Revenge of the Electric Car

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

The “cash for volts&# approach was touted Monday by the Electrification Coalition, a 13-member group that sees electric plug-ins as the answer to a host of problems, from dependence on foreign oil to tailpipe emissions that some believe is contributing to global climate change. UPDATE:Group Seeks US Tax Credits To Spur Electric Car Use.

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Driivz

APRIL 3, 2024

This software is typically developed by EV manufacturers (OEMs) or sourced through a supply chain from specialized vendors (Tier 1 / Tier 2) and built into EVs by dedicated integrators or by OEMs themselves. Charging-point software – EVs can draw charging current from “dumb” electric outlets.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 6, 2024

It’s very similar to the infrastructure for electric cars because the idea, ultimately, for electric cars is that you also are revamping your grid to facilitate, whatchamacallit, intermittent renewable energy sources, like wind and solar, because having an electric car that runs off a coal-fired power plant is defeating the purpose, essentially.

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Blink Charging

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

We previously discussed how electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE) can help you collect Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) credits. The installed chargers must provide a minimum Level 2 charging capability at 208 – 240 volts or greater for each parking space.

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Charging Grid Installation Building 69

Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2018

During charging, protons produced by water splitting in a reversible fuel cell are conducted through the cell membrane and directly bond with the storage material with the aid of electrons supplied by the applied voltage, without forming hydrogen gas. The maximum cell voltage was 1.2

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Recharge Batteries Battery Lithium Ion 150

Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2011

Transphorm says that its solutions cut energy waste by 20% and simplify the design and manufacturing of a wide variety of electrical systems and devices, including motor drives, power supplies and inverters for solar panels and electric vehicles. To tackle that problem, Transphorm is commercializing a high-voltage normally off GaN solution.

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Get Electric Vehicle

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Charging adapters taking power from the grid are a must-have item for everyone who owns an Electric vehicle or a hybrid. Public and commercial charging infrastructure companies are struggling to keep up as plug-in electric vehicles become a larger part of the automobile industry.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2013

Decrease the ancillary services cost per additional MW of solar power on the grid by 50%, if the proposed forecasting model was used operationally. Test compatibility of tools in commercial scheduler/optimizers to enable supply, storage and load adjustments on a microgrid. MW of fuel cells in operation.

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Energy Storage San Diego California Energy 231

Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2016

The 2016 Chevrolet Volt with an electric range of 53 miles [ 2 ] is the first commercial car that almost qualifies as a PHEVLER. PHEVLERs make our electric grid more efficient. [ 15 ] Electric power grids are designed with capacity to serve the highest power peaks demanded (e.g. PHEVLERs help support the electric grid.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2016

Electrical Grid Connections. While future demand from the automotive industry is significant, the real game changer for the lithium industry may be electrical grid storage. Grid storage is designed on a variety of scales, each with a different price point.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2010

Earlier this year, Nissan Nissan North America (NNA) selected AeroVironment to supply electric vehicle home-charging stations and installation services supporting the introduction of the LEAF. Roush Manufacturing will manufacture the Blink home and commercial electric vehicle chargers. Source: Ecotality. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

GM and ABB partnered to produce a prototype back-up power storage unit that repackages five used Volt batteries into a modular unit that becomes an uninterruptible power supply and grid power balancing system. a community energy storage system—built from five used Chevrolet Volt batteries. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2013

Magnesium (AZ or AM series commercial alloy). Applications must include an existing baseline production assembly; specific targets for assembly mass; technical approach to meet targets; and a technology transfer /commercialization plan. In this AOI, solutions should be capable of being commercially manufactured.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2009

The other vehicle, the PHEV-40, is similar to the Chevrolet Volt ( earlier post ). At this point, however, it is not clear what sorts of breakthroughs might become commercially viable. Most of the electricity used to power these cars will be supplied from the nation’s power grid.

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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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Baua Electric

MARCH 28, 2024

Hydrogen was supposed to provide gasoline-like driving range and quick fills, but several hydrogen supply pinches in recent years left even early adopters uneasy about fueling up. Whenever you’re home, plug into a 240-volt home charger for a couple hours and with about $4.00 Nowhere in sight. That’s about $144 to fill its 4.3-kg

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Cars That Think

MARCH 26, 2023

Gallium Nitride and Silicon Carbide: Where They Compete In the markets for high-voltage power transistors, gallium nitride devices dominate in applications below around 400 volts, while silicon carbide has the edge now for 800 V and above (the markets are relatively small above around 2,000 V). electron volts, as compared with 3.40

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2009

CPI) shortly after GM selected CPI and its parent LG Chem as the provider for the Li-ion batteries for the Extended Range Electric Vehicle (E-REV) Chevy Volt. (GM CPI’s focus is the North American automotive and commercial vehicle market. Prabhakar Patil, the CEO of Compact Power, Inc. LG Chem has annual sales of $14.3 Prabhakar Patil.

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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. slow charge.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2021

Automated disassembly reduces human exposure to toxic chemicals found inside the batteries and high power levels that are approaching the 900-volt level in some newer vehicles. The system was developed and demonstrated at ORNL’s Grid Research Integration and Deployment Center. —Jonathan Harter.

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Setec Powerr

MAY 3, 2024

First, the electric grid most residential areas are connected to might not support the high power demand of DC fast charging. The local electric grid, which supplies power to residential areas, might not be capable of supporting the high demand for electricity that DC fast charging requires.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 18, 2017

Aqua Metals , which is commercializing a non-polluting electrochemical lead recycling technology called AquaRefining ( earlier post ), has acquired UK-based Ebonex IPR Limited for 123,776 shares of Aqua Metals common stock and $100,000 in cash. Little has changed in this basic layout for around a hundred years.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

OCTOBER 23, 2008

GM has been saying for a while now that they had picked their supplier for the LiIon battery in the Volt, but they weren’t prepared to announce who it was. GM Reported Ready To Give Volt Battery Nod to Unit of LG Chem. Lots going on with batteries now, as John O’Dell’s piece below illustrates. that got the nod.

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Volt GM Batteries Battery 100

Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2021

The 360-volt system also enables a fast-charging time of under 20 minutes (0-80%), which is combined with a market-leading target range. —Dyrr Ardash, Senior Commercial Manager at Williams Advanced Engineering. WAE also supplies battery systems to ETCR and Extreme-E.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 24, 2022

But there is another way for India to move faster toward its decarbonization goal: by focusing the renewable-energy push in India’s commercial and industrial sectors. India has some 40,000 commercial complexes, which house offices and research centers as well as shopping centers and restaurants.

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Clean Fleet Report

APRIL 20, 2023

Some areas require more chargers to meet needs and renewable energy supply is being ramped up to make sure the electricity is as clean as possible. Level 1—a standard 120-volt wall plug–is the slowest. These systems offer double the voltage, around 240 volts, for residential chargers and 208 volts for commercial stations.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Combining zero-emission driving capability and no range anxiety, the first-in-class Transit Custom Plug-In Hybrid van can be charged with grid electricity for a pure electric NEDC driving range of up to 56 km (35 miles). hours using a domestic 240-volt 10-amp power supply, or 2.7 kW electric motor powered by a 13.6

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The new ARPA-E selections focus on accelerating innovations in clean technology while increasing US competitiveness in rare earth alternatives and breakthroughs in biofuels, thermal storage, grid controls, and solar power electronics. Non-strategic Elements having Secure Supply Chains A Virginia Commonwealth University led team will.

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Charged EVs

MARCH 14, 2023

Charge management software optimizes charging based on the available power, the schedules of the vehicles and the cost of electricity—from the rudimentary systems built into chargers to highly sophisticated systems that integrate with micro-grids or depot management. You start to get to a pretty advanced level with different integrations.

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Charged EVs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Currently, more than 90% of vehicles are in the 400-volt class. A project developer will then take our EMS control interface and incorporate it with a larger site-level controller, which includes other energy components such as renewables, loads, grid-metering and switches. The EMS is what they use to dispatch our ESS.

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Energy Storage Batteries Battery Energy 88

Get Electric Vehicle

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Bidirectional Charger : an electric vehicle charger that can flow charge to a battery and from battery to grid, vehicle, and home. Also called (Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment) EVSE. Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment (EVSC) : Read Charging Station. It also controls energy flow to and fro the battery.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2018

family, but for many electric cars produced by other Group brands, including Audi, SEAT, Škoda and Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles. Meanwhile, a DC/DC converter supplies the onboard electronics with 12-volt power. The MEB is not just the technical building block for all models in the Volkswagen ID. model itself.

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Charged EVs

APRIL 19, 2023

Companies that can secure adequate supplies of energy up front—staking out the electrical real estate, so to speak—have an ace in the hole. Charged spoke with Zeem Solutions CEO Paul Gioupis, who’s been involved with commercial EVs since the early days, and he had a lot to say about various aspects of fleet electrification.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

It has the potential to make the decarbonized power system available, reliable, and resilient against the vagaries of weather and of fuel supplies. And it’s not a fantasy; it’s been developed, tested, and deployed commercially. Mainspring Energy’s first commercial product contains two linear generator cores.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

12-volt micro-hybrid (MHEV): also known as idle-stop or start stop and commonly implemented as a 12-volt belt-driven integrated starter-generator, this is the most basic hybrid system that facilitates idle-stop capability. This motor/generator uses the engine to either charge the battery or supply additional power to the drive motor.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Review of Forestry Carbon Standards 2008 Ford Partners to Commercialize Electric Vehicles A New "Green" Deal.Direction for the economic re. Vehicle to Grid (V2G) technology is a bi-directional electric grid interface that allows a plug-in to take energy from the grid or put it back on the grid.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The electric grid is the most advanced energy-distribution network ever created and is constantly only a few feet away from us (far more ubiquitous than gas/ethanol/hydrogen stations). by: Jonathan Read, President and CEO, ECOtality June 24, 2008 ECOtality CEO Jonathan Read. Electric engines are emissions free (and quiet).

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