Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2014

The international media launch of the BMW i8 in Los Angeles will include the presentation of a solar carport concept developed by BMW Group DesignworksUSA for the use of renewable energy. It combines high-grade technology for generating electricity from solar power with an innovative design that complements the BMW i models.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 26, 2017

The purchase of an electric car that plugs into the power grid to recharge its battery often gets drivers thinking about the source of their energy. We haven't seen data from recent years looking at the overlap between electric-car drivers and home solar panels.

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Solar Electric Cars Power Grid Recharge 160

Cars That Think

JANUARY 8, 2024

In this category, my things-to-look-at list includes new variations of spatial audio, more efficient solar cells and other energy harvesters, a neural network based on insect brains, and a silicon micromotor. Look Ma, no plug! This EV runs on solar Get around town in Squad Mobility’s plugless Solar Buggy.

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Solar Golf Cart Netherlands Price 112

EV Box

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Solar EV chargers are no different from regular home chargers for your electric car, with one exception: they can optimize your charging process to use as much solar energy as possible Solar panels installed on your property collect the energy of the sun and convert it into usable AC electricity.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 9, 2021

Lightyear’s solar car is set up to outdo Tesla on efficiency. This and more, here at Green Car Reports. After yesterday’s announcements heralding electric muscle cars from Dodge. Stellantis, the parent of Dodge, Jeep, and many more brands, is hatching some big electric vehicle plans.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2019

Japan’s NEDO, Sharp Corporation, and Toyota Motor Corporation plan to begin public road trials of electrified vehicles equipped with high-efficiency solar batteries from late July 2019. Toyota installed this panel on the roof, hood, rear hatch door, and other parts of its Prius PHV and produced a demo car for public road trials.

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Solar Toyota Batteries Battery 236

Green Car Reports

MARCH 15, 2022

Volvo boosts the electric range of its plug-in hybrids. And Sono Motors says its solar car is on pace. This and more, here at Green Car Reports. The whole suite of Volvo plug-in hybrids are due to get a range boost—now up to 41 electric miles—with a larger 18.8-kwh kwh battery.

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Hummer Volvo Range PHEV 167

Teslarati

MARCH 15, 2023

Tesla is going to let owners of its electric vehicles charge their cars using excess solar energy that has accumulated throughout the day and can’t be stored in a Powerwall, coding in its smartphone app seems to reveal. Then reserve part of your vehicle’s battery to charge only when excess solar is available.”

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 31, 2024

4 will now include Plug&Charge at Electrify America (EA) charging stations. Plug&Charge for 2023 VW ID.4s 4 owners will need to activate the feature in the Electrify America app and that the Plug&Charge feature will be available “starting in early 2024.” The post VW finally rolls out Plug&Charge on its 2023 ID.4s

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My Energi

MARCH 13, 2023

In 2022, domestic solar installations tripled the rates recorded in 2021. ” “At myenergi, we believe that any EV driver who either has solar panels – or has the opportunity to install them in the future – should invest in a solar-compatible charger.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 8, 2019

While Toyota has been skeptical of electric cars, the carmaker is expressing optimism about technology that can supplement plugging in: solar.

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Prius Solar Toyota Japan 151

Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

We look at the shortlist of safest electric cars and plug-in hybrids. The Sono Sion solar car is no more. And will worries over gasoline-car resale value drive subscription models? This and more, here at Green Car Reports. Sono Motors announced that the Sono Sion solar car project has been terminated.

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PHEV Solar Gasoline-Electric Cars 93

Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Tesla’s first solar-powered V4 Supercharger station might be coming to Yuma County, Arizona. 40 stalls, plus two 4500 square foot solar arrays and a Megapack are planned on a new vacant lot by the Dateland Travel Center, right along Interstate 8 on the SD -> Tucson route. It will have 40 stalls. ft (418 sqm) on the premises.

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Arizona Solar Power Powered 98

Green Car Reports

JUNE 11, 2022

Which “expensive” electric car did a Senator drive to Washington, D.C.? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending June 10, 2022. How many miles apart is the federal government asking for EV fast-chargers?

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Cadillac Washington Fisker Plug-in 114

Green Car Reports

MAY 15, 2014

Today on Green Car Reports: Chevy tweaks the Spark EV for 2015, a solar road company turns to crowdfunding (and is doing pretty well so far) and Rolls-Royce starts work on its plug-in Phantom. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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2015 Plug-in Solar Plug 135

Green Car Reports

JUNE 13, 2021

This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending June 12, 2021. Which upcoming full-size pickup has the operating footprint of an 85 mpg gasoline vehicle? Hint: It just might be electric. Last weekend Tesla CEO Elon Musk confirmed the cancellation of the.

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Aptera Plug-in Lexus MPG 167

Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Today, we've got a different approach to electric trucks, a complicated combustion engine, more solar power, a plug-in future Ford, and some worries about U.S. All this and more on Green Car Reports. Over the weekend, as we do every seven days, we ran down last week's most important green-car stories. competitiveness.

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Plug-in Solar Escape Future 86

EV Connect

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

If you know anything about how electric cars work, you know that they operate via a lithium-ion battery. The battery is recharged by plugging the car into an EV charging station. But did you know there are different types of electric car plugs, and each one has different capabilities, costs and charging speeds?

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Plug Connect Connected Electric Cars 87

Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Aptera says you won’t have to plug in. Volvo’s first electric car is on our annual shortlist. This and more, here at Green Car Reports. Toyota finally confirms some electric vehicles on the way. And Canoo is planning to show another electric van—this one for making deliveries.

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Aptera Toyota Recharge Solar 137

Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Electric cars and residential solar energy are intertwined. In a decade, says a new report, increased demand for plug-in cars could also drive down the cost of home solar so much that not only would subsidies no longer be necessary, but neither.'

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Electric Cars are for Girls

MAY 23, 2011

If I converted a car/truck to electric I would want it to be plug in and/or solar re-chargeable. Is that a major deal to do? It would seem not, since

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Plug-in Solar Plug Electric Cars 102

Green Car Reports

JUNE 11, 2022

Which “expensive” electric car did a Senator drive to Washington, D.C.? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending June 10, 2022. How many miles apart is the federal government asking for EV fast-chargers?

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Plug-in Washington Fisker Solar 102

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Mercedes-Benz Cars has opened a factory for plug-in hybrid (PHEV) batteries in the Bangkok region in Thailand. In doing so, the partners are responding to the high demand for electric mobility and, in particular, for plug-in hybrid vehicles in Thailand. The aim is a carbon neutral new car fleet until 2039.

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Mercedes PHEV Thailand Production 221

Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2014

KCCS) have installed a Solar Cycle Station for EV at the headquarters of Shintec Hozumi Co., Kyocera’s “Solar Cycle Station” is a solar-powered recharging station—originally launched for electric-assisted bicycles in 2010—that uses the company’s high performance solar modules. in Aichi Prefecture, Japan.

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Recharge Solar Installation Power 199

Get Electric Vehicle

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

In December 2022, the Dutch automaker Lightyear made news worldwide by revealing that it had started producing the first solar vehicleavailable for purchase: the Lightyear 0.  But the car would cost you more than a quarter of a million dollars to own. But what about Lightyear 2? ” and is intended for a completely new market.

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Solar Vehicles Re-Charge Portugal 52

Electrek

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Then, since today’s kit includes a solar panel you won’t have to worry about plugging the system back into a wall or car to charge and can enjoy that off-grid life for longer. more… The post Jackery’s Explorer 290 and SolarSaga 100W solar panel bundle together at $430 in New Green Deals appeared first on Electrek.

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Solar Green Kits Grid 85

Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2014

The University of California, Riverside is opening its Sustainable Integrated Grid Initiative to research the integration of: intermittent renewable energy, such as photovoltaic solar panels; energy storage, such as batteries; and all types of electric and hybrid electric vehicles. Solar carport. 27 electric vehicle charging stations.

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Grid Solar Energy Energy Storage 287

Green Car Reports

AUGUST 22, 2019

Walmart sues Tesla over solar panel fires at its stores. And we run down the best deals on plug-in, hybrid, and electric cars. All this and more on Green Car Reports. Mercedes-Benz released a new electric van. A new survey shows the top reasons consumers avoid buying EVs.

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Mercedes Solar Tesla Cars 69

Baua Electric

JANUARY 1, 2024

Energy Information Administration (EIA) expects combined electricity generation from solar and wind to exceed coal for the first time in 2024. Solar alone is expected to increase 39% from 2023 thanks to continual increases in generating capacity, according to the EIA. Offshore wind farm And as noticed by Ars Technica , the U.S.

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Cleaner Plug-in Gas Price 52

CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 1, 2022

For example, in Europe, 13% of new car sales were electric (21% plug-ins) last […]. As the world moves to electrify the transport sector, a lot of progress has been made in the passenger vehicle segment. In fact, the transition to electric mobility is happening a lot faster than a lot of people thought it would.

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Solar Diesel Fleet Motor 101

Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

A longtime reader and plug-in car owner lays out an effective roadmap for going solar. And Green Car Reports has seen. Tesla and Electrify America reach an agreement to install Tesla stationary battery storage at some EA DC fast-charge stations.

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Mercedes Solar Diesel Tesla 72

CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 5, 2023

of new cars sold in Australia in April 2023 were fitted with a plug. That means all those Australians with solar on the roof can operate their cars for zero dollars, saving money, having fun, and being kind […] Great news: 9.5% We are close to 10% penetration! The growth appears to mainly be in PHEVs.

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Australia PHEV Solar Plug-in 144

Green Car Congress

MARCH 29, 2018

Hitachi’s V2X Charger is the first recharger that not only recharges an electric car but can also discharge the energy back into the building/grid providing different flexibilities including kW, ?kW, The car battery therefore acts as an energy storage source, as well as an emergency power supply. kW, kWh and VAR.

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 7, 2022

While in some cases it’s actually true (the most expensive of charge points vs. the most efficient of internal combustion cars, like my 2008 MINI Cooper Clubman that often gets almost 40 MPG), for the most part these are just hit pieces to sow controversy and generate revenue on ad-heavy websites. Yes, we still do occasionally gas up.

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Plug-in Plug Charging Cost Of 87

Green Car Reports

JUNE 4, 2013

drivers with plug-in electric cars, it''s widely noted that a lot of them charge their cars using photovoltaic solar arrays. But which comes first, using solar power or buying an electric car? Remember that environmental concerns are just one of several reasons to buy an electric car.

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Solar Electric Cars Buy Cars 136

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Toyota unveiled the all-new Prius in a livestream event from Japan, with Series Parallel Hybrid (HEV) models to launch in winter this year and Plug-in Hybrid (PHEV) models to launch in spring 2023. liter Plug-in Hybrid System. Plug-in Hybrid System (2.0-liter The Prius was first launched in 1997. liter Prototype).

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The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Photo credit: Nick Starichenko / Shutterstock.com Contrary to common misconceptions , electric vehicles (EVs) generally have a smaller carbon footprint compared to traditional gasoline cars. This advantage remains true even when considering the electricity utilized for charging EVs.

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