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Heat Pumps—The Well-Tempered Future of A/Cs

Cars That Think

Winners of the 2021 Global Cooling Prize—both heat pumps—reduce cooling’s climate impact by as much as 80 percent. grid, that plant used a CO 2 -emitting source, then the local problem may be solved, but only at the expense of a more global threat. If, like 60 percent of the U.S. Still, in the U.S.,

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The US installed more solar in Q1 2024 than it did in all of 2018

Baua Electric

gigawatts (GW) of new solar panel manufacturing capacity came online in the US during Q1 2024, making up 75% of all new electricity-generating capacity added to the US grid in that period. Florida (2.7 A record-setting 11.8 GW in Q1 2024 compared to 15.6 GW in Q4 2023. GW) and Texas (2.6 Get started here. –

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Green Motorsports: Subaru Hits the Track To Improve the Breed

Clean Fleet Report

Subaru Motorsports USA’s Motorsports Manager William Stokes told us that Subaru has supported the series since inception and through expansion from one motorsports course to this year’s stops at five courses in Utah, Minnesota, Arizona, California and Florida. Next Year’s RallyCross Series. Story by Michele Spencer.

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DOE to award up to $137M for SuperTruck II, Vehicle Technology Office programs

Green Car Congress

Grid Modernization for Electric Vehicles (Area of Interest 2). Develop and demonstrate an off‐board bi‐directional DC charging system for plug‐in electric vehicles and evaluate impact of grid services on PEV batteries. GE Global Research. University of Florida. Description. Federal funding. United Parcel Service.

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

Green Car Congress

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. University of Florida, Gainesville. Global R&D). Florida, Tampa). accumulates sugar.

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Car Companies Standardize Plug for Electric Vehicles : Gas 2.0

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

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Solar Smackdown in Torrance – Installer Sues City on Behalf of the Sun

Creative Greenius

I went and spoke to their City Council and said “For $50,000 a house I’ll put in solar AND battery systems and take you off the grid. If you’re going to do it, take the homes off the grid. That’s pretty mean to the rest of the grid. And now Gainesville, Florida has a real estate boom going on only it’s for roofs and not ground.

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