Remove Connected Remove DC Remove Waste Remove Wind
article thumbnail

China Will Attempt First Carbon-Neutral Winter Olympics

Cars That Think

About 160 kilometers northwest of Beijing, the city of Zhangjiakou with its rugged terrain boasts some of the richest wind and solar resources in China. Renewables account for nearly half of the city’s electricity output with less than a third of its full solar and wind potential of 70 gigawatts installed so far.

Carbon 102
article thumbnail

ARPA-E awards $30M to 21 projects advance new class of high-performance power converters

Green Car Congress

Smart, Compact, Efficient 500kW DC Fast Charger Cree Fayetteville (operating as Wolfspeed, A Cree Company) and its project team will build a DC fast charger for electric vehicles using a solid-state transformer based on silicon carbide (SiC). Grid-Connected Modular Soft-Switching Solid State Transformers. CIRCUITS awards.

Convert 170
article thumbnail

Solar-powered off-grid EV charging stations offer surprisingly attractive cost advantages

Charged EVs

EV ARCs can be deployed with Level 1, Level 2 or (using 4 or more units connected together) DC fast charging. We make products that happen to use renewable sources of energy as opposed to connecting to the grid for the primary source of energy. Q&A with Beam Global CEO Desmond Wheatley. I would never have thought of that.

Grid 143
article thumbnail

A Skeptic’s Take on Beaming Power to Earth from Space

Cars That Think

The accelerating buildout of solar farms on Earth is already hitting speed bumps, including public pushback against the large tracts of land required and a ballooning backlog of requests for new transmission lines and grid connections. These rectennas would then convert the signal to usable DC electricity.

Power 132
article thumbnail

Must Read 40+ Electric Vehicle Interview Questions & Answers

Get Electric Vehicle

It typically consists of numerous individual battery cells connected to provide the required voltage and capacity. 4 Onboard Charger: The onboard charger converts AC (alternating current) power from an external charging station or electrical outlet into DC (direct current) power to recharge the vehicle’s battery pack.

article thumbnail

This New Breed of Generator Can Run on Almost Any Fuel

Cars That Think

It’s January 2030 and your electric heat pump is warming the house while your electric car charges in the garage, all powered by solar panels on your roof and by wind and solar generators at your local utility. If compression continues after the reaction happens, it fights against the pressure generated by the reaction, wasting energy.

Fuel 143
article thumbnail

Behind the Wheel, Under the Hood of World’s First 500-Mile EV

Cars That Think

That frugal operation is boosted by a 924-volt architecture (versus 400 volts for Tesla, and 800 for Porsche's Taycan) whose benefits include restoring up to 300 miles of range in 20 minutes on a 350-kilowatt DC fast charger. Lucid's wind-tunnel testing isn't yet independently confirmed. That's another industry high.

Miles 145