As the nation moves toward electric cars and trucks, Ford Motor Co. today unveiled new touch-screen technology that will allow consumers to program when, how long and at what rate they wish to recharge their vehicles. Ford, which showed the technology with several partners, including DTE Energy, Southern California Edison and Progress Energy of Raleigh, Continue reading →
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GridPoint, Inc., an established leader in smart grid software, and Coulomb Technologies today unveiled the first ever smart grid enabled smart charging stations for electric vehicles. The integrated solution using Coulomb’s ChargePoint™ Networked Charging Stations for plug-in electric vehicles and GridPoint’s smart charging software application extends municipalities and utilities ability to manage vehicle-charging load. Utilities Continue reading →
Ameren’s Missouri and Illinois utilities applied this week for $185 million in stimulus money for infrastructure upgrades, smart grid projects and electric vehicles. AmerenUE applied for $140 million in stimulus funding, and Ameren Illinois Utilities applied for $45 million. AmerenUE’s application includes the following funding requests for a 50 percent federal match: $125 million in Continue reading →
Britain will create up to four “smart grid cities” after the energy regulator set aside £500m from customers’ utility bills to start rewiring the nation’s electricity system. Ofgem wants companies to choose several towns or cities where it will pay for households to have smart energy technologies installed to monitor how it works on a Continue reading →
Imagine harnessing the power of vehicles traversing the country’s highways and roads, and plugging it into a renewable energy grid used to light up communities and electrify the sedans of tomorrow. Local environmental advocate Kelly Meyer has teamed with inventors Gene Fein and Ed Merritt to do just that. Their Green Roadway Project envisions a Continue reading →
The Department of Energy has released the first third of its $25 billion advanced technology loan fund for automakers to “create thousands of green jobs while helping reduce the nation’s dangerous dependence on foreign oil.” The agency released about $8 billion, with Ford the largest beneficiary, receiving $5.9 billion. Nissan received $1.6 billion and Tesla Continue reading →
Cars could be the solution to the intermittent nature of wind power if a multimillion European project beginning on a Danish island proves successful. The project on the holiday island of Bornholm will use the batteries of parked electric cars to store excess energy when the wind blows hard, and then feed electricity back into Continue reading →
Smart has confirmed that an electric version of the Fortwo will go on sale in the UK from 2012, to coincide with the start of a £250m government initiative to promote low-carbon transport. The Mercedes-owned carmaker has also announced that the Smart ED (electric drive) will go into limited series production and be available in Continue reading →
Nissan electric cars will provide zero-emission mobility while delivering 100 miles on a single battery charge. Everyone has probably seen the Nissan EV prototype that will be used to develop new electric cars in 2010. The automaker has recently formed a partnership with Progress Energy, a nonprofit agency in Raleign, N.C., to further study and Continue reading →
Mitsubishi “i MiEV” electric cars are based on the gasoline 660cc “i” minicar and can offer up to 100 miles per gallon. Mitsubishi Motors Corporation is doing something remarkable with its new plug-in electric cars. The new cars are called the “i MiEV” which is based on the gasoline 660cc “i” minicar, and can drive Continue reading →
AROUND the world billions of dollars are being invested in clean-energy technologies of one sort or another, from solar arrays and wind turbines to electric cars. But there is a problem lurking in the power grid that links them together. Green sources of power tend to be distributed and intermittent, which makes them difficult to Continue reading →
By Al Greenwood HOUSTON (ICIS news)–A US programme to develop lithium-ion batteries and other types of energy storage could open a $11bn-13bn market to chemical companies, an automobile executive said on Friday. The nation’s $780bn (€554bn) stimulus bill includes roughly $2bn to develop energy storage, said Ted Miller, senior manager of energy-storage strategy and research at Continue reading →
By: Andy Hodges Published: Jun 2, 2009 Hybrid cars are revolutionizing the way we commute and will reduce our dependency for foreign oil. Electric hybrid cars can also use alternative and renewal energy to recharge a NiMH (nickel-metal hydride) hybrid battery. The plug in hybrids usually comes with one of these batteries which power the Continue reading →
If a quarter of America’s cars went electric, they could store more energy than that produced for the nation’s entire electricity grid, an expert on electric transportation says. Making them a backup power source for the grid faces significant challenges, however. Plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles could grow to be a greater source, or sink, Continue reading →
Nissan have announced the release of a new all-electric vehicle next year, but the styling of the car has yet to be finalised. Now, Nissan’s chief designer Shiro Nakamura has come out and provided a rendered speculation of the EV’s styling. The new Nissan EV will shock viewers with its appearance, Nakamura claims, adding that Continue reading →
May 27th, 2009 ENVIRONMENTALLY-CONSCIOUS CAR company, Zero Pollution Motors (ZPM) is hoping that, come 2011, it will have introduced a new breed of car, powered by a combination of compressed air and a small conventional engine. ZPM claims the car will be priced between $23,000 and $28,000, and will be partly powered by a conventional Continue reading →
A Swiss firm that specifically produces parts for Es has just removed the wraps off of their new all-electric roadster dubbed as Spyder. The vehicle initially began as a university project for the Swiss school of engineering Buchs NTB, but with the assistance of BRUSA there is a great possibility that the car will be Continue reading →
As a House committee approved legislation that would regulate US emissions of carbon dioxide for the first time ever, the Obama administration moved on several fronts to implement other elements of its clean energy agenda. Following a week of marathon sessions, the House Energy and Commerce Committee approved a 932-page bill that would impose a Continue reading →
Consumers Energy has teamed up with Ford Motor Co. and 14 other utilities on a proposal for a national pilot project to promote the use of electric vehicles. Ford recently submitted a proposal for the pilot project to the U.S. Department of Energy. That proposal includes a request for a grant under the American Recovery Continue reading →
Cities have thrown down the gauntlet for electric car charging in recent months, and utilities are increasingly eager to tout infrastructure efforts. Among automakers, the Renault-Nissan Alliance has been out in front working to coordinate governments, utilities and charge station companies to develop regional networks of hardware and services that drivers will need to make Continue reading →
