Green Car Congress

MARCH 29, 2018

Hitachi’s V2X Charger is the first recharger that not only recharges an electric car but can also discharge the energy back into the building/grid providing different flexibilities including kW, ?kW, This energy can then be discharged back into the grid when appropriate. Mitsubishi Motors is providing an Outlander PHEV SUV.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2023

Miba is particularly well-suited to provide the type of features we wish to have in our batteries to provide optimum range and efficiency and integration with the body structure of our SUV and Sedan. This will prove particularly useful to customers who power their homes using solar energy harvested from photovoltaic panels.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2010

Ford, Detroit Edison and Xtreme Power are teaming up to establish one of Michigan’s largest solar power generation systems and electric vehicle charging stations at Ford’s Michigan Assembly Plant in Wayne, Mich. Ford will work with Detroit Edison to install a 500 kW solar photovoltaic panel system at Michigan Assembly.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 26, 2021

As the first of the 10 models, the mass-production model based on the Honda SUV e:prototype is scheduled to go on sale in spring 2022. Honda SUV e:prototype shown at Shanghai 2021. The company plans to introduce 10 Honda-brand EV models within five years. Renewable Energy Efforts in North America.

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EV Central

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Now an eight-year veteran on the Australian scene, the Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV was the world’s first plug-in hybrid SUV. The Outlander PHEV’s on the larger end of the mid-size SUV segment, allowing a third row of seats for super-breeders. But it’s had a chunky price rise over the old model. What is it?

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2019

The electric car will play an important role as a power consumer in the digital energy world. Because of this, the new power consumers not only present an additional load on the power grid, but can potentially serve as flexible storage devices in the context of the variable availability of solar and wind power.

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The Truth About Cars

JUNE 29, 2023

The V2H Bundle includes a bidirectional charger and home charger that can let the structure go off-grid. People without EVs can still buy the PowerBank and connectors to store power. The system also works with solar-powered homes, and GM has partnered with SunPower to create the connections.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2015

Coal still supplies more power in the US than anything else, with natural gas next. However, building more coal and gas power plants to make miles for transport is counter-productive if the game plan is to reduce carbon output. If you drive an SUV in Southern California those miles cost over 30 cents each.).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2021

In the coming years, GM plans to offer an EV for every customer, from crossovers and SUVs to trucks and sedans. To address emissions from its own operations, GM will source 100% renewable energy to power its US sites by 2030 and global sites by 2035, which represents a five-year acceleration of the company’s previously announced global goal.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2022

Mercedes-Benz plans to cover more than 70% of its energy needs through renewable energy by 2030 by rolling out solar and wind power at own sites as well as through further Power Purchase Agreements. Further models will follow for certain markets around the globe: the EQS SUV, the EQE SUV and the EQT.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2019

Biomethane is obtained from organic residues, while e-gas is produced from excess green electricity (power-to-gas). TGI, the Spanish company is the first manufacturer worldwide to offer CNG technology as a model in SUV format, the fastest-growing vehicle segment. —Stephen Neumann, Volkswagen Group Representative for CNG Mobility.

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Blink Charging

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The Environmental Protection Agency notes that in recent years, trends in the vehicle market shifted from smaller sedans and wagons to SUVs and pickup trucks, with SUVs making up 45% and pickups making up 15% of the model year 2021 light-duty vehicle market in the United States. Let’s not forget our carbon footprint.

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Driivz

MARCH 1, 2022

For the transportation sector, electrification means replacing fossil fuels with electricity as the means of powering light-duty vehicles, medium- and heavy-duty trucks, and buses. The total emission reduction from electrification also depends on the source of the electricity that is powering EVs, and that depends on location.

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Cars That Think

JULY 20, 2022

From its home base, Ziggy slurps up a 50-kilowatt-hour charge from the grid, batteries, or solar power. The company plans to develop DC fast-charging capability at roughly 50 kilowatts, well below the 150-to-350-kWh peaks of the most powerful ultrafast chargers, but still a useful jolt). The EV charger that comes to you.

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Driivz

JUNE 22, 2022

BEVs fueled on today’s average grid electricity are 105-124 g CO2/km. BEVs fueled by a fully renewable grid go down to 41 g CO2/km. Electrification of light-duty road vehicles — cars, SUVs, and small trucks — will address more than half of the sector’s CO2 emissions. The post What is Decarbonization? appeared first on Driivz.

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EV Connect

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Given that the average lifespan of a car is just 12 years, the proportion of EVs on the road will spike dramatically as new stock replaces gas-powered vehicles phased out of service. While the Inflation Reduction Act offers a powerful incentive at federal level, individual states are also showing ambition with legislative measures.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2017

Despite an increase in light-duty truck and SUV sales, these vehicle types only accounted for 1.9 million MTCO 2 e) actually outpaced that of light-duty trucks and SUVs. The decade-long nationwide slide in emissions from power production reflects the electric power sector shifting away from coal and toward less carbon-intensive fuels.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Audi’s e-tron quattro battery-electric SUV concept, which made its formal debut at IAA in Frankfurt ( earlier post ), is a strong indicator of Audi’s series-production electric SUV due in 2018—especially in terms of the powertrain. Power is provided by a liquid-cooled 95 kWh Li-ion pack. —Siegfried Pint.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 10, 2024

At its own theater in Laguna Beach, California, the company presented the expected Rivian R2 electric SUV , a smaller sibling to the R1S that will start at $45,000, deliver more than 300 miles of range in most of its forms, and be comparable to the Tesla Model Y in overall footprint.

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Qnovo

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Lithium-ion batteries will power more applications — electrification of everything: The 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry highlights the progress lithium-ion batteries achieved in the past four decades. Increasingly, they are making inroads in transportation and grid storage applications.

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Creative Greenius

JANUARY 17, 2009

No one needs to buy another new gas powered car. She lives in a solar powered house and drives an electric car. If everyone could hear Ed talk about the smart grid and how plug-in cars make it possible to inventory electricity then we’d already be building that grid today. Save your money. You could too.

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Clean Fleet Report

APRIL 9, 2021

In a world obsessed with crossovers and SUVs, this is a car that looks like a tall sedan but actually provides hatchback practicality, including a fold-up panel for grocery bags that includes hooks and a strap. Plentiful Power. Matching the Polestar in power and range is the Jaguar I-Pace. Test Runs on Freeway and Back Roads.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

NOVEMBER 27, 2008

The Roadster is faster then anything on the road, including the young guy in a fuel cell SUV who improbably challenged me to a Saturday night race on Hollywood Blvd. You’ve got to pay attention to avoid SUVs, spine crunching pot holes, and drivers who let their cars drift into you as they stare. Yes he was joking.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2015

For the study, the team reconstructed the vehicle technology portfolios from two national vehicle studies (the 2007 Environmental Assessment of Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles by the Electric Power Research Institute and Natural Resources Defense Council; and the 2009 Multi-Path Transportation Futures study by Argonne National Laboratory).

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 5, 2021

A team of IEEE volunteers installed 14 solar-powered microgrids at the monastery and a nearby elementary school. The Lingshed project was done in collaboration with the Global Himalayan Expedition , an organization that couples tourism with technology to deliver solar energy to remote communities.

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Plugs and Cars

JUNE 4, 2009

However, the power relationships have shifted somewhat. The plan calls for 39 mpg for cars and 30 mpg for light trucks and SUVs by 2016; no automaker lawsuits; and California subscribes to the national program through 2016. million FedEx will get to replace grid-connected zero emission battery forklifts with fuel cell forklifts.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

A PHEV can provide power to an entire home in the case of an outage; A fleet of PHEVs could power critical systems during emergencies. Scientist have confirmed that unlike gasoline cars, plug-ins will get cleaner as they get older -- because our power grid is getting cleaner. The GREET 1.6

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Clean Fleet Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Henrik Fisker revealed his plans to shake-up the electric SUV category with the all-new, all-electric Ocean. This five-passenger SUV offers some interesting technology and a starting price that will make the competitors take notice. A solar boost from the roof. The Fisker Ocean is also a power source. The rear has room.

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Get Electric Vehicle

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Companies Will Have More Affordable EVs Their Lineup As major automakers around the world develop their nascent EV lines, dozens of new EV vehicles including new premium models, middle-market sedans, SUVs, and pickup trucks will make their debuts in global markets in 2023 and 2024.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 30, 2024

Which automaker outlined an all-of-the-above electrified approach for the near future, including hybrids, PHEVs, and a 3-row electric SUV? Which luxury brand teased radiant cabin heat for a future electric SUV? In many places, daytime EV charging is cleaner as utilities load up on renewables like solar.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2012

Solar Journey USA project. This study was conducted as part of the Solar Journey USA project, an initiative to educate Americans about electric vehicles, solar energy and the synergy of Sustainable Driving that arises from the two. The dataset was downloaded from the NHTS website and imported into SPSS 18 for analysis.

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Plug N Drive

JUNE 30, 2021

The automotive industry is going through a once-in-a-century transformation on the same scale as the transition from the horse and buggy to the gas-powered automobile. Many people questioned why they would switch from the familiar horse to a gas-powered automobile.

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Charged EVs

MAY 18, 2021

Formula E, the FIA-sanctioned electric racing series, has been a powerful ambassador for the EV revolution—and a damn fine sporting event—since its opening season in 2014. Extreme E features custom electric off-road SUVs tearing through some of the harshest and most vehicle-punishing terrain on the globe. Total torque is 450 Nm.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Despite the recent progress, a number of myths around the use, power efficiency and cost of fuel cells still exist. A hydrogen-powered version of Hyundai’s Tucson sport utility vehicle has already appeared in southern California showrooms. Of course, this also has the merit of producing so-called “green hydrogen”.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

TDI quattro plug-in hybrid ( earlier post ); the Audi A7 h-tron quattro fuel cell vehicle ( earlier post ); the Audi e-tron quattro concept battery-electric SUV ( earlier post ); the Audi TT clubsport turbo concept ( earlier post ); the Audi RS 5 TDI competition concept ( earlier post ); and the Audi R18 e-tron quattro ( earlier post ).

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

JANUARY 28, 2009

Ruppert "The End of Oil", by Paul Roberts "High and Mighty: The dangerous rise of the SUV", by Keith Bradsher, 2002 "High Noon for Natural Gas: The New Energy Crisis", by Julian Darley "The Hype about Hydrogen", by Joseph J. Brown and Shari Prange, 1993 "The Electric and Hybrid Electric Car", by Michael H.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Cleantech Crunched Top 10 Low Carbon Footprint Cars (and one SUV) for. Solar, Wind and Biofuels Grew 53 Percent in 2008 Green Education = Environmental Religion? . 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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