Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2019

The project seeks to address multiple challenges related to the expansion of EVs, including the repurposing of used EV batteries, the expected impact of EV demand and renewable energy on the nation’s utility operators and the integration of EV batteries as a storage solution for the electric grid.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2017

Daimler, with its wholly owned subsidiary NuCellSys GmbH, and together with Mercedes-Benz Research and Development North America (MBRDNA) and Daimler Innovations Lab1886 is expanding the use case of its innovative automotive fuel cell technology. Fuel cell technology is an integral part of Daimler’s powertrain strategy. —Prof.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2020

by Toby Gill, CEO, Intelligent Power Generation. With battery storage able to provide a unique role in balancing a renewable electricity grid, Toby Gill, CEO of Intelligent Power Generation, asks could innovations in green hydrogen and biofuel technologies contribute to a more optimized and economical energy mix?

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2009

The US will need to expand and modernize its outdated power transmission grid to incorporate more renewable energy sources, but balkanized ownership and regulation are going to make that process slow and difficult, according to a new Duke University analysis. —Chi-Jen Yang.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2015

CRI, founded in 2006 in Reykjavik, Iceland, is developing technology to produce renewable methanol from clean energy and recycled CO 2 emissions. Geely is committed to achieving the long-term goal of zero emissions mobility through a diverse suite of new energy solutions, including renewable methanol vehicle technology.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2014

A team from Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering IAO, together with Daimler AG and the Institute for Human Factors and Technology Management at the University of Stuttgart, is developing both the charging infrastructure and the energy management systems required to manage large fleets of EVs in a project called charge@work.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2016

The recommendations aim to enhance the state’s defense and national security mission and its benefits to California’s economy and communities. In 2009, Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus set aggressive renewable energy goals to spur the development of alternative power and energy efficient technology and operational procedures.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 26, 2023

The IEEE Life Fellow spoke during a session addressing the role of technology in delivering an equitable, sustainable, and low-carbon resilient world. Rahman, a power expert and professor of electrical and computer engineering at Virginia Tech , is the former chair of the IEEE ad hoc committee on climate change.

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EV Match

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

While most of us who read about energy slapped our palms to our foreheads , many people believed Governor Abbott and blamed renewable energy for power outages. This brings me to President Joe Biden’s goal to decarbonize our economy by 2035 to avoid the worst effects of climate change. The Push to Decarbonize by 2035.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 30, 2021

2021 was a big year for energy-related news, what with the ongoing hunt for new forms of energy storage and cleaner if not carbon-free electricity and events and research that spotlighted the weak links in our power grid. IEEE Spectrum did its best to cover those developments, and these were the stories that our readers liked best.

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Drive Electric

APRIL 4, 2023

The programme’s foundation is built on the concept of a circular economy , which seeks to avoid the linear “take-to-waste” model. A battery in its second life can serve a variety of purposes, such as: Providing stability to the power grid. Learn more about it here. The post How is New Zealand disposing of EV batteries?

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2010

ARPA-E’s first solicitation, announced in early 2009, was highly competitive and resulted in funding 37 projects aimed at transformational innovations in energy storage, biofuels, carbon capture, renewable power, building efficiency, vehicles, and other areas. Agile Delivery of Electrical Power Technology (ADEPT).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

It requires immediate action along the battery value chain alongside investments in other technologies such as hydrogen and in other industries. More than half of these would be in emerging economies. Uncertainty regarding infrastructure, technology and consumer preferences poses a significant business risk to the value chain.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 28, 2023

Not likely, counter Mercedes-Benz’s chief technology officer Markus Schäfer and Renault Group CEO Luca de Meo. EV owners should be urged to charge at night to save not only money and the power grid but “ the world ,” a news headline cries out. Drastically reducing our fossil-fuel use is key to realizing those goals.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Automakers in Europe can lower their emissions by shortening the transport distance and capitalizing on the DRC’s hydroelectric powered grid and proximity to raw materials. However, the raw materials for batteries are, in most cases, imported into China from Africa and refined before being exported to Europe.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2013

Siemens suggests abandoning a fixed target for renewable energies and concentrating on the CO 2 reduction goal. Relying on a higher share of efficient, low-emission combined cycle power plants and wind energy could save €150 billion (US$200 billion) by 2030 while attaining the same CO 2 targets, Siemens says. Source: Siemens.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Four California state agencies and the independent power grid operator have released a new plan and vision for California’s energy future in advance of the Air Resources Board consideration of a first-in-the-nation rule requiring that a third of California electricity come from renewable sources by 2020.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2011

Liquid Metal Battery Corporation (LMBC), a Cambridge, Massachusetts company founded in 2010 to develop new forms of electric storage batteries that work in large, grid-scale applications, has secured the rights to key patent technology from MIT. —Philippe Boisseau, President Total Gas & Power.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Whilst hydrogen today is extracted from natural gas and is already a global, multi-billion dollar industry used in a wide range of industrial applications, it is also produced from renewable sources like solar, wind or biogas without the need to use fossil fuels. Of course, this also has the merit of producing so-called “green hydrogen”.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 15, 2014

in the past few years important factors have emerged that are re-accelerating the commercialization of hydrogen and fuel cell technologies. Several methods of producing hydrogen, including from renewable sources, provide the potential for even greater benefits. It appears that these efforts may jumpstart the hydrogen economy at last.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2015

At Consumer Electronics Show Asia, Ford launched a strategic collaboration with Haier (home appliance), Trina Solar (solar power) and Delta Electronics (power management) to introduce MyEnergi Lifestyle ( earlier post ) to China, a holistic approach for lowering the energy costs and carbon footprint of Chinese families.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 19, 2023

It seems like science fiction now, but major efforts are already underway to demonstrate the technologies needed to realize this vision. Together, Siemens Energy and Siemens Gamesa are investing a total of €120 million in the technology. And Germany isn’t the only country investing in hydrogen technologies.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2016

PHEVLERs [ 3 ] are a disruptive technology that will help revolutionize both the clean transportation and the clean stationary energy sectors of our economy. These vehicles are the green machines that will provide a critical part of the renewable and sustainable society that we need for the future. [ About the authors.

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Drive Electric

AUGUST 9, 2022

ICEVs have been around for a while, and although they’ve had the time to perfect their manufacturing process and we’ve seen increased pressure on the importance of fuel economy and emissions, the thermal efficiency of the average light vehicle engine remains between 20-35%, and we’re not seeing much improvement beyond this. THE BOTTOM LINE.

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Drive Electric

JULY 7, 2022

Currently, available electric vehicles have an average battery range of 480km, but technology is advancing so rapidly that new models can drive for almost 550km on a single charge. Electric vehicle technology is younger and more sophisticated than that of traditional fossil fuel-powered vehicles. Short-range EV trips.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Mitsubishi Corporation (MC), Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC) and Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (MELCO) have agreed to collaborate on a smart grid research project incorporating electric-vehicle-to-X (e.g., technology being undertaken by Japan’s New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO).

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The task is clearly enormous, not just for the chemical manufacturing industry itself but for the larger economy. Its aim is to develop technologies and strategies to help the U.S. While this migration has already started to occur, with penetration of renewable sources into the U.S. exports (US $220 billion).

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Driivz

MAY 3, 2021

The United Kingdom’s Association for Renewable Energy and Clean Technology (REA) consists of more than 550 members within the heat, transport, power, EV charging infrastructure and the circular economy (eliminating waste and the continuous use of renewable resources) industries.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

MARCH 20, 2009

“Even as our economy has been transformed by new forms of technology, our electric grid looks largely the same as it did half a century ago,&# Obama said. Photos: Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times. Here’s a quote from the LA Times article By Maeve Reston: Obama unveils $2.4-billion “So we have a choice to make.

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EV Connect

JUNE 13, 2022

Just as important as creating incentives, though, is renewing/extending them. So as society continues to switch to renewable sources of energy, EVs should increasingly benefit the earth, which will hopefully encourage more EV consumption. The difficult part is predicting exactly how the global economy will drive EV sales.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2009

Improvements result from an optimistic scenario achieving doubling of new vehicle fuel economy in 2035 from today’s value. Technologies to improve vehicle efficiency are available for deployment now, and new technologies continue to emerge. Developing technologies for the conversion of biomass and coal-to-liquid fuels.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2009

The lithium-ion battery technology used to run these vehicles is the key determinant of their cost and range on electric power. The steep early drop in cost often experienced with new technologies is not likely. It is possible that breakthroughs in battery technology will greatly lower the cost. Click to enlarge.

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Drive Electric

AUGUST 9, 2022

ICEVs have been around for a while, and although they’ve had the time to perfect their manufacturing process and we’ve seen increased pressure on the importance of fuel economy and emissions, the thermal efficiency of the average light vehicle engine remains between 20-35%, and we’re not seeing much improvement beyond this. THE BOTTOM LINE.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

The study focused on a portfolio of powertrains: BEVs, FCEVs, PHEVs and ICEs, taking into account significant advances in ICE technology between now and 2020. Electrolyzer companies: ELT Elektrolyse Technik, Hydrogenics, Hydrogen Technologies, Proton Energy Systems. there was no consideration of breakthrough technologies.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

The report, Plug-In Electric Vehicles: A Practical Plan for Progress , examines public policies toward PEVs, taking into account the promise and limitations of PEVs, recent improvements in battery technology, market dynamics, and the proliferation of policies around the world that promote the use of PEVs. Market Drivers.

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Get Electric Vehicle

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Vehicle to Grid is a really interesting area to do projects. The idea here is that you can connect your EV to the power grid and flow power from your EV to the Grid. An electric car acts as a load or micro-generating station for the grid. Advantages of V2G in grid perspective 2.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 24, 2009

An intelligent vehicle-to-grid communications and control system for its plug-in hybrid electric vehicles that “talks” directly with the nation’s electric grid has been unveiled today courtesy of carmaker, Ford. The first of the specially equipped plug-in hybrids has been delivered to American Electric Power of Columbus, Ohio.

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