Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2012

The companies deployed and demonstrated a 150 kW fuel cell system near the 17 th Conference of the Parties (COP17) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change held in Durban, South Africa in late-2011. COP17 was a high-level summit on climate change.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2020

The high emissions intensity of refining concentrate to lithium carbonate or hydroxide, in part driven by China’s power grid mix and reliance of coal. The low emissions output from mining equipment and on-site vehicles, despite their comparatively high energy intensity.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2010

Another concern associated with EVs is that they could increase emissions of criteria pollutants like SO 2 and NO x because power plants are believed to be the largest contributor to China’s SO 2. Generation mix of the six interprovincial power grids in 2008. and NO x emissions. Credit: ACS, Huo et al. Click to enlarge.

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Innovation News Network

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

In an interview with Innovation News Network, Amir Cohen, CEO at EGM, outlines the potential benefits of Dynamic Line Rating for optimising energy distribution and enhancing grid resilience in the face of climate change.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2022

However, mounting concerns about climate change and reducing emissions are consistently among the top two motivators for electric vehicle adoption among global consumers in the US, Germany, Japan, the Republic of Korea, India and Southeast Asia.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2022

As the electrical power grid in the US continues to decarbonize through the efforts of utilities and individual companies, the carbon intensity of EAF steelmaking will drop to even lower levels.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Four California state agencies and the independent power grid operator have released a new plan and vision for California’s energy future in advance of the Air Resources Board consideration of a first-in-the-nation rule requiring that a third of California electricity come from renewable sources by 2020.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

The Renault-Nissan Alliance is installing 90 new charge spots for electric vehicles in and around Paris for the COP21 global summit on climate change. Fourteen of the 27 quick chargers installed will remain after the climate change conference and will be available for the public to use.

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Innovation News Network

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Discover how efficient power grids will be crucial to mitigating climate change and meeting net zero targets. The post New power grids or smarter grids? Finding hidden spare capacity could unlock the bottlenecks to net zero appeared first on Innovation News Network.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2015

As the electric power grid becomes cleaner, as electric vehicles become cheaper and faster to recharge with longer range, and as policies adjust, electrification may offer benefits across the board, the brief notes. Further, drivers should not be encouraged to charge at night in coal-heavy regions.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2009

The funding from A*STAR’s Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC) will support research teams from A*STAR research institutes and local institutes of higher learning to develop solutions to manage environmental deterioration, pressures on natural resources and climate change brought on by rapid growth and urbanization.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2010

This program seeks to develop revolutionary new storage technologies that exhibit energy, cost, and cycle life comparable to pumped hydropower, but which are modular and can be widely implemented at any location across the power grid.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2013

Siemens proposes that these costs would no longer be included in the electricity price but covered via a fixed-cost, flat-rate payment for the grid connection. All consumers who use the power grid would thus pay an equal share of the costs—regardless if they produce electricity and how much, or what they consume.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2011

The report, Bucks for balancing: can plug-in vehicles of the future extract cash—and carbon—from the power grid? , is based on a research collaboration between a team of engineers from Ricardo and National Grid, the operator of the high voltage electricity transmission system within Great Britain (GB).

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change , approximately 15 percent of net anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions come from the transportation sector. To meet global climate targets, we must devise ways to get people and goods from point A to point B without burning fossil fuels.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 17, 2023

Chinese EVs achieve greater emissions reductions over time due to improved efficiency and a greener power grid, states a study. While over 10% of Chinese car sales are now electric, the entire life cycle of EVs still generates carbon emissions.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

is creating a streamlined manufacturing process for silicon solar photovoltaic cells that requires only 10% of the silicon, half of the operating and equipment cost, and a quarter of the energy of incumbent technology, enabling sustainable solar manufacturing that will combat climate change by meeting global demand for solar.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

The report— A Vision for a Sustainable Battery Value Chain in 2030 —suggests that, with a concerted push to put the right conditions in place, batteries could enable a 30% reduction in carbon emissions in both the transport and power sectors. This would also contribute to achieving the more ambitious 1.5°

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2021

The outlook for the power mix varies significantly across the globe, with renewables contributing 71% in Western Europe by 2030 compared to 35% in the US, 38% in China and 27% in India. As countries look to accelerate this transition, the modernization of power grids and integration of energy storage will also be increasingly important.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2016

50% clean power target. At least six transmission lines currently proposed or in permitting review, such as the Great Northern Transmission Line, the New England Clean Power Link, and the Nogales Interconnection, would add approximately 5,000 megawatts (MW) of new cross-border transmission capacity.

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Plug In Partners

FEBRUARY 28, 2007

The study found that PHEVs may result in a reduction of the overall expense of owning a vehicle and, with the help of smart-grid technologies, eliminate harmful vehicle emissions by up to 50 percent. The study looked at how adding PHEVs to the road could affect the electric power grid depending on when and where the cars were charging.

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EV Connect

JANUARY 24, 2022

As the costs of climate change and the price of oil both become too high to bear, auto manufacturers will shift more of their vehicle fleets to electric. As it stands, the power grid is already run-down and outdated , built for the electric loads of a century ago, not for modern life. But that’s not all.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Last month, ExxonMobil announced that it would invest $15 million to the University of Texas at Austin Energy Institute to pursue technologies to help meet growing energy demand while reducing environmental impacts and the risk of climate change.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 31, 2023

Take power-grid transformers. These essential voltage-converting components are designed to cool down at night, when power consumption is typically low. Humans must change two foundational sectors of modern civilization—energy and transportation—to achieve the targeted reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 15, 2019

The power grid that electric vehicles plug into will get cleaner over time. But depending on where you are, the rate at which it cleans up could have a lot to do with something that’s headed to the courts.

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Creative Greenius

MARCH 6, 2009

Commissioner Gobble, who makes frequent reminders that he works with Southern California Edison, said that from his “industry professional standpoint “that he wouldn’t want to see Earth Hour get too successful because if we all turn out our lights for an hour we could suffer a devastating blackout that would crash the power grid.

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Green Energy Consumers

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Despite the fact that they get the lion's share of coverage in the media, announcements of new climate programs by Governor Healey or clean energy laws passed by the State House are just pieces of paper.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2009

In the paper, the GM team broke down CO 2 and fuel consumption reduction potentials into several categories: The introduction of E-REVs and PHEVs to existing grids, displacing petroleum use; The influence of charging availability and consumer behavior on CO 2 reduction; Changes in power grid mix as well as vehicle stock; and.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2013

For the current fiscal year, the program is slated to invest approximately $90 million to encourage the development and use of new technologies, and alternative and renewable fuels, to help the state meet its climate-change goals. Expanding hydrogen fueling stations in California.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Officials announced that US and EU researchers would develop “joint models” in five designated fields: extreme weather and climate forecasting; emergency response management; health and medicine improvements; electric grid optimization; and agriculture optimization.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

The “cash for volts&# approach was touted Monday by the Electrification Coalition, a 13-member group that sees electric plug-ins as the answer to a host of problems, from dependence on foreign oil to tailpipe emissions that some believe is contributing to global climate change.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 30, 2009

The garage studies the integration of the electric vehicle into the power grid system where it either charges or discharges to accommodate the owner’s electricity needs. This would allow utilities to stagger when electric cars are charging, or charge up power all at once if generation is high.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

It occurred in the wake of the California electricity crisis of 2000 and 2001, when mismanaged deregulation, market manipulation, and environmental catastrophe combined to unhinge the power grid. Once electricity is generated and passes into the grid, it is typically used almost immediately.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 24, 2023

Having these [stations] in place will help fight climate change.” Orajaka and the other founders have set their sights higher than just providing off-grid rural areas with electricity. The project received support from Power Africa and USAID.

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Driivz

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

As the world continues to face climate change challenges, it is becoming increasingly critical that we transition to more sustainable energy sources. Renewable energy, such as solar and wind power, is a more environmentally friendly and cleaner alternative to traditional fossil fuels.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

And at the headquarters of Pacific Gas and Electric, utility executives are preparing “heat maps” of neighborhoods that they fear may overload the power grid in their exuberance for electric cars.&#. Here’s the full text of the entire article, in case the link goes bad: [link]. February 15, 2010.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 23, 2024

In 2024, technologies to combat climate change soared above the clouds in electricity-generating kites, traveled the oceans sequestering carbon, and permeated the earth to power agritech in a new way. Weve gathered our top 10 climate tech stories of the past year here for you to explore.

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