Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2019

The Charging the Future Challenge was announced during the 2019 Energy and Mines Ministers’ Conference (EMMC), held in Cranbrook, B.C., Challenges were designed to attract a diverse range of problem solvers to generate breakthrough cleantech outcomes. Canada’s Minister of Natural Resources, Amarjeet Sohi, announced a new $4.5-million

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2009

GM is embracing the use of communications standards that operate with optional data transports to enable smart charging and integration with the emerging smart grid. A network of smart loads with communications to report their current state and act on smart grid commands. EVSE=Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment. Source: GM.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2012

The companies deployed and demonstrated a 150 kW fuel cell system near the 17 th Conference of the Parties (COP17) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change held in Durban, South Africa in late-2011. COP17 was a high-level summit on climate change.

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EV Central

APRIL 12, 2023

Koji Sato speaks at a Tokyo press conference on April 7 2023 announcing Toyota’s ramped-up EV commitment. The target is a 200km-plus driving range for PHEVs, which will be repositioned as the “the practical BEV”. Toyota will “strengthen” hybrid sales and “increase” the number of plug-in hybrids it offers.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2018

At the American Public Transportation Association’s (APTA) Bus & Paratransit Conference, electric bus manufacturer Proterra has introduced high-power charging options to make a 100% electric bus fleet more easily achievable. North American cities, counties and transit agencies are announcing zero-emission fleet goals.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

million to develop an advanced smart charging technology that maintains plug-in electric vehicle consumer needs while reducing charging loads, to achieve electricity grid benefits. The proposed project addresses the problem of access and signals/controls for local data streams in order to control electricity systems loads for grid management.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

The two companies are collaborating to determine how the Volt’s 16-kWh lithium-ion batteries can be used to provide stationary electric grid storage systems once the batteries have fulfilled their usefulness in customers’ vehicles. Bly announced the partnership Tuesday at the EV Battery Tech conference in Troy, Michigan.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2010

The purpose of the paper (which Richard Wallace, CAR’s Director Transportation Systems Analysis Group announced during a session exploring the same topic at the Business of Plugging In 2010 conference in Detroit) is threefold. The initial grid-enabled model. The integrated energy transportation efficiency model.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2022

At its first digital ESG (Environment, Social and Governance) Conference for investors and analysts, Mercedes-Benz announced aims to at least halve CO 2 emissions per passenger car over the lifecycle by the end of this decade compared to 2020 levels. Globally, the portfolio already includes six—and soon nine—all-electric models.

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Driivz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Team Driivz received a warm and sunny welcome last week in Berlin at the Hubject Intercharge Network Conference 2022 ( ICNC ), and it was a great pleasure to also return this year as a conference sponsor. Feeling proud to be Part of Thriving EV Charging Community.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 26, 2022

As the AI community grapples with its environmental impact, some conferences now ask paper submitters to include information on CO 2 emissions. Training ranged from an hour on one GPU to eight days on 256 GPUs. New research offers a more accurate method for calculating those emissions. Because you can’t improve what you can’t measure.”

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Here we show that a 241-km range can be achieved using a single standard boxcar equipped with a 14-MWh battery and inverter, while consuming half the energy consumed by diesel trains. MWh battery with a 241-km range for a 3.3-MW Economic, environmental and grid-resilience benefits of converting diesel trains to battery-electric.”

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

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. The IEA Greenhouse Gas R&D Programme (IEA GHG) is the organizer of the GHGT conferences which are held every two years.

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Teslarati

JUNE 23, 2021

Come and take a look at the event site of the conference. The Powerwalls can alleviate the concern that some owners may have, as they will provide energy for drivers who need range on cloudy days or in the evening time. Over time, almost all will disconnect from the electricity grid.”

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 29, 2022

That need for balance is true of electric power grids, too. Second, conventional coal and nuclear plants are being retired for economic and policy reasons, removing stable sources from the grid. Packetized energy management (PEM) allows the power grid to flexibly handle a varying supply of renewable energy. Here’s how.

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Driivz

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Speaking from the main stage at the Hubject Intercharge Network Conference 2021 in Berlin , Driivz’s Product Director, Oren Halevy, told the audience that achieving this scalability is a leading challenge facing the EV charging industry today. Wrapping Things Up: Addressing Grid Challenges with Energy Management.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2013

This strategic partnership leverages SolidEnergy’s solid electrolyte technology which enables the safe and practical use of lithium metal anodes for high energy density batteries in a wide range of applications. This partnership also marks the first publicly announced agreement under A123’s expanded R&D model introduced earlier this year.

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My Energi

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Later this week (29 October), myenergi is set to host EV drivers en route to COP26 UN Climate Change Conference at its eco headquarters in North East Lincolnshire. They will also be introduced to myenergi’s latest range of renewable energy technologies, including the eco-smart zappi EV charge r.

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My Energi

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Later this week (29 October), myenergi is set to host EV drivers en route to COP26 UN Climate Change Conference at its eco headquarters in North East Lincolnshire. They will also be introduced to myenergi’s latest range of renewable energy technologies, including the eco-smart zappi EV charge r.

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Driivz

MAY 3, 2021

Common goals include speeding the development of industry standards , deployment of sufficient EV charging infrastructure and passing legislation favorable to the EV market – ranging from changes in the way utilities can price electricity to requiring that charge points need to be integrated into public building projects. certification.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2009

The environmental benefit of a large-scale deployment of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) in the Canadian province of Alberta could vary significantly, ranging from a 40% to a 90% reduction in greenhouse gases, according to a study by electrical engineers at the University of Calgary’s Schulich School of Engineering.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2009

In a conference session at SAE World Congress 2009 in January, Justin Ward, Advanced Powertrain Program Manager, Toyota said that while Toyota sees market opportunity for small EVs, the company finds that a fuel cell hybrid vehicle has the advantage in well-to-wheel efficiency even now. It’s pretty challenging for a full-range larger vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2012

As part of the FY 2012 Phase I Release 3 SBIR/STTR Award program, the US Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded Michigan-based XG Sciences, a manufacturer of graphene nanoplatelets ( earlier post ), a contract to develop low-cost, high-energy Si/graphene anodes for Li-ion batteries for use in extended range electric vehicle applications.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2009

Despite the current enthusiasm for electric vehicles (EVs), hydrogen fuel cell vehicles (FCVs) will be an important component of the vehicle mix in 2050, according to panelists from Nissan, Toyota and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in a conference session at the SAE 2009 World Congress in Detroit. Justin Ward.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2010

OnStar will debut and demonstrate new functionalities it is developing for the Chevrolet Volt mobile application leveraging the Android platform at the Google I/O conference in San Francisco, starting 19 May. Display percentage of battery charge level, electric and total ranges. Flexibility to “Charge Now” or schedule charge timing.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2009

GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt shows a sodium-metal halide battery cell at the press conference announcing the battery plant. At the AABC 2008 conference, Robert King from GE Global Research outlined requirements and challenges for hybrid locomotive batteries, including: 1,300 kW continuous chare/discharge power. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

The project entails a 140-vehicle field trial to evaluate customer acceptance and battery performance across a wide range of drive cycles and temperature ambients. In addition to battery again and life cycle analysis, the project is exploring smart grid interfaces; bi-directional charging; second life—i.e.,

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2009

The conference was sold out; it was also essentially a PowerPoint-free zone; the basic format relied heavily on brief introductory remarks from sets of speakers representing the diverse stakeholders, followed by questions from attendees. The impact from plug-in electric vehicles on the grid could be very substantial.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2013

Over the next four years London will open a range of high-quality new cycle routes parallel to, and named after, Tube lines and bus routes, so everyone knows where they go. The first planning conference for the Central London Grid, with the seven central boroughs, the Royal Parks and the City, will take place next week.

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Cars That Think

JULY 30, 2021

Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers ' Conference Program Committee and has published articles in several of the organization's journals. Coughlin is also the founder of the Storage Networking Industry Association 's Solid State Storage Initiative, the Storage Visions Conference , and the Creative Storage Conference.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 15, 2009

not Ford’s) global market projections for electric vehicles range from a bottom-scraping 0.14% (about 100,000 units) to 3-4% (approaching 2.5 Utilities, vehicle-to-home (V2H), and vehicle-to-grid (V2G). Third-party (i.e., million units) of the market by 2020. After 11 years, hybrids have a 0.8% share globally. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

The development of better battery technology for storing electricity, is vital for increased use of renewables in both electricity and transportation, where electric vehicles can be plugged into the grid for charging. For example, our calculations are based on total carbon emissions ranging from 12,744 to 17,407 gigatons of CO 2.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 21, 2009

There are five areas of focus: Infrastructure : Utilities pledge to proactively work with their state regulatory and legislative bodies to assess and address any potential system impacts from fueling large numbers of plug-in vehicles from the electrical grid. Earley, Jr.,

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2010

the electric range capability—of the PHEV. By using expected fuel prices to value PHEVs, all three previous analyses ignore the flexibility that PHEV owners have regarding whether to charge their vehicles from the grid. Lemoine then applies the method to valuing a PHEV20 (20-mile all electric range) with a 6.7

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Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2010

The company offers a broad range of Level 1, 2 and 3 charging solutions. Schneider Electric’s EV charging solutions will include Square D smart charging stations and smart grid technology. Intelligent communication and smart grid integration capabilities will be offered in advanced versions. Better Place.

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Plugs and Cars

MAY 19, 2007

Synovate Motoresearch presented some very interesting survey results at the Advanced Automotive Battery Conference in Long Beach, CA last week, as reported in MIT's Technology Review. Ethanol contains much less energy than gasoline does, so miles per gallon will be significantly lower, as will range on a tank of gas.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2015

Methanol-powered vehicles are one pillar of Geely Auto’s diversified new-energy strategy, which also encompasses ethanol, CNG, gasoline-electric hybrid, plug-in hybrid, pure-electric, and extended-range solutions. CSI says this is the world’s first production of a liquid renewable transport fuel from non-biological sources of energy.

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