Institute designing lightweight PHEVs, successor to RMIs 1990s "Hypercar" concept. Establishing dealer network. Red Herring ).

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