Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2010

A group of US and Canadian power grid operators, who manage most of the North American bulk electric grid collectively, studied the effect that plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) would have on the electric power grid. PJM); and the Southwest Power Pool, Inc. ISO RTO operating regions. Click to enlarge.

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Grid Plug-in Plug Electric Vehicles 210

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

A “National Energy Application Technology Research and Engineering demonstration project”, CGNPC plans to couple these 3.5 MWh back-up Li-ion batteries with their nuclear power stations to deliver power up to 2.5MW levels.

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Li-ion BYD Power Powered 231

Cars That Think

JUNE 24, 2022

As renewable energy capacity grows, the only way to drastically reduce coal in the electricity mix is by adding energy storage. Although some of the newer solar plants and wind farms are being set up with large amounts of battery storage, it could be decades before such investments have a significant impact.

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Coal Energy Storage Wind India 79

Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2011

The e-gas project consists of two main components: Audi is contributing to the construction of offshore North Sea wind turbines which will generate clean power,that is then fed into the public power grid. Audi wants to use green power to produce and also operate its electric-drive e-tron models in the future.

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Audi Gas Hydrogen 2013 370

Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2011

Liquid Metal Battery Corporation (LMBC), a Cambridge, Massachusetts company founded in 2010 to develop new forms of electric storage batteries that work in large, grid-scale applications, has secured the rights to key patent technology from MIT. —Luis Ortiz, LMBC’s President.

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MIT Battery Batteries Energy Storage 210

Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2011

For the field test, researchers will deploy aged EV batteries at the University of California (UC), San Diego’s campus-wide electric power grid. The NREL award to the CCSE team leverages an ongoing UC Davis-CCSE-TSRC study funded by the California Energy Commission on the repurposing of used EV batteries for home energy storage.

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Li-ion San Diego Battery Batteries 225

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Duke Energy will provide engineering design support for battery installations, as well as supply test sites and personnel. ITOCHU will provide its stationary energy storage infrastructure expertise to enable the reuse of automotive batteries.

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Li-ion Indianapolis Energy Battery 284

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2012

Luis Ortiz, are also founders of Liquid Metal Battery Corporation (LMBC), a Cambridge, Massachusetts company founded in 2010 to develop new forms of electric storage batteries that work in large, grid-scale applications. Sadoway (2012) Magnesium–Antimony Liquid Metal Battery for Stationary Energy Storage.

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MIT Molten Salt Battery Batteries 301

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2009

The BMW Concept ActiveE is based on the BMW 1 Series Coupe, and will premiere at the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) 2010 in Detroit. On the European power grid, the battery pack can be fully charged in just 3 hours at a wall box with a current of 50 ampere at 230/240 volts. Earlier post.).

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BMW Concept Detroit 2010 225

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

Also, seven regional electric utility partners are joining Ford and the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) to conduct real-world tests on an expanding fleet of Ford Escape PHEVs. American Electric Power of Columbus, Ohio. Alabama Power of Birmingham, Ala.; Progress Energy of Raleigh, N.C. DTE Energy of Detroit.

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PHEV 2012 Ford EPRI 150

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

The first phase of the FellowSHIP project wrapped in 2010; in 2011, DNV kicked off a continuation of the FellowSHIP project named HybridShip. HybridSHIP is concerned with introducing batteries for on-board energy storage, integrated with fuel cells and gas engines. Germanischer Lloyd.

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Hydrogen Emissions Fuel Industrial 294

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

GM has announced plans for public sales in 2010, and almost every carmaker now says it will sell PHEVs or highway-speed battery electric vehicles (BEVs) sometime after 2010. Committed to sales of 10,000 or more vehicles in late 2010, with increasing production in 2011. Aims to get Saturn Vue on road in 2010; no production goal.

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