On November 10, according to BMW's official news, it is stepping up its cooperation with California Bioenergy Company to use the manure from dairy farms to generate electricity to power electric vehicles, and the project can power 17,000 electric vehicles a year.
Bmw North America and Califonia Bioenergy, the first automaker to work with dairy farms on renewable energy projects, today announced expanded partnerships for bar 20 Dairy, a farm based in Kerman, California. The partnership aims to provide clean energy for electric vehicles in California, creating renewable energy by capturing methane from feces and feeding it back into the grid.
The new technology captures methane from the manure and converts it into renewable energy without combustion, offsets carbon emissions 100% and sends renewable energy back to the grid to power electric vehicles with clean energy. It would also reduce critical methane to help the state meet its short- and long-term climate goals.
The farm's methane reductions, combined with renewable energy generation, reduce carbon emissions, equivalent to providing clean electricity to more than 17,000 electric vehicles a year. The project will also provide significant air quality benefits to Northern and Central California while advancing the state's ambitious clean transportation goals.
Nowadays, China, the European Union and other regions have formulated strict carbon emission rules for car companies and set up carbon trading markets. Companies have to vigorously develop clean energy, and there will be more and more cooperation between car companies and other energy companies such as bioenergy.
There have been comments on the Internet that many of the electricity of electric vehicles are from thermal power, and discarded batteries will pollute the environment, which is actually not environmentally friendly. Xiao Lei does not think so, even if it is thermal power, after layers of filtration by thermal power plants, the gas emitted is very clean, much cleaner than the gas emitted by each car. Solar power generation has now achieved parity on the Internet, the price of equipment is getting lower and lower, and it has the possibility of large-scale application.
In addition, wind power, hydropower, and manure power generation are all booming. In the future, the business of recycling waste batteries of electric vehicles will become more and more mature, and its impact on the environment will continue to decrease.