Commercial, Connecticut, Cost and Grid

Harvard team demonstrates new metal-free organic–inorganic aqueous flow battery; potential breakthrough for low-cost grid-scale storage

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2014

In a paper in Nature , they suggest that the use of such redox-active organic molecules instead of redox-active metals represents a new and promising direction for realizing massive electrical energy storage at greatly reduced cost. The design permits larger amounts of energy to be stored at lower cost than with traditional batteries.

Low Cost

Low Cost Grid Batteries Battery

Honda targeting 100% BEV & FCEV sales in N America by 2040; new e:Architecture EVs coming in second half of this decade

Green Car Congress

APRIL 26, 2021

Honda is conducting independent research on all-solid-state batteries in order to increase the capacity and lower the cost of the next generation batteries for its electrified vehicles.

Honda

Honda America Sale North America

DOE awards $27.5M to 16 water infrastructure projects

Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2021

These projects, operating in 13 states, have the potential to reduce carbon emissions and water-treatment costs while improving water quality and equity of distribution nationwide. Each team will work to bring new water and wastewater-treatment technologies from the applied research and development stage to commercial readiness.

Water

Water Hawaii Minnesota Kansas

DOE awarding $7.4M to 7 projects for medium-and heavy-duty EV and hydrogen corridor infrastructure plans

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The selected projects are: CALSTART: East Coast Commercial ZEV Corridor. This project will create a plan for innovative infrastructure solutions at industrial facilities and commercial zones along critical freight arteries feeding into Southern California’s I-710 freeway. National Grid: Northeast Electric Highways Study.

Los Angeles

Los Angeles Hydrogen San Francisco Rhode Island

California, 7 states and DC commit to faster transition to zero-emission trucks and buses; next step is formal agreement

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2019

States joining with California on the effort to accelerate deployment of zero-emission trucks and buses are Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island and Vermont. It will pursue similar coordinated action with industry and stakeholders to identify and address cost, fueling infrastructure, and other barriers.

District of Columbia

District of Columbia Rhode Island California Emissions

SolarCity introduces energy storage for businesses; Tesla battery technology

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2013

SolarCity has unveiled a smart energy storage system to address rising utility demand charges and increasing grid outages affecting businesses. SolarCity points out that the utility grid is aging and outages are increasing. Elon Musk is the Chairman of Solar City, and Chairman and CEO of Tesla Motors.

Energy Storage

Energy Storage Energy Connecticut Tesla

DOE to award $10.2M to 16 solid oxide fuel cell projects

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

The applied research projects will address the technical issues facing the cost and reliability of SOFC technology and conduct field testing of an integrated prototype system project intended to validate the solutions to those issues. The system will operate on natural gas and connect directly to the electric grid.

Fuel

Fuel West Virginia South Carolina Boston

Renewable Energy Generation: Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy, a lesson exported from Detroit

Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2011

As private companies, automobile manufacturers look for the lowest cost means of getting from A to B and the premiums that they can charge for getting from A to B faster. Power plant capital costs. These companies have sunk costs invested in coal, gas and oil plants and are content in maximizing the return on these investments.

Renewable

Renewable West Virginia Energy USA

DOE announces more than $65M in public and private funding to commercialize promising energy technologies

Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2021

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced more than $30 million in federal funding, matched by more than $35 million in private sector funds, for 68 projects that will accelerate the commercialization of promising energy technologies—ranging from clean energy and advanced manufacturing, to building efficiency and next-generation materials.

Commercial

Commercial Energy Albuquerque New York

Obama Administration launches series of actions to accelerate EV adoption; inc. $4.5B in loan guarantees, pursuing 350 kW fast charge

Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2016

During past eight years the number of plug-in electric vehicle models has increased from one to more than 20, battery costs have decreased 70%, and the number of electric vehicle charging stations has increased from less than 500 in 2008 to more than 16,000 today—a 40-fold increase. Connecticut Green Bank. National Grid.

Obama

Obama Charging Financing DC

8-state alliance releases action plan to put 3.3M ZEVs on their roads by 2025

Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2014

The partner states are California, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island and Vermont. Evaluation of “smart” charging options to save consumers money and minimize grid impacts. Together they represent about a quarter of the nation’s new car sales. Earlier post.) million ZEVs on our roadways by 2025.

Plug-in

Plug-in Rhode Island Fleet Hydrogen

USDOT awarding $55M to support purchase of Low-No buses; electric buses and infrastructure

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

The funding is for the incremental cost of a battery electric bus over a CNG bus and leverages federal, state, local utilities and local match to purchase the battery electric buses for service expansion. Connecticut Department of Transportation. The buses will replace diesel buses that have exceeded useful life. 1,750,000.

Purchase

Purchase St. Louis Jacksonville Fleet

DOE to award up to $137M for SuperTruck II, Vehicle Technology Office programs

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2016

One initiative, SuperTruck II ( earlier post ), will award $80 million to four projects to develop and to demonstrate cost-effective technologies that more than double the freight efficiency of Class 8 trucks. Grid Modernization for Electric Vehicles (Area of Interest 2). The Department of the Army is contributing an additional $2.2

Vehicles

Vehicles Plug-in Lithium Ion Universal

BMW to partner with Coulomb Technologies in Boston; Coulomb offering new cloud-based service plans, new dual-port charging stations

Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2011

The ActiveE will be available for lease in the metropolitan markets of Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Sacramento, New York and Boston as well as the state of Connecticut beginning in Fall 2011. A fleet of more than 1000 BMW ActiveE vehicles will provide further valuable insights into the everyday use of the vehicle.

Boston

Boston BMW Mini E Charging

FuelCell Energy receives $2.8M continuation of DOE award for tri-generation Direct FuelCell power plant

Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2014

FuelCell Energy will install a sub-megawatt carbonate fuel cell power plant at its manufacturing facility in Torrington, Connecticut, to generate hydrogen, electricity and heat, replacing hydrogen that is currently purchased and delivered to the facility via truck, and replacing electricity purchased from the electric grid.

Power

Power Powered Energy Hydrogen

Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

Cars That Think

JUNE 4, 2022

The ideas developed at PARC found their way into a number of commercial products, companies, and publications, shown here as leafy branches. He acknowledges that he made no technological leaps in designing the Aurora, which is simply a commercialized second-generation version of his first-generation system at PARC. But Xerox resisted.

Future

Future Engine Personal IDEA

EV Driven

Harvard team demonstrates new metal-free organic–inorganic aqueous flow battery; potential breakthrough for low-cost grid-scale storage

Honda targeting 100% BEV & FCEV sales in N America by 2040; new e:Architecture EVs coming in second half of this decade

DOE awards $27.5M to 16 water infrastructure projects

DOE awarding $7.4M to 7 projects for medium-and heavy-duty EV and hydrogen corridor infrastructure plans

California, 7 states and DC commit to faster transition to zero-emission trucks and buses; next step is formal agreement

SolarCity introduces energy storage for businesses; Tesla battery technology

DOE to award $10.2M to 16 solid oxide fuel cell projects

Renewable Energy Generation: Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy, a lesson exported from Detroit

DOE announces more than $65M in public and private funding to commercialize promising energy technologies

Obama Administration launches series of actions to accelerate EV adoption; inc. $4.5B in loan guarantees, pursuing 350 kW fast charge

8-state alliance releases action plan to put 3.3M ZEVs on their roads by 2025

USDOT awarding $55M to support purchase of Low-No buses; electric buses and infrastructure

DOE to award up to $137M for SuperTruck II, Vehicle Technology Office programs

BMW to partner with Coulomb Technologies in Boston; Coulomb offering new cloud-based service plans, new dual-port charging stations

FuelCell Energy receives $2.8M continuation of DOE award for tri-generation Direct FuelCell power plant

Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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