Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2014

The basic concept of the integrated solar battery is to use the contribution of the photovoltage to reduce greatly the charging overpotential caused by the difficulty in efficiently electrochemically decomposing lithium peroxide (Li 2 O 2 ), the discharge product formed on the oxygen electrode. —Yu et al. Photo-assisted charging. (a)

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2013

Batteries, fuel cells and solar-energy conversion devices have emerged as a class of important technologies that increasingly rely on electrodes derived from nanoparticles. The whole point of our approach is to use an exceptionally abundant, stable and cheap material: rust. Hydrogen Production Nanotech Solar' —Scott C.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2018

The researchers believe this new type of photoelectrode is not only cheap to produce, but can also be recreated on a larger scale for mass and worldwide use. A promising way of storing solar energy is via chemical fuels, in particular hydrogen as it is considered as a future energy carrier. —Pawar and Tahir. Govinder S.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2018

The arrival of cheap battery storage will mean that it becomes increasingly possible to finesse the delivery of electricity from wind and solar, so that these technologies can help meet demand even when the wind isn’t blowing and the sun isn’t shining. trillion of that going to wind and solar and a further $1.5

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Green Car Reports

MAY 29, 2018

Solar cells have gotten cheap enough to make solar cars practical. Sono Motors plans to build a $25,000 electric car covered in solar cells that can provide up to 18 miles of range a day. At least that's the business model of one electric-car startup in Europe. The company plans to introduce it at the end of 2019.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Traditional methods of producing hydrogen without greenhouse gas emissions (green hydrogen) include electrolysis powered by renewable sources such as wind, solar, or hydro. —Zach Broussard, Director of Gold H2 at Cemvita. According to recent studies, the global green hydrogen market size was valued at US$0.3 billion in 2020.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2011

The incomplete cubane-like clusters (Mo 3 S 4 ) efficiently catalyze the evolution of hydrogen when coupled to a p-type Si semiconductor that harvests red photons in the solar spectrum. When sun hits the PEC cell, the solar energy is absorbed and used for splitting water molecules into its components, hydrogen and oxygen.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2023

A hierarchical self-assembly photocatalytic system (left) mimics the natural photosynthesis apparatus of a purple bacteria, called Rhodobacter sphaeroides (right), achieving 15% solar-to-fuel efficiency when converting carbon dioxide into methane. It mimics the structure of a purple bacteria’s light-harvesting chromatophores (i.e.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

We start off today with some Tesla Model S ownership-cost calculations, move on to carmakers'' answer to our 10 questions on hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles, and finish with a prediction that solar power will achieve grid parity in two years. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

IPG’s project will demonstrate the role of Flameless Ceramic Turbine technology in bringing EV charging to high-use and remote locations through clean, cheap, grid-independent power generation. Grid access and capacity issues, as well as the infeasibility of on-site solar and wind, is a barrier for EV charging in many locations.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

The battery stores power from the grid or from solar panels and stores it for later household use. The EnergyBlock can also store energy directly from solar panels, power in remote locations and emergency power. Electrovaya Inc. launched its lithium-ion energy storage system for home usage. Sankar Das Gupta, CEO of Electrovaya.

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Electrek

APRIL 17, 2021

If you’re already sold on the many benefits of driving an electric car, then you’re probably in the pro-solar-energy camp as well. You may have even considered the interesting proposition of marrying the two into a solar electric car, charging your EV for free with the sun rays currently cooking your paint job.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Find out how a range-extended 2014 BMW i3 REx does on a mountain climb, learn about California''s latest clean-air initiative, and see why UBS thinks electric cars will will make residential solar energy practical for more people. All this and more on Green Car Reports. Catch up.'

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Cyclonatix, Inc is developing an industrial-sized motor/controller to operate with either DC or AC power sources, for applications in electric vehicles, solar-powered pumps, HVAC&R, gas compressors, and other commercial and industrial machines which require high efficiency, variable speed/torque, and low cost. Leap Photovoltaics Inc.

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Electrek

JUNE 21, 2024

In this week’s episode, we discuss Tesla Model 3 LR gets cheap, Fisker goes bankrupt, cheap EVs adapt and more. Today’s Podcast is sponsored by the Electrek American Solar Challenge 2024. On the Electrek Podcast , we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 17, 2024

Inside a shipping container in an industrial area of Venice, the Italian startup 9-Tech is taking a crack at a looming global problem: how to responsibly recycle the 54 million to 160 million tonnes of solar modules that are expected to reach the end of their productive lives by 2050. Recovering the materials won’t be easy. More than 1.2

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 4, 2024

From cheap electric cars making their way into African and South American countries, to robotaxi firsts and progress, to EV sales grow in different corners of the world. continued] The post Cheap EVs in Africa & South America, Robotaxi Leaders, Tesla California Sales Crisis — Top Cleantech Stories appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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Electrek

MAY 8, 2021

That’s exactly what could happen if we all make the logical choice to ditch our four-wheeled cars and switch to this cheap little three-wheeled solar-powered electric tuk-tuk I’ve found! But what if instead of taking cars off the road, we could take a pile of wheels off the road instead?

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Teslarati

JUNE 22, 2021

Announcements posted online in China indicate that the Tesla Powerwall is formally coming to the country in two days, with the company holding a solar, storage, and charging event on June 23, 2021. Stay tuned for our updates on Tesla China’s Powerwall and solar event tomorrow.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JANUARY 7, 2025

continued] The post How RV Manufacturers Can Build All-Electric Travel Trailers For Cheap appeared first on CleanTechnica. After all, the stuff comes in a variety of sizes, from the small cylinders youd hook up to a camping stove.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

The team reports on their host-guest system of Ta:TiO 2 |BiVO 4 as a photoanode for use in solar water splitting cells in an open-access paper in the journal ACS Central Science. The host–guest nanowire architecture allows for simultaneously high light absorption and carrier collection efficiency for efficient solar water oxidation.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 31, 2021

Another week has flown by and we’ve got another roundup of our top (most popular) stories of the week. This past week, the interest (and content) was all over the map, as it was last week. Hydrogen trains in California, the various tech options on the market when upgrading your water heater, and the US […].

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Cars That Think

APRIL 28, 2024

That required a solar filter, of course. Stacking software takes a series of images of the sky, compensates for the motion of the stars, and combines the images to simulate long exposures without blurring. After getting some good shots of the moon, I turned to another easy target: the sun.

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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.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2015

During the late innings of the ICE-age (as in the Internal Combustion Engine age) it has become clear that feeding gasoline and diesel to the next billion new cars is not going to be easy, or cheap. The first eye-opener for large scale solar was the Austin Energy PPA last year that was priced at 5 cents. It really isn’t a fair fight.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 16, 2024

continued] The post Cheap Electric Cars, Used Hertz EVs, Ford Supercharging — 15 Top CleanTechnica Stories appeared first on CleanTechnica. The constant stream of big cleantech stories has been flowing strong, and I’ve got about a dozen to highlight from the past couple of weeks as ones I wouldn’t want you to miss.

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Cars That Think

JULY 21, 2021

Using solar energy (or other renewable energy sources ) to split water delivers sustainability , while recent research has made key inroads toward efficiency and scalability. By contrast, the sustainable solar-to-hydrogen approach has concentrated on photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting. According to the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 11, 2022

Researchers from Zhejiang University in China have developed a photo-chemo-enzymatic multi-step combination pathway for the highly efficient and environmentally friendly preparation of biogasoline from cheap and sustainable triolein using solar energy and atmospheric O 2 under mild conditions.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Researchers at the University of Texas at Arlington have demonstrated a new solar process for the one-step, gas-phase conversion of CO 2 and H 2 O to C 5+ liquid hydrocarbons and O 2 by operating the photocatalytic reaction at elevated temperatures and pressures. The process uses cheap and earth-abundant catalytic materials.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2019

The report goes on to model the impact of this on a global electricity system increasingly penetrated by low-cost wind and solar. In the near term, renewables-plus-storage, especially solar-plus-storage, has become a major driver for battery build.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2020

Natural gas generation made up much of the gap last year, as it has consistently in recent years, due to extremely cheap gas prices. Renewables played an important role as well thanks in part to continued cost declines in both wind and solar generation.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The Pennsylvania Turnpike is attempting to power its EV charging stations with solar power facilities along the highway. With cheap energy generation, one high cost of EV charging can be removed, assisting organizations in achieving profitability. The Turnpike has already constructed its first solar facility in Jeanette, capable of 1.3

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2019

Professor Kondo-Francois Aguey-Zinsou and his team at UNSW’s School of Chemical Engineering have developed a system that provides cheap storage and transportation of hydrogen which they expect will provide a new alternative for energy storage within two years. —Llewellyn Owens, H2Store CEO and Co-founder.

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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. In this way, sand enables solar power to keep people warm, even during the darkest and coldest Finnish nights. Eronen says, laughing.

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Cars That Think

JULY 4, 2024

I suspect that just about any external sound card would work fine for this application, including the $34 StarTac model that I use to good effect to monitor solar flares. To power the preamp, I used a 7-ampere-hour, 12-volt gel-cell battery, which is overkill.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2014

ARPA-E has already made transitions to focus funding on gas-to-liquids (GTL) technologies amidst cheap natural gas prices in the US in recent years. Biotech Fuels Solar' The nearer term value for electrofuels will lie in geographies lacking the natural gas bonanza that dominates the US energy landscape today, Lux says.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2020

The falling cost of making hydrogen from wind and solar power offers a promising route to cutting emissions in some of the most fossil-fuel-dependent sectors of the economy, such as steel, heavy-duty vehicles, shipping and cement, according to a new report from BloombergNEF (BNEF). MMBtu) in 2050. Abatement cost with hydrogen at $1/kg (7.4/MMBtu).

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