Driivz

JUNE 16, 2025

The maturation of bi-directional charging, or vehicle-to-grid (V2G) capabilities, continues to be an area fleet operators are exploring. These platforms can optimize charging with smart utilization of the local grid, renewables, and local battery storage to offset energy costs.

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Cars That Think

MAY 26, 2025

The organization says it wants to make use of its most experienced and knowledgeable engineers. A session on systems that impact society is expected to discuss the energy grid and telecommunications. The number of life members increased from 25,000 in 2019 to nearly 39,000 last year. IEEE now projects a 58 percent increase by 2034.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 2, 2025

This is particularly true of a sub-class called Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), devices that implement our communication networks, or control infrastructure such as power grids or chemical plants. The number of current IoT devices is growing rapidly.

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EV Central

MAY 29, 2025

Helping make up the deficit in Europe is the A390 gets both vehicle-to-load (V2L) and a vehicle-to-grid (V2G) capability – the latter helps owners lower the cost of top-ups by being able to sell back electricity at peak times to the grid. 2025 Alpine A390.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 25, 2025

By the time a port reaches the twenty-year mark on a thirty-year decarbonization roadmap the engineering problems are largely solved and the hard infrastructure is mostly in place; what remains is equal parts disciplined execution, digital finesse and opportunistic scaling.

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Teslarati

APRIL 15, 2025

Several former Tesla employees and executives have gone on to start their own firms, most recently including former SVP Drew Baglino, who announced the grid hardware venture Heron Power last week. Another notable one includes JB Straubel, a Tesla co-founder, who went on to start the battery recycling company Redwood Materials.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 4, 2025

Engineers, researchers, industries, governments, and society must collectively address environmental concerns to protect our planet. World Engineering Day is 4 March. The global initiative celebrates engineering achievements and recognizes engineers contributions to progress.

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Cars That Think

MAY 4, 2025

Volodymyr Kudrytskyi , the former director of Ukraines power grid operator, said as much last month during a forum at MIT last month. Kudrytskyi said big nuclear power plants concentrate too much power at a few spots in the grid: We are able to use this Soviet legacy to survive, but this is not the way forward.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 8, 2025

” Cadillac F1 will be the second American-owned team on the grid, joining Haas F1, which is owned by California businessman Gene Haas. ” Cadillac’s powertrains will not be ready for some time and the team will lease engines from Ferrari until General Motors has a product ready to compete.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Enabled by gains in high-speed computing, artificial intelligence, and materials science, nuclear physicists and engineers are toppling longstanding technical hurdles. Department of Energy labs, and it employs about 800 scientists, engineers, and other workers. And stellarators, a once-overlooked approach, are back in the spotlight.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

Factors Driving the EV Sales Boom Government Policies and Incentives Many countries have extended tax incentives and subsidies for EV buyers, encouraging more consumers to switch from internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles. The rise of autonomous EVs and vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology could further transform the industry.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 20, 2025

This surge in construction has created a strong demand for certain electrical engineers, whose expertise in power systems and energy efficiency is essential for designing, building, and maintaining energy-intensive AI infrastructure. Engineering firms are also seeing a spike in demand. The data center industry contributed 4.7

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The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

These include an oil pan heater, a block heater, or even an engine coolant heater. We used a Webasto Thermo Top Evo engine coolant heater during the 2020 Alcan 5000 Rally. Automotive Upgrades If you see yourself adventuring in winter more often, key automotive upgrades can help start your vehicle.

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Charged EVs

APRIL 28, 2025

We have also done a pilot on vehicle-to-grid, which is the more complicated of the two. The vehicle-to-grid side is going to be more complicated because youre pushing that electricity into an entire ecosystem thats managed by the utility, and theres a lot of coordination that needs to happen.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 25, 2025

That math is something that the engineers at Villamar Construction, a leading custom home builder in Victoria, BC, absolutely understand.

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The Truth About Cars

JUNE 6, 2025

Will Power and Josef Newgarden got booted to the back of the Indy 500 grid for running “cleaned-up” rear attenuators — spec parts with glued-on carbon plates, modified for aesthetics. His technical message board posts led to a writing career with outlets like TTAC , Motorsport.com , Road & Track and Racecar Engineering.

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Charged EVs

MARCH 14, 2025

We are the first one to have revenue grid metering. We see many charge points that are well-engineered pieces of hardware, but they are dead, not working at allbecause the companies fail to think of the lifetime value. We have done a lot of things that are firsts. We are the first high-power charging outlet. Its not the case.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 23, 2025

This is a sponsored article brought to you by POWER Engineers, Member of WSP. Video: POWER Engineers, Member of WSP The Need for Digital Transformation in Physical Security Physical attacks on substations are becoming increasingly prevalent and sophisticated. Digital transformation is the key to this goal.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 8, 2025

Additionally, EMIB-T contains a copper grid that acts as a ground plane to reduce noise in the power delivered due to process cores and other circuits suddenly ramping up their workloads. “It Because the silicon and the substrate expand at different rates when heated, engineers have to limit the inter-bump distance, or pitch.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 26, 2025

Müller began conducting research on quantum computing a decade ago, he was excited about the technology’s possibilities for engineering and computer science applications. An active volunteer for more than 40 years, he persuaded IEEE in 2019 to become more involved in the science and engineering of quantum computing technologies.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

IPG’s project will demonstrate the role of Flameless Ceramic Turbine technology in bringing EV charging to high-use and remote locations through clean, cheap, grid-independent power generation. But, in many high-use areas and remote locations, upgrading grid connections to meet future charging demand is not practical or commercially viable.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2022

Sandia National Laboratories researchers recently delivered electricity produced by a new power-generating system to the Sandia-Kirtland Air Force Base electrical grid. The Brayton cycle is named after 19 th century engineer George Brayton, who developed this method of using hot, pressurized fluid to spin a turbine, much like a jet engine.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2022

The QCA7006AQ is compliant with the Home Plug Green PHY (HPGP) specification, which is the leading specification for implementing Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) systems.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The recent increase in natural gas or dual-fuel capable reciprocating internal combustion engine units has been driven in part by advancements in engine technology that increase operational flexibility and by changes in natural gas markets that have generally provided ample supply and relatively stable fuel prices, EIA said.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2020

Volkswagen has begun expanding its Chattanooga factory to build a North American center for electric vehicles—not only for assembly, but for engineering the EVs of the future. —Wolfgang Maluche, Vice President of Engineering at Volkswagen of America. We are doing the latter.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2021

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has launched a new Joint Industry Program (JIP) to investigate energy storage systems for the grid. Over the course of its life, a grid-connected battery must respond slowly or suddenly, depending on the grid demands. One of the central questions is how long it takes for a battery to degrade.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2023

liter and 15-liter hydrogen engines into the Taylor product line. liter hydrogen engine For 96 years, Taylor has been committed to meeting the material handling needs of its global industrial customer base, while focusing on its own generational workforce and surrounding communities.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2022

Raven SR plans to use INNIO’s Jenbacher engines [60 Hz] with a “Ready for H2” option to produce renewable energy. INNIO’s Jenbacher engines will allow the Raven facility to generate a significant amount of their own electricity, reducing demand on California’s electrical grid. Earlier post.). Jennbacher Type 4 Ready for H2.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2023

The technology group Wärtsilä and WEC Energy Group have successfully tested the capabilities of a Wärtsilä engine running on 25 vol% hydrogen-blended fuel. Mihm power plant in Michigan using an unmodified Wärtsilä 18V50SG engine. The Wärtsilä 50SG is a four-stroke, spark-ignited gas engine generating set.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2021

A key element in achieving these goals is the certification of the most important mtu engine products, which will run on sustainable fuels from as early as 2023 and then be successively brought into use. The aim is to reach a CO 2 net-zero operation of combustion engines. This is not yet relevant for Rolls-Royce applications.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2020

Distributing grid operational decision-making is revolutionary. —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.

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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

MARCH 11, 2021

LiNa Energy is commercializing a safe, ~$50kWh (at mass manufacturing), cobalt-free battery platform that is suited to grid storage and the electrification of transportation. ion Ventures is leading the deployment of the battery in a real-world environment with a view to deploying it into the grid storage market in the future.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2022

ClearFlame Engine Technologies, a startup developing net-zero engine technology ( earlier post ), announced the publication of an independent study that finds ClearFlame’s technology could help fleet owners and other heavy-duty truck operators lower total costs while meeting sustainability goals sooner than currently available alternatives.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2022

Cumulative greenhouse gas emissions versus vehicle mileage for (a) internal combustion engine and battery electric sedans, SUVs, and pickup trucks, and (b) hybrid electric and battery electric sedans, SUVs, and pickup trucks. The lower and higher limits of each range are results for base and premium models, respectively. .

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2021

Exro Technologies is introducing a new application for its patented Coil Driver technology—enabling EVs to fast charge seamlessly and provide electricity back to the grid regardless of power source or charger type. —Exro Chief Engineer Eric Hustedt. Earlier post.). Exro has filed a new family of patents for this use case.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2021

A microgrid based on renewable energies with hydrogen-powered fuel cells for emergency and peak power as well as hydrogen combustion engines can meet the special energy requirements of port facilities. The main role in this project, called “enerport II”, is played by fuel cells and mtu hydrogen engines—each with different tasks.

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