Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Back in the 1800s, electricity distribution was a short-range business, driven by nearby DC generators. It brought electricity to Sacramento over a 35-kilometer-long distribution line using newly invented AC generators and hydroelectric power. LET THERE BE ELECTRICITY. General Electric in Schenectady, N.Y.—were

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Widespread adoption of electric transportation, including electrification in the off-road sector, could lead to substantial reductions in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and could modestly improve air quality, according to a new analysis released by the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2021

Addressing climate change requires not only a clean electrical grid, but also a clean fuel to reduce emissions from industrial heat, long-haul heavy transportation, and long-duration energy storage. An H 2 economy already exists, but it involves lots of greenhouse gas emissions. Almost all of it is based on H 2 from methane.

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Baua Electric

JULY 22, 2024

The extent to which renewables should dominate Australia’s energy grids is a major issue in science and politics. Solar and wind are clearly now the cheapest form of electricity. But limits to these technologies can undermine the case for a renewables-only electricity mix. This is improving, however.

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Baua Electric

JULY 22, 2024

The extent to which renewables should dominate Australia’s energy grids is a major issue in science and politics. Solar and wind are clearly now the cheapest form of electricity. But limits to these technologies can undermine the case for a renewables-only electricity mix. This is improving, however.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

The US and China jointly announced greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction targets. US President Barack Obama said the US will cut net greenhouse gas emissions in the US by 26-28% below 2005 levels by 2025. Together, the US and China account for more than one third of global greenhouse gas emissions.

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Cars That Think

MAY 31, 2024

Nearly 400 exhibitors representing the boldest energy innovations in the United States came together last week at the annual ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit. You lose about half of your range in an electric vehicle if you drive it in the middle of winter in Michigan,” says Cyrus Rustomji, cofounder of South 8.

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The Truth About Cars

JULY 25, 2024

With emissions regulations encouraging automakers to pivot toward tiny engines and all-electric vehicles, some have likewise expressed a renewed interest in synthetic fuels. In the United States, prohibition made it less popular for general use due to a denaturing process designed to make it undrinkable in 1919.

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Teslarati

JUNE 30, 2021

The Saticoy battery’s stored energy will be supplied to Southern California Edison based on the terms of a 20-year purchase and sale agreement. At the last TSLA earnings call, Tesla CEO Elon Musk noted the importance of installing solar and storage batteries at the local residential level and utility level to stabilize power grids.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2020

SGH2’s gasification process uses a plasma-enhanced thermal catalytic conversion process optimized with oxygen-enriched gas. The end result is high purity hydrogen and a small amount of biogenic carbon dioxide, which is not additive to greenhouse gas emissions. Now, most of these materials are stored or sent back to landfills.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2014

Honda marked the opening of Honda Smart Home US, showcasing technologies that enable zero net energy living and transportation, including Honda’s home energy management system (HEMS), a proprietary hardware and software system that monitors, controls and optimizes electrical generation and consumption throughout the home’s microgrid.

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Setec Powerr

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Taking ABB as an example, the brand will be launched in Europe by the end of 2021 and will be launched in the United States, Latin America and Asia Pacific in 2022, and has sold more than 460,000 charging piles in more than 88 countries and regions. Significant market differentiation. The number of Volkswagen ID.4,

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2013

Project Volt Gas Volt is based on a long-term financing plan and the use of existing technologies for the large-scale conversion of surplus renewable electricity to methane, with subsequent reuse. Project VGV uses surplus electricity generated by renewable and nuclear sources to produce hydrogen via electrolysis. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2023

Heliostats are mirrors that track the sun in order to reflect highly concentrated sunlight to a receiver, where it can be stored as heat for long-duration energy storage and converted into electricity. The Heliostat Prize builds on the DOE roadmap to expand production and deployment of heliostats in the United States.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 30, 2022

The world’s largest pumped-energy-storage station—a technique that stores energy by pumping it uphill to a reservoir—is set to complete phase two of its construction in 2023. United States’ Wind on the Wire The largest renewable-energy infrastructure project in U.S.

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Blink Charging

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Electric vehicles, renewable energy systems, and grid energy storage all rely on efficient and affordable energy storage solutions, primarily lithium-ion batteries. But the price of these batteries had been a major roadblock to electric vehicle adoption. The good news is that things are starting to change.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

Thus, the efficiency of battery electric vehicles can vary with ambient temperature due to battery performance—as well as the energy required for cabin climate control. Reduced efficiency results in increased energy consumption and increased emissions from the electricity grid when BEVs charge. —Yuksel and Michalek.

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Driivz

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The German government offers grants up to €9,000 plus tax reductions for fully electric passenger vehicles, €40,000 for small to medium-sized electric trucks and up to €500,000 for heavy-duty trucks. Already the major players – Amazon, FedEx, UPS, and DHL – have electric vans on the street with orders in for more.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2011

Its high carbon-capture rate reduces the total amount of CO 2 emitted to the atmosphere to less than 10% of the emissions for power from a conventional coal plant, and less than 25% of those for power from a highly efficient, natural gas-fired plant, according to Summit. —Donald Hodel, Chairman of Summit Power.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

On the rooftop of a quiet building, a set of panels cools the rooms within and keeps the lights on, removing heat and generating electricity using the coldness of the sky. Today, the art of turning heat from burning gas, nuclear fission, Earth’s core, the sun, and other sources into useful energy underpins modern life.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2009

The report ( America’s Energy Future: Technology and Transformation ) of the Committee on America’s Energy Future addresses a potential new portfolio of energy-supply and end-use technologies—their states of development, costs, implementation barriers, and impacts—both at present and projected over the next two to three decades.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

It was one of the deadliest and most damaging natural disasters to ever make landfall in the United States. A microgrid is like a miniaturized, tightly controlled version of a power grid. Islanding lets microgrids continue to supply electricity to users even when the main grid is down.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Hydrogen produced by water electrolysis has the potential to be a useful means of storing excess electricity generated using wind, solar, and other intermittent renewable energy. Biogas, including anaerobic digester gas, can be reformed to produce hydrogen and used in a fuel cell to produce significant amounts of electricity and heat.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2011

Classification of potential electrical storage for stationary applications. To be successful, systems will need to evolve—in some cases, considerably—to compete financially with the cost of natural gas production. These challenges will not only be faced in the United States, but also internationally.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2009

The United States Council for Automotive Research (USCAR) recently published a whitepaper on the importance of continued. Even with complete success in meeting the USABC long-term goals for battery energy capacity, electric vehicles cannot compete with hydrogen-fueled vehicles for general usage in terms of range and ‘refill’ time.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 26, 2023

Rahman, a power expert and professor of electrical and computer engineering at Virginia Tech , is the former chair of the IEEE ad hoc committee on climate change. About one-third of emissions globally are produced through electricity generation, and Rahman said his mission is to help reduce that amount through engineering solutions.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2011

As a comparison, 314 Exajoules is more than three times the annual energy supply in the United States in 2005, which is also a similar level of supply on the Continent of Europe according to various government and independent sources. Bioenergy technologies can generate electricity, heat and fuels from a range of feedstocks.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2013

The “PV+Storage” box includes the high cost of electrical storage for PV. The FOCUS Program target zone for electricity generation is indicated. Penetration of PV will ultimately be limited unless breakthrough technologies enable hours of electricity generated by PV to be cost-effectively stored. Source: ARPA-E.

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Charged EVs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Anyone who would deploy any kind of large-scale EV charging project needs to work closely (and early) with their local electrical utility. This can be a complex undertaking, especially for companies that work in different regions, as there are around 1,600 utilities in the US, subject to a wide variety of different state and local regulators.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

The PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle), a subset of the electric car, combines a primary electric motor with a much smaller back-up engine fueled with a hydrocarbon/biofuel mix. (In In this paper PHEV refers solely to the long-range PHEV of 60 miles (100 km) electric-only range.) It is much more than that.

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Driivz

MARCH 31, 2021

Renewables provide a less expensive and eco-friendly energy source as a means to handle the growing pressure on the grid caused by multiple factors including extreme temperature fluctuations driving up demand for more electric heating and cooling. For solar, individual photovoltaic cells transform sunlight directly into electricity.

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Driivz

MAY 1, 2022

Utilities are emerging as dominant players in the global race to electric vehicle adoption beyond just the power supplier. They have insights to the customers’ electrical usage. They have not only become an e-Mobility service provider, but they are also transitioning 12,000 fleet vehicles to electric vehicles.

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Blink Charging

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Let’s face it – two of the big questions that every electric vehicle (EV) owner ponders: “How far can I travel on a single charge?” However, an electric car’s lithium-ion battery may last as long as the vehicle itself. Battery technology monitors the battery State of health (SoH), indicating degradation and remaining capacity.

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EV Connect

JANUARY 8, 2024

According to the Alternative Fuels Data Center, there are 36,366 DC Fast charging stations available in the United States. Should you use one of them to charge your Electric Vehicle (EV)? The Difference Between AC and DC Current Electrical current comes in two forms: alternating current (AC) and direct current (DC).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

TDI quattro plug-in hybrid ( earlier post ); the Audi A7 h-tron quattro fuel cell vehicle ( earlier post ); the Audi e-tron quattro concept battery-electric SUV ( earlier post ); the Audi TT clubsport turbo concept ( earlier post ); the Audi RS 5 TDI competition concept ( earlier post ); and the Audi R18 e-tron quattro ( earlier post ).

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Cars That Think

JUNE 7, 2022

If the world was all renewable power which had zero CO 2 output, and if the world was full of charging points where people could charge up with that type of power, then, of course, BEVs [battery electric vehicles] would be a great answer. Even HEVs [hybrid electric vehicles] have substantial carbon reductions.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2014

FuelCell Energy will install a sub-megawatt carbonate fuel cell power plant at its manufacturing facility in Torrington, Connecticut, to generate hydrogen, electricity and heat, replacing hydrogen that is currently purchased and delivered to the facility via truck, and replacing electricity purchased from the electric grid.

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