Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Ford is partnering with solar company Sunrun to enhance home energy management, leveraging the onboard battery capability of the all-electric F-150 Lightning. Sunrun will also offer home solar options to customers in select areas who are interested in leveraging more renewable energy.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2019

Bioscience engineers at KU Leuven have created a solar panel that produces hydrogen gas from moisture in the air. Twenty of these solar panels could provide electricity and heat for one family for an entire winter. A traditional solar panel converts between 18 to 20% of the solar energy into electricity.

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Charged EVs

OCTOBER 25, 2024

The PairTree is an off-grid EV charger with solar, storage and two Level 2 EV chargers that can be set up in a day. These factors determine the best mix of solar, storage and grid power for a particular project. PairTree is an off-grid EV charger featuring a pop-up solar canopy, a 42.4 How much power is available at the site?

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Electricity generated by solar panels installed across nine thousand square metres of roofing at Asko’s regional warehouse is being used to split water, producing emissions-free hydrogen fuel and oxygen. The aim here is not to use hydrogen for all goods transport. —Project Manager Anders Ødegård at SINTEF Industry.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Electrify America recently unveiled its first application of a megawatt-level battery energy storage system (BESS) for electric vehicle (EV) charging stations, building upon the company’s existing BESS installations at more than 150 stations across the US, including more than 100 installations in California.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

The Dutch Institute for Fundamental Energy Research ( DIFFER ) is partnering with Toyota Motor Europe (TME) to develop a device that absorbs water vapor, and splits it into hydrogen and oxygen directly using solar energy. In this project, DIFFER and TME are exploring an innovative way to produce hydrogen directly out of humid air.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Together with E.ON, Audi is building a solar energy park on the roofs of the two logistics centers of its plant in Gy?r This will create Europe’s largest photovoltaic system installed on a building at the Audi Hungaria plant in Gy?r. gigawatt hours (GWh) of electricity. r covering about 160,000 square meters.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2020

The Volvo Cars manufacturing plant in Chengdu, the company’s largest in China, is now powered by 100% renewable electricity, taking the company’s global renewable electricity mix in its manufacturing network to 80%. Until recently, the Chengdu plant already sourced 70% of its electricity from renewable sources.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2020

The Congressional Research Service last year noted increasing interest among producers of distributed energy resources (DERs)—such as rooftop solar—to sell electricity to neighbors. An illustration of two connected homes sharing electricity. Source: NREL.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 6, 2022

This has become more evident in the past few days as shipments from Chinese solar panel giant Longi Green Energy were spotted on the roof of the Model Y and Cybertruck production facility. As noted in a Yicai Global report, Longi Green Energy would be supplying the solar panels for Gigafactory Texas’ roof.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2021

Arcadia connects renters and homeowners across the US to wind and solar energy through utility data and billing technology. Participating Audi e-tron and e-tron Sportback customers may also be eligible to receive up to a $750 credit toward their electricity bill through the Arcadia platform with a subscription. 2021 Audi e-tron.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2021

AMPLY Power is working with Duke Energy Sustainable Solutions to expand fleet electrification offerings, including the first commercially available combination solar canopy and overhead electric vehicle charging solution covered by a power purchase agreement (PPA) leasing and financing model. PIDE Canopy Mount. PIDE Canopy Mount.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2021

Completed in less than one year, the electric school bus fleet project is part of a series of electrification initiatives by the Stockton Unified School District to become the nation’s leading zero-emission school district. The Mobility House’s mission is to create an emissions-free energy and mobility future.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2020

In 2022, Mercedes-Benz’ global portfolio will include eight all-electric Mercedes-EQ models. The global Mercedes-Benz production network is ready for the company’s electric product offensive and is integrating its Mercedes-EQ models into series production in its existing plants. kWh/100 km) started in Vitoria, northern Spain.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Five of the 28 innovations will help protect the grid from wildfires/PSPSs, four of these five will provide climate and weather risk prediction to electric infrastructure and services, and one is a hard tech innovation to reinforce transmission lines. Details of the 28 companies awarded a total of $4.2

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 25, 2021

Last week, as part of the little known and unadvertised “Bolt Buyback” program GM quietly created in response to the recall of all their 2017- 2019 Bolts, Chevy paid $37,900 to buy this car back from us. I started learning about, writing about, and promoting electric cars in 2007. Installing the 5.2 Installing the 5.2

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Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2021

Ford unveiled the F-150 Lightning battery-electric pickup. F-150 Lightning represents all that our country can do when we push for progress. We’re not here to make an electric truck for the few—Ford is committed to building one that solves real problems for real people. —Ford President and CEO Jim Farley.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2021

While all five companies aim to transition to 100% renewable energy by 2050, each will make independent efforts to achieve targets ahead of schedule, by as early as 2040, depending on energy supply and demand conditions at their respective overseas operations. Hyundai Motor and Kia, along with Hyundai Mobis Co.,

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Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2020

The SMUD (2020 Sacramento Municipal Utility District) Board of Directors adopted a climate emergency declaration that commits to working toward an ambitious goal of delivering carbon-neutral electricity by 2030. Furthermore, SMUD has reduced the carbon intensity of its power mix, which is now 50% carbon-free on average.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2022

Electrify America has described a new design vision for some of its future charging stations intended to exceed electric vehicle (EV) customer expectations. Overhead solar canopies to shield customers from the sun and inclement weather. Solar Awnings. On-site security cameras and additional lighting. Next-Generation Charger.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

To that end, the current transport system on the island will transition to electric vehicles and renewable power generation. Energy will be primarily generated from local power sources such as solar and wind. In total, some 1,000 electric vehicles will replace about 1,500 vehicles with combustion engines.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2019

Deep declines in wind, solar and battery technology costs will result in a grid nearly half-powered by the two fast-growing renewable energy sources by 2050, according to the latest projections from BloombergNEF (BNEF). Electricity demand is set to increase 62%, resulting in global generating capacity almost tripling between 2018 and 2050.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Charging and energy are becoming a core business for Volkswagen; the company is building a universal and seamless eco-system for charging its electric models. The across-the-board enhancement of the charging infrastructure is decisive for accelerating the ramp-up of the electric mobility campaign. With the new software in our ID.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2018

This year’s outlook is the first to highlight the significant impact that falling battery costs will have on the electricity mix over the coming decades. BNEF predicts that lithium-ion battery prices, already down by nearly 80% per megawatt-hour since 2010, will continue to tumble as electric vehicle manufacturing builds up through the 2020s.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2018

Lightning Systems, a global developer of zero-emission solutions for commercial fleets, is partnering with the City of Boulder and transit provider Via Mobility Services to repower diesel buses with battery-electric systems. People in Boulder are very interested in reducing the carbon footprint in all that we do.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 1, 2024

On Tuesday, the Tesla Energy account on X announced that the company has reached 750,000 Powerwall installations worldwide, just a month after surpassing a critical production milestone. As many have pointed out, this figure nearly reached the 14.7GWh deployed across all of 2023, which Tesla likely surpassed already in Q3.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 9, 2021

Tesla will completely cover its Nevada Gigafactory in solar panels by the end of 2022, the company said in its 2020 Impact Report. However, the Nevada Gigafactory is still a powerhouse facility, providing batteries and electric powertrains for the company’s all-electric vehicles and energy storage products.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2019

A 20% increase in UK-generated electricity would be required to charge the current 252.5 Using its scientific expertise and collection of geological specimens, the Museum is collaborating with leading researchers to identify resource and environmental implications of the transition to green energy technologies including electric cars.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 26, 2021

Honda last week announced key targets for sales of electrified vehicles in North America, with a plan to make battery-electric and fuel cell electric vehicles (BEVs and FCEVs) to represent 100% of its vehicle sales by 2040, progressing from sales of 40% by 2030 and 80% by 2035.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Volvo Trucks North America’s customers and carrier partners, Watsontown Trucking Company and Camrett Logistics, have placed orders for their first Volvo VNR Electric trucks. The Volvo VNR Electric model entered serial production at NRV earlier this year. The Volvo VNR Electric model entered serial production at NRV earlier this year.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JULY 30, 2024

The South Pasadena Police Department, yesterday, became the nation’s first law enforcement agency to completely replace its gasoline-powered vehicles with nonpolluting electric vehicles. continued] The post USA’s 1st All-Electric Police Fleet appeared first on CleanTechnica. Additionally, upon.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

Tesla has been gradually deploying a massive set of solar panels on the roof of its Gigafactory in Austin, Texas, set to be the world’s largest upon completion, according to one person from the company. When it’s complete, Grant says, the system will be the world’s largest solar rooftop installation, with roughly 30 megawatts of power. “We

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Teslarati

MAY 27, 2021

However, the design is now hinting toward even more versatility and usefulness as the patent describes the potential use as a solar panel that will provide range for the all-electric truck by capturing the sun’s energy. Will be an option to add solar power that generates 15 miles per day, possibly more.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 13, 2024

The show highlighted rooftop solar panels in Germany, explaining that the panels generated electricity to power the buildings and even earned the owners money by letting them sell extra energy back to the electricity company. It sounded like magic: useful and valuable electricity extracted from simple sunlight.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2019

billion in new funding last year went to projects across all of California’s 58 counties—almost double the $720 million spent in 2017. From rebates for electric and plug-in vehicles to energy efficiency and solar installations that are reducing home energy costs, more than 125,000 individual projects were completed in 2018.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2020

By 2045, California will require the deployment of up to a staggering 55 gigawatts (GW) of long duration energy storage (LDES) to support its 100% clean electricity goals, according to a new modeling study released by the California Energy Storage Alliance (CESA). Reducing in-state use of fossil fuels for electricity generation by 25%.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Tesla has highlighted its use of the Cybertruck to deliver part of an art installation in California, along with a Powerwall 3 and a Solar Roof used to keep the exhibit lit 24 hours a day. The Cybertruck delivery seems only fitting, as the tree features a similar geometric stainless steel look to Tesla’s unique electric pickup.

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