Cars That Think

DECEMBER 30, 2022

The hope is, these floating leviathans will collaborate with satellites to detect hypersonic missiles, like those being developed by Russia and China. As a bonus, the tech onboard the balloons runs on solar power. Perhaps most important, it requires transparency in the algorithms used to provide product and content recommendations.

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Setec Powerr

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

As freezing winds blow across his construction site in northern China every morning, Liu Jianhong gathers his workers for hot tea. Liu, whose business in Shaanxi province often operates beyond the reach of power grids, plugs a hairdryer-like charger into his hybrid electric car, a sport utility vehicle from Chinese automaker BYD Co.

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Charging Grid Energy Storage BYD 98

Cars That Think

JANUARY 29, 2022

That need for balance is true of electric power grids, too. Spiking demand for electric heat collided with supply problems created by frozen natural-gas equipment and below-average wind-power production. We got a heartrending reminder of this fact in February 2021, when Texas experienced an.

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Power Grid Grid Power Powered 108

Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2015

Geely Group and CRI intend to collaborate on the deployment of renewable methanol fuel production technology in China and explore the development and deployment of 100% methanol-fueled vehicles in China, Iceland and other countries. Currently the company has a 4,000 metric ton/year production capacity. Earlier post.)

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Blink Charging

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Another study found that if people choose to charge their EVs during times when there’s less demand on the power grid, we could cut emissions by another 18% – and maybe even allow EVs to support the grid. Let’s not forget our carbon footprint. They can be charged using clean energy, reducing their environmental impact.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 4, 2023

With so many of the items we interact with in our daily lives — from soaps and fertilizers to pharmaceuticals to petrochemicals — deriving from products of the chemical industry, the sector has become a major source of economic activity and employment for many nations, including the United States and China.

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Industrial Industry DC Engine 84

Cars That Think

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Starting around the middle of 2024, the Shetlands—and also part of mainland Scotland—will be powered by the 443-megawatt Viking wind farm , consisting of 103 wind turbines on the main island of Shetland. According to Plet, wind energy is driving an acceleration of HVDC installations in Europe.

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Europe Wind Grid DC 124

Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2009

Stepping Up Product Field Prioritization in the Automotive Systems Business. Furthermore, to strengthen cost competitiveness more production of starters, suspension and other products will be transferred to subsidiaries in China, Thailand and elsewhere, and materials will increasingly be procured locally.

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Li-ion Renewable Lithium Ion Batteries 150

Cars That Think

MARCH 6, 2024

It’s very similar to the infrastructure for electric cars because the idea, ultimately, for electric cars is that you also are revamping your grid to facilitate, whatchamacallit, intermittent renewable energy sources, like wind and solar, because having an electric car that runs off a coal-fired power plant is defeating the purpose, essentially.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Their goal is to test an innovative electrolyzer concept for the cheap production of green (CO 2 -free) hydrogen for a decarbonized future. A system of low-cost vibration sensors will monitor poles, conductors and equipment on the electricity distribution grid to predict where they may fail and ignite a wildfire.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

A similar plant in China and Poland would cost an estimated $112 million and $65 million, respectively. Precursor material produced at plants in the DRC could be cost competitive with material produced in China and Poland but with a lower environmental footprint. Source: BNEF.

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Africa Supplies Emissions Poland 221

Drive Electric

AUGUST 9, 2022

This is the sum of the emissions from raw materials, production, shipping, operation and end-of-life disposal – not just how clean it is to operate. Battery production is known to be the most energy-intensive part of the manufacturing process of an EV. The New Zealand Power Grid. THE BOTTOM LINE.

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Drive Electric

AUGUST 9, 2022

That’s why when measuring the efficiency of a vehicle, it’s become common to measure the processes involved in the entire ‘life cycle’ of a vehicle – what’s referred to as ‘cradle to grave’, or the sum of the emissions from raw materials, production, shipping, operation, and recycling – not just how clean it is to drive.

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Environment Electric Vehicles New Zealand Vehicles 52

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

The Think City was short-lived in the States with production halting in 2002 after just 1005 cars had been assembled. The electricity for recharging has to come from somewhere, which means power plants. Depending upon where you live, power plants are often burning natural resources.

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