Remove Coal Remove Grid Remove Miles Remove New Jersey
article thumbnail

OnStar and Google demonstrate concept service for managing charging Chevrolet Volts with renewable energy

Green Car Congress

OnStar and Google are working together to demonstrate a new OnStar service for managing the charging of Chevrolet Volts with renewable energy, using the 17 Chevrolet Volts in Google’s “Gfleet” based at the company’s headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. Renewables in the US grid. was conventional hydropower. Wind accounted for 2.3%.

Volt 265
article thumbnail

Ninth annual Green Innovation Index finds California light-duty vehicle emissions spike; major challenge to 2030 climate goals

Green Car Congress

billion vehicle miles traveled (VMT) in 2015, with a concomitant increase in gasoline consumption. In addition, the housing affordability and availability crisis is forcing people to live increasingly farther away from work, driving up total vehicle miles traveled in the state by 2.7 billion in 2014, up 0.08% from the previous year.

article thumbnail

Why Hydrogen power is not the answer

EV Info

For example, to replace gas boilers with hydrogen boilers requires thousands of miles of new, much thicker, high-pressure pipes. On May 6, 1937, the world’s largest hydrogen-floated dirigible airship went up in towering flames in New Jersey. Sources: Recharge News: [link] JCB: [link] NASA: [link] National Grid: [link] .