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. conferring hydrocarbon biosynthesis, enhanced carbon. National Renewable. Laboratory, Grid.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2009

The morning session started out with an hour long press conference, the highlight being the unveiling of the Volt’s 230 mpg preliminary EPA city fuel economy finding ( earlier post ), as well as a tour showing selected elements from the studios of the four GM North American brands: Chevrolet, GMC, Buick and Cadillac. Focus on fuel economy.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2009

Relevant plug-in vehicles that drive customer demand and are connected; Enabling technologies like advanced batteries and sophisticated software controls; A capable/green grid; and, Plug-in ready communities with supporting policies. Mark Duvall of EPRI said the grid would be able to handle “ as many [plug-ins] as you want. ”

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The long-term goal is to boost the percentage of plug-in electric cars to 10 percent in the country while maximizing the use of wind energy in Denmark, which already gets 20 percent of its electricity from renewable sources like wind. The project is partly funded by the government of Denmark.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 4, 2022

Pake was executive vice chancellor, provost, and professor of physics at Washington University in St. Six months later his initial contract with PARC expired and was not renewed. PARC’s job is to develop the ideas on which we can produce a product scenario.” — John Ellenby , 1974-80, now president of Grid Systems Corp.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Now, researchers at Microsoft have developed a framework called DeepMC that can very accurately predict local weather, and could be used by farmers, renewable energy producers, and others. DeepMC uses machine learning and artificial intelligence to localize predications related to weather and climate. Of course, weather affects everyone.

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Climate Wind Climate Change Fusion 120

Cars That Think

AUGUST 20, 2022

Manufacturing an EV battery using coal-based electricity results in more than three times the greenhouse-gas emissions of manufacturing a battery with electricity from renewable sources. 70 percent of lithium-ion batteries are produced in China, which derived 64 percent of its electricity from coal in 2020. AFP/Getty Images.

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Electric Vehicles Vehicles West Virginia Electric 101