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Ford unveils F-150 Lightning electric pickup; starting at $39,974; arriving in 2022

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F-150 Lightning offers a standard-range battery targeting 230 miles of EPA-estimated range and an extended-range battery targeting 300 miles of EPA-estimated range. This can help save money on electricity that powers your vehicle and home while also taking pressure off the grid in peak usage times. Standard on base trims is 2.4

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Leveraging Parking Lot Solar Panels for EV Charging

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Can Solar Panels Produce Enough Juice? It’s possible to construct off-grid charging stations, but they come with hassles, such as storing power when the sun doesn’t shine. Connecting to the grid allows businesses to sell back unused capacity, saving money and preventing wasting energy when surpluses occur.

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California ARB considering four new low-carbon fuel pathways; Neste renewable diesel and sugarcane molasses ethanol

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California Air Resources Board (ARB) staff has posted four new Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) pathways to the LCFS web site. After the sugarcane has been crushed, all of the cane juice is sent to sugar production. Surplus electricity produced is exported to the local electrical grid. Earlier post.)

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ARB posts six new LCFS pathway applications for comment; new PFAD biodiesel approach

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The California Air Resources Board (ARB) staff has posted six new Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) pathway applications to the LCFS public comment web site: corn ethanol; molasses ethanol (from Brazil); palm fatty acid distillates (PFAD) to biodiesel; and landfill gas to LNG, L-CNG, and CNG. Earlier post.) gCO 2 e/MJ fuel.

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Lessons from a year with solar power

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According to the Department for Business, the average cost for standard electricity in the UK in 2020 was 17.2p/kWh. The standard unit of electrical power is the watt, which is defined as a current of one ampere, at a voltage of one volt. In the UK, the standard wall socket delivers 240 volts. Or around 4p pe rmile. With the 4.8

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Automakers agree on common plug to recharge electric vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Automakers agree on common plug to recharge electric vehicles by Darren Murph , posted Apr 19th 2009 at 4:24PM Just hours after General Motors put forth a proposal for a standardized plug for electric vehicles , in flies this. The US standard is 120V@60hz the UK standard is 240V@50Hz. Same goes for video cables.

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Review of Forestry Carbon Standards 2008 Ford Partners to Commercialize Electric Vehicles A New "Green" Deal.Direction for the economic re. Vehicle to Grid (V2G) technology is a bi-directional electric grid interface that allows a plug-in to take energy from the grid or put it back on the grid.

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