Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2023

From 2017, the second-generation MINI Countryman featured the MINI Cooper SE Countryman ALL4 as the first plug-in hybrid MINI model to offer an additional 65 kW/88 hp electric motor on the rear axle. By storing the energy on the premises, local energy management can be optimized and the electrical grid kept stable.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Ford’s Transit Custom Plug-In Hybrid van ( earlier post )is available to order now with first deliveries before the end of the year. Ford is also introducing a new Tourneo Custom Plug-In Hybrid eight-seat people-mover, utilizing the same advanced powertrain technology. hours using a domestic 240-volt 10-amp power supply, or 2.7

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2014

Coritech intends to install the battery converters in its bi-directional electric vehicle charging system for use in Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) applications for the Department of Defense (DoD). All the energy runs through, and is temporarily stored in, a high-frequency AC link consisting of an inductor and capacitor. Application diagram.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2022

These kits will include OptiFuel’s zero emission CNG/RNG engines pods in a hybrid configuration (1500hp - 4500hp); locomotive control modules; and onboard CNG/RNG storage pods that can carry up to 2,000 diesel gallon equivalents (DGEs) of natural gas. The reason for this is that RNG requires 2.5

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2014

The Intelligent HYBRID operating strategy manages the state of charge of the battery to exploit the potential for energy recuperation. Mercedes-Benz has developed an intelligent energy management system for hybrid vehicles that assesses the road ahead and takes it into account. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2012

A new policy brief published by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) International Transport Forum (ITF) notes that existing electricity systems will need to be reconfigured to support the widespread adoption of electric mobility and suggests that Smart Grid technologies and EVs and EVs could be mutually beneficial.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2020

FLECCS project teams will work to develop carbon capture and storage (CCS) processes that better enable technologies, such as natural gas power generators, to be responsive to grid conditions in a high variable renewable energy (VRE) penetration environment. Phase 1 FLECCS projects are: GE Global Research. 8 Rivers Capital.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2014

ABB will install a hybrid version of its high-efficiency ENVILINE wayside energy recovery and storage system for the Southeast Pennsylvania Transit Authority’s (SEPTA) light rail system serving the greater Philadelphia area. Maxwell Technologies, Inc. —Jacques Poulin, ABB’s product manager for energy storage and rail.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Under the FOCUS program, projects will develop advanced solar converters that turn sunlight into electricity for immediate use, while also producing heat that can be stored at low cost for later use as well as innovative storage systems that accept both heat and electricity from variable solar sources. b) Hybrid storage system.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

The US Department of Energy is awarding $620 million for projects around the country to demonstrate advanced Smart Grid technologies and integrated systems. Smart grid regional demonstrations involving plug-in vehicles include (ranked by DOE funding): Columbus Southern Power Company (doing business as AEP Ohio).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2021

From 2025, these will be used in power generation solutions—from balancing energy for compensating fluctuations in the public grid to continuous power and the provision of emergency power in, for example, hospitals and data centers. This is not yet relevant for Rolls-Royce applications. but also second-generation biofuels).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2012

This latest round of ARPA-E projects seek to address the remaining challenges in energy storage technologies, which could revolutionize the way Americans store and use energy in electric vehicles, the grid and beyond, while also potentially improving the access to energy for the US. Predictive Battery Management for Hybrid Vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2015

Working with a select group of BMW i3 drivers, BMW i ChargeForward will demonstrate how intelligent management of electric vehicle charging can contribute to improved electric power grid efficiency while reducing total cost of electric vehicle ownership. EV battery “second life” system using MINI E vehicle batteries.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

All the energy runs through, and is temporarily stored in, a high-frequency AC link consisting of an inductor and capacitor. Ideal Power Inc., a developer of a novel indirect power conversion technology ( earlier post ), and EnerDel, Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2019

The eighth-generation of the bestselling Volkswagen Golf bestseller will feature a 48V mild hybrid electric drive system. Initially, the 48V hybrid drive will be available with the EA211 evo family, 1.0 This allows up to 40 percent of the braking energy to be recovered and stored in the battery.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2010

US-based lithium-ion battery producer EnerDel is partnering with the real estate arm of Japan’s industrial trading giant, ITOCHU Corporation, to develop and produce the advanced battery systems for a residential smart grid energy storage project to be installed in a major apartment building near Tokyo. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2010

A group of US and Canadian power grid operators, who manage most of the North American bulk electric grid collectively, studied the effect that plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) would have on the electric power grid. The operator could utilize this power for the grid and then replace it when system conditions improve.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2013

NY-BEST is an industry-focused coalition working to establish New York as a global leader in energy storage technology for heavy-duty transportation, electric grid and other storage applications. This is the second of three rounds of funding to help members of NY-BEST move promising technologies toward commercialization. Bettergy Corp.,

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Baua Electric

MARCH 28, 2024

It signals plug-in-hybrid-like electric range for the commute, without any need for hydrogen—a departure from the modest, hybrid-sized packs that have been typical in fuel-cell passenger vehicles up until now. Seemingly relieved of this pressure to prove the tech versus EVs and plug-in hybrids, the e:FCEV gets the charge port.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

This study builds on the 2007 Environmental Assessment of Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles by EPRI and NRDC ( earlier post ), which showed that plug-in hybrid electric vehicles could contribute to reductions in national greenhouse gas emissions, while also leading to improved air quality. —Mike Howard, EPRI president and CEO.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2011

Terex Utilities has received approval from the California Air Resources Board (ARB) for the Terex HyPower Hybrid System, a plug-in Power Take-Off (PTO) system that uses stored energy from the system’s rechargeable batteries to power the non-propulsion functions of the vehicle. Click to enlarge. —Dennis Depazza.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Integration of energy storage systems makes it possible to convert diesel trainsets into diesel hybrid vehicles, thus cutting CO 2 emissions by 30% with the possibility of achieving significant energy savings through recuperation. Unlike in Switzerland, many other European countries still have countless non-electrified railway lines.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Mercedes-Benz Cars has opened a factory for plug-in hybrid (PHEV) batteries in the Bangkok region in Thailand. In doing so, the partners are responding to the high demand for electric mobility and, in particular, for plug-in hybrid vehicles in Thailand. The production facilities are highly standardized and flexible.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2013

a) Hybrid solar converter (award Categories 1A and 1B). b) Hybrid storage system (award Category 2). Penetration of PV will ultimately be limited unless breakthrough technologies enable hours of electricity generated by PV to be cost-effectively stored. Schematics of technology areas addressed by the FOCUS FOA. Source: ARPA-E.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2022

Through Power to X (PTX), the conversion of renewable energy to other usable forms, green e-methanol is an optimal solution for Denmark to store excess renewable power, stabilize its national power grid, and produce a sustainable carbon neutral renewable fuel.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2012

year involvement with NS, which also includes the parallel development of a hybrid system for line-haul locomotives, noted Axion Power Chairman & CEO Thomas Granville. The contract is also a milestone in NS’ quest for a battery/hybrid locomotive, which reaches back a number of years to the Green Goat effort. Micro-hybrids.

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Lead Acid Hybrid Battery Batteries 225

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

will work to commercialize hybrid electric propulsion technologies for aircraft. 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.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2019

The work is intended to drive new knowledge advancement in: A hybrid modeling methodology that integrates first-principles-based and data-driven machine learning models; Optimal estimation and machine learning theory based on hybrid models; and. The problem is more pressing for large systems as they face higher vulnerabilities.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 18, 2011

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) announced a grant solicitation for the $1,000,000 Advanced Technology Demonstration Project for the demonstration of advanced hybrid technologies in school buses. This solicitation covers administration and demonstration of advanced hybrid. equipped with an advanced hybrid drive system.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

The two companies are collaborating to determine how the Volt’s 16-kWh lithium-ion batteries can be used to provide stationary electric grid storage systems once the batteries have fulfilled their usefulness in customers’ vehicles. The Volt’s battery will have significant capacity to store electrical energy, even after its automotive life.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2011

The future grid will face significant challenges by providing clean power from intermittent resources to a much more dynamic load. EES has been considered as a key enabler of the smart grid or future grid, which is expected to integrate a significant amount of renewable energy resources while providing fuel (i.e.,

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2013

This will enable utilities to integrate more renewable energy into the power grid, the company says. This level of insight will enable utilities to better manage the variable nature of wind and solar, and more accurately forecast the amount of power that can be redirected into the power grid or stored.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2021

eNow’s patented roof-mounted solar modules store energy in auxiliary batteries used to power lift gates, in-cab HVAC, refrigeration, telematics and other loads such as appliances and lighting. XL Grid will support customers that require new charging or expanded charging infrastructure, or energy solutions.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2013

Panamera S E-Hybrid PHEV on the road. During an international press event in Germany, in which more than 42 test drives were conducted with journalists in the Panamera S E-Hybrid ( earlier post ) covering a total distance of more than 1,200 kilometers (746 miles), the new plug-in hybrid model consumed 4.4 Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

The PbC battery is a hybrid device that uses the standard lead acid battery positive electrode and a supercapacitor negative electrode that is made of activated carbon. The very high surface area activated carbon electrode stores the protons (H + ) from the acid in a layer on the surface of the electrode.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2013

The five studies funded by the Precourt Energy Efficiency Center (PEEC) focus on improving the performance of hybrid cars, natural ventilation systems in buildings and programs that financially motivate utility customers to use electricity more efficiently. Carbon Capture and Conversion (CCC) Fuel Cells Hybrids'

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 14, 2016

Electricity generated at the Yokohama City Wind Power Plant (Hama Wing) will power the electrolytic production of hydrogen, which will then be compressed, stored, and then transported in a hydrogen fueling truck to four sites: a factory, a vegetable and fruit market, and two warehouses.

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