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Punching above its weight

Electric Auto Association

Folks here already know what’s going on with the environment and how EVs fit into the big picture.” We usually choose the grocery stores and malls that have installed chargers.” Last summer, he drove his Tesla cross country to San Diego. We show up at a parking lot and we’ll shoot the breeze.

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BMW i home energy storage system integrates 2nd-life i3 vehicle batteries

Green Car Congress

The battery storage system electrified by BMW i is sized so it can be placed in the basement or the garage of a detached house, where the stored energy can either be used for electrically-operated devices in the home or for charging the battery of an electric car.

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More details about California’s proposal requiring bidirectional charging capabilities for all EVs

Charged EVs

The idea is that having vehicles with bidirectional capabilities creates an environment where innovators like Nuvve can develop business models. The idea is that having vehicles with bidirectional capabilities creates an environment where innovators like Nuvve can develop business models. Many including San Diego Unified, LA Unified.

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EVgo launches grid-tied public fast charging system with second-life batteries

Green Car Congress

Following a pilot program at University of California San Diego (UCSD), this second-life battery system has been unveiled at an operational EVgo fast charging station located in Union City, CA at 3960 Smith Street. —Austin Brown, Executive Director of the UC Davis Policy Institute for Energy, Environment and the Economy.

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Road Test: 2021 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited Rubicon 4xe

Clean Fleet Report

Clean Fleet Report perks up when we hear about a vehicle not known for getting good fuel economy being reimagined to be more efficient and easier on the environment at the same time. Brake regeneration is where kinetic braking energy is converted into electricity when slowing or coasting, and that electricity then stored in the battery.

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DOE announces more than $65M in public and private funding to commercialize promising energy technologies

Green Car Congress

Hot Shot Coanda-Stabilized Free Stream Gas Atomization (Hot CoSA) of Powders of Refractory Multi-Principle Element Alloys (RMPEA) for Extreme Environments, $250,000. Oberon Fuels (San Diego, California). Energy Storing Efficient HVAC, $595,558. Bunting-Dubois (Dubois, Pennsylvania). Retech Systems LLC (Buffalo, New York).

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Sandia-led team designs feasible hydrogen fuel-cell coastal research vessel; implications for large hydrogen-fueled vessels

Green Car Congress

If you’re working in a sensitive ecological area and you spill liquid hydrogen there, the fuel not only removes itself from this environment, it removes itself from the planet. The Zero-V project evolved from earlier Sandia work on the SF-BREEZE, a hydrogen-powered passenger ferry designed to operate in the San Francisco Bay.

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