Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2014

The home, located on the West Village campus of the University of California, Davis, is capable of producing more energy on-site from renewable sources than it consumes annually, including enough energy to power a Honda Fit EV for daily commuting. DC-to-DC electric vehicle charging. Photo by Dorian Toy. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2018

A newly released analysis produced by Beacon Economics for the nonprofit, nonpartisan think-tank Next 10 has found that California’s zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) market is on track to meet or exceed a target of 1.5 million ZEVs on California’s roads by 2025. As of October 2017, 337,483 ZEVs have been sold in California.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 26, 2019

New Flyer of America announced that a test demonstration with a New Flyer 40', heavy-duty fuel-cell-electric Xcelsior CHARGE H2 bus for the Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) achieved 350-miles (563 km) of zero-emission range. New Flyer manufactures the Xcelsior CHARGE H2 in forty-foot and sixty-foot lengths.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Since the bill was introduced last year as the first-of-its-kind in the US to set a deadline for the transition to EVs, California, Massachusetts, and New Jersey have announced 2035 targets for ending sales of new internal combustion engined cars. a transition strategy for those negatively impacted by the requirement.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 18, 2009

The Ford PHEV charge settings user interface. Ford Motor Company has developed an intelligent vehicle-to-grid communications and control system for its plug-in hybrid electric vehicles that communicates directly with the electric grid. Ford’s PHEV vehicle-to-grid communications. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2013

About 50% of the more than 12,000 PEV owners in SCE territory charge at Level 1. Southern California Edison (SCE) released a white paper summarizing learnings from its Electric Vehicle (EV) readiness program. This could create new implications for grid reliability, which SCE is monitoring, it said. Click to enlarge.

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Setec Powerr

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

For companies that invest in EV charging, deploying battery storage can reduce power demand charges. Charging on demand is a tricky part of EV charging station operation. So do you know what a demand charge is? Baseline Charges. This is typically a set fee that everyone pays just to be part of the grid.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2011

The California Energy Commission has awarded $1,585,490 to spur research on projects including a solid-state Li-ion battery system for grid-scale energy storage. University of California at San Diego will receive $95,000 to reduce the cost of biomass power generation by removing tar from the producer gas in the gasifier.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 16, 2024

Based on the all-electric Mullen THREE electric chassis cab, Mullen says the new PowerUP mobile charging platform provides increased job site versatility thanks to on demand, mobile DC fast-charging. The first is that the Mullen PowerUP is remarkably similar, visually, to a mobile EV charging truck shown by Mack Trucks back in March.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2010

Under the proposed plan, the NUMMI plant in Fremont, California would be converted into the manufacturing facility for the Aurica Motors E-Car, an all-electric vehicle, as well as Aurica’s proposed PEP (Power Exchange Package) battery swap system. The PEP station concept is not compatible with the Better Place system.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

The US Department of Energy is awarding $620 million for projects around the country to demonstrate advanced Smart Grid technologies and integrated systems. Smart grid regional demonstrations involving plug-in vehicles include (ranked by DOE funding): Columbus Southern Power Company (doing business as AEP Ohio).

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Get Electric Vehicle

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The main type of battery used is Lithium-ion and when the charge is depleted the batteries can be recharged again. In fuel cell cars we do not have to recharge the battery. For example, in 2021 residents of California welcomed the United state’s first electric fire truck.

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EV Life

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Electric Car Charging Stations. According to AAA research, the two biggest fears Americans have about switching to electric cars is not having enough electric car charging stations (58%) and that they’ll run out of charge (57%). According to a new AAA study, 95% of electric car drivers have never run out of charge.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Drivers who buy an electric car that plugs into the power grid to recharge the battery often start to consider the source of their energy.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2010

The project will start with a small number of charge spots in Waikiki and around Oahu and includes seven electric vehicles. Better Place will manage the charging of the vehicles via a network operations center located in Palo Alto, California. Other charging stations will be at three Hawaiian Electric sites.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2016

Frank (email: afrank@efficientdrivetrains.com) Dr. Frank is Professor Emeritus, Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering at the University of California, Davis, where he established the Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS-Davis), and was director of the US Department of Energy’s National Center of Hybrid Excellence at UC Davis.

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Charged EVs

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Among its first announced customers, back in December 2017, was Pepsi, which reserved 100 of the trucks and plans to use them in the California regions of Modesto and Sacramento. Many were covered in detail during a day of presentations and site visits for partners and media held this past August in Ontario, California.

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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. Direct solar PV-to-vehicle charging. Market Background Plug-ins Smart charging Smart Grid Sustainability'

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 29, 2009

The study also concluded that despite the relatively high fuel carbon intensity of marginal electricity in California, alternative vehicle and fuel platforms still reduce emissions compared to conventional gasoline vehicles and hybrids, through improved vehicle efficiency. —McCarthy et al. and peak demand increases by 1%.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 12, 2023

They gradually lose capacity with each discharge and recharge cycle, and they can be fire hazards. Energy storage has two main factors—how fast it can be charged and discharged (the spigot) and how much total energy it can hold (the bathtub). Getting a 100 percent decarbonized grid is nothing but an optimization problem.”—Matthew

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2012

Under the emerging J2954 guidelines, communications for wireless charging will use DSRC. The SAE Taskforce on wireless charging and positioning of electric vehicles (SAE J2954) ( earlier post ) is progressing, and is slated to have a final draft of the guideline this year, according to the Society of Automotive Engineers, International (SAE).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2014

These properties render quinone-based redox couples very attractive for high-efficiency metal-free rechargeable batteries, they found. Since grid-scale electrical energy storage requires hundreds of gigawatt-hours to be stored, the batteries for this application must be inexpensive, robust, safe and sustainable. —Yang et al.

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Plug In Partners

JUNE 26, 2007

G oogle proved it is serious about Plug Ins with its new Recharge IT initiative. Google.org to to Accelerate Plug-In Hybrid and Vehicle-to-Grid Technology Google.org , the philanthropic arm of Google Inc. Willett Kempton , University of Delaware: $150,000 for megawatt scale vehicle-to-grid research and implementation planning."

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2014

Z-Smart is being incorporated into these fleet vehicles to improve performance, safety and efficiency of the converted vehicles and to provide convenient mobile communication to the driver on the charge levels and recharging status.

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Charged EVs

DECEMBER 13, 2022

By cutting red tape and avoiding costs for construction and electrical work, combined with free solar energy, Beam Global says its EV ARC systems can offer customers a lower total cost of ownership compared to grid-tied charging stations. Charged : When did you start selling the EV ARC?

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2022

A report published by the California Air Resources Board (CARB), in consultation with the California Energy Commission (CEC), shows California investments to clean up old, polluting school buses have already exceeded $1.2 billion over the next five years for zero-emission school buses and associated charging infrastructure.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 18, 2017

A team of researchers at the University of California, Riverside has developed an approach to addressing the vexing problem of dendrite formation that hobbles the use of high energy density lithium-metal anodes in advanced recyclable batteries. The earliest non-rechargeable Li batteries using Li metal as anode appeared in the 1970s.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2010

A study by Jonn Axsen and Ken Kurani from the Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Davis, estimates electricity and gasoline use under three recharging scenarios. Drivers are assumed to immediately plug-in and recharge whenever they are parked within 25 ft of an electrical outlet. —Axsen and Kurani. Plug and play.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

However, there is a great deal of variability in charging pricing, based on location, time of day, season, and type of charge (i.e., For example, in the San Diego, California territory of SDG&E, optimal time of use residential EV charging rates range from $0.19/kWh kWh (EPA is now using $0.13 kWh to $0.46/kWh

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2014

California-based US Hybrid Corporation has been awarded a contract by the Hawaii Center for Advanced Transportation Technologies (HCATT) for the design, integration and delivery of its H 2 Ride Fuel Cell Plug-In Shuttle Bus for operation by the County of Hawaii Mass Transit Agency’s (MTA) HELE-ON Big Island bus service. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 29, 2018

2019 Kona Electric models will be produced in Ulsan, Korea and available in the fourth quarter of 2018, with initial availability in California and subsequently in the ZEV-focused states in the western and northeastern regions of the US market. The Kona Electric utilizes a Level-II on-board charging system capable of a 7.2

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2014

In an event combining a first-customer ceremony and a media drive, Tustin (California) Hyundai’s Dealer Principal, John Patterson, handed over the keys to Hyundai’s first mass-produced Tucson Fuel Cell crossover ( earlier post ) to Timothy Bush, the first Hyundai Fuel Cell customer, with Hyundai executives in attendance. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

The Sonata Plug-in Hybrid will be distributed in California, Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island and Vermont, but customers in any of the other states can custom order the vehicle at their local Hyundai dealer. km), and it can recharge in less than three hours with a level-two charger.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 18, 2009

Smart charging systems appear to be the order of the day among the leading car manufacturers with Ford the latest to develop an intelligent vehicle-to-grid communications and control system for its plug-in hybrid electric vehicles.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 24, 2009

An intelligent vehicle-to-grid communications and control system for its plug-in hybrid electric vehicles that “talks” directly with the nation’s electric grid has been unveiled today courtesy of carmaker, Ford. For example, a vehicle owner could choose to accept a charge only during off-peak hours between midnight and 6 a.m.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The California Sustainable Energy Entrepreneur Development (CalSEED) program announced that the fourth cohort of innovative clean energy concepts has been approved by the California Energy Commission (CEC); 28 companies out of 212 were selected to receive grants of $150,000 each. rechargeable battery?technology?that technology?that

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2009

Leveraging expertise in materials science, nanotechnology, green chemistry and supercomputing, scientists at IBM Research’s Almaden lab in San Jose, California, are undertaking a multi-year research initiative around a grid-scale, efficient, affordable electrical energy storage network. not rechargeable. Takeshi Ogasawara et al.

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