Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Fermata Energy: Fermata provides a complete solution that lets electric vehicles receive power from and provide power back to the grid and to buildings by integrating software, hardware options and knowledge, turning electric vehicles into energy storage assets that combat climate change, increase resilience and dramatically lower cost of ownership.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2019

The next step involves a 530e Readiness Survey about the garage and local electric grid. BMW Wireless Charging helps the driver maneuver the 530e into the correct parking position with the help of a WiFi connection between the charging station and vehicle. Qmerit will then complete the residential hardware installation.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Ryder also plans to equip its maintenance facilities in the San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Sacramento, and San Jose, Calif. The Chanje all-electric large delivery style van is equipped to haul up to 6,000 pounds and up to 580 cubic feet of cargo.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2016

The vehicle will be tested by Honda Research Institute USA at GoMentum Station, a 5,000-acre automated and connected vehicle proving ground in the San Francisco Bay Area. This testing program is aligned with the company’s goal to introduce automated driving technologies around 2020.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 30, 2022

A Sea-Monster-Proof Internet The initial segment of what will be the first underwater fiber-optic link to skirt the North Pole, connecting Japan and Europe, will light up in early 2023. Compared to Starlink’s sky-cluttering swarms of tiny satellites, San Francisco–based Astranis’s plans may seem old school.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2011

The California Energy Commission has awarded $1,585,490 to spur research on projects including a solid-state Li-ion battery system for grid-scale energy storage. The project is intended to help validate the performance advantages of the company’s technology for use in grid-tied energy storage and community energy storage—i.e.,

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2019

Remote Area Modular Monitoring for Critical Facilities, $300,000 Embedded Planet, Cleveland, Ohio Simulation Tool for Energy-Efficient Connected and Automated Vehicle Control Development, $600,000 Hyundai America Technical Center, Superior Township, Mich. San Jose, Calif. Sunrun, San Francisco, Calif. San Jose, Calif.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2015

Honda has begun testing of its automated and connected vehicle technology at the Concord Naval Weapons Station (CNWS) in the San Francisco Bay Area. Honda is building its automated and connected car technology portfolio, while bringing industry-leading capabilities to current generation vehicles. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2013

Other projects receiving funding include: Foresight Renewable Solutions of San Francisco will receive $1.7 The stored, compressed air will be used to generate electricity on an “on demand” basis to meet the facility’s needs, including periods of high demand or grid outages.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2011

This system, which is being partially funded by the EU, connects the French and Spanish grids between Baixas and Santa Llogaia. At present the two countries’ grids are linked only by low-capacity lines. billion) in sales in 2010.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2013

San Francisco and Los Angeles) that are less than about 1500 km or 900 miles apart. Maintain the capsule at 300 mph (480 km/h) as necessary, including during ascents over the mountains surrounding Los Angeles and San Francisco. Power from the grid is needed when solar power is not available. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

ABB, a leading power and automation technology group, and Fincantieri, the Italian merchant and naval shipbuilder, have signed an agreement to collaborate on the construction, marketing and supply of high-voltage shore connection (HVSC) systems to provide electricity to vessels in port. Diagram of HVSC system. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2016

—Cliff Fietzek, Manager Connected eMobility at BMW of North America. In 2013, BMW and the University of San Diego installed a micro grid application with Battery 2nd Life MINI E batteries. In 2014, BMW integrated high-voltage batteries into a stationary storage system in Hamburg.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 18, 2022

The general principle for bidirectional charging is EVs can either feed power from a charged vehicle back into the house (vehicle-to-home or V2H) or interact with the electric grid itself (vehicle-to-grid or V2G). Maybe it's not out of necessity that you don't have access to the grid,” Andersen says.

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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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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2010

are partnering to bring smart fortwo electric drive vehicles to Connect by Hertz car sharing and Hertz Rent A Car locations in New York; Washington, DC; and San Francisco. The smart fortwo electric drive will be available for rent through Connect by Hertz car sharing in New York City beginning 15 December.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2010

OnStar is leveraging Google technology to develop a number of new mobile application features to provide Volt customers with the most connected vehicle experience possible. Ability to manually set grid-friendly charge mode for off-peak times when electricity rates are lowest. What we’re talking about today is only the beginning.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2018

San Diego-Carlsbad. San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward. San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara. This will include building new sites connecting regional destinations, such as supporting travel to the Sierra Mountain communities and destinations like Lake Havasu. Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim. Sacramento-Roseville-Arden-Arcade.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2018

San Diego-Carlsbad. San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward. San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara. This will include building new sites connecting regional destinations, such as supporting travel to the Sierra Mountain communities and destinations like Lake Havasu. Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim. Sacramento-Roseville-Arden-Arcade.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2011

Coulomb’s project includes the deployment of electric vehicles, including 2,000 GM Volt, 200 Ford Transit Connect, 100 Ford Focus EV, and 100 Smart EV vehicles, as well as establishing 4,600 EV charging locations nationwide. San Francisco, Calif.; New York, NY; Orlando, Fla.; Redmond, Wash.; Sacramento, Calif.;

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2016

The city proposed to deploy three electric self-driving shuttles to link a new bus rapid transit center to a retail district, connecting more residents to jobs.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2010

the San Jose/San Francisco Bay Area, California; Redmond, Wash.; Integrating with the utility Smart Grid for demand side management and preferred pricing. Sacramento, Calif.; and Washington DC. Charging station installation, in most regions, will be paid for by the individual or station owner, according to Coulomb.

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Charged EVs

DECEMBER 13, 2022

By cutting red tape and avoiding costs for construction and electrical work, combined with free solar energy, Beam Global says its EV ARC systems can offer customers a lower total cost of ownership compared to grid-tied charging stations. This may well be the case with the EV ARC, a solar-powered off-grid charging station made by Beam Global.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2011

The BMW ActiveE ( earlier post ) will be available for lease in the metropolitan markets of Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Sacramento, New York and Boston as well as the state of Connecticut beginning in Fall 2011 for $499 per month for 24 months with a down payment $2,250. BMW ActiveE. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2009

While OEMs and utilities continue to define and refine hardware standards and communication protocols for smart charging, a tremendous amount of work needs to be done in preparing both the grid and the process to accommodate the expected influx of plug-ins, and to make the process as easy as possible for consumers. —Peter Darbee.

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Green Cars News

MAY 1, 2009

A powerful roster of key industry players in the rapidly evolving electric vehicle arena will come together at Infocast’s Opportunities in Grid-Connected Mobility in San Francisco, California. For further information about Opportunities in Grid-Connected Mobility, visit [link].

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Cars That Think

MAY 13, 2024

A recent Bluetooth connection between a device on Earth and a satellite in orbit signals a potential new space race—this time, for global location-tracking networks. Alex Haro, Hubble Network The caveat, however, is that the connection is device-to-satellite only.

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Plugs and Cars

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

Lithium batteries and the possibilities of Vehicle-to-Grid technology provided the real buzz at ZEVTech. Utilities were well-represented with presentations touting the benefits grid-connected cars offer in reduced emissions, lower cost and load leveling. They forsee no market until well into the next decade.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2010

Although separate programs are in place to research and manage both air quality and climate change effects, these problems are not separate and in fact are intimately connected. How does Southern California compare and contrast with the San Francisco Bay Area? What is the contribution from ship emissions?

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Baua Electric

APRIL 30, 2024

For some uses, such as the high-capacity batteries that back up solar power plants or support the electric grid, physical size doesn’t matter much. Natron, based in the San Francisco Bay Area, will target data centers, which use copious amounts of energy and frequently switch servers on and off. and Amazon.com Inc.,

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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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Revenge of the Electric Car

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

From the article: “The San Francisco building code will soon be revised to require that new structures be wired for car chargers. And at the headquarters of Pacific Gas and Electric, utility executives are preparing “heat maps” of neighborhoods that they fear may overload the power grid in their exuberance for electric cars.&#.

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Creative Greenius

MARCH 31, 2009

By “ utility interactive&# they mean what’s commonly called grid-tied solar. That’s a PV system that’s connected to the same electric grid you currently get your electricity from. that’s the Chinatown movie star DWP, and for my buddy Richard up in San Francisco it’s PG&E.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

At present, PHEV technology alone is equipped to improve the current electric grid. The car can refuel during periods of low demand on the grid, and if equipped with a bi-directional charger, can actually replenish the grid with excess energy gleaned from a renewable resource. Appendix D: Vehicle Driving Statistics. slow charge.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2013

Concurrent Technologies Corporation will receive $2 million to share costs in a US Department of Defense vehicle-to-grid demonstration project at the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, in the western Mojave Desert region that includes parts of Kern, San Bernardino and Inyo counties.

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Charged EVs

DECEMBER 14, 2021

We just had one that happened in Germany and [another] in the San Francisco Bay area. Oleg: Well, I would like to focus on positives, and the positive that I saw in the draft of the bill is that money is going to be directed to connected, smart and interoperable infrastructure. It’s a must. Oleg: Absolutely.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

The partnership combines GE’s global scale, broad technology portfolio, smart grid expertise, and its new WattStation Level 2 electric vehicle charger ( earlier post ) with Better Place’s EV services and infrastructure solution.

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