Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2014

As one of the first automobile manufacturers permitted to do so, Mercedes-Benz has been testing autonomously driven automobiles on public roads in California since September.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 26, 2021

These VPPAs enable Honda to fully offset the remaining carbon intensive grid-supplied electricity being used in its Ohio, Indiana, and Alabama automobile manufacturing operations.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2013

The European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) is warning that under current conditions, it is unlikely that the full potential of e-mobility will be met. This is partly due to the current economic situation, with declining sales of vehicles. —Ivan Hodac, ACEA Secretary General.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2011

Other organizations and institutions involved with the panel include the US Department of Energy, the Government Services Administration (GSA), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE), Underwriters Laboratories (UL), and several domestic and international automobile manufacturers.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 22, 2013

The interim report considers PEV manufacturers, dealers and customers; the charging infrastructure; and the electric grid. Findings and possible Federal roles for overcoming the barriers include: Manufacturers, dealers and customers. The electric grid.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2013

Audi has opened its e-gas plant in Werlte, making it the first automobile manufacturer to develop a chain of sustainable energy carriers. Audi’s e-gas plant. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.). The Audi e-gas plant, which can convert 6MW of input power, utilizes renewable electricity for electrolysis to produce oxygen and hydrogen.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Pike Pulse Grid for clean diesels. million diesel passenger cars sold in 2011, according to the European Automobile Manufacturers Association. Click to enlarge. The company has long. been a leader in selling diesel vehicles and is making a strong push for emerging clean diesel markets, Pike notes. Fiat-Chrysler. Mitsubishi.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2015

A diverse set of public interest groups, automakers, labor unions, and San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) submitted a proposed settlement to the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to accelerate the deployment of smart electric vehicle (EV) charging stations that would support the utility grid in San Diego.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Ford and NYPA will work together to develop consumer outreach and education programs on electric vehicles as well as share information on charging needs and requirements to ensure the electrical grid can support the necessary demand. Ford’s new electrified vehicle models will certainly contribute to the efforts.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2012

Instead, EURELECTRIC believes that the bulk of the charging can be done through low-power charging when the vehicles are plugged into the grid every time they are parked. side of grid and electricity power in grids), a simple single solution cannot work between US and EU. No direct communication between vehicle and grid (i.e.,

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2022

billion to 21 projects to expand domestic manufacturing of batteries for electric vehicles (EVs) and the electrical grid and for materials and components currently imported from other countries. billion will go to 9 projects in the component manufacturing segment of the supply chain. Earlier post.) Of that, $1.16

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Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2009

The state regulatory authorities and the non-regulated utilities are to establish protocols cols and standards for integrating plug-in electric drive vehicles into an electrical distribution system, including Smart Grid systems and devices. Large scale electrification program. Large scale electrification program.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2011

million), in partnership with 42 partners from the industries, utilities, electric car manufacturers, municipalities, universities and technology and research institutions. The European Commission will support a cross-European electromobility initiative, Green eMotion, worth €41.8 million (US$68.2

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 1, 2013

With the e-gas project, Audi is the first automobile manufacturer to develop an entire chain of sustainable energy carriers. The power-to-gas process links the electricity grid and gas network bi-directionally for the first time. This e-gas is chemically identical to fossil-based natural gas.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2011

As private companies, automobile manufacturers look for the lowest cost means of getting from A to B and the premiums that they can charge for getting from A to B faster. Even with the implementation of the smart grid it seems unlikely that we will all be able to buy our power from West Virginia. Power plant capital costs.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 19, 2022

billion to 21 projects to expand domestic manufacturing of batteries for electric vehicles (EVs) and the electrical grid and for materials and components currently imported from other countries. billion will go to 9 projects in the component manufacturing segment of the supply chain. Earlier post.) Of that, $1.16

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Audi is the first German automobile manufacturer to race in Formula E. The brand is taking ABT Sportsline’s slot on the FE grid in the 2017/2018 season. The car also sounds different because we’re pursuing new avenues in technology. —Head of Audi Motorsport Dieter Gass.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 26, 2010

The move towards charging vehicles safely from the electric grid has advanced after Europe’s automobile manufacturers agreed to a first phase of joint specifications. The agreement only covers one- and three-phrase AC charging in the short- and medium-term and reflects the needs of passenger cars and light commercial vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2014

This will include working with the automobile manufacturers and dealers to ensure that all plug-in electric vehicle models are available for sale and aggressively marketed in all MOU states. Evaluation of “smart” charging options to save consumers money and minimize grid impacts.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2010

But while automobile manufacturers have climate control procedures to assess A/C performance, and the US EPA has the SCO3 drive cycle to measure indirect A/C emissions, there is no automotive industry consensus on a vehicle level A/C fuel use test procedure to assess accurately the impact of climate control loads. Rugh, 2010.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2010

In 2009, China overtook the United States as the world’s largest automobile market with sales increasing 46 percent from 2008 to 13.6 million vehicles in 2009, according to the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers. ZAP hopes to leverage a stimulus from the government for plug-in forms of transportation.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

The PEV market continues to grow in California with 20 models of full battery-electric vehicles and plug-in hybrid vehicles offered by almost every automobile manufacturer to California consumers. Integrating EVs with the grid. Greater attention to vehicle and electric grid integration will be needed as well.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2009

It also would establish financial support for large-scale demonstrations of plug-in electric drive vehicles, and provide financial assistance to manufacturers of plug-in electric drive vehicles. Smart Grid and Electricity Transmission. Partnering with the States. Global Warming Pollution Reduction Program.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2016

A US Department of Energy (DOE) program designed to spur the use of high performance supercomputers to advance US manufacturing has funded 13 new industry projects for a total of $3.8 As the program broadens, other national laboratory partners are expected to join.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV): are hybrid electric vehicles with the means to charge their battery packs from an outside source of electricity (usually the electric grid). These vehicles have larger battery packs with more energy storage and a greater capability to be discharged.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 24, 2010

A joint specification for electric cars to connect to the grid has been agreed by the European vehicle manufacturers. Tags: Electric cars ACEA charge grid joint specification standard.

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Plugs and Cars

JUNE 2, 2007

Rainforest Action Network (RAN) held a rally in Sacramento Thursday outside the lobbying offices of the Association of Automobile Manufacturers to protest their continuing lawsuit against California's greenhouse gas legislation. Plugging into the California electric grid today would lower the carbon emission of cars tremendously.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2009

FCVs using hydrogen from biomass emit 90% fewer GHGs than current gasoline vehicles, and 63% fewer GHGs than a plug-in hybrid running on cellulosic ethanol, with charging based on the national grid mix. million miles in real-world testing, ARB staff noted. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

In 2013, Rossi Honda in Vineland, New Jersey, became the first electric grid-neutral new automobile dealer in America, producing more energy from on-site solar panels than it takes from the public utility grid.​ The CO 2 emissions intensity of automobile production in North America was 592 kg/auto in FY14—down 21.6%

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Driivz

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Adoption of EVs by consumers, governments and automobile manufacturers has passed the critical turning point. In 2022, the focus for utilities will include expanding the grid so it will be ready to produce the power needed to charge the explosion of EVs on the road over the next decade. Progress toward V2X.

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Clean Fleet Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

It will have the ability to directly recharge other electric vehicles, send power back into the grid, and act as a backup power source for a home. The pandemic created an opportunity for automobile manufacturers to get serious about designing and producing all-new, all-electric vehicles. The Fisker Ocean is also a power source.

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The Truth About Cars

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Usually referenced as a “kill switch,” the device is supposed to be required on every new automobile manufactured after 2025. The DOT just recently stated that creating a national network that permanently linked modern vehicles to government surveillance grids might reduce “potential crash scenarios” by 12 percent.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2015

In June 2013, Audi commissioned a power-to-gas facility in the north German town of Werlte, thus becoming the first automobile manufacturer to develop a chain of sustainable energy sources. The e-gas plant only operates when there is too much electricity from renewable sources in the grid. Earlier post.)

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Get Electric Vehicle

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The state-owned refinery has declared that it will double its capacity by using clean electricity from the grid. About 90% of the country’s retail fuel stations are controlled by the three state-owned refineries. It also intends to use green hydrogen at its refineries in Mathura and Panipat in northern India.

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Get Electric Vehicle

APRIL 2, 2021

They are electric vehicle manufacturing, EV battery manufacturing, powertrain components manufacturing, electric vehicle supply equipment manufacturing. Electric Vehicle Manufacturing. Start and establish an automobile manufacturing business has been an expensive and complicated process for a while.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 30, 2009

Todays hybrids have small battery packs and cannot be recharged from the utility grid system. Green Star Products is not in competition with Toyota or any other major automobile manufacturer because it is targeting a different market.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2016

California Governor Brown’s 2012 Executive Order B-16-2012 directed the CPUC and other state agencies to establish benchmarks to help achieve the build-out of Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) infrastructure capable of supporting up to one million vehicles, and to integrate Plug-in Electric Vehicle (PEV) charging into the state’s electricity grid by 2020.

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