Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2014

Ford Motor Company is teaming with DTE Energy to build Michigan’s largest solar array at Ford World Headquarters. A kiosk will also be on site offering general information to visitors about solar power and specific details about the Ford carport. It will be the second-largest solar carport in the Midwest, after a 1.1-megawatt

Solar 231

Solar Ford Building Energy 231

Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2020

The overall system is controlled by Toshiba’senergy management system H2EMS, which carries out power generation and power storage with associated operation of a 30-kW solar power system and batteries.

Hydrogen 493

Hydrogen Energy Solar Power Storage 493

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2022

a Honda automobile production and sales joint venture in China, will build a new dedicated electric vehicle (EV) production plant to establish sufficient production system and capability in preparation for the expansion of its EV lineup in the coming years. Honda Motor (China) Investment Co.,

Honda 326

Honda Building Production Automobile 326

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2019

Researchers from the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have combined two membrane-bound protein complexes to perform a complete conversion of water molecules to hydrogen and oxygen. Poluektov (2018) “Z-scheme solar water splitting via self-assembly of photosystem I-catalyst hybrids in thylakoid membranes” Chem.

Water 259

Water Hydrogen Fuel Solar 259

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Africa can produce 50 million tons of green hydrogen a year by 2035, according to a new study by the European Investment Bank (EIB), International Solar Alliance and the African Union, with the support of the Government of Mauritania, HyDeal and UCLG Africa.

Africa 481

Africa Mauritania Hydrogen Green 481

Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2018

In the quest to realize artificial photosynthesis to convert sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide into fuel—just as plants do—researchers need to not only identify materials to efficiently perform photoelectrochemical water splitting, but also to understand why a certain material may or may not work. —Johanna Eichhorn.

Water 236

Water Insight Solar Transportation 236

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

DE-FOA-0002254 ) The funding will support the establishment of one large or possibly two smaller DOE Energy Innovation Hubs: integrated multidisciplinary, multi-institutional research teams aimed at accelerating the fundamental scientific breakthroughs needed to enable solar fuel production.

Solar 269

Solar Fuel Light Water 269

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

A new study, led by academics at St John’s College, University of Cambridge, has used semi-artificial photosynthesis to explore new ways to produce and store solar energy. They used natural sunlight to convert water into hydrogen and oxygen using a mixture of biological components and manmade technologies. —Katarzyna Sokó?.

Water 210

Water Solar Store Hydrogen 210

Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2014

The home is also three times more water-efficient than a typical US home. A 10 kWh battery energy storage system in the garage, using the same lithium-ion cells that are used in the Honda Fit EV, allows stored solar energy to be used at night, when household demand typically peaks and electric vehicles are usually charged.

DC 393

DC Honda Energy Davis 393

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Green hydrogen is produced through the electrolysis of water with electricity generated from zero-carbon sources; only oxygen is emitted during the process. The facility will use a new 300 megawatt zero-carbon solar farm to power 120 megawatts of Plug Power’s state-of-the-art PEM electrolyzers.

Hydrogen 321

Hydrogen San Diego Green Plug 321

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Ford Motor Company will build two new massive, environmentally and technologically advanced campuses in Tennessee and Kentucky that will produce the next generation of electric F-Series trucks and the batteries to power future electric Ford and Lincoln vehicles. billion BlueOvalSK Battery Park—creating 5,000 jobs. —Tennessee Gov.

Kentucky 397

Kentucky Tennessee Ford Building 397

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The proceeds of the investment round will accelerate the company’s growth and support the scaling and commercialization of Synhelion’s solar fuels technology. Synhelion is developing two pathways to solar fuels: Redox splitting. The thermochemical splitting of CO 2 and water in a two-step redox reaction yields carbon-neutral fuels.

Solar 210

Solar Fuel Production Carbon 210

Green Car Congress

MAY 30, 2020

The researchers and engineers at ETH Zurich have developed innovative processes that make it possible to extract CO 2 from the atmosphere and, together with water and with the help of concentrated sunlight, convert it into a synthesis gas that can be used to produce jet fuel.

Solar 269

Solar Conversion Fuel CO2 269

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 17, 2020

billion investment in Factory ZERO, Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly Center for retooling and upgrades will position the facility to build EVs at scale. Ultium is flexible enough to build a wide range of EVs—cars, trucks and more—and is the heart of GM’s future EV lineup. Earlier post.)

Detroit 397

Detroit GM Hummer GMC 397

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2015

Researchers at Rice have demonstrated an efficient new way to use solar energy for water splitting. In contrast to past work, the new architecture does not utilize a Schottky junction—the commonly used building block to collect hot carriers. b) Energy schematic of the structure. —Robatjazi et al.

Water 150

Water Solar Conversion Light 150

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

Toshiba Corporation and Kawasaki City will conduct a cooperative demonstration experiment of an independent energy supply system utilizing solar power and hydrogen. Since the system can operate on only sunlight and water, it will be able to independently provide electricity and hot water in times of emergency, even when lifelines are cut.

Hydrogen 236

Hydrogen Supplies Solar Powered 236

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

MW solar park at Chattanooga is owned and operated by Silicon Ranch; VW has signed a 20-year power purchase agreement. The award recognizes EPA Green Power Partners who distinguish themselves using on-site renewable energy applications, such as solar photovoltaic (PV) or landfill gas. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.). 2012 baseline.

EPA 385

EPA Green Powered Power 385

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2014

3Degrees provides renewable energy certificates and carbon offsets to Fortune 500 companies, green building firms, and other organizations. Benefits from the capture include odor reduction, improved water quality and future distributed renewable energy production. SunPower: residential solar with energy storage.

Audi 287

Audi Solar Carbon PHEV 287

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

In such a dry region, conserving water is particularly important. The water required for the painting process is treated and then reused. By 2030, the BMW Group aims to build at least six fully-electric models in the US. The plant is also home to the BMW Group’s first paint shop to operate without producing process wastewater.

Mexico 418

Mexico BMW Battery Batteries 418

Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2018

Dürr is building a paint shop in Mexico for the BMW Group that meets the requirements for connected Industry 4.0 San Luis Potosí will build the BMW brand’s best-selling model series, the BMW 3 Series Sedan. Most of the electricity comes from a solar system on the plant’s grounds. production.

BMW 253

BMW Mexico Industry Industrial 253

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

To help California mitigate its ever-growing wildfires, this year CalSEED has included companies that are innovating in technologies that will build wildfire resiliency into the grid. EV Life, LLC is building the first online platform that gives drivers everything they need to switch from gas to an electric car.

Cleaning 371

Cleaning Clean Energy Energy Storage 371

Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2015

Researchers at UC Berkeley have developed an artificial photosynthetic scheme for the direct solar-powered production of value-added chemicals from CO 2 and water using a two-step process involving a biocompatible light-capturing nanowire array with a direct interface with microbial systems. —Liu et al. —Liu et al.

Solar 150

Solar Water Hybrid CO2 150

Green Car Congress

JULY 27, 2020

In addition to ongoing work on improving the H-B process, another alternative is the electrochemical synthesis of ammonia, where water electrolysis and the ammonia synthesis occur simultaneously in the same reactor via an electrochemical reaction route. These advances can be applied to building synthetic nitrogenase componentry.

Green 488

Green Production Hydrogen Renewable 488

Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2021

U-M’s Ford Motor Company Robotics Building is a four-story, $75-million, 134,000-square-foot complex situated on the north campus. The new facility brings together U-M researchers from 23 different buildings and ten top-10 programs. The University of Michigan and Ford Motor Company are opening a new advanced robotics facility.

Ford 430

Ford Future Michigan Neighborhood 430

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

This H 2 filling station—the eleventh in the TOTAL network and the tenth in the German federal state of Baden-Württemberg—is differentiated by producing hydrogen on-site through steam electrolysis, using electricity generated by a solar array. —Nils Aldag, Chief Commercial Officer at Sunfire. Earlier post.).

Hydrogen 250

Hydrogen Solar Energy Fuel 250

Cars That Think

JANUARY 18, 2023

In a region known for long, dark winter nights, Polar Night Energy is building a system in the city of Tampere that can heat buildings with stored solar energy — all day, all night, and all winter long. Out of Finland’s energy-related emissions, 82 percent come from heating domestic buildings (Ref.

Store 114

Store Solar Building Oil-Sands 114

Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2019

Their new solar mini-refinery is located on the roof of ETH’s Machine Laboratory building in Zurich. CO 2 and water are extracted directly from ambient air via an adsorption/desorption process. Both are then fed into the solar reactor at the focus of a parabolic reflector. —Aldo Steinfeld.

Carbon 247

Carbon Fuel Solar Switzerland 247

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2014

As the fraction of electricity generation from intermittent renewable sources—such as solar or wind—grows, the ability to store large amounts of electrical energy is of increasing importance. Solid-electrode batteries maintain discharge at peak power for far too short a time to fully regulate wind or solar power output.

Low Cost 374

Low Cost Grid Battery Batteries 374

Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2015

Globally, water demand is threatening to dangerously outpace supply, while in the US, dry states such as Texas and California are suffering from shortages and the future forebodes more suffering. For the North American shale boom, the lack of water is suffocating. How we can turn toilet water into tap water.

Water 150

Water Oil Texas Gas 150

Teslarati

MAY 20, 2024

Elon Musk spoke at the World Water Forum in Indonesia this week, following a trip to the country in which he debuted SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet. Following the debut of Starlink in Indonesia on Sunday, Musk spoke at the World Water Forum in Bali on Monday, sharing a few insights on solving the water crisis.

Indonesia 116

Indonesia Water Insight Building 116

Green Car Congress

JULY 4, 2022

In countries that choose to continue or increase their use of nuclear power, it can reduce reliance on imported fossil fuels, cut carbon dioxide emissions and enable electricity systems to integrate higher shares of solar and wind power.

Russia 458

Russia Emissions Powered Power 458

Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2013

will create the Honda Smart Home US, a showcase that demonstrates Honda’s vision for sustainable, zero-carbon living and personal mobility, including the use of solar power to charge a Honda Fit EV battery electric vehicle. Among the technologies that will be applied to the Honda Smart Home US: Solar Power System. Earlier post.).

Honda 341

Honda Ford Davis Grid 341

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Honda will continue pursuing research and development in the future with a view to utilizing its hydrogen technologies such as a fuel cell system and high differential pressure water electrolysis technologies in the field of space technology.

Honda 428

Honda Hydrogen Fuel North America 428

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

It will require China to deploy an additional 800-1,000 gigawatts of nuclear, wind, solar and other zero emission generation capacity by 2030—more than all the coal-fired power plants that exist in China today and close to total current electricity generation capacity in the United States. million cubic meters of freshwater per year.

China 300

China CO2 Climate Change United States 300

Cars That Think

AUGUST 19, 2024

Taiwan’s government is hoping that the more than 400 square kilometers of fishponds can simultaneously produce a second harvest: solar power. To build it, Taipei-based Hongde Renewable Energy bought 57.6 But nowhere else is the pairing of aquaculture and solar power seen as so crucial to the economy. What is aquavoltaics?

Taiwan 131

Taiwan Solar Powered Power 131

Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2021

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 is also teaming up with leading solar company Sunrun to facilitate easy installation of the 80-amp Ford Charge Station Pro and home integration system.

F-150 526

F-150 Ford Extended Range Electric 526

Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2013

As the percentage of electricity supply from wind and solar increases, grid operators will need to employ strategies and technologies, including energy storage, to balance supply with demand given the intermittency of the renewable supply. When demand is high, the water is released through turbines that generate electricity.

Energy Storage 304

Energy Storage Grid Cost Of Energy 304