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3 Things Utilities Can Do to Prepare the Power Grid for More Electric Cars

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Can the power grid actually handle that many electric cars? The capacity is there, but to truly handle this new surge in EV grid demand, it will take planning on the part of utility companies across the U.S. grid produced in 2020. Can the Power Grid Handle the Growing EV Demand? of what the U.S.

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Gravity Batteries, Green Hydrogen, and a Thorium Reactor for China

Cars That Think

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.

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Are EVs Charged Mostly By Coal Power in the US?

EV Adoption

And hence, while electric vehicles themselves produce zero carbon emissions, charging them increases the amount of electricity generated from fossil fuel energy sources such as coal. And oh BTW, according to the Energy Information Administration , California’s grid overall consumed 0% coal power. And so “EVs are bad.”

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Australia Goes All-in on Green Hydrogen

Cars That Think

The 124-megawatt solar plant adjacent to Korea Zinc’s Townsville refinery, completed in 2018, cut a quarter of the coal-heavy grid power it had been using to run its power-intensive electrolytic process. Hyzon Motors , one of the few firms working on ultraheavy trucks powered by fuel cells. Why a hydrogen truck?

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The US Needs 20 Times More EV Charging Stations by 2030… Or Else

Blink Charging

The United States has a goal to have 50% of all vehicles sold each year be zero-emission by 2030. Public chargers need to be: economical equitably distributed appealing to use wired to a capable power grid This is where we come in. How many more EV chargers does the US need? How can you help grow EV charging infrastructure?

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The Cash Back Hybrid

Plug In Partners

Here's an example from Spectrum Online : Can plug-in hybrid electric vehicles keep the electric grid stable? It includes tax credits for consumers who buy or convert to plug-ins, tax incentives on tooling for carmakers who sell early models, and incentives for utilities to offer discounts for off-peak car recharging.

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Cash for Volts?

Revenge of the Electric Car

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.

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