Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 28, 2022

In February 2022, GTI Energy, S&P Global Commodity Insights and the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) launched the Open Hydrogen Initiative (OHI), a collaboration to further transparency into the environmental impact of hydrogen production and help unlock its full potential as an important driver of energy transitions.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2014

The technology could fundamentally transform the way electricity is stored on the grid, making power from renewable energy sources such as wind and sun far more economical and reliable. This project illustrates what the synergy of high-throughput quantum chemistry and experimental insight can do. —Michael J.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2022

Their findings, published in Energy & Environmental Science , provide a comprehensive look at how EVs and the grid could work together as the electric and transportation sectors become intertwined. Managed charging can be a tremendous resource for the grid but there are trade-offs to solutions at different levels of commercial readiness.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2014

The work was done under the DOE’s Office of Electricity Delivery & Energy Reliability’s (OE) Smart Grid Investment Grant (SGIG program). Major findings were grouped in three categories: charging behavior; grid impacts; and technology issues. Grid impacts.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2010

Plug-in electric vehicles—plug-in hybrids and full battery-powered—will represent nearly 20% of the global market for light vehicles in 2030, according to findings in a study on the business case for Plugged-in Electric Vehicles (PEVs) by automotive industry analysts at IHS Global Insight. market share for plug-in hybrids and a 9.9%

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2013

The new campaign signals Battelle’s expansion of solutions offerings to make the grid smarter, with key tools and support services in the distribution, transmission and demand response areas. HELM-based applications are critical for reducing blackouts and saving money today and enabling the next-generation grid.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2011

General Motors and OnStar are launching a real-world pilot of smart grid applications for electric vehicles. The data will give the utility insight into where and when EVs are charged and demand response, which allows the utility to reduce peak demand by shifting EV charging to non-peak hours. Demand response.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Toyota Motor North America and Oncor Electric Delivery, a Texas-based electric transmission and distribution company, will collaborate on a pilot project around vehicle-to-grid (V2G), a technology that allows vehicles to flow energy from their battery back onto the electric grid.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2012

and Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) on a new pilot project that will allow communication between electric vehicles (EVs) and the power grid. This project will demonstrate and test an electric vehicle’s ability to receive and respond to charge instructions based on the grid condition and the vehicle’s battery state.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2020

HOMER Energy by UL, a global developer of energy modeling software, announced that HOMER Grid , software for designing grid-tied distributed energy projects, can now model how hybrid systems power electric vehicle (EV) charging stations. HOMER Grid software addresses two types of charging scenarios when it simulates energy systems.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

IDC Energy Insights forecasts that by 2015 there will be more than 2.7 million PEVs plugged into the global grid, with 885,000 PEVs in North America and more than 780,000 PEVs in Europe. —IDC Energy Insights Research Manager Sam Jaffe. PEVs are coming.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2013

This will enable utilities to integrate more renewable energy into the power grid, the company says. This level of insight will enable utilities to better manage the variable nature of wind and solar, and more accurately forecast the amount of power that can be redirected into the power grid or stored.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2019

The results, published in a paper in the journal Energy Policy , reveal potential issues for grid operations with greater EV adoption and the importance of careful TOU rate design. Kim (2019) “Insights into residential EV charging behavior using energy meter data,” Energy Policy , Volume 129, Pages 610-618 doi: 10.1016/j.enpol.2019.02.049.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2022

We are excited to apply MEP to eVTOL to provide insights in the trade-off of travel time, cost, and energy. As the AAM passenger network grows in popularity, the vertiports will rely on harmonious grid integration to power the airborne passenger vehicles.

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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. Further, it would potentially allow flexible reactions to short-term power fluctuations in the grid. The Audi storage unit has a capacity of 1.9 The Mobility House) on such applications.

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CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Here we examine vehicle-to-grid pilot programs for early insights on design principles that help maximize […].

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2023

Furthermore, the improved insight and control provided by Elysia, reduces an OEM’s need to oversize or overengineer battery systems, enabling them to be lighter, cheaper and more sustainable. Elysia Cloud Platform is a cloud-based system which uses proprietary digital twin technology.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 9, 2021

The scientists say their new method has potential for improving the cost, storage capacity, durability and other important properties of batteries for a wide range of applications, from electric vehicles to laptops to large-scale storage of renewable energy on the grid. This research was funded by Toyota Research Institute.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2021

The guide covers federal, state, local and utility resources, as well as legal settlements, state and regional carbon market revenues, future operational savings and the monetization of vehicle-to-grid capabilities. The EV Roadmap Roundup is a digital library of EV roadmaps from 17 states and three large cities.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

With the grants Enel X will help develop an innovative approach to public transit fleet electrification planning which will provide the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) insights to optimally electrify a portion of their new fleet, and will support the electrification of a portion of Hopkinton Public School District’s bus fleet.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2011

All three scenarios also assume near decarbonization of the grid by 2030. The study also says that other priorities for innovation and investment are reducing the cost and improving the performance of EV batteries, and decarbonizing the grid. It is important to note that these scenarios are intended to provide insights, not forecasts.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2012

By analyzing the capacity needed from the distribution network for various types of vehicle charging / recharging, Bratislava can not only implement an optimal power grid, but also address the charging concerns shared by its citizens. —ZSE. —Guido Bartels, General Manager of IBM's Global Energy and Utilities Industry.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers work in the Extreme Fast-Charging Lab in ORNL’s Grid Research Integration and Deployment Center. The research project aims to generate new insights into the technological and physical hurdles of high-power wireless charging for automobiles. Credit: Carlos Jones/ORNL, U.S.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Southern California Edison (SCE) opened the largest battery energy storage project in North America—the Tehachapi Energy Storage Project—to modernize the grid to integrate more clean energy. This installation will allow us to take a serious look at the technological capabilities of energy storage on the electric grid.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2022

Our insights are extremely important for the large-scale manufacturing of improved sodium-ion cathodes. The impact could result in a longer driving range in more affordable electric vehicles and lower cost for energy storage on the electric grid. —Guiliang Xu. This research was supported by DOE’s Vehicle Technologies Office.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2023

Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) and BMW of North America (BMW) are collaborating to test how vehicle-to-everything (V2X) technology can serve as a solution to offset growing demand on the power grid, improve reliability for electric customers, and maximize the usage of renewable energy. In California 1.4

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2011

The electrical motor draws its energy from a high-voltage battery pack, housed in the luggage compartment, which can be charged via the grid. With its extensive field testing in what it terms the most important automobile markets, BMW says it is gathering insights into user behavior and the requirements of local supply infrastructures.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

There have been vigorous debates pro and con in the United States and elsewhere over whether electric grids can support EVs at scale. Without smart meters—that is, Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI), which will be introduced into Palo Alto in 2024—the utility has little to no household peak load insights.

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My Energi

AUGUST 19, 2021

myenergi give insight into the CMA report and the EV charging market, which outlines a number of areas that need addressing to facilitate the shift to electric vehicles and ultimately, net zero carbon. Electric car charging infrastructure, myenergis Insight Into the CMA Report and the EV Charging Market. Smart Charging.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Additionally, this project will provide utilities with access to energy usage data that can help improve smart grid operations, reduce power strain during peak charging times, and ensure reliable energy distribution to customers. This information can then be used to calculate and reconcile the energy market.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2013

Source: “Electric Vehicle Grid Integration”. The report identifies insights about the choice of charging infrastructure in each region that will both maximize benefits to consumers (thus helping to drive EV adoption) and maximize benefits to the grid from greater EV use. —“Electric Vehicle Grid Integration”.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

For electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles the carbon intensity of the power grid is also a key factor in terms of the vehicle’s full life cycle emissions. The Ricardo study focuses on providing insights into how life cycle CO 2 e emissions vary by vehicle segment and powertrain technology.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Lithium-ion battery recycling took a big step forward this week, as a Hawaiian utility announced it is undertaking one of the biggest examples of grid-storage recycling in North America to date. By electric grid standards, Anahola’s 4-megawatt-hour storage facility is not big. They’re not ready for recycling.”

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2018

The proposed XFC design is expected to offer grid-to-vehicle efficiency up to 96.5%—four —four times less weight and half the size of conventional DC fast EV chargers (DCFC), as well as a high voltage direct current (HVDC) port to utilize energy storage and renewable energy systems, minimizing demand on the power grid.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2018

We are learning more about how to integrate electric vehicles with the grid. This collaboration will enable new study of electric vehicle use and charging patterns, generating new insights that will help further our shared aim of making connected electric vehicles more accessible. —Dahlia Garas.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2013

These vehicles already provided insights into bi-directional loading and integration in a smart grid in the earlier MeRegioMobil project. Connected vehicles Electric (Battery) Smart charging Smart Grid' Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2012

Wide-Area Situational Awareness: detecting anomalies across the grid in real-time to improve resiliency, reliability and energy quality. Integration of Renewables and Distributed Energy Resources (DER): meeting renewable integration and distributed energy resource regulatory targets while ensuring system stability.

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