Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2022

JERA, the largest power generation company in Japan, responsible for about 30% of Japan’s electricity, and Toyota Motor have built and deployed the first large-capacity “Sweep Energy Storage System”. The project plans to operate grid storage batteries for recharge and discharge operations, connected to the Chubu Electric Power Grid Co.,

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2020

Hitachi ABB Power Grids has launched Grid-eMotion Fleet, a scalable, modular and fully customizable solution for large-scale EV charging of smart public and commercial transport. The smart mobility solution enables operators efficiently to scale-up their operations.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

The average cost of a Li-ion battery cell—used to power electric vehicles and to provide flexibility in the power grid as more renewables, such as solar and wind, are added will fall below $100 per kilowatt hour (kWh) in the next three years, according to a new analysis by IHS Markit. Cost is the name of the game.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2019

Audi has opened Germany’s largest multi-use battery energy storage unit on the EUREF Campus in Berlin. MWh and uses used lithium-ion batteries from development vehicles to test various interaction scenarios between electric cars and the power grid. The Audi storage unit has a capacity of 1.9 With its capacity of 1.9

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

DNV, an independent energy expert and assurance provider, released the fourth edition of its Battery Scorecard report. This edition of the Battery Scorecard incorporates independent testing results from 19 different battery cell types, as well as an outlook on future battery technologies and a new interactive online dashboard.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 27, 2023

Texas is launching a "virtual power plant" pilot program that will reward Tesla Powerwall owners for using their in-home battery packs to support the grid.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Researchers from Japan’s NIMS (National Institute for Materials Science), the University of Tokyo and Hiroshima University have jointly conducted a techno-economic analysis for hydrogen production from photovoltaic power generation (PV) utilizing a battery-assisted electrolyzer. This approximately converts to US$1.92 to US$3.00/kg

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Baua Electric

MAY 17, 2024

Photo: China Southern Power Grid Energy Storage China’s first major sodium-ion battery energy storage station is now online, according to state-owned utility China Southern Power Grid Energy Storage. It’s comparable to the efficiency of common lithium-ion battery storage systems, at 85-95%.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 20, 2022

Honeywell and FREYR Battery signed an agreement pursuant to which FREYR will, subject to viability, leverage Honeywell’s leading technology offerings, including integrated automation, field instrumentation and security integration solutions in FREYR’s manufacturing process. —Tom Einar Jensen, FREYR’s Chief Executive Officer.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2017

and New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), in cooperation with the State of California and public utility company San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E), started the demonstration of the United States’ largest redox flow battery system in California. Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. Background.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2021

Rapidly moving towards becoming a fully electric car company, Volvo Cars is bringing battery cell technology development and production closer to home and aims to tailor its future batteries to the needs of its customers: a longer range and faster charging times. —Henrik Green, chief technology officer.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2021

The Volkswagen Group presented its technology roadmap for batteries and charging up to 2030 today on its first “Power Day”. The goal of the roadmap is to reduce the complexity and cost of the battery significantly in order to make the electric car attractive and viable for as many people as possible. —Thomas Schmall.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2019

Honda is conducting research with Ohio-based electric utility American Electric Power to develop a network of used electric vehicle (EV) batteries that could be integrated into AEP’s electricity system. Storing additional power in used EV batteries can help utilities meet demand by using renewable energy resources.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

has exclusively licensed five battery technologies from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) designed to eliminate the use of cobalt metal in lithium-ion batteries. The advancement is aimed at accelerating the production of electric vehicles and energy storage solutions for the power grid.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

The BMW Group has pooled its years of experience with battery cells and extensive knowledge in the field in a new Competence Center in Munich. The purpose of the facility is to advance battery cell technology and carefully dissect the production processes. The new Battery Cell Competence Center puts us in an enviable position.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2022

Among alternative powertrains, consumer interest in battery electric vehicles (BEVs) is highest in the Republic of Korea (23%), China (17%) and Germany (15%), while Japanese consumers showed the highest preference towards hybrid electric vehicles (HEV/PHEV) (48%) followed by the Republic of Korea (35%).

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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.

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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. The battery warehouse consists of 14 used lithium-ion electric bus batteries.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 24, 2024

As interest in AI surges, so too has scrutiny of the technology’s energy intensity and its corresponding burden on data centres and power grids. Artificial intelligence ‘s next target is the electric vehicle battery. Battery development is typically a slow and laborious process, with extensive testing and retesting.

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 26, 2023

In what is the now the first largest commercial deployment of a Virtual Power Plant in the world, energy expert Enel X and 1,300 Gogoro battery-swapping GoStations will be helping the energy-hungry Taiwan power grid by supplying power during times when the demand is high and an imbalance is detected.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Thomas Built Buses (TBB), a leading manufacturer of school buses in North America and subsidiary of Daimler Truck North America (DTNA), announced the delivery of TBB’s 200 th Proterra Powered Saf-T-Liner C2 Jouley battery-electric school bus to Monroe County Public Schools in Indiana.

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Baua Electric

MAY 13, 2024

Sodium-ion batteries have been of considerable interest due to sodium’s abundance compared to lithium, which is over 500 times less common. The new battery technology addresses some of the fundamental limitations of current sodium-ion batteries , such as lower power output and longer charging times.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2021

Lithium-ion batteries made in Russia will be applied in electric vehicles (buses and cars), special equipment and in power grids. The signed agreement also includes building a facility for manufacturing of lithium-ion cells and energy storage systems in Russia, with at least 2 GWh production capacity by 2030.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2011

China Southern Power Grid (CSG) and Better Place opened their Switchable Electric Car Experience Center in Guangzhou’s Pearl River New Town. A switchable battery electric car today drove out from the experience center, marking Guangzhou as the starting point for EV network infrastructure in the five Southern provinces served by CSG.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2014

Hydro-Québec and Sony Corporation will establish a joint venture to research and develop a large-scale energy storage system for power grids. Sony and Hydro-Québec plan to establish the new company in June, 2014.

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Electrek

JANUARY 10, 2022

Offshore wind power needs energy storage and power regulation, and Ocean Grazer has invented an offshore energy storage system that will sit at the bottom of the sea and manage the flow of electricity through the power grid. The Dutch startup showcased their new product, Ocean Battery, at CES in Las Vegas last week.

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Teslarati

MAY 30, 2023

recently noted that it has partnered with Tesla to bring Powerwall batteries to its US customers through BayWa r.e. The Tesla Powerwall is a tried and tested residential battery storage unit, and it has been used in large-scale energy projects like the California Virtual Power Plant (VPP). kWh of energy back to the grid.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2020

The major driver for the project is the need to decarbonize the electrical grid, protect it from cybersecurity attacks and make it more resilient. We will be replicating the entire California power grid on one campus. The goal is to make the testbed available to outside research teams and industry by 2025.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 26, 2023

LG Energy Solution (LGES) noted on Friday that it is currently engaged in “active discussions” with Tesla and other electric vehicle companies to provide batteries from its planned factory in Arizona. The battery supplier’s comments were shared in a conference call. The battery maker posted KRW 25.6 trillion (USD20.7

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2016

Research projects are expected to cover a range of emerging technologies, and will take advantage of the university’s capabilities in renewable energy, battery technologies and power grid modeling.

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Teslarati

JUNE 30, 2021

Arevon Asset Management has activated a 100 MW/400 MWh Saticoy battery storage system, powered by Tesla Megapacks, in Ventura County, California. The Saticoy battery’s stored energy will be supplied to Southern California Edison based on the terms of a 20-year purchase and sale agreement.

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Baua Electric

MAY 7, 2024

The EV market is evolving quickly, presenting a challenge for battery manufacturers aiming to keep up with the pace of development. Artificial intelligence ‘s next target is the electric vehicle battery. Chemix , an AI-powered EV battery developer , has completed a USD 20 million Series A funding round, led by Ibex Investors.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 9, 2022

NineDot Energy’s community-scale Tesla Megapack battery storage system in the Bronx, New York was unveiled today. MWh Tesla Megapack battery system is its first energy storage site in the Bronx, New York City. MWh Tesla Megapack battery system is its first energy storage site in the Bronx, New York City. According to Doreen M.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 8, 2019

Together, Mercedes-Benz Energy and Beijing Electric Vehicle plan to set up the first 2nd-life energy storage unit in Beijing, making use of retired BJEV electric car batteries. The tendency towards increasing distances between the site of energy production and the site of energy consumption also means huge challenges for today's energy grids.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2023

In addition to reinjecting electricity into the power grid, the bidirectional charger supports a vehicle-to-load (V2L) function for powering electrical appliances directly from the car.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 2, 2018

Utilities are racing to expand battery storage on the electrical grid. which submitted a request Friday to the California Public Utilities Commission to build and install four large banks of lithium-ion battery storage, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. The latest example is Pacific Gas and Electric Co.,

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Drive Electric

APRIL 4, 2023

However, as the number of EVs on our roads continues to grow, so too does the number of old EV batteries requiring responsible disposal. According to estimates from EECA, an EV battery is expected to last 10 to 20 years (and more than 350,000km!) So, what happens to EV batteries once they have done their dash?

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