Cars That Think

AUGUST 19, 2021

We confirmed the news with Intel directly on Wednesday, and Intel provided us with the following statement: We are winding down our RealSense business and transitioning our computer vision talent, technology and products to focus on advancing innovative technologies that better support our core businesses and IDM 2.0 strategy.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 26, 2015

40 percent in six months--and it''s assumed by some that this will hurt the renewable-energy industry. With the financial advantage of solar or wind energy curtailed by cheap oil, the logic goes, consumers will be less interested in switching from fossil fuels. Gas prices have fallen dramatically in the U.S.--40

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Analysts and power insiders sketch scenes including interconnected local renewable grids that draw on short-duration battery storage (including the small batteries in electric vehicles in a garage, models for which Tesla just happens to make) combined with multi-day storage for power generated by wind and solar.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2014

The technology could fundamentally transform the way electricity is stored on the grid, making power from renewable energy sources such as wind and sun far more economical and reliable. Solid-electrode batteries maintain discharge at peak power for far too short a time to fully regulate wind or solar power output. —Michael J.

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EV Info

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Wind farms stand idle for days on end, a fire interrupts a vital cable from France, a combination of post-Covid economic recovery and Russia tightening supply means the gas price has shot through the roof – and so the market price of both home heating and electricity is rocketing. Energy Solutions.

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EV Info

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The UK has been a leader in deploying on and offshore wind turbines. What we have not done so well is to ensure that we have a solid base level of generation to supply electricity when there is no sun and no wind. At the time of writing, mid-morning 21 Sept, we have: Wind 9%. CO2 is essential in the food and drink industry.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 18, 2023

A Battery for Heat Made from Sand Noted chemical engineer Donald Sadoway is quoted as saying: “If you want to make a dirt-cheap battery, you have to make it out of dirt.” The electrical grid also supports the efficient distribution of power and makes use of energy generated through renewable means like wind and solar.

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Driivz

MAY 15, 2023

Unlocking the full promise of V2G will require significant cooperation and momentum across vehicle and equipment manufacturers, power utilities, standards bodies and regulators, EV charging providers, and other industry players. California has buying power behind its proposed V2G mandate to the EV industry.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2018

A battery, based on electrodes made of sodium and nickel chloride and using thea new type of metal mesh membrane, could be used for grid-scale installations to make intermittent power sources such as wind and solar capable of delivering reliable baseload electricity.

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Driivz

AUGUST 30, 2023

Installing and operating EV charging stations offers businesses and owners of commercial and industrial buildings a winning proposition. Renewable energy can also be under-utilized when the wind is blowing and the sun is shining, but demand is lower than supply. EV charging itself creates a new “green” revenue opportunity.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 19, 2022

Four industry insiders ultimately confirmed that Apollo Fusion was building thrusters that utilized mercury propellant. Although the tests demonstrated mercury’s effectiveness as a propellant, the same concerns over the element’s toxicity that have seen it banned in many other industries halted its use by the space agency as well. “I

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Baua Electric

MAY 21, 2024

This is by no means cheap, but is relatively competitive with the higher-end wake boats from companies like Nautique or Malibu (Nautique has its own electric wake boat , which starts at $312k). So that higher-speed trip used ~5x as much energy as the low-speed one did (there may have been differences in wind/waves as well).

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Charged EVs

APRIL 12, 2023

In my very first article for Charged over 10 years ago, I opined that the Switched Reluctance Motor , or SRM, would eventually come to dominate the EV traction market, if for no other reason than the fact that it is almost as cheap as dirt to manufacture. motoring and braking in forward and reverse).

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 19, 2024

Ride1Up describes the Prodigy V2 as “The successor to the industry-disrupting Prodigy mid-drive e-bike,” and that’s pretty darn accurate. There’s just you and the wind rushing past your ears. If you’ve been around the e-bike industry as much as many of us have, you’re used to a 60 lb e-bike. That’s chunky, but not unmanageable.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2017

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. … wind and solar power) to act as an efficient chemical energy storage localized or distributed system.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2015

The lithium, found in salty water, or brines, is the most cost-effective on the market; it’s cheap and easy to extract, giving competing battery gigafactories new, affordable American lithium resources that will be a global game-changer.

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Baua Electric

MAY 10, 2024

As the fog of dawn lifted one morning in mid-November 1872, Claude Monet looked out the window of his hotel room in the French city of Le Havre and furiously painted his vision of its industrial harbor. The wind was blowing from the west. He flung his brush with quick strokes and played with the water, stretching it with rays of color.

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Plugs and Cars

JUNE 9, 2011

Plug-in cars from a half dozen Chinese automakers were on display along with charge stations in an attractive setting amidst a winding course for test drives. We really don’t need more cheap gas cars. The BYD plug-in hybrid I drove performed well. I have no doubt we will see Chinese brands in the US when they are ready to make a move.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 12, 2024

Back in October 2023, Europe launched its formal investigation into the Chinese EV industry, as European companies are struggling to compete with the cheap, high-tech Chinese imports – made by cheap labor – entering the European Union.

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Plugs and Cars

JULY 31, 2008

All the wind farms and solar panels in the world won’t do anything to lower the outflow of hundreds billions of dollars annually or decrease our pump-fueled funding of Islamic fundamentalism unless we build cars that can use that cleaner electricity. I wish I knew what’s holding Gore back from full-throated support for plug-in cars.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2009

Auerbach adds that due to economies of scale and over capacity in the industry “ wind energy should have a 20% reduction in equipment costs within the next year ” and he has seen realistic projections of “ solar, with a 10% tax credit, being competitive with baseline generation in 2020 ”. Earlier post.). Is tax equity dead?

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Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 30, 2021

About those radio knobs and the climate control wheels: they are constructed using a cheap-feeling chromed plastic. This is one area where GM is the industry leader, and after the trial service plan expires, it is well worth renewing. These were the only drawbacks to this fine interior, but certainly not a deal breaker. A bed extender.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Cyclonatix, Inc is developing an industrial-sized motor/controller to operate with either DC or AC power sources, for applications in electric vehicles, solar-powered pumps, HVAC&R, gas compressors, and other commercial and industrial machines which require high efficiency, variable speed/torque, and low cost.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Many families feel the need for one car, but the second one is a marginal purchase, often something cheap and cheerful. The problem is how we get them to switch in the first place. Our target audience is really the second car. The costs are often overlooked until it’s time to tax MOT or insure the car.

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Plugs and Cars

JUNE 2, 2007

Dan Kalb of the Union of Concerned Scientists and Bonnie Holms-Gen of the Lung Association were there to lend their voices of protest against the auto industry's continuing legal assault on California. We want to power our cars from non-polluting, zero carbon emitting electricity from wind and solar photovoltaic systems on our roofs.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The continent was mostly powered by locally mined coal until the 1950s, when imports of cheap Middle Eastern oil started transforming the energy picture. These price increases were driven in part by a drop in wind-generated energy, the leading form of renewable energy on the European continent.

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Get Electric Vehicle

OCTOBER 27, 2023

If you come across a safe and reliable battery technology it can be used in the country’s space mission or you found a better alloy that is cheap to produce or lighter in weight and performs well under load it can be used in other sectors or even in the gasoline cars to increase efficiency and reduce carbon emission.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Today, even as AI is revolutionizing industries and threatening to upend the global labor market, many experts are wondering if today's AI is reaching its limits. In the late 1980s, the cold winds of commerce brought on the second AI winter. The other big development came courtesy of the gaming industry. By 2017, the team had 1.5

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Well, taking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and potentially other gases like methane is a really sensible concept in principle because that would accelerate the process of moving back to the sort of pre-industrial sustainable climate that we have. Absolutely, but it’s not necessarily cheap and easy to do in an absolute sense.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2014

The discovery opens the possibility of using iron to provide both the magnetism and permanence in high-strength permanent magnets, such as those used in direct-drive wind turbines or electric motors in hybrid cars. In modern magnets, iron gives most magnets their strength, and comes with the benefits of being abundant and cheap.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The EDISON (Electric Vehicles in a Distributed and Integrated Market using Sustainable Energy and Open Networks) research consortium will seek to match power generation from wind turbines on the island of Bornholm, Denmark, with the power consumption of charging plug-in electric cars. The project is partly funded by the government of Denmark.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Given the cost of oil and the economic, geopolitical and ecological effects of our continued reliance on petroleum, electric transportation will be cheap. by: Jonathan Read, President and CEO, ECOtality June 24, 2008 ECOtality CEO Jonathan Read. Electricity costs are relatively inexpensive.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The DRC’s cost competitiveness comes from its relatively cheap access to land and low engineering, procurement and construction, or EPC, cost compared to the US, Poland and China. If they have local demand for batteries cell manufacturers will move to the region to be close to their customers, particularly in the automotive industry.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Solar, Wind and Biofuels Grew 53 Percent in 2008 Green Education = Environmental Religion? Millions will plug-in their electric vehicles (EV), plug-in hybrids (PHEV) and fuel cell vehicles (FCV) at night when electricity is cheap, then plug-in during the day when energy is expensive and sell those extra electrons at a profit.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

tech industry during the 1990s. They think BYD has a shot at becoming the worlds largest automaker, primarily by selling electric cars, as well as a leader in the fast-growing solar power industry. His people at MidAmerican have studied clean technologies like batteries and wind power for years because of the threat of climate change.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Millions will plug-in their electric vehicles [EV], plug-in hybrids [PHEV] and fuel cell vehicles [FCV] at night when electricity is cheap, then plug-in during the day when energy is expensive and sell those extra electrons at a profit. In addition to Smart Grid City, another major EV/V2G initiative is unfolding.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Vehicle-to-grid is, I believe, the salvation of the automotive industry in the United States,” declared Marc Spitzer, an agency commissioner who was also on the panel. Apple coming from the computer industry to deliver iTunes and the iPod,&# he added. Wind, solar and nuclear could easily change our electrical sources.

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