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Thermal Energy Storage Is No Longer Just Hot Air

Cars That Think

The company is building these shipping container systems, which work like giant batteries that store energy as heat and pressurized air , rather than a chemical reaction (Cheesecake’s name is derived from a nerdy acronym for their technology.) They gradually lose capacity with each discharge and recharge cycle, and they can be fire hazards.

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Groupe Renault creating first European factory dedicated to the circular economy of mobility in Flins

Green Car Congress

At the end of its first life in the vehicle and well before recycling, the battery provides an indispensable solution for the development of renewable and intermittent energies: electricity storage. New operating opportunities such as stationary storage make it possible to perpetuate the service that the battery offers.

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Clearing the roadblocks to electrification of heavy-duty trucks

Charged EVs

When we were first starting off at Daimler Truck, trying to find a battery cell supplier that would build us a pack that was good in the truck was difficult. I was a big part of building the first-of-its-kind—at least in the Western world that we knew of—heavy-duty charging site in Portland, Oregon. It’s called Electric Island.

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Graphene 3D Lab showing prototype 3D printed battery; potential for structural batteries

Green Car Congress

The graphene-enhanced materials that have been developed by the company allow the 3D printing process to be used to fabricate a functioning battery which may be incorporated into a 3D printed object during the build process. A demonstration is in the video below. Shufflebox Productions, LLC on Vimeo.

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The Essential Guide to EV Smart Charging and Smart Energy Management

Driivz

Smart EV Charging in Commercial and Industrial Buildings. Smart energy management optimizes the charging infrastructure by efficiently delivering available power to EVs, shifting charging loads across energy sources to safely deliver electricity without interfering with the power needs of buildings, homes, or other power consumers. .

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Slow start for charge of the electric cars - Times Online

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Virtually all the world’s bigmotor manufacturers are building prototypes using lithium-ion batteries butso far they have reached production only in a few low-volume models. Previous consumer tests with electric cars – in America and in France – haveshown that drivers’ main concern is being stranded with flat batteries.