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Green Car Congress
APRIL 23, 2013
is supplying ultracapacitors for an energy-saving braking energy recuperation system that American Maglev Technology (AMT), is installing on light rail vehicles operated by the Portland, Oregon area’s Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District (TriMet). Maxwell Technologies, Inc. TriMet won a $4.2-million TriMet won a $4.2-million
Green Car Congress
JUNE 3, 2013
Siemens is currently installing the first Sitras SES (stationary energy storage) Energy Storage Unit with supercapacitor technology in the US on the new TriMet Portland-Milwaukie Light Rail Transit Line. The 27 retrofitted vehicles are being paired with non-capacitor equipped vehicles so that stored energy can be used by both vehicles.
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Revenge of the Electric Car
JULY 9, 2012
As Portland, OR gears up for yet another screening of Revenge, local EV'er and filmmaker J Bills recounts the scene at the Portland premiere back in November: Here in Portland, we still talk about the last time Chris Paine rolled through town with a movie; an early screening of 2006’s seminal “Who Killed the Electric Car?”
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 6, 2010
Transportation comprises light and heavy duty vehicles, military and industrial, and continues to be the company’s primary market. The light duty passenger market remains a focus, but Ener1 is more aggressively pursuing higher-margin opportunities in light-duty fleet, heavy-duty buses, and military applications.
Green Car Congress
MAY 20, 2013
Later, when power demand is high, the stored air is released back up to the surface, where it is heated and rushes through turbines to generate electricity. The world’s two existing compressed air energy storage plants—one in Alabama, the other in Germany—use man-made salt caverns to store excess electricity.
Green Car Congress
JULY 27, 2015
The EnLighten app shows the current status of the traffic light in front of the car in real time as well as a countdown to when the signal will change. Based on the current vehicle position, as well as its speed, the EnLighten app offers a recommendation about whether or not to stop for the traffic light or proceed through.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 24, 2015
For the past few years, our company has actually been warning that that freedom of mobility is now actually being threatened particularly in light of four megatrends that are affecting the future of transportation. The bike folds and stores inside any Ford vehicle, where it can be charged while stowed. —Mark Fields.
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