Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Nissan began a field test of new mobility services as part of a partnership to promote future community building in Japan. To help create a sustainable, low-carbon community, the partnership initiative includes building an energy management system that uses electric vehicles and stationary rechargeable batteries.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2021

The FLXdrive battery-electric locomotive is a defining moment for freight rail and will accelerate the industry toward low- to zero-emission locomotives. The California pilot program was part of a $22.6m-illion The 430,000-pound FLXdrive in the pilot features 18,000 lithium-ion battery cells.

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California Fuel Batteries Battery 418

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

BAE Systems has been selected by Alexander Dennis Limited (ADL) and the Republic of Ireland’s National Transport Authority (NTA) to supply up to 600 electric power and propulsion systems for its new fleet of buses in Ireland. Series-ER is essentially Series-E with a larger battery. Series-ER components.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 18, 2023

billion (US$886 million) to build a cathode manufacturing facility that will provide materials that ultimately supply batteries for Ford’s future electric vehicles. For SK On, the new facility is part of its efforts to secure a stable supply of key battery materials in North America. million EVs a year.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 4, 2020

The certification covers twelve storage battery system components, including SCiB lithium-ion rechargeable battery modules, current sensors, and the battery management unit (BMU) which monitors the voltage, temperature, and current of the battery module. Storage battery system component configuration.

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Mariner Li-ion Lithium Ion Batteries 321

Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2022

The 3-year comparative programme will begin later this year to help decarbonize the UK’s freight industry with initial competitions for battery-electric and hydrogen-fuel-cell technology launching shortly. This will begin with demonstrations of battery electric and hydrogen fuel cell heavy-duty trucks. battery electric HGVs for?

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Emissions Fleet Hydrogen Gasoline-Electric 359

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2021

By the end of 2021, the Virginia-based fleets will utilize the zero tailpipe emission trucks to transport inbound parts and components daily to the Volvo Trucks New River Valley Assembly Operations (NRV) in Dublin, Virginia, where every Volvo truck in North America is assembled.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2014

Kyocera’s “Solar Cycle Station” is a solar-powered recharging station—originally launched for electric-assisted bicycles in 2010—that uses the company’s high performance solar modules. In 2012, the company started supplying the Solar Cycle Station for EV, which is designed to power electric vehicles and plug-in hybrid vehicles.

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Recharge Solar Installation Power 199

Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2021

Battery-electric AMG derivatives based on the new Mercedes Electric Vehicle Architecture (EVA) for luxury and premium-class vehicles. Added to this is the High Performance Battery we developed, which boasts twice the power density of conventional drive batteries and, like many other components, is inspired by technology from Formula 1.

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Mercedes Hybrid Batteries Battery 448

Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2021

De Lijn, the public transport operator (PTO) in the Flemish part of Belgium, is ordering 44 new articulated plug-in e-hybrid buses; further, the operator confirmed the upgrade of 280 if its current hybrid buses into e-hybrids. The main advantage of e-hybrid buses over regular hybrids lays in their battery capacity.

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Hybrid Plug-in Transportation Plug 221

Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2021

DANNAR manufactures the DANNAR Mobile Power Station (MPS), a configurable platform that serves as both a multi-purpose work utility vehicle as well as a mobile power supply. can provide up to a half Megawatt of energy storage in its high-capacity BMW lithium-ion battery packs. Nuvera is a subsidiary of Hyster-Yale Group, Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Umicore and Volkswagen AG plan to establish a joint venture to build up precursor and cathode material production capacities in Europe to supply Volkswagen AG’s European battery cell production. Both parties aim to include at a later stage, elements of refining and battery recycling into the scope of the JV.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2015

AKASOL, a Germany-based provider of high-performance Li-ion battery systems ( earlier post ), is supplying the Li-ion battery systems for 8 all-electric articulated 18-meter buses, manufactured by VDL Bus & Coach, to be operated by the Cologne public transport company Kölner Verkehrs-Betriebe. AKASOL 15M unit. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2019

FCA will build a new battery assembly complex in Turin as part of its overall e-mobility strategy. The new “Battery Hub” will be located in the Mirafiori complex and preparations will begin in early 2020. After assembly, state-of-the-art electronically-controlled systems will be used to test the efficiency of the batteries.

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Building Batteries Battery Italy 170

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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Economy Re-Charge France Maintenance 397

Clean Fleet Report

MAY 1, 2021

The company plans to do it with a mixture of all-electric vehicles, like the new XC40 Recharge, and plug-in hybrid versions of its SUVs and sedans. The XC90 Recharge is an example of the second group. kWh battery, tucked away under the car along the center tunnel, provides just 18 miles of all-electric motoring.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 27, 2018

The first mobile quick charging stations will be set up as early as the first half of 2019 in Wolfsburg as part of a pilot project, and will support the expansion of a charging infrastructure in the urban area. The mobile charging column is based on the battery pack of the Volkswagen Group’s Modular Electric Toolkit (MEB).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2012

The project aims at demonstrating power supply stabilization in the region by introducing cargo container-type large capacity energy storage system using a lithium-ion rechargeable battery, which has a maximum power output capacity of 2MW. Each battery container houses more than 2,000 units of lithium-ion rechargeable batteries.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 15, 2024

China’s leader EV maker, BYD , has held “active” discussions with lithium producer Sigma Lithium as it looks to expand its battery business. The Chinese EV maker is now eyeing expanding its EV battery business. A big part of BYD’s success is due to its past. BYD is now the largest global supplier of rechargeable batteries.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 15, 2024

In a world where electric vehicles and utility-scale batteries are taking over, it would be nice to not depend on a geopolitical rival for your most important raw material. Second-ranked Australia last May entered a compact with the US to ensure reliable supplies of such critical minerals, with Canberra in October putting A$ 2 billion ($ 1.3

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Baua Electric

MARCH 14, 2024

Nio currently buys most of its batteries from CATL and has been exploring battery supplies from new partners such as CALB. Chinese electric vehicle maker Nio on Thursday signed a partnership agreement with battery giant CATL to develop longer life batteries as part of efforts to lower overall EV costs.

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Auto Batteries Battery Grid 52

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2014

Saft is working with CALSTART to test its e6T Lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery ( earlier post ) for use in military and commercial applications. This development marks the first time the military e6T Li-ion battery configuration will be tested for commercial trucks and could result in the power supply’s wide-scale adoption beyond the military.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2012

The purpose of this project is to demonstrate load shifting by charging at night when demand is low, storing power produced from renewable sources in rechargeable batteries, and supplying such power back to the grid when factory facilities and offices face peak demand.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2014

The EU must continue to allow the use of lead-based batteries in vehicles as they are essential for the needs of future generations of European cars, according to the automotive and automotive battery industries in Europe. This electrical system is in all cases supplied by a 12V lead-based battery, the groups said.

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Nickel Metal Hydride Industrial Industry Batteries 186

Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2019

German logistics service provider Pfenning Logistics will be using a Mercedes-Benz eActros battery-electric 25-tonne truck to supply the Mercedes-Benz Mannheim plant. Both vehicles are part of the eActros “Innovation Fleet” for testing the heavy, all-electric truck with various customers.

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Mercedes Lithium Ion Electric Electrical 247

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2022

Nexeon Limited—a supplier of advanced silicon anode materials for next generation lithium-ion batteries— announced a US$80-million investment from a consortium including SKC Co. The partners are focusing their work on the commercialization of e-mobility applications of lithium-ion batteries. Ltd (Kiwoom). SKC, a US$5.0-billion

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2020

Rio Tinto’s lithium project pipeline is an important part of our vision to pursue opportunities which are part of the transition to a low-carbon future. This update will facilitate a JORC Reserve declaration as part of the feasibility study and also a submission of Elaborate on Reserves, in accordance with the Serbian mineral code.

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Serbia 2004 Energy Storage Carbon 243

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

As part of its new 3-year business plan , Sumitomo Metal Mining (SMM) will boost production of NCA ((lithium nickel cobalt aluminum oxide) materials for Li-ion cathodes, expanding from 1,850 tons/month to 2,550 tons/month (+38%). SMM is targeting supplying Tesla with the battery materials for the Model 3 being released next year.

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Li-ion Nickel Metal Hydride Philippines Production 150

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2017

Rheinmetall Automotive is more known as a supplier of hard parts (e.g., Rheinmetall Automotive sees its content per car rising under an e-mobility scenario, with battery-electric vehicles offering the greatest opportunity. You have a second thermal management circuit for the battery. Sales amounted to around €2.6 billion (US$2.8

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2018

South Korea-based steelmaker POSCO will establish two Li-ion battery material joint ventures in China with leading cobalt supplier Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt. China’s Huayou Cobalt is the largest cobalt producer in China and is capable of supplying 50% of demand from lithium-ion battery producers.

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Li-ion South Korea Batteries Battery 170

Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2019

The Rice University lab of materials scientist Pulickel Ajayan has used an environmentally friendly deep eutectic solvent to extract valuable elements from the metal oxides commonly used as cathodes in lithium-ion batteries. Battery recycling schematic. The results appear in Nature Energy. The results appear in Nature Energy.

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Li-ion Lithium Ion Batteries Battery 230

Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2020

DAIHEN has been using WiTricity’s DRIVE 11 wireless charging system as a reference design for its own line of standards-compliant wireless chargers for battery electric and hybrid electric vehicles. DAIHEN recently launched a demonstration with Kansai Electric Power Co. human flow analysis) to create a next-generation mobility service.

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Japan Solar Golf Cart Power 370

Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2011

The Ford Motor Company has selected Toshiba Corporation to supply automotive inverters for hybrid electric vehicles (HEV) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV). Toshiba already has a June 2010 contract with Ford under which it will supply high-performance drive motors for HEV and PHEV from 2012, from its facility in Houston, Texas.

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APRIL 6, 2010

The Sounding Oceanographic Lagrangrian Observer Thermal RECharging ( SOLO-TREC ) autonomous underwater vehicle uses a novel thermal recharging engine powered by the natural temperature differences found at different ocean depths. Its thermal recharging engine produced about 1.7 SOLO-TREC is now in an extended mission.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2019

All are part of the e-Consortium in VWCO’s development and production complex in Resende (RJ). CATL and Moura are responsible for the supply, management, distribution and maintenance of batteries. And this involves, for example, analyzing and installing recharging terminals in customers’ garages anywhere in Brazil.

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Brazil Recharge Electric Electrical 191

Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2021

Leading silicon and carbon products company Elkem has successfully commissioned its industrial pilot for battery materials in Kristiansand, Norway, starting industrial scale pilot production for customers. The production of battery materials represents one of our biggest growth opportunities. —Michael Koenig, CEO of Elkem.

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Setec Powerr

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

For companies that invest in EV charging, deploying battery storage can reduce power demand charges. Charging on demand is a tricky part of EV charging station operation. Typically, there are three parts to commercial energy bills: 1. Typically, there are three parts to commercial energy bills: 1. Energy Consumption.

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