Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2012

A new policy brief published by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) International Transport Forum (ITF) notes that existing electricity systems will need to be reconfigured to support the widespread adoption of electric mobility and suggests that Smart Grid technologies and EVs and EVs could be mutually beneficial.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

GE and Nissan have signed a two-year research collaboration to speed up the development of a reliable, robust smart charging infrastructure to fuel mass market adoption of electric cars such as the Nissan LEAF. Are there innovative ways to directly link charging stations with renewable power sources?

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Green Car Reports

JULY 26, 2017

The purchase of an electric car that plugs into the power grid to recharge its battery often gets drivers thinking about the source of their energy. We haven't seen data from recent years looking at the overlap between electric-car drivers and home solar panels.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 30, 2013

Naval Support Activity (NSA) Mid-South officially welcomed into service the US Navy’s first solar-powered electric car charging station. The 150-foot-long panel structure tilts automatically to track the sun and includes several safety features to protect against high wind or lightning strikes.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 4, 2019

The Lightyear One started with a World Solar Challenge champion-team effort, and the project has from the start been focused around uncompromised efficiency and a design that flaunts its solar cells and sleek aerodynamics—as well as the idea of not being so dependent on charging infrastructure.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2010

US-based lithium-ion battery producer EnerDel is partnering with the real estate arm of Japan’s industrial trading giant, ITOCHU Corporation, to develop and produce the advanced battery systems for a residential smart grid energy storage project to be installed in a major apartment building near Tokyo. Earlier post.). since 2003.

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 25, 2021

I started learning about, writing about, and promoting electric cars in 2007. Debra and I finally got our first electric car, A 2012 Toyota RAV4 EV, a joint production with Tesla, in January of 2013. Debra Bushweit Galliani in 2013 with our first electric car. kW solar PV system on our own house in 2015.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 5, 2013

Some of our electric car-owning readers already reap the benefits of solar energy with roof-mounted panels, but on a grid level solar still has a long way to go. energy demands could be satisfied by solar by 2050. According to Clean.'

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 29, 2019

Electric cars and public transportation go together in more ways than one. In the latest example, the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority plans to add solar panels to the rooftops of its rail yards and bus depots to help feed the local power grid.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2019

MWh and uses used lithium-ion batteries from development vehicles to test various interaction scenarios between electric cars and the power grid. Audi models will be equipped with an electrified drive—equivalent to roughly one million electrified cars per year. The Audi storage unit has a capacity of 1.9

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 29, 2018

Hitachi’s V2X Charger is the first recharger that not only recharges an electric car but can also discharge the energy back into the building/grid providing different flexibilities including kW, ?kW, This energy can then be discharged back into the grid when appropriate. kW, kWh and VAR.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2010

Startup electric car company Aurica Motors announced a plan to keep the NUMMI plant, which employs 4,700 people, from shutting down when Toyota leaves on 31 March. Planned production would be 5,000 cars in the first year of production, moving up to 50,000+ within three years. Aurica envisions a battery swap in 3 minutes or less.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2016

Renault, Europe’s leading electric vehicles manufacturer, and its Dutch economic partners Utrecht City Council, ElaadNL and LomboXnet signed a letter of intent in Paris to develop a Franco-Dutch framework of smart solar charging solutions for electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

This collaboration will accelerate the introduction of new solutions for electric vehicle charging, the fast ramp up of renewables combined with energy storage in off-grid and on-grid solutions as well as battery and energy storage solutions for the fast growing marine segment. Micro-grid applications. Solar energy.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2017

This is the largest single deployment of solar-powered electric vehicle charging stations in the County and the first to link all the rural cities in one single county. The EV ARC products will provide no-cost charging for San Joaquin Valley EV drivers, helping to make electric cars more affordable for Fresno County residents.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

They wanted to see whether an electric vehicle could feed electricity back to the grid. The company’s president, Tom Gage , dubbed the system “vehicle to grid” or V2G. For the utilities, it promised an economical way of meeting rising demand for electricity. AC Propulsion’s experiment was timely.

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Creative Greenius

JUNE 11, 2009

We’ve now got some Mo going with: California solar loan financing that will eliminate the big up front cost of solar. With the coming solar feed-in tariff legislation moving through Sacramento that will pay us for the extra solar energy we produce and feed back into the grid.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The main benefit of this is that it makes charging with self-generated solar power even easier for owners of photovoltaic systems. Electricity tariffs and algorithms already make it possible to charge the car at the point at which a lot of renewable energy is available. million electric cars for a year.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Working with Fermata Energy, a vehicle-to-grid (V2G) systems company, Nissan North America is launching a new pilot program under the Nissan Energy Share initiative which leverages bi?directional The company will also develop new ways to reuse electric car batteries.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 21, 2019

If you’ve seen the light with electric cars, chances are you’re at least curious about home solar. Solar can help contribute to vehicle charging, and it can help reduce the load from the electrical grid during peak charging times.

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

It was just in May 2021 that I had the privilege to interview Beam Global’s CEO, Desmond Wheatley, about a then-recent order from the state of California for 52 off-grid solar-power EV chargers. kilowatt solar array and up to 44kWh of battery storage. Each Beam Global EV charging unit has a 4.3 Typically news about […].

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

According to a new survey from Pike Research, general consumer support for clean energy concepts—ranging from renewable energy to alternative fuel vehicles to smart grid technologies—has eroded in the US between 2009 and 2011. Click to enlarge.

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Creative Greenius

MAY 14, 2009

After a decade in the solar power installation business, Bradley Bartz is tired of being Mr. Nice Guy. He’s filed suit against Torrance, the proud home of Exxon/Mobil’s refinery, for stopping him from installing solar panels in the Hillside Overlay district. “ Idiots ! “ Idiots !&#

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2011

The Lindells will charge the electrical car in a smart charging station in the carport. Solar cells on the house roof and exterior provide the house with electricity. All surplus electricity can be used to charge the family’s electrically-powered Volvo or be used in the joint electricity grid.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC) has launched a Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) pilot, with the first charge point already being utilized with Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV’s in-vehicle storage batteries. University of Delaware Professor Willett Kempton, the pioneer of the grid-integrated vehicle concept, is Nuvve’s CTO.). Earlier post.).

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CleanTechnica EVs

JANUARY 29, 2022

The Northern Territory of Australia has long been associated with the biennial World Solar Car Challenge. Solar cars are lightweight EVs powered solely by solar power. They do not access the grid during the challenge.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

The two companies are collaborating to determine how the Volt’s 16-kWh lithium-ion batteries can be used to provide stationary electric grid storage systems once the batteries have fulfilled their usefulness in customers’ vehicles. —Bazmi Husain, head of ABB’s smart grids initiative. Earlier this month, Nissan Motor Co.,

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CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

As the adoption of electric cars, trucks, and buses gains momentum, many people are wondering if the electric grid is up to the task of charging all of those vehicles.

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Setec Powerr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Solar energy is reshaping the way we power our homes, appliances, and vehicles. For shed owners, the leap to solar is not just an environmentally conscious decision, but a practical one. Let’s dive deep into the potential of using solar power for sheds and the benefits of integrated solar systems.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2018

We see $548 billion being invested in battery capacity by 2050, two thirds of that at the grid level and one third installed behind-the-meter by households and businesses. trillion of that going to wind and solar and a further $1.5 NEO 2018 also analyzes the impact of the electrification of transport on electricity consumption.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 22, 2020

Sono Motors discusses using solar panels for the entire vehicle, not just the roof. A California utility studies using electric cars to stabilize the grid. And the Hyundai Kona Electric might be catching on in Europe as a police car. This and more, here at Green Car Reports.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 27, 2021

The state of California recently ordered 52 solar-powered EV chargers from San Diego-based Beam Global. The off-grid clean energy chargers will provide electricity in emergency situations and charge zero-emissions state fleets. Typically, […].

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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

JANUARY 12, 2012

In an effort to calculate what percentage of daily trips in the US could be covered with a fully charged electric vehicle, two Columbia doctoral candidates recently conducted a statistical analysis using the National Household Travel Survey of 2009 on distances driven by the US population. Solar Journey USA project.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2011

Respectively, each one is suitable for a very different type of drive concept: for electric cars, fuel-cell vehicles and CNG vehicles. Audi wants to use green power to produce and also operate its electric-drive e-tron models in the future. As needed, this gas could also flow back.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2009

British Gas and Romag Holdings Plc , the specialist manufacturer of glass and plastic composites for renewable energy applications, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate in the testing, marketing, distribution and installation of British Gas branded solar power canopies and other related products.

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Teslarati

APRIL 10, 2021

The Tesla Solar Roof may not inspire as much coverage as the company’s electric cars like the Model 3 and Model Y, but the integrated solar shingles are still a unique flagship product. kW Solar Roof installed on his home last year. were fed to the grid, and 32.2% Tesla estimated that the 9.09

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