Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2021

We need to bridge the gap in electric vehicle charging or we won’t meet our goals for zeroing out harmful pollution from transportation. More than 73,000 public and shared chargers have been installed to date, with an additional 123,000 planned by 2025. —CEC Commissioner Patty Monahan.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 16, 2023

A recent report from Ergon Energy highlights the need for electric vehicle driver encouragement to charge intelligently to protect the grid. CleanTechnica has published many articles about grid resilience and EV charging installs.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2022

Honda plans to install a stationary fuel cell power station on its corporate campus in Torrance, Calif. A unique advantage of the four-quad design is the flexibility to change the layout of the four individual fuel cell units to suit the installation environment, accommodating a cuboid, L-shape, Z shape or other packaging requirements.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2023

Today, more than 4,300 kilometers already exists for hydrogen transportation with more than 90% located in Europe and North America, the company notes. Europe, with its extensive gas grid, is well placed to make the jump. For this reason, the option to transport power onshore using power cables is excluded.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 13, 2024

Photo: BEAM Global The British military has placed a $1 million order for San Diego-based Beam Global’s (Nasdaq: BEEM) off-grid solar EV chargers. It’s the first big order for Beam Global’s Europe factory, but it’s already sold “hundreds” of US-manufactured off-grid solar EV chargers to the US military. Get started here. –ad*

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2021

It is an 11-month study that is being led by Coventry City Council with WPD and other partners including, Cenex; Coventry University; Hubject; Midlands Connect; National Express; Transport for West Midlands; and Electreon. Credit: Carlos Jones, ORNL/US Dept. Power can even flow in both directions.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2021

El Paso Electric (EPE) has filed its Transportation Electrification Plan (TEP) with the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission ( NMPRC ) for approval. EPE’s TEP includes: A Customer Outreach Program to improve familiarity and awareness of EVs, and the benefits of transportation electrification.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

They wanted to see whether an electric vehicle could feed electricity back to the grid. The company’s president, Tom Gage , dubbed the system “vehicle to grid” or V2G. And EV owners would become entrepreneurs, selling electricity back to the grid. And indeed, that’s how promoters of vehicle-to-grid technology perceive the EV.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Xcel Energy has launched a new pilot for customers of five major automakers to make it easier for consumers to make the switch to electric vehicles in Colorado and to charge their EVs at times when renewable energy production is high and demand on the energy grid is low. —Alice Jackson, president, Xcel Energy-Colorado.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2018

Fortune 100 companies, including automakers and utilities, have joined labor groups, consumer advocates, environmental organizations and others to sign the Transportation Electrification Accord — a written set of principles meant to inspire and continue the conversation around electrified transportation.

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Setec Powerr

OCTOBER 9, 2022

In these situations, you’ll want to install an EV charger for your home, but you may be overwhelmed by the process. After all, like any other electrical installation, EV charger installation can be complicated. How much does it cost to install an EV charger? Installation Location. Electrical capacity.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2022

The first installations of Ford’s Intelligent Backup Power are beginning in spring 2022, supported by Sunrun as Ford’s preferred installation partner. Today, we are seeing breakthrough opportunities at the intersection of the energy and transportation industries. Earlier post.). —PG&E Corporation CEO Patti Poppe.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 2, 2021

In the space of two days, SpaceX has outfitted Starship’s first orbital-class Super Heavy booster with four car-sized grid fins, stacked the rocket to its full height, and begun the process of installing up to 29 Raptor engines. Look at those grid fins! A day and a half later, all four fins were installed.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The CellPack Stationary is specially developed for the telecommunication industry, an industry that every year installs hundreds of thousands of smaller gensets to keep people around the world connected. The system can be installed as a hybrid solution combined with renewable energy sources such as solar cells or wind turbines.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) recently adopted a five-year, statewide, $1-billion transportation electrification program. This action resolves the transportation policy framework that has been in development since 2020.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2021

has partnered with The Mobility House to deploy smart charging strategy and management solutions for the district’s zero-emission fleet project, which is now operational and scheduled to transport students to schools throughout the district. Stockton Unified School District in Stockton, Calif., Funding of $4.94

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The electrification project represents an important milestone for PG&E’s Electric Vehicle (EV) Fleet Program, expanding the program’s support of transportation electrification to include the marine sector. It is also working to enable 2 million EVs to participate in vehicle-grid integration applications.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

There have been vigorous debates pro and con in the United States and elsewhere over whether electric grids can support EVs at scale. The city has provided incentives for the purchase of both EVs and charging ports, the installation of heat-pump water heaters , and the installation of solar and battery-storage systems.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2019

Energy storage installations around the world will multiply exponentially, from a modest 9GW/17GWh deployed as of 2018 to 1,095GW/2,850GWh by 2040, according to the latest forecast from research company BloombergNEF (BNEF). Global cumulative energy storage installations. Source: BloombergNEF.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 20, 2022

A palletized MPG to power military camps and installations quietly and efficiently. They could also back up or temporarily replace grid-sourced electricity for residential and small commercial enterprises at times of power disruption. Our vision of an all-electric future is broader than just passenger vehicles or even transportation.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2017

The California Energy Commission awarded more than $24 million in grants today for clean energy freight transportation projects in Los Angeles and Long Beach and more than $12 million for other clean transportation projects. million to install a new turbine at a water transfer pipeline. The Amador Water Agency received $1.5

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2023

Applications will be accepted through 29 September, and award recipients can receive up to $395,000 to replace older, fossil fuel-powered buses with zero-emission options, in addition to up to $100,000 per bus to purchase and install associated charging equipment.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2021

DTE Energy will also initiate a Vehicle to Grid (V2G) study to obtain data regarding the energy efficiency and environmental benefits of electric vehicles and develop programs that benefit the schools based vehicle capabilities.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

For the second time, SpaceX has removed the first potentially flightworthy Super Heavy from Starbase’s orbital launch mount – this time to reportedly make room for the installation of a pair of huge ‘Mechazilla’ arms. Mere days later, SpaceX returned B4 to a transport stand and moved the booster out of the way.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2021

Lightning will provide all-electric powertrains including installation, and charging infrastructure products and services; the agreement includes an initial firm order commitment worth approximately $11 million over the next two years. Collins Bus has deployed more than 70,000 buses over the last 50 years across the United States and Canada.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 30, 2022

EV chargers need electricity. Light poles have electricity. It's all good in Massachusetts.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 27, 2022

Unlike those you may have grown accustomed to seeing, many of these stations don’t just charge electric cars—they can also send power from vehicle batteries to the local utility grid for use by homes and businesses. Debates over the feasibility and value of such vehicle-to-grid technology go back decades. This is good for the grid.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2016

UK-based CNG Fuels, in partnership with National Grid, has unveiled a new state-of-the-art filling station in Leyland, Lancashire, allowing vehicles to fill up on compressed natural gas (CNG) directly from the high-pressure local transmission system. 2 dedicated fast-fill CNG trailer loading bays. Bio-methane.

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Cars That Think

JULY 15, 2021

Operators can use the systems to store energy from solar panels and deliver power to the grid during cloudy days or at night. All together they’ll represent a 300-megawatt solar installation. The initiative comes as the global electricity sector is clamoring for grid-storage solutions. National Renewable Energy Laboratory.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2022

Customer interest is growing quickly in Con Edison’s PowerReady program, which offers incentives covering up to 100% of the infrastructure costs of installing new chargers. However, the prospect of hundreds of thousands of EVs on New York City’s streets requires careful planning to ensure future grid reliability.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Electrify America is investing $2 million in solar-powered electric vehicle (EV) charging stations in rural California that are not tied to the electrical grid. The EV ARC 2020 is a transportable, solar-powered electric vehicle-charging infrastructure product. —Desmond Wheatley, chief executive officer of Envision Solar.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2013

The US Department of Energy (DOE) released its Grid Energy Storage report to the members of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. of total electric production capacity) of grid storage, 95% of which is pumped storage hydro. Europe and Japan have notably higher fractions of grid storage. —“Grid Energy Storage”.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2021

Safety and Transportation. The partnership enables sodium-ion battery technology to be incorporated in a range of renewable energy applications including residential energy storage, commercial micro-grids, wind turbine and tidal energy storage. Cell Infrastructure.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2021

Purchase and installation of the wallboxes are supported with a grant of €900. —Federal Minister of Transport Andreas Scheuer. Necessary electrical installation work. So far, around 385,000 applications for around 470,000 charging points have been received. The grant is a flat rate of €900 per charging point.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 29, 2023

CALSTART launched Communities in Charge , an incentives project funded by the California Energy Commission’s Clean Transportation Program, and supported in partnership with GRID Alternatives and Tetra Tech.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JULY 17, 2022

Sunrun is the USA’s #1 rooftop solar power installer in terms of how much solar power capacity it installs quarter after quarter. It just hit a massive milestone, installing its 700,000th rooftop solar power system.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2022

As well as enabling EV owners to charge and discharge their electric vehicle to power their home or the grid, Wallbox’s latest innovation is designed to give EV drivers the ability to isolate their home from the grid and use their EV for backup power during a blackout. With Quasar, your EV energy goes beyond driving.

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