All Posts Tagged With: "hybrid vehicles"

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More Toyota Hybrids Driving CU-NREL Smart Grid Study

The Boulder location enables participants to track their household electricity use through smart-grid technology, and for researchers to monitor the performance of Toyota’s first-generation lithium-ion drive battery at high altitudes, in cold weather and in mountainous terrain.

22Feb2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Defense Department Accelerating Clean Energy Innovation to Save Lives, Money

DoD has 450 ongoing renewable energy projects producing or procuring 9.6 percent of its energy from clean sources in fiscal 2010. Renewable energy spending by the department is projected to reach $3 billion by 2015 and $10 billion by 2030.

25Sep2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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300,000 Hybrid Trucks and Buses to be on the Road by 2015 — Colorado in the Mix as Center for Alternative Vehicles

These hybrid vehicles promise a reduction in fuel consumption between 5% and 50% depending on design, which will help reduce costs and emissions, making hybrid trucks more attractive for fleet managers.

21Jun2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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NREL Battery Testing Capabilities Get a Boost

The Department of Energy is looking to help the U.S. battery industry with a simple goal — to mass produce better batteries domestically while addressing safety, affordability, life, and performance. As a result, more work and funding for battery research is coming to the NREL in Golden.

12Feb2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Is the Sustainability Revolution Sustainable?

It’s July 20, 1789. Smith and Jones, two English businessmen, are walking down the street. Smith turns to Jones and says, “How about this Industrial Revolution we’re having?” Sounds implausible? Of course it does. Because the industrial revolution was not really a revolution.

1Feb2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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UQM Technologies Acquires Longmont Facility for Expanded Production

A major emphasis of the company is developing products for the alternative energy technologies sector including propulsion systems for electric powered vehicles, as well as power accessories and distributed energy generation applications.

15Dec2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Smart Grid’s Potential Attracts Heavy-Hitters –
Development of Standards Remains Key

I challenge you to think of any part of the smart grid that GE does NOT offer –maybe software. Luke’s speech set the theme - this isn’t the Internet. This is a land of Industrial Giants, and (unlike IBM’s Internet ennui of the early 1990s) these giants are not ceding the smart grid territory to anyone.

5Oct2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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State Reels in $50 Million in Fed Funding
for Electric Vehicle Development

A big winner is Frederick-based UQM Technologies Inc. - which is getting a whooping $45.1 million in funding support. Colorado State University will use its $5 million grant for alternative vehicle technician training and public education.

6Aug2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Smart Grid Politics: Opening Statement at D.C. Hearing

“Smart Grid is not the build out of miles and miles of high voltage transmission lines. Instead, what we’re really talking about is a potential transformation in how we use and deliver electricity.”

5Mar2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued


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