Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Researchers at Imperial College London have developed a membrane-based extraction system for the production of biofuels which uses less than 25% of the energy of current processes and produces ten times more biofuel with more than 99.5% The open-access findings are published in the RSC journal Energy & Environmental Science.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com Europe is installing more solar panels than ever before, thanks to a flood of cheap Chinese solar panels, driving installations by 40% last year. Reap the benefits of all that green energy with containers full of Chinese solar panels, all while crushing the domestic sector and putting people out of business?

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

I knew I wanted something for her that was cheap to maintain, had a reliable automatic transmission, came with cruise control, AC. It is something very cheap to fix and to inspect. ICEs are just boring and inefficient in the sense of wasting energy. It was time to buy our first car. This criteria only left the Prius in play.

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 30, 2021

In the past week, CleanTechnica readers were most attracted to stories about cool & cheap electric motorcycles, an Australian pastime that electric vehicles are sure to kill, and the standard-range Tesla Model 3 and Model Y getting LFP batteries.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have identified two main challenges for renewable biofuel production from cheap sources: lowering the cost of developing microbial cell factories; and establishing more efficient methods for hydrolysis of biomass to sugars for fermentation. That is in line with our research too.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2017

Scientists from the University of Surrey and their colleagues have produced non-metal electro-catalysts for fuel cells that could pave the way for production of low-cost, environmentally friendly energy generation.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 12, 2023

The shipping containers, which house a Frankenstein-like assortment of machine parts—motors repurposed from Volvo truck engines, giant tanks of compressed air, huge silos of piping hot sand—are produced by a company called Cheesecake Energy. Despite its name, Cheesecake Energy isn’t in the food business.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Volvo Buses is participating in a research project in which used electric bus batteries are used as solar energy storage units. Batteries from electric bus route 55 in Gothenburg, Sweden are being used for solar energy storage in a second-life application. Tenants are just starting to move into their new apartments.

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CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 30, 2023

It seems like just yesterday that Toyota pulled its old “self-charging hybrid” scam. As anyone who finished high school and paid attention knows, there are laws of physics. Human laws can be broken and if the authorities don’t notice, you can probably get away with it (especially for small things).

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 29, 2022

With more people remote-working than ever, the idea of hitting the road like Jack and never coming back (no more no more) sounds like a great option. After all, who doesn’t want to wake up to the views of Yellowstone or the Grand Canyon every morning? With portable Starlink internet now available, there’s almost no […].

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My Energi

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The UK’s original smart charger just got smarter The world’s first solar-compatible smart electric vehicle charger, the zappi from myenergi, can now integrate with Octopus Energy’s Intelligent Octopus Go tariff, enabling EV drivers to minimise their home charging costs with access to six hours of low-cost energy every night.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2017

(TEPCO) has made a £500,000 (US$621,000) equity investment in Moixa Energy Holdings , a UK-based provider of residential batteries and platforms for managing storage services. Moixa offers a compact and affordable smart battery for residential customers that helps households to save money by storing spare solar or cheap tariff electricity.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2019

Energy storage installations around the world will multiply exponentially, from a modest 9GW/17GWh deployed as of 2018 to 1,095GW/2,850GWh by 2040, according to the latest forecast from research company BloombergNEF (BNEF). Global cumulative energy storage installations. —Logan Goldie-Scot, head of energy storage at BNEF.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Green hydrogen production, however, is energy intensive and expensive. According to a report from S&P Global Commodity Insights, the cost of electrolytic hydrogen from renewable energy spiked as high as $16.80/kg kg in late July 2022. Source: Cemvita.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2023

A new approach developed by researchers from the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Austria and international colleagues proposes using solid air (nitrogen or oxygen) as a medium for recycling cooling energy across the hydrogen liquefaction supply chain. The Solid Air Hydrogen Liquefaction process © Hunt et al.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 18, 2023

It is a daunting question that a startup called Polar Night Energy, in the small and chilly nation of Finland (Figure 1), is attempting to answer. When you ask people about cleaner energy, they think of electricity,” says Tommi Eronen, CEO of Polar Night Energy. Sand is efficient, nontoxic, portable, and cheap!”. “We

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Today, waits at Tesla service centers get longer, Elon Musk teases a more powerful Tesla Supercharger DC fast-charging station, and new analysis claims some forms of renewable energy are now the cheapest unsubsidized sources of electricity in the U.S. All this and more on Green Car Reports. Find out the potential cost of the Volkswagen 3.0-liter.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

A paper on the work is published in Nature Energy. University of Adelaide’s Professor Shizhang Qiao, co-corresponding author, said that the researchers used a non-precious and cheap catalyst in a commercial electrolyzer. Nat Energy doi: 10.1038/s41560-023-01195-x A cm −2 at 1.87 V V and 60 °C. —Guo et al. Zheng, Y.,

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CN EV Post

JUNE 22, 2023

Even more dilution, because of terribly wrong decisions not to make cars, but phones or to invest in nuclear energy. Why did Mr. Li not buy these cheap shares by himself, to show confidence in NIO ? Old time small investors, who believed in NIOs general concept, are deprived of their money. Great idea; terrible execution.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2020

In principle, it is possible to produce valuable chemicals such as hydrogen, syngas, hydrocarbons, and alcohols through electrochemical processes using electricity from renewable energy resources. Conventionally, water is considered a cheap and clean source of electrons; 2H 2 O ? Conventional methods require more than 1.5

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Driivz

AUGUST 30, 2023

The good news is that smart EV charging and energy management software can control EV charging energy consumption and save on electricity bills. What is smart EV charging and energy management? What are the benefits of smart EV energy management? EVs bring a growing appetite for electricity.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

launched its lithium-ion energy storage system for home usage. In some regions, utilities occasionally provide negative pricing to dump excess power when demand is very low, so users may actually be paid to store energy. The EnergyBlock can also store energy directly from solar panels, power in remote locations and emergency power.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 15, 2022

Scientists have been looking for solutions in gravity energy storage , thermal or geothermal storage , and also molten-salt batteries. An important one, Sprenkle adds, is understanding the value of that stored energy. “A

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 8, 2024

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has recently announced a hardline approach that bans the entrance of electric bicycles by visitors or staff due to safety concerns. The post Why the National Renewable Energy Laboratory just banned electric bikes appeared first on Bauaelectric Auto News. But let’s get real.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2023

Photosynthesis is the process by which chloroplasts in plants and some organisms use sunlight, water and carbon dioxide to create food or energy. cells that contain pigment), which are very efficient at transferring energy from the sun. It mimics the structure of a purple bacteria’s light-harvesting chromatophores (i.e.

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Energy Institute at HAAS

MARCH 11, 2024

The clearest path to deep decarbonization of the economy is to supply cheap abundant … Continue Reading Can We Electrify Our Food? Clean electricity could decarbonize an important part of our food system, but not without policy innovation.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2023

Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering and the School of Materials Science and Engineering, is using an aluminum-foil-based anode in a solid-state Li-ion battery to create batteries with higher energy density and greater stability. The new battery system is detailed in an open-access paper in Nature Communications. —Liu et al.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2016

As described in a paper in the journal Nature Energy , the cathode consisting of nanoscale amorphous lithia (nanolithia) confined in a cobalt oxide enabled charge/discharge between solid Li 2 O/Li 2 O 2 /LiO 2 without any gas evolution. V) causes severe energy efficiency and thermal management problems. Courtesy of the researchers.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 10, 2024

The Chinese government’s EU liquor probe starts several months after Brussels started investigating cheap EV imports from China, including BYD. She highlighted that Europe’s EV market was flooded with cheap electric vehicles whose prices were “kept artificially low” by “huge state subsidies.” “The

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Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2010

Chakrit Thong-urai, Director of R&D Center for Alternative Energy from Palm Oil and Oil Crops, said that the process was called “A glyceride estimation testing process using microwave-assisted transesterification”. However, the PSU method is an easy, fast and cheap.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 11, 2022

Researchers from Zhejiang University in China have developed a photo-chemo-enzymatic multi-step combination pathway for the highly efficient and environmentally friendly preparation of biogasoline from cheap and sustainable triolein using solar energy and atmospheric O 2 under mild conditions.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 4, 2016

Cheap gasoline is good news for the economies of most countries, but not those that rely on oil exports. In some cases, that means cutting back on cheap gas for their own citizens. The sustained fall in global prices has led oil-producing countries to search for ways to keep their revenues up.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2017

In a new study published in the journal Nano Energy, researchers from Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) provide in-depth insight into the electrochemically induced surface reaction processes on iron anodes in concentrated alkaline electrolyte in iron-air batteries. —Weinrich et al.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 31, 2021

Another week has flown by and we’ve got another roundup of our top (most popular) stories of the week. This past week, the interest (and content) was all over the map, as it was last week. Hydrogen trains in California, the various tech options on the market when upgrading your water heater, and the US […].

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

The driver can see how much energy is being demanded at any given moment on the kW gauge (replaces the classic tachometer); drivers strive to keep the kW reading as low as possible practically intuitively. In the D3 stage, or B for braking, on the other hand, the maximum amount of kinetic energy is recovered and fed to the battery.

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Electrek

JULY 14, 2022

They’re energy dense, nonflammable, and operate well in colder temperatures, and sodium is cheap and abundant. Sodium-ion batteries have great promise. Plus, sodium-based batteries will be more environmentally friendly and even less expensive than lithium-ion batteries are becoming now.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

This is a specific energy of 1.6 kWh/kg and an energy density of 1.9 Specific energies and energy densities including conversion losses. POWERPASTE thus has a huge energy storage density. And compared to batteries, it has ten times the energy storage density. 1 kg hydrogen). Source: Fraunhofer IFAM.

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