Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Volvo Buses is participating in a research project in which used electric bus batteries are used as solar energy storage units. Batteries from electric bus route 55 in Gothenburg, Sweden are being used for solar energy storage in a second-life application.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Vattenfall, BMW and Bosch are testing the use of second-life EV batteries in a 2 MW, 2,800 kWh energy storage system in Hamburg, Germany, to keep the electricity grid stable. The electricity storage facility comprises 2,600 battery modules from more than 100 electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2015

Eos Energy Storage announced the commercial availability of its MW-scale Aurora system for deliveries starting in 2016. The Aurora product employs Eos’s patented Znyth battery technology that uses a safe aqueous electrolyte and a novel zinc-hybrid cathode to enable extremely low-cost electricity storage and long life.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2019

levelized cost)—as opposed to the investment cost—of 9 electricity storage technologies for 12 different applications between 2015 and 2050. The model predicts lithium-ion batteries to be the cheapest technology in the coming decades. An open-access paper on their work is published in the journal Joule.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2015

The California Energy Commission (CEC) has awarded $2.1 million to Eos Energy Storage, LLC to demonstrate an AC-integrated system incorporating the company’s zinc hybrid-cathode battery technology (“Zynth”) to enhance renewable energy generation and provide grid-scale, multi-hour energy storage.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2023

Poland-based battery systems maker Impact Clean Power Technology unveiled a visualization of GigafactoryX—a large-scale battery factory for electric vehicles and energy storage which will be launched in the city of Pruszków, near Warsaw. Its construction will increase Impact’s production capacity to 1.2

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2010

The California Center for Sustainable Energy (CCSE) will lead a joint research study of how the useful lifespan of electric vehicle batteries could be extended by repurposing them as household electric storage devices with a $992,000 grant from the University of California. of Monrovia, Calif.; —Mike Ferry.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

German utility STEAG is investing around €100 million in grid energy storage systems (ESS) totalling 90 MW, equipped with Li-ion cells from LG Chem. STEAG has therefore decided to make this investment in large-scale batteries for deployment on the control power market, without making use of grants or subsidies.

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Innovation News Network

JANUARY 26, 2023

Dutch electricity storage company Elestor has achieved a double win at the Offshore Wind Innovators Award 2022. The post Elestor’s electricity storage technology scores double victory appeared first on Innovation News Network.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

It's being marketed as the " Tesla Energy Plan ," and is available to any individual household in this region of 24 million people that has a solar panel system, a grid connection—and a Tesla powerwall, the Palo Alto firm's gigafactory-made 13.5 kWh battery wall unit. Harmony Energy seems pretty pleased.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2015

Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC) and Mitsubishi Corporation (MC) announced the launch of a joint demonstration project for utilizing used lithium-ion batteries from electric-powered vehicles. Low voltage (48 Volts) Energy Storage System use of new automotive batteries.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2020

The system transferred electricity from the power grid to the vehicle battery terminals at more than 92% efficiency. At a 20-kilowatt level, it would take about three hours to charge the vehicle’s 60-kilowatt-hour battery packs. UPS appreciates the Department of Energy’s support on this effort.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

is the energy storage partner for a utility demonstration project led by CEATI International Inc., The project has been conditionally approved for partial funding support from the Government of Canada’s Clean Energy Fund and final contract negotiations are underway. Canada-based Li-ion maker Electrovaya Inc.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2013

Evonik Industries, STEAG, and other project partners put a lithium electricity storage system (LESSY) into operation at STEAG’s Fenne power plant in Völklingen, Saarland, Germany. The large-format energy storage system was developed under a research initiative sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2017

Vattenfall and the BMW Group have signed a contract for the delivery of up to 1,000 lithium-ion batteries this year. The batteries—each with a capacity of 33 kWh—are equipped with a BMW-owned battery management system and are also used by the car manufacturer in the BMW i3. With a capacity of 3.2 Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

Its first customer for the turnkey solution is Damen Shipyards Group, a globally operating company with more than 50 shipyards and related facilities, which has selected Leclanché to construct and provide two fast charge electric ferry stations, and supporting electrical storage systems, on Canada’s Lake Ontario. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2015

Analysis by Lux Research suggests that the market space represented by the emerging lower-cost, 200-mile-range EV will be the biggest coming growth opportunity in electric storage for transportation. According to Lux Research’s Automotive Battery Tracker, in 2014 EVs used $2.1-billion billion worth of energy storage.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 18, 2017

GE and Southern California Edison (SCE) unveiled the first battery-gas turbine hybrid system in Norwalk, California: the LM6000 Hybrid Electric Gas Turbine (Hybrid EGT). This hybrid system supports SCE’s increasing renewable energy capacity by providing quick start, fast ramping capabilities when they are needed.

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Innovation News Network

AUGUST 30, 2022

Elestor has secured a €30 million investment from a consortium spearheaded by Norwegian energy giant Equinor's corporate venture capital arm. The post Elestor electricity storage company receives €30 million investment appeared first on Innovation News Network.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2014

Researchers at Harvard have demonstrated a metal-free organic–inorganic aqueous flow battery—a quinone–bromide flow battery (QBFB)—as an example of a class of energy storage materials that exploits the favorable chemical and electrochemical properties of a family of molecules known as quinones. Background.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2014

Ambri, developer of Liquid Metal Battery grid-scale energy storage technology, closed a $35-million Series C equity financing. When the battery is being charged, some ions migrate through the insulating salt layer to collect at one of the terminals. Earlier post.) The cells are still in operation.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2023

The researchers hope that this strategy could help to engineer an improved anode material in next-generation batteries. Graphite contains flat layers of carbon atoms, and during battery charging, lithium atoms are stored between these layers in a process called intercalation. A paper on their work is published in the journal Small.

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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. Patents for all liquid metal battery inventions were licensed from MIT.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2022

Grants will be disbursed from the Innovation Fund to help bring technologies to the market in energy-intensive industries, hydrogen, renewable energy, carbon capture and storage infrastructure, and manufacturing of key components for energy storage and renewables. captured at a Combined Heat and Power (CHP) plant.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

The performance of the ReFactory will also relate to the ability to generate closed-loop supply flows with controlled costs (reuse, recycling for repair), and to develop new value-added skills (retrofitting, dismantling, fleet maintenance, preparation of batteries for the second life, etc.)

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

The team says replacing a metal wheel well with a composite one could enable Volvo to reduce the number of batteries needed to power the electric motor. The laminated architecture of fibre composites mirrors the configuration of many current electrical storage devices. Even the Sat Nav could be powered by its own casing.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2009

The actively coupled ultracapacitor-battery system has four primary components. and Gold Peak Battery-USA are research partners in the project. The ultracapacitor bank actively coupled via the power electronics allows the use of an energy optimized battery by reducing peak loads and minimizing internal battery heating.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2011

For PHEV20 batteries, TIAX found significant overlap in battery costs among five cathode classes, with wider variation within each chemistry based on the electrode design than between chemistries. For PHEV20, the program focused on both commercially available and emerging cathode materials aimed for use in a 20-mile PHEV battery pack.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 9, 2022

A total of 40 Tesla Megapack battery storage systems replaced a World War II turbojet generator in Lessines, Belgium, Tesla announced. Previously, the generator had been providing energy support to the community since the 1950s. This project is an important step for the development of electricity storage solutions in Europe.

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 31, 2021

Energy Storage in Sand Offers Low-Cost Pathway for Reliable Electricity and Heat Supply in Renewable Energy Era.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2023

Used batteries, gear shafts and cogwheels could even show up in other applications outside the automotive industry. A camera moves slowly over a lithium ion battery, which has just been extracted from a car that was damaged in an accident. Next, the battery cover is removed through a semi-automated process.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

The difference lies in a more powerful electric motor, increased energy storage and equipment for overhead conductive opportunity charging. The battery pack uses a heater/cooler system which operates both at the ramp and when driving. Volvo Electric Hybrid drive system. Electric motor/generator (I-SAM).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2015

Working with a group of nearly 100 BMW i3 drivers, selected from approximately 400 applicants, BMW i ChargeForward will demonstrate how intelligent management of electric vehicle charging can contribute to optimizing electric power grid efficiency while reducing total cost of electric vehicle ownership.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2015

The study has two parts, a managed charge pilot program involving BMW i3 owners and a battery second life energy storage system. Grid efficiency through managed charging, combined with a used EV battery “second-life” system. EV battery “second life” system using MINI E vehicle batteries.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2009

A new draft working paper published by the Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry Center concluded that a PHEV pack comprising lithium iron phosphate cells would incur little capacity loss from combining vehicle-to-grid (V2G) activities with regular driving. The battery pack energy capacity was assumed to be 16 kWh.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2009

Italian motorsport electronics specialist Magneti Marelli and UK high-speed flywheel specialist Flybrid Systems are collaborating to develop a new energy storage solution for Kinetic Energy Recovery Systems (KERS). The Flywheel capacitor will not use chemical battery-based energy storage systems.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

The study builds on a 2011 effort which looked into the six key applications of the Strategic Energy Technology (SET) Plan: wind, solar, nuclear fission, bioenergy, carbon capture and storage (CCS) and the electricity grid. 2013) Critical Metals in the Path towards the Decarbonisation of the EU Energy Sector.

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