Cars That Think

DECEMBER 30, 2022

It’s about one-twentieth the size of the minibus-scale geostationary satellites already in orbit, allowing for cheap and quick deployment. The first power plant using NuScale’s technology is set to start generating electricity in 2029 at the Idaho National Laboratory, as part of the Carbon Free Power Project.

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Engine San Francisco Iceland Wind 123

Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2016

V) between charge and discharge, and poor cyclability due to the drastic phase change of O 2 (gas) and O x− (condensed phase) at the cathode during battery operations. V in O 2 (gas) → O x− (condensed phase), and η charging > 1.1 V in O x− (condensed phase) → O 2 (gas). V in O x− (condensed phase) → O 2 (gas). volts to 0.24

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 15, 2020

To that end, Isuzu has been researching and developing various powertrains including clean diesel engine, engines for natural gas vehicles (NGVs) and electric vehicle (EV) powertrains, which accommodate a broad range of customer needs and how vehicles are used.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 27, 2024

But those days are over now as the company moves toward an all-electric future. Since 1991, Volvo made more than 9 million vehicles with diesel engines. The final diesel-powered model was an XC90, a large SUV with a turbocharged inline 2-liter four-cylinder engine, which rolled off its production line yesterday in Torslanda, Sweden.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 11, 2024

Hertz announced that it will invest some of the proceeds from selling its Tesla vehicles back into internal combustion engine vehicles. Yesterday, we reported on Hertz starting to sell its older Tesla Model 3s and they are going for fairly cheap. More recently, the company added Model Y vehicles to the order.

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Gas Tesla Cars Fleet 52

Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2014

The project “Reduced energy consumption by massive thermoelectric waste heat recovery in light-duty trucks” ( HeatReCar ) focused on thermoelectrics to provide electricity, either to on-board components or to the power train of hybrid electric vehicles. g CO 2 /km reduction) with a peak thermoelectric electric power of 150 W e.

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The Truth About Cars

OCTOBER 30, 2023

For ages, this writer used a gasoline-powered pressure washer, firm in the belief it ran better and more reliably than any cheap electric plug-in unit ever would. The battery is a large cube and sits where the gasoline engine resided on my old pressure washer, consuming about the same amount of space.

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Juice Water Gasoline-Electric Lithium Ion 105

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2017

natural gas, shale gas, biogas and flared gas). Moreover, it is a cheap carbon source which can increase the atom utilization of CO 2 hydrogenation due to the stoichiometric ratio of C and O atoms, as well as reducing the formation of water. …

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Supercharged EV

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

You get some free supercharging if you place your order using a referral code ( here is mine if you want [link] ) You save the planet as EVs emit far less CO2 van ICE You save money on gas ( using free supercharge as per 1., and because electricity is cheap) You save on maintenance, as EVs are virtually maintenance free.

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Clean Fleet Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

You may be wondering if electric and hybrid cars are cheap to insure. Electric cars are on the leading edge of the green vehicle spectrum. Electric cars can cut your insurance. Electric Cars. We’ll start with the greenest car available, the electric vehicle (EV). Green Vehicles. Hybrid Cars. Car Repair.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

In 2001, a team of engineers at a then-obscure R&D company called AC Propulsion quietly began a groundbreaking experiment. They wanted to see whether an electric vehicle could feed electricity back to the grid. For the utilities, it promised an economical way of meeting rising demand for electricity.

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Grid Power Powered Vehicles 137

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

HTPEM operates at 160-200 °C and can use several fuels such as natural gas, biogas or methanol. The company was founded in 1994 by three researchers at DTU and two development engineers from the battery factory Hellesens, Denmark. Methanol is cheap to produce and it is easy to extract methanol from biological resources.

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Polymer Czech Republic Fuel Power 170

Cars That Think

JANUARY 18, 2023

When we turn up the heat in our homes and workplaces, we must balance our personal need for warmth with the global impact of burning fossil fuels like oil, gas, coal, and biomass. These initiatives have largely focused on renewable electric power generation, distribution, and storage. But we also have to cut emissions from heating.”

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Store Solar Building Oil-Sands 89

Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2014

F) and yields pure liquid copper and elemental sulfur gas. They are dependent on electricity already to exist. My approach asks, why don’t we try to do 100 percent electrical, starting from the concentrate and ending with the metal product, if I can use electricity to be more efficient as well as more environmentally friendly?

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MIT Production 2013 Chile 210

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2014

In a new study published in the journal Applied Energy , Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) researchers found that controlled charging of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) reduces the costs of integrating the vehicles into an electricity system by 54–73% depending on the scenario.

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Wind PHEV Cost Of Power 286

Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2015

LanzaTech, founded in 2005, has developed a novel gas-liquid fermentation process that produces fuels and chemicals from gas resources and is the first company to successfully demonstrate production of fuel-grade ethanol from steel mill gases. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). —Thomas Buhl. Audi e-fuels. Ng, and Garry L.

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Audi Renewable Solar Fuel 150

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2015

A multi-institution team of researchers has developed a novel class of materials that enable a safer, cheaper, and more energy-efficient process for removing greenhouse gas from power plant emissions. Current carbon capture technology uses caustic amine-based solvents to separate CO 2 from the flue gas escaping a power plant’s smokestacks.

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The Truth About Cars

JUNE 5, 2023

liter turbocharged four-cylinder (177 horsepower, 195 lb-ft of torque) with a permanent synchronous electric motor that makes 59.3 Some materials felt a bit cheap, though. The hybrid pairs a 1.6-liter horsepower and 195 lb-ft of torque. There's also a starter/generator motor that makes 17.3 hp and 31.9 lb-ft of torque.

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Baua Electric

MAY 21, 2024

Arc has built the first models of its much-anticipated Arc Sport 500hp electric wake boat, and we got a chance to take it for a quick demo in Long Beach, CA and holy heck, this thing rips. Arc is a very new company – it was founded in 2021 in Los Angeles, and is targeting the luxury boat market with high-powered electric boats.

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Water Electric Electrical Tahoe 52

Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2015

During the late innings of the ICE-age (as in the Internal Combustion Engine age) it has become clear that feeding gasoline and diesel to the next billion new cars is not going to be easy, or cheap. Coal still supplies more power in the US than anything else, with natural gas next. by Henry Hewitt for Oilprice.com.

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Solar Miles Gasoline-Electric MPG 150

Cars That Think

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Whether for religious or secular celebrations, the variety and functionality of lights have exploded in recent years, abetted by cheap and colorful LEDs and compact electronics. Johnson, vice president of the Edison Electric Light Co., This 1895 ad equates electric lights with wealth and conviviality. began advertising.

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Light Kansas City New York Washington 144

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 16, 2014

Energy is added, and the gas breaks into ions and electrons, forming plasma. The fundamental problem with the tokamak is that you cannot blanket and shield a toroidal (doughnut shaped) vessel cheap enough to make an economical reactor. I have not seen the papers, but the nuclear engineering clearly fails to be cost effective.

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Fusion Concept Design Building 300

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2009

The second round is focused specifically on three areas of technology representing new approaches for advanced microbial biofuels, carbon capture, and batteries for electric vehicles. Batteries for Electrical Energy Storage in Transportation (BEEST). Areas of focus included under the new funding opportunity include: Electrofuels.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2014

In a paper in Nature , they suggest that the use of such redox-active organic molecules instead of redox-active metals represents a new and promising direction for realizing massive electrical energy storage at greatly reduced cost. For this reason, a growing number of engineers have focused their attention on flow-battery technology.

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Low Cost Grid Batteries Battery 374

Clean Fleet Report

DECEMBER 25, 2021

Low-cost but not cheap. liter gasoline engine with multi-port injection, good for 120 horsepower and 112 pound-feet of torque, mated to an intelligent variable transmission (iVT). When the engine is winding-out at the highest rpms it can be bit noisy. Drivetrain. The front-wheel drive 2022 Kia Rio is powered by a 1.6-liter

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 13, 2021

Harley-Davidson Launches Stand-Alone Electric Bike Brand. Harley-Davidson, the legendary and revered American manufacturer of motorcycles, announced that it is establishing LiveWire as a separate electric motorcycle brand on July 8,2021, just in time for the first of nine outdoor International Motorcycle Shows. Not an H or D in sight.

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Market Motorcycles Saturn Prius 69

My Electric Car

AUGUST 21, 2020

There has been much discussion for over thirty years or more around the use of hydrogen fuel cells as an alternative to the internal combustion engine. Fuel cells had been promoted in some sectors as the best alternative to the internal combustion engine. It is important to realize that a fuel cell car is actually an electric car.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2010

For $100 million in one year, we’ll demonstrate how to rapidly reduce use of oil in transportation with safe, warrantied retrofits of tens of millions gas-guzzlers. We now have a sprinkling of promising companies working to get funded to convert gas-guzzlers. And oil only seems cheap. Its impacts are increasingly unaffordable.

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Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 30, 2021

liter Duramax turbodiesel engine. Stand next to the hood when the engine is at idle, and you will be amazed at how quiet it is. But nudging 30 mpg is impressive, which was aided by the engine stop/start system, which shuts off the engine rather than idling. Power and Torque and Fuel Sipping. Brains and brawn.

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Sierra GMC Fuel Economy MPG 97

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Five of the 28 innovations will help protect the grid from wildfires/PSPSs, four of these five will provide climate and weather risk prediction to electric infrastructure and services, and one is a hard tech innovation to reinforce transmission lines.

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Clean Cleaning Energy Solar 371

Charged EVs

AUGUST 2, 2023

The electric road ahead for heavy trucks is not exactly clear, and there are several roadblocks, some obvious and some far less so. Fleets don’t want to go electric at scale until they’ve done years-long pilots, but the Advanced Clean Trucks regulation will artificially constrict that timeframe. Soon they won’t have a choice.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2009

As one example in the opening plenary panel session, Peter Darbee, Chairman and CEO of Pacific Gas & Electric Corporation described the opportunity and challenges from his utility’s point of view. The impact from plug-in electric vehicles on the grid could be very substantial. kW—about three times the load.

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Plug-in Plug Industrial Industry 210

Revenge of the Electric Car

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

A coalition of car makers, battery suppliers and electricity providers has come together to ask for federal help for EVs. More details at: Group Seeks US Tax Credits To Spur Electric Car Use. UPDATE:Group Seeks US Tax Credits To Spur Electric Car Use. by Judith Burns for Dow Jones. November 16, 2009: 06:01 PM ET.

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Volt Tax Credit Cash For Clunkers Tax 100

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

Alternative technologies, such as hybrid and electric vehicles that use oil more efficiently or not at all, continue to advance but they take time to penetrate markets. The number of people without access to electricity remained unacceptably high at 1.3 Oil and the Transport Sector: Reconfirming the End of Cheap Oil.

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Oil Transportation Cheap Fleet 247

Baua Electric

MARCH 20, 2024

The 2024 Lexus RX 450h+ plug-in hybrid arrives on the scene with 37 miles of electric range from the Toyota RAV4 Prime’s powertrain, in a more eye-catching and softer-to-the-touch package. But it’s not cheap; it’s not elegant; and Lexus’ tech foibles carry over from the standard RX and other models. When the gas 2.5-liter

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Cars That Think

APRIL 9, 2022

To help dodge sanctions, Russia had demanded that by the start of this month, members of the European Union begin paying for the natural gas it was buying in rubles rather than dollars or euros, threatening to cut off supplies if they didn’t. How could EU officials, engineers, or individual homeowners prepare for such an eventuality?

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Gas Europe Ukraine Gas-Electric 103

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 27, 2013

is developing the Thermo Acoustic Power Stick (TAPS)—a micro-combined heat and power (µ-CHP) system for home use that converts gas into electricity and provides for domestic water and space heating. The linear alternator produces the electricity. Startup Nirvana Energy Systems, Inc.,

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