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Massive solar array to power airside electric ground service vehicles at JFK Airport’s New Terminal One

Charged EVs

The system can operate independently from or while connected to the main power grid. Eagle designed the RTT series A/C electric line of tow tractors with extensive input from GM operators, as well as safety and manufacturing engineers. MW of fuel cells and 1.5

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12 ways the megabill hurts EV adoption

Plug in America

Over the course of more than 100 years, automakers have optimized the process of manufacturing internal combustion engines. These pollutants disproportionately affect the health of people living in lower-income neighborhoods and communities of color. This generally results in a higher upfront cost of EVs.

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Here Comes the World Wide Web of Everything

Cars That Think

At scale, an EcoNet-like architecture might enable entire neighborhoods to act a little like intelligent organisms, optimizing collective energy use and accelerating the shift to a more resilient, renewable grid. A shared HSML document describes the state and relationships of things in a given neighborhood or at a given intersection.

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The Net-Zero Neighborhood: Advanced Energy Storage and Highly Efficient Photovoltaics Take Transportation Off the Gasoline Grid and Residential Off the Electric Grid

Green Car Congress

The NZN concept relies on high energy density storage systems incorporated into the local grid, as well as efficient photovoltaic generation. NZN can integrate with the centralized grid. batteries); the creation of grid-enabled consumer-side energy generation appliances; and a robust set of standards and protocols. Gil Weigand.

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Battelle introduces Grid Command Distribution services and software for rapid modeling of smart grid distribution circuits

Green Car Congress

Screen shot of a Grid Command Distribution “heatmap” analysis for a neighborhood. Battelle recently unveiled its new Grid Command Distribution services and software for utilities. VVO seeks to optimize voltage at all points along the distribution feeder under all loading conditions, thereby increasing grid efficiency.).

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NREL study finds that uncoordinated plug-in vehicle charging could prove challenging to the grid

Green Car Congress

An influx of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) charging without coordination could prove challenging to the nation’s electric grid, according to research conducted by the US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). He also noted the higher demand could shorten the expected life of a transformer.

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Secretary of the Navy Sets Target for 50% of Total Energy Consumption from Alternative Sources by 2020; Role for Biofuels and EVs

Green Car Congress

It will do that, Secretary Mabus said, by replacing the current fleet, as they go out of service, with a new composite fleet of flex fuel vehicles, hybrid electric vehicles, and neighborhood electric vehicles. That means for every 7 planes we put these new engines on, we’ll be able to buy an additional F/A-18 E/F with the savings.