Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

VW looks at fast chargers that are lighter for the grid. And Colorado may soon make it easier for Rivian and Lucid. Toyota puzzles over hybrid fuel tanks. Bolt EV drivers get more features for their app. This and more, here at Green Car Reports.

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MARCH 21, 2012

Colorado residents who purchase or lease a new Chevrolet Volt are eligible for a state tax credit of up to $6,000 in addition to a federal tax credit of up to $7,500 for a total price reduction of as much as $13,500. Roughly two-thirds of those miles were powered by grid electricity, GM says.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2022

million in DOE funding, two HY2MEGA hydrogen storage subsystems will connect to an electrolyzer and fuel cell at the ARIES facility on NREL’s Flatirons Campus near Boulder, Colorado. Supported by $1.7 The electrolyzer will use renewable sources and produce green hydrogen to be stored in the HY2MEGA.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

The system, part of the Smart Power Infrastructure Demonstration for Energy Reliability and Security (SPIDERS) Phase II program, is controlling five DC fast-charge stations at the Fort Carson Army Base in Colorado Springs, Colo. The SPIDERS project is led by Burns and McDonnell Engineering Company, Inc. Earlier post.).

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AUGUST 13, 2020

Xcel services customers in Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, North and South Dakota, Texas and Wisconsin. A residential smart charging pilot launching later this year that will reward customers in Colorado for conveniently optimizing their charging times to benefit the grid and use more renewable energy.

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AUGUST 25, 2023

The fully functional GMC HUMMER EV EarthCruiser upfit is making its public debut at Overland Expo Mountain West in Loveland, Colorado. The GMC HUMMER EV EarthCruiser upfit by EarthCruiser features: A carbon fiber EarthCruiser house fully integrated into the chassis of the GMC HUMMER EV Pickup.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology is expected to support a cleaner, more resilient electrical grid, while enabling EV owners to save money while charging their vehicles. However, some sort of managed charging platform will be needed to match up EV owners with local utilities.

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EV Adoption

MAY 25, 2021

And oh BTW, according to the Energy Information Administration , California’s grid overall consumed 0% coal power. But except for the state of Colorado, the other 11 states accounted for from 0% to 1.7% And the reality is that the grid in many parts of the country will get greener at a faster rate than the EV sales share.

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JULY 15, 2020

FLECCS project teams will work to develop carbon capture and storage (CCS) processes that better enable technologies, such as natural gas power generators, to be responsive to grid conditions in a high variable renewable energy (VRE) penetration environment. Colorado State University. Phase 1 FLECCS projects are: GE Global Research.

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MARCH 3, 2021

In select markets within Colorado, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, and Rhode Island, Arcadia’s platform connects qualifying customers to community solar projects in their area. The EPA provides further information on how renewable energy certificates are used to account for renewable electrcity generation and use.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Boulder Electric Vehicle has successfully demonstrated its Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) battery-electric trucks in three separate locations in Michigan, Colorado and California. Carson, Colorado. Royal Oak, Michigan. The transfer took place in the labs of EVSE partner Coritech Services. Los Angeles.

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JUNE 25, 2013

The US Department of Energy (DOE) and its National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) announced the Energy Systems Integration Facility (ESIF) in Golden, Colorado, as the latest Energy Department user facility and the only one in the nation focused on utility-scale clean energy grid integration.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

The selected projects include the following: Colorado School of Mines. The Bioenergy Technologies Office (BTO) contributes to EERE’s mission by working with industry, academia, and national laboratory partners on a balanced portfolio of research in algal biofuels technologies.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2021

They are based out of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, and Virginia. Evaluating flexible grid service for opportunities to generate biopower from wastewater.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 5, 2023

In the 130,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Loveland, Colorado, the first orders for nearly 70 next-generation Type A electric school buses have started to move across the production floor. Lightning eMotors has begun production of its next-generation Type A electric school bus that is built on the GM 4500 platform.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2012

This marks the second milestone for TMG’s electric powertrain this year following its new record at Pikes Peak International Hill Climb in Colorado. The TMG DC Quick Charger was developed in partnership with Schneider Electric GmbH to meet the challenge of recharging an electric race car at tracks without reliable access to grid power.

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Teslarati

JULY 10, 2023

Tesla #GigaTexas #ModelY pic.twitter.com/ep0XOP4ep1 — Jeff Roberts (@peterdog15) July 9, 2023 A copy of a document from the Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA) showed that Giga Texas’ battery storage system will be comprised of 68 Megapack batteries that are rated at 2 MW each. Happy Sunday from Giga Texas!

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OCTOBER 21, 2009

Toyota Motor Sales (TMS), USA will place ten Prius plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHV) with Xcel Energy’s SmartGridCity project in Boulder, Colorado. The SmartGridCity project is the first fully functioning smart grid enabled city. The SmartGridCity project is the first fully functioning smart grid enabled city.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 20, 2021

California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Texas, Oklahoma, Florida, and Pennsylvania. Charging during off-peak hours is usually a less expensive experience, to begin with, because it puts less stress on the grid. From December 23 to December 26, Tesla will offer free Supercharging in various locations across the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Carson, Colorado; and Camp. independent from the bulk power grid (i.e., Focused on three distinct military. installations—Joint Base Pearl. Harbor/Hickam, Hawaii; Fort. Smith, Hawaii—SPIDERS is to enable those facilities to operate. mode”) for extended time periods, with maximum assurance that. To provide reliable backup.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 12, 2023

One molten salt thermal storage device installed at a manufacturing facility outside Copenhagen stores electricity from the grid when it’s cheap and releases steam at 180 degrees Celsius to make cardboard. Getting a 100 percent decarbonized grid is nothing but an optimization problem.”—Matthew

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2013

The bidirectional charging units are capable of providing up to 300 kW of power to plug-in electric vehicles and also can discharge a like amount of stored energy from the vehicle batteries to the grid or microgrid via Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) standard J1772-compliant bidirectional charging cables.

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Electric Vehicles India

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Mitigating potential grid impacts of tens of millions of vehicles being charged across the nation. Advanced lithium-ion batteries play an important role nowadays as technologies such as electric vehicles, stationary grid storage, and defence applications will be critical to secure America’s clean energy future. “By

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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

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The Bighorn Solar project is currently generating electricity into the grid and is expected to come fully online in November 2021. EVRAZ North America is Xcel Energy’s largest retail electric customer in Colorado and one of Pueblo’s largest employers.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Chrysler said that a different battery chemistry will be used in the projects’ next phase, which will focus on grid interaction and improved safety. million miles of service in various conditions, from high-altitude Colorado to Arizona’s desert. The trucks also are able to link with each other to form independent mini-grids.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2012

of Golden, Colorado, USA and are ultimately intended for use in transporting equipment underground at mining sites. A finished product, once designed and tested, could supplement the power grid for homes and businesses in geographies where the grid is unreliable.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 30, 2021

2021 was a big year for energy-related news, what with the ongoing hunt for new forms of energy storage and cleaner if not carbon-free electricity and events and research that spotlighted the weak links in our power grid. IEEE Spectrum did its best to cover those developments, and these were the stories that our readers liked best.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

The University of Colorado at Boulder’s Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute, (RASEI)—a joint venture with the US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory—will partner with Toyota Motor Sales USA Inc. Toyota Motor Sales will supply 18 Prius PHVs for the two-year program. Earlier post.)

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Blink Charging

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Off-peak hours are the times when electricity usage is at its lowest and there is less stress on the local electricity grid. For example, in Colorado, a state where Blink Charging is a verified state EV charger supplier , Xcel Energy offers the EV Critical Peak Pricing Program.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Households with plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEVs) and smart meters actively managed how, when and where they charged their cars based on electricity rates but rarely took advantage of online feedback, according to a two-year study by a team at the University of Colorado Boulder’s Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute ( RASEI ).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2013

Other project partners include University of Colorado (Boulder and Colorado Springs) and the Ford Motor Company. Laboratory testing will take place at both NREL and Ford. Battery Management System Design - Washington University ($2 million).

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Plug in America

APRIL 15, 2022

Electric utilities, both private and public, are planning to invest hundreds of millions of dollars into preparing the national electricity grid for EVs. For example, Xcel Energy is investing $110 million on EV infrastructure in Colorado to support the state’s goal of having 940,000 EVs on the road by 2030.

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Plugs and Cars

FEBRUARY 26, 2007

PhysOrg.com reports on Xcel Energy 's study (with the Dept of Energy NREL lab) on the potential effect of plug-in hybrids on the electrical grid and emissions. Xcel Energy announced the results of a six-month study related to plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) and how an increase in their popularity may affect Colorado.

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The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Our roads and electric grid, let alone consumers, just aren't ready as fast as the current administration wants," explained one respondent. stated Mike Aus, dealer principal of Durango Motor, which sells Ford, Lincoln, Kia and Toyota vehicles out of Colorado. Image: ZikG/Shutterstock] Become a& TTAC insider.

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JULY 17, 2020

e-Mosaic: Electrification Mosaic Platform for Grid- Informed Smart Charging Management. Utility Managed Smart Charging for Consumer and Grid Benefits. Colorado State University. Dream Team Co LLC. Resilient-Interoperable-Smart Charge Management Control Systems Architecture for EVs at scale. Exelon Corporation.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2012

The Department of Defense is seeking to develop solar, wind, geothermal and other distributed energy sources on its bases both to reduce their $4 billion-a-year energy bill and to make them less dependent on the commercial electricity grid.

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