Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

Ford Motor Company is partnering with Wind Energy Corporation to deliver a new source of clean energy to its dealers. Under a pilot program exclusive to Ford, Wind Energy will install wind sail and solar panel systems at four Ford dealerships, a nearly $750,000 investment, to help power dealer facilities.

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Cars That Think

JULY 1, 2025

As a result, Cubans are experiencing a significant breakdown in basic services, such as the storage of fresh products, basic food preparation, public lighting and access to businesses. And while the country actively seeks solar energy, it’s overlooking its once-thriving sugar sector, and the biomass and ethanol resources that come with it.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2015

The first eye-opener for large scale solar was the Austin Energy PPA last year that was priced at 5 cents. One could say that Mr. Buffett has not only seen the light but invested heavily therein. They had better think seriously about financing solar and wind arrays. Agua Caliente PV Plant: Yuma Arizona. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2014

Liquid Light unveiled its new process for the production of major chemicals from carbon dioxide, showcasing its demonstration-scale “reaction cell” and confirming the potential for cost-advantaged process economics. Further, Liquid Light’s process can sequester carbon when using energy sources such as solar, hydro, wind or nuclear power.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Wind-and-solar towers offer an alternative for keeping the load from charging stations light. Tesla Model 3 owners might soon get a new aftermarket wireless charging option. And Toyota is including free fast-charging for a year for bZ4X drivers. This and more, here at Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2010

Saft is providing the Li-ion (lithium-ion) battery technology for ABB’s new SVC (Static Var Compensator) Light with Energy Storage—its latest development within the FACTS (Flexible Alternating Current Transmission Systems) family. SVC Light is a system that provides fast-acting reactive power compensation in high-voltage electricity networks.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2014

ABB and Solar Impulse have formed a technology alliance under which ABB will support Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg in their attempt to fly around the world in a solar-powered airplane in 2015. A plane so big and light has never been built before. Solar Impulse and ABB are technology innovators and pioneers.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

Sanyo Li-ion systems for power storage (left) and light electric vehicle (right) applications. The Standard Battery System for Electric Motors (EVB-101) can be used to power light electric vehicles that are in the R&D or small-scale mass production stages. Click to enlarge. Sanyo Electric Co.,

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 14, 2015

(MHI) successfully conducted ground demonstration testing of “wireless power transmission,” a new technology presently under development to serve as the core technology of space solar power systems (SSPS). In case of microwave based SSPS (M-SSPS), the solar energy must be converted to electricity and then converted to a microwave beam.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2013

MW solar park at Chattanooga is owned and operated by Silicon Ranch; VW has signed a 20-year power purchase agreement. Volkswagen inaugurated its largest solar facility in the world—also the largest solar facility operated by an automaker in the US—at its plant in Chattanooga, TN, which produces the Passat model for North America.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2014

Researchers from the University of Cambridge, in association with Boeing, have successfully tested a light aircraft powered by a parallel hybrid-electric propulsion system, in which an electric motor and gasoline engine work together to drive the propeller. Hybrid in flight. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2010

artificial photosynthesis—requires breakthroughs in selectivity, speed and stability of all three primary components: the sensitizer for light absorption, a catalyst to oxidize water to oxygen and a catalyst to reduce water to hydrogen. You’ll wind up with a lot of gunk. ”. Tags: Hydrogen Production Solar. Musaev, Aleksey E.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2015

A new solar array and two wind turbines feed the administration building’s circuit breaker panel, where the five Volt batteries work in parallel to supply power to the building, delivering net-zero energy use on an annual basis.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

An illustration of the light-powered, one-step remediation process for hydrogen sulfide gas made possible by a gold photocatalyst created at Rice University. Each island was a gold nanoparticle about 10 billionths of a meter across that would interact strongly with a specific wavelength of visible light. —Naomi Halas.

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Creative Greenius

MARCH 31, 2009

The extent of my electrical background heretofore consisted of installing lighting fixtures and new wall switches - so long as they were replacements for existing items that got wired the same way. By “ utility interactive&# they mean what’s commonly called grid-tied solar. How cool is that?

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Using these electric vehicles as a means of buffer storage allows the potential of wind farms and solar plants for carbon-neutral energy generation to be exploited to an even greater degree.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2010

The United States used significantly less coal and petroleum in 2009 than in 2008, and significantly more wind power. There also was a decline in natural gas use and increases in solar, hydro and geothermal power according to the most recent energy flow charts released by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. 22,09, 2.16

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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. Solar Agile Delivery of Electrical Power Technology (Solar ADEPT).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2012

Consortia researchers will leverage their expertise and resources in solar technology, advanced biofuels, and building efficiency. Details of the three winning consortia are as follows: Solar Energy : The consortium’s research will focus on sustainable photovoltaics, multiscale concentrated solar power, and solar energy integration.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2021

Apex is a leading clean energy company that develops, constructs, and operates utility-scale wind and solar power facilities throughout North America. In the past decade, Apex has commercialized $9 billion worth of wind and solar projects representing nearly 7 GW of clean energy opportunity.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2022

To generate the renewable electricity needed to feed production of green hydrogen, Cepsa will develop a 3GW portfolio of wind and solar energy projects with an additional €2-billion investment. It also has one of the highest wind and solar photovoltaic power generation and production capacity in Europe, and at the lowest cost.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2021

The plant aims to be 100% self-sufficient for electricity and work will commence imminently on potential wind and solar farms. These light commercial vehicles and their passenger car variants, are all powered by a 100kW (136hp) motor with a 50 kWh lithium-ion battery. Electric Passenger Car. Vauxhall Combo-e. Opel Combo-e.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The synthetic fuel is produced at the power-to-gas plant in Werlte from water and carbon dioxide using electricity generated by wind power. Audi sources the CO 2 from an adjacent biogas plant that recycles agricultural waste.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The new ARPA-E selections focus on accelerating innovations in clean technology while increasing US competitiveness in rare earth alternatives and breakthroughs in biofuels, thermal storage, grid controls, and solar power electronics. Solar ADEPT: Solar Agile Delivery of Electrical Power Technology ($14.7 light energy.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Laredo Bus Facility Solar Canopies: Provide shade structures with integrated, grid tied photovoltaic cells to be erected on the bus storage lot at the Laredo Bus Maintenance Facility. Renewable Wind Energy: MBTA will design and construct wind energy generation turbines in eastern Massachusetts (from among Kingston, Newburyport, Bridgewater).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2010

The extended range electric vehicle drive system by Raser Technologies and its development partner FEV is targeted at providing up to 40 miles all-electric range for SUVs and light trucks. Solar project. Tags: Electric (Battery) Hybrids Plug-ins Solar. Click to enlarge. Raser Technologies, Inc. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Designed as a zero-emissions aircraft, Element One merges HES’ ultra-light hydrogen fuel cell technologies with a distributed electric aircraft propulsion design. It’s now possible to break past the endurance limits of battery-electric flight using HES’ ultra-light hydrogen energy storage in a distributed propulsion arrangement.

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Creative Greenius

MAY 14, 2009

After a decade in the solar power installation business, Bradley Bartz is tired of being Mr. Nice Guy. He’s filed suit against Torrance, the proud home of Exxon/Mobil’s refinery, for stopping him from installing solar panels in the Hillside Overlay district. “ Idiots ! “ Idiots !&#

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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2022

Solar Turbines. Using Argonne National Laboratory's high performance computing for computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modeling, Solar Turbines will improve the performance of an Exhaust Gas Recirculation (EGR) carbon capture system designed for small industrial turbines. The Timken Company. Gopher Resource LLC - Phase II.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2012

Quantum will use the motors in its Ford F-150 PHEV program to convert the gasoline powered light-duty pickup trucks to plug-in hybrid operation. Remy International, Inc. signed an agreement to supply its HVH250 motors to Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Worldwide Inc.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2013

The Green Redemption Fund could use COFACE-type mechanisms to secure the receivables of wind farms and solar installations. Hydrogen Production Natural Gas Power Generation Solar Wind' Although they are targeting an initial implementation France, they see it as broadly applicable. Dr. Pengg presentation at ASPO 2012.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

million: ALD Technical Solutions is developing light-weight, easy-to-install, long-lasting, and cost-effective structural composite reinforcement system which will be installed and cured-in-place around existing Aluminum Conductor Steel Reinforced transmission lines to increase power capacity and power efficiency, and also decrease sag.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Ultrathin Light Absorbers for Solar Cells. One way to lower the cost of solar power is to dramatically reduce the thickness of light-absorbing layers in solar cells. The proposed concept could dramatically reduce solar cell manufacturing costs, according to the researchers.

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Teslarati

JUNE 23, 2021

Tesla China announced earlier that it has launched a solar-powered Supercharger facility in Lhasa, the administrative capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region. “Tesla’s light storage and charging integrated supercharging station was officially completed in Lhasa today,” the Tesla Charging Team Weibo account said.

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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

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Covering a total area of 15,000 sq meters, the plant generates its own energy with solar panels and other photovoltaic and wind power technologies, purchases additional energy from renewable sources and buys carbon credits to fully offset its CO 2 emissions. The adoption of Industry 4.0

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2011

Light duty vehicle fleet by type and average fuel efficiency. ExxonMobil expects that by 2040, hybrids and other advanced vehicles will account for nearly 50 percent of light duty vehicles on the road, compared to only about 1 percent today. Source: ExxonMobil Outlook. Click to enlarge. L/100 km) by 2040.

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