Green Car Congress
JULY 14, 2010
GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt unveiled the challenge, the “GE ecomagination Challenge: Powering the Grid,” in San Francisco 13 July. The global challenge invites technologists, entrepreneurs and start-ups to share their best ideas and come together to build the next-generation power grid to meet the needs of the 21 st century.
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. It seems like the above could qualify for antitrust enforcement.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 29, 2021
Automakers in Europe can lower their emissions by shortening the transport distance and capitalizing on the DRC’s hydroelectric powered grid and proximity to raw materials. This is three times cheaper than what a similar plant in the US would cost. —Kwasi Ampofo, lead author of the report and BNEF’s head of metals and mining.
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?
The Truth About Cars
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
However, the proposal is not incorrect in asserting that California's Clean Air Act waiver gives it a large amount of influence over national vehicle policies. This winter, residents in the Sierra Nevada mountains lost power for days due to heavy snow storms.
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