Teslarati

JUNE 3, 2021

A team of battery researchers at Canada’s Dalhousie University are the recipients of a $6 million grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC). Tesla renews contract with Jeff Dahn’s battery team at Dalhousie University. The NSERC will give the team, headed by Dr. Jeff Dahn, $2.9

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Researchers from London South Bank University (LSBU), School of the Built Environment and Architecture, are investigating the use of metal hydrides to absorb, release and store hydrogen for fuel cell buses. Thermal management for charging and releasing hydrogen from the storage system needs to be optimized to increase overall efficiency.

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MARCH 9, 2021

Instead of using machine learning just to speed up scientific analysis by looking for patterns in data—as typically done—the researchers combined it with knowledge gained from experiments and equations guided by physics to discover and explain a process that shortens the lifetimes of fast-charging lithium-ion batteries.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2011

Analysis by researchers at Rice University suggests that the theory that the release of massive amounts of carbon from methane hydrate frozen under the seafloor 56 million years ago drove a massive climate change incident—the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM)—is quite possible.

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JUNE 24, 2019

A 20% increase in UK-generated electricity would be required to charge the current 252.5 Last month, the Committee on Climate Change published a report— Net Zero: The UK’s Contribution to Stopping Global Warming —which concluded that “net zero is necessary, feasible and cost effective.”

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JULY 13, 2021

Now, a study from University of Michigan researchers shows that when, where and how those fleet vehicles are charged can greatly impact their potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The U-M researchers found that 50% to 80% of the lifetime emissions associated with an electric delivery vehicle’s battery occur during charging.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2020

Lane Transit District (LTD) in Oregon has awarded New Flyer a contract for 11 Xcelsior CHARGE battery-electric forty-foot heavy-duty transit buses, including seven ABB depot chargers to support electric bus infrastructure development. LTD has a longstanding commitment to sustainability.

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OCTOBER 28, 2022

The selected projects, led by universities, national laboratories, and the private sector aim to develop commercially scalable technologies that will enable greater domestic supplies of copper, nickel, lithium, cobalt, rare earth elements, and other critical elements. Columbia University. Harvard University.

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Drive Electric

JULY 28, 2021

You only have to look to the London Congestion Charge for proof of that. Faced with the rising threat of climate change, one of the government’s first major steps to combat dangerous levels of carbon dioxide emissions in the country was introduce the Congestion Charge. What is the London Congestion Charge?

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2022

Researchers at the University of Michigan have developed an optimized generic battery cycling framework that could reduce the time for both simulation and physical testing of new electric vehicle battery designs by about 75%. Testing each configuration usually means several months of fully charging and then fully discharging—i.e.,

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MARCH 25, 2014

The home, located on the West Village campus of the University of California, Davis, is capable of producing more energy on-site from renewable sources than it consumes annually, including enough energy to power a Honda Fit EV for daily commuting. DC-to-DC electric vehicle charging. Photo by Dorian Toy. Click to enlarge.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Water covers 72 percent of the Earth’s surface, its volumes host 80 percent of biodiversity and play a pivotal role in global phenomena, such as climate change. The adventure of the startup began at the University of Sapienza in Rome , where Professor Chiara Petrioli is in charge of a research laboratory. “We

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JANUARY 10, 2013

The California Energy Commission (CEC) approved funding to advance further the development of its pioneering 42 MW peak microgrid and expand electric vehicle charging at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). million award to increase its previously awarded funding of $1,394,298 for the university’s microgrid.

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APRIL 1, 2018

Now, a team of researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institut in Switzerland, with colleagues at Leiden University (Netherlands) and PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency have used Monte Carlo and global sensitivity analysis to quantify parametric uncertainty of the impacts. Credit: ACS, Cox et al. Click to enlarge.

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JANUARY 29, 2010

An new study from the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at Oxford University suggests that best way to reduce transport greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the short term is a “drastic downscaling of both size and weight” of conventional gasoline and diesel cars. Future of Mobility Roadmap.

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JULY 9, 2013

Car buyers are more likely to buy a plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) if they know that the electricity used to charge it is from a renewable energy source, according to a study in the IOP journal Environmental Research Letters (ERL).

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APRIL 14, 2016

Fast chargers allow vehicles to fully charge in 20 to 30 minutes. Level 2 chargers allow most vehicles to go from zero to full charge in four to eight hours. Several plug-in electric vehicle charging networks currently operate in metropolitan areas. The University of California, Irvine, administers the program.

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Improbable and unrealistic scenarios are excellent tools to explore the odder aspects of our universe. Schrödinger’s cat being both alive. continued] The post ICCT Hydrogen Trucking Scenario Would Require Europe To Ban All Electric Vehicles appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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OCTOBER 9, 2014

The Global Climate and Energy Project (GCEP) at Stanford University has awarded $10.5 Researchers will design self-healing polymers that can stretch to accommodate large volume changes in the battery during charge and discharge. Investigators: Zhenan Bao, Chemical Engineering; Yi Cui, Materials Science and Engineering.

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MAY 16, 2016

The Globe and Mail obtained a copy of the currently confidential 57-page Climate Change Action Plan, which lays out a strategy from 2017 to 2021. The province will also build more charging stations at government buildings and consider making electrical vehicle plug-ins mandatory on all new buildings.

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JULY 1, 2015

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) have published two new policy briefs, along with accompanying videos, about the benefits of electrified vehicles and the potential for their adoption in the US. Further, drivers should not be encouraged to charge at night in coal-heavy regions.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Since internal combustion engines will remain the primary mode of choice for mobility in the foreseeable future, both alternative (renewable) fuels and high-performance combustion concepts/ engines using fuels adapted for that purpose will be preferred for reducing the combustion impact on climate change.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Bank of America has joined Stanford University’s Global Climate & Energy Project (GCEP), a collaboration of academic and business experts that identifies and supports new avenues of research to make environmentally sustainable, low-cost energy available to everyone. Bank of America can help move GCEP technologies to commercialization.

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EV Life

JANUARY 1, 2020

Electric Car Charging. One of the biggest shifts from driving a gas car to an electric car is how the vehicle is refueled through electric car charging. Think about charging an electric car as similar to charging your smartphone, which like an electric car, is powered by lithium ion batteries. DC Fast Charge.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2020

Researchers at the University of Surrey (UK) are to begin work on a new lithium-ion battery technology that is capable of capturing CO 2 emissions, following a £243,689 award from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). However, the development of Li-CO 2 batteries is still in its infancy stage.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 24, 2023

After he graduated from the Federal University of Technology in Owerri, Nigeria, his plan was to get a high-paying job at one of the multinational oil and gas companies based in the country. That incident—as well as Orajaka’s new fascination with renewable energy technologies, specifically solar—changed his career trajectory.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

But we have demonstrated that by directly using power generated by the cold universe, we can chill water to cool buildings by as much as 5 ºC during the day without electricity and light the night without wires or batteries. Rather, the panels reach far beyond Earth’s atmosphere to tap the distant cold of deep space. Sound crazy?

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2012

Policy can assist by providing free charging using renewable energy at publicly accessed parking places, but investors will need to anticipate under-utilization of charging infrastructure until the market matures. Nature Climate Change 2, 328–333 doi: 10.1038/nclimate1429. —Tran et al. —Tran et al.

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AUGUST 17, 2021

Addressing climate change requires not only a clean electrical grid, but also a clean fuel to reduce emissions from industrial heat, long-haul heavy transportation, and long-duration energy storage. Ravi Prasher is an Adjunct Professor at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Get Electric Vehicle

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The main type of battery used is Lithium-ion and when the charge is depleted the batteries can be recharged again. EVS: How They Are Helping Us In developed countries like the US, transportation is the main cause of climate pollution. To address this issue people should change to more sustainable modes of transportation.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2021

A group of 13 researchers from the University of California system have offered to assist the California Air Resources Board (ARB) with its analysis of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction data resulting from state programs and also to develop better long-term data collection and analysis tools. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2018

Encouraging the use of low-carbon alternatives is an essential part of meeting climate change targets as well as improving local air quality and health. More than 90% of such vehicles are powered by internal combustion engines burning oil-derived fuels. —Charlie Wilson.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2014

Researchers from Uppsala University, KTH and the University of Bologna have reported that during a 32-day test, an “E-Cat” reactor developed by Andrea Rossi ( earlier post ) released an abundance of heat that cannot be explained by chemical reactions alone. The outer surface of the body of the E-Cat is molded in triangular ridges, 2.3

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

After considering a wide range of possible strategies to reduce light-duty vehicle greenhouse gas emissions, a team from Carnegie Mellon University, RAND Corporation and the University of Toronto has concluded that no one strategy will be sufficient to meet GHG emissions reduction goals to avoid climate change.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Such standards may include, but are not limited to, adopting universal signage, common methods of payment and interoperability of electric vehicle charging networks, and reciprocity among states for ZEV incentives, such as preferential parking and HOV lane access. This has not been easy. well as lawsuits. We have overcome it all.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 16, 2024

Early government investment in charging infrastructure went a long way toward soothing the range anxiety that made car buyers in other places reluctant to make the switch to battery power from gasoline or diesel. Rapson, a professor at the University of California, Davis. “It

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 22, 2023

Singh’s work is generally being used in non-Deere applications, such as a battery-charging system connected to distributed energy resources like solar, wind, and diesel generators. This institution became the Madan Mohan Malaviya University of Technology in 2013). Watch this video of a 944K in action.

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