Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2015

US prices for the 2016 A3 Sportback e-tron plug-in hybrid electric vehicle ( earlier post )—the first of many Audi e-tron models destined to come to the US—will begin at $37,900. The 2016 A3 Sportback e-tron features a 1.4 Recharging through a 120-volt outlet takes approximately 8 hours. Plug-in hybrid system.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2018

A UPS-led consortium has deployed new smart-grid charging technology in London that overcomes the challenge of simultaneously recharging an entire fleet of electric vehicles (EVs) without the need for the expensive upgrade to the power supply grid. A key part of this initiative is the use of onsite energy storage batteries.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Hybrid Air is a full-hybrid solution combining compressed air and hydraulic power, with no battery required for energy storage. Hybrid Air combines a PureTech gasoline engine, a compressed air energy storage unit, a hydraulic pump/motor unit and an automatic transmission with an epicyclic gear train. Gasoline power.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2016

Current advanced rechargeable batteries that adopt lithium intercalation compounds as cathode and graphite as anode still cannot meet the escalating demands in electric vehicle markets as well as the smart-grid energy storage because of high cost and insufficient theoretical specific energy density. —Gu et al.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Solid Power Inc. Solid Power licensed a portfolio of ORNL patents relating to lithium-sulfur compositions that will enable development of more energy-dense batteries. of Louisville, Colo., Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

A team at Purdue University has used pollens as the basis for carbon architectures for anodes in energy storage devices. Solid, dense carbon particles provides high energy density to the rechargeable batteries. Tang and Pol (2016). Findings showed the cattail pollens performed better than bee pollen.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2016

Researchers funded by Nanostructures for Electrical Energy Storage (NEES), a DOE Energy Frontier Research Center, have developed a nanowire-based hybrid battery/capacitor that can be recharged hundreds of thousands of times. However, the Achilles heel of such nanowires for energy storage is cycle stability.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2018

The spectrum ranges from electric vehicles to wallboxes and charging services to home energy storage units. It will be based on the Concept EQ which was shown in Paris in 2016. This provides for recharging of a drained battery in less than 3.5 It will be available from May and will cost €840.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2016

Energy storage devices, such as fuel cells and rechargeable batteries, convert chemical energy into electricity through a chemical reaction. Catalytic reactions that proceed in both directions are required for charging and discharging of regenerative energy storage devices. Credit: ACS, Petrie et al.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Future facility and charging point expansions are already planned out for 2016-2020 to accommodate more routes converting to fast charging electric vehicles. Each new bus takes only 10-15 minutes to complete recharging the battery. Click to enlarge. State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC) is the largest electric utility in the world.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Total energy consumption is reduced by 60%. The difference lies in a more powerful electric motor, increased energy storage and equipment for overhead conductive opportunity charging. Recharging takes approximately 6 minutes at end stations. Series production is scheduled to start in early 2016. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2017

The company’s EDI PowerDrive 6000 PHEV drivetrain system surpassed one million miles in a commercial fleet setting in late 2016. The company is supplying its drivetrain technology to Yaxing Motor Coach for integration into a fleet of city buses to be delivered in March of this year. regenerative braking capabilities. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

With very high theoretical energy densities, metal air technology is considered a promising technology candidate for “beyond Li-ion” next-generation batteries enabling future long-range battery-electric vehicles—assuming the development obstacles can be overcome. Aluminum-air batteries offer a theoretical specific energy of 8.1

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2015

The California Energy Commission (CEC) awarded a $3-million grant to leading battery-electric bus manufacturer Proterra as one of 46 transportation, energy storage, biogas and efficiency projects receiving a total of $83.7 This system can be recharged on-route in less than ten minutes with a 500kW charge rate.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2010

Comparison of gravimetric and volumetric energy densities for four different types of 2016 coin cells. The company is targeting an accelerated time-to-market for next-generation rechargeable (secondary) batteries that will also benefit from its battery chemistries and materials. Source: Contour. Click to enlarge. 3 V system.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2021

Development of the lithium-ion energy storage system began in 2016 and was inspired by technologies that have proven themselves in the Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team’s Formula 1 hybrid racing cars. Added to this are fast energy absorption and high power density. Hallmark AMG sportiness and agility is retained.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2017

These and other advanced battery technologies allow the XPAND battery pack to achieve an energy density of up to 150 watt hours per kilogram (Wh/kg). Research firm Technavio recently predicted that the global electric bus market will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of almost 27% between 2016 and 2020.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Anderman projects a global EV/PHEV 2016 market at around 0.6% of anticipated 2016 new vehicle sales, leaving the over-invested battery industry in a trying environment. As a result, production plans for EVs and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) for the next 4-5 years are being slashed. million units in 2012 to about 4.1

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

The US Department of Energy has announced the 2016 Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR/STTR) Phase I Release 2 Topics, covering eight DOE research program organizations. Alternative crank mechanisms for internal combustion engines leading to improved energy efficiency.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2021

The cost of the rechargeable lithium-ion batteries used for phones, laptops, and cars has fallen significantly over the last three decades, and has been a major driver of the rapid growth of those technologies. An open-access paper on the work is published in the journal Energy and Environmental Science. Lithium-ion cell prices.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

Though the PHEV combines the two types of energy and power, it is not merely a temporary “transition” between gasoline and diesel cars to pure electric cars. It solves the storage problems faced by the electric utility companies in absorbing and adapting to the highly variable power and energy generated by solar and wind.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2013

Projected rates of fuel consumption improvement under different scenarios relative to past experience and the 2016 and 2025 CAFE standards. Vehicle and fuel data were then used to forecast future LDV fleet energy use and GHG emissions using two models, as well comparing different policy-driven scenarios. Source: NRC. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2016

In order to be able to recruit as many highly qualified experts as possible from the company’s own ranks for the production of the Mission E, the number of technical-industrial apprentices will increase from 104 to 154 beginning in the 2016 training year, Porsche said. centimeters in diameter (18700) from A123 Systems.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2016

MIT professor Donald Sadoway and his team have demonstrated a long-cycle-life calcium-metal-based liquid-metal rechargeable battery for grid-scale energy storage, overcoming the problems that have precluded the use of the element: its high melting temperature, high reactivity and unfavorably high solubility in molten salts.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

announced that Continental Automotive Systems’ Maxwell-powered voltage stabilization system (VSS) will be a standard feature on 2016. Unlike batteries, which produce and store energy by means of a chemical reaction, ultracapacitors store energy in an electric field. Maxwell Technologies, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2009

mpg in 2016, GM’s short term answer is to get greater mileage out of existing gasoline engine technologies. During HCCI operation the engine creates a low temperature, flameless, release of energy that is “ initiated by retaining the heat from the previous combustion cycle. Click to enlarge. This is controlled auto ignition.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2017

ChargePoint’s stance is bolstered by a new MIT study that suggests , in part, that electric cars that plug into the grid, could, collectively, act as a massive “virtual battery” for grid energy storage. Battery Capacity of Deferrable Energy Demand Daria Madjidian, Mardavij Roozbehani, and Munther A.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Consulting firm KPMG , for example, estimates that in addition to the 179 new battery EV model launches and refreshes between 2016 and 2020, at least another 251 are expected between 2021 and 2023 by traditional auto manufacturers, or original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) as they are referred to in the industry, as well as start-ups.

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