Cars That Think

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Compared to Starlink’s sky-cluttering swarms of tiny satellites, San Francisco–based Astranis’s plans may seem old school. San Francisco–based Pattern Energy took over the projects, called SunZia Wind and SunZia Transmission, from Southwestern Power Group in July 2022. Revenge of the Geosynchronous Satellites!

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2016

The battery storage system electrified by BMW i is sized so it can be placed in the basement or the garage of a detached house, where the stored energy can either be used for electrically-operated devices in the home or for charging the battery of an electric car. ChargeForward.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 10, 2015

The rise of modern electric cars has brought concerns that their cumulative charging needs could have an increasing impact on electric power grids. Too many cars charging at once might simply overwhelm the ability of the infrastructure to handle it, electric-car critics say.

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BMW Charging Power Grid Grid 60

Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2011

This system, which is being partially funded by the EU, connects the French and Spanish grids between Baixas and Santa Llogaia. At present the two countries’ grids are linked only by low-capacity lines. Power grids will have to be substantially upgraded throughout Europe before more renewable energy can be used, Siemens says.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 23, 2023

But now they are in San Francisco, a very difficult city with all kinds of crazy intersections. O’Dowd: We have hooked up everything to the Internet and put computers in charge of large systems. The power grid is important, maybe the most important, but it’s difficult to prove to people it’s vulnerable.

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Tesla Tesla Motors San Francisco North Carolina 110

Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2009

However, technical challenges with regard to battery performance due to charge and discharge cycles need further investigation and remediation.” Smart Grid System Report Annex A. Recovery Act Awards for Smart Grid Demonstration Projects. Zenergy Power Inc. American Superconductor Corporation.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

From the article: “The San Francisco building code will soon be revised to require that new structures be wired for car chargers. Across the street from City Hall, some drivers are already plugging converted hybrids into a row of charging stations. In cities like San Francisco, Portland, Ore.,

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2021

High Efficiency Power-to-Gas in a Modular Hybrid Electrobioreactor, $1,000,000. Bright Silicon Technologies (San Francisco, California). Grid-Edge Intelligent Distribution Automation System for Self-Healing Distribution Grids, $550,000. Electrochaea GmbH (Munich, Germany). Los Alamos National Laboratory.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2013

Concurrent Technologies Corporation will receive $2 million to share costs in a US Department of Defense vehicle-to-grid demonstration project at the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, in the western Mojave Desert region that includes parts of Kern, San Bernardino and Inyo counties.

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Alternative Fuels Los Angeles Hydrogen Fuel 170

Charged EVs

DECEMBER 14, 2021

As EVs proliferate, and more vehicle segments electrify, the need for interoperability of charging infrastructure is coming into sharp focus, and that’s what the Charging Interface Initiative, aka CharIN, is all about. Charged : Can you give us a quick summary of CharIN’s mission? megawatts (3,000 amps at 1,500 volts).

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

Price tag: about $25,000, made from 95% recyclable materials with a top speed of 65 miles per hour and range of 110 miles per charge. It is aggressively in talks with Portland General Electric Plug-In Charging Stations , ( POR ) and other states including Michigan, and California that are scrambling to offer incentives. before 2010.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Electric cars and a smart electric grid have a bright future, according to panelists at a roundtable discussion on the subject that I attended last Friday in Boston. . He envisioned “hundreds of thousands” of charging spots, as well as a number of stations where drained batteries could be exchanged for fresh ones. — J Connors 4.

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