Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Americans experienced the most power interruptions on record in 2020, according to the US Energy Information Administration; with F-150 Lightning, homeowners can use their truck to maintain their routines during brief or extended outages. —Matt Stover, Ford charging and energy services director.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

OnStar, a wholly owned subsidiary of GM, is inviting utilities, energy companies and tech firms to develop Smart Grid solutions using a set of proprietary OnStar application programming (APIs). OnStar is opening up its APIs to give developers the ability to broaden the potential for integrating EVs such as the Volt with Smart Grid technology.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Given the specific barriers, suggests author Andrea Beltramello, there is a role for government to support the development and diffusion of green vehicles, including through policies to strengthen the markets for green cars. Alternative fuels include biofuels, natural gas, hydrogen and electricity from the grid.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2013

In Australia, as part of the Victorian Government’s Electric Vehicle Trial ( earlier post ), DiUS Computing delivered a demand management demonstration project using Victoria’s Smart Grid. The home charging solution deployed for the project integrated the vehicle, the grid and the driver seamlessly and effectively.

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DECEMBER 20, 2022

A number of initiatives in the EU address electric mobility, starting with the European Green Deal , which established emissions goals for 2050, and the Fit for 55 package which provides policies for achieving a 55% reduction in carbon emissions by 2030. Send and receive information via a communications network .

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Sourcing Renewables: While it works to minimize the amount of energy required to run its facilities, GM also sources renewable energy through direct investment, green tariffs and power purchase agreements. For 10 years, GM has been awarded the EPA Energy Star Sustained Excellence Award for its energy efficiency efforts.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2023

Through the plan, the government will improve publicly available information and evidence on smart charging, support the implementation of robust consumer service standards and ensure private charge points are secure and compatible with the latest energy innovations.

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Green Energy Consumers

JUNE 20, 2023

Shave the Peak is our program designed to inform people, via text and email alerts, how and when to reduce power use on days when demand for electricity is significantly higher than usual or average.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2009

The US Department of Energy delivered more than $47 million in funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act for eight projects to further smart grid demonstration projects in seven states. The $47 million in new Recovery Act awards will support existing projects that are advancing demonstration-scale smart grid technologies.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) projects that, absent significant changes in policy or technology, world energy consumption will grow by nearly 50% between 2020 and 2050. The four side cases show the effects of changing key model assumptions about economic growth and world oil price.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2009

GM is embracing the use of communications standards that operate with optional data transports to enable smart charging and integration with the emerging smart grid. A network of smart loads with communications to report their current state and act on smart grid commands. EVSE=Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment. Source: GM.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Source: US Energy Information Administration, Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory, January 2019. Source: US Energy Information Administration, Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory, January 2019. Other includes landfill gas, biomass, and other gas. MW capacity each that can achieve full output in five minutes.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 22, 2024

Photo: Enel North America Power-hungry Texas needs solar and battery storage to help meet demand and balance the grid, so its largest utility-scale storage operator is delivering. GW of wind and solar plus over 1 GW of grid-scale storage. It’s expected to add more new grid battery capacity in 2024 – 6.4

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Through Demand Response Load Control (DRLC), Delta’s chargers can charge EV/PHEV’s when electricity is of less demand and cheaper based on the electricity load and pricing information collected from smart meters via ZigBee.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

As for today''s top news, we''ve got pricing information for the 2016 Toyota Mirai, an efficiency comparison of the Tesla Model S and BMW i3 electric cars, and a report on a vehicle-to-grid demonstration conducted by the U.S.

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Blink Charging

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Since then, the United States Green Building Council, the organization that administers LEED, has released the latest version of the environmental accreditation: LEED v4.1. In addition, architects and engineers can also incorporate their EVSE into LEED Grid Harmonization for more points.

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Baua Electric

MAY 7, 2024

Vermont has one of the least carbon-intensive electricity sectors of any state, but because it’s part of the New England grid that’s powered mainly by natural gas, it’s still consuming fossil fuels. In 2021, according to the US Energy Information Administration, Vermont consumed 3.4 Standout features of H.289 Standout features of H.289

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2009

Smart Grid electric transportation applications summary communications diagram. The US Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released for public review a report that identifies issues and proposes priorities for developing technical standards and an architecture for a US Smart Grid.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Scott Keogh, President, Audi of America (Co-Chair); Dean Seavers, President, National Grid U.S. Chair: Johney Green, Associate Lab Director, National Renewable Energy Laboratory. —Scott Keogh, president, Audi of America. Passek, President, Copper Development Association; William Peduto, Mayor of Pittsburgh, Pa.;

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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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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2011

Chevron, already the largest thermal heavy oil producer, is optimizing thermal production in heavy oil fields by leveraging information technology to improve the percentage recovery as well as the economics. incremental oil recovered; heavy oil carries a lower market price than lighter oils.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 29, 2021

The sticker price of a new electric school bus can be nearly triple that of a new diesel bus, making it difficult for school districts to afford making an immediate transition. The Senate approved the measure 35-3 with two members of the upper house not voting.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2015

CSE will work closely with KnGrid , a leader in vehicle-grid communications, to create a standardized platform that optimizes charging benefits for both grid operators and vehicle owners. Part 6: General information and use-case definition for wireless communication. Part 2: Network and application protocol requirements.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2010

The introduction of electric vehicles on a large scale in the UK can only have a beneficial effect on CO 2 emissions if low-carbon electricity, universal broadband provision and smart grids are in place to support the transition, according to a new report published by the UK Royal Academy of Engineering.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2022

The electricity mix used in stationary processes (unless otherwise specified) comes from the 2035 US grid generation mix projected by the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) in the Annual Energy Outlook (AEO) 2021. Cost assessments represent a final cost/price to the consumer, excluding taxes on the final product (e.g.,

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Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2019

will jointly conduct tests from 17 June at Toyota’s Higashifuji Technical Center and the surrounding area, on a next-generation peer-to-peer electricity system (P2P electricity transactions) that enables homes, businesses, and electrified vehicles connected to the electricity grid to trade electricity using blockchain.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2012

It will also enable households to reduce the dependence on grid power and facilitate the further spread of green energy. Battery management provides battery status information to the controller of home energy storage system, which allows users to remotely monitor the status of the system and battery.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2012

Source: Dr. David Greene. David Greene and colleagues at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) presented at the DOE 2012 Hydrogen and Fuel Cells and Vehicle Technologies Programs Annual Merit Review meetings in Washington this week. In the excerpt from the study presented at the Review, Dr. Greene noted H 2 prices ranging from $2.0/gallon

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

It also has the ability to evolve each of the feature sets independently as pricing, Smart Charging, device health, payments, reservations and vehicle-to-X. will contain multiple feature sets: Pricing: basic usage cost calculations on the charge point; more complex pricing models in coordination with central system.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2018

With UC Davis serving as a living laboratory, the project can help inform other campuses, small cities and towns about what to expect when integrating electric vehicles into fleets. We also want to learn how fleets can incorporate used electric vehicles, which are available at a lower price than newer generations. —Dahlia Garas.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2018

Our signature on the Accord is a promise to meet that demand through greater grid efficiency and reduced air pollution in a way that benefits all communities. —Chris King, chief policy officer, Siemens Digital Grid. —Christopher Budzynski, director of utility strategy, Exelon Utilities. Context And Guiding Principles.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

It has unfortunately become the cliché that whenever a battery buyer approaches a battery company the first statement heard is, “Don’t tell me anything about how special your battery is, just tell me the dollar per kilowatt hour ($/kWh) price.” For example: A 100 kW HEV pack is priced at $6,000.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2011

The Grid Integration Tech Team (GITT), comprising the domestic automotive industry, electric utilities, and DOE programs and national laboratories, identifies two major task areas that need to be undertaken to achieve its vision of transitioning EVs from early market acceptance to mainstream adoption of millions of vehicles by 2020.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2009

In addition, the report says, research suggests that for plug-ins to be cost-effective relative to gasoline vehicles the price of batteries must come down significantly and gasoline prices must be high relative to electricity.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2017

Additionally, Audi is now offering e-gas to power the A3 Sportback g-tron as standard; customers will pay only the regular natural gas price. The driver information system shows the fuel consumption in the active operating mode. Three electrolyzers powered primarily by surplus green electricity split water into oxygen and hydrogen.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

They intend for their efforts to make ZigBee Smart Energy the preferred technology supporting plug-in electric vehicles (PEV) and enabling essential vehicle to grid (V2G) communication and power capabilities. It also provides the control functions necessary to safely manage the charging of PEVs while maintaining grid integrity.

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Cars That Think

JULY 14, 2023

Sharaf Alsharif, a researcher at the Oldenburger OFFIS Institute for Information Technology in Oldenburg, Germany, believes digital twins could help bring down the cost of clean hydrogen production. One useful application of direct control is adjusting electrolyzers’ energy consumption based on the power grid ’s current energy mix.

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