Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2019

Professor Kondo-Francois Aguey-Zinsou and his team at UNSW’s School of Chemical Engineering have developed a system that provides cheap storage and transportation of hydrogen which they expect will provide a new alternative for energy storage within two years. —Professor Aguey-Zinsou.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 12, 2023

As countries transition away from fossil fuels to green sources of energy like wind and solar, there will be natural lulls in energy production due to weather conditions. Electric cars need lots of batteries, laptops need lots of batteries. It’s a rare material, and lots of places need batteries,” Liu said.

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The Truth About Cars

AUGUST 18, 2023

Adding the third pedal might make the car a bit more engaging to drive, but it doesn’t really change much else. The handling remains scalpel-sharp, and the ride remains sports-car stiff but tolerable enough for most commuting duty. There’s still wind buffeting at speed with the windows down, and the roofline is still a head-knocker.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 30, 2022

It’s about one-twentieth the size of the minibus-scale geostationary satellites already in orbit, allowing for cheap and quick deployment. United States’ Wind on the Wire The largest renewable-energy infrastructure project in U.S. history— an $8 billion wind farm and transmission line —is set to begin construction in 2023.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2014

The technology could fundamentally transform the way electricity is stored on the grid, making power from renewable energy sources such as wind and sun far more economical and reliable. Solid-electrode batteries maintain discharge at peak power for far too short a time to fully regulate wind or solar power output. —Michael J.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 19, 2021

We confirmed the news with Intel directly on Wednesday, and Intel provided us with the following statement: We are winding down our RealSense business and transitioning our computer vision talent, technology and products to focus on advancing innovative technologies that better support our core businesses and IDM 2.0

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The biggest leap forward happened in 2012 when it was discovered that USB stick TV tuners using the RTL2832U demodulator chip could be tapped to make very cheap but effective SDR receivers. Building off the demand stimulated by this activity, a number of manufacturers have started making premium, but still relatively cheap, SDRs.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Analysts and power insiders sketch scenes including interconnected local renewable grids that draw on short-duration battery storage (including the small batteries in electric vehicles in a garage, models for which Tesla just happens to make) combined with multi-day storage for power generated by wind and solar.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Imagine using cheap wind- and solar-generated electricity to pull carbon out of the atmosphere and turn it into feedstock for large-scale 3D printing of building components. And as 3D printing progresses to larger and stronger components, even the structural elements will be freed from the tyranny of perpendicularity.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 27, 2024

Few automakers are as on-point with their design game at the moment as Genesis, and the automaker’s first electric car is no exception. Once the Midwest temperatures dropped down into the upper 20s to lower 30s with strong 30-35 mph wind gusts the efficiency took a hit with a final average of 2.7 miles per kwh. Still not bad.

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The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Hurricanes are brutal forces of nature that involve whipping winds, flying debris, and extremely choppy waters. Smoothness doesn’t often come cheap, after all. Get the latest& news, features,& TTAC& takes, and everything else that gets to the truth about cars first by& subscribing to our& newsletter.

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EV Info

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Wind farms stand idle for days on end, a fire interrupts a vital cable from France, a combination of post-Covid economic recovery and Russia tightening supply means the gas price has shot through the roof – and so the market price of both home heating and electricity is rocketing. This was plain wrong. Gas is the only answer.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 24, 2023

Now residential and commercial buildings can be outfitted with roofing tiles that double as solar panels, or with rooftop boxes like this low-profile unit that transforms gusts of wind into electric current. This WindBox turbine, installed on the roof of a building in Rouen, France, is 1.6

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 18, 2023

A Battery for Heat Made from Sand Noted chemical engineer Donald Sadoway is quoted as saying: “If you want to make a dirt-cheap battery, you have to make it out of dirt.” The electrical grid also supports the efficient distribution of power and makes use of energy generated through renewable means like wind and solar.

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EV Info

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The UK has been a leader in deploying on and offshore wind turbines. What we have not done so well is to ensure that we have a solid base level of generation to supply electricity when there is no sun and no wind. At the time of writing, mid-morning 21 Sept, we have: Wind 9%. Nuclear 15%. Biomass 5%. See [link]. No Fracking.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 20, 2024

In January, a quiet and thrifty time of year, I trusted parks and preserves, unsung hotels and small businesses to keep things economical, even if sampling the variety of Monterey — ranging from historic cities to redwood forests, tide pools and vineyards — required renting a car ($175).

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Cars That Think

APRIL 15, 2022

Especially for sources like wind and solar, which have discontinuous availability. They used nickel and aluminium as materials for the cathode and anode respectively, with sodium aluminium tetrachloride (NaAlCl 4 ) as the molten-salt electrolyte—all relatively cheap, earth-abundant materials.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2018

A battery, based on electrodes made of sodium and nickel chloride and using thea new type of metal mesh membrane, could be used for grid-scale installations to make intermittent power sources such as wind and solar capable of delivering reliable baseload electricity.

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Clean Fleet Report

DECEMBER 25, 2021

The 2022 Kia Rio S is a small car with much going for it. Low-cost but not cheap. When the engine is winding-out at the highest rpms it can be bit noisy. The UVO telematics allows for remote setting of the climate control, locking and unlocking the doors, Find My Car, and other convenience features. Drivetrain.

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Baua Electric

MAY 21, 2024

This is by no means cheap, but is relatively competitive with the higher-end wake boats from companies like Nautique or Malibu (Nautique has its own electric wake boat , which starts at $312k). And, like in electric cars, an electric motor has high torque at zero rpm, which means it has… A LOT OF GET-UP-AND-GO.

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Driivz

MAY 15, 2023

Most cars sit in parking lots during the day. With V2B, facilities that offer EV charging at the workplace can also draw power from multiple cars during an outage. Consumers can also reduce home energy costs and help balance the grid by charging EVs during off-peak hours and using EV battery power during peak hours.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 19, 2022

And it’s cheap—there’s not a lot of competition with anyone looking to buy mercury. Bender says that ZMWG, alongside PEER, caught wind of Apollo Fusion marketing its mercury-based thrusters to at least three companies deploying LEO constellations—One Web, Planet Labs, and SpaceX.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2015

These batteries make smartphones, laptops, tablets, electric cars and even solar energy practical.”. The lithium, found in salty water, or brines, is the most cost-effective on the market; it’s cheap and easy to extract, giving competing battery gigafactories new, affordable American lithium resources that will be a global game-changer.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2015

During the late innings of the ICE-age (as in the Internal Combustion Engine age) it has become clear that feeding gasoline and diesel to the next billion new cars is not going to be easy, or cheap. New cars in 2015 get 25 mpg.) But suppose your new car is up to current Chinese standards (~35 mpg). Click to enlarge.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 17, 2023

Since the 1980s, a permanent magnet based on a compound of neodymium, iron, and boron (NdFeB) , has dominated high-performance applications, including motors, smartphones, loudspeakers, and wind-turbine generators. There are more than a score of permanent magnets that use no, or not much, rare-earth elements.

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Driivz

AUGUST 30, 2023

When a vehicle is charging using smart charging, communication is established between the charger, the car, the charging operator’s smart EV charging and energy management platform, and also possibly the electricity provider. Or you can store grid energy in the batteries when it is cheap and use it to meet peak needs.

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Plug In Partners

FEBRUARY 15, 2006

automotive fuel economy, the key to greatly reducing oil use and carbon emissions is gas-electric hybrid cars. The average new car sold in the United States last year got 22 miles to the gallon, compared with 55 miles per gallon for the Toyota Prius. And the third is a systematic effort to restore natural systems. This could cut U.S.

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Plugs and Cars

JUNE 9, 2011

It had few private cars. Not very many years ago, tens of millions of Chinese packed themselves regularly into unairconditioned, slat-seatted box cars to get to work and visit family during holidays, enduring trips of more than 24 hours. Cars will undoubtedly be the last piece of the electric transportation matrix in China.

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EV Central

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Car design has become increasingly uniform this past decade, so it’s refreshing to see something genuinely different. No locked-in price or confirmation of final specification, but we were promised the LHD Korean test cars we drove would basically feature the same equipment as Australian cars. Distinctive. Challenging.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2017

Cheap gas prices and a strong economy are creating increased goods movement and prompting Californians to drive more. million MTCO 2 e increase in GHG emissions; increase in emissions from passenger cars (+2.9 billion in 2014, up 0.08% from the previous year. million MTCO 2 e of the 4.9 of total electricity generation, up 1.8%

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Plugs and Cars

JULY 31, 2008

Once again, a conference on plug-in cars. All the wind farms and solar panels in the world won’t do anything to lower the outflow of hundreds billions of dollars annually or decrease our pump-fueled funding of Islamic fundamentalism unless we build cars that can use that cleaner electricity.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 19, 2009

A bus company on the Isle of Wight has launched its own version of the car scrappage scheme, offering motorists free travel on its buses for a year in exchange for their old banger. The government funded Car scrappage is a scheme that does nothing to tackle the fact that we have to encourage people to use their cars less.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 12, 2024

Back in October 2023, Europe launched its formal investigation into the Chinese EV industry, as European companies are struggling to compete with the cheap, high-tech Chinese imports – made by cheap labor – entering the European Union.

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Plugs and Cars

JUNE 2, 2007

What's most interesting, however, is how easy (and cheap) it is to do a carbon emission-free 200 mile day in a 100 mile range electric vehicle, my 5 year old Toyota RAV4 EV. Electric cars don't emit carbon (or anything else) as they drive, so there's one additional saving quite relevant to speaking at a rally decrying carbon emissions.

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The Truth About Cars

OCTOBER 20, 2023

.& While it would look much better as a separate piece of trim (like on most cars), the Corolla's design is one piece. Although it looks cheap, the feel of the door handle is more premium than you might expect. Although it looks cheap, the feel of the door handle is more premium than you might expect.

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Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

APRIL 2, 2009

Supported by the Knoxville EV Association, EVJerry’s time in East Tennessee will be to share knowledge and ideas of Plug In and Hybrid car technology. Plug-In EVs and Hybrids use renewable energy sources like solar, wind and hydro-power-electricity. He’s proved it’s Cheap to Plug-in Around America!

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Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 30, 2021

About those radio knobs and the climate control wheels: they are constructed using a cheap-feeling chromed plastic. The power-adjustable and heated exterior mirrors provided excellent rear visibility and were quiet going through the wind. These were the only drawbacks to this fine interior, but certainly not a deal breaker.

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