Charged

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Passenger cars are well on their way to going electric, and the path to a big market share for heavy-duty EVs such as buses and delivery trucks is becoming clearer. In December, the company won a £12-million ($16.3-million) million) grant from the UK government, and $21.4 That’s when we started. Q&A with ZeroAvia CEO.

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Andrew Winston

JUNE 11, 2018

(Continuing to catch up on re-posting some articles I wrote over the last few months. ICYMI, UPS announced a milestone in electric vehicles -- cost parity for a delivery truck. Passenger electric cars get all the press, especially when someone launches one into space. Up-front price is no longer a barrier.

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Clean Energy Trust

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Credit: Hertz Hertz Goes Electric Hertz announced they would purchase 100,000 new Tesla model 3s over the next couple of years. Although the business filed for bankruptcy last year amid the pandemic, it benefited from higher than expected used car prices when it sold off most of its fleet, and more recently has been a meme stock as well.

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R-Squared Energy

MARCH 1, 2020

In that article I divided carbon dioxide emissions into two broad categories: What has already been released into the atmosphere (the legacy emissions), and ongoing releases. Different strategies are needed to address the two categories; and 2). The reported cost of this project was about $50 million. Oil Replacements.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 11, 2020

Long-haul, over-the-road truck drivers typically are out on the road anywhere from one to three weeks at a time, delivering the goods we need for our daily lives. Most important, drivers need access to heating and cooling for their comfort and health. Battery-powered units have allowed fleets to significantly reduce idle time.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 4, 2020

Electric truck fleets will need a lot of power, but utilities aren’t planning for it Stephen Nadel Tue, 08/04/2020 – 01:11 As more electric buses and trucks enter the market, future fleets will require a lot of electricity for charging. And just last week, a group of 15 states plus D.C.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 4, 2020

Electric truck fleets will need a lot of power, but utilities aren’t planning for it Stephen Nadel Tue, 08/04/2020 – 01:11 As more electric buses and trucks enter the market, future fleets will require a lot of electricity for charging. And just last week, a group of 15 states plus D.C.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. In 2014, the electrical engineer and MBA became the first woman to lead a U.S. As electric vehicles drive toward the mainstream, General Motors has come full circle as well.

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Charged

AUGUST 4, 2023

Q&A with Littelfuse’s Geoffrey Schwartz Construction vehicles are being electrified at a surprisingly rapid pace, as operators recognize not only the cost savings, but the advantages of silent, emission-free operation. Charged : So, there’s a lack of standards for vehicles that use higher-voltage electrical architectures?

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

It is time we acknowledge the future of land-based transport is battery-electric, not hydrogen-powered. This blog explores the beauty of hydrogen and why we should not put it into our cars - of any size. Fuel cell electric vehicles consume about three times more energy than a full-electric car for each kilometre driven.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Since its founding in 2004, Proterra has grown to become North America’s largest supplier of electric buses. Under its Proterra Powered program, the company provides powertrains to other vehicle makers—school buses for Thomas Built Buses, coach buses for Van Hool, delivery trucks for Daimler subsidiary Freightliner Custom Chassis.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

This article provides a primer on the three major policy building blocks available for reducing carbon pollution: pricing mechanisms, subsidies , and regulations. The article discusses the various policies and how they can be combined together to create hybrid policies with some examples drawing on Washington state provided.

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Charged

JULY 28, 2021

In order to maximize an EV’s range for a given battery capacity and vehicle weight, engineers try to eke out as much performance as possible from the electrical and mechanical systems. Efficiency mapping sounds simple in principle, since we’re just looking at a few hundred operating points on the torque-speed spectrum.

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Charged

AUGUST 4, 2022

There is a wide range of characteristics that describe the performance of any given battery chemistry: energy density, specific energy, specific power, discharge efficiency, self-discharge rate, cycle life, calendar life, and—not the least important—cost. The company says the vehicle will be on the road by the end of 2022.

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Charged

JANUARY 6, 2020

Electric SUVs are starting to appear at the high end of the market, but so far no one has built a viable electric pickup. billion funding round which followed a $700-million round led by Amazon and a $500-million round led by Ford. Charged : Rivian calls its electric drivetrain a skateboard platform.

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Charged

AUGUST 17, 2022

Wireless charging is nothing new— Charged has covered wireless EV charging since at least 2011—but it may be that its true value is only coming into focus now, as more and more commercial and transit fleets are electrifying. We started from day one focusing on high-power wireless charging, and we developed a modular approach.

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Charged

JANUARY 8, 2020

That’s one often-heard argument for the superiority of electric powertrains over internal combustion engines (ICEs), in which the number of moving components is dramatic. Sure, EVs have a lot of electrons moving this way and that, but ICE vehicles have gears, pistons, valves and crankshafts galore.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Some of these areas are far more advanced in doing so than others, but the need to decarbonise is growing ever more pressing as climate deadlines approach. Volkswagen is already one of the most advanced and has set ambitious targets, including at least 70 per cent of unit sales in Europe by 2030 to be all-electric vehicles.

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Business Green

MARCH 6, 2020

But of course the biggest impact Ford can have on fighting climate change is transforming its vehicles from gas-powered trucks - its Ford F-150 is the bestselling truck in America - to electric and lower-emissions vehicles as well as offering more mobility services.

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Business Green

MARCH 24, 2023

Here are five takeaways from the new US EV charging grant program The US government is kicking off its plan to spend billions of dollars building out hundreds of thousands of public electric vehicle chargers across America. Public chargers can also provide electricity for drivers who lack access to chargers at home.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 11, 2020

Long-haul, over-the-road truck drivers typically are out on the road anywhere from one to three weeks at a time, delivering the goods we need for our daily lives. Most important, drivers need access to heating and cooling for their comfort and health. Battery-powered units have allowed fleets to significantly reduce idle time.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021 Elsa Wenzel Mon, 01/11/2021 – 02:15 The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. In 2014, the electrical engineer and MBA became the first woman to lead a U.S.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

Please share our delight as we introduce this promising group of young leaders below, in alphabetical order. As of the latest count, 102 corporations have committed to the 2030 (or better) goal — including Ikea, Genentech and Lyft — and more than 170,000 EVs have been deployed. Zack Angelini, 29. They pick up on it.". —CJ

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

An overview of our addiction to oil, and the methadone we need in order to kick the habit Summary - The world runs on oil. How do we transition from fossil-based oil towards a sustainable future? Be prepared to wonder, be surprised, laugh and cry a little as we explore this question using pre-corona predictions.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 17, 2021

Please share our delight as we introduce this promising group of young leaders below, in alphabetical order. As of the latest count, 102 corporations have committed to the 2030 (or better) goal — including Ikea, Genentech and Lyft — and more than 170,000 EVs have been deployed. They pick up on it.”

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Mosaic

DECEMBER 27, 2022

There are about a hundred and forty million homes in the United States. Two-thirds, or about eighty-five million, of them are detached single-family houses; the rest are apartment units or trailer homes. We can solve the climate crisis.”. If we can green a building, we can green a block,” he told me. “If

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