Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2014

The home, located on the West Village campus of the University of California, Davis, is capable of producing more energy on-site from renewable sources than it consumes annually, including enough energy to power a Honda Fit EV for daily commuting. Advanced lighting. Honda Smart Home is expected to generate a surplus of 2.6

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DECEMBER 30, 2021

2021 was a big year for energy-related news, what with the ongoing hunt for new forms of energy storage and cleaner if not carbon-free electricity and events and research that spotlighted the weak links in our power grid. While lithium isn’t exactly in short supply, extracting it from the ground exacts a huge environmental cost.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2011

The California Energy Commission has awarded $1,585,490 to spur research on projects including a solid-state Li-ion battery system for grid-scale energy storage. The project is intended to help validate the performance advantages of the company’s technology for use in grid-tied energy storage and community energy storage—i.e.,

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2018

Researchers at WMG at the University of Warwick (UK) have developed a method to assess the maximum current for commercial 18650 Li-ion batteries, using novel instrumentation methods enabling in operando measurements. times higher than the manufacturer-stated maximum. 2018.01.076.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2011

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) will make up to $130 million available to develop five new program areas including biofuels, thermal storage, rare earth alternatives, grid controls, and solar power electronics. Related Funding Opportunity Announcements here.).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2010

has signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Hawai’i Natural Energy Institute (HNEI) of the University of Hawai’i at Manoa and the Hawai’i Electric Light Company to supply a one-megawatt ALTI-ESS energy storage system for a test of wind energy integration. Altair Nanotechnologies, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2011

has been awarded a firm contract with the Hawai’i Natural Energy Institute (HNEI) of the University of Hawai’i at Manoa to supply a one-megawatt ALTI-ESS energy storage system for a test of wind energy integration. Altair Nanotechnologies, Inc. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2013

The site is on the campus of the University of California, Davis; the building process will be documented and shared through the Honda Smart Home US website. It is expected to produce more energy than it consumes, using less than half of the energy of a similarly sized new home in the Davis area for heating, cooling, and lighting.

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AUGUST 24, 2023

After he graduated from the Federal University of Technology in Owerri, Nigeria, his plan was to get a high-paying job at one of the multinational oil and gas companies based in the country. Based on what he learned, he and three classmates built a solar-powered 6-kilowatt minigrid that supplied power to about 60 homes in a village.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Among the most articulate and almost certainly the wonkiest is Jesse Jenkins , a professor of engineering at Princeton University, where he heads the ZERO Lab—the Zero-carbon Energy systems Research and Optimization Laboratory, that is. power-grid transmission.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2019

Raising the penetration of renewable —an intermittent—sources of energy into the grid will require large scale electrical energy storage and retrieval. The study supplies information to determine the best design based on needs. Electroactive microbes enable replacing biological light harvesting with photovoltaics.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2010

The Roadmap proposes completely transforming the US light-duty vehicle fleet into one in which grid-enabled mobility (grid-enabled vehicles, GEV) is the new conventional standard. By 2040, the report proposed, 75% of the light-duty vehicle miles traveled in the US should be electric miles. Federal Revenues.

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Cars That Think

MAY 27, 2023

Schweitzer III Employer: Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories Title: President and CTO Member grade: Life Fellow Alma maters: Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind.; Washington State University, Pullman To develop and manufacture his relay, he launched Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories in 1982 from his basement in Pullman, Wash.

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Driivz

AUGUST 30, 2023

Businesses, hospitals, and universities that offer workplace EV charging can attract and retain employees , while retail districts and shopping centers can attract tenants and increase customer traffic. Renewable energy can also be under-utilized when the wind is blowing and the sun is shining, but demand is lower than supply.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2010

The awards in this tranche focus on power electronics, grid-scale energy storage, and building efficiency; of the 43, three are categorized specifically for the automotive market—power electronics projects led by HRL Laboratories, LLC; Arkansas Power Electronics International, Inc.; and Case Western Reserve University.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 29, 2022

Bad things happen when demand outstrips supply. We learned that lesson too well at the start of the pandemic, when demand for toilet paper, disinfecting wipes, masks, and ventilators outstripped the available supply. Clearly, balancing the supply and demand of goods is critical for a stable, normal, functional society.

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Charged EVs

DECEMBER 21, 2022

To figure out how to make electric trucks work in practice, the manufacturer, the state of California, and a wide array of partners—more than a dozen all told—launched the Volvo LIGHTS (Low Impact Green Heavy Transport Solutions) project in 2019 to test its first electric Class 8 tractors with multiple Southern California operators.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

United States light duty vehicle use, greenhouse gas emissions and selected characteristics of density and roadway extent. To be able to balance instantaneously demand and supply, a fleet of power plants using different fuels is operating at any given time. Credit: ACS, Mashayekh et al. Click to enlarge. —Mashayekh et al.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2013

Compressed air energy storage plants could help save the region’s abundant wind power—which is often produced at night when winds are strong and energy demand is low—for when demand is high and power supplies are more strained. About 13%, or nearly 8,600 megawatts, of the Northwest’s power supply comes from of wind.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2016

35 new businesses, non-profits, universities, and utilities signing on to DOE’s Workplace Charging Challenge and committing to provide electric vehicle charging access for their workforce. Enable smart charging and vehicle grid integration through solutions such as demand response, and other energy storage and load management strategies.

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EV Info

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

What we have not done so well is to ensure that we have a solid base level of generation to supply electricity when there is no sun and no wind. This is turn begs the question where does gas come from and what have we done to ensure a safe and reliable supply. On a good or windy day these produce around 20% of the UK electricity needs.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 6, 2024

It’s very similar to the infrastructure for electric cars because the idea, ultimately, for electric cars is that you also are revamping your grid to facilitate, whatchamacallit, intermittent renewable energy sources, like wind and solar, because having an electric car that runs off a coal-fired power plant is defeating the purpose, essentially.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2015

The study estimated national fuel and emissions impacts from increasing reliance on electrified light-duty transportation, and the resulting implications for advanced biofuels. They considered three levels of GHG-intensity for US electricity supply. The petroleum-targeted scenarios assume that electricity supply is decarbonized by 40%.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 15, 2014

Researchers at the Institute of Transportation Studies University of California, Davis suggest that a number of positive trends indicate that we may be seeing the beginning of a real hydrogen transition in transportation, despite earlier starts that fizzled. —“The Hydrogen Transition”. Driving factors. Transition issues.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

Technically feasible levels of energy efficiency and decarbonized energy supply alone will not be sufficient to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 80% below 1990 levels by 2050, according to a detailed modeling of the California economy performed by a team from Energy and Environmental Economics, the Monterey. Williams et al. 875 Mt CO 2 e.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 27, 2022

An old-fashioned triode vacuum tube does that using a voltage applied to its grid electrode. This left the magnetic amplifier to play only minor roles, such as for light dimmers in theaters. In the Apollo missions to the moon during the 1960s and ’70s, magnetic amplifiers controlled power supplies and fan blowers.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2015

Market analyst firm Lux Research has maintained a skeptical stance about the commercial prospects of graphene even in the light of the material’s compelling properties. However, current GNP demand has yet to exceed 15% of the current supply. In a 2012 report “Is Graphene the Next Silicon.Or Just the Next Carbon Nanotube?”,

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2013

The hydrogen is combined with CO 2 to produce methane, which is pumped into and stored in the existing natural gas grid and used like natural gas for use in power generation, transportation, or other thermal and industrial uses. This would help speed up the return on investment in VGV for the development costs of the energy transition.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2014

These include technologies to improve conventional vehicles with the use of advanced lightweight materials; improvements in aerodynamics; and engines and powertrain technologies that improve vehicle efficiency for both light-duty vehicles and heavy trucks. Demonstrate three grid-connected advanced offshore wind concepts by 2017. ?.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 24, 2023

This grid is designed to deliver power where it’s needed via a fleet of robotic rovers. John MacNeill A Lunar Power Grid LunaGrid will consist of a modular network of fixed power stations and mobile charging stations. So to intercept the most light, solar panels need to be set up vertically.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The selected projects—spanning 22 states and coordinated at universities, national laboratories, and private companies—will advance technologies for a wide range of areas, including electric vehicles, offshore wind, storage and nuclear recycling. Cornell University. Stanford University. The Ohio State University.

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EV Info

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Let’s look at the benefits and issues of using Hydrogen as fuel and remember that efficiency in the total power supply train, not just at the motor is critical. Hydrogen is the most abundant chemical substance in the universe, constituting roughly 75% of all normal matter. It’s a tiny light atom that easily escapes confinement.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

A microgrid is like a miniaturized, tightly controlled version of a power grid. Such networked microgrids can be isolated for longer periods from the main grid, which is crucial during long-term outages caused by severe weather and other natural disasters. How can a microgrid help after a power outage? percent to 2.8

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2019

A researcher at the University of San Diego has used energy meter-level data from the San Diego region to analyze the energy load profiles of residential customers under the time-of-use (TOU) rate with and without EV charging requirements. —Kim (2019). million businesses and residential customers in a 4,100 square-mile service area.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2012

The integration of DSRC communications (specified by SAE Hybrid/DSCR committees) allows WPT increased interconnect ability over present conductive communications with V2Infrastructure assisting in location of available chargers, an automated secure charging and billing and options such as connectivity with smart grid. Source: J2954.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2020

SAE International has published the first global standard that specifies, in a single document, both the electric vehicle and supply equipment (EVSE) ground-system requirements for wireless charging of electric vehicles (EV). The technology is a safe and efficient method for transferring power from the AC grid supply to the electric vehicle.

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JANUARY 20, 2024

Vard Group is part of NuProShip , a consortium of the Norwegian maritime authority, universities, shipbuilders, and shipping companies that aims to develop a Generation IV reactor for marine vessels. Another plus for nuclear-propelled ships is easy access to an endless supply of cooling water.

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