Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

The US Department of Energy is awarding $620 million for projects around the country to demonstrate advanced Smart Grid technologies and integrated systems. Smart grid regional demonstrations involving plug-in vehicles include (ranked by DOE funding): Columbus Southern Power Company (doing business as AEP Ohio).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2012

The HSHS installed in this demonstration test house consists of CIGS (copper, indium, gallium, selenium) thin-film solar cell panels; a home battery unit (rechargeable battery); household gas-engine cogeneration unit and hot-water supply system; and the Smart e Mix Manager.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2010

Ford, Detroit Edison and Xtreme Power are teaming up to establish one of Michigan’s largest solar power generation systems and electric vehicle charging stations at Ford’s Michigan Assembly Plant in Wayne, Mich. Ford will work with Detroit Edison to install a 500 kW solar photovoltaic panel system at Michigan Assembly.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 12, 2023

The shipping containers, which house a Frankenstein-like assortment of machine parts—motors repurposed from Volvo truck engines, giant tanks of compressed air, huge silos of piping hot sand—are produced by a company called Cheesecake Energy. They gradually lose capacity with each discharge and recharge cycle, and they can be fire hazards.

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Driivz

OCTOBER 8, 2023

EVs of all classes offer fleet owners significant advantages over internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles. As the makeup of a fleet shifts more to EVs, smart energy management can ensure that your depot has the energy required for charging by integrating onsite battery storage and renewables like onsite solar panels.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2013

The PNNL technology tells a vehicle’s battery charger when to start and stop charging based upon existing conditions on the electrical grid. The Grid Friendly EV Charger Controller technology notifies the car’s battery charger when to start and stop charging based upon existing conditions on the electrical grid. Source: PNNL.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2010

Itochu Corporation, Mazda, Family Mart, EnerDel and 11 other partners have launched a 3-year project in Tsukuba City, Japan—the “Green Crossover Project”—designed to showcase a real-world integration of the smart grid, stationary lithium-ion grid storage, electric vehicles, rapid recharging and renewable energy technologies.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2016

Using their expertise in all facets of battery design and production, Romeo Power engineers crafted a system that is highly optimized to store more energy and deliver more power, more efficiently and safely. Co-Founder and CTO Porter Harris is a renowned battery engineer.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2011

The California Energy Commission has awarded $1,585,490 to spur research on projects including a solid-state Li-ion battery system for grid-scale energy storage. The project is intended to help validate the performance advantages of the company’s technology for use in grid-tied energy storage and community energy storage—i.e.,

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

International Battery , a US manufacturer, designer and developer of large-format Lithium-ion (Li-ion) rechargeable cells, batteries and energy storage systems (ESS), has introduced IBexus—a 24-Volt, 4.1 kWh Li-ion energy storage system well suited for storage of solar and other renewable energy sources. Click to enlarge.

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Cars That Think

JULY 14, 2022

The IEEE member also belongs to the IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society. The startup offers marine data as a service using its solar-powered Data Xplorer ocean drones, which eliminate the need for traditional crewed vessels. The N3XT program showcases engineering-driven founders and entrepreneurial topics.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2016

Frank (email: afrank@efficientdrivetrains.com) Dr. Frank is Professor Emeritus, Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering at the University of California, Davis, where he established the Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS-Davis), and was director of the US Department of Energy’s National Center of Hybrid Excellence at UC Davis.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2010

Starting in April 2010, the NUMMI workforce would be retrained in electric car manufacturing while the plant is retooled and the final engineering of the vehicle is completed, with the first car scheduled to come off the line within 2 years. The PEP station concept is not compatible with the Better Place system.

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Driivz

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

BUSTED: Even including the electricity used for charging, EVs have a smaller carbon footprint than gasoline-powered internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles. If the power is generated using solar or wind power, then EV driving is emission free. MYTH 4: EV total cost of ownership (TCO) is higher than ICE vehicles.

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Charged EVs

DECEMBER 13, 2022

By cutting red tape and avoiding costs for construction and electrical work, combined with free solar energy, Beam Global says its EV ARC systems can offer customers a lower total cost of ownership compared to grid-tied charging stations. kW sun-tracking solar canopy, and battery storage options of 22, 32 or 43 kWh.

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Blink Charging

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Blink’s new Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania As the industry grows, EV charging infrastructure frequently integrates backup energy supplies such as battery storage , generators, and solar panels to guarantee continuous operation in the event of power disruptions.

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Get Electric Vehicle

JUNE 7, 2023

An electric vehicle is a type of vehicle that uses one or more electric motors for propulsion instead of an internal combustion engine that runs on fossil fuels like gasoline or diesel. Electric vehicles are powered by electricity stored in rechargeable batteries or obtained from other sources such as hydrogen fuel cells.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

International Battery (IB), a US manufacturer and developer of large-format lithium-ion rechargeable batteries, has been chosen as the battery system provider for the first-of-its-kind Community Energy Storage (CES) systems, developed by S&C Electric Company for American Electric Power (AEP). The requirements for CES are very demanding.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

To help California mitigate its ever-growing wildfires, this year CalSEED has included companies that are innovating in technologies that will build wildfire resiliency into the grid. This novel technology would deliver safe, reliable, resilient, and cost-effective electric power in the grid. rechargeable battery?technology?that

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

liter gasoline engine. Through the connectivity system, drivers will be able to remotely view the vehicle’s state of charge, initiate charging and activate the air conditioning, even while connected to the grid, to reduce the drain on the battery at start-up. Fully recharging the battery will take 2 to 2.5

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2017

The rise of renewable solar and wind power is demanding sustainable storage technologies using components that are inexpensive, Earth-abundant and environmental friendly. In addition, material sustainability is also a critical factor when considering the total economic and environmental benefits for grid-scale energy storage applications.

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Blink Charging

MARCH 3, 2022

It can recharge where the power supply has been restored, and then drive on to another hard-hit region.” Vehicle to Grid Technology, or V2G, is smart charging technology that allows electricity to flow from car to grid rather than grid to car. ” Andy Kinard, Field Sales Engineer for Blink Charging.

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Cars That Think

MAY 31, 2024

That’s because liquified gas has a lower viscosity than carbonate-based electrolytes, which allows the lithium salt to move from one electrode to the other at a faster rate, shortening the time it takes to recharge the battery. Emrgy’s timing takes advantage of the groundwork laid by the solar power industry.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

A microgrid is like a miniaturized, tightly controlled version of a power grid. Several factors combine to make Puerto Rico an ideal place for solar power and microgrids. To that end, engineers at the U.S. During and after Maria, Casa Pueblo continued to operate a solar-based microgrid it had installed in 2017.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

based Army Tank and Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC) and its National Automotive Center. 3 million to continue development of lightweight, rechargeable lithium-ion batteries using nanomaterials technology. United Solar Ovonic in Auburn Hills has extensive experience with flexible photovoltaics. $2

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 15, 2024

EHR HiPower solar generator; image via United Rentals. United Rentals is now the first major rental company to offer mobile micro grid battery power to its North American fleet of rental equipment. That’s why having immediate access to potential charging solutions like the HiPower EHR Solar Battery Generator becomes crucial. “A

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Laredo Bus Facility Solar Canopies: Provide shade structures with integrated, grid tied photovoltaic cells to be erected on the bus storage lot at the Laredo Bus Maintenance Facility. The project includes quick-charging stations at this terminal layover in route to recharge bus batteries. Of that, $26.5

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2013

Applied in an EV, WBG materials could cut electricity losses by 66% during vehicle battery recharging, the DOE says. They also offer greater efficiency in converting AC to DC power and in operating the electric traction drive during vehicle use. reducing the size of a sub-station to a suit case). —DE-FOA-0000683.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 24, 2023

The battery in her EV is a variation on the flow battery , a design in which spent electrolyte is replaced rather than recharged. Flow batteries are safe, stable, long-lasting, and easily refilled, qualities that suit them well for balancing the grid, providing uninterrupted power, and backing up sources of electricity.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2009

It also foresees major applications for battery back-up; power quality; load leveling and peak shaving; storage for wind and solar; and storage for network grid applications. Together, we believe we can compete effectively with other battery chemistries that have dominated today’s headlines. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

The PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle), a subset of the electric car, combines a primary electric motor with a much smaller back-up engine fueled with a hydrocarbon/biofuel mix. (In At present, PHEV technology alone is equipped to improve the current electric grid. Engineering Advantages of PHEV. Table of Contents.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The new ARPA-E selections focus on accelerating innovations in clean technology while increasing US competitiveness in rare earth alternatives and breakthroughs in biofuels, thermal storage, grid controls, and solar power electronics. Solar ADEPT: Solar Agile Delivery of Electrical Power Technology ($14.7 The team will.

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Electric Auto Association

JANUARY 5, 2023

“Palmer worked at General Electric’s Nuclear Energy Division back then, while Stan Skokan, our treasurer, was the engineer at Hewlett-Packard (HP) who measured BIll Hewlett’s shirt pocket to make sure their calculator would fit.” “So So many of our members have been practicing engineers, not just tinkerers,” Freund continued.

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Charged EVs

AUGUST 2, 2023

Most commercial trucks are engineered for 1.2 Most commercial trucks are engineered for 1.2 million miles, so the engineering that goes into making those vehicles be able to perform and last that long has to apply to the battery pack as well. This project is currently at the stage of conducting grid readiness assessments.]

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2021

To date, the TCF has funded more than 380 projects by unlocking more than $170 million in funding from more than 300 private sector partners, including automotive manufacturers, energy storage companies, utilities, bioenergy companies, solar providers, and aerospace companies. First Solar Inc. Caltrode, Inc. Tucson, Arizona).

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Get Electric Vehicle

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Bidirectional Charger : an electric vehicle charger that can flow charge to a battery and from battery to grid, vehicle, and home. Blended mode: a type of charge-depleting strategy in which the engine supplements the battery during medium and heavy loads. Electric motor supports the internal combustion engine in the vehicle.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

APRIL 6, 2010

Instead, while you recharge your battery after a long day at work, your new electric car could be recharging as well. All-electric cars, like the upcoming Nissan Leaf, have a range of about 100 miles and are powered by electric motors instead of the gas-powered internal combustion engine found in most current cars. On the Grid.

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