CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 24, 2024

Annually, trucks in the United States move 10 billion tons of goods over 300 billion miles. This travel emits more than 400 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent — 23 percent of the US transportation sector’s carbon footprint. With this sizeable contribution to emissions, electrifying medium-duty and heavy-duty vehicles will.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 22, 2021

A new study confirms that, even when charged from the dirtiest electricity grids, electric cars are still cleaner than internal combustion engines over their lifecycles.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 8, 2022

Anticipated price hikes for coal and natural gas could lead to increase use of renewable energy in electricity generation, making both the grid and EVs cleaner, according to new United States Energy Information Administration (EIA) analysis.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2022

The technologies will initially support transitioning of existing fossil assets to low carbon energy systems, with the long-term potential to support a fully decarbonized electricity grid by 2035. These units usually are not designed to respond to major shifts in output.

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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

DECEMBER 25, 2020

ABB and AFC Energy are partnering to create the next generation of high power sustainable electric vehicle (EV) charging solutions for grid-constrained locations. AFC Energy is a leading provider of hydrogen power generation technology, which can provide clean electricity for on- and off-grid 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. Palo Alto boasts the highest adoption rate of EVs in the United States: In 2020, one in six of the town’s 25,000 households owned an EV. In 2021, the United States consumed 97.3

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Just over a year ago, a group of American researchers released a report warning that China possessed the capability to conduct an EMP attack against the United States. Decades later, the Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack determined as early as 2008 that the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2022

Researchers at the University of Michigan and Ford Motor Company have conducted a cradle-to-grave life cycle GHG assessment of model year 2020 ICEV, HEV, and BEV sedans, sports utility vehicles (SUVs), and pickup trucks in the United States. years for pickup trucks, based on the average US grid and vehicle miles traveled.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2020

The major driver for the project is the need to decarbonize the electrical grid, protect it from cybersecurity attacks and make it more resilient. We will be replicating the entire California power grid on one campus. The goal is to make the testbed available to outside research teams and industry by 2025.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2022

Lithium consumption for batteries has increased significantly in recent years because rechargeable lithium batteries are used extensively in the growing market for electric vehicles and portable electronic devices, and increasingly are used in electric tools, and grid storage applications. Source: Statista.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

In an announcement on Wednesday, the University of Queensland (UQ) in Australia stated that it would be recruiting Tesla owners across the globe to analyze if the all-electric vehicles’ spare battery capacity could be utilized to support the energy grid — and perhaps even power homes in the near future.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2023

offshore wind), and HVDC transmission provides a solution for renewable integration onto the grid. HVDC transmission requires converters to switch the power from AC to DC and back again to connect to the grid. Many renewable resources are in remote locations on land, or planned far from shore (e.g.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2022

As the number of EVs grows and especially as larger trucks and buses electrify with larger batteries, there will be opportunities to use those batteries also to support the grid. A bidirectional fleet could also create new revenue opportunities for EV owners or fleets. Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, Lucid Group, Inc.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 11, 2023

Whenever new technologies are introduced into the power grid, there’s always a chance they could disrupt the system, possibly even leading to blackouts. Finding ways to deal with the impact on the grid caused by incorporating renewable energy has been the focus of Vijay Vittal ’s research for nearly 20 years.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 28, 2019

a provider of long duration energy storage solutions, and Encore Renewable Energy, a developer of renewable energy generation and storage projects, jointly announced plans to develop the United States’ first long-duration, liquid-air energy storage system. Highview Power Storage, Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2012

Battelle has purchased equity in the specialty grid management company Gridquant to support Battelle’s commitment to bring breakthrough modeling and analysis technologies to the electricity transmission market, including Gridquant’s patented Holomorphic Embedding Load-Flow Method (HELM). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2023

The Strategy and Roadmap provides a snapshot of hydrogen production, transport, storage, and use in the United States today and a vision for how clean hydrogen will contribute to national decarbonization goals across multiple sectors in the future. Source: DOE. It also complements the massive $9.5-billion

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2021

Collins Bus has deployed more than 70,000 buses over the last 50 years across the United States and Canada. The buses will support both Level 2 AC charging and Level 3 DC fast charging, with integrated vehicle-to-grid (V2G) capabilities. These buses travel a total of nearly 3.5

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 18, 2023

The data release includes more than 40 earth science data layers, including a new map of variations in the Earth’s natural magnetic field for the entirety of Canada and the United States that scientists can use to develop three-dimensional representations of geology underground. Resources McCafferty, A.E., San Juan, C.A., Graham, G.E.,

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2023

In addition to reinjecting electricity into the power grid, the bidirectional charger supports a vehicle-to-load (V2L) function for powering electrical appliances directly from the car. A smartphone app used to program bidirectional charging, simply by setting the time when the vehicle is going to be used next and the desired battery level.

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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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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Tesla nickel supplier BHP announced that construction on one of the world’s largest off-grid mining solar and battery energy storage systems has started. TransAlta, a clean energy provider in Canada, the United States, and Australia, will help power BHP’s Nickel West assets, specifically its Mt. MW solar farm at Mt.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2021

The United States continued a trend of significant growth in large-scale battery capacity, with US battery power capacity reaching 1,650 megawatts (MW) by the end of 2020. At the end of 2019, 163 large-scale battery storage systems were operating in the United States, a 28% increase from 2018.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

The US Department of Energy (DOE), National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing, North America have launched a collaborative research effort on integrating plug-in electric vehicles into the power grid.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

An updated roadmap for the Smart Grid is now available from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), which recently finished reviewing and incorporating public comments into the NIST Framework and Roadmap for Smart Grid Interoperability Standards, Release 2.0. represents a significant update to the NIST Release 1.0

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2022

microgrid, distributed energy resource management systems) integrated with DC charging, vehicle grid integration, high-power scalable/interoperable wireless charging, and vehicle-oriented systems. Participation is open to EV stakeholders that have operations in the United States.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2022

Figure 1 data source: US Drought Monitor , jointly produced by the National Drought Mitigation Center (NDMC) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the United States Department of Agriculture, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Graph courtesy of NDMC.

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EV Obssesion

MAY 20, 2021

The post What We Know—and Do Not Know—About Achieving a National-Scale 100% Renewable Electric Grid appeared first on EV Obsession. At smaller scales, hundreds of U.S. […].

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2023

The authors examined four cases of lithium mining: Argentina, Chile, the United States, and Portugal. Lithium supply chains span the world from Latin America to China to Australia, with new extraction being planned in Europe, Canada, the United States and beyond. Riofrancos et al.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Texas, California and the Northwest United States project that peak demand cannot be met without some combination of variable generation and imports. Texas, California and the Northwest United States project that peak demand cannot be met without some combination of variable generation and imports.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 15, 2022

Electric pickup trucks have a lower carbon footprint than the average gasoline or diesel truck anywhere in the United States, the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) said in the latest update of its ongoing EV emissions analysis.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 11, 2021

For over 70% of the population in the United States, driving the electric version of this. The 2022 Ford F-150 Lightning may not be the most efficient EV, but it will have a much lower carbon footprint than the internal-combustion F-150.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Emissions associated with electricity used for battery charging are based on three generation scenarios: the average United States (US) grid mix, a California (CA) average grid mix, and renewable electricity.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

In May 2019, 24M delivered 40 grid-scale, 110 Amp-Hour (Ah) li-ion cells to GPSC. GPSC, in collaboration with PTT, Thailand’s state-owned energy company, is assembling these large format cells into 48V modules for stationary storage projects in Thailand and fielding them for application validation. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2017

and New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), in cooperation with the State of California and public utility company San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E), started the demonstration of the United States’ largest redox flow battery system in California. Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 5, 2023

As more electric vehicles (EVs) hit the road, charging stations are popping up across the United States. These systems can also link to the electric grid through smart charging, drawing power when overall demand is low and feeding it back to the grid when needed. […]

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