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Study finds hybrid tugboat delivers significant reduction in criteria pollutant emissions compared to conventional version

Green Car Congress

The hybrid tug used in the study, the Carolyn Dorothy ( earlier post ), is powered by two 1,342 kW Cummins QSK50-M main engines and 317 kW Cummins QSM11-M auxiliary generators. It also has 126 soft gel lead acid batteries for power storage that are separated into two arrays with 63 batteries each. Each array stores 170.1

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New automotive application for second-life batteries from electric vehicles

Green Car Congress

Experiments are already under way on power storage applications, for example. Electric conversion of urban commercial vehicles reduces investment levels as well as makes a concrete and immediate contribution to reducing urban pollution levels, since 94% of commercial vehicles are diesel-fueled.

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10 Reasons Your Next Car Should Be an EV

Plug in America

EVs Improve Public Health Transportation emissions are the leading source of air pollution in the U.S. A recent study looked at ZIP codes and found that as more EVs were registered in those zip codes, local air pollution levels and emergency room visits dropped. The good news is that EVs are starting to make a difference.

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IEA: Estonia is pioneering technologies for more efficient and cleaner use of oil shale

Green Car Congress

To increase and improve the sector, Estonia is not only spending heavily on RD&D for biomass-based energy, wind and solar power, but it is also pursuing solutions such as fuel cells and electrolyzers as well as computer-based energy management technologies for buildings, power storage and grid development.

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The difference between lithium iron phosphate and lithium battery

Setec Powerr

Lithium iron phosphate batteries are green, non-toxic, non-polluting, raw materials from a wide range of sources, and cheap. Transportation power supply. Power storage power. Mobile communication power. New energy storage power. Aerospace military power. Scope of use.

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The Essential Guide to EV Smart Charging and Smart Energy Management

Driivz

For example, based on the type of EV power storage infrastructure they select, businesses can sell power back to the grid during times of peak demand or offer public charging during off-hours. Investing in smart EV charging brings long-term capital and operating benefits to businesses.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Each of the aforementioned “primary energy sources&# generates carbon dioxide and greenhouse gases plus other pollutants coming from the contaminants or byproducts of using these “primary energy sources&#. The coal ash is known to have many toxic metals and other pollutants.

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