Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 10, 2023
Phil Ansell, an aerospace engineer at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, modeled the life cycle carbon dioxide equivalent emissions of liquid hydrogen production required to meet the fuel needs of Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport (ORD) with today’s electric grid mix.
Teslarati
NOVEMBER 17, 2021
In an announcement on Wednesday, the University of Queensland (UQ) in Australia stated that it would be recruiting Tesla owners across the globe to analyze if the all-electric vehicles’ spare battery capacity could be utilized to support the energy grid — and perhaps even power homes in the near future.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 4, 2021
Xcel Energy has launched a new pilot for customers of five major automakers to make it easier for consumers to make the switch to electric vehicles in Colorado and to charge their EVs at times when renewable energy production is high and demand on the energy grid is low.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 12, 2012
and Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) on a new pilot project that will allow communication between electric vehicles (EVs) and the power grid. This project will demonstrate and test an electric vehicle’s ability to receive and respond to charge instructions based on the grid condition and the vehicle’s battery state.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 9, 2011
The new research and development funding will support four areas of investment, including improving the efficiency and performance of solar cells; developing new installation—or balance of systems—technologies; advancing solar energy grid integration; and researching new materials and processes for solar PV technologies.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 28, 2011
These vehicles will be studied to help evolve all-electric vehicle technology and to establish a foundation of understanding on utility grid needs by modeling impact of future all-electric vehicle growth on the shared energy grid.
Clean Fleet Report
JUNE 20, 2023
That certainly poses a challenge for recharging EVs with clean energy, but these predictions are from consumers, not industry experts. Experts assert the grid is up to the charging task A 2022 McKinsey study estimated 2030 EV charging demands would equal roughly 230 billion kilowatt-hours —about 5% of current total electricity demands.
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