A 100-MW solar farm just broke ground in Wisconsin
Electrek
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
National Grid Renewables has broken ground on its 100 MW Apple River Solar Project in Polk County, Wisconsin.
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CleanTechnica EVs
DECEMBER 11, 2023
A recent news story from Wisconsin shares some bad news: the state is at risk of losing out on the. continued] The post Wisconsin Could Lose NEVI Funding appeared first on CleanTechnica.
CleanTechnica EVs
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
Most of our summer travel has been within 100 miles (more frequently 30 miles) of Three Lakes in Northern Wisconsin. However, we have made a number of 200+ mile trips to airports in Minneapolis, Green Bay, and Appleton, Wisconsin as well as trips to Ontonagon, Michigan, and Madison, Wisconsin.
Green Car Reports
JULY 12, 2021
Foxconn and Fisker are in talks to build a $30,000 electric car in Wisconsin, local newspaper The Journal Times confirmed Thursday. Known as a contract manufacturer for the Apple iPhone, Foxconn announced plans for a Wisconsin factory in 2017, originally for large LCD screens.
Baua Electric
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
Image: National Grid Renewables National Grid Renewables has broken ground on its 100 MW Apple River Solar Project in Polk County, Wisconsin. The Wisconsin solar farm, which will use US-made First Solar Series 6 Plus bifacial modules, will be constructed by The Boldt Company, creating 150 construction and service jobs.
Teslarati
JANUARY 11, 2024
Ford Pro Insure expanded its insurance offering for commercial vehicles to Indiana and Wisconsin. Besides Indiana and Wisconsin, Ford’s insurance for commercial vehicles is also available in Arizona, Illinois, and Tennessee. Ford Pro Insure is now available in five states.
Green Car Reports
MARCH 17, 2021
Apple iPhone contract manufacturer Foxconn is considering an electric-car factory in Wisconsin, The Guardian reported Tuesday. Speaking in Taipei, Foxconn chairman Young Liu said the company could start building electric cars at an abandoned Wisconsin factory site in 2023, but indicated the company hasn't firmly committed to EV production.
CleanTechnica EVs
MAY 26, 2022
I’ve been testing Tesla’s FSD Beta obsessively for 175 days in Utah and California metropolitan areas, and now in rural Northern Wisconsin and on the roads and Interstate highways in between. Note: I am still using FSD Beta V10.11.2, because the expected big software update V10.12 has not been offered to me yet. This is […].
Electrek
MAY 21, 2021
In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): Wisconsin approves Alliant Energy’s Onion River solar farm, which will be one of the state’s largest. more… The post EGEB: Wisconsin 150 MW solar farm approved despite pushback appeared first on Electrek. Southwest Florida launches a 74.5-megawatt
Green Car Reports
MARCH 17, 2021
And what EV might Foxconn build in Wisconsin? BMW provided splashy product news for two upcoming electric vehicles, both expected to get the German brand to hit a higher driving-range peg. Hyundai released better numbers for its Tucson Plug-In Hybrid SUV. This and more, here at Green Car Reports.
Green Car Reports
JULY 12, 2021
Fisker and Foxconn have confirmed that they’re in talks with Wisconsin as the potential manufacturing location for Fisker’s $30,000 electric vehicle—although a series of broken promises from Foxconn could get in the way.
CleanTechnica EVs
JULY 1, 2022
Amazon has plans to add up to 760 EV chargers at its distribution hub outside of Racine, Wisconsin. The first 399 will be ready this year.
CleanTechnica EVs
FEBRUARY 5, 2022
There are two new Wisconsin bills with a focus on solar-powered electric vehicle chargers making their way through the Wisconsin state legislature. AB 588 and SB 573 both want to emphasize that selling electricity by the kilowatt-hour to electric vehicles doesn’t subject EV charging station owners to utility regulation.
CleanTechnica EVs
SEPTEMBER 10, 2021
If you look the Supercharger map, there are no chargers near our lake house in Three Lakes Wisconsin. The distances are: Wausau 61, Green Bay 138, Oshkosh 149, Eau Claire 185 (Wisconsin) and Duluth (Minnesota) 197 miles. […]. However, there are 5 chargers within the conservative 200 mile range of our Tesla Model 3 Long Range.
CleanTechnica EVs
MAY 18, 2021
On May 18, the Kenosha County Sheriff’s Department posted a statement on Facebook about a traffic stop investigation in Kenosha County, Wisconsin. The statement noted that on May 16, a deputy was dispatched to I-94 northbound for a report of a Tesla whose driver appeared to be asleep at the wheel as it crossed over […].
Electrek
NOVEMBER 10, 2024
In a bid to clean up its streets in more ways than one, the city of Madison, Wisconsin has added two Class 8 electric trucks to its garbage fleet earlier this year in the form of a pair of Mack Electric LR HDEVs … and the city already has plans to add two more.
Green Car Congress
MAY 26, 2016
Johnson Controls will fund two multi-year research projects at the University of Wisconsin–Madison (UW–Madison) aimed at enhancing the fuel efficiency of start-stop and next-generation battery-electric vehicles. The projects will be funded by Johnson Controls, which includes a Fellows gift of $500,000.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 30, 2011
is endowing a professorship, research labs and graduate studies in energy storage at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. The lab will be housed in the new Wisconsin Energy Institute under construction on the UW-Madison campus. Johnson Controls, Inc.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 28, 2012
Odyne Systems, LLC has delivered seven trucks featuring the Odyne plug-in hybrid propulsion system to utilities and municipalities throughout Wisconsin. Marshfield Utilities, serving the city of Marshfield, Wisconsin took delivery of its first Odyne hybrid truck in 2009. The Richland Center unit of Wisconsin Public Power, Inc.
Electrek
NOVEMBER 11, 2024
On today’s slightly confusing episode of Quick Charge , we’ve got a 675 hp AUDI concept that isn’t really an Audi, a self-driving Tesla hitting the roads around Giga Texas while the company pulls all the demand levers in Europe, electric garbage trucks from Mack arriving in Wisconsin, and more!
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 10, 2015
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have investigated blending the benefits of reactivity controlled compression ignition (RCCI) and gasoline compression ignition (GCI) using QuantLogic’s novel adaptive dual-fuel injector which is capable of direct injecting both gasoline and diesel fuel in a single cycle.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 29, 2013
In a paper presented at the 2013 SAE World Congress, a team from the University of Wisconsin reported a gross indicated thermal efficiency of Reactivity Controlled Compression Ignition (RCCI) operation of near 60%, given optimized combustion management and thermodynamic conditions.
Green Car Reports
JULY 3, 2024
The third wettest Spring on record in Southeastern Wisconsin flooded my mom’s basement. As luck would have it, I got scheduled into a weekend with the 2024 Mercedes-Benz eSprinter exactly when I needed it.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 14, 2010
HEC) and Wisconsin Motors (WM) have signed an agreement to form Oxx Power Continental, a joint venture, to produce a wet-sleeve version of the Oxx Power 4.9L The new engines will be machined at V&L Tool in Wisconsin, and assembled at Wisconsin Motors’ facility in Dyer, Tennessee. Hydrogen Engine Center, Inc.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 19, 2021
Achates Power will work with Isuzu Technical Center of America (ITCA), Clemson University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison as project members. The University of Wisconsin will contribute closed-cycle CFD to optimize clean, efficient combustion. . —David Crompton, president and CEO, Achates Power. Earlier post.)
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 25, 2010
Members from two of the EcoCAR Challenge teams —NC State and the University of Wisconsin—will participate in a webchat today at 3pm ET. EcoCAR webchat with Wisconsin and North Carolina State Universities. The EcoCAR Challenge is a college engineering competition sponsored by GM and the US Department of Energy.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 28, 2022
EPA has waived the federal regulations and federally enforceable State Implementation Plan requirements for fuel volatility on gasoline sold in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin, to facilitate the supply of fuel in these areas. This waiver will continue through 15 September 2022.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 3, 2010
The University of Wisconsin is offering an Internet-delivered Master of Engineering in Engine Systems (MEES). The MEES program incorporates the latest in research from the UW Engine Research Center. Courses provide skills including: Understanding how legislative drivers for emissions, safety, noise, and more directly impact engine design.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
—Joel van Rensburg, President of Alternative Fuels at ANGI Earlier this month, ANGI dispatched the first two of six hydrogen dispensers from its headquarters in Janesville, Wisconsin to Chart Industries. Earlier post.)
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 14, 2016
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) and colleagues have engineered a new strain of the yeast S. cerevisiae that is more resistant to the toxic effects of ionic liquids (ILs) used to generate sugars from lignocellulose.
CleanTechnica EVs
JUNE 1, 2024
[Editor’s note: After reading Dave Reichmuth’s most recent piece, I started thinking about a comparable study on Wisconsin land use. Land use and solar power, which generates clean electricity that many increasingly use to power EVs and homes, are topics of complaints we hear from time to time. However, a.
CleanTechnica EVs
MAY 11, 2024
My wife, our small dog, and our two large e-bikes recently made the 1500-mile trip from Utah to Northern Wisconsin in our Tesla Model 3 Long Range. It was our first cross-country trip with the new Version 12 of Tesla FSD (Supervised), V12.3.4. Supercharging The e-bikes on a tray-type bike.
Electrek
JANUARY 4, 2024
Electricity providers Madison Gas and Electric (MGE) and We Energies just brought Wisconsin’s largest solar farm – and one of the largest of its kind in the US Midwest – online. more… The post Wisconsin’s largest solar farm is now fully online appeared first on Electrek.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 1, 2023
Headquartered in Ann Arbor, the center sits near the heart of the US auto industry and represents Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin, as well as Michigan. The new additions are Northwestern University, the University of Minnesota and the University of Wisconsin.
Green Car Reports
OCTOBER 1, 2022
Dubbed the Midwest Hydrogen Coalition, the group of participating states includes Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin, according to a release. Seven Midwestern states have signed a memorandum of understanding to coordinate hydrogen production, potentially providing a fuel supply for fuel-cell semi trucks.
Baua Electric
OCTOBER 1, 2024
Kwik Trip’s DC fast chargers Kwik Trip announced yesterday that it was launching the Kwik Charge program in Wisconsin, which will install DC fast chargers with both CCS and NACS connectors. Its first two EV charger stations will be completed in Ashland and West Salem, Wisconsin, by the end of October. No, it won’t.
CleanTechnica EVs
MAY 26, 2024
Boosted by clean energy tax credits in the Inflation Reduction Act, a net-zero energy public safety center in McFarland, Wisconsin is benefiting firefighters, police officers, and the wider community. As a firefighter and paramedic, Ginger Conroy knows a thing or two about conserving energy. 24-hour shifts — followed by 48.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 28, 2011
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) is seeking commercial partners for a novel, cost-effective method developed by University of Wisconsin, Madison researchers for producing furan derivatives such as hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF), furfural, levulinic acid (LA) or γ-valerolactone (GVL) from biomass using alkylphenols as solvents.
Green Car Reports
DECEMBER 8, 2022
The automaker this week announced the official launch of its Dealer Community Charging Program with the installation of the first charging stations in Wisconsin and Michigan. General Motors is about to undertake what it claims is the largest deployment of Level 2 EV chargers in North America.
CleanTechnica EVs
MAY 30, 2024
My brother couldn’t take delivery on his Tesla Model S in Wisconsin back then, so on March 30, 2017, he picked it up at the Salt Lake City Delivery Center. I’m a techno-nerd who’s been following the progression of driving automation with rapt interest from its small beginnings in 2016.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 12, 2021
A research team at the University of Wisconsin–Madison has identified a new way to convert ammonia to nitrogen gas through a process that could be a step toward ammonia replacing carbon-based fuels.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 10, 2021
North Dakota. North Dakota. New Mexico. New Mexico Ohio. The number of states that generated more than 90% of electricity from coal decreased from 2 in 2018 to 0 in 2020. Analogously, the number of states that generated more than 10% of electricity from coal decreased from 34 in 2018 to 28 in 2020.
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