Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

In trials, GE’s sodium metal halide Durathon batteries ( earlier post ) have successfully powered GE Mining’s Scoop, an underground vehicle that transports mining materials, at Coal River Energy, LLC in Alum Creek, West Virginia. —Carl Estep, maintenance manager at Coal River Energy, LLC. Click to enlarge.

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Blink Charging

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

As the story goes , its origins go back all the way to the 1980s when graphic designer Ken Wallace was walking outside of his Nova Scotia home with his daughter and noticed idling vehicles. There are four guidelines to follow: Refrain from using or burning oil, gas or coal. Zero Emission Day September 21st is Zero Emission Day.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

These government entities collaborate with companies to make material advancements that could save industry millions of dollars in fuel and maintenance across sectors.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2015

million to enable the 36,000-square-foot maintenance facility to handle the new CNG-powered fleet. The $5-million on-site CNG fueling station, designed and built by TruStar Energy, is the largest private CNG station in North America. The company spent $1.8 Prior to the changeover, the FCA Transport Detroit fleet used nearly 2.6

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2017

At the Geneva Auto Show, the China-based Hybrid Kinetic group unveiled the H600 microturbine range-extended electric vehicle sedan concept, produced together with its vehicle design and engineering partner, Pininfarina. The 60 kW microturbine range extender delivers 40% efficiency, low emissions, and a 10000-hour maintenance interval.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2020

Fluor, a global engineering, procurement, construction and maintenance company, which has best-in-class experience in building hydrogen-from-gasification plants, will provide front-end engineering and design for the Lancaster facility.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2010

Punch list items will continue to be addressed by construction and maintenance personnel as the commissioning and start-up of the plant proceed. The new facility is designed to convert fats, greases and oils supplied by Tyson Foods into as much as 75 million gallons of renewable fuels per year.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 20, 2024

“At the same time, it’s becoming apparent that alternative-fuel solutions we’re looking at have big drawbacks, and that producing these fuels will take a lot of green power that will be needed to replace coal and gas on shore. The group has shortlisted three designs and plan to have picked one by the end of 2024.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2010

The selected projects will seek to improve component and system designs to extend operation to an average of about 18 hours per day, a level of production that would make it possible for these plants to displace traditional coal-burning power plants. eSolar, Inc. Pasadena, CA – up to $10.8 HiTek Services, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2014

Heat rate improvements result in any changes in equipment, operating procedures or maintenance practices that increase the efficiency of converting fuel energy into electricity by an EGU. The value allocated here in EPA’s goal-setting formula was an average heat rate improvement of 6% for coal steam electric generating units (EGUs).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

First versions of the engine chassis will be designed for use in urban delivery trucks and school buses. PERC estimates that operating costs of a propane fleet typically range from 5 to 30% less than a gasoline-powered fleet, when capital costs (vehicle and infrastructure) and operation and maintenance costs are all taken into consideration.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2010

Applications are sought that use new materials and designs that allow better heat transfer out of the capacitor to reduce internal heating problems and increase life expectancy. However, they must accommodate high ripple currents, in a high temperature environment. Improved Magnetic Materials for Motors. Office of Fossil Energy.

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Get Electric Vehicle

MAY 21, 2023

If We could improve the battery pack of an ev we can improve the EV altogether and the improvements can be noticed in the, Safety of the EV The range offered by the EV Improved handling (The lighter the battery the lighter the EV) Maintenance cost gets reduced And the list goes on… So what are the ways we could improve an EV Battery?

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 30, 2021

At one point, TSMC’s sole 3-nm chip customer for 2022 was Apple , for the latter’s iPhone 14, but supply-chain issues have made it less certain that TSMC will be able to produce enough chips—which promise more design flexibility —to fulfill even that order. Seoul Joins the Metaverse. FASER will. percent of hydrogen is produced this way.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2013

Designating Departments to serve as leads to oversee the annual creation of climate preparedness plans at home and abroad. To accomplish those goals, PCAST recommends: Creation of a National Commission on Climate Preparedness charged with recommending an overall framework and blueprint for ongoing data collection, planning, and action.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

This study finds that fuel consumption for new tractor-trailers could be lowered by 20 percent starting in 2012 and as much as 50 percent beginning in 2017, while providing net savings for the owner based on lifetime fuel savings paying for the incremental vehicle, operation, and maintenance costs. operational measures.

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Get Electric Vehicle

JUNE 7, 2023

EV charger manufacturers, EV manufacturers, EV controller design companies, etc. Additionally, EVs have fewer moving parts and require less maintenance since they don’t have components like oil filters, spark plugs, and timing belts that need regular servicing or replacement. The charging efficiency is 98%.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

And it is vulnerable to precisely the kind of destructive storms that microgrids are designed to ride out with minimal interruption in electric service. We have designed such a controller, which we call a microgrid orchestrator , and are now developing facilities to thoroughly test it in the lab. percent to 2.8

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My Electric Car

AUGUST 21, 2020

The energy stored within hydrogen has been imparted from electrical energy through the electrolytic hydrogen production process or more likely in the refinement of fossil fuels such as coal seam (methane) gas – both are energy intensive processes in themselves. . The reasons are numerous. .

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2010

A single plant or fleet of plants within an organization can benefit directly from a robust asset management program or condition monitoring system primarily through employing preventative or just-in-time maintenance and effectively utilizing planned outages. Emerging systems. Models based on first principals are encouraged.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

Frank has spent more than 30 years in breakthrough vehicle development, during which he received two world records for vehicle fuel economy, designed nine generations of PHEVs, and was a four-time winner of US DOE Advanced Vehicle Design competitions. We will soon discuss this need in detail. Also see Appendix E and Reference 1.).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2009

One of the AirPods is a cargo version adapted to transport parts and maintenance equipment at Schiphol-Center and the other is for personnel transport at Schiphol-Oost. The AirPod is one of five derivative vehicles designed by MDI based on its Compressed Air Engine (CAE) invented by Guy Negre, CEO and founder of MDI. Earlier post.).

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Audi Volkswagen-owned company exploring PHEVs Metroproject Quattro Sub-compact PHEV Concept Car shown October 2007; PHEV of A1 Sportback under consideration Bright Automotive For-profit spin off from Rocky Mountain Institute designing lightweight PHEVs, successor to RMIs 1990s "Hypercar" concept. Red Herring ). Kwong asked.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Also maintenance on these (no oil changes to speak of) etc will cost much less than an internal combution propelled car. Take for instance the grossly-oversized wheels: a more aerodynamic design would use smaller ones, to minimize turbulence around the opening. Learn your facts before you post please. — Volt Enthusiast 7.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 20, 2022

Manufacturing an EV battery using coal-based electricity results in more than three times the greenhouse-gas emissions of manufacturing a battery with electricity from renewable sources. 70 percent of lithium-ion batteries are produced in China, which derived 64 percent of its electricity from coal in 2020. passenger vehicles.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Even if you charge your EV with electricity made from coal fired generators you reduce your car’s pollution by half. And with EV maintenance you are less exposed to being ripped off buy the ICE car repairman. Read more in this blog post: [link] — Gregory Hancock 5. If you charge with solar, is way less. — Jeff U 6.

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Creative Greenius

JUNE 4, 2011

In this alternative reality we’re in, the crashing and burning of the economy, just when the world was deciding whether to take bold and decisive action on global warming, was a deliberate arson job designed to make sure financial survival trumped making any bold moves like carbon taxes and rapid transitions from oil, coal and gas.

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Creative Greenius

JUNE 4, 2011

In this alternative reality we’re in, the crashing and burning of the economy, just when the world was deciding whether to take bold and decisive action on global warming, was a deliberate arson job designed to make sure financial survival trumped making any bold moves like carbon taxes and rapid transitions from oil, coal and gas.

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