Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2020

Until recently, the Chengdu plant already sourced 70% of its electricity from renewable sources. Under the new contract, around 65% of the electricity supply comes from hydropower, while the remainder comes from solar power, wind power and other renewable sources. The new contract addresses the last 30%.

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Electrek

APRIL 23, 2021

In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): Texas is expected to add record utility-scale solar in the next two years. West Virginia’s electric car drivers made a film about why they chose to embrace electric. 1 wind state Texas to add record solar by end of 2022 appeared first on Electrek.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2011

Audi will supply three sources of green energy in the scope of the e-gas project: electricity, hydrogen and methane gas. Respectively, each one is suitable for a very different type of drive concept: for electric cars, fuel-cell vehicles and CNG vehicles. This results in a completely closed CO 2 cycle. Rated at 3.6

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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

MAY 15, 2020

The Congressional Research Service last year noted increasing interest among producers of distributed energy resources (DERs)—such as rooftop solar—to sell electricity to neighbors. Feeders—which carry voltage from a substation to transformers—were not designed for the bidirectional flow of electricity.

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Teslarati

MAY 24, 2021

Like the previous project in Germany, Tesla and Fastned will utilize only energy from the sund and wind, “generated partly on-site by its trademark solar canopy.” Fastned continues to expand EV charging options for UK drivers who have chosen electric powertains. ” Credit: Fastned. What do you think?

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Wind Solar United Kingdom Power 145

Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2021

The global rare earth market, driven by demand from industries including electric vehicles and offshore wind, is expected to increase five-fold by 2030 and the NdPr oxide price is forecast to increase at a CAGR of 4.8 - 9.9%, underpinning strong economics for the investment. China currently supplies 98% of Europe’s rare earth magnets.

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Angola Wind China Hydrogen 345

Green Car Reports

MAY 29, 2014

ALSO SEE: Solar Roadways Smashes Crowdfunding Target, Still Raising More Tesla Model S owners don''t need.' The more air you have to push out of the way to reach or maintain a certain speed, the more energy you''re using. And the more energy you use, the less efficient your journey will be.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2019

Using its scientific expertise and collection of geological specimens, the Museum is collaborating with leading researchers to identify resource and environmental implications of the transition to green energy technologies including electric cars. Using figures published for current EVs (Nissan Leaf, Renault Zoe), driving 252.5

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Energy will be primarily generated from local power sources such as solar and wind. At the center of the project is a new transport system with digital mobility services, including an all-electric year-round ridesharing service designed to take the current very limited local bus service to a new level.

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Greece Climate Transportation Fleet 427

Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2010

Electric car company Aurica Motors, which plans to retool the NUMMI plant in California to build not only electric cars but compatible battery charging stations ( earlier post ), has entered two partnerships in support of its mission.

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Manufacturer Electric Cars Companies Motoring 186

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

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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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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Solar Installation California Building 210

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

According to a new survey from Pike Research, US consumer support for renewable energy sources, such as solar and wind, is high while support for cap and trade as a carbon management scheme is extremely low. Hybrid vehicles (64%) and electric vehicles (57%) came in third and fourth. Wind Energy: 75%. Electric Cars: 57%.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

This novel technology would deliver safe, reliable, resilient, and cost-effective electric power in the grid. This technology could reduce electricity/energy bills, pollution from power plants, risks of blackouts, the need for new power plants, and pollution from power plant generation. Leap Photovoltaics Inc.

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Cleaning Clean Energy Energy Storage 371

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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Audi Power Grid Batteries Battery 287

Green Car Reports

JUNE 24, 2021

General Motors and Shell on Wednesday announced a new partnership to provide renewable energy to GM customers in Texas, as well as free overnight charging for Texans who own GM electric cars. The offer.

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Renewable GM Energy Charging 214

Green Car Reports

AUGUST 16, 2011

Photovoltaic solar panels are quickly becoming the accepted ultimate accessory for any self-respecting electric car owner.

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Electric Cars Wind Solar Cars 120

CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 24, 2024

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Chinese Solar Electric Cars Power 114

National Green Transportation

AUGUST 10, 2011

It's a kind of stereotyped dream isn't it, the electric car and wind turbines or solar panels in the background. It offers this zero emission "no more fuel" nirvana when your car is.

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Solar Electric Cars Wind Cars 105

Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2012

It targets a 30 percent share in the electric car market in the regions by 2020.Though Though a relative newcomer to the car battery market, Hyundai Heavy said it has since 1992 been engaged in developing components for electric vehicles.

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Li-ion Hyundai North America Batteries 268

Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2010

Electric cars from Audi will run on sustainably produced electricity. To achieve this goal we’re supporting the development of solar- and wind-driven power plants. Audi is looking to introduce its first small-series electric car to the market as early as 2012.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 28, 2024

Solar Power in the USA: California, the largest US solar market by far, has thrown the solar industry into. continued] The post 5 Million US Solar Installations, Low Tesla Model Y Interest Rates, New Electric Cars — Top Cleantech News appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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Solar Installation Electric Cars USA 108

Green Car Reports

JUNE 27, 2012

Startups focused on big-picture energy needs, including solar and wind power, pulled in huge investments, thanks in. But if you ask investors, greentech isn’t disappearing, it’s just changing. Between 2006 and 2007, cleantech and greentech emerged as hot terms in the investor vernacular.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2021

Electric cars do not emit carbon on the road, but the generation of electricity also produces carbon emissions—far more when the power is generated from fossil fuels than from renewable energy sources. This corresponds to an installed capacity of about 250 new wind turbines. Further projects are to follow quickly.

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Audi Renewable Europe Green 186

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2011

TreeHugger will host a webchat on 9 August at 10 EDT/3 GMT with Dale Vince, the CEO of Ecotricity , a UK-based green electricity company which is also creating a UK-wide network of free electric car charging stations. He built a wind energy empire that got him on Britain’s rich list.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 20, 2011

IGBTs (Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistors) are power semiconductors used to drive electric motors both in automotive applications and in trains. Infineon is engaged in many wind and solar power as well as high-speed train projects in China with its semiconductor solutions.

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China Manufacturer Wind 2020 218

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

Electromobility is just now picking up momentum; further, electric cars are only as emissions-free as the production of electricity that charges their batteries. As their name suggests, renewable synthetic fuels are made exclusively with energy obtained from renewable sources such as the sun or wind. Climate neutrality.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Plant Regensburg will also start manufacturing the new BMW X1 in 2022, which will be available both with an combustion engine and a fully-electric drive train. At the same time, the BMW Group is expanding its capacity for manufacturing electric drive trains. —Milan Nedeljkovi?.

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BMW Engine Production South Africa 396

Electric Cars Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Lightyear, the high-tech company developing the world’s first solar car, today announced Lightyear 0 will be the world’s most aerodynamic production car, with a record-breaking drag coefficient of 0.175 (Cd).

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Wind Production Cars Solar 116

Creative Greenius

DECEMBER 9, 2009

But gradually we would be driving battery-powered electric cars and powering more and more of our homes and factories with wind, solar, nuclear and second-generation biofuels. Well, during a transition period, we would have higher energy prices.

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Climate Change Climate New York Solar 170

Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2012

One of the new virtual power plants enables the Munich municipal utility company to run six of its cogeneration modules, five hydroelectric facilities, and one wind-power plant more efficiently and economically than if they were operated separately. The facilities have a combined output of 20 megawatts.

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Renewable Power Powered Wind 244

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. The Volt’s battery will have significant capacity to store electrical energy, even after its automotive life.

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Volt GM Lithium Ion Batteries 240

Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

For 50 years, the state of California has led the United States when it comes to renewable energy and electric cars. The state features many programs to incentivize electric-car ownership, and 29 percent of the state's 2016 energy production came from solar, wind, and other renewable power sources.

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Electrek

JULY 12, 2023

Aptera’s “Gamma” prototype of its solar-powered, three-wheeled electric car is overseas right now, doing aerodynamic testing at Pininfarina’s wind tunnel near Turin, Italy, in the shadow of the Italian Alps.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

China has developed a draft plan to invest $17 billion in central government funds in fuel economy, hybrids, plug-in hybrids, electric and fuel cell vehicles, with the goal of producing 5 million new energy vehicles and 15 million fuel-efficient conventional vehicles by 2020. Solar fuels. Renewable Energy.

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