Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

To help California mitigate its ever-growing wildfires, this year CalSEED has included companies that are innovating in technologies that will build wildfire resiliency into the grid. This novel technology would deliver safe, reliable, resilient, and cost-effective electric power in the grid. rechargeable battery?technology?that

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 1, 2012

Their high densities and voltage output offer greater volumetric energy densities than sulfur-based batteries, opening possibilities for new energy storage systems that can enable electric vehicles and smart grids, according to the ANL team. However, both Li/S and Li/O 2. —Abouimrane et al. electrodes (Se? S y systems. Chapman, Peter J.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2014

Batteries in RE, inverter backup and remote telecom systems are regularly cycled at PSOC due to the intermittency of solar generation, an unstable grid or to minimize operating costs of a hybrid Charge-Discharge-Cycle (CDC) system. Smart Carbon is designed to enhance life and performance of Trojan batteries operating in PSOC.

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Deep Cycle Carbon Lead Acid Battery 247

Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2019

Groupe Renault is beginning the first large-scale pilot schemes in alternating-current, vehicle-to-grid (V2G) charging in electric vehicles. Vehicle-to-grid charging is a key pillar of the smart electric ecosystems that Groupe Renault has set up. The pilot schemes will begin in the Netherlands and Portugal.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2010

The average cost to trial participants for recharging at home is between 25p and £1 (US$0.40 This provides sufficient charge for between 20-40 miles of travel at a cost of between 40p to £1, depending on the tariff. The low cost of ‘refuelling’ in relatively short periods of time reinforce this. and $1.60) per day.

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Low Cost Recharge i-MiEV Mitsubishi 186

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

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 8, 2022

These include long dwell times, high power demand from the grid, availability and reliability issues, and the need for end-users to deal with heavy cables, dirty connectors, and buggy user interfaces. It could be very likely that these OEMs introduce swapping as an alternate recharging strategy there. Two- and three-wheelers.

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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. I like Beam much better—a beam of energy, the structural beam.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

million units/year); the availability of subsidies and incentives; the availability of an extensive and expensive recharging infrastructure and adequate energy supplies; the future cost of oil; and the cost of meeting transport emissions legislation through means other than EV production.

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Global Recharge Sale Cars 225

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. that substantially reduce costs of the motor. almost a 75% reduction in the cost of TES.

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Energy Clean Cleaning Grid 294

Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2010

A study by Jonn Axsen and Ken Kurani from the Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Davis, estimates electricity and gasoline use under three recharging scenarios. Drivers are assumed to immediately plug-in and recharge whenever they are parked within 25 ft of an electrical outlet. —Axsen and Kurani. Plug and play.

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Plug-in Plug Electric Vehicles PHEV 210

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The system was built using batteries reclaimed from electrified vehicles (HEV, PHEV, BEV, FCEV) and is connected to the consumer electrical power grid. JERA and Toyota began discussions in 2018 to establish battery reuse technologies, which eventually led to this large-capacity, grid-connected Sweep Energy Storage System.

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Energy Storage Nickel Metal Hydride Toyota Energy 186

Charged EVs

AUGUST 21, 2024

In the previous article on off-grid EV charging , the focus was on the energy storage battery and the DC-AC inverter that supplies the EV charger (and all of the other AC loads). This time the focus will be on the renewable energy sources themselves. This article first appeared in Issue 68: April-June 2024 – Subscribe now.

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Grid Renewable Energy Charging 124

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2023

The result of nearly three years of research and the subject of 11 joint patents, this power converter, developed from innovative materials and more compact, will reduce energy losses by 30%, improve the vehicle’s recharging time and guarantee the battery’s durability. Further, it will be bidirectional.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

Researchers at Georgia Tech have compared medium-duty (MD) electric and diesel urban delivery trucks in terms of life-cycle energy consumption, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and total cost of ownership (TCO). One surprise among their findings was that the electric truck had cost advantages over the diesel vehicle under some conditions.

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Georgia Diesel Gas-Electric Electric 268

Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2012

For small batteries, the team notes, conventional diffusion-based architectures are superior because the cost of the circulating pump alone would be more than the cost of the traditional diffusion-based battery. Since then, definitive data has been collected that validates increased power output and recharging capabilities.

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Battery Batteries 2011 Lead Acid 261

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2012

E-Trike drivers will save upwards of $5 a day in fuel costs, and the new E-Trikes have the capacity to carry more passengers. The new E-Trikes, which run on an electric motor and rechargeable lithium-ion battery, will be introduced to Metro Manila and other urban centers across the Philippines under a lease-to-own arrangement.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2021

The cost of the rechargeable lithium-ion batteries used for phones, laptops, and cars has fallen significantly over the last three decades, and has been a major driver of the rapid growth of those technologies. Ziegler and Trancik.

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Li-ion MIT Lithium Ion Price 284

Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2018

Using models they built and data from more than 10 million taxi trips in New York City, they found that the cost of service provided by a fleet of shared automated electric vehicles (SAEVs) would be $0.29-$0.61 per revenue mile—an order of magnitude lower than the cost of service of present-day Manhattan taxis and $0.05–$0.08/mi

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

With this new technology, electric trucks could recharge inductively simply by positioning over the charger. If the UPS facility lost power for whatever reason, the power can also flow in the reverse direction from the charged batteries in the vehicles to the electric grid for the facility.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2012

Instead, EURELECTRIC believes that the bulk of the charging can be done through low-power charging when the vehicles are plugged into the grid every time they are parked. side of grid and electricity power in grids), a simple single solution cannot work between US and EU. No direct communication between vehicle and grid (i.e.,

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EV Central

MAY 29, 2025

That’s some way off the 800-volt Macan that can accept a 270kW recharge with a 10-80 per cent top up of its more energy-dense 101kWh battery taking 21 minutes. 2025 Alpine A390.

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Australia Porsche Motoring Motor 97

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Highways & Regional Routes: The new Cycle 2 investments will continue to build out a highway network of DCFC stations featuring charging power up to 350 kilowatts which can recharge a vehicle at up to 20 miles of range per minute. The cost of installation will be incorporated into a monthly fee.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2010

The project will fund a mobile clean up facility’(to upgrade raw biogas into biomethane of a quality that can be used as a transport fuel or injected into the gas grid) and fund the additional costs of vehicles using biogas. million (US$5.2 million) for a low carbon truck demonstration project, also subject to a feasibility study.

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Carbon Transportation Alternative Fuels Grant 186

Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2009

Moreover, our battery team is already starting work on new concepts that will further decrease the cost of the Volt battery pack quite substantially in a second-generation Volt pack. Actually, as I read the conclusions of the study I had a feeling of déjà vu.

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Volt GM Li-ion Plug-in 150

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Despite the recent progress, a number of myths around the use, power efficiency and cost of fuel cells still exist. This renewable production capacity is increasingly important to ensure the existing power grid can accept more renewable sources. The cost of making fuel cell vehicles has recently dropped dramatically.

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Fuel Electric Vehicles Market Hydrogen 281

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2009

To cover the research and investment costs of the project, a MINI E would normally cost in the region of £550 (US$894) a month to lease, however part funding from the Government’s Technology Strategy Board means that the lease cost to MINI E pioneers is £330 (US$536) per month, which includes VAT, insurance, service and maintenance.

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Mini E BMW Li-ion Cars 199

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Combined with the increasing scarcity and cost of energy resources, it is therefore vital to develop a range of technologies that will ensure the long-term sustainability of mobility in Europe. After 2025, the total cost of ownership (TCO) of all the powertrains converges. PHEVs are more economic than BEVs and FCEVs in the short term.

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Plug-in Transportation Plug Fuel 244

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

When we spoke to customers interesting in driving a hydrogen fuel cell vehicle, many wondered what the cost of hydrogen would be. Because of the inherent weight and cost of batteries, and the chemistry and physics that drive slow recharge times, today’s electric vehicles have practical limits for many consumers, Hyundai suggested.

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Tucson Honda Hyundai Concept 324

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2009

Infrastructure, recharging and business models. The impact from plug-in electric vehicles on the grid could be very substantial. One the issues for PG&E is the impact of peak demand on the grid. During the question and answer session, Darbee said that utilities have to “ walk before we run ” with the smart grid.

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Plug-in Plug Building Industry 210

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

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2018

Current trends suggest that barriers to EV adoption such as price, range, selection and charging-time will continue to diminish, as costs come down and technology improves. Total Cost of Ownership: An analysis of 17 popular 2017 models found ZEVs can already be price competitive now, without government incentives. This works out to 0.05

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Recharging takes about 2 hours at 240V. This data set can be used to refine battery and vehicle design, reduce total cost of ownership, and enable smarter vehicle use by the driver. Tracking and analyzing performance across full-fleet deployments allows better maintenance tracking and sophisticated cost optimization. MissionEVT.

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Motoring Motors Motor Vehicles 240

Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2014

When we spoke with customers about fuel cell vehicles, many wondered about the cost of hydrogen. To ease those concerns as the hydrogen refueling network builds out, we decided that covering this cost for these early adopters was appropriate, and consistent with how we like to treat our customers. Source: UC Irvine APEP.

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Tucson Hyundai Fuel Hydrogen 351

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

REBELS addresses these challenges by developing innovative, low-cost distributed generation technologies using electrochemical power generation that can also act as a storage device, or, potentially as a means to generate liquid fuels—essentially, electrochemical gas-to-liquids (GTL).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2010

The use of the reformer in conjunction with the high-temperature 3-5 kW fuel cell would enable the use of conventional hydrocarbon fuels to recharge the batteries in the EV. Balance of plant elimination is critical to the cost and reliability of the fuel cell. Earlier post.)

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