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This Dutch City Is Road-Testing Vehicle-to-Grid Tech

Cars That Think

Here the king [middle] is shown with Robin Berg [left], founder of We Drive Solar, and Jerôme Pannaud [right], Renault's general manager for Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg. Later, Irene ten Dam at the Utrecht regional development agency got wind of his experiment and was intrigued, becoming an advocate for bidirectional charging.

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How Umicore is ensuring sustainability in the North American EV battery chain

Charged EVs

Umicore is actively working with cell manufacturers to advance SSB tech, and recently opened a material prototyping center in Belgium that supports all the steps in SSB production, from formulation to testing. Based on our precious metals recycling, we pioneered industrial-scale battery recycling in 2011 in Belgium.

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How Umicore is ensuring sustainability in the North American EV battery chain – Charged EVs

Baua Electric

Umicore is actively working with cell manufacturers to advance SSB tech, and recently opened a material prototyping center in Belgium that supports all the steps in SSB production, from formulation to testing. Based on our precious metals recycling, we pioneered industrial-scale battery recycling in 2011 in Belgium.

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SiliconRepublic.com: IBM to build smart grid for electric cars - R&D

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The island has 40,000 inhabitants and an energy infrastructure characterised by a large proportion of wind energy. Within the project, researchers from IBM Denmark and from IBM’s Zurich Research Laboratory will develop smart technologies that synchronise the charging of the electric vehicles with the availability of wind in the grid.

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