Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2010

GE announced a $200-million open innovation challenge that seeks breakthrough ideas to create a smarter, cleaner, more efficient electric grid, and accelerate the adoption of more efficient grid technologies. Proposals are sought in three, broad categories: Renewables, Grid and Eco Homes/Eco Buildings.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2014

The technology could fundamentally transform the way electricity is stored on the grid, making power from renewable energy sources such as wind and sun far more economical and reliable. You could theoretically put this on any node on the grid. —Michael J. Commercialization. —Michael J.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

In further efforts, Nio is trialing grid-balancing using its swap station batteries (with each station having 600-700 kWh of energy storage capacity at any given time) to demonstrate that their infrastructure is not going to add to peak demand but rather help keep it from rising. One Choco-Seb has a capacity of 26.5 Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2023

Despite current legislation that is pushing hard for EV adoption, consumers in Canada are still not sold on the idea of automotive electrification.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2017

DOE expects to make up to approximately $30 million to $60 million—contingent upon the availability of funds appropriated by Congress—available in FY 2018 awards, subject to the availability of funding. Additional funding will be available in future years, as allocated by Congress.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

The system is designed to incorporate electric vehicles into a smart power grid. It enables the collection and distribution of electricity between the grid, homes and businesses and electric vehicles, to intelligently balance demand and efficient storage of energy. It underlines our pledge to develop a more sustainable mobility model.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Lithium, a critical material used in high-charge-density batteries for electric vehicles and grid-scale electricity storage, is a crucial element in the clean energy supply chain. Nearly all of the US lithium stock is imported.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

Using the mobile network, the car then communicates with the grid and sets the charging scheme in order to support optimal utilization of the grid and most favorable energy price. The idea was suggested to Ericsson and Volvo Cars some months later. Göteborg Energi.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2022

Significantly smaller than traditional nuclear power plants, an SMR could meet current and future needs for Purdue’s West Lafayette campus as well as provide excess power to the state’s electric grid. No other option holds as much potential to provide reliable, adequate electric power with zero carbon emissions.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2019

It also seeks new ideas on process intensification to reduce overall heating energy. Specific subtopics include: Medium-Voltage Power Conditioning Systems to Enable Grid-Dispatchable and Resilient Manufacturing Facilities. Specific subtopics include: Advances in Industrial and Process Drying. Thermal Process Intensification.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2019

It also seeks new ideas on process intensification to reduce overall heating energy. It also seeks advancements in combined heat and power that result in higher electrical efficiencies. The DOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s Advanced Manufacturing Office will lead this initiative.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2019

Manhattan has a nice grid, and that makes traffic more efficient. Looking at cities without large grids like Atlanta, Boston, or Los Angeles, and we think hackers could do worse harm because a grid makes you more robust with redundancies to get to the same places down many different routes.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2019

The research will develop a foundational framework for characterizing and monitoring LiB packs’ spatially and temporally distributed thermal behavior, building on a multi-disciplinary synthesis of ideas from first-principles modeling, machine learning, distributed estimation, and network systems.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2021

The company will assess credit and offset solutions in the coming years as the most efficient, equitable and inclusive ideas mature. The company is implementing plans today to reduce the impact associated with its supply chain while supporting grids and utilities to power electric vehicles with renewable energy.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2017

If the data highlights a potential capacity issue, then other initiatives could be implemented—such as smart charging, vehicle to grid technology, energy storage, or joining networks together—in preference to more costly and disruptive infrastructure reinforcement works.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2018

Innovative Power Management and Distribution (including smart grids and wireless power transfer). A panel of subject matter experts from NASA and ARPA-E will review ideas submitted and select the top 10 finalists based on their relevance and potential impact. High-energy Density Batteries and Supercapacitors. Solar Power Systems.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2010

It is a brilliant idea to allow Beijing to march first to this environmental-friendly industry and I think most car owners love the idea,” Li told METRO yesterday. Most of these will be buses and sanitation vehicles. The capital currently has a vehicle parc of 4.13 million units.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2019

The KCP winners, announced during a celebration at the Aspen Ideas Festival on Friday, 28 June, were chosen from almost 150 applications from all over the world. Solar Sister (Great Falls, Virginia) invests in women’s enterprises in off-grid communities in Africa. Clean Energy Works (Washington, D.C.)

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2012

The idea to put the excess energy to better use fell in line with the company’s sustainability goals. Engineering Center also sends energy from engine testing back to the grid. The plant runs 15 test benches, with five more on the way, as engineers design fuel-efficient engines for Chevrolet and Opel. GM’s Pontiac (Mich.)

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

The Open Innovation Contest, initiated by BASF at the beginning of February, aims to find ideas for the storage of energy from renewable energy sources. Sustainable technologies should make it possible to store power from the grid and feed power back into it.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 27, 2016

Recognizing diversity in experience and opinions often results in better solutions, the consortium will also welcome ideas from others. PNNL’s lead role in the consortium builds on its decades of leadership in materials science, chemistry, transportation and power grid modernization. University of Texas at Austin.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2019

Unfortunately, due to our grid situation, electric cars are still too early for this strategic goal in the sense of German climate protection efforts. The idea of providing the necessary storage of wind and solar energy with batteries is utopian, as the Leopoldina, Acatech and the Union of Academies of Sciences have emphasized.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2020

Further, natural gas can be used to keep the power grid stable as solar and wind power fluctuate. Natural gas does produce about 28% less CO2 emissions than heating oil and 50% less than coal for the same amount of energy when burned.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Under the supervision of Professor of Building Physics Bert Blocken, the Eindhoven researchers made a very detailed computational grid of the city center of Eindhoven. This grid covered an area of 5.1 Next, the case study for Eindhoven city center was conducted on the high-resolution grid.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

the developer of the purpose-built, plug-in hybrid IDEA ( earlier post ) launched of Bright eSolutions to support automotive customers worldwide to accelerate vehicle electrification, lightweighting, and overall platform efficiency. The IDEA is a multi-purpose, plug-in hybrid electric vehicle aimed at commercial and government fleets.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2014

EPIC is a multi-year, research investment program focused on electricity-related innovations, finding new energy solutions and bringing clean energy ideas to the marketplace. 1 million to use high-fidelity solar forecasting to predict load impacts on California’s electricity grid and reduce solar integration costs.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

The whole idea is to teach cameras to estimate fuel consumption and then teach an entire grid of those cameras to manage traffic lights to make the system more fuel efficient. The systems will be used to perform simulations of intersections and come up with mathematical strategies to guide traffic light timing. —Tom Karnowski.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2015

The goal of the Awards is to celebrate innovators with new ideas or contributions to the field of sustainability that may not already have gained widespread attention. The Resonate Awards honor breakthrough achievements in energy science and sustainability.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2020

The challenge they chose for the proof-of-concept trial was materials for use in redox flow batteries, a type of battery that holds promise for large, grid-scale batteries that could play a significant role in enabling clean, renewable energy. —Heather Kulik. —Heather Kulik.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2013

In essence, the proposed system uses the motor as a grid-connected generator with extra terminals. The main idea is to introduce a multi-terminal device called motor/generator set to act like a motor in traction mode and like an isolated generator/transformer in charging mode.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

The Open FOA is expected to support transformational and disruptive high-impact energy R&D projects related to renewable power, bioenergy, transportation, conventional generation, the electrical grid, and building efficiency, among other technology areas. Building Efficiency.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2013

The idea of small modular reactors (e.g. For example, they might be perfect for places located far from national power grid (north territories of Russia, Alaska in USA) or in small countries of small total power demand where high-power units are difficult to use because of an imbalance of the national power grid they introduce.

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The Truth About Cars

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

While it wasn’t long ago when the idea of networked vehicles and driver monitoring were dismissed as the kinds of things that only happened in authoritarian countries, Western governments appear to be changing their tune. Originally, the concept was floated as a way to safeguard from distracted driving.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 31, 2021

In some cases, the researchers defined areas visited by using grid spaces as small as 500 square meters. Both of those buttress central place theory, an idea developed in the 1930s by German scholar Walter Christaller, which seeks to describe the location of cities and towns in terms of the functions they offer to people in a region.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 11, 2017

This includes conceptual ideas on a phased implementation schedule for stationary operating time limits and zero emission mode operating percentages, as well as related details. Carrier Transicold’s Vector 8100) that are plugged into the electric power grid while in use.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2014

The basic idea is to control a variety of vehicle functions on a uniform, centralized computer platform instead of providing every system with its own hardware and software as today. The system architecture is also intended to be transferrable to multiple unit trains, smart grids or other complex systems.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2019

However, grid-scale freshwater electrolysis would put a heavy strain on vital water resources. Water splitting with electricity—electrolysis—is a simple and old idea: a power source connects to two electrodes placed in water. (Image credit: Courtesy of H. Dai, Yun Kuang, Michael Kenney).

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