article thumbnail

PHEVLERs are the Zero CO2 Clean Green Machines of the Future

Green Car Congress

That is, PHEVLERs can store electricity whenever sun and wind-generated electricity is plentiful, and then can send stored power back into the smart grid at times when more electric power is needed. PHEVLERs are better than BEVs in support of the electric grid. MIT News 15 Jan 2015. [

Clean 150
article thumbnail

MIT team calls initial performance results of magnesium-antimony liquid metal battery “promising”

Green Car Congress

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. The cell was filled with epoxy prior to sectioning. Credit: ACS, Bradwell et al. Click to enlarge.

MIT 301