Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2022

Widely ignored, although gaining attention, is China’s strategic positioning as a crucial gatekeeper to several key “green” technologies, including battery energy storage to support electric vehicles (EVs)—specifically, battery electric vehicles (BEVs)—along with stationary storage for power grids.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Audi is adding a new member to its A3 family: the A3 Sportback 30 g-tron natural gas vehicle. Operation with natural gas or biomethane makes the compact model economical and more climate-friendly with low emissions. Sales in Germany and other European countries begin in fall 2020 at a base price of €30,705.88.

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Teslarati

JULY 13, 2021

Tesla Energy takes a stand against coal and gas generators in Australia. The solar and home battery units are integrated into the homes’ sale price as well, much like state-of-the-art appliances. Starting prices for homes in Easton Park are at the low-$300,000 range. Abbott’s full letter of directives below.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2023

Raven SR’s use of waste as feedstock for its SAF production is expected to stabilize both the supply and pricing of SAF. These feedstocks are considered to be more sustainable and environmentally preferable than traditional feedstocks, such as fossil fuels, as they do not contribute to greenhouse gas emissions or deplete finite resources.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2015

At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, BMW announced the BMW i ChargeForward Program—a pilot study to be undertaken by the BMW Group Technology Office, together with Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E). Grid efficiency through managed charging, combined with a used EV battery “second-life” system.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

has completed the technical feasibility study for a natural gas to liquids project in Natchez, Mississippi. The site is served by American Midstream’s Midla pipeline system that intersects three interstate gas pipelines. EmberClear an source gas from Texas and Louisiana, as well as parts of Oklahoma. EmberClear Corp.

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Blink Charging

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Last year, Blink introduced a new demand response feature, enhancing grid management alongside existing local load management capabilities. Load management facilitates cost reduction by sharing power among multiple chargers, while demand response enables hosts to engage in grid optimization programs. What is Demand Response?

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 29, 2022

That need for balance is true of electric power grids, too. Spiking demand for electric heat collided with supply problems created by frozen natural-gas equipment and below-average wind-power production. Packetized energy management (PEM) allows the power grid to flexibly handle a varying supply of renewable energy.

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EV Connect

JULY 5, 2022

For many drivers there is a basic understanding of how traditional gasoline pricing functions: Oil prices based on availability and proximity in large part dictate how much a driver will pay at the pump. Pricing at a Glance Charging up your electric car at home sets a pricing baseline.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2012

The California Independent System Operator Corporation (ISO), California’s non-profit grid operator, released its new five-year (2012-2016) strategic plan. Between now and 2020, wind and solar generation will quadruple within the ISO transmission grid at the same time electric vehicle charging increases significantly.

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Baua Electric

MAY 15, 2024

Photo: Zum An Oakland, California, school district is the first in the US to transition to a 100% electric school bus system with vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology. Utility Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) supplied 2.7 gigawatt hours (GWh) of energy back to the power grid at scale annually.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Electric vehicle charging infrastructure has several vulnerabilities ranging from skimming credit card information—just like at conventional gas pumps or ATMs—to using cloud servers to hijack an entire electric vehicle charger network. We have been studying potential impacts to the power grid. Johnson et al.

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Driivz

APRIL 11, 2021

Almost every intersection has one or two gas/petrol stations, so drivers generally make their choice on price – unless they have a strong relationship with a specific vendor due to their membership in the loyalty club/credit card holder. Varied Pricing Models Enhance EV Driver Choice. nonresident charging fees.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 25, 2022

They’ve been studying up on renewable energy, hydrogen power, and electric vehicles, preparing for the big day in April when their remote-controlled vehicles will rumble for 4 hours in Gladstone, a port city in Queensland. The task: make the most of a 30-watt fuel cell and 14 grams of hydrogen gas. Why a hydrogen truck?

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Setec Powerr

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

And with the popularity of electric vehicles, the grid is under more and more pressure, so the demand for energy storage is growing. Storage can also help smooth out demand, avoiding price spikes for electricity customers. But feasibility in today’s grid applications requires the application of the latest technologies.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2013

The fact that German electricity prices are among the highest in Europe, despite relatively low wholesale prices, must serve as a warning signal ,” said IEA Executive Director Maria van der Hoeven as she presented the report, Energy Policies of IEA Countries – Germany 2013 Review. Electricity prices in comparison.

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Setec Powerr

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

With soaring oil prices and global policy support, electric vehicles will become increasingly popular. When the power battery is exhausted, replace the low-power battery pack with a fully charged battery, and send the replaced battery to the replacement station for slow charging. Overcharge them and they will break.

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Blink Charging

JULY 28, 2022

Maybe not as fast as the gas price, but they’re rising, nonetheless. It allows cars to get charged from a power grid and the battery to charge the grid back. Bidirectional charging turns an electric vehicle into a power plant on wheels and powers an entire house, if necessary. Miles Ahead.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 24, 2023

After he graduated from the Federal University of Technology in Owerri, Nigeria, his plan was to get a high-paying job at one of the multinational oil and gas companies based in the country. Based on what he learned, he and three classmates built a solar-powered 6-kilowatt minigrid that supplied power to about 60 homes in a village.

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Driivz

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Renewable energy, such as solar and wind power, is a more environmentally friendly and cleaner alternative to traditional fossil fuels. Furthermore, widespread adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions while also improving air quality.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2016

Electric fuel cost is a fraction of gasoline or diesel fossil fuel cost, even at a time when petroleum prices are temporarily reduced due to geopolitical manipulations and manufacturing costs. PHEVLERs make our electric grid more efficient. [ PHEVLERs help support the electric grid.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2013

Decrease the ancillary services cost per additional MW of solar power on the grid by 50%, if the proposed forecasting model was used operationally. This will reduce the indirect cost of solar power to California ratepayers. Earlier in 2012, the microgrid included: 30 MW natural gas cogen plant.

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Electric Vehicles India

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The company is also producing the 3G ethanol by converting the hydrogen off-gas produced at its refineries to ethanol, by gas fermentation technology. IndianOil has collaborated with Tata Power, REIL, Power Grid Corporation, NTPC, Fortum, Hyundai, Tech Mahindra, BHEL and Ola for setting up EV chargers at its fuel stations.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

HybridSHIP is concerned with introducing batteries for on-board energy storage, integrated with fuel cells and gas engines. The concept design, which targets Northern European feeder services, uses liquid hydrogen as fuel to generate power with a combined fuel cell and battery system. Germanischer Lloyd. Source: DNV. Click to enlarge.

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Setec Powerr

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The power consumption of an EV is typically measured in kilowatt-hours per 100 miles (kWh/100 mi). Additionally, we must consider the total electricity needed to fully charge the vehicle, akin to how we think about the cost to fill up a tank of gas in traditional combustion engine cars. appeared first on SETEC POWER.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 6, 2024

In addition to the heat, voltage transients, and electromagnetic interference (EMI) in the automotive environment, the on-board charger must interface with the AC power grid, requiring protection from AC line disturbances for reliable operation. The challenge for design engineers? Table 1 lists maximum surge voltages up to 4kV.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

The winds had barely died down when electric-power specialists and others began calling for a radical overhaul of Puerto Rico’s electricity networks, one that would emphasize renewable energy, distributed generation, and, critically, microgrids. A microgrid is like a miniaturized, tightly controlled version of a power grid.

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Plug In Partners

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Here's an example from Spectrum Online : Can plug-in hybrid electric vehicles keep the electric grid stable? It also encourages utilities to upgrade to “ smart grid ” technology, allowing electric appliances to communicate with the grid and charge themselves based on real-time power prices.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2015

Its first commercial-scale production plant obtains carbon dioxide from gas emissions from a geothermal power plant and hydrogen via electrolysis of water using renewable sources of energy from the Icelandic power grid (from hydro, geothermal and wind sources). These strategies are closely linked to the economy.

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Setec Powerr

APRIL 10, 2024

Establishing an energy resilience strategy has become crucial, not only to ensure your charging station business remains unaffected by power grid disruptions but also to help you navigate the risks posed by market and regulatory changes. Over the past decade, tariff rates for large energy users in certain regions of the U.S.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

APRIL 1, 2010

.&# English-to-English translation: If you’ve got an Internet connection, you can monitor your car’s state of charge, and if the car is plugged in to the 120-volt (overnight charging) or 240-volt (3 hour charging) station, you can start the charge cycle now or later when the rates are lower and you won’t bring down the power grid.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2009

Such a transition would require the development of advanced battery and fuel-cell technologies as well as modernization of the electrical grid to manage the increased demand for electricity. However, the deployment of these new supply technologies is very likely to result in higher consumer prices for electricity. Click to enlarge.

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The Truth About Cars

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Ford, Honda, and BMW have announced plans to create a new “vehicle-to-grid company” that’s aimed at standardizing vehicle charging via a singular platform. The service also seeks to return excess energy to the electrical grid, effectively converting EVs into publicly shared batteries.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Because [Ford] can provide the hardware, but ultimately, our country has to decide is this where we really want to go and if so, how are we going to really develop the smart grid in a way that works and allows the utilities to actually speak to each other and trade power, ubiquity of charging and all those things.

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Plug In Partners

DECEMBER 14, 2006

"Plus, since the utilities would be selling more electricity without having to build more plants or power lines, electricity prices could go down for everyone." The added electricity would come from a combination of coal-fired and natural gas-fired plants.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

You can fill it up at the gas station, and you can plug it in to any 120-volt outlet. But when you do, your car essentially becomes an electric vehicle with a gas-tank backup. So youll have a cleaner, cheaper, quieter car for your local travel, and the gas tank is always there should you need to drive longer distances.

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Drive Electric

JULY 7, 2022

The long-term savings definitely outweigh the initial price tag, in fact, most EV drivers save over $2,000 per year in petrol bills. There’s general anxiety for Kiwis that New Zealand’s infrastructure simply couldn’t handle a significant increase in EVs on our roads, risking overloading the power grid. MORE EV MYTHS EXPLAINED.

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