Cars That Think

DECEMBER 30, 2021

2021 was a big year for energy-related news, what with the ongoing hunt for new forms of energy storage and cleaner if not carbon-free electricity and events and research that spotlighted the weak links in our power grid. No battery is perfect, however, so engineers keep pushing for new and improved ways to store those electrons.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2017

With power-to-gas technology, you don’t need to stop renewable power generation when demand is low. Instead, the excess electricity can be used to make hydrogen that can be integrated into existing natural gas pipeline infrastructure and stored for later use. Power-to-gas systems are currently in place in Germany and Canada.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2011

The e-gas project consists of two main components: Audi is contributing to the construction of offshore North Sea wind turbines which will generate clean power,that is then fed into the public power grid. Audi wants to use green power to produce and also operate its electric-drive e-tron models in the future.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2020

We are all becoming increasingly familiar with the narrative that, energy storage is the solution for balancing a distributed and renewable grid, therefore reducing the need for vastly oversized infrastructure. A fuel-based generator cannot turn on quick enough to respond to these types of changes. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2021

The Group is adhering to its strategic financial targets and continues to aim for a capex ratio of around 6% by 2025 and an annual clean net cash flow of more than €10 billion in its core automotive business. Not only will customers be more independent of the public power grid, they will also save money and reduce CO 2 emissions.

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Setec Powerr

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Just like we put food in the refrigerator, we can store it for days or weeks without eating it immediately or discarding it. Molten salt has emerged as commercially viable with concentrated solar power but this and other heat storage options may be limited by the need for large underground storage caverns. Mechanical storage.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2013

When power is abundant, it’s drawn from the electric grid and used to power a large air compressor, which pushes pressurized air into an underground geologic storage structure. The PNNL-BPA study examined a different approach: using natural, porous rock reservoirs that are deep underground to store renewable energy.

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Electric Vehicles India

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Important minerals such as copper, lithium, nickel, cobalt, and rare earth elements are essential components of many of today’s rapidly growing clean energy technologies, from wind turbines and power grids to electric vehicles. The battery absorbs and stores this energy.

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Wallbox

DECEMBER 28, 2021

To make it clear, in a unidirectional (one-way) EV charger, electricity flows from the electric grid into the electric vehicle and with a bidirectional (two-way) EV charger, electricity can flow both ways. Let’s put it this way, if you’ve already paid to charge your vehicle, why not use the left-over power to run your home too?

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2016

The battery storage system electrified by BMW i is sized so it can be placed in the basement or the garage of a detached house, where the stored energy can either be used for electrically-operated devices in the home or for charging the battery of an electric car.

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Driivz

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

However, for EVs to fully realize their potential as a clean transportation option, a reliable and convenient charging infrastructure, including smart EV charging and renewable energy sources, must be in place. The Advantages of Electric Vehicles Electric vehicles have several distinct advantages over traditional gasoline-powered vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2013

The bidirectional charging units are capable of providing up to 300 kW of power to plug-in electric vehicles and also can discharge a like amount of stored energy from the vehicle batteries to the grid or microgrid via Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) standard J1772-compliant bidirectional charging cables.

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EV Connect

JANUARY 9, 2023

Unlike most existing EV charging technology, which sends energy only in one direction — from a power source to a car’s battery — bidirectional charging allows the vehicle to send that energy for use by other devices. Through a converter that’s usually present in the charger, it allows vehicles to send energy directly back to the grid.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 30, 2022

The world’s largest pumped-energy-storage station—a technique that stores energy by pumping it uphill to a reservoir—is set to complete phase two of its construction in 2023. The transmission line will sidestep the growing difficulties of connecting renewable-energy sources to the power grid.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

The European Commission has awarded the H2FUTURE project consortium—comprising voestalpine, Siemens, VERBUND and Austrian Power Grid (APG) as well as the research-partners K1-MET and ECN—the contract for the construction of one of the world’s largest PEM electrolysis plants for producing green hydrogen.

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Clean Fleet Report

JANUARY 4, 2023

Some people even invest in smart chargers that apply extra power when it gets too cold outside. It’s also possible to take advantage of public charging stations or charging programs offered by certain retail stores. The post How To Survive the Winter Driving an EV first appeared on Clean Fleet Report.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 27, 2023

Transcript Eliza Strickland: Technology to combat climate change got a big boost this year when the US Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act , which authorized more than 390 billion for spending on clean energy and climate change. How and where can carbon dioxide be meaningfully captured, and how can it be stored, and where?

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Blink Charging

JULY 28, 2022

Every time the charge-discharge process is repeated, the battery loses a little of its capacity to store and generate power. It allows cars to get charged from a power grid and the battery to charge the grid back. Typically, manufacturers offer an eight-year warranty for EV batteries. Miles Ahead.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2012

Combining functionality with a modern design by industrial designer Yves Behar, the Level 2 GE WattStation pedestal uses smart grid technology and enables utility companies to manage the impact of electric vehicles on the local and regional power grids.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2009

A*STAR is also conducting research in Solar Photovoltaics, Next Generation Power Grids, Intelligent Energy Distribution, Fuel Cells, Sustainable Production of Fuels and Chemicals and Sustainable Manufacturing. Carbon Capture and Utilization.

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Driivz

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Sources of clean and renewable energy from solar and wind are increasingly being integrated into the grid by utilities around the world. Smart energy management that balances the allocation of power between chargers is one alternative. Integration of renewables and battery storage with EV charging infrastructure advances.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2009

Bi-directional metering would enable customers to purchase energy at off-peak hours and sell unused, stored energy back to the utility during peak periods at higher rates. High Temperature Superconductor Transmission Cable System for Installation in the Long Island Power Grid (LIPA 2) (Westborough, MA) - $7,584,120.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 19, 2023

Airplanes, for example, won’t be able to fly long distances on battery power. In addition, for many uses, energy can’t be used the instant it’s generated but must be stored for hours or days and transferred across continents or even oceans, neither of which is currently economically or technologically feasible.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2013

It provides a crucial real-life demonstration of technology that can help to provide California a future of clean, sustainable and reliable energy. The UCSD microgrid is a small-scale version of the traditional larger power grid; it is able to connect to the larger electric grid, but can also work independently.

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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. production of oil, which is stored in seeds and is convertible to. power applications.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

The winds had barely died down when electric-power specialists and others began calling for a radical overhaul of Puerto Rico’s electricity networks, one that would emphasize renewable energy, distributed generation, and, critically, microgrids. A microgrid is like a miniaturized, tightly controlled version of a power grid.

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Drive Electric

JULY 7, 2022

With increasing numbers of car manufacturers introducing electric models and the launch of the Clean Car Discount in 2022, EVs are now a common sight on our roads. EV MYTH FOUR: NZ power supply can’t cope with an increase in Electric Vehicles. Electric vehicles are more popular in New Zealand than ever! MORE EV MYTHS EXPLAINED.

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The Truth About Cars

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The scheme could be one way of addressing concerns that modern power grids couldn’t endure widespread electric vehicle usage while helping to position the involved companies in an industry that’s being heavily incentivized by the government.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The electric drivetrain is highly efficient in converting stored energy from batteries into motion, minimizing energy waste. This synergy allows cities to manage energy demand effectively, store renewable energy for later use, and optimize the grid.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2013

The award recipients are: The California Air Resources Board will receive $8 million in current fiscal year funds to provide additional funding for the Clean Vehicle Rebate Project for qualified electric drive vehicles. The South Coast Air Quality Management District received several awards.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2021

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced more than $30 million in federal funding, matched by more than $35 million in private sector funds, for 68 projects that will accelerate the commercialization of promising energy technologies—ranging from clean energy and advanced manufacturing, to building efficiency and next-generation materials.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

This is not much different from diesel and gasoline which are produced from refining and cleaning crude oil (a process which heavily involves the use of hydrogen). This renewable production capacity is increasingly important to ensure the existing power grid can accept more renewable sources.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

A January 2007 Pacific National Laboratory study shows that if we woke up tomorrow and all our vehicles could plug in, todays grid could support more than three-quarters of them charging at night without building a single power plant. Dont PHEVs just shift pollution from gasoline cars to power plants?

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

DaimlerChrysler has presented plug-in hybrids in commercial vans that have enough room to store the batteries, but the technology is not quite ripe for cars."Plug-in That has to be looked at." ( Reuters ) 3/28/07 "Batteries are not yet an economic or efficient way of storing power.we By partnering with these two industries.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

And in a true smart grid, electric cars will not only be able to draw on electricity to run their motors, they will also be able to do the reverse: send electricity stored in their batteries back into the grid when it is needed. In effect, cars would be acting like tiny power stations. While utilities such as E.ON

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