The Truth About Cars

MAY 30, 2023

Though we’ve heard a lot about Texas’ grid over the last few years, Tesla is taking advantage of cheaper electricity rates overnight to offer the incentive to its buyers. 09/kWh in most places and up to $0.095 in Houston.& The catch is that buyers have to be eligible for Tesla Electric and be a customer.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The compact EV fast charger will optimize limited grid power availability at public and fleet charging locations to enable resilience and flexibility and is ideal for urban communities that otherwise lack investment opportunities to deliver the benefits of EVs. Award amount: $20,000,000).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Ford and Oncor will work together to develop consumer outreach and education programs on electric vehicles as well as share information on charging needs and requirements to ensure the electrical grid can support the necessary demand. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Additionally, installation of electrolyzer systems on electrical grids for power-to-gas applications, which integrate renewable energy, grid services and energy storage will require large-capacity, cost-effective hydrogen storage. Image courtesy of Sandia National Laboratories) Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Ford Motor Company has named the first markets that will sell the Focus Electric, Ford’s all-electric passenger car: Atlanta; Austin and Houston, Texas; Boston; Chicago; Denver; Detroit; Los Angeles; San Francisco; San Diego; New York; Orlando, Fla.; Phoenix and Tucson, Ariz.; Portland, Ore.; Raleigh Durham, N.C.; Richmond, Va.;

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2011

The team modeled the air quality impacts of replacing approximately 20% of the gasoline-powered light duty vehicle miles traveled (VMT) with electric VMT by the year 2018 for four major cities in Texas: Dallas/Ft Worth, Houston, Austin, and San Antonio. The results are less clear in Dallas and Houston. Tammy M Thompson et al.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2019

Quanex Building Products Corporation, Houston, Texas SCP SYS LLC, San Francisco, Calif. High-Temperature Sensing Electronics for Downhole Smart Drilling, $150,000 NOV Wellbore Technologies, Houston, Texas Wolfspeed, a Cree Company, Durham, N.C. San Jose, Calif. Sunrun, San Francisco, Calif. Vitriflex Inc., San Jose, Calif.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

“Over the past 15 years, the emphasis has moved toward using [these materials] less as high-temperature superconductors and more as high-field superconductors,” says Venkat Selvamanickam , who directs the Applied Research Hub of the Texas Center for Superconductivity at the University of Houston.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2017

Chicago, Portland, Boston, Seattle, Philadelphia, Denver, Houston, Miami, and Raleigh—and several highway corridors. In addition, other use cases/technologies are also under consideration including targeted battery storage to manage peak demand and ease grid loads, etc.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 23, 2023

Cruise just announced they were going to open Dallas and Houston. The power grid is important, maybe the most important, but it’s difficult to prove to people it’s vulnerable. I know of no examples of someone shutting down a grid with malware. They’ve been doing well. But it’s a very difficult city.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2013

However, the Raizen COPI mill exports surplus co-generated electricity to the public grid. The ocean tanker then travels approximately 13,300 miles to the Port of Houston. From the Port of Houston, the feedstock is transferred to a barge and travels 102 miles to the Sabine plant in Port Arthur. gCO 2 e/MJ fuel.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2009

Houston, and New York City. EPRI will document the tractor’s performance and operation including electric grid system impact, vehicle system efficiency, emissions, costs and vehicle performance. Mobile, Ala., EPRI also will evaluate performance and benefits relative to conventional diesel vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2013

The Rice lab led by Alvarez, with the participation of researchers from Chevron, Shell and the University of Houston, programmed a three-dimensional vapor intrusion model to simulate the degradation, migration and intrusion pathways of methane and benzene under various site conditions.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 22, 2012

The successful application of this technology should be able to be extended onshore, resulting in added efficiency and less stress on onshore power grids. University of Houston — Smart Cementing Materials and Drilling Muds for Real Time Monitoring of Deepwater Wellbore Enhancement.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2011

The combined power generation from the combustion turbine-generator and the steam turbine generator would be approximately 400 MW (gross) with 213 MW sent to the grid, on average, and. the regional electrical grid by a high voltage transmission line system. the remainder being used to run the plant’s equipment.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2021

Grid-Edge Intelligent Distribution Automation System for Self-Healing Distribution Grids, $550,000. Hydrogen Based Power Grid Support Using ElectrolyzeRs with Value Stacking (HYPER-V), $250,000. Utility Global (Houston, Texas). Electric Grid OT Cybersecurity Dashboard for Control Room Environments, $600,000.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Specifically, the project will demonstrate a 50-kW capacitive wireless charging system with 150 kW/m 2 power transfer density and 95% efficiency, while meeting fringing-field safety standards and increasing grid reliability by minimizing power pulsations. University of Houston. Stanford University.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

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 Houston. stores energy from the sun to be released onto the grid at a.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2011

to expand the privately funded, comprehensive eVgo electric vehicle (EV) charging ecosystem launched first in Houston to EV drivers in the Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) market, the fourth-largest metropolitan area by population in the US. Click to enlarge. NRG Energy Inc., has selected AeroVironment, Inc. Level 2 Commercial Charging Station.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 16, 2014

Vanner introduced its next-generation Increased Accessory Power II (IAP II) component system at this year’s APTA Expo conference in Houston, Texas. A Vanner High Voltage Distribution Module (HVDM) acts as a smart electrical grid for the hybrid bus and 80-Series Equalizer with Model Based Battery Monitoring (MBBM) for dynamic charging.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

It also communicates wirelessly with the grid and provides feedback that helps determine the optimum charging times to effectively manage demand on the grid. The charging system enables communication with the utility to allow for easy monitoring of energy use, troubleshooting and data analysis to help optimize the grid.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2014

At the 2014 American Public Transportation Association (APTA) Expo in Houston, BYD Motors unveiled a 60-foot, articulated battery-electric bus offering a range of 170+ miles with a passenger load of up to 120 passengers. No additional generation capacity is needed to be built to charge our buses at night since the grid is only 40% utilized.

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BYD Batteries Battery Houston 218

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2011

The joint venture’s initial investments are in: Alta Devices, Santa Clara, CA, improving the production economics of advanced materials for high-efficiency, low-cost solar energy. This new venture will serve as an additional platform for ConocoPhillips’ equity investments.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Electric cars and a smart electric grid have a bright future, according to panelists at a roundtable discussion on the subject that I attended last Friday in Boston. “I Vehicle-to-grid is, I believe, the salvation of the automotive industry in the United States,” declared Marc Spitzer, an agency commissioner who was also on the panel.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 5, 2021

A patent for a storage battery was issued to Elihu Thomson and Edwin Houston on 14 October 1879; the patent states that the battery may be used as an energy bank. The Birthplace Of The AC Grid. Learn who they are today and see how you can get involved! IEEE History. Batteries For Storage Go Back To October 1879.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Wind, hydro, DC transmission lines, and smart grid electronics are also Portland strengths. Posts | Profile Senior Contributors Felicity Barringer , San Francisco; Clifford Krauss , Houston; Micheline Maynard , Detroit; Jad Mouawad , New York; Matthew L. — Larry 4. Read more in this blog post: [link] — Gregory Hancock 5.

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