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Cars That Think
DECEMBER 30, 2021
2021 was a big year for energy-related news, what with the ongoing hunt for new forms of energy storage and cleaner if not carbon-free electricity and events and research that spotlighted the weak links in our power grid. IEEE Spectrum did its best to cover those developments, and these were the stories that our readers liked best.
Cars That Think
JANUARY 26, 2023
Simple, effective solutions that can help lessen the impact of climate change already exist. Rahman, a power expert and professor of electrical and computer engineering at Virginia Tech , is the former chair of the IEEE ad hoc committee on climate change. The United States buys power from Canada.
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AUGUST 24, 2023
Based on what he learned, he and three classmates built a solar-powered 6-kilowatt minigrid that supplied power to about 60 homes in a village. Minigrids use distributed off-grid energy solutions that operate independently from the national transmission grid. The project received support from Power Africa and USAID.
Revenge of the Electric Car
NOVEMBER 19, 2009
to offer tax credits for buying all-electric plug-in vehicles as part of a $128 billion program to get seven million such cars on the road by 2018. Updated to attribute projection on “smart-grid&# earnings to FERC Chairman.). More details at: Group Seeks US Tax Credits To Spur Electric Car Use. by Judith Burns for Dow Jones.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 13, 2013
For the current fiscal year, the program is slated to invest approximately $90 million to encourage the development and use of new technologies, and alternative and renewable fuels, to help the state meet its climate-change goals. In addition, buy-down incentives totaling $5,252,000 will be awarded for 385 alternative-fuel vehicles.
Revenge of the Electric Car
FEBRUARY 18, 2010
And at the headquarters of Pacific Gas and Electric, utility executives are preparing “heat maps” of neighborhoods that they fear may overload the power grid in their exuberance for electric cars.&#. And local electrical grids may need reinforcement. February 15, 2010. Cities Prepare for Life With the Electric Car.
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APRIL 21, 2009
Small long-term evaluation program, including modeling of vehicle-to-grid building benefits and economics, begun with Southern California Edison, joined by EPRI, other utilities, US DOE. People wont buy a full car. 1,000 pre-orders for small production runs in 2009 and 2010starting 4th quarter 2009. Establishing dealer network.
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