Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

This will effectively turn the electric vehicles’ batteries into mobile energy storage devices that can also supply electricity when required. However, there is a growing need to control energy flows intelligently in order to make optimum use of electricity from renewable sources.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2022

Mexico-based global construction materials company CEMEX is partnering with integrated chemicals and energy company Sasol ecoFT and renewable energy company ENERTRAG to combine CO 2 with hydrogen to produce sustainable aviation fuel. The consortium will source green hydrogen generated exclusively from wind and solar energy from ENERTRAG.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 26, 2021

Vattenfall Energy Trading GmbH, a wholly-owned entity of Vattenfall AB, offers UK businesses, including operators of hydrogen electrolyzers, the option to purchase renewable electricity, generated by harnessing renewable energy sources such as wind and solar through Power Purchase Agreements.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Rivian has signed a power purchase agreement with Apex Clean Energy to supply their Normal, Illinois, manufacturing facility with wind power. Now, Rivian will invest an undisclosed amount of money into 50MW of wind energy that will supply the company’s operations in Normal, Illinois. What do you think of the article?

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Tesla and its partner Octopus Energy Germany recently rolled out retail utility services in two large German states. A decade ago it became possible to get your electricity in the UK from a department store chain (though with the actual power supplied first by a Scottish utility and— as of 2018 —arranged and managed by Octopus Energy).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2021

In Germany, the Volkswagen brand also offers a suitable electricity supply contract with “Volkswagen Naturstrom”, to guarantee fully certified green electricity from renewable energies. This system recognizes all the requirements of consumers so that it can stagger and manage their power supply intelligently.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Rolls-Royce Power Systems and SOWITEC, a specialist in renewable energy projects, have agreed to cooperate with the aim of providing power-to-X projects with a total electrolysis capacity of up to 500 megawatts by 2028. With more than 4.2 With more than 4.2

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Teslarati

MARCH 30, 2023

Countless automotive industry giants have become involved in the renewable energy sector , with varying levels of involvement. Still, one of the most involved has been Mercedes, which has invested heavily in massive wind and solar projects to power its European operations. Shoot me an email at william@teslarati.com.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2014

Proton OnSite won a competitive application process to install a C-Series proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolyzer in the new station in Hamburg, Germany as part of the overall solution being provided by H 2 Logic. made Proton OnSite hydrogen generator to be delivered for vehicle fueling in Germany. This is the second U.S.-made

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JUNE 1, 2012

for a “Power-to-Gas” project in Germany. The 2 MW energy storage facility, to be located in Falkenhagen in northeast Germany, will use surplus renewable energy sources to produce hydrogen for storage in the country’s existing natural gas pipeline network. —Daryl Wilson, President and CEO of Hydrogenics.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2022

Through the nearby 300 MW solar park of Kassø, developed by European Energy, the project will have access to the low-cost renewable electricity needed to produce cost-effective e-Fuel. For comparison: This is more than five times the total electricity consumption of Germany.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2022

However, while the new tax credit policy supports more growth based on BNEF’s long-term forecast, supply chain constraints cloud deployment expectations until 2024. Record electricity prices are forcing consumers to consider new forms of energy supply, driving the residential storage market in the near term.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2021

Hydrogen is seen as playing a major role in establishing a CO 2 -free energy supply. If hydrogen is collected from renewable sources such as wind and solar power, there are no climate-damaging emissions. Germany has a 511,000-kilometer gas grid and 33 gas storage locations.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2015

A team from Bauhaus Luftfahrt in Germany has analyzed the climate impact and economic performance of solar thermochemical jet fuel production. Schematic of solar thermochemical fuel production path. A solar tower or dish concentration system can deliver the required level of radiative flux. kg CO 2 ‐equiv /L.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2019

These pilot schemes will begin today in Utrecht (the Netherlands) in an ecosystem developed by We Drive Solar and on Porto Santo Island (in the archipelago of Madeira, Portugal) with Empresa de Electricidade da Madeira, an energy supplier. Vehicles are also capable of injecting electricity into the grid during peaks in consumption.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2022

—Dieter Braun, Head of Supply Chain at Audi AG. Wherever possible, Audi uses DB Cargo’s DBeco plus service—for example, currently for the legs of the route in Austria and Germany, the service sources power exclusively from renewable sources such as wind, water, or solar energy, making transport carbon-free.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

This H 2 filling station—the eleventh in the TOTAL network and the tenth in the German federal state of Baden-Württemberg—is differentiated by producing hydrogen on-site through steam electrolysis, using electricity generated by a solar array. The electrolysis system is supplied by Dresden company Sunfire. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2013

Siemens suggests abandoning a fixed target for renewable energies and concentrating on the CO 2 reduction goal. Germany has embarked on a large-scale Energiewende (energy transition)—a policy-driven shift away from nuclear and fossil energy to a renewable energy economy. Source: Siemens. Click to enlarge. Euro cents/kWh.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 21, 2013

Clariant, a global provider of specialty chemicals, has supplied a proprietary CO 2 -SNG (synthetic natural gas) catalyst for the methanation unit of Audi’s new power-to-gas facility in Werlte, Germany. The technology can be also used to store surplus energy in the gas pipeline system and to balance energy supply against demand.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2012

The battery system stores excess energy generated from the photovoltaic (PV) power system during peak hours of PV generation and discharges the energy as needed, providing a solution as a household battery storage system that helps self-consumption of solar-generated power.

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Push EVs

MAY 13, 2022

Intersolar Europe 2022 is taking place in Munich, Germany. May 11th-13th, Intersolar Europe 2022 Officially held at the New International Exhibition Center in Munich, Germany. BENY PV + solution solves the safety guarantee of power transmission from renewable energy to new energy vehicles, and has been favored by many customers.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2019

The report goes on to model the impact of this on a global electricity system increasingly penetrated by low-cost wind and solar. In the near term, renewables-plus-storage, especially solar-plus-storage, has become a major driver for battery build. —Logan Goldie-Scot, head of energy storage at BNEF.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2020

The contract will provide a secure source of supply of battery cells for Mercedes-Benz’s electrification strategy, while Farasis gains security for its planned construction of production capacity. The first result was the production of battery cells with electricity from renewable energies such as hydropower, wind and solar energy.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2013

MW solar park at Chattanooga is owned and operated by Silicon Ranch; VW has signed a 20-year power purchase agreement. Volkswagen inaugurated its largest solar facility in the world—also the largest solar facility operated by an automaker in the US—at its plant in Chattanooga, TN, which produces the Passat model for North America.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2020

The new “Green Hydrogen Catapult” initiative will see green hydrogen industry leaders target the deployment of 25 gigawatts through 2026 of renewables-based hydrogen production, with a view to halve the current cost of hydrogen to below US$2 per kilogram.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Honda has invested in advanced bi-directional charging technology at its European R&D site in Offenbach, Germany, which is helping to balance demand and store energy more efficiently across the facility. Since its installation in June, the EV charging station has supplied power for 447 charge sessions and has saved 3.87 Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2020

The falling cost of making hydrogen from wind and solar power offers a promising route to cutting emissions in some of the most fossil-fuel-dependent sectors of the economy, such as steel, heavy-duty vehicles, shipping and cement, according to a new report from BloombergNEF (BNEF). kg in most parts of the world before 2050. MMBtu) in 2050.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Mercedes-Benz announced a partnership with China-based Farasis Energy ( earlier post ) for the supply of battery cells produced with electricity from renewable energies as well as recycling and the observance of human rights in the supply chain. With Ambition 2039, we have set the course for sustainable mobility.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Düsseldorf, Germany-base E.ON, one of the world’s largest investor-owned power and gas companies, is adopting a new strategic direction under which is will split itself in two. itself will focus on renewables, distribution networks, and customer solutions. It will also strengthen its solar business. SE shareholders. In 2015, E.ON

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

In the depths of the 1970s oil crisis, French prime minister Pierre Messmer saw an opportunity to transform his country’s energy supply. Philippsburg, an old fortress town in Germany just forty kilometers from the French border, once hosted a nuclear power plant with two towers just like them.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2022

To achieve this goal, the key factors include: electrifying the vehicle fleet; charging with green energy; improving battery technology, an extensive use of recycled materials; and renewable energy in production. With the current EU electricity mix, supply chain and production account for more than half of the lifecycle CO 2 emissions.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2014

The aim of charge@work is to design a micro smart grid (MSG) capable of supplying the EV fleet with electricity produced exclusively from renewable sources. Rose sees a host of advantages in decentralized power generation, but none more significant than being able to secure supply.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2023

Further Porsche Charging Lounges are currently planned for Germany, Austria and Switzerland. All electric and plug-in hybrid models from Porsche can be supplied with electricity at chargers manufactured by South Tyrolean electronic specialist Alpitronic. The charging processes use power from certified renewable sources.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2020

In future, the lithium-ion cells supplied, will be assembled into standardized modules in a highly automated process. In this way, the expertise gained at this BMW i3 production site is consistently used for manufacturing electrified vehicles in Germany.

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Wallbox

JANUARY 4, 2021

The proportion of grid electricity generated by renewables such as wind and solar energy fluctuates depending on how hard the wind is blowing or how strong the sun is shining. Now countries’ electrical grids are increasingly powered by renewables. How EVs can help balance the grid.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

electric utility company, battery manufacturers Exide and beta-motion and inverter manufacturer SMA Solar Technology AG (SMA) have joined forces to build the first multi-technology, modular large-scale 5MW battery storage system. Batteries Power Generation Solar Wind' Energy Research Center at RWTH Aachen University, E.ON

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Germany and Scandinavia are the top two countries on the company’s list. . Pros of Redwood Materials Germany. Germany would be a good location for Redwood Materials’ battery recycling plant in Europe. The company has deals with Tesla and Volkswagen already, so a plant in Germany would be ideal.

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