Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2020

However, the resulting low gas prices, as well as clean air and climate policies, will promote further switching to gas from other more polluting energy sources, such as oil and coal. India is planning to almost double the length of its gas transmission grid, while China will grow its gas network about 60% by 2025. MMbtu in Russia, $8.7/MMbtu

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2011

The current vehicle footprint-based Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards create a financial incentive for automakers to increase vehicle size, except under certain limited conditions of consumer preference for vehicle size, according to a study by University of Michigan researchers Kate Whitefoot and Steven Skerlos. 10 11 –5.17×10

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2021

The commercial importance of these minerals also grow rapidly: today’s revenue from coal production is ten times larger than from energy transition minerals. In climate-driven scenarios, mineral demand for use in batteries for electric vehicles and grid storage is a major force, growing at least thirty times to 2040.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Fuel Cell Technologies Office’ (FCTO) 2014 Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Program Annual Progress Report ( earlier post )—an annual summary of results from projects funded by DOE’s Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Program—described progress in the field of hydrogen production. Source: DOE. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

Activities under the initiative will include : Joint standards development. The two countries will explore development of joint product and testing standards for electric vehicles. Each country currently has extensive literature and data on its own standards. Joint demonstrations. Joint technical roadmap.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2013

Renault’s comparison of the carbon footprint of EV and ICE vehicles over production, operation and end of life. is shown with both UK and French grid mixes. The study used the series production versions launched in 2011, with the assumption of operation for 150,000 km (93,205 miles). Emission standard. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2011

Typical daily grid demand. “ Why do you need energy storage on the grid, when the grid is full of power plants that generate all the energy that is needed? ” It would seem like a good question to ask and applies the same logic has been used for the past fifty years in determining grid strategy.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

The team compared the WTW results of the analysis of current vehicle WTW technologies to a number of advanced vehicle architectures including both a grid-independent HEV without plug-in capabilities and a PHEV (plug-in HEV) with a 20 mile (PHEV 20) and 40 mile (PHEV 40) all-electric range; a SI ICE, and a CNG engine. Click to enlarge.

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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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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. power-grid transmission. year grid study from the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2012

As conventional oil production becomes constrained, transportation fuels are being produced from low-quality hydrocarbon resources, such as bitumen deposits and other unconventional fossil resources. These include oil sands, enhanced oil recovery, coal-to-liquids and gas-to-liquids synthetic fuels, and oil shale. —Brandt 2012.

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Oil-Sands Oil Production Emissions 225

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2019

Regional differences in climate, electric grid burdens, and driving patterns compound to produce significant regional heterogeneity in the GHG benefits of electrification. The results highlight the need for a portfolio of fuel efficient offerings to recognize the heterogeneity of regional climate, electric grid burdens, and driving patterns.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2014

Wind and solar have been exhibiting very rapid growth, even as subsidies and support have in general become less generous, and that has been driven mainly by dramatic improvements to their cost-competitiveness, as well as by the removal of barriers such as grid bottlenecks. Oil at $60/barrel could mean a natural gas price as much as $0.90/MMBtu

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Oil Prices Oil Price Carbon 268

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2016

This approach maintains standardization for manufacture while minimizing development and design time when scaling up, the company said. Refineries currently use hydrogen to improve the quality of fractional distillation products and most of this hydrogen is produced from steam-reforming. Refinery hydrogen. Power-to-gas energy storage.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 6, 2024

But some of these things are going to have to be mandated through standards and regulations, and specifically through the lens of these cybersecurity requirements and knowing what’s going into your software. I think maybe because the cover was a car perched at the top of a giant mountain of coal. I speak good. You hire wise.—But

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Baua Electric

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Key aspects of renewable energy integration include: Grid Integration: Connecting renewable energy sources to the electrical grid is a critical component of integration. Smart Grids: Smart grids incorporate advanced communication and control technologies to enhance the reliability and efficiency of the electricity grid.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Substantial emission reductions due to fuel economy standards for passenger cars are already included in the current policy scenario. A large part of this potential comes from six relatively standardized categories: solar and wind energy; efficient appliances; efficient passenger cars; afforestation and stopping deforestation.

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JULY 8, 2015

Geely Group and CRI intend to collaborate on the deployment of renewable methanol fuel production technology in China and explore the development and deployment of 100% methanol-fueled vehicles in China, Iceland and other countries. Currently the company has a 4,000 metric ton/year production capacity. Click to enlarge.

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DECEMBER 16, 2017

Cities in the greater BTH region have consistently been reported to have the highest concentration of particulate matter and other air pollutants, following decades of emissions from pollution-intensive industries in the area, as well as the region’s heavy reliance on coal for energy generation.

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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

APRIL 1, 2009

Among the direct transportation-related provisions in the extensive package are a low-carbon fuel standard for all transportation fuels; financial support for large scale demonstrations of electric vehicles; and financial support for automakers retooling plants to make electric vehicles. Smart Grid and Electricity Transmission.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2014

China’s economic growth over the past several decades has raised the living standards of hundreds of millions of Chinese citizens and led to China becoming the second largest economy in the world. Using the system, SG-JBEPC is able to integrate 10% more alternative energy (enough for 14,000 homes) into the national grid. —D.C.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 19, 2023

They are highly automated production islands that directly convert wind energy to hydrogen, with a few of them processing the gas into fuels and other goods. And the Norwegian company H2Carrier recently received approval in principle for its concept for an industrial-scale floating production unit to make green ammonia at sea.

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EV Info

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The task of balancing the grid and maintaining electrical frequency has grown dangerously the more reliant on wind power we have become – as demonstrated by the widespread power cuts of August 2019. The cost of grid management has soared to nearly £2billion a year in the last two decades. Gas is the only answer.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2014

As one of the fastest growing electricity sources in the United States, wind can be expected to meet a large proportion of the renewable portfolio standards. To compensate for the increased amounts of these inherently–variable sources of electricity, the power grid requires additional flexibility to manage fluctuations in generation.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2012

The council recommended: Allowing more access to oil, natural gas and coal opportunities on federal lands. Any energy strategy would be incomplete, the report said, if it relied solely on existing supply and the promise of innovations in production. The federal government should also streamline the permitting process.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2011

For example, as one of the major players in lithium batteries for cell phones, China has established the production capability and value chain to cost-effectively produce lithium batteries in scale. China has not yet launched its national standards for EVs. The first emerging standard is for vehicle charging. Commercial Models.

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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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Power Grid Grid Power Powered 107

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., Among the findings of the survey: Approximately one-third (33.8%) of respondents felt the lack of investment to modernize the grid is a primary roadblock preventing the widespread support of EVs.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2014

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). EPA projects coal production for use by the power sector, a large component of total coal production, will decline by roughly 25 to 27% in 2020 from base case levels.

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EV Info

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

We have closed most of the coal plants and several the aging nuclear plants are moving offline as they close for repair of reach end of life. As our North Sea production reduces over the last few years, we have been increasingly reliant on imported gas that accounts for close to half our needs. Nuclear 15%. Biomass 5%. See [link].

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2011

announced the availability of its first product: power diodes based on its patented, high-performance EZ GaN (gallium nitride) technology. Energy loss that occurs during power conversion is equivalent to the daily output of 318 coal plants, and costs the US economy $40 billion per year. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2013

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) staff has posted six new Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) pathway applications to the LCFS public comment web site: corn ethanol; molasses ethanol (from Brazil); palm fatty acid distillates (PFAD) to biodiesel; and landfill gas to LNG, L-CNG, and CNG. Earlier post.) gCO 2 e/MJ. Raizen Energia S.A.

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Oil California Gas Gas-Electric 247

Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2013

California Air Resources Board (ARB) staff has posted four new Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) pathways to the LCFS web site. Among the new pathways to be considered is the production of renewable diesel from Australian tallow at Neste Oil’s Singapore plant. Neste’s process generates a propane-rich off-gas as a biogenic co-product.

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Renewable California Carbon Diesel 236

Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2011

In contrast, the Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS) program adopted by 29 states has varying goals from 10-40 percent renewable energy generation, deployed anywhere from 2013 to 2030. Closer to home, the federal fuel economy standards require the average fleet fuel economy of OEMs that sell vehicles in the USA to be 35.5 mpg by 2016.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Car Companies Standardize Plug for Electric Vehicles Written by Jerry James Stone Published on April 19th, 2009 34 Comments Posted in Electric Cars (EVs) , Plug-in hybrid EVs Just a few hours after General Motors called for a standardized EV plug , one has been created! This is a major step froward in EV mass production.

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EV Info

MARCH 26, 2021

According to the Department for Business, the average cost for standard electricity in the UK in 2020 was 17.2p/kWh. The standard unit of electrical power is the watt, which is defined as a current of one ampere, at a voltage of one volt. In the UK, the standard wall socket delivers 240 volts. Or around 4p pe rmile. With the 4.8

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