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Zero Emission Vehicles
ALL . . . New Vehicles, . . . within 13 years, . . . will be entirely zero emission! 1-3-2017 Source: Zero Emission Vehicles
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Worlds 3 Largest Taxi Fleets
By this summer, China will be home to the top . . . 3 largest electric taxi fleets in the world, . . . specifically Shenzhen, Beijing, and Nanjing. Currently, the majority of taxis in China run on LNG, and . . . natural gas spot prices recently hittin...
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World’S Most Sophisticated Battery Systems
Intelligently controlled batteries, are best suited, . . . to smooth out short-term fluctuations in power supply, and demand, . . . quickly and precisely, enabling the integration of a much larger share of . . .. intermittent clean energy sources. 12...
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Will China Dominate The Ev Market?
China has clamped down on pollution in their largest cities and currently have . . . the worlds largest number of electric bicycle and motorcycle customers, . . . who are already used to charging with electricity and . . . have overcome any range anxi...
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Wide Bandgap Semiconductors
Wide Bandgap Semiconductors(WBG) WBG, eliminates up to 90% of the power losses that currently occur during, . . . AC-to-DC and . . . DC-to-AC electricity conversion. 2014-01-27 Source: Factsheet
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Where Are The Electric Pickup Trucks?
Lots of people use pickup trucks in their trade or business. . . . They haul rocks, gravel, building materials, and horse trailers. While electric motors have instant torque, and . . . are excellent at hauling heavy loads, .. . a battery large enough...
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What Usa Company Builds In China, Not Usa
Protean in-wheel electric motors increase Vauxhall Vivaro's efficiency by 300% For $84 million, Protean Electric, will open a production facility in Liyang, China. Source: autoblog vauxhall vivaro
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Utility: Open-Source Code
U.S. utilitiers: . . . . . . Duke Energy, . . . . . . Accenture, . . . . . . Alstom, . . . . . . Ambient, . . . . . . Echelon, . . . . . . S&C Electric and . . . . . . Verizon . . . to connect: . . . . . . smart meters, . . . . . . solar inverters,...
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Usa Electric Grid Connections
The Tres Amigas project is designed to connect its 3 primary grids
. . . (East, West, and Texas).
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Us: Can It Cut It's Oil Use In 1/2 ?
Electric vehicles are a key component, . . . to cut projected U.S. oil use in 1/2 in 20 years. To calculate an average fuel cost for electricity- and gasoline-powered vehicles, . . . this infographic compares a 2013 Nissan Leaf charged, . . . at natio...
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Underground System Would Boost Efficiency, Safety
Moving huge quantities of electricity over vast distances . . . could become easier over the next decade . . . if utilities adopt a new type of power transmission system using . . . DC, or direct current, and superconducting cables, . . . capable of mo...
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Ultracapacitors & Wind Power
Most energy storage systems are designed to meet high power demands but occur in brief and scattered bursts. The rest of the time, battery-powered storage capabilities exceed the need of the turbine.
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Ultracapacitor/battery: Renewable Energy Storage
Ecoult’s UBer™ (Ultracapacitor/Battery) . . . is a reliable, safe, and environmentally sound way for on-grid and . . . remote microgrids to smooth volatile renewable power output, . . . which ensures predictable power availability. When the solar or w...
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Ultracapacitor/battery
Ultracapacitors are some of the best devices around, . . . for delivering a quick surge of power. . . . Because an ultracapacitor stores energy in an electric field, . . . . . . rather than in a chemical reaction, . . . . . . it can survive hundreds of...
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Ultracapacitor Sales Grow Over 500% Since 2007
Maxwell has produced more than 20 million ultracapacitor cells . . . since setting up initial high-volume production. In 2011, Maxwell and an assembly partner built and . . . shipped more than 2 million large-cell ultracapacitors, and . . . a new...
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Ultracapacitor Market
Skeleton Technologies’ devices are the only ultracapacitor's to use a patented graphene-based material in their manufacture, allowing them to deliver . . . 2X the energy density, and . . . 5X the power density of their competitors. “We’ve gone fro...
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Ultracap: New Electric Car Battery
UltraCap, a new type of electric storage battery: . . . . . . Smaller, . . . . . . Lighter, . . . . . . .More Efficient than any of its predecessors, . . . . . . It will charge in minutes instead of hours, and . . . . . . There’s no chemicals involv...
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U.s. Cities Buying Led & Cfl
The top 10 markets for energy-efficient bulb consumption per capita are: Atlanta, GA Boston, MA Hartford, CT Miami/Ft. Lauderdale/West Palm Beach, FL Orlando, FL Pittsburgh, PA Sacramento, CA San Francisco Bay Seattle, WA Washington D.C. But more sur...
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Types Of Supercapacitors(Ultracapacitors)
For applications with fluctuating loads like photovoltaic systems, . . . the electrical output of photovoltaic arrays, . . . doesn't only fluctuate with the seasons or between night and day. . . . It's also affected by local weather. Power pro...
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True Cost Of Lighting
The 2007 energy bill, it’s become an increasingly ideological issue:
. . . that law set efficiency standards which current 100 watt incandescent bulbs couldn’t meet.
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Toyota I-Road, It's Electric!
No word, yet, on any plans for the i-Road . . . to see production and US sales. Source: I-Road
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Tiny City Electric Car
QBEAK, due out, by the end of 2012 Source: nordicgreen
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This Not A Fluorescent Light!
It's an Instant TLED replacement, . . . that could save the energy equivalent of, . . . 210 power plants. It looks just like a regular T8 fluorescent tube, and . . . in fact it can be installed in existing neon sockets in seconds, . . . without any...
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