As part of its commitment to increasing its renewable energy footprint globally and finding clean energy solutions near its operations, General Motors Co. has partnered with DTE Energy for 300,000 megawatt-hours (MWh) of wind energy in the state of Michigan. Once complete, the energy sourced will be enough to power 100% of the electricity needs…

All the publicity currently goes to the work of giving regular and premium cars longer range than is currently available.

The era of more affordable electrified vehicles (EV) is dawning.

As an official General Motors’s accessory, AeroVironment’s EVSE-RS charging station will be labeled with its own GM part number and will be available through Chevrolet dealerships.

General Motors has made its largest renewable energy procurement to date, purchasing enough wind power to equal the electricity needs of 16 of its U.S. facilities. This includes business offices in Fort Worth and Austin, Texas, a major assembly and stamping complex in Arlington, Texas, and 13 parts warehouses east of the Mississippi River. GM…

General Motors’ (GM) Arlington Assembly plant will soon be powered with wind energy. GM recently signed a power purchase agreement with EDP Renewables North America, a fully owned subsidiary of EDP Renewables, for 30 MW of power from the planned 250 MW Hidalgo Wind Farm in Edinburg, Texas. Fifteen of the wind farm’s 261-foot-tall turbines will generate the…

Demand for electric power, thanks to the recession, has been almost flat for the last seven years and government forecasts for the next few years are not encouraging. Some of that lack of growth is attributed to improved efficiency. Not long ago, for instance, we replaced incandescent light bulbs around our house with CFLs and…

General Motors for the first time is procuring wind to power its manufacturing operations, enabling one of its Mexico facilities’ electricity needs to be run mostly on renewable energy. This addition of 34 MW of wind power allows GM to achieve its corporate goal of renewable energy use four years early. Construction of the wind…

This article comes from Nano Letters and will be of interest to who wish to stabilize their grids.  A search for the next great high-energy, rechargeable battery technology has been on for a while. Recently, scientists report they have overcome key obstacles toward making lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries, which have potential to outperform today’s lithium-ion technology.…

Editor’s note: This research will be presented at a meeting of the American Chemical Society and should be of interest to the wind industry because the hydrogen will probably be electrolyzed and possibly using wind generated power. Carmakers such as Toyota have long touted the eco-friendly virtues of zero-emission hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles, but commercialization was…

Editor’s note: This is significant because hydrogen will be a primary fuel for fuel cells and wind generated power will have a role to play electrolyzing water into hydrogen and oxygen. The Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and General Motors (GM) are partnering on a multiyear, multimillion dollar joint effort to accelerate the…