Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

The field included startups that aim to improve battery technology and solve the battery materials problem, coordinate energy flow from home and car batteries to the grid and back again, gather and use data for energy and carbon management, improve solar cell efficiency, and recycle agricultural waste. There are 2.6

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

The US Department of Energy is awarding $620 million for projects around the country to demonstrate advanced Smart Grid technologies and integrated systems. Smart grid regional demonstrations involving plug-in vehicles include (ranked by DOE funding): Columbus Southern Power Company (doing business as AEP Ohio).

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Creative Greenius

JUNE 30, 2009

I attended today’s Bryan Cave Clean Tech Roundtable at the Broad Stage at Santa Monica College – thanks to my pal Donna Gentry. It attracted a lot of attention but so did his comments during the “Clean Technology in California: Opportunities and Challenges&# panel to start the day.

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Charged EVs

MAY 8, 2023

The California legislature is considering a bill that would require most EVs sold in the state to be bidirectional-capable by 2027. The bill is agnostic in terms of how V2X tech is implemented. The bill is agnostic in terms of how V2X tech is implemented. Going bi adds several nifty new benefits to driving electric.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2012

Consortia researchers will leverage their expertise and resources in solar technology, advanced biofuels, and building efficiency. Details of the three winning consortia are as follows: Solar Energy : The consortium’s research will focus on sustainable photovoltaics, multiscale concentrated solar power, and solar energy integration.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2016

Romeo Power , a Santa Monica, California -based startup will design and manufacture electric vehicle battery packs that the company says will outperform any battery systems on the EV market today. The company was launched this month by tech innovators Michael Patterson and Porter Harris.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2020

FLECCS project teams will work to develop carbon capture and storage (CCS) processes that better enable technologies, such as natural gas power generators, to be responsive to grid conditions in a high variable renewable energy (VRE) penetration environment. Phase 1 FLECCS projects are: GE Global Research. 8 Rivers Capital. RTI International.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The California Sustainable Energy Entrepreneur Development (CalSEED) program announced that the fourth cohort of innovative clean energy concepts has been approved by the California Energy Commission (CEC); 28 companies out of 212 were selected to receive grants of $150,000 each.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 14, 2022

A Tesla Megapack is powering a large housing factory completely off-grid in Patterson, California, with energy from a large array of on-site, PVGraf solar panels. The factory isn’t connected to the local power grid, and this is the first time a Tesla Megapack has been deployed and running completely off-grid.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

featured California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, General Colin Powell, and early customers including Bank of America; The Coca-Cola Company; Cox Enterprises; eBay; FedEx Express; Google; Staples; and Walmart. The event was hosted at eBay Inc., Founded in 2001, Bloom Energy can trace its roots to the NASA Mars space program.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 10, 2024

At its own theater in Laguna Beach, California, the company presented the expected Rivian R2 electric SUV , a smaller sibling to the R1S that will start at $45,000, deliver more than 300 miles of range in most of its forms, and be comparable to the Tesla Model Y in overall footprint.

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Electric Auto Association

JANUARY 5, 2023

Electric Auto Association Silicon Valley (EAASV), established in 1967 as the original Electric Auto (now Vehicle) Association, has a long history of attracting members and presenting speakers who have gone on to become tech and transportation luminaries. More recently, Gage became the CEO of EVGrid , working on Vehicle-to-grid (V2G) tech.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2011

Without the CAFE standard and stimulus monies to promote green vehicle tech, the industry would not be headed toward a greener horizon. Imagine the change to this outlook if these companies were required to provide 20 percent of the power they generated from an alternative energy source in order to provide any power to the grid.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 26, 2023

Consider: Electricity consumption in the state of California remained essentially flat from 1980 even as the economic output of the state skyrocketed. Electric-grid applications : Very-high-voltage power conversion for devices rated at 3 kV and higher will remain the domain of SiC for at least the next decade.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2021

To date, the TCF has funded more than 380 projects by unlocking more than $170 million in funding from more than 300 private sector partners, including automotive manufacturers, energy storage companies, utilities, bioenergy companies, solar providers, and aerospace companies. Sunnyvale, California). De Nora Tech, LLC (Concord, Ohio).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The new ARPA-E selections focus on accelerating innovations in clean technology while increasing US competitiveness in rare earth alternatives and breakthroughs in biofuels, thermal storage, grid controls, and solar power electronics. Solar ADEPT: Solar Agile Delivery of Electrical Power Technology ($14.7 Description.

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Charged EVs

MAY 31, 2022

Total control of power usage: from solar to EV and back to the house. Once an EV can double as a stationary storage device, it will take its place as part of an energy ecosystem that includes rooftop solar and energy management—and could even become a source of revenue for owners and a valuable grid-balancing resource for utilities.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Marc is an advocate for clean energy, drives a Tesla Model S 100D, has solar panels and two Tesla Power Walls. Most recently, he implemented strategies that secured approximately $30 million in funding for local government entities and non-profits in California, Texas, New Mexico, Louisiana, and the District of Columbia.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Marc is an advocate for clean energy, drives a Tesla Model S 100D, has solar panels and two Tesla Power Walls. Most recently, he implemented strategies that secured approximately $30 million in funding for local government entities and non-profits in California, Texas, New Mexico, Louisiana, and the District of Columbia.

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Charged EVs

JULY 29, 2021

During previous tech revolutions, third-party contractors emerged to provide turnkey services to companies for things like data centers and solar installations. You would have a solar developer figure out all that for you and install it, and for large enough deployments, you would do a 20-year solar PPA.

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Charged EVs

APRIL 19, 2023

Zeem is able to offer a cost per mile below that of diesel, thanks to California subsidies. I started bringing these vehicles to fleets in New York, New Jersey and California. And they assigned us every bit of capacity that was available on the grid. There are some areas of California where you can get really good power access.

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Charging Fleet Electric Electrical 70

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2013

If every home in the US were to implement these energy-saving technologies, it would be the equivalent of taking all the homes in California, New York and Texas off the power grid (32 million homes). Rooftop solar systems enable families to generate renewable energy and save money on utility bills.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Direct Solar Fuels (5 projects). Planar Na-beta Batteries for Renewable Integration and Grid Applications. Eagle Picher, in partnership with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, will develop a new generation of high energy, low cost planar liquid sodium beta batteries for grid scale electrical power storage applications.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 25, 2022

lawmakers established the RFS in 2005 and expanded it in 2007, well before solar panels, wind turbines, and electric vehicles became the stalwarts of decarbonization they are today. In the world of aviation, for instance, battery tech hasn’t quite advanced to a point that would make electric flights feasible. Nunes believes so.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Electric cars and a smart electric grid have a bright future, according to panelists at a roundtable discussion on the subject that I attended last Friday in Boston. “I Vehicle-to-grid is, I believe, the salvation of the automotive industry in the United States,” declared Marc Spitzer, an agency commissioner who was also on the panel.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Cleantech Blog Cleantechblog.com, the premier cleantech site for commentary on news and technology relating to clean tech, greentech, energy, climate change and carbon, and the environment. Solar, Wind and Biofuels Grew 53 Percent in 2008 Green Education = Environmental Religion? Smart meters and substations will be integral.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Lithium-ion battery recycling took a big step forward this week, as a Hawaiian utility announced it is undertaking one of the biggest examples of grid-storage recycling in North America to date. By electric grid standards, Anahola’s 4-megawatt-hour storage facility is not big. So the idea is, buy it once and keep it here.”

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Grid Lithium Ion Batteries Battery 69

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

It is aggressively in talks with Portland General Electric Plug-In Charging Stations , ( POR ) and other states including Michigan, and California that are scrambling to offer incentives. There are choices for 110 volt versus 220 volt, slow versus quick charges, and solar options.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Additionally, I had a close frind out in California that just about creamed in his pants when he was able to lease one. Hybrids are a proven winner, but a series-hybrid (range extended EV), such as the Volt takes things to a much higher level with existing and "mostly" affordable tech. Wired Home Subscribe Sections Cars 2.0

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