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Role of Batteries in Clean Energy Transitions – ET Auto

Baua Electric

India recently achieved a significant milestone in its journey towards clean energy with the commissioning of a 40 MW/120 MWh Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) in Chhattisgarh. However, beyond celebrating this achievement lies a broader recognition of the crucial role batteries play in driving clean energy transitions worldwide.

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China has formed the world’s largest electric vehicle charging infrastructure

Setec Powerr

On July 27th, the State Council Information Office held a press conference on “accelerating the construction of an energy-powerful country to fully ensure energy security” Zhang Jianhua, director of the National Energy Administration, said that the construction of electric vehicle charging facilities will be accelerated.

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WHO: 9 out of 10 people worldwide breathe polluted air; 7M deaths per year

Green Car Congress

Around 3 billion people—more than 40% of the world’s population—still do not have access to clean cooking fuels and technologies in their homes, the main source of household air pollution. Mexico City has committed to cleaner vehicle standards, including a move to soot-free buses and a ban on private diesel cars by 2025.

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Electrified Blondes in Convertibles For Everyone!

Creative Greenius

Another of my favorite people on the Southern California environmental scene is State Senator Fran Pavley who also spoke at the press conference. Plug them in, charge them up, drive silent, drive clean. I’ve heard him speak at the Plug-In conference. See, you really should have been there. If you can afford them.

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Profile: Farmers Ethanol: Focusing on Sustainable Corn Ethanol Production and a Triple Bottom Line

Green Car Congress

At a renewable energy conference in February of this year Doug Berven, the director of Corporate Affairs at ethanol producer POET, shared the following capacity projections for the ethanol business: At the beginning of this year the industry had 12.1 All of these issues are contributing to excess capacity in the industry. Earlier post.).

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Using the PHEV (Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle) to Transition Society Seamlessly and Profitably From Fossil Fuel to 100% Renewable Energy

Green Car Congress

The combination of harvesting whole forests and burning long-sequestered carbon sources such as coal or oil has impaired the Earth’s carbon cycle at an increasing pace. We also mined or extracted and burned coal and oil, releasing millions of years of stored solar energy indiscriminately, altering Earth’s climate.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Cischke, Ford senior vice president for sustainability, environment and safety engineering. "By August 9, 2007 (Multiple reports on speech and press conference by GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz) Lutz said his goal is for GM to develop a plug in hybrid on sale by 2010. Does it make good business sense, and how does it affect the environment?"

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