Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

IONITY , the joint venture of BMW, Daimler, Ford and Volkswagen with Audi and Porsche that is developing and implementing a High-Power Charging (HPC) network for EVs across Europe ( earlier post ), has formed initial strategic partnerships for the realization of its HPC network.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2022

The low resistance of the cell results in less voltage drop and power loss, leading to a more efficient system, outperforming competing supercapacitors. As an example, the SCX5000 3.0V cell offers 16 Wh/l, a 72% increase in energy compared to the SkelCap SCA3200 cell with the same form factor.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2021

In terms of commercialization, we have started with a relatively niche market of supercapacitors and are now moving to Superbatteries, covering the high efficiency, high power niche of the battery market. From its foundation in 2009, Skeleton has grown from 4 to close to 200 people working for the company.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2022

UP Catalyst , an Estonia-based company developing a method to produce sustainable carbon nanomaterials and graphite from CO 2 ( earlier post ), says that it can produce carbon-negative graphite, consuming 3.7 The process is powered by either wind, solar or hydro energy resulting in a carbon negative production line.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2011

Skeleton Technologies , an energy-storage start-up located in Tartu, Estonia, was recently awarded a US patent ( #7,803,345 ) on its nanoporous carbon powder supercapacitor material. Low internal resistance of the nanostructured material raises the power density. million in 2011 to $284.1 million during that period.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 4, 2022

million from by the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) for a joint nuclear research and development project focused on nuclear fuel management options to help power advanced nuclear energy systems. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2021

Under an agreement in principle, subject to completion of definitive agreements, Colorado-based Energy Fuels will process natural monazite sands into an RE Carbonate beginning in March or April 2021 and ship a portion of that production to Neo’s rare earth separations facility in Sillamäe, Estonia (Silmet).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2014

Skeleton Technologies, a manufacturer of high power- and energy-density ultracapacitors ( earlier post ) has completed Round A financing of €3.9 Our products have four times higher power density (80Wh/L), and almost double the energy density (14Wh/L) compared to current industry standards. million (US$5.4 The company employs 28.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 30, 2019

These increases were partly offset by improvements in the energy and carbon intensity of the economy, due to: Lower fossil-fuel consumption and emissions in the production of heat and electricity in power stations, with lower use of coal and higher use of natural gas and renewables. Lower transformation losses and better energy efficiency.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 18, 2019

The long-term WHO AQG for PM 10 was exceeded at 51% of the stations and in all of the reporting countries, except Estonia, Finland and Ireland. was exceeded at 69% of the stations located in all of the reporting countries, except Estonia, Finland and Norway. The long-term WHO AQG for PM 2.5 17 % of the EU?28

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Five EU member states don’t offer any incentives at all: Croatia, Estonia, Lithuania, Malta and Poland. Lowest ECV market share in EU in 2016. ECV Units sold. GDP per capita. The figures also show that customer incentives for purchasing ECVs, and especially their monetary value, differ greatly across Europe. —Erik Jonnaert.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2015

We are convinced that ultracapacitor-based solutions will increasingly be used in electrotechnical and manufacturing automation applications for energy storage, control and high-power fast switching. Skeleton’s SkelCap high power density ultracapacitors provide up to 60 kW/kg and 101 kW/L; a low ESR of 0,12 mOhm minimizes overheating issues.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2014

The current cost of generating power in the Kingdom is JD0.17 (US$0.24) per kWh. This equates to about US$0.13) per kilowatt-hour for a period of 26.5 Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2014

The Saudi company will use the Russian Oil Shale Technology ( UTT3000 ) which has proved its success internationally in developing oil shale since 1950 in Estonia, which is currently producing around 10 thousand barrels a day of shale oil. The cost of the project including the shale oil upgrading facilities is estimated to be $4 billion.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2014

400 kW of power is also required at intermediate bus stop to perform the 15-second flash charge. The power requirements are also lower: 150kW for the hybrid electric bus and 300 kW for electric bus. Under the TOSA solution, more charging stations are needed, notes ABB, because a charge is needed every 1 to 1.5

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Zap and Helion are part of a renaissance in fusion-energy R&D aimed at achieving practical fusion power using much more modest facilities than the vast International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) being built in southern France, at a cost estimated to be north of US $22 billion by the time it’s completed.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Molycorp now owns 100% of the Sillamäe, Estonia-based facility, known as Molycorp Sillamäe. Molycorp, Inc. has purchased the remaining shares of Molycorp Silmet AS, one of only two rare earth processing companies in Europe. On 1 April 2011, Molycorp purchased a 90.023% stake in AS Silmet in a transaction valued at approximately $89 million.

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Electric Vehicles India

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Ampler Bikes an Estonia, Northern Europe company that manufactures and sells light e-bikes has closed a €7.4m Rad Power Bikes. Rad Power Bikes a North America based electric bicycle company has announced huge new funding round adding another $154 million to the company’s funding amount. Ampler Bikes raises €7.4M

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2019

Compared to cars in similar segment, SUVs are typically heavier and have more powerful engines and larger frontal areas—all features that increase fuel consumption. Together with Estonia, Finland and Malta, these were the only countries where the average emissions of new cars decreased from 2017 to 2018. In 2018, 1.66

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EV Info

AUGUST 7, 2021

A Rolls-Royce-led consortium creating a compact nuclear power station, or small modular reactor (SMR) has revealed its latest design with increased power. The power station’s compact size makes it suitable for a variety of applications, helping decarbonise entire energy systems. billion per unit dropping to £1.8

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Poland, Slovakia, Luxembourg and Lithuania all posted record levels of volume, while it was the best year since 2007 for Spain and Estonia, and the best year since 2008 for Romania, Hungary, Croatia and Latvia. In contrast, it was the worst year for registrations in Switzerland since 2010, the UK since 2013, and Norway since 2014.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2017

This marks the second time MMC has supplied vehicles under the Green Investment Scheme, the first being to deliver of 507 units of the i-MiEV all-new electric vehicle to the Government of Estonia starting in October 2011. The system switches to Parallel Hybrid Mode when the vehicle reaches high speeds.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2015

i-DTEC engine provides 120 PS (118 hp, 88 kW) of power and 300 N·m (221 lb-ft) of torque, 62 mpg US (3.8 Honda aims to win a new Guinness World Records title for fuel efficiency in an 8,500-mile (13,679 km) drive across all 24 contiguous EU countries in a 1.6 i-DTEC diesel engined Honda Civic Tourer. In the Civic Tourer, the 1.6

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Baua Electric

MARCH 7, 2024

It should win over many buyers who aren’t used to battery power and will be more comfortable with a vehicle that feels familiar to them.” Ylle Rajasaar, Estonia. The internal space allows up to seven occupants and the most powerful version with two electric motors is capable of producing up to 384hp with impressive performance.”

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 9, 2024

Some of the other major investments in green energy in the state include that of power company NTPC. NTPC is planning an additional USD 8.40 billion investment in fuel cell electric vehicle mobility, hydrogen blending with natural gas, green chemical production such as ammonia and methanol and five GW hydrogen-based energy storage projects.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2011

The industrial facilities covered by the analysis include large power plants, refineries, manufacturing combustion and industrial processes, waste and certain agricultural activities. Emissions from power plants contributed the largest share of the damage costs, estimated at €66–112 billion (US$87–148 billion).

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CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 15, 2022

Credit Suisse says the Inflation Reduction Act will have such a tremendous impact on renewable energy that the US may see the levelized cost of electricity from renewable sources fall to less than 1 cent per kWh hour by 2025 after factoring in all tax and production credits. Now, before we get all gaga over […].

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Ontario Power Generation (OPG) will work together with GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) to deploy a Small Modular Reactor (SMR)—the BWRX-300—at the Darlington new nuclear site, the only site in Canada currently licensed for a new nuclear build. A single SMR of about 300 megawatts in size can prevent between 0.3

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Cars That Think

MARCH 18, 2022

Just a few hours before massed Russian troops and missiles surged over borders with deadly force last month, Ukraine’s grid operator opened a series of high-voltage breakers, disconnecting the nation’s grid from those of Belarus, Russia and the rest of the giant UPS/IPS synchronous AC power zone controlled from Moscow.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2017

Key potential applications for SOFC systems include residential combined heat and power systems (CHP), automotive vehicles, and electrolysis. In an SOFC electrolysis system, fuel cells convert excess power from renewable generation to turn water into hydrogen, addressing intermittency and storage issues for wind and solar.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 18, 2024

Conquer rugged terrain confidently and experience optimal power and efficiency with each pedal stroke.” Compared to the existing Curt model, the Curt Anyroad comes with “thicker tires, fork mounts, and an advanced 10-speed drivetrain,” explained the company. This bike is primed for all-road adventures and bike-packing escapades.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2013

kW (from a 120V outlet), while Level 2 is any charge from a 240V power supply up to 19.2 DC fast charging most commonly supplies power from 25 kW to 50 kW but some manufacturers have introduced units with power ratings of up to 100 kW. Level 1 is defined by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) as any charge up to 1.92

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2009

In 2007 the top polluting sources in the EU-27 were fuel combustion in households, passenger cars, heavy duty vehicles, and in power plants. Power plants producing heat and electricity have reduced emissions significantly since 1990 by improving abatement equipment, switching to cleaner fuels and through improved energy efficiency.

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