Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The total investment is estimated to be around $850 million, and is expected to be funded in part by a grant awarded by the US Department of Energy of $178 million to Solvay to build a facility in Augusta, Georgia.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2022

Jaguar Land Rover has partnered with Pramac , a global leader in the energy sector, to develop a portable zero-emission energy storage unit powered by second-life Jaguar I-PACE batteries. The partnership is the first in Jaguar Land Rover’s plans to create new circular economy business models for its vehicle batteries.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

The falling cost of batteries is set to drive a boom in the installation of energy storage systems around the world in the years from now to 2040, according to the latest annual forecast from research company Bloomberg NEF (BNEF). The global energy storage market will grow to a cumulative 942GW/2,857GWh by 2040, attracting $1.2

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2023

Saudi Arabia has cut a number of deals recently that coud make the country’s lithiu-ion supply chain the most developed in the Middle East, according to an analysis by Benchmark Mineral Intelligence. Rabigh Refining & Petrochemical Company will supply feedstock in the form of decant oil. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2023

Researchers led by the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have extended the capacity and duration of sodium-aluminum batteries. The new sodium-based molten salt battery uses two distinct reactions. The team previously reported a neutral molten salt reaction. of peak charge capacity. Weller et al.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2019

BDS produces and commercializes MOLECULAR REBAR, a proprietary technology of modified carbon nanotubes that offers potential for enhancing the performance of energy storage applications using lead-acid and lithium-ion batteries. BDS is being added as part of SABIC’s Specialties business. Photo courtesy SABIC.

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MARCH 10, 2023

Energy storage systems are becoming increasingly important as a means of supporting renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power. As these sources are intermittent, energy storage is necessary to smooth out fluctuations in energy supply. Each cell in the battery has temperature monitoring.

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Baua Electric

MAY 29, 2024

Netherlands-based battery manufacturer EST-Floattech will provide its Octopus Series battery systems to UK shipbuilder Wight Shipyard for installation on two vessels, Mars Clipper and Cross River Ferry. The fully-electric Cross River Ferry will be supplied with 960 kWh of the batteries.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2020

Southern California Edison recently signed seven contracts totaling 770 megawatts of battery-based energy storage resources to help enhance the region’s electric system reliability needs. The recently conducted solicitation and the resulting contracts make up one of the country’s largest energy storage procurements.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 25, 2023

As per Tesla’s Q4 and FY 2022 Update Letter, energy storage deployments actually grew by 152% year-over-year in the fourth quarter to 2.5 All in all, Tesla Energy was able to deploy 6.5 GWh of energy storage in 2022, the highest the company has accomplished to date. Credit: Tesla Inc.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2020

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy (EERE) announced a request for information (RFI) ( DOE-FOA-0002358 ) on challenges and opportunities in the upstream and midstream critical-materials battery supply chains. Source: DOE. fabrication generally flow through China.

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Teslarati

MAY 4, 2021

Canaccord Genuity analyst Jed Dorsheimer recently noted that Tesla has shifted to cobalt-free lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries for its flagship energy storage product, the Megapack. “Tesla announced that Megapack will be using LFP cathode batteries, similar to the entry-level Made-in-China Model 3/Ys.

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Clean Fleet Report

AUGUST 2, 2023

Tech: Energy Storage Is Revolutionizing EV Charging: Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) Are Powering the Future of Electric Vehicles Mobile BESS have many uses (photo courtesy TROES) The electrification of vehicles is taking the world by storm, with more end users looking to optimize their purchase of their vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 31, 2019

As part of a strategy to continue providing low-emissions solutions for harsh offshore operating environments, Siemens has opened a fully robotized and digitalized plant in Norway that will develop and manufacture energy storage technologies for both marine and offshore oil and gas applications. Copyright: Neil Robertson.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2015

Dynapower Company will be supplying the 250 kW energy storage inverters as an integral part of Tesla’s recently announced Powerpack Commercial battery systems for large commercial and utility customers. Multiple 100 kWh DC battery blocks are grouped to scale from 500 kWh to 10 MWh+.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 12, 2023

The shipping containers, which house a Frankenstein-like assortment of machine parts—motors repurposed from Volvo truck engines, giant tanks of compressed air, huge silos of piping hot sand—are produced by a company called Cheesecake Energy. Despite its name, Cheesecake Energy isn’t in the food business.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2022

In its mission to support and secure an attractive and sustainable circular business model for batteries, Volvo Energy is investing approximately SEK 50 million (US$4.9 million) for a 10% stake in the UK-based second-life battery energy storage specialist Connected Energy. million) round.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2015

AES Energy Storage and LG Chem have entered a multi-year agreement that provides access to a gigawatt-hour (GWh) of lithium-ion battery capacity with the option to procure additional capacity for the AES Advancion energy storage solution. Key Features of Advancion 4 include: Modular, Compact Advancion Array.

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Energy Storage Li-ion Supplies Energy 150

Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2018

Lithium and cobalt are fundamental components of present lithium-ion batteries. Analysis by researchers at the Helmholtz Institute Ulm (HIU) of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) suggests that, given the foreseen scaling of battery demand up to 2050, each may face supply risks, albeit for different reasons.

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Supplies Battery Batteries Sodium 281

Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2021

BHP will supply Tesla Inc. Nickel is a key metal used in Tesla’s battery technology. Demand for nickel in batteries is estimated to grow by over 500 per cent over the next decade, in large part to support the world’s rising demand for electric vehicles. 85% of BHP’s nickel is now sold to global battery material suppliers.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2020

The coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak in China will impact the green energy sector, including renewable energy sources, battery energy storage, electric vehicles (EVs), and renewable heating and cooling, says data and analytics company GlobalData. —Sneha Susan Elias, Senior Power Analyst at GlobalData.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2022

Foxconn plans to build an EV ecosystem and a complete battery production chain in the southern city as part of its ambition to expand into the EV industry, ranging from the development of EVs to the production of battery packs and cells, and energy storage systems.

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Taiwan Building Battery Batteries 259

Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2023

On the foundation of their 2021 collaboration agreement and of technical work achieved together over the past two years, Nouveau Monde Graphite and Caterpillar signed definitive agreements for Caterpillar to supply NMG’s Matawinie Mine with an integrated solution that covers a zero-exhaust emission fleet, supporting infrastructure, and service.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Daimler Trucks & Buses and battery manufacturer Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Limited (CATL) have entered a global battery cell modules supply agreement for electric trucks. The development of the battery systems lies with Daimler Trucks & Buses. Contemporary Amperex Technology Co.,

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Southern California Edison (SCE) opened the largest battery energy storage project in North America—the Tehachapi Energy Storage Project—to modernize the grid to integrate more clean energy. It will also help us to gain a better understanding of the value and benefit of battery energy storage.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Lotus Engineering is launching a pilot containerized battery testing facility to assess energy storage solutions for the booming EV sector. The project has been named BattCon, an abbreviation of Battery Containerized Test Facility. Lotus has three operational units as part of the pilot scheme.

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Engine Battery Batteries Energy Storage 432

Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2022

Natron Energy, a manufacturer of sodium-ion batteries, and Clarios International Inc., a manufacturer of low-voltage advanced battery technologies for mobility, will collaborate to manufacture the first mass-produced sodium-ion batteries. In 2021, Natron released the world’s first UL-listed sodium-ion battery product.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2021

and TAURON Polska Energia will implement a project titled “Second Life ESS” with the aim to create a prototype system to store electric energy based on retired electric bus batteries. This means that in some of them it will be necessary to replace their battery packs. Solaris launched its first electric bus back in 2011.

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Battery Batteries Energy Storage Poland 259

Charged EVs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Q&A with Smartville CEO and co-founder Antoni Tong What do EV batteries have in common with athletes and politicians? Once they age out (or get voted out) of their positions, they have the opportunity to have a lucrative (and in the case of batteries, useful) second career. Smartville , which recently won a $5.9-million

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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

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

The Department of Energy (DOE), Department of Commerce (DOC), Department of Defense (DoD), and Department of State launched the Federal Consortium for Advanced Batteries (FCAB) to accelerate the development of a robust, secure, domestic industrial base for advanced batteries.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2022

The world will need more than twenty times the amount of lithium than was mined last year to meet demand by mid-century, driven by growth in energy storage and electric vehicles, according to new analysis from Benchmark Mineral Intelligence. The long term path for lithium is set, yet the supply chain scaling challenge has just begun.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

JenaBatteries GmbH and BASF are cooperating in the production of an electrolyte for a battery technology that is particularly suitable for stationary storage of electricity from renewable energy sources and for stabilizing conventional transmission grids. BASF will supply one of the two electrolytes as part of the collaboration.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Li-Cycle Holdings, the leading lithium-ion battery recycler in North America, and Vines Energy Solutions ( VinES ), a Vingroup company that specializes in the research, development and manufacturing of advanced batteries for mobility and energy storage applications, launched a global recycling partnership.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2021

The Biden Administration has released reports assessing the vulnerabilities of four critical supply chains: semiconductor manufacturing and advanced packaging; large capacity batteries, such as those for electric vehicles; critical minerals and materials; and pharmaceuticals and advanced pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2016

BMW i announced a home stationary energy storage system solution integrating its BMW i3 vehicle battery at EVS 29 in Montréal. The system utilizes BMW i3 high-voltage batteries and can be expanded to incorporate second-life batteries as they become available in the market.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2012

(MHI), jointly with SSE plc (formerly Scottish and Southern Energy plc), will begin an energy storage system demonstration project using the power grid in the UK’s Orkney Islands, which has a high proportion of renewable energy generation in relation to demand. In the project, Mitsubishi Power Systems Europe, Ltd.

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