Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2009

Green Car Congress attended the Renewable Energy Finance Forum - Wall Street (REFF-Wall Street) conference (23-24 June) sponsored by Euromoney Energy Events and the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE). The renewable energy community may prefer “areas of concern” over the term schism, but significant issues were reiterated.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 28, 2023

But what’s most interesting about the mammoth, £580 million project isn’t so much the turbines as the subsea transmission link that will connect the wind farm to the Scottish mainland. percent, the share of energy met by renewables. An inverter there can feed into the mainland AC grid.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 28, 2023

However, achieving either goal would likely require governments offering hundreds of billions of dollars, if not trillions, in EV subsidies to ICE owners over the next decade, not to mention significant investments in EV charging infrastructure and the electrical grid. billion to more than 2 billion.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 27, 2022

V-2 rockets it used to rain destruction on London. An old-fashioned triode vacuum tube does that using a voltage applied to its grid electrode. The arrival of this magnetic material in the United States led to renewed enthusiasm for magnetic amplifiers, which tolerated extreme conditions and didn’t burn out like vacuum tubes.

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Wallbox

JANUARY 4, 2021

To put things into perspective, this means you could easily go from Brussels to Paris (316 km) or from London to Liverpool (350 km) without any stops for charging. As energy production from renewable sources typically varies by day or season, EVs offer another advantage. Is our grid ready for a full transition to EVs?

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Electric cars and a smart electric grid have a bright future, according to panelists at a roundtable discussion on the subject that I attended last Friday in Boston. “I Vehicle-to-grid is, I believe, the salvation of the automotive industry in the United States,” declared Marc Spitzer, an agency commissioner who was also on the panel.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

There’s good reason for this hustle: The United Kingdom wants to add 34 gigawatts of offshore wind power by 2030, en route to decarbonizing its grid by 2035. But the shallow waters east of London are already packed with wind turbines. Scottish Renewables , a regional industry group, says that the U.K. s next frontier.

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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. And that much more vehicle charging would then put great pressure on our electricity grids. AFP/Getty Images. falls somewhere in the middle, deriving.

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My Energi

AUGUST 12, 2021

Cities such as London, Shanghai, New Orleans, Sydney and Singapore would become swamps if we let the entirety if Greelands ice melt away. However, Extreme E, its drivers and partners go one further and actively seek to leave a positive legacy in the areas they visit, from implementing renewable infrastructure to mass beach cleans.

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