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Environmental Executive Moves: Watts Water, Green Earth Technologies, Severn Trent

May 13, 2014May 12, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Here’s the latest news on hirings, promotions and departures among environmental leaders. Watts Water Technologies: The water technology company has appointed Robert J. Pagano, Jr. (pictured) as president and CEO effective May 27, at which time Dean P. Freeman will resume his role as executive vice president and chief financial ... Read more »

EVs Provide Supplementary Power at Fort Carson Army Base

September 16, 2013 by Environmental Leader

San Antonio-based Southwest Research Institute (SWRI) has deployed the first electric vehicle aggregation system that supplements energy supply at an Army base in Colorado. It uses the new Society of Automotive Engineers standard for bidirectional power using direct current (DC) fast charging, The system, part of the Smart Power Infrastructure ... Read more »

Southern California Edison’s EV Charging Learning Points

August 8, 2013 by Leon Walker

When customers with electric vehicles visit Southern California Edison’s website, the most sought after information is an estimate of how much it will cost to recharge their cars, followed by where charging stations are located, the utility says in a white paper. The white paper, Charged Up: Southern California Edison’s Key ... Read more »

DOE Wants Harmony Between EV Charging, Grid

July 22, 2013 by Linda Hardesty

The Energy Department launched a new center to ensure that vehicles, charging stations, communications and networking systems work in unison with the electric grid. The Electric Vehicle-Smart Grid Interoperability Center, located at Argonne National Laboratory just outside of Chicago, will work to harmonize emerging EV and smart grid technologies. The ... Read more »

Chrysler Tests EV Technology to Shave Peak Power on Grid

July 19, 2013 by Linda Hardesty

Chrysler Group has partnered with Detroit-based non-profit NextEnergy to evaluate electric-vehicle (EV) batteries to see if they can be viable storehouses of electricity to send surplus power to the grid. Four battery-powered EV minivans are connected to a charging module that, with NextEnergy’s technology, can simulate an electrical grid. Among ... Read more »

Electric Cars Actually Dirtier Than Gasoline Cars?

July 5, 2013July 3, 2017 by Leon Walker

Electric vehicles are not as clean as they are touted to be, according to a peer-reviewed article published in the IEEE Spectrum. Unclean at Any Speed says despite sweeping public opinion and the billions of dollars in subsidies granted to EV makers, the energy intensive materials used in manufacturing electric ... Read more »

EV Woes: Toyota, Mitsubishi Recalls, Ford Glitch

June 10, 2013June 10, 2013 by Kirsten Korosec

Toyota, Mitsubishi Motors Corp. and Ford Motor Co. have had issues with electric and hybrid vehicle models this month, including several recalls. Toyota announced Thursday a voluntary recall involving an unspecified mix of 87,000 2010 Prius vehicles and Lexus HS 250h hybrids for a brake pressure accumulator that could develop ... Read more »

Global market for rechargeable batteries

Nanotech ‘Can Improve Li-ion Battery Performance’

May 30, 2013September 30, 2013 by Leon Walker

Cathode material substitution, solvent-less electrode processing and recycling metals from batteries can reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other negative environmental effects from manufacturing lithium ion (Li-ion) batteries, according to a study by Abt Associates for the EPA. The EPA commissioned the study to assess the environmental and health impacts of ... Read more »

Green Fleet Roundup: Avon, Ford, DriveCam, Greyhound Lines

April 15, 2013April 23, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Avon Rent A Car Truck and Van says it is the first rental agency in the US to take delivery of the new 2013 HINO diesel-electric hybrid trucks. The new truck have a 30-35 percent better fuel economy and a low carbon footprint as compared with standard diesel trucks. Avon ... Read more »

ChargePoint Unveils 1st of 80-Plus NY Charging Stations

March 15, 2013March 15, 2013 by Leon Walker

ChargePoint Inc. announced the first of more than 80 electric vehicle charging stations it will install in New York, through a $1 million incentive from the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority. The project’s first EV charging station is at Battery Park City’s Solaire residential development, developed in ... Read more »

Green Fleet Roundup: VW, Nissan, Fuel Cell Buses

March 15, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

The first all-electric Volkswagen, e-up! (pictured), debuted at the Annual Press and Investors Conference in Wolfsburg, Germany this week. VW says the new four-seater EV has a 18.7 kWh lithium-ion battery that can cover 150 km on a single charge. It also has quick charging to recharge as much as ... Read more »

GM to Cut Vehicle Weight ‘Up to 15%’ by 2017

March 11, 2013March 11, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

General Motors will save 12 billion gallons of fuel over the life of the vehicles it builds between 2011 and 2017 by reducing vehicle weight by up to 15 percent, along with other fuel efficiency improvements, GM CEO and chairman Dan Akerson said in a speech at the IHS CERAWeek ... Read more »

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