Blink Charging

APRIL 20, 2023

This is why it’s a good idea to switch your fleet from internal combustion engine vehicles to EVs. The source of the electricity – whether renewable sources like wind, solar, or water, or nonrenewable sources like coal – is also important. However, emissions are about more than just the tailpipe.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 6, 2024

It’s very similar to the infrastructure for electric cars because the idea, ultimately, for electric cars is that you also are revamping your grid to facilitate, whatchamacallit, intermittent renewable energy sources, like wind and solar, because having an electric car that runs off a coal-fired power plant is defeating the purpose, essentially.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2009

Developing technologies for the conversion of biomass and coal-to-liquid fuels. By 2035, cellulosic ethanol and/or coal-and-biomass-to-liquid (CBTL) fuels with carbon capture and storage could replace about 15% of current fuel consumption in the transportation sector (1.7–2.5 the power grid) are urgently needed.

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Creative Greenius

MAY 14, 2009

After a decade in the solar power installation business, Bradley Bartz is tired of being Mr. Nice Guy. He’s filed suit against Torrance, the proud home of Exxon/Mobil’s refinery, for stopping him from installing solar panels in the Hillside Overlay district. “ Idiots ! “ Idiots !&#

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2013

The 1,000 wind turbines that the spheres could anchor could, on average, replace a conventional on-shore coal or nuclear plant. Slocum and some of his students built a 30-inch-diameter prototype in 2011, which functioned well through charging and discharging cycles, demonstrating the feasibility of the idea.

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Get Electric Vehicle

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Here is a collection of the project ideas related to the electric vehicle. We have published a video “ Top 75 electric vehicle related project ideas ” on our YouTube channel “ Get Electric Vehicle ” Now, here is a collection of the comments and responses to those comments in that video. Thank you.

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Get Electric Vehicle

MAY 14, 2023

We have published some articles about electric vehicle-related project ideas here in this blog. List of Electric Vehicle Project Ideas Auto adjustment of the control strategy based on the data collected from the vehicle (driving pattern, temperature, etc.) The list includes technical and management-related projects.

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Cars That Think

MAY 9, 2024

The accelerating buildout of solar farms on Earth is already hitting speed bumps, including public pushback against the large tracts of land required and a ballooning backlog of requests for new transmission lines and grid connections. The glamorous vision has inspired numerous futuristic proposals.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 29, 2022

That need for balance is true of electric power grids, too. Second, conventional coal and nuclear plants are being retired for economic and policy reasons, removing stable sources from the grid. Packetized energy management (PEM) allows the power grid to flexibly handle a varying supply of renewable energy.

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Plug In India

MARCH 9, 2023

Team PluginIndia Even in 2023, we keep getting comments like these - ' ‘Electric cars use electricity which is generated by burning coal. There are lots of auto 'journalists' and random YouTubers who still talk about electric cars and coal power. KW AC type 2 chargers powered by Solar. [4] They are worse than petrol cars."

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Get Electric Vehicle

JUNE 7, 2023

The growth potential of EVs is high and I would like to be a part of it by contributing my ideas and effort. By integrating EVs with renewable energy generation, such as solar or wind power, it becomes possible to reduce reliance on non-renewable energy sources and create a more sustainable transportation ecosystem.

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Push EVs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Solar EV Charging. While EVs don’t produce emissions, the electricity they use could be produced from a coal or gas-powered power plant. Therefore, with the rapid growth of demand for EVs, the charging situation has also shown a new trend – Solar EV Charging. In most cases, solar EV charging costs less than grid charging.

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

The idea that a wholesale switch to electric cars would automatically reduce CO2 emissions and dependence on oil is one of a number of myths dispelled by a major new report conducted on behalf of the Environmental Transport Association (ETA). National Grid. Key findings of report include: Performance.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

It offers the solution to several significant transitions we need: moving society from burning fossil fuels to substituting renewable resource fuels such as solar, wind and biofuels; and from using fossil materials as fuel to using them for other recyclable uses. Distributed Solar and Wind with the PHEV. Conclusions. slow charge.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Portland and San Francisco Battle For Electric Car Domination Chicago Gets First Solar Powered EV Charging Station World’s Top 10 Fastest Electric Cars A Few Pictures of Upcoming Electric Cars: Source [ PhysOrg.com ] Image Credit: Clayton B. At the time of the press release, I could not find a definitive picture. Sorry for any confusion.

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Cars That Think

MAY 21, 2022

Tesla had indeed pursued the idea of somehow using the ground and atmosphere as a conduit for long-distance power transmission, a plan that went nowhere. Indeed, efficiencies can exceed 70 percent, more than double that of a typical solar cell. At the grid level, Emrod and others are attempting to scale power beaming to new heights.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 15, 2023

Even more discouragingly, nuclear’s per-unit cost increased 26 percent between 2009 and 2019—while solar and wind power prices plummeted instead. But some nuclear advocates feel that placing too many nuclear eggs in a single megaproject’s basket is a bad idea. Rolls-Royce hopes to get the first of its reactors on the grid by 2029.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Electric cars and a smart electric grid have a bright future, according to panelists at a roundtable discussion on the subject that I attended last Friday in Boston. “I The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission , which regulates interstate transmission of electricity, is on board with the idea. ’s power generation, he said.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Solar, Wind and Biofuels Grew 53 Percent in 2008 Green Education = Environmental Religion? Renewables That Even Coal-Based Utilities Can Love. Vehicle to Grid (V2G) technology is a bi-directional electric grid interface that allows a plug-in to take energy from the grid or put it back on the grid.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 20, 2009

Caroline Reichert, an RWE spokeswoman, noted that the idea here is to ensure that "a car can be recharged in Italy in exactly the same way as in Denmark, Germany or France." The "normal plug" idea doesnt neccessarily work dude. Once weve consolidated everything to depend on the grid, we can clean up everything by cleaning up the grid.

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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. But its monumentally less pollution , even on the national (half-coal) grid.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

This idea of a plug-in hybrid electric car by fuel efficiency standards shows how some car companies would choose to go all electric. More importantly, rather than coal or other unsustainable energy sources, if wind, solar, geothermal and tidal energy become more of the energy portfolio, the vehicles are fully zero emission and oil free!

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

There’s good reason for this hustle: The United Kingdom wants to add 34 gigawatts of offshore wind power by 2030, en route to decarbonizing its grid by 2035. And in many places, such as North America’s deep Pacific coast, the strongest and steadiest wind blows in the evening, which would perfectly complement solar energy’s daytime peaks.

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Electric Auto Association

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

In the seven counties I have chosen to serve, there are oil fields, windmills, solar farms, and even a hydroelectric dam. I tell everyone about vehicle-to-grid technology, and remind them that diesel fuel gels when they forget to add the anti-gel. In this part of Texas, it’s a mix of a few big cities and a lot of small towns.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

by homercles82 April 7, 2009 11:23 AM PDT Yes we will just be charging these cars using electricity that is made from naturla gas and coal fired palnts while we ignore nuclear unlike most of Europe. Dont knock it until youve tried it; I did and Im leaving my 4 wheeler parked. Keep them off the damn sidewalks.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

DECEMBER 3, 2008

Geothermal is particularly attractive since it’s a “forever&# renewable power source much like wind and solar - but without the intermittency of those clean energy sources. Clean base load energy is particularly important since that is usually generated by nukes, burning coal or, in the case of Hawaii, oil.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

As if that were not enough, I’m hearing now that BYD is on the verge of a breakthrough in the solar power business and that the company has big plans to make rechargeable batteries at a utility scale to store energy from intermittent, renewable sources like wind and solar. I’ve never seen anything like it. Not so this time around.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Denmark did that with Wind Power and now most of their energy comes from wind rather than oil, natural gas, or coal. When most of America will be reluctant to buy a GM car because the company might go bankrupt how the hell did those in charge think bailing them out was a good idea? This is true, irrespective of the merits of the Volt.

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