Climate Change Engine Light Power Grid 
Green Car Congress
APRIL 23, 2021
The outlook for the power mix varies significantly across the globe, with renewables contributing 71% in Western Europe by 2030 compared to 35% in the US, 38% in China and 27% in India. As countries look to accelerate this transition, the modernization of power grids and integration of energy storage will also be increasingly important.
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.
Cars That Think
JANUARY 26, 2023
Simple, effective solutions that can help lessen the impact of climate change already exist. That’s according to 2023 IEEE President Saifur Rahman , who was among the speakers from engineering organizations at the COP27 event held in Egypt in November. Most people wouldn’t even notice the difference in brightness, he said.
Cars That Think
MARCH 11, 2023
In 2001, a team of engineers at a then-obscure R&D company called AC Propulsion quietly began a groundbreaking experiment. They wanted to see whether an electric vehicle could feed electricity back to the grid. The company’s president, Tom Gage , dubbed the system “vehicle to grid” or V2G.
Cars That Think
AUGUST 24, 2023
When Ifeanyi Orajaka was an undergraduate engineering student in 2008, he had his career all mapped out. Minigrids use distributed off-grid energy solutions that operate independently from the national transmission grid. Orajaka says his off-grid system of the first of its kind developed and implemented in Nigeria.
Cars That Think
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
Thousands of Washington insiders and climate activists have had a hand in these legislative breakthroughs. Among the most articulate and almost certainly the wonkiest is Jesse Jenkins , a professor of engineering at Princeton University, where he heads the ZERO Lab—the Zero-carbon Energy systems Research and Optimization Laboratory, that is.
Blink Charging
SEPTEMBER 8, 2023
As the world grapples with the pressing issue of climate change, it is evident that we need swift action to avert its worst impacts. Unlike internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles, EVs emit no direct emissions when running on electricity. There’s no better time than now to join the electric vehicle revolution.
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