Green Cars News

JULY 21, 2009

How serious is the US about delivering a new Smart Grid system? Well, it’s fair to say the US Department of Energy is willing to put its money where its mouth is, with more than $47million in funding dedicated for eight projects to further smart grid demonstrations in seven states. So what are the projects that will benefit?

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

million; grid revenue was $20.5 million and commercial revenue was $4.6 million grid revenue and $3.5 million in commercial revenue in the third quarter of 2010, and to transportation revenue of $24.4 million, no grid revenue and commercial revenue of $5.2 Electric grid revenue was $20.6 million, $6.0

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 24, 2009

An intelligent vehicle-to-grid communications and control system for its plug-in hybrid electric vehicles that “talks” directly with the nation’s electric grid has been unveiled today courtesy of carmaker, Ford. when electricity rates are cheaper, or when the grid is using only renewable energy such as wind or solar power. “We

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MARCH 28, 2024

“The reason is, in order to improve the hydrogen infrastructure you need to use and consume it—so if you make it chargeable at home, then those people won’t consume the hydrogen,” summed Toyota Mirai chief engineer Yoshikazu Tanaka to Green Car Reports in 2020, explaining why a charge port had been considered for that model but ruled out.

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Green Cars News

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

According to a new study by the Centre for Transportation and Logistics, electric commercial vehicles could cost nine-12 per cent less to run than trucks powered by diesel when vehicle-to-grid revenue is accounted for.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2010

The strategy builds on the existing 2007 strategy to reduce CO 2 emissions from passenger cars and light-duty commercial vehicles, and complements ongoing and planned activities to decarbonize transport and to reduce their environmental impacts. Recycling and transportation of batteries. Resources.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 6, 2011

The US Department of Energy is looking to slash the costs of electric vehicle supply equipment by using a funding opportunity for up to $12million to develop and make available in three years a smart-grid capable level two system at half of the current costs commercially available. Two major task areas have been identified by [.].

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 26, 2009

They will also work with the Army to demonstrate the ability of plug-in hybrid vehicles to deliver power to the grid as part of a $1.4million contract. The focal point of the agreement will be the Bright IDEA, which is a multi-purpose, plug-in hybrid electric vehicle that is aimed at commercial and government fleets.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2009

While OEMs and utilities continue to define and refine hardware standards and communication protocols for smart charging, a tremendous amount of work needs to be done in preparing both the grid and the process to accommodate the expected influx of plug-ins, and to make the process as easy as possible for consumers.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2010

The European automobile manufacturers have agreed to a first phase of joint specifications to connect electrically chargeable vehicles to the electricity grid in a safe and user-friendly way. However, a third party certification of the household electricity grid should be conducted before the electrically chargeable vehicle is first charged.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

At present, PHEV technology alone is equipped to improve the current electric grid. The car can refuel during periods of low demand on the grid, and if equipped with a bi-directional charger, can actually replenish the grid with excess energy gleaned from a renewable resource. Appendix D: Vehicle Driving Statistics.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2011

Chevron has already shifted to gas-fired co-generation plants to produce steam and export power to the California grid; it is also working on a solar concentrator pilot in New Mexico that would generate steam using sunlight to further reduce costs and environmental impact of its thermal production process.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Revealed alongside the Tourneo Connect BEV (seen earlier in the year at Geneva) the Focus BEV is the blue oval’s take on the electric-powered family car, featuring the latest lithium-ion battery pack technology, with a capacity of 23kWh and a chassis-mounted 100-kilowatt permanent-magnet electric traction motor.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2009

Green Car Congress recently had the opportunity to spend some time with Dr. Prabhakar Patil, the CEO of Compact Power, Inc. CPI’s focus is the North American automotive and commercial vehicle market. by Bill Cooke. GM plans to handle module and pack assembly itself, earlier post.) LG Chem has annual sales of $14.3

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2009

GM’s Britta Gross, Director of Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Commercialization will participate in a webchat tomorrow to field questions about the development of the plug-in ecosystem. Mark Duvall of EPRI said the grid would be able to handle “ as many [plug-ins] as you want. ” Date: Friday, 3 April.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2012

That last feature—the ability to self-regulate in large-string configurations—is especially valuable in the NS-999 application, Granville told Green Car Congress. NS originally built NS-999 in early 2009 with lead–acid batteries; however, the lead–acid system consistently failed field testing. —Tom Granville.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

JANUARY 28, 2009

charger is also required, though ideally the existing motor controllers might be used as grid chargers. Vehicle-to-grid interface technology is also particularly well suited to Plug-in vehicles. Recharge a Car, Recharge the Grid, Recharge the Planet Google.org supports PHEV & V2G with [link] project.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2009

Green Car Congress attended the Renewable Energy Finance Forum - Wall Street (REFF-Wall Street) conference (23-24 June) sponsored by Euromoney Energy Events and the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE). by Bill Cooke. Earlier post.). Costs are also falling due to classic economics.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 26, 2021

John Voelcker has been reporting on cars and the automotive industry for almost as long as he's been driving. He's also a contributing editor to Car and Driver , and is the editor of Green Car Reports. Electric car batteries like cell phone batteries do degrade in energy capacity over time. Finally, age.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 26, 2021

John Voelcker has been reporting on cars and the automotive industry for almost as long as he's been driving. He's also a contributing editor to Car and Driver , and is the editor of Green Car Reports. Electric car batteries like cell phone batteries do degrade in energy capacity over time. Finally, age.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

This is from "Commercializing Plug-In Hybrids" (pdf), the current CalCars 24-slide presentation about PHEVs available along with other documents at CalCars Downloads. DaimlerChrysler has presented plug-in hybrids in commercial vans that have enough room to store the batteries, but the technology is not quite ripe for cars."Plug-in

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Green Cars News

APRIL 30, 2009

and Amberjac Projects, a substantial medium-term rise in the number of electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles would have a much lower impact on the UK national power grid than has previously been estimated. According to the results of simulation studies announced today by a consortium including Ricardo, Jaguar-Land Rover, E.ON

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Green Cars News

APRIL 17, 2009

This will help inform those organisations seeking to create the political, technical and commercial framework necessary to enable sustainable mobility in a low carbon future to become reality. The company already offers the most efficient cars in the premium segment, thanks to Efficient Dynamics technologies.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

GM killed that car because of back room deals with oil companies, and now they expect us to believe that they are just so cutting edge now? Ive found it facinating how car commercials changed the main MPG number they promoted before gas went over $4 a gallon as city miles. It is 12 years later. The management at GM are liars.

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