Cars That Think

JANUARY 18, 2023

Think Globally, Heat Locally The spirit of “Think Globally, Act Locally”, a mantra associated with the 1960s, lives on with Polar Night Energy’s team of innovators. After graduation, the project they codenamed “Hippie Commune” became Polar Night Energy, with Eronen as CEO and Ylönen as CTO.

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Plug In India

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

” Musk pointed to data from the information service World of Statistics showing that the price of lithium hydroxide had risen to $78,032 per metric ton from $6,800 in 2019. Also sodium is universally available. In addition, it has wide use applications from mobility to grid scale storage."

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2015

Researchers at the US Department of Energy (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) are identifying battery second use (B2U) strategies capable of offsetting vehicle expenses while improving utility grid stability. —Ahmad Pesaran, NREL Energy Storage Group Manager.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

At present, PHEV technology alone is equipped to improve the current electric grid. The car can refuel during periods of low demand on the grid, and if equipped with a bi-directional charger, can actually replenish the grid with excess energy gleaned from a renewable resource. Appendix D: Vehicle Driving Statistics.

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Charged EVs

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The company has sold some 950 buses to transit agencies, airports, universities, national parks and private companies in 43 states and provinces. Builders of heavy-duty EVs tend to use the term energy storage system , or ESS, which may consist of more than one battery pack.].

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 23, 2023

ALLEN MEDAL Sponsor: IBM DAVID KUCK University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign “For pioneering work in vector and parallel computer architecture, software, and compilers that enables many performance-sensitive applications.” VAIDYANATHAN Caltech “For contributions to theory and practice of statistical, graph, and distributed signal processing.”

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Baua Electric

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Today’s diversified multinational energy companies have invested deeply in solar panels, energy storage, and charging networks, with wells and refineries and combustion only part of the business. According to Harvard University data, the U.S. lost about 75,000 manufacturing jobs during the Trump administration.

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