Green Car Reports

JUNE 15, 2016

While its electric-car manufacturing continues to get the most attention, Tesla quietly continues to build up its energy-storage business as well. Today, the still-incomplete "gigafactory" in Nevada is assembling standalone battery packs for the company's Tesla Energy stationary energy-storage division.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2019

Solar Sister (Great Falls, Virginia) invests in women’s enterprises in off-grid communities in Africa. African Clean Energy (Lesotho) produces cookstoves that reduce smoke emissions and solar electricity for small electronics and LED lighting. Clean Energy Works (Washington, D.C.) Clean Energy Works (Washington, D.C.)

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

According to Tesla’s Q3 earnings call , “energy deployments,” or deployments of their energy storage products, increased by 62% year over year, totaling 2,100MWh in Q3 alone. What is more apparent is that Tesla is far from alone in the energy storage business. Answers remain unclear.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) is a member of a team that was recently awarded a $7-million contract from the US Army Corps of Engineers to demonstrate integration of electric vehicles, generators and solar arrays to supply emergency power for Fort Carson, Colo. Demonstration for Energy. Harbor/Hickam, Hawaii; Fort.

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Teslarati

MARCH 21, 2023

Despite its lack of news coverage, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has shared numerous times that he expects Tesla’s energy business to quickly eclipse its auto sales in terms of profit, thanks primarily to the success of Tesla’s commercial energy storage offering , the Megapack.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2013

The bidirectional charging units are capable of providing up to 300 kW of power to plug-in electric vehicles and also can discharge a like amount of stored energy from the vehicle batteries to the grid or microgrid via Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) standard J1772-compliant bidirectional charging cables.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2017

These goals are the second-highest renewable energy integration goals after the State of Hawaii. For this reason, utilities are now required to install large-scale energy storage systems under California’s Assembly Bill 2514.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2016

HydroGEN Consortium (HydroGEN) –this consortium will accelerate the development of advanced water splitting materials for hydrogen production, with an initial focus on advanced electrolytic, photoelectrochemical, and solar thermochemical pathways. Source: “2015 Fuel Cell Technologies Market Report” Click to enlarge.

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JULY 17, 2015

It offers the solution to several significant transitions we need: moving society from burning fossil fuels to substituting renewable resource fuels such as solar, wind and biofuels; and from using fossil materials as fuel to using them for other recyclable uses. Distributed Solar and Wind with the PHEV. It is much more than that.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2010

Canada-based Rapid Electric Vehicles (REV) has begun production of four converted electric bi-directional charging Ancillary Power Vehicles (APVs) ( earlier post ) as part of the US Army Tank Automotive Research Development Engineering Center (TARDEC) Micro-Grid project at Wheeler Air Base, Hawaii.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

So far Israel, Denmark, Australia , Hawaii and California’s Bay Area have plans to implement the Better Place model. Finally there may be new energy storage that requires less lithium. This may be the lowest cost energy storage solution just because we are going to make the batteries anyway. but not all of it.

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