Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2016

Climate & Renewables North America, LLC (E.ON) signed an agreement with Tucson Electric Power (TEP) to provide frequency response and voltage control from a grid-scale, 10 megawatt (MW) battery energy storage facility with a 2 MW solar array. The project is expected to be completed in the first half of 2017.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2020

Solid-state energy storage technologies such as solid-state lithium metal batteries, which use a solid electrode and a solid electrolyte, can provide high energy density combined with excellent safety, but the technology must overcome diverse materials and processing challenges. —co-author Venkat. Venturi, V.,

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2018

a startup founded by former Stanford University researchers developing next-generation battery technology for potential aerospace and industrial applications. In September 2017, CalSEED awarded Cuberg $150,000 in Phase I grant funding. In December 2017, NSF SBIR awarded Cuberg $225,000 in Phase I grant funding.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Anovion, with its partners, collaborators and stakeholders, will build 35,000 tons per annum of new synthetic graphite anode material capacity for lithium-ion batteries used in electric vehicles and critical energy storage applications. NOVONIX Anode Materials LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of NOVONIX Limited, was formed in 2017.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2018

GWh in 2017—making it Nº 1 globally. The company develops and produces lithium-ion batteries, battery systems for electromobility and energy storage solutions. With an annual supply of 12 GWh in 2017, CATL is number one in the global automotive battery industry. Energy storage system customers: State Grid.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

In December 2017, ARENA announced the funding round into hydrogen R&D. It is the first time ARENA had sought to fund research into the hydrogen energy supply chain. ARENA is also part of the Hydrogen Strategy Group, led by Chief Scientist Dr Alan Finkel AO, which prepared a briefing paper on hydrogen for the COAG Energy Council.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2018

GWh in 2017—making it Nº 1 globally. The company develops and produces lithium-ion batteries, battery systems for electromobility and energy storage solutions. With an annual supply of 12 GWh in 2017, CATL is number one in the global automotive battery industry. Energy storage system customers: State Grid.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2017

A team from the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei is proposing a new approach to estimate the state of health of EV battery packs using an artificial intelligence (AI) optimization algorithm. Thew researchers define the battery pack SOH as the change of battery pack maximum energy storage. 2017.11.068.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2018

b | The energy-storage demand for the reference devices. The energy-storage demand is calculated by multiplying the number of devices by the individual battery size. The Centre for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research Baden-Württemberg (ZSW) and the Justus-Liebig University Gießen are also involved in these efforts.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2019

Improvements to a class of battery electrolyte first introduced in 2017—liquefied gas electrolytes—could pave the way to replacing the graphite anode with a lithium-metal anode. cycling efficiency reported in the 2017 Science paper, and an 85% cycling efficiency for lithium metal anodes with a conventional (liquid) electrolyte.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

The automotive industry, in its pursuit of vehicle electrification, is particularly interested in ASSB to boost vehicle range, while using an overall safer and simpler energy storage system as compared to current state of the art lithium-ion batteries. Solid Power originated as a spin-out from the University of Colorado Boulder.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Recycling technologies for end-of-life lithium ion batteries (LIBs) are not keeping pace with the rapid rise of electric vehicles, setting up a potentially huge waste management problem for the future, according to a new study led by researchers at the University of Birmingham.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Its formation was announced in October 2017 by the Business Secretary Greg Clark. With ICL, university partners include University of Southampton, University of Warwick, University of Oxford, Lancaster University, University of Bath, and University College London. Earlier post.). million (US$6.4

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

They obtained a high specific energy of 762 Wh kg -1 with high average potential of 3.2 Recently, room temperature sodium-ion batteries (SIBs) have received tremendous attention for electrochemical energy storage applications owing to their low cost and the abundant resource of sodium compared with lithium. —Huang et al.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2021

Doyle previously spent 25 years at DuPont and was part of the executive team responsible for managing the Dow-DuPont merger in 2017, culminating in the successful IPO of the new DuPont in 2019. 2018) “Niobium tungsten oxides for high-rate lithium-ion energy storage.” Griffith et al. Griffith, K.J., Wiaderek, K.M.,

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2021

Addressing climate change requires not only a clean electrical grid, but also a clean fuel to reduce emissions from industrial heat, long-haul heavy transportation, and long-duration energy storage. Hydrogen and its derivatives could be that fuel, argues a commentary by four energy researchers in the journal Joule.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

The UK Technology Strategy Board (TSB) and Office for Low Emission Vehicles (OLEV) have awarded £598,000 (US$980,000) to micro-bead hydrogen storage company Cella Energy ( earlier post ) and its partners MIRA, Coventry University and Productiv to develop a hydrogen generation system to extend the range of battery electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2017

Volvo Construction Equipment (CE) presented the HX2 autonomous, battery-electric, load carrier at CONEXPO/CON-AGG 2017. The Swedish Energy Agency—a government agency for national energy policy issues—is helping to fund the project and the universities are carrying out research.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2017

Lithium-air (Li-O 2 ) batteries are among the nost energy-dense electrochemical platforms for mobile energy storage, and are thus considered promising for electrified transportation. Archer (2017) “Designer interphases for the lithium-oxygen electrochemical cell” Science Advances Vol. —Choudhury et al. 1602809.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2017

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside’s Bourns College of Engineering have used waste glass bottles and a low-cost chemical process to fabricate nanosilicon anodes for high-performance lithium-ion batteries. Coating the silicon nanoparticles with carbon to improve their stability and energy storage properties.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2018

Engineers at the University of California San Diego have shed new light on the atomic-level mechanism of the sulfur embrittlement of nickel, a classic problem that has puzzled the scientific community for nearly a century. —Jian Luo.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2017

Magnesium rechargeable batteries (MRBs) are emerging as an attractive candidate for energy storage in terms of safety, energy density, and scalability because magnesium metal has ideal properties as a battery anode: high capacity, low redox potential, dendrite-free deposition, and earth-abundant resources.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2017

Results of a study by a team at the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute, SOEST, University of Hawaii at Manoa, suggest that the additional cycling to discharge vehicle batteries to the power grid in a vehicle-to-grid (V2G) scenario, even at constant power, is detrimental to EV battery cell performance. 2017.05.015.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2017

Selected projects must include one or more national laboratories and shall also include partners from one or more of the following: industry, universities, nonprofits, institutes, codes and standards organizations, associations, or other relevant stakeholders. Proposals will be due by 15 September 2017.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Researchers from the University of Liverpool (UK), with colleagues from Dalian University of Technology (China) and the University of Hull (UK), have developed a new process for the direct, one-step activation of carbon dioxide and methane (dry reforming of methane) into higher value liquid fuels and chemicals (e.g.,

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Energy harvesting technology, including photovoltaics, thermoelectric, piezoelectric, and triboelectric materials. New energy storage concepts (non-ion based, quantum-based, utilizing other elementary particles, etc.). Professor Joaquin Rodriguez Lopez, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2017

Lithium-air batteries are looked to by many as a very high-energy density next-generation energy storage solution for electric vehicles. However, the technology has several holdups, including losing energy as it stores and releases its charge.The reaction mechanisms are, in general, not well understood. 2017.40.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2017

By mimicking fibrinolysis, a biological self-healing process, researchers at China’s Tsinghua University have developed a self-healing sulfur microparticle (SMiP) cathode. This inspires many promising applications toward smart electronics, artificial skin, and energy storage. mg (S) cm −2. —Peng et al. 6b12358.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2017

A team at the University of Waterloo in Canada has developed a novel adaptive auxiliary battery-powered anti-idling system for service vehicles (e.g. delivery trucks or public buses); the energy storage system in the regenerative auxiliary power system (RAPS) is able to electrify the vehicle auxiliary systems. 2017.03.119.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2017

Mechanical bonds have come to the rescue for the first time in an energy storage context. —Sir Fraser Stoddart of Northwestern University, 2016 Noble Laureate in Chemistry. The long fundamental study is now expanding in an unexpected direction that addresses longstanding challenges in battery technology. ”

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 1, 2017

A team from Zhejiang University of Technology and the Technological and Higher Education Institute of Hong Kong has developed a core-shell yolk-shell Si@C@void@C nanohybrid for use as a Li-ion battery anode. This work provides a novel clue to develop advanced Si- or Sn-based anode materials for energy storage. —Xie et al.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2017

In addition, material sustainability is also a critical factor when considering the total economic and environmental benefits for grid-scale energy storage applications. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences. Thus, further research is required to find better sodium host materials. Chueh, Michael F.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

A team from Lawrence Berkeley and Argonne National Laboratories, Tufts University and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology have now used X-ray based imaging techniques to study the inner workings of PEM fuelcell components subjected to a range of temperature and moisture conditions. Credit: Berkeley Lab). Weber, Odne S.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2017

Solid-state lithium-ion batteries, with higher volumetric energy densities than currently available lithium-ion batteries, offer a number of conceptual advantages including improved packaging efficiency; improved safety; and long cycle life. However, there remain a number of unresolved issues precluding commercialization at this point.

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Blink Charging

JANUARY 3, 2024

Ensure that every EV driver can use your chargers by purchasing chargers that come with universal payment systems, like the Blink Series 8 Commercial Level 2 EV Charging Station. Encourage drivers to disconnect right away when they’re done and make room for others when their vehicle has completed charging. Need to add more stations?

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2017

In a review paper in the journal Nature Materials , Jean-Marie Tarascon (Professor at College de France and Director of RS2E, French Network on Electrochemical Energy Storage) and Clare Gray (Professor at the University of Cambridge), call for integrating the sustainability of battery materials into the R&D efforts to improve rechargeable batteries.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 1, 2017

Braga began developing solid-glass electrolytes with colleagues while she was at the University of Porto in Portugal. In the short term, they hope to work with battery makers to develop and test their new materials in electric vehicles and energy storage devices. Murchison at UT Austin. Resources. Grundish, A. Murchison and J.

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