Cars That Think

MAY 15, 2024

One company that’s hoping to reduce our battery anxiety is Exeger , which wants to enable self-charging devices that convert ambient light into energy on the go. And if we could reduce or eliminate that problem, how would that actually influence the development of mobile and wearable tech beyond just not having to recharge as often?

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2011

A secondary, smaller solar energy system will be integrated at Michigan Assembly to power lighting systems at the plant. The stations will be used to recharge the electric switcher trucks that transport vehicle parts between adjacent buildings at the manufacturing site.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2014

The work was done under the DOE’s Office of Electricity Delivery & Energy Reliability’s (OE) Smart Grid Investment Grant (SGIG program). The report also examines when consumers want to recharge vehicles, and to what extent pricing and incentives can encourage consumers to charge during off-peak periods. Duke Energy (Duke).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2015

Millbrook, one of Europe’s leading independent test and technology centers for vehicles and vehicle systems, will join a UK industry consortium to develop a new class of light commercial vehicle (LCV) combining fuel cell technology with battery electric vehicles to provide significantly improved range and rapid refueling. million ($9.3-million)

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2021

Supported by a $50,000-grant from the Colorado Energy Office, 16 low-income workers in Durango, Colorado will receive e-bikes through a pilot program of the 4 Corners Office of Resource Efficiency ( 4CORE ). The nonprofit received the grant funding from the state’s “Can Do Colorado Community Challenge.”. pedal-assist with a throttle.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2010

A secondary, smaller solar energy system will be integrated at a later date to power lighting systems at Michigan Assembly. Michigan Assembly’s energy storage system will be able to recharge from the grid during off-peak hours when energy is available at a lower cost.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2011

The project plans to develop a solid-state grid-scale prototype for advanced lithium-ion rechargeable batteries that addresses the safety, cost, lifetime and energy density issues associated with lithium-ion batteries. The remaining projects are from PIER’s Energy Innovations Small Grant (EISG) program.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2009

The latter will provide grants to US-based manufacturers of up to $1.5 This FOA specifically is seeking applications for grants supporting the construction (including production capacity increase of current plants), of US-based manufacturing plants to produce batteries and electric drive components. Transportation Electrification.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2009

If sales increase to a point where Axion cannot provide the quantities required, Axion agrees to grant a license and to sell certain materials to Exide to make a co-branded product. No further details on anticipated shipments and schedules were released. Earlier post.).

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Clean Fleet Report

APRIL 13, 2025

Learning to live with an EV Fidelio was super cute in his light blue paint with white trim, and he sported a bright white interior with orange and black accents and a retro styled dash and trim. I agonized over the color, and finally picked a bright Kinetic Blue, opting for the light gray interior. I named the little car Fidelio.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2012

Proposals will be deemed non-responsive if the proposed technology is prohibitive to market penetration due to high cost; requires substantial infrastructure investments or industry standardization to be commercially viable; cannot accept high power recharge pulses from regenerative breaking.

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Plug In Partners

JANUARY 28, 2008

Here is the outline of what the bill intends to do: SECTION 131 TRANSPORTATION ELECTRIFICATION SEC 131 Transportation Electrification DOE to establish competitive grants for electric vehicles and PHEVs to encourage early widespread use and advance production of electric (And PHEV) vehicles in USA. $90

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The Truth About Cars

AUGUST 12, 2024

They’ll allegedly be able to store far more energy than lithium-ion units — while also being smaller, longer lasting, and quicker to recharge. According to Automotive News , the industry has collectively been targeting 15 minutes or less for batteries with about 300 miles of range in terms of recharge speeds.

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Charged EVs

DECEMBER 21, 2022

To figure out how to make electric trucks work in practice, the manufacturer, the state of California, and a wide array of partners—more than a dozen all told—launched the Volvo LIGHTS (Low Impact Green Heavy Transport Solutions) project in 2019 to test its first electric Class 8 tractors with multiple Southern California operators.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2010

Eaton’s quick charger can recharge the iMiEV to 80% of battery capacity in 25 minutes. million grant from the Wythe County (Virginia) Joint Industrial Development Authority to conduct more research and testing on the system. Evatran, a subsidiary of MTC Transformers, has developed a Level 2 (7.7 The company recently received a $1.25-million

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Plugs and Cars

JULY 13, 2011

An empty Volt pack will take 10 hours to fully recharge; an empty LEAF about 20 hours. Recharge time will usually be much less than what it takes to go from empty to full. Something Ecotality couldn’t do even with $100 million in federal grant money. All plug-in cars these days come with a 120-volt charge cord.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

Renewables increase from 13% of the mix today to 18% in 2035; the growth in renewables is underpinned by subsidies that rise from $64 billion in 2010 to $250 billion in 2035, support that in some cases cannot be taken for granted in an age of increasing fiscal austerity. Passenger light-duty vehicles. —WEO 2011.

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Creative Greenius

JULY 19, 2009

Nobody was recharging any cell phones or laptops during the 1976 bicentennial year. (I That’s why the smart folks in the Obama Administration put close to $15 billion in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 in the form of State Energy Program funding ($3.1b), Energy Efficiency & Conservation Block Grants ($3.2b)m

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 27, 2009

Granted, nearly every other electric car company is trying to increase performance through aerodynamics and new construction materials. The onboard gas engine largely exists to recharge the batteries for the electric engine. that will make components for parallel hybrids (see Green Light post).

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 2, 2022

Oasense’s team has been granted several patents related to their device, the first filed by Schneider in 2016. The redesign also replaced the AA batteries with a turbine that generates power from the water flow and sends it to a small rechargeable battery sealed inside the device. “The general idea is really simple,” Schneider says. “A

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EV Central

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Sure, I’ll grant you, the idea of Lotus building an SUV – let alone one that weighs 2.6 tonnes because it’s powered by an enormous 111.9kWh battery and is fully electric – is very similar to the suggestion that Ed Sheeran might be the new guitarist for Metallica. It sounds wrong. It feels wrong.

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Charged EVs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

For instance, in our jurisdiction, to install electric vehicle infrastructure, we don’t have to obtain approval from the Florida Public Service Commission (PSC), whereas Duke and Florida Power & Light do. And in fact, we’ve had good conversations with bp pulse and with Shell Recharge in our service territory.

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Electric Vehicles India

JUNE 17, 2021

The light commercial vehicles are expected to grow from 1% today to 60% of their market over the same time period and medium and heavy commercial vehicles to just over 30%, from almost zero now. The Grant Thornton Bharat-Ficci report said for India to reach its vision of 100 per cent EVs by 2030. presented.”.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 13, 2025

Source: Honda The cars follow the thin, light and wise concept introduced at CES 2024, and are scheduled for launch in 2026. Based on the Space-Hub concept unveiled last year, the mid-size SUV will deliver on the thin, light and wise approach. The vehicle will also utilise the best charging times to optimise performance.

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Plug in America

AUGUST 10, 2022

In June, lawmakers from across the EU voted to ban the sale of all new gasoline and diesel cars by 2035 , bringing them closer to their goal of cutting emissions from light-duty vehicles across the bloc. This fee is accelerating EV adoption across EU member countries, as EVs do not face use restrictions in these Zones.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 19, 2009

More Recharging Detroit The future of the U.S. Batteries that go farther than the competitions and recharge in a shorter time will win. Of all the frauds that have come to light, none can match the brazen theatricality of the scam allegedly pulled off by superlawyer Marc Dreier. The business world hopes shes right.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

It has a liquid cooling system, offers a maximum usable capacity of 5 kWh and can be recharged from a conventional 110 volt power outlet, at a BMW i charging station, or at a public EV charging station. When power demands allow, the high-voltage battery is recharged by the electric motor. Click to enlarge.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Energy is something we take for granted, because we just plug things into the wall, and it feels as inevitable as air. The best-known wearable energy-harvesting tech today is, of course, solar, which pulls down electrons from sunlight or ambient light. Solar won’t work for nocturnal animals or creatures in low-light environments.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

APRIL 6, 2010

Instead, while you recharge your battery after a long day at work, your new electric car could be recharging as well. Passenger vehicles and light trucks were responsible for 74 percent of these transportation emissions that, as part of the overall PlaNYC effort, “would be reduced by 44 percent by 2030.&#. Or No Cars?

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EV Central

JULY 1, 2024

Granted, there are only two of them, but it’s a better car for it. It’s absolutely not boring 2025 Hyundai Inster – pixel turn signals and circular LED running lights. Giant circular LED daytime running lights and pixel indictors give it a cheeky, friendly face. But most impressive are the rear seats.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

The pure electric vehicles, for reserve, must carry heavy and expensive batteries—which add expense as well as weight—and must have access to high-powered recharging stations [ 1 ]. Furthermore, even the older version PHEV can recharge at a slow rate using local solar, wind, water-derived or other net zero CO 2 fuel.

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EV Adoption

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

What would be the mix of commercial trucks versus light passenger cars and trucks? In the 12 months since sharing the forecast below, multiple new crossover/SUV EVs including the Mustang Mach-E, Volvo EC40 Recharge, Polestar 2, Tesla Model Y Standard Range, Nissan Ariya, VW ID.4,

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 30, 2009

The new plug-in vehicle will be able to exceed highway speed limits, go 100 miles on a charge and recharge in four to eight hours using a 220-volt line, similar to those for clothes dryers, said Mark Perry, director of product planning for Nissan North America.

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EV Info

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

It’s a tiny light atom that easily escapes confinement. Pure hydrogen-oxygen flames emit ultraviolet light and with high oxygen mix are nearly invisible to the naked eye, as illustrated by the faint plume of the Space Shuttle Main Engine. Sources: Recharge News: [link] JCB: [link] NASA: [link] National Grid: [link] .

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EV Central

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

ACE-EV X1 Transformer – Australian-based start-up plans a small range of affordable EVs focused on light commercial duties. $5 5 million government grant was awarded in the 2020/2021 budget to help set up Adelaide-based manufacturing facilities. For a car that’s long been about light weight it’ll be a big change.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Please feel free to tell us what you believe to be the benefits of some of the various recharging modes mentioned above in the comments section below. Jason ↓ ↑ report 7 jharlan 10:41PM (4/09/2009) Home recharge with your home solar recharge station would be the most desirable for commuting from the suburbs.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The four-door sedan will deliver 40 miles on a charge; a small gasoline engine will recharge the battery as it approaches depletion, extending its range by as much as 200 miles. Why grant them the privledge to spend our money in the first place? The car is expected to cost around $40,000.

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