Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2021

The ICCT team considered battery and hydrogen fuel-cell EVs, plug-in hybrid EVs, natural gas, biofuels, and e-fuels.The study used the lifetime average carbon intensity of fuel and electricity mixes, and accounted for changes in the carbon intensity over vehicle lifetime given present energy policies. Source: The ICCT.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2016

A US-wide county-level study comparing lifecycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from several light-duty passenger gasoline and plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) has found that PEVs can have larger or smaller carbon footprints than gasoline vehicles depending on regional factors and the specific vehicle models being compared.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

The US Department of Energy is awarding $620 million for projects around the country to demonstrate advanced Smart Grid technologies and integrated systems. Smart grid regional demonstrations involving plug-in vehicles include (ranked by DOE funding): Columbus Southern Power Company (doing business as AEP Ohio).

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 25, 2015

It''s a simple fact that electric cars get cleaner when the electricity grids used to power them do. And, indeed, those grids are growing less dirty each year in the United States. electricity generated from coal has dropped significantly over the past few years--and that fuel has largely been replaced by lower-emission natural.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 28, 2023

The 260-kilometer, 320-kilovolt high-voltage direct-current (HVDC) transmission system, based on technology from Hitachi Energy , in Zurich, marks a milestone in an ongoing transformation of the European power grid: It will plug into the first truly dynamic multiterminal HVDC network in Europe.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

The PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle), a subset of the electric car, combines a primary electric motor with a much smaller back-up engine fueled with a hydrocarbon/biofuel mix. (In At present, PHEV technology alone is equipped to improve the current electric grid. Appendix E: PHEV and the Electrical Grid—fast charge v.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2009

billion for the modernization of the US electricity grid. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act includes an Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability program designed to accelerate the modernization of the US electricity grid. In the US each year, an estimated one billion tons of coal and 6.9 Earlier post.).

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The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

For instance, electricity generated from coal or natural gas is associated with higher carbon emissions, while renewable sources like wind or solar energy contribute negligible carbon pollution. As more renewable energy sources are integrated into the power grid, the overall greenhouse gas emissions associated with EVs can be further reduced.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2015

Researchers at the US Department of Energy (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) are identifying battery second use (B2U) strategies capable of offsetting vehicle expenses while improving utility grid stability.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2010

The introduction of electric vehicles on a large scale in the UK can only have a beneficial effect on CO 2 emissions if low-carbon electricity, universal broadband provision and smart grids are in place to support the transition, according to a new report published by the UK Royal Academy of Engineering.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2015

Results from the study also suggest that with sufficient coal plant retirement and sufficient wind power, controlled charging could result in positive net benefits instead of negative. A paper describing the work is published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. other parts of the US and the world could be different.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 28, 2015

And the good news for electric-car drivers is that the grids that supply their electricity have been getting cleaner--and will likely continue to do so this year and into the future. Coal's share of.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 3, 2014

The environmental impact of plug-in electric cars is a source for much debate these days. They use less energy on a wells-to-wheels carbon basis than the vast majority of new cars sold in North America, even if they''re recharged on coal-heavy electric grids.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2014

In a new study published in the journal Applied Energy , Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) researchers found that controlled charging of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) reduces the costs of integrating the vehicles into an electricity system by 54–73% depending on the scenario.

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Plugs and Cars

APRIL 22, 2010

The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) has proposed what could be a huge roadblock to the further implementation of our sensible pro-plug-in car policies. And that reaction was from an auto company that is taking a "go slow" approach to using grid electricity as a "fuel" for cars. With friends like these.

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Plugs and Cars

AUGUST 19, 2007

The Ugly Coal sucks, there's really no two ways about it. But not all use of coal is alike. The Good About half our electricity comes from coal, and that will change, at best, slowly as we move to renewables. That includes the worst, most coal dependent areas. That includes the worst, most coal dependent areas.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2015

To achieve the best outcomes, the brief suggests, plug-in vehicle adoption should typically be focused on HEVs and PHEVs by city drivers in mild-climate regions with a clean electricity grid, such as San Francisco or Los Angeles. Further, drivers should not be encouraged to charge at night in coal-heavy regions.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

This will include common design standards for plugs to be used in electric vehicles, as well as common test protocols for batteries and other devices. Paired cities will collect and share data on charging patterns, driving experiences, grid integration, consumer preferences and other topics. Joint demonstrations.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2012

The technology is enabled as OnStar receives a signal from PJM Interconnection that shows the percentage of available renewable energy on the grid. Renewables in the US grid. Renewables in the US grid. EIA forecasts that the mix in 2035 will shift to include 39% coal; 27% natural gas; and 16% renewables.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Jenkins has also helped push Congress to think more seriously about the power grid, releasing a report last year that showed that much of the 43 percent emissions reduction expected by 2030 would be squandered if the United States doesn’t double the pace of transmission upgrades. In the past two years, the U.S. C in this century.

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EV Connect

AUGUST 8, 2022

ISO 15118 is an un-intuitive name for something that seems unbelievably simple: a set of protocols that allows an electric vehicle to communicate with charging infrastructure (like a charging station) so that all you need to do to charge your vehicle is plug it into a compatible port. That said, as of 2020, no vehicles had made use of it.

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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 Source: America’s Energy Future, Fig. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2009

In this topic, ARPA-E seeks to develop a new generation of ultra-high energy density, low-cost battery technologies for long electric range plug-in hybrid electric vehicles and electric vehicles (EVs). Coal-fired power plants currently generate approximately 50% of the electricity in the United States. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 18, 2010

The study, in press in the Journal of Power Sources , examines the efficiency and costs of current and future EVs, as well as their impact on electricity demand and infrastructure for generation and distribution, and thereby on GHG emissions. Derive GHG emissions and costs of charging of EVs in the 2015 Dutch context and. —van Vliet et al.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2017

ChargePoint’s stance is bolstered by a new MIT study that suggests , in part, that electric cars that plug into the grid, could, collectively, act as a massive “virtual battery” for grid energy storage. In the power grid, supply and demand need to match exactly. ChargePoint envisions that at scale—i.e.,

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Green Car Reports

MAY 9, 2016

After more than a dozen studies and five-plus years of plug-in car sales, we know the answer. In North America, an electric car charged on even the dirtiest, most coal-intensive electric grid in the nation.

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EV Info

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Europe has made its own bed, disassembling dispatchable fuel diversity by closing well-operating coal and nuclear power plants. Europe’s renewable and natural gas obsession has paved the way for the loss of an astounding amount of coal and nuclear power capacity. In the U.K., In the U.K.,

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Strategies to promote adoption of hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) with small battery packs offer more social benefits (i.e., In this study we assess, under a wide range of scenarios, how much externality damage reduction plug-in vehicles can offer in the US and at what cost. Michalek et al.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 25, 2022

And while coal plants still supplied over half of Australia’s power in 2021, change is afoot. The 124-megawatt solar plant adjacent to Korea Zinc’s Townsville refinery, completed in 2018, cut a quarter of the coal-heavy grid power it had been using to run its power-intensive electrolytic process. Why a hydrogen truck?

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2015

Regionally specific lifecycle CO 2 emissions per mile traveled for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) and battery electric vehicles (BEVs) in the US can vary widely based on grid emission factors (i.e., Under some conditions, the battery electric Nissan LEAF can produce higher emissions than a Toyota Prius hybrid.

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Driivz

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Participants are rewarded for their willingness to be flexible in their energy use in response to grid conditions or peak hours, while utilities gain a more reliable grid, avoid outages, and defer investments in additional generation capacity. What is the purpose of Demand Side Response? What is a Demand Response event?

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 4, 2017

As automakers develop more efficient electric motors, EVs pulling electrons from dirtier, coal-powered grids are as clean or cleaner than even the most efficient fossil-fueled cars when it comes to equivalent tailpipe emissions. But electric vehicles still have a supply-chain problem.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

It also made significant changes in the current plug-in vehicle tax credit program, including increasing the limit from a program total of 250,000 vehicles to a maximum of 200,000 plug-ins per manufacturer. Tax Credits for Plug-ins. Plug-in conversions made after 31 December 2011 are not eligible. Department of Energy.

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

Some of the green benefits you’ll read about in Joe’s blog: Smart Grid/Advanced Battery Technology/Energy Efficiency. Some of the green benefits you’ll read about in Joe’s blog: Smart Grid/Advanced Battery Technology/Energy Efficiency. Read: Here’s What’s Green In It. Landmark Energy Savings at Home.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 18, 2013

The IEA said that this reflects the continued domination of fossil fuels—particularly coal—in the energy mix and the slow uptake of other, lower-carbon supply technologies. Smart grids, for example, make it easier and cheaper to replace fossil-fired power with renewables without jeopardizing the reliability of the energy system.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2011

The survey addresses a range of topics relevant to the success of plug-in electric drive vehicles, including product design (i.e., hybrids and plug-in hybrids vs. battery EVs); pricing; power generation investment and capacity; funding and developing an infrastructure; and energy sources for electricity. —Charging Forward.

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Push EVs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

While EVs don’t produce emissions, the electricity they use could be produced from a coal or gas-powered power plant. Compared with ordinary grid charging, solar charging has many advantages for EV charging in home scenarios. Compared with ordinary grid charging, solar charging has many advantages for EV charging in home scenarios.

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