Cars That Think

JUNE 24, 2022

The country’s electricity consumption in 2019 was nearly six times as great as in 1990. costs less than fossil-fuel-based electricity. While electricity from older coal plants in India costs 2.7 cents from newer plants that have additional pollution-control equipment, the cost of solar energy has dropped to 2.7

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Coal Energy Storage Wind India 79

Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2019

SarTec Corporation is developing a continuous hydrothermal catalytic system to process waste grease into green gasoline, jet, and diesel fuels that performed near to or better than the analogous petroleum fuels and passed all ASTM fuel specifications. is developing Lithium metal batteries with improved cycle life for electric vehicles.

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PHEV Lithium Ion Waste Renewable 220

Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2015

During the late innings of the ICE-age (as in the Internal Combustion Engine age) it has become clear that feeding gasoline and diesel to the next billion new cars is not going to be easy, or cheap. By contrast, at 25 miles per $3 gallon of gasoline, those miles cost 12 cents each. by Henry Hewitt for Oilprice.com.

Solar 150

Solar Miles Gasoline-Electric MPG 150

Baua Electric

APRIL 19, 2024

Anticipated demand from the auto industry—as well as solar-panel manufacturing and data centers—is leading utilities to forecast single-digit percentage growth every year through the end of the decade in some regions, according to report. But various studies suggest that, eventually, EVs will drive the long-term cost of electricity down.

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Georgia South Carolina Coal North Carolina 52

Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2011

Total Smart Grid costs. The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) has released a broad assessment of the costs and benefits to modernize the US electricity system and deploy the smart grid. The analysis updates EPRI’s 2004 EPRI assessment, which estimated the cost of implementing a smart grid at $165 billion.

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EPRI Grid Cost Of Gasoline-Electric 239

Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2021

That price increase paired with an increase in gasoline and diesel demand will likely increase the cost of regular gasoline and diesel fuel this summer. EIA expects the retail price of regular-grade gasoline in the United States will average $2.78 per gallon this summer, compared with last summer’s average of $2.07/gal.

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2019 Fuel Coal 2020 186

Clean Fleet Report

JULY 29, 2022

Pros and Cons of the Electric Car Lifestyle. Electric vehicles have become more popular in the past few years thanks to technological advancements and a growing interest in sustainable living. However, some drawbacks to owning an electric car should be considered before making the switch. Cheaper running costs.

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Gasoline-Electric Re-Charge Gasoline San Francisco 73

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

For the study, they define EVs as including both battery-electric (BEV) and plug-in hybrid electric (PHEV) vehicles. Only in the case of high EV market share and a high renewable electricity standard (RES) do EVs make a material contribution to greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions, they found. —Choi et al.

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Low Cost Georgia Fuel Economy Gasoline-Electric 236

Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

The PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle), a subset of the electric car, combines a primary electric motor with a much smaller back-up engine fueled with a hydrocarbon/biofuel mix. (In In this paper PHEV refers solely to the long-range PHEV of 60 miles (100 km) electric-only range.) It is much more than that.

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PHEV Plug-in Renewable Energy 150

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Source: “Hidden Costs of Energy”. The damages the committee was able to quantify were an estimated $120 billion in the US in 2005, a number that reflects primarily health damages from air pollution associated with electricity generation and motor vehicle transportation. Source: “Hidden Costs of Energy”. Click to enlarge.

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2005 Cost Of Energy Coal 246

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. GENI: Green Electricity Network Integration ($36.4 usually made of copper) that conduct electricity.

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Energy Clean Cleaning Grid 294

Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2012

The FOA covers 8 broad topics—Vehicles; Biomass; Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies; Advanced Manufacturing; Buildings; Solar; Water; and Wind—and 30 subtopics aligned with Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) programs. VTP seeks projects in the following areas: Electric Drive Vehicle Batteries.

Hydrogen 210

Hydrogen Fuel Range Vehicles 210

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2019

EIA’s Annual Energy Outlook 2019 projects continued robust growth in US energy production, emergence of the United States as an energy exporter, and a cleaner S electric power generation mix. This growth arises from increases in air transportation outpacing increases in aircraft fuel efficiency. Other findings.

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Transportation Energy Fuel Economy 2018 207

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2013

An Electricity/CO 2 Market Simulation Incorporating Renewables. A game in which business students try to maximize profits from power plants will be refined to replicate more fully California’s markets for electricity and carbon dioxide emission permits. Better Decision Making for Policies and Programs to Reduce Electricity Use.

Energy 210

Energy Fuel Hybrid CO2 210

Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2013

The PNNL technology tells a vehicle’s battery charger when to start and stop charging based upon existing conditions on the electrical grid. The Grid Friendly EV Charger Controller technology notifies the car’s battery charger when to start and stop charging based upon existing conditions on the electrical grid. Source: PNNL.

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Smart Charger EV Smart Grid Power Grid 225

Blink Charging

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The transition away from gasoline and diesel vehicles to electric vehicles (EVs) is going full throttle in the United States, and that includes the iconic yellow school bus. Here are several reasons for school districts to switch to electric buses. The more vehicles that switch to running on electricity, the better.

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Fleet Pollution Diesel Ozone 123

Driivz

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

BUSTED: Even including the electricity used for charging, EVs have a smaller carbon footprint than gasoline-powered internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles. If the power is generated using solar or wind power, then EV driving is emission free. MYTH 4: EV total cost of ownership (TCO) is higher than ICE vehicles.

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Charging Fleet Grid Energy 98

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

In a new report (its fourth on electric car adoption) the Boston Consulting Group forecasts that a combination of hybrid and fully electric powertrains will cut the global market share of pure internal combustion engines (ICEs) by about 50% by 2030.

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Boston Consulting Group Market Hybrid Global 199

Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2013

The program incorporates a DOE grand challenge, the EV Everywhere Initiative, to develop the technologies to make electric-powered vehicles as affordable and convenient as gasoline-powered vehicles for the average American family by 2020. Batteries Biomass Electric (Battery) Engines Fuels Hydrogen Policy'

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Vehicles 2012 Grid Hydrogen 231

Green Car Congress

APRIL 26, 2016

hydrogen or electricity). REFUEL seeks to develop technologies that convert water and air into CNLFs using chemical or electrochemical processes powered by renewable electricity sources, such as wind and solar. Comparative costs of current different energy delivery options for transportation. Electricity.

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Renewable Water Energy Fuel 150

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Laredo Bus Facility Solar Canopies: Provide shade structures with integrated, grid tied photovoltaic cells to be erected on the bus storage lot at the Laredo Bus Maintenance Facility. This grant would allow ConnDOT to upgrade the upcoming purchases of buses and would fund the incremental cost of a hybrid bus compared to a conventional bus.

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Emissions Gas Energy Maintenance 256

Clean Fleet Report

APRIL 5, 2023

The all-new 2023 Prius Prime gets two less miles per gallon in hybrid mode than the 2022 model, but the all-electric driving range has increased substantially. Smart owners will quickly learn that, by plugging-in daily, they will reap the benefits of electric driving. Driver options The 2023 Toyota Prius Prime uses a 13.6

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Prius PHEV Toyota Plug-in 88

Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2018

The startup is developing the technology’s ability to combine and separate individual molecules to make gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel using CO 2 removed from the air. The difficulty and high cost of making CNT membranes has confined them to university laboratories and has been frequently cited as the limiting factor in their widespread use.

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Carbon Fuel Polymer Austin 199

Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2011

In Germany, renewable electricity generation will be 35 percent by 2020, and 50 percent by 2050. Why then do we not have the same clarity of goal for the electricity generating industry here in the USA? The same can be said for the electricity companies that generate power in the USA. EIA projections of renewables penetration.

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Renewable West Virginia Energy USA 220

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2009

It will do that, Secretary Mabus said, by replacing the current fleet, as they go out of service, with a new composite fleet of flex fuel vehicles, hybrid electric vehicles, and neighborhood electric vehicles. The other three goals set out by Secretary Mabus are: The Navy and Marine Corps will change the way they award contracts.

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2020 Afghanistan Energy Mariner 308

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Public-private investment initiatives, government funding for infrastructure and consumer subsidies, falling production costs and notably, the commitment to future OEM launches of fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs)—all indicate a clear road to adoption.

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Fuel Electric Vehicles Market Hydrogen 281

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2013

The growth reflects an expected 90% increase in electricity use, led by developing countries where 1.3 billion people are currently without access to electricity. Over the same period, electric and plug-in vehicles are expected to grow to about 70 million cars, or less than 5 percent of the total fleet. Transportation.

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Oil-Sands Energy Hybrid Sale 309

Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2010

The Lenfest/Risø team notes that high temperature electrolysis makes very efficient use of electricity and heat (near-100% electricity-to-syngas efficiency), provides high reaction rates (no need for precious metal catalysts), and the syngas produced can be catalytically converted to hydrocarbons in well-known fuel synthesis reactors (e.g.

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Fuel CO2 Production Conversion 255

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Direct Solar Fuels (5 projects). Eagle Picher, in partnership with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, will develop a new generation of high energy, low cost planar liquid sodium beta batteries for grid scale electrical power storage applications. Earlier post.) Biomass Energy (5 projects). Carbon Capture (5 projects).

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Energy Grant Low Cost Li-ion 231

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2017

As gasoline prices fell starting in late 2014, motorists logged an additional 2.7 billion vehicle miles traveled (VMT) in 2015, with a concomitant increase in gasoline consumption. Over the same time period, traditional gasoline vehicle registration increased 1.7%. California’s electric-power sector was responsible for 19.1%

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California Light Emissions Climate 150

Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2014

The President’s Climate Action Plan contains a goal of doubling renewable energy generation from wind, solar, and geothermal sources between 2012 and 2020. By the end of FY 2015, achieve best in class solar photovoltaic (PV) systems at $1.85/watt Demonstrate three grid-connected advanced offshore wind concepts by 2017. ?.

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2014 2018 Energy Climate Change 225

Baua Electric

MAY 10, 2024

While solar and wind provide carbon-free electricity or H 2 through water splitting, they lack the ability to directly produce carbon-based fuels and chemicals without additional carbon sources. Moreover, the cost of the catalyst, specially noble metals, hindered its acceptability.

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Fuel Auto Oil Conversion 52

Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2014

The need for bringing down the costs of captured CO 2 and stimulating its potential uses, among them methanol production. Both the IRENA experts and the methanol industry agree that under very specific circumstances, such as in Iceland with its very low electricity prices, methanol produced from CO 2 is already competitive with gasoline.

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Transportation CO2 Carbon Hydrogen 244

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

More than half of this (57%) will be invested in Germany alone; investments in the German locations will focus on alternative drives, new generations of diesel and gasoline engines, and new generations of Volkswagen’s innovative direct shift gearboxes. billion (US$16 billion) and investments in financial assets of €1.0 billion (US$23.5)

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2016 Production Automobile Manufacturer 2012 210

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Most sources of alternative energy, such as solar, wind, and geothermal, produce electrical power while biofuels and biochemicals can directly replace petroleum-derived liquid fuels and chemicals compatible with today’s infrastructure.

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Transportation Fuel Conversion Water 207

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2016

ExxonMobil forecasts that by 2040, one of every four cars on the world’s roads will be a hybrid; conventional cars (primarily gasoline-powered) will still remain most popular to 2040. The company forecasts modest gains for plug-in electric cars, with cost and functionality remaining barriers.

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2014 Carbon Energy Fuel Economy 150

Get Electric Vehicle

JUNE 7, 2023

The electric vehicle industry is growing at a high pace these days. Are you planning a job in electric vehicle industry? Then this Electric Vehicle Interview Questions and Answers will definitely help you out. There are different types of firms working in the electric vehicle domain.

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Electric Vehicles Vehicles Electrical Electric 52