Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2021

The plan for the UNIFI Consortium is to unify the integration and operation of synchronous machines and inverter-based resources in electric power grids. —Ben Kroposki, director of NREL’s Power Systems Engineering Center and UNIFI Consortium Organizational Director.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2020

—Dane Christensen, a mechanical engineer in NREL’s Residential Buildings Research Group and a principal investigator on a blockchain pilot project. —Tony Markel, a senior engineer in the Energy Systems Cyber-Physical Security Research Group at NREL. The results highlighted the path for future research. Source: NREL.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2021

Trailhead chargers coincide with launch of 2021 Jeep Wrangler 4xe plug-in hybrid and will support future electrified Jeep vehicles. Jeep 4xe Charging Stations will be either directly connected to the power grid or use solar power to generate electricity. liter engine.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2022

Volkswagen’s Flexpole 150kW charging units, each of which features two charge points, have an integrated battery storage system, thereby overcoming one of the biggest obstacles to the rapid roll-out of fast charging infrastructure in Europe today—the need for high-powered grid connections.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2022

As global auto manufacturers continue to invest in electrified vehicle (EV) production, internal combustion engine (ICE) powertrains dominate future US intentions, with 69% of US consumers looking to retain the technology for their next vehicle, according to Deloitte’s 2022 Global Automotive Consumer Study report.

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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.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2020

To provide 50%—or more—of power from clean energy sources, power grids will have to be able to leverage distributed energy sources, and reliably manage dynamic changes, while minimizing impact on customer quality of service. We will be replicating the entire California power grid on one campus.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2016

These vehicles are the green machines that will provide a critical part of the renewable and sustainable society that we need for the future. [ PHEVLERs of the future should be made with flex-fuel engines that can use any blend of biofuel to serve all of their liquid fuel needs. PHEVLERs make our electric grid more efficient. [

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Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2023

NIO’s new Innovation Center will be the home for five teams including Digital Systems, Digital Development, Digital Cockpit, Autonomous Driving (AD) and Power. NIO has since its beginning been committed to creating smart electric vehicles based on flexible and future-proof software platforms that run on suitable digital hardware.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2017

Nissan, Mitsubishi Corporation, Mitsubishi Motors Corporation, PSA Groupe, NUVVE, Frederiksberg Forsyning, Enel, Insero and DTU (Technical University of Denmark) Electrical Engineering (PowerLabDK) are partnering in the Danish project Parker to develop a universal definition for grid integration for electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2011

liter diesel engines to TME starting in 2014. The engines will be installed in certain Toyota-produced vehicles planned for sale in the European market. Next-generation lithium-ion battery power could allow for powering cars with clean energy from solar cells and from wind turbines. liter and 2.0-liter

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2019

Because of this, the new power consumers not only present an additional load on the power grid, but can potentially serve as flexible storage devices in the context of the variable availability of solar and wind power. An interface with the grid operator via HEMS is one possible application.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Rendering of the Grail Engine. Grail Engine Technologies , the designer of a two-stroke engine using forced semi-homogeneous charged compression ignition (FS-HCCI) combustion, has adopted the Pulstar pulse plugs from Enerpulse ( earlier post ). Elements of the Grail Engine. Click to enlarge. Matthew Riley.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

This edition of the Battery Scorecard incorporates independent testing results from 19 different battery cell types, as well as an outlook on future battery technologies and a new interactive online dashboard. DNV, an independent energy expert and assurance provider, released the fourth edition of its Battery Scorecard report.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

State officials have approved requirements for the power grid to consist of 50% renewable energy by 2030. The research team will predict and forecast high renewable energy scenarios in for both electric and natural gas grids.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 8, 2019

(BJEV), a subsidiary of the BAIC Group, have entered into a development partnership to establish second-life energy storage systems in China in the future. This project will serve as the basis for other types of cooperation in the future. Beijing Electric Vehicle Co.,

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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. No battery is perfect, however, so engineers keep pushing for new and improved ways to store those electrons.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2015

Working with a group of nearly 100 BMW i3 drivers, selected from approximately 400 applicants, BMW i ChargeForward will demonstrate how intelligent management of electric vehicle charging can contribute to optimizing electric power grid efficiency while reducing total cost of electric vehicle ownership. Second-life.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The advancement is aimed at accelerating the production of electric vehicles and energy storage solutions for the power grid. Fast-charging, energy dense batteries developed by ORNL and scaled by SPARKZ could allow electric charging stations to take over as the “gas stations of the future.”. —Ilias Belharouak.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Porsche AG, as well as operators Allego GmbH, Phoenix Contact E-Mobility GmbH (charging technology) and Siemens AG (electrical engineering). It can already work with higher voltages of up to 920 volts, as expected in future electric vehicles. The industrial consortium includes automotive manufacturers the BMW Group and Dr. Ing.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The IEEE member is an electrical design engineer at Arkansas Nuclear One , in Russellville. Our nuclear plant is like a river that meets the ocean, supplying power to the larger electric power grid that provides electricity across North America,” Ansari says. Nuclear energy is the future.”

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

The center would be a huge economic boost to both SD Mines as well as the state of South Dakota, says Dr. Alevtina Smirnova, an associate professor of chemistry and applied biological sciences and electrical and computer engineering at Mines. NSF will evaluate CEPS’ progress during the conference this week.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The solar farms and battery will be integrated into TransAlta’s Northern Goldfields remote power grid, replacing power currently supplied by diesel and gas. The project was announced in 2021 and includes a 27.4 MW solar farm at Mt. Keith, plus a 10.7 MW solar farm and a 10.1 MW battery at Leinster.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Among the most articulate and almost certainly the wonkiest is Jesse Jenkins , a professor of engineering at Princeton University, where he heads the ZERO Lab—the Zero-carbon Energy systems Research and Optimization Laboratory, that is. The best we can do is to build tools that allow us to explore possible futures.”

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 4, 2023

This sponsored article is brought to you by NYU Tandon School of Engineering. The multi-institutional effort is called Decarbonizing Chemical Manufacturing Using Sustainable Electrification, or DC-MUSE , founded at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering and encompassing a number of schools and institutions.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2017

They combine to produce 320 kW of power and 700 N·m of torque, sourced from a high-capacity battery which has been redesigned and re-engineered for increased energy density. At the core of the IMx’s technological features is a future version of ProPILOT that offers fully autonomous operation.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2011

Starting in 2013, Audi will begin series production of TCNG models whose engines—derived from TFSI units—will be powered by e-gas: synthetic methane produced via the methanation of hydrogen produced by electrolysis using renewable electricity. Audi A3 TCNG for e-gas project. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2018

This is necessary because power generation from renewable energies depends on availability of sun and wind and can therefore only be controlled to a limited extent. For this reason, network operators utilize so-called electricity balancing to ensure that the power grid remains stable, despite increasing integration of renewable energies.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2021

—Steven Pinkerton-Clark, WPD’s Innovation & Low Carbon Network Engineer. The study will also look at specific opportunities for a future demonstrator to be implemented in Coventry to demonstrate the real-world operation of the technology and how to address potential challenges. Credit: Carlos Jones, ORNL/US Dept. of Energy.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2015

GE Energy Management has signed a contract with French electrical engineering company Cegelec in Brittany, France to supply a complete static power solution for the French Navy. This power demand must be gradual, controlled and synchronized through “intelligent” automation.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2017

This study suggests that we could leverage that installed infrastructure for storage and significantly increase the amount of renewable power generation deployed in California. UCI engineers and graduate students have been working to determine how beneficial the technology might be and its feasibility for statewide or regional power grids.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2010

The development of powerful, long-lasting batteries and ready access to a reliable power grid for recharging remain the critical issues for the success of the battery-electric and plug-in hybrid vehicle of the future, according to the white paper.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2014

The Audi TT offroad concept provides a glimpse of how we might imagine a new model in the future TT family. in hybrid drive with the option of inductive charging is a major step toward the mobility of the future. The combustion engine is a turbocharged 2.0 —Prof. ft) of torque. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

This pilot project will help Duke Energy and ITOCHU validate potential business models for future commercialization. Duke Energy will provide engineering design support for battery installations, as well as supply test sites and personnel. In May 2010, ITOCHU launched the Green Crossover Project in the Japanese city of Tsukuba.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2009

Source: America’s Energy Future, Fig. Among the wide variety of technologies under development that might become available in the future, this report focuses on those with the best prospects of fully maturing during the three time periods considered: 2008–2020, 2020–2035, and 2035–2050. the power grid) are urgently needed.

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Cars That Think

JULY 20, 2021

And it slowed urgent repair and maintenance of the power grid, with work crews having to practice social distancing due to the pandemic. In the future we will be designing functions to help route service vehicles to where they’re needed, based on the availability of repair teams. Step 1: Identify outages in real time.

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EV Connect

JANUARY 9, 2023

Batteries get more powerful , charging grows more efficient, and the path to an all-EV future becomes increasingly clear. The potential of this technology now extends beyond simply powering the cars we drive. Through a converter that’s usually present in the charger, it allows vehicles to send energy directly back to the grid.

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