Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2020

Funded through the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), projects will conduct research in advanced batteries, electrification, and manufacturing in support of DOE’s Energy Storage Grand Challenge. AOI 02: Low Cost Electric Traction Drive Systems Using No Heavy Rare Earth Materials.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

The least expensive way for the Western US to reduce greenhouse gas emissions enough to help prevent the worst consequences of global warming is to replace coal with renewable and other sources of energy that may include nuclear power, according to a new study by University of California, Berkeley, researchers. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 18, 2018

The EMN consortia have been established to make unique, world-class capabilities at the national laboratories more accessible to industry, facilitating collaborations that will expedite the development and manufacturing of advanced materials for commercial markets. Renewable hydrogen transportation fuel pathway of interest.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

The ARPA-E award is supported the development of the liquid metal grid-scale battery for low-cost, large scale storage of electrical energy. This new class of batteries could enable continuous power supply from renewable energy sources, such as wind and solar and a more stable, reliable grid.

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Driivz

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The explosion of home deliveries during the pandemic helped boost plans for electrifying fleets of “mid-class” trucks and vans over the next two years. Integration of renewables and battery storage with EV charging infrastructure advances. Electrification of heavy freight trucks (HFTs) is a longer term endeavor. Looking ahead.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2009

Green Car Congress attended the Renewable Energy Finance Forum - Wall Street (REFF-Wall Street) conference (23-24 June) sponsored by Euromoney Energy Events and the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE). The renewable energy community may prefer “areas of concern” over the term schism, but significant issues were reiterated.

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Financing Renewable Stimulus Package Energy 150

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2016

One initiative, SuperTruck II ( earlier post ), will award $80 million to four projects to develop and to demonstrate cost-effective technologies that more than double the freight efficiency of Class 8 trucks. Grid Modernization for Electric Vehicles (Area of Interest 2). Description. Federal funding. United Parcel Service.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Transformative advances in EDLCs may thus be expected not just from developing better processing or synthetic techniques for carbon materials, but also from developing entirely new classes of active electrode materials that maximize both surface area and electrical conductivity. Sheberla et al. Click to enlarge. —Mircea Dincă.

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EV Info

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

As for the middle-class Extinction Rebellion poseurs and their road-closing chums from Insult Britain, sorry Insulate Britain, they are basing their apocalyptic predictions of ‘catastrophe’ and billions of deaths on gross exaggerations. The cost of grid management has soared to nearly £2billion a year in the last two decades.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

It offers the solution to several significant transitions we need: moving society from burning fossil fuels to substituting renewable resource fuels such as solar, wind and biofuels; and from using fossil materials as fuel to using them for other recyclable uses. How PHEV provides Smooth Transitions from fossil fuel to renewables.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2009

Markey of the Energy and Environment Subcommittee on Tuesday released a draft of far-reaching energy and climate legislation that targets job creation, promotes renewables and energy efficiency, and places limits on emissions of greenhouse gases. The draft establishes a Renewable Portfolio Standard—i.e., Partnering with the States.

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Climate Standards Carbon California 186

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The new ARPA-E selections focus on accelerating innovations in clean technology while increasing US competitiveness in rare earth alternatives and breakthroughs in biofuels, thermal storage, grid controls, and solar power electronics. National Renewable. High Performance, Low Cost Superconducting Wires and Coils.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2017

CIRCUITS project teams will accelerate the development and deployment of a new class of efficient, lightweight, and reliable power converters, based on wide-bandgap (WBG) semiconductors. Grid-Connected Modular Soft-Switching Solid State Transformers. Earlier post.). Georgia Institute of Technology. Imagen Energy.

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Charged EVs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

There’s only one nuance—typically, we design batteries by the class of voltage. Currently, more than 90% of vehicles are in the 400-volt class. We do start to see new trucks and buses using 800- or 1,200-class voltage, and that requires some retooling and update of power electronics on our end.

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Energy Storage Batteries Battery Energy 88

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2017

The new pump could facilitate high efficiency, low-cost thermal storage, providing a new way to store renewable energy generated by wind and solar power, and facilitate an improved process for generating hydrogen directly from fuels such as methane without producing carbon dioxide.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Renewable Power (4 projects). Planar Na-beta Batteries for Renewable Integration and Grid Applications. Eagle Picher, in partnership with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, will develop a new generation of high energy, low cost planar liquid sodium beta batteries for grid scale electrical power storage applications.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

sunlight through low-cost, plastic light-guiding sheets and then. If successful, the new crop would have a lower cost of. Turbo-POx For Ultra Low-Cost Gasoline. class of membranes could reduce US energy consumption by as. Ceramatec’s design would allow for low-cost materials and. liquid fuel.

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Setec Powerr

JULY 19, 2023

Furthermore, the traditional accounting principles that incorporate refueling for gas and diesel fleets will not apply to these new vehicle classes because of the nature of electricity costs. Accounting teams must consider the total cost of ownership (TCO) of vehicle operations to accurately determine the value of these assets.

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Drive Electric

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

More renewable energy sources are being added to the UK grid all the time and it takes less energy to produce renewable electricity (and it’s a much cleaner process) than extracting and cracking crude oil to make petrol, while most new electric cars are packed with clever technology which makes then even more environmentally friendly.

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