Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

BMW, Ford, and Honda on Tuesday announced a new company focusing on vehicle-to-grid (V2G) EV charging, which the partners claim will benefit both EV owners and electric utilities. and Canada with. Called ChargeScape, the company aims to start operations in 2024, pending regulatory approval.

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OCTOBER 18, 2020

Canada investing $20M in Terrestrial Energy to support development of Integral Molten Salt SMR. Canada’s Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, Hon. Navdeep Bains, announced a $20 million investment in Terrestrial Energy to accelerate development of the company’s Integral Molten Salt Reactor (IMSR) power plant.

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JULY 18, 2019

Canada’s Minister of Natural Resources, Amarjeet Sohi, announced a new $4.5-million million Impact Canada challenge aimed at accelerating made-in-Canada battery innovation to better position the country in the highly competitive global market.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

In an announcement on Wednesday, the University of Queensland (UQ) in Australia stated that it would be recruiting Tesla owners across the globe to analyze if the all-electric vehicles’ spare battery capacity could be utilized to support the energy grid — and perhaps even power homes in the near future.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The megawatt-level energy storage system combined with a solar canopy goes a step further than Electrify America’s existing BESS in managing energy costs and reducing stress on the grid by acting as a buffer to supplement power to charging stations when local utilities limit the amount of power a station can draw from the grid.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 26, 2023

Raven SR, a renewable fuels company ( earlier post ), and Cap Clean Energy, a clean energy development company headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to co-develop biofuels facilities in Canada to produce sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and renewable diesel (RD) for the heavy duty transport sector.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2017

Leclanché North America, part of Switzerland's Leclanché SA; eCAMION, based in Toronto; and SGEM, based in Geneva; will partner to develop and to install a network of 34 fast-charging stations along the Trans-Canada Highway (TCH). The project, designed to encourage the adoption of electric vehicles in Canada, entails an investment of C$17.3

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AUGUST 1, 2012

Battelle has purchased equity in the specialty grid management company Gridquant to support Battelle’s commitment to bring breakthrough modeling and analysis technologies to the electricity transmission market, including Gridquant’s patented Holomorphic Embedding Load-Flow Method (HELM). Earlier post.).

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AUGUST 31, 2021

Collins Bus has deployed more than 70,000 buses over the last 50 years across the United States and Canada. The buses will support both Level 2 AC charging and Level 3 DC fast charging, with integrated vehicle-to-grid (V2G) capabilities. These buses travel a total of nearly 3.5

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Tesla nickel supplier BHP announced that construction on one of the world’s largest off-grid mining solar and battery energy storage systems has started. TransAlta, a clean energy provider in Canada, the United States, and Australia, will help power BHP’s Nickel West assets, specifically its Mt. MW solar farm at Mt.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2023

Dahn held the position of NSERC/Tesla Canada Industrial Research Chair with Dalhousie University from 2016 to 2021. He is now Principal Investigator of the NSERC/Dalhousie/Tesla Canada Alliance Grant which will run until at least 2026. Dahn was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2020. In 2021, Prof. Previously, Prof.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2023

This is the first commercial contract for a grid-scale SMR in North America. We can’t express our appreciation enough for the leadership role that OPG and the Province of Ontario are taking for a project that will benefit Ontario, Canada and the world. GEH has also begun the licensing process for the BWRX-300 in the UK.

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AUGUST 14, 2023

Canada-based General Fusion announced a new Magnetized Target Fusion (MTF) machine that will fast-track the company’s technical progress. An animation showing how General Fusion’s Magnetized Target Fusion technology works. the “first wall” issue), fuel production, simple energy conversion, and commercial production economics.

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JUNE 10, 2021

Industrial gases leader Air Products, and its subsidiary Air Products Canada Ltd., in conjunction with the Government of Canada and the Province of Alberta, announced a multi-billion dollar plan to build a landmark new net-zero blue hydrogen energy complex. The company’s technologies are used in over 1.5

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Canada plans to end the sale of fossil-burners by 2035, and policymakers are looking to the Scandinavian country for answers to the many questions about what it will take to go fully electric. “The The anti-EV crowd cites these as deal-killers, but Norway provides a model for how Canada can meet them.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2013

Battelle has agreed to extend its existing relationship with Gridquant ( earlier post ) and become the exclusive distributor of Gridquant software in the United States, US territories, Canada and India. HELM-based applications are critical for reducing blackouts and saving money today and enabling the next-generation grid.

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AUGUST 12, 2022

INNIO’s Jenbacher engines will allow the Raven facility to generate a significant amount of their own electricity, reducing demand on California’s electrical grid. INNIO is headquartered in Jenbach (Austria), with other primary operations in Waukesha (Wisconsin) and Welland (Ontario, Canada). —Matt Murdock, CEO of Raven SR.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2022

The teams will also use a combination of on-board sensors and bidirectional vehicle-to-everything connectivity to enable the export of electricity from electric vehicle batteries to other loads such as recreational uses, homes, or supporting the electrical grid. McMaster University (Hamilton, Ontario, Canada).

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FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Battelle has signed an exclusive licensing and collaboration agreement with the specialty grid management company Gridquant , bringing Gridquant’s advanced modeling and analysis technologies to the electricity transmission market. Gridquant Introduction from Gridquant on Vimeo. With HELM, they’ll have a GPS.

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MARCH 22, 2012

These partnerships will be supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI), and National Research Council Canada (NRC). GM Canada, and Hydrogenics. GM Canada, and Hydrogenics. The newly funded projects are: Low Platinum PEM Fuel Cells.

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MAY 16, 2023

Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL), Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL) and Global First Power (GFP) announced that GFP has selected a location at the Chalk River Laboratories to site its proposed Micro-Modular Reactor (MMR) project.

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JULY 26, 2023

Enerkem, a producer of bio-methanol from mixed waste at commercial scale, and Dimeta, a joint venture between the two of the largest off-grid energy suppliers, are initiating feasibility studies for the development of two large-scale projects that will convert waste into renewable and recycled carbon dimethyl ether (DME).

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JULY 11, 2022

Canada-based Moment Energy, a start-up created by four Simon Fraser University alumni, has established a supply agreement with Mercedes-Benz Energy (MBE) for second-life electric vehicle batteries. This marks the first agreement Mercedes-Benz Energy has signed with a North American second-life energy storage system (ESS) provider.

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JANUARY 20, 2016

Hecate Canada Storage II, LLP, an emerging Canadian Project Development and Electrical Systems Integrator, has selected Switzerland-based Leclanché as the exclusive partner to provide 13MW / 53MWh Li-ion battery Energy Storage Systems in one of the largest Grid Ancillary Services energy storage projects in North America.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2022

GWP processing routes using both grid-mix electricity and renewable electricity were evaluated in-line with LCA best-practice and Global Battery Alliance requirements for the battery passport. The main contributors to the estimated carbon footprint of HPEMM produced in China are the embodied emissions from the electricity grid mix.

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OCTOBER 12, 2020

With its electric-powered school sales up more than 250% in fiscal 2020 compared with last year, and an ever-increasing interest from school districts and fleet operators across the US and Canada, Blue Bird is ramping up its electric bus production capacity to 1,000 units annually to meet the anticipated growth in demand.

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DECEMBER 21, 2021

It also identifies area trends and emerging issues that affect the long-term reliability and security of the grid. NERC’s area of responsibility spans the continental United States, Canada, and the northern portion of Baja California, Mexico. NERC develops and enforces Reliability Standards; annually assesses seasonal and long?

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JUNE 30, 2016

As one of the outcomes of the “Three Amigos” meeting in Ottawa, Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, US President Barack Obama, and Mexico President Enrique Peña Nieto committed to an “ambitious and enduring” North American Climate, Clean Energy, and Environment Partnership. Short-lived climate pollutants.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL), Canada’s premier nuclear science and technology organization, and General Fusion have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to pursue a series of joint projects to accelerate the deployment of commercial fusion power in Canada.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2012

UPA is a full service utility contractor focused on the management of large scale Smart Grid, Demand Response and Alternative Energy implementation projects and Home Warranty service programs. UPA serves water, gas and electric utilities throughout the United States and Canada.

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JULY 27, 2014

Hydrogenics Corporation, a leading developer and manufacturer of hydrogen generation and hydrogen-based power modules, was selected by the Independent Electricity System Operator ( IESO ) for Ontario as one of five grid storage projects. IESO grid storage projects. —Daryl Wilson, CEO of Hydrogenics. Lead organization. Technology.

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APRIL 29, 2022

The new capital will be used to support FreeWire’s growth plans as the company accelerates commercial deployments of its battery-integrated ultrafast EV charging technology and increases manufacturing capacity to meet growing global customer demand, including high priority markets such as the UK, Canada, Japan, and Australia/New Zealand.

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JANUARY 15, 2010

Mitsubishi Motor Sales of Canada Inc. It will also allow Hydro-Québec to evaluate the challenges involved in integrating electric vehicles into its grid. This trial is designed to study the vehicles’ charging behaviour, driving experience as well as overall driver satisfaction. Thierry Vandal.

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Electric vehicles have a number of benefits that gas-powered ones do not. To name just a few, they have zero direct toxic emissions, they produce very little road noise, they have fewer moving parts that need replacement or repairs, and in some cases their batteries can be re-purposed for second life use in stationary energy […].

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Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2021

Suncor Energy is Canada’s leading integrated energy company, with a global team of more than 30,000 people. Suncor’s operations include oil sands development, production and upgrading, offshore oil and gas, and petroleum refining in Canada and the US. A sanctioning decision is expected in 2024.

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JULY 16, 2015

New work by a team at Simon Fraser University (SFU) in Canada has found that more than one-third of Canadian buyers want a plug-in vehicle (PEV), with the majority of those (89—93%) wanting a plug-in hybrid rather than a pure electric vehicle. Impact of constraints on PEV sales in British Columbia, 2020. Source: “Electrifying Vehicles”.

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CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 28, 2022

A new collaboration between FreeWire Technologies (FreeWire) and Parkland Corporation (Parkland) will offer easy access to ultrafast EV charging across British Columbia, Canada. The fully integrated charger operates using a low-voltage grid […].

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