Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2013

The Thüga Group has now started construction of its Power-to-Gas demonstration plant in Frankfurt. Thirteen Thüga partners will test over the course of three years the power-to-gas storage technology using the gas distribution network. The municipal gas distribution networks can manage these quantities in principle.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

However, they also noted, high PTW efficiencies and the moderate fuel economies of current compressed natural gas vehicles (CNGVs) make them a viable option as well. The study investigated the the WTW energy and emissions from the use of natural gas in CNGVs with a range of CNGV fuel economy and natural gas compressor efficiency.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2021

This study incorporates the near-term global warming potential of methane leakage emissions of natural gas and natural gas-derived hydrogen pathways. Natural gas does not offer climate benefits compared to gasoline and diesel, and many biofuel pathways do not, either.

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Hydrogen Fuel Batteries Battery 418

Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2023

They used the model and the data to estimate the life cycle air pollution, greenhouse gas, and traffic externality benefits and costs of serving rides based on Chicago TNC trip data from 2019 to 2022 with fully electric vehicles. The authors acknowledge funding from Carnegie Mellon University’s Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation.

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Fleet All-Electric Carbon Emissions 195

Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2019

Total corporate funding (including venture capital funding, public market, and debt financing) for battery storage, smart grid, and efficiency companies in 1H 2019 was flat with $2.3 Smart Grid. VC funding in smart grid companies in 1H 2019 was 11% lower with $120 million compared to the $135 million raised in 1H 2018.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2022

evaluated well-to-gate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with by-product hydrogen from chlor-alkali processes in comparison with hydrogen from the conventional centralized natural gas steam methane reforming (central SMR) pathway. A 2018 study by a team from Argonne National Laboratory (Lee et al. 2018.02.132.

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Louisiana Plug-in Hydrogen Green 243

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2020

An analysis of near-term spending plans on renewables by the biggest oil and gas companies shows that real investments in renewable energy will continue to pale in comparison to capex plans for greenfield fossil fuel projects. Good case in point: Italian multinational oil and gas giant Eni S.p.A. 2 Total SA.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2022

Widely ignored, although gaining attention, is China’s strategic positioning as a crucial gatekeeper to several key “green” technologies, including battery energy storage to support electric vehicles (EVs)—specifically, battery electric vehicles (BEVs)—along with stationary storage for power grids.

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China Energy Indonesia Power Grid 416

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

RTE is proposing two ethanol with CCS pathways: Midwest Corn, Dry Mill; Dry DGS (DDGS), Corn oil and Syrup; Natural Gas and Grid Electricity; Starch Ethanol with CCS produced in Richardton, North Dakota; Ethanol transported by rail to California. By comparison , the pathways without CCS ETCH21 (DDGS) has a CI of 82.30

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North Dakota Carbon South Dakota Montana 210

Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2012

The HSHS installed in this demonstration test house consists of CIGS (copper, indium, gallium, selenium) thin-film solar cell panels; a home battery unit (rechargeable battery); household gas-engine cogeneration unit and hot-water supply system; and the Smart e Mix Manager.

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Honda Gas Solar Power 231

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2010

The global natural gas vehicle fleet has grown rapidly in the last 10 years, but still represents less than 1% of global transport fuel consumption. gas sources, such as biogas or bio-synthetic gas. gas sources, such as biogas or bio-synthetic gas. Click to enlarge.

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Cars That Think

JULY 5, 2023

grid, that plant used a CO 2 -emitting source, then the local problem may be solved, but only at the expense of a more global threat. If air conditioning is going to be climate-friendlier, says Romanin, of Gradient Comfort, “it needs to be smart, talk to the grid, use better refrigerant, and be a heat pump.” In the U.S.,

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

It should be no surprise that the Tesla Model X, being the only electric vehicle on the grid, demolished the gas options from the legacy makers. But perhaps the biggest surprise is the price comparison of the vehicles. The Tesla is by no means a budget vehicle, starting at $119,990.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

In addition to greenhouse gas emissions, the report also assesses a number of other environmental impact categories, ranging from resource use, including cumulative energy consumption, mineral and metal resource depletion and water scarcity, to airborne pollutant emissions (like particulates and nitrogen oxides), and human- and eco-toxicity.

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 25, 2021

After taking solar installation classes and volunteering with GRID Alternatives for several years and learning to install racking systems, PV modules and inverters, and how to wire them up – including bending conduit – in 2015 I installed a solar PV system on my own roof with a crew of GRID experts.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2019

A second point of comparison comes from the cost of abating a metric ton of CO 2 in current cap-and-trade markets in the US: it is about $5 in the northeast’s Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) and $15 in California’s cap-and-trade system. —Michael Greenstone.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Of the myths tested, the one with the most widespread buy-in was: “Mass adoption of EVs swaps one problem (pollution from oil and gas) with another (lithium and cobalt mining, dead batteries).” The third most widely held false belief: “The electricity grid won’t be able to cope with the demands of mass EV adoption.”

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Charging Federal Program Climate Change Grid 52

Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2019

Raising the penetration of renewable —an intermittent—sources of energy into the grid will require large scale electrical energy storage and retrieval. However, at present, no existing technology provides such storage and retrieval at a low financial and environmental cost.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Induction stoves are a great, safe way to save on electricity costs and can heat much quicker, safer, and more accurately than natural gas or propane stoves. One of the last reasons for a gas stove is speed and accuracy in cooking. That’s many times quicker than resistance ovens and gas stoves. Inverter: grid-tied, up to 2.2

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Batteries Battery San Francisco Tax Credit 52

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. Quantifies non-natural increase of greenhouse effect gas concentration (CO 2 , N 2 O, CH 4 , refrigerants.) The EV footprint (Fluence Z.E.) Click to enlarge. emissions).

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Li-ion Gasoline-Electric Ozone Diesel 364

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

The team produced another neural network for comparison using the Multinode Evolutionary Neural Networks for Deep Learning ( MENNDL ), a high-performance computing software stack developed by ORNL’s Computational Data Analytics Group. Examples from the ORNL Overhead Vehicle Dataset, generated with images captured by GRIDSMART cameras.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

Researchers at Georgia Tech have compared medium-duty (MD) electric and diesel urban delivery trucks in terms of life-cycle energy consumption, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and total cost of ownership (TCO). Is the electric truck cost-effective in comparison with the diesel truck? Credit: ACS, Lee et al. Click to enlarge.

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Georgia Diesel Gas-Electric Electric 268

Cars That Think

JANUARY 20, 2024

Nearly all of the world’s ship fleet still runs on diesel fuel, with about a quarter of new ships on order being built to run on somewhat lower-carbon alternatives like liquefied natural gas, methanol, or hybrid propulsion. Shipping uses over 300 million tonnes of fossil fuels every year, producing 3 percent of greenhouse gas emissions.

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Baua Electric

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Listed here are some ordinary kinds of exams carried out on second-life batteries: Capability Checking out Atmosphere of Condition (SoH) Overview: Determines the extra capability of the battery in comparison to its preliminary capability when it used to be pristine. Their speedy reaction functions form them well-suited for this goal.

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Batteries Battery Grid Re-Charge 52

Clean Fleet Report

JUNE 29, 2022

Gas prices, groceries, utility companies… sometimes it feels like life just became much more expensive overnight. Most EV drivers know that during these times of economic crisis, EV running costs are considerably less than those with gas-guzzling internal combustion engines. But amongst all the doom and gloom, there’s some good news.

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Charging Solar Gas-Electric Energy 111

Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2013

Electricity prices in comparison. This would create an energy market in which only the amount of electricity actually in demand is fed into the grid. A fourth measure relates to the fixed costs of the electricity system, such as the grid or EEG levy. Euro cents/kWh. Source: Siemens. Click to enlarge.

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Germany Energy Renewable Grid 239

Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2013

The key to a low hydrogen price is a high utilization of assets combined with a low electricity price achieved by grid balancing payments, the company noted. One way of achieving high utilization is by combining Power-to-Gas energy storage with refueling. Fueling cost comparison. Earlier post.). kg per 100 km.

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EV Connect

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Given that the average lifespan of a car is just 12 years, the proportion of EVs on the road will spike dramatically as new stock replaces gas-powered vehicles phased out of service. older) drivers away from gas. Cost (and Cost Comparison) A recent study showed 67% of would-be purchasers claim cost is a primary concern.

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Charging Gasoline-Electric Manufacturer Standards 104

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Comparison of coal consumption and CO 2 emissions for co-production and separate production of liquids and power. A co-production scenario—yet to be commercial—would take unconverted syngas from the FT reactor and combust it in a combined cycle power plant to generate electricity that is sold to the grid. Click to enlarge.

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Coal Oil Prices CO2 Gas-Electric 231

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

A paper by a team from the University of Chicago and MIT suggests that technology-driven cost reductions in fossil fuels will lead to the continued use of fossil fuels—oil, gas, and coal—unless governments pass new taxes on carbon emissions. for oil, 24% for coal, and 20% for natural gas.

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Chicago MIT Tax Carbon 150

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2017

However, although the state has made considerable progress decoupling economic growth from greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, the rate of emissions decline appears to be slowing, due in part to a spike in transportation emissions attributed to an increase from light-duty vehicles. of the state’s greenhouse gas emissions in 2015, down 0.9%

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Charged EVs

MAY 7, 2024

The gas version wins on payload, too, holding 700 to 1,500 pounds more cargo than the EV’s maximum of up to 3,020 pounds. In comparison, the Ford E-Transit added a second onboard charger for 2024, boosting its peak charging power to 176 kW from the previous 115 kW peak.) liter V6 gasoline engine, but the new EV is still quite pricey.

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Plug In India

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

And the percentage of clean energy is growing every year as coal and gas plants are being replaced by renewable energy sources. Going solar now is cheaper than buying electricity from the grid and starts paying for itself from day one. And if the EV is powered with clean electricity, it is clean from start to finish. In India 39.1%

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Petrol Diesel Vehicles Oil 59

Baua Electric

MARCH 6, 2024

In addition to the heat, voltage transients, and electromagnetic interference (EMI) in the automotive environment, the on-board charger must interface with the AC power grid, requiring protection from AC line disturbances for reliable operation. Today’s component manufacturers offer multiple devices for safeguarding electronic circuits.

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Get Electric Vehicle

JUNE 7, 2023

This comparison accounts only for electricity from coal-based power plants. The power plants are located in some remote or specific regions and it would not spread the harmful gas all over the city. The power plants are located in some remote or specific regions and it would not spread the harmful gas all over the city.

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Electric Vehicles Vehicles Electric Electrical 52

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2013

John DeCicco at the University of Michigan argues that to reduce transportation sector greenhouse gas emissions, the proper policy focus should be upstream in sectors that provide the fuel, rather than downstream on the choice of fuels in the automobile. —“Factor Analysis of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Automobiles”.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2014

Currently greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation sector in India and China are a smaller piece of the pie compared with other sectors. Here also they used the US drive cycle as a basis for comparison. But vehicle ownership is going to skyrocket in these countries. Click to enlarge.

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