Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Hybricon (Umeå, Sweden), co-developer of the Arctic Whisper fast-charged hybrid bus ( earlier post ), won the Future Transport Award in the category of Public Transport during the bi-annual Elmia Future Transport Fair in Sweden. The Arctic Whisper’s hybrid bus batteries are fast-charged by the Opbrid B?sbaar

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Blink Charging

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Unlike internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles, which can easily use gas stations all over the country, EV charging infrastructure can still be hard to find outside major cities. Charging stations at hotels are especially valuable addition in the rural areas mentioned earlier. With more than 4.2 Here’s what you need to know.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

The new electric Harley-Davidson LiveWire electric motorcycle—originally unveiled in Milwaukee during the company’s 115 th Anniversary this past Labor Day weekend—made its European debut at the Milan press conference of the EICMA show.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2011

A paper on their work was published in the January issue of the Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology ; the team had presented a poster on their material at the 3 rd International Conference on Advanced Lithium Batteries for Automobile Application ( ABAA-3 ) held at Hanyang University in Seoul, Korea in September 2010. Development of.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 26, 2010

(AV), a leading developer and supplier of electric vehicle charging infrastructure, to pursue demonstration and commercial projects using AV’s level III fast-charge system and the THINK City electric vehicle to jump-start the development of fast-charge infrastructure in the United States. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2010

Earlier this year, Nissan Nissan North America (NNA) selected AeroVironment to supply electric vehicle home-charging stations and installation services supporting the introduction of the LEAF. Aerovironment’s home charging dock. The company offers a broad range of Level 1, 2 and 3 charging solutions. Click to enlarge.

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Plug In Partners

JUNE 26, 2007

G oogle proved it is serious about Plug Ins with its new Recharge IT initiative. Clean energy technology can dramatically shift how we make and use energy for our cars and homes by charging cars through an electric grid powered by solar or other renewable energy sources, and selling power back to the electric grid when it’s needed most.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2010

A study by Jonn Axsen and Ken Kurani from the Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Davis, estimates electricity and gasoline use under three recharging scenarios. Drivers are assumed to immediately plug-in and recharge whenever they are parked within 25 ft of an electrical outlet. —Axsen and Kurani. Plug and play.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

APRIL 1, 2010

In the case of electric cars, time-shifting the recharge to late at night is important because recharging effectively a home’s daytime energy usage. When Ford’s first all-electric car, the Ford Focus Electric, ships in 2011, the recharging system will be remotely managed by Microsoft.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2016

— was presented at the Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership Conference at the Olympic Park in London. Full automation could help accelerate the transition to low carbon vehicles by reducing the practical difficulties often anticipated with these vehicles such as refueling/recharging.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2018

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) and BlueSG Pte Ltd, a subsidiary of Blue Solutions owned by the Bolloré Group, have launched Singapore’s first flash-charging electric shuttle. It was piloted for the rest of the winter, transporting visitors, free of charge, between the Arc de Triomphe and Place de la Concorde.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2011

The patent family covers a unique way of stabilizing the cathode material at the molecular structure level that avoids degradation of battery performance even under severe operating conditions such as high temperatures, high charge and discharge rates and high numbers of cycles, as well as at higher voltages.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2015

At the Spring 2015 Materials Research Conference in San Francisco earlier this month, PATHION presented two new derivative superionic solid-state electrolytes built upon LiRAP (Lithium-Rich Anti-Perovskite). In combination, this cathode and electrolyte have resulted in a significant improvement in charge efficiency with a longer cycle life.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2010

220V split-phase charging. This Class 2c-3 electric truck—the first in its category—has a range of 100 miles per charge, making it ideal for many urban applications. When it returns to its home base at the end of the day, it can be plugged in and fully recharged within 6-8 hours. e-Star Quick Specs. 80 kWh Li-ion pack.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2009

The conference was sold out; it was also essentially a PowerPoint-free zone; the basic format relied heavily on brief introductory remarks from sets of speakers representing the diverse stakeholders, followed by questions from attendees. Infrastructure, recharging and business models. kW—about three times the load.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

In electrochemical cells, Coulombic efficiency refers to the ratio of the charge delivered during discharge to the amount stored during charging. CE is typically measured by the device that discharges and recharges the cell or half-cell under test in the lab.

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Electric Vehicles India

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

One significant advantage of FCEV technology is its ability to provide long-range driving capability without requiring lengthy recharging times. Unlike battery electric vehicles, which require hours of charging time, FCEVs can be refueled in just a few minutes, similar to traditional gasoline-powered vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2009

Top view of a fully-charged battery moving up for insertion into the vehicle bay. The Better Place automated battery switch replaces a depleted EV battery with a fully charged one in just a few minutes, allowing consumers to drive their EVs on long distance trips without actually recharging en route. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 31, 2011

Recharge time. The battery pack for an extended range electric vehicle such as the Volt—which runs in an all-battery powered charge-depleting mode with full speed and acceleration up to the point at which it switches to operate in charge sustaining mode faces a number of challenges based on this mixed duty cycle—i.e.,

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Revenge of the Electric Car

MARCH 16, 2010

Nissan and Toyota agree to standardize their EV charging stations in Japan — and hope this leads to an international standard. For more details, read the story: Toyota, Nissan to standardize electric car recharger. Here is the full text of the article, in case the link goes bad: [link].

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2010

The THINK EV-Ready Cities Index was presented by THINK CEO Richard Canny at the Electric Drive Transportation Association Annual Conference and Meeting at the Washington Auto Show. The top four cities included first-ranked Los Angeles and second-ranked San Francisco with Chicago and New York tied for third. —Richard Canny.

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Plug In Partners

AUGUST 1, 2008

T he Plug in 2008 National PHEV Conference in San Jose by most accounts was a big success. Here's one of the announcements that came out of the conference : EPRI, GM, 34 Utilities Collaborate to Advance Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles PALO ALTO, Calif. Sacramento Municipal Util. ActaCell of Austin, Tex.,

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

Ultimately, they expect that this material could be used in hybrid and electric vehicles to make them lighter, more compact and more energy efficient, enabling drivers to travel for longer distances before needing to recharge their cars. In the new €3.4-million million (US$4.7-million) Emile Greenhalgh. Shirshova, N., Shaffer, M.,

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Charged through a brake energy regeneration system, the batteries allow the motor to provide an additional 95 PS (94 hp, 70 kW) and 173-lb ft (235 N·m). The battery pack is predominantly charged through a rear axle electro-hydraulic brake energy regeneration system.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

At the Advanced Automotive Batteries Conference in Long Beach, California earlier this year, HPL presented the current status of its work with nanostructured lithium manganese phosphate (LiMnPO 4 , LMPO) materials and cells for automotive applications. A prototype HPL 18650 LMPO cell using HPL’s Gen 2.1 Capacity at 1C is 900 mAh.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2009

Aymeric Rousseau, program manager at Argonne, presented a small slice of this wide study at the Advanced Automotive Battery Conference 2009 (AABC) this week in Long Beach. Here the controller drives as long as possible using battery energy, depleting the state of charge (SOC) from 90% to 30%. Load engine power strategy. L/100km (35.6

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

To maintain the battery charge required to supplement the low-speed torque with the e-drive, AVL developed a special strategy to guarantee a consistently high level of charge by using the overboost capability of the turbo-charged combustion engine. The demo Turbohybrid powertrain. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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Green Cars News

DECEMBER 1, 2009

Last week we told you that the company was heading to Belgium and Luxembourg (see article ), and now it will play a pivotal role in the introduction of an electric vehicle recharging infrastructure in Denmark.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2009

When the PICC battery pack charge is depleted, the converted Prius reverts to its normal factory HEV operating mode. PICC’s existing conversion kit allows Prius owners to recharge their vehicles in six hours using a regular 120-volt outlet, or in as little as two hours with an optional high-capacity charger.

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Creative Greenius

AUGUST 5, 2009

When’s your affordable EV that gets 1oo mile range on a quick charge Ford? Not only that they’ve been treating their customers, the ones they’re charging $850 a month in leasing fees to, like they’re the enemy. Really Ford? The “new&# Ford Taurus? Are you kidding me?

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

Drawing of the 50 kWh pack and the twin charge ports for super-fast charging. EVA was designed from the ground-up as an e-taxi and is a result of interdisciplinary research in the areas of energy storage, battery charging, thermal management, and lightweight materials and design. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

AC Propulsion’s president, Tom Gage, explains the company’s vehicle-to-grid technology at a 2001 conference in Seattle. In such an emergency, a bidirectional EV with charge to spare could come to the rescue. In principle, this problem might have been solved with software to govern the charging and discharging.

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Charged EVs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Anyone who would deploy any kind of large-scale EV charging project needs to work closely (and early) with their local electrical utility. Since 2010, OUC, a municipally-owned public utility, has installed hundreds of public charging stations, some powered by solar arrays. Q&A with the Orlando Utilities Commission’s Peter Westlake.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

The project includes quick-charging stations at this terminal layover in route to recharge bus batteries. Grid sourced electrical energy used to recharge the bus batteries will be augmented with solar energy collected with panels procured and installed under this project. Solar PV system installations range from 5kW to 20kW.

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Plug In Partners

FEBRUARY 1, 2006

Last week during the Plug-in Partners press conference , national security hawk Frank Gaffney, along with former-CIA chief Jim Woolsey and arch-conservative Senator Orin Hatch, called on the President to include flexible fuel and plug-in hybrids in his forthcoming State of the Union address to Congress, delivered last night.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

during the conference Thermal Investigations of ICs and Systems (Therminic), 7-9 October in Leuven, Belgium. These recent advances towards a comprehensive understanding of flow boiling in microchannels will be detailed in a research paper by Garimella and Harirchian and a keynote address to be presented by Garimella on 8 Oct.

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Plug In Partners

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

The vehicle will be recharged at night, plugged into a standard home outlet. It’s expected to cost roughly 150,000 yuan ($ 22,000 ), and go as far as 70 miles (110 kilometers) on electricity when fully charged. Toyota also is developing a plug-in hybrid, expected on the road by 2010. Parent company BYD Co.—it

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