Cars That Think

DECEMBER 23, 2024

In 2024, technologies to combat climate change soared above the clouds in electricity-generating kites, traveled the oceans sequestering carbon, and permeated the earth to power agritech in a new way. Weve gathered our top 10 climate tech stories of the past year here for you to explore. If these dont ring a bell, fret not!

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2020

This alliance is mobilized to connect countless sensors, applications, autonomous cars, and remote services across every industry sector to create an assured, attested and secured foundation for tomorrow’s transportation and electrification infrastructure. Smart infrastructure will be eco-friendly. Smart infrastructure will also be safer.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2011

This system, which is being partially funded by the EU, connects the French and Spanish grids between Baixas and Santa Llogaia. At present the two countries’ grids are linked only by low-capacity lines.

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Building San Francisco Convert Grid 259

Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2020

Due to the DC voltage level in the overall grid, the connection between the PV system and the vehicle does not require an inverter and is thus a particularly efficient solution. In the first half of 2020, the proportion of green electricity as a percentage of the total electricity mix in Germany exceeded 50% for the first time.

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Audi Charging Grid Energy Storage 243

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2011

The agency has now set up a feature on its website, “ Fostering Applicant Connections ” to try to connect its “Encouraged Applicants” that were not selected for an award and potential investors, partners and customers. Grid-Scale Rampable Intermittent Dispatchable Storage (GRIDS).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2014

The new awards complement industry’s efforts and will enable academic researchers to experiment and advance cloud computing architectures that can support a new generation of innovative applications, including real-time and safety-critical applications such as those used in medical devices, power grids, and transportation systems.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2013

With efficiency ratings of more than 60%, an advanced combined cycle power plant emits less than half the CO 2 produced by a new coal-fired power plant, and wind power is well on its way to be able to deliver electricity as cost-effectively as conventional energy sources. Climate Change Europe Policy Power Generation'

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Germany Energy Renewable Grid 239

Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2011

The report, Bucks for balancing: can plug-in vehicles of the future extract cash—and carbon—from the power grid? , is based on a research collaboration between a team of engineers from Ricardo and National Grid, the operator of the high voltage electricity transmission system within Great Britain (GB).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The collaboration aims to power EVs in California with clean energy, and generate cleaner air in the state by leveraging the latest biodigester technology to create renewable energy by capturing methane from manure to feed back into the power grid.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2020

As our world becomes more connected, more electrified, and more renewable, not only are we increasing the demand on our energy systems, but we are also fundamentally changing the way they operate. But, to solve the week-by-week or season-by-season variations with batteries is to follow the same route as a 100% wind and solar powered grid.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

The power electronics module is connected to the e-motor via the sort of yellow-and-orange 3-phase cable typical for electric vehicles. The connection to the lithium-ion battery is established via two traction cables. are the power flow and regenerative braking display and an e-manager. As with the smaller e-up!,

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2009

An intelligent battery management system helps achieve this range largely independently of external climatic conditions. On the European power grid, the battery pack can be fully charged in just 3 hours at a wall box with a current of 50 ampere at 230/240 volts.

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EV Connect

JANUARY 24, 2022

As the costs of climate change and the price of oil both become too high to bear, auto manufacturers will shift more of their vehicle fleets to electric. As it stands, the power grid is already run-down and outdated , built for the electric loads of a century ago, not for modern life. OpenADR can even turn fleet into an asset.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2013

For the current fiscal year, the program is slated to invest approximately $90 million to encourage the development and use of new technologies, and alternative and renewable fuels, to help the state meet its climate-change goals. It is paid for through surcharges on vehicle and boat registrations, and smog check and license plate fees.

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Alternative Fuels Los Angeles Hydrogen Fuel 170

Plug In Partners

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

With operations in eight states, Xcel Energy will study how the vehicles perform in varied geographic regions and climates over a six-month period. home connected to the electricity grid, vehicle-to-grid technology could be key to meeting our growing energy needs,” said Michael Lamb, executive director of Xcel Energy Utility Innovations.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

for climate control in automobiles. Climate Control System (ATB) MIT will develop advanced adsorption-based hot and cold. batteries for effective climate control of electric vehicles. power grid. Topology Ideal Power Converters is developing light-weight electronics. connected together. resistance.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have developed a new zinc-polyiodide redox flow battery offering more than two times the energy density of the next-best flow battery used to store renewable energy and support the power grid. Hoses were connected between the vials, a pump and a small stack.

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EV Connect

JULY 18, 2022

During summer, especially in very warm climates, it’s important to take into account the increased toll on the power grid due to powering air conditioners. That’s why power companies and infrastructure often implement demand response systems. Fortunately, EV Connect is already part of the OpenADR 2.0

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 30, 2009

The garage studies the integration of the electric vehicle into the power grid system where it either charges or discharges to accommodate the owner’s electricity needs. This would allow utilities to stagger when electric cars are charging, or charge up power all at once if generation is high.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 19, 2023

Many countries have met their climate goals and are on track to be completely carbon neutral. Then, as now, wind farms are operating off the world’s coasts—but not all of these offshore sites are connected to the mainland via underwater power cables. Imagine this hopeful, and not impossible, energy scenario for the year 2040.

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Cars That Think

JULY 14, 2023

One useful application of direct control is adjusting electrolyzers’ energy consumption based on the power grid ’s current energy mix. The architecture had to handle requirements like bidirectional data connections with electrolyzers, live updates on the health of electrolyzer components, and maintenance-schedule recommendations.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 24, 2023

Having these [stations] in place will help fight climate change.” Orajaka and the other founders have set their sights higher than just providing off-grid rural areas with electricity. The project received support from Power Africa and USAID.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

And at the headquarters of Pacific Gas and Electric, utility executives are preparing “heat maps” of neighborhoods that they fear may overload the power grid in their exuberance for electric cars.&#. Here’s the full text of the entire article, in case the link goes bad: [link]. February 15, 2010. And later this year P.G.&E.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2015

Its first commercial-scale production plant obtains carbon dioxide from gas emissions from a geothermal power plant and hydrogen via electrolysis of water using renewable sources of energy from the Icelandic power grid (from hydro, geothermal and wind sources).

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Teslarati

APRIL 29, 2022

The partnership will utilize Volkswagen’s Flexpole 150kW charging units, which each offer two charge points and have an integrated battery system, which enables a high-powered grid connection to make fast charging possible. The decarbonization of Europe’s economy requires close collaboration across borders and sectors.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2016

Connect with Dr. Frank on social media: https://www.facebook.com/andyfrankatedi [link]. PHEVLERs make our electric grid more efficient. [ 15 ] Electric power grids are designed with capacity to serve the highest power peaks demanded (e.g. PHEVLERs are better than BEVs in support of the electric grid.

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Baua Electric

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

It is not subject to the 12-knot speed limit imposed on other watercraft because it has no wake, thereby allowing it to complete journeys in less time than ICE-powered boats. “We We are doing this to show the way in the green transition at sea,” Gustav Hemming, the city councilor in charge of climate and infrastructure, told reporters.

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Driivz

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

As the world continues to face climate change challenges, it is becoming increasingly critical that we transition to more sustainable energy sources. Renewable energy, such as solar and wind power, is a more environmentally friendly and cleaner alternative to traditional fossil fuels.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 13, 2025

As nations across the globe ramp up their commitments to combat climate change, renewable energy has moved from the periphery to the center of the world’s energy strategy. Integrated energy AI platforms that connect forecasting, trading, maintenance, and grid management in a single ecosystem.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

In the city of the future, could power suppliers be rivalled by innovative construction firms? The vision is fuelled by the fear of climate change and the need to find green alternatives to dirty coal, unpopular nuclear power and unreliable gas imports from Russia. While utilities such as E.ON While utilities such as E.ON

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 29, 2022

That need for balance is true of electric power grids, too. Spiking demand for electric heat collided with supply problems created by frozen natural-gas equipment and below-average wind-power production. Packetized energy management (PEM) allows the power grid to flexibly handle a varying supply of renewable energy.

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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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Cars That Think

MARCH 4, 2025

A humans well-being and socioeconomic progress are deeply connected to the environment. Deforestation accelerates climate change by reducing the Earths carbon absorption capacity, while soil degradation threatens global food security. Sustainability is the foundation of our survival and the future of humanity.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Until then, we also recommend you look at the FAQ at the Climate Progress Blog and the FAQ by Hybrids-Plus , an after-market converter of hybrid cars, for answers to many questions! Wont all these cars require us to build even more power plants? Whats Vehicle-to-Grid and why would I like it? What Are Plug-In Hybrids (PHEVs)?

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2013

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. Demonstrate that a DC-linked chargeport is more efficient than an AC-linked chargeport. MW of fuel cells in operation.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

The utility.will get a Ford plug-in hybrid vehicle by the end of this year and as many as 20 by some time in 2009 to test their durability, range and impact on the power grid, said Susan M. But Fukui said he saw no significant value in researching plug-in hybrid models, which can be recharged by connecting to a power plug.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

A comprehensive environmental evaluation of PEVs must consider the fact that production of electricity will generate risks to the environment that will vary in nature and magnitudes depending on the source of power. The potential impacts of PEVs on climate change are of particular concern.

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