Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

A paper by a team from the University of Chicago and MIT suggests that technology-driven cost reductions in fossil fuels will lead to the continued use of fossil fuels—oil, gas, and coal—unless governments pass new taxes on carbon emissions. for oil, 24% for coal, and 20% for natural gas.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2021

In 2019, Amazon announced plans to obtain 100,000 electric delivery vehicles. UPS has ordered 10,000 of them and FedEx plans to be fully electric by 2040. Our evaluation strategy leads to two main recommendations for companies investing in fleets of electric vehicles. —Maxwell Woody, lead author.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Increased availability of low CO 2 sources of electricity and hydrogen could counter-intuitively delay, rather than accelerate, a large-scale transition to an electric and/or hydrogen vehicle fleet, according to a new study by researchers from Ford Motor Company and Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2011

Obama was delivering a speech on energy policy at Georgetown University. That’s why we’ve already doubled the number of alternative vehicles in the federal fleet, and that’s why, today, I am directing agencies to purchase 100% alternative fuel, hybrid, or electric vehicles by 2015. —President Obama.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2013

Benson from Stanford University and Stanford’s Global Climate and Energy Project (GCEP) has quantified the energetic costs of 7 different grid-scale energy storage technologies over time. The Stanford study considered a future US grid where up to 80% of the electricity comes from renewables. Credit: Barnhart and Benson, 2013.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 27, 2024

The Challenge of Intermittency and the Role of Batteries The transition to renewable energy sources such as solar and wind power is gaining momentum globally. For instance, during periods of reduced solar irradiance or wind speed, traditional energy sources such as coal often experience a surge in production to meet demand.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2010

The US Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has awarded more than $123 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act grants to support the construction of new scientific research facilities at 11 universities and one non-profit research organization. million to the University of Maine (Orono, Me.)

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2017

A new study by researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder projects the emission impacts of the widespread introduction of inexpensive and efficient electric vehicles into the US light duty vehicle (LDV) sector. The work is reported in a paper in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. 6b04801.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2013

A new spatially-explicit life cycle assessment of five different “sun-to-wheels” conversion pathways—ethanol from corn or switchgrass for internal combustion vehicles (ICVs); electricity from corn or switchgrass for battery-electric vehicles (BEVs); and photovoltaic electricity for BEVs—found a strong case for PV BEVs.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2010

The second round was focused specifically on three areas of technology representing new approaches for advanced microbial biofuels (electrofuels); much higher capacity and less expensive batteries for electric vehicles; and carbon capture. NC State University. Medical University of South Carolina. Columbia University.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Among the most articulate and almost certainly the wonkiest is Jesse Jenkins , a professor of engineering at Princeton University, where he heads the ZERO Lab—the Zero-carbon Energy systems Research and Optimization Laboratory, that is. How fast can you ramp your power plants up and down to handle the variability from wind and solar?

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 28, 2023

This is not to imply in any way that electric vehicles are worthless. For instance, Alexandre Milovanoff at the University of Toronto and his colleagues’ research (which is described in depth in a recent Spectrum article ) demonstrates the U.S. For example, researchers at University of Oxford in the U.K.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2010

Natural photosynthesis uses solar energy to recycle CO 2 (and H 2 O) into new plant life (biomass) and ultimately fuels (biofuels). Major reductions in emissions from the transportation sector will necessitate a change in vehicle fuels. Jiang et al. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2009

The authors point out their study looked at only two criteria, kilometers travelled and greenhouse gas offsets, but did not examine the performance of electricity and ethanol for other policy-relevant criteria such as water consumption, air pollution or economic costs. A paper on the work appeared in the 8 May issue of the journal Science.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2009

A new paper from the Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry Center concludes that while a market-based mechanism (e.g. In the meantime, in the absence of any other regulatory constraints, new coal or gas-fired generation will be built without CO 2 emissions controls. Samaras et al. The same is true of natural gas-fired plants.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

The project will include 13 different technologies from the substation to the customer, including distribution automation and control, smart meters and appliances, home area networks, plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, energy and battery storage, and renewable generation sources. Pecan Street Project (TX). 24,063,978. 48,127,957.

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Get Electric Vehicle

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Here is a collection of the project ideas related to the electric vehicle. We have published a video “ Top 75 electric vehicle related project ideas ” on our YouTube channel “ Get Electric Vehicle ” Now, here is a collection of the comments and responses to those comments in that video.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

The PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle), a subset of the electric car, combines a primary electric motor with a much smaller back-up engine fueled with a hydrocarbon/biofuel mix. (In In this paper PHEV refers solely to the long-range PHEV of 60 miles (100 km) electric-only range.) CTO Efficient Drivetrains Inc.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 6, 2024

It’s very similar to the infrastructure for electric cars because the idea, ultimately, for electric cars is that you also are revamping your grid to facilitate, whatchamacallit, intermittent renewable energy sources, like wind and solar, because having an electric car that runs off a coal-fired power plant is defeating the purpose, essentially.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2017

Researchers at George Washington University led by Dr. Stuart Licht ( earlier post ) have developed a new process that transforms CO 2 into a controlled selection of nanotubes (CNTs) via molten electrolysis; they call the process C2CNT (CO2 into carbon nanotubes). Licht (2017). Click to enlarge.

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My Electric Car

AUGUST 21, 2020

Little seems developed in any wide commercial sense and certainly not to the extent of the pure electric car. First, hydrogen is not as readily attained and certainly not as available as ubiquitous electricity. In comparison to a pure battery electric vehicle, FCEVs are more complex and heavier.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2015

For the study, the team reconstructed the vehicle technology portfolios from two national vehicle studies (the 2007 Environmental Assessment of Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles by the Electric Power Research Institute and Natural Resources Defense Council; and the 2009 Multi-Path Transportation Futures study by Argonne National Laboratory).

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Revenge of the Electric Car

APRIL 6, 2010

From the article: ‘The New York study anticipates that by 2015, electric vehicle prices should decline because of reduced battery costs, that there will be a sufficient supply of electric vehicles to purchase, and that consumers will take advantage of the existing federal tax credit of $7,500 for new electric cars.

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Cars That Think

JULY 7, 2024

This helped create the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1934 that forced more regulation on the electricity industry. It also promised utilities better and more stable economic returns, but in exchange for providing universal access, and so we end up getting the grid that we have right now. Give me an autonomous inverter first.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2009

Among the direct transportation-related provisions in the extensive package are a low-carbon fuel standard for all transportation fuels; financial support for large scale demonstrations of electric vehicles; and financial support for automakers retooling plants to make electric vehicles. Clean Fuels and Vehicles.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

The breakthrough could revolutionize electric car battery technology and pave the way for ultra-fast charging electric vehicles in as little as two years. According to Peter Bruce, a chemist at the University of St Andrews, UK, “As far as I know, this is the fastest yet for this material.&# About Gas 2.0

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Direct Solar Fuels (5 projects). Vehicle Technologies (5 projects). If successfully developed, this transformational new energy storage technology would greatly reduce the cost of hybrid and electric vehicles. Arizona State University, in partnership with Fluidic Energy Inc., Biomass Energy (5 projects).

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

But when you do, your car essentially becomes an electric vehicle with a gas-tank backup. Plug-In Hybrids Are Cleaner (Even on a Coal Grid) [ to top ] This entire section is finally obsolete -- because we now have a definitive study by the Electric Power Research Institute and the Natural Resources Defense Council.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2011

The University of California, Davis and the BMW Group released the largest publicly available study of electric-car users yet conducted, including more than 120 families who drove the fully electric MINI E automobile more than 1 million miles in California, New York and New Jersey from June 2009 to June 2010.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 17, 2022

It prescribes new spending of $437 billion over 10 years, of which some $370 billion is directed towards a sprawling range of renewable-energy, electric-vehicle, and other greenhouse-gas reduction measures. But it was the low-carbon-hydrogen provisions that raised eyebrows, for a couple of reasons.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 29, 2022

First, as countries everywhere move to decarbonize, the electrification of transportation, heating, and other sectors will cause electricity demand to soar. Second, conventional coal and nuclear plants are being retired for economic and policy reasons, removing stable sources from the grid. We think there’s a better way. 2, March 2014.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The World's First Clean Motocross Race On Electric. High-Speed Rail Unlocks Intermodal Potential Texas Excess Ford Expands Hybrid Success to Electric Vehicles ► March (17) Carbon Capture and Storage: To Be or Not To Be? Solar, Wind and Biofuels Grew 53 Percent in 2008 Green Education = Environmental Religion?

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Creative Greenius

JULY 2, 2009

Bonnie Reiss, Pegasus Capital Advisors and University of California Regent (c) 2009 Joe Galliani. He drives an electric car and has for seven years, a Toyota RAV4 EV. He won me over when he said after only a minute of talking, I think the future is electric vehicles. He’s the former President of SCE.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Electric cars and a smart electric grid have a bright future, according to panelists at a roundtable discussion on the subject that I attended last Friday in Boston. “I Mr. Thesen said that a factory in Turkey was being refurbished to be able to produce 100,000 electric vehicles a year. While utilities such as E.ON

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EV Match

AUGUST 29, 2022

The recently passed Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is arguably the most significant piece of climate legislation the United States has ever seen, including significant investments in clean energy and consumer incentives to accelerate electric vehicle (EV) adoption. Utility-scale photovoltaic solar array.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

A January 2007 Pacific National Laboratory study shows that if we woke up tomorrow and all our vehicles could plug in, todays grid could support more than three-quarters of them charging at night without building a single power plant. But its monumentally less pollution , even on the national (half-coal) grid. and at CalCars-News.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

They think BYD has a shot at becoming the worlds largest automaker, primarily by selling electric cars, as well as a leader in the fast-growing solar power industry. BYD has also begun selling a plug-in electric car with a backup gasoline engine, a move putting it ahead of GM, Nissan, and Toyota.

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