Remove California Remove Cost Of Remove Lithium Ion Remove Recharge
article thumbnail

Road Test: 2023 Volvo C40 Recharge Twin AWD Ultimate

Clean Fleet Report

Road Test: 2023 Volvo C40 Recharge Twin AWD Ultimate The First Volvo Compact SUV Coupe EV The 2023 Volvo C40 Recharge was the first electric-only and the smallest SUV from Volvo, falling in-line with the EX90 and XC40 Recharge. In the 310 total miles we drove through Southern California we averaged 30.6 kWh per 100 miles.

article thumbnail

ORNL advancing LDH sorbent to recover lithium from geothermal brine wastes

Green Car Congress

Domestic production of lithium, the lightest of elemental metals, is considered a priority for the US. It is essential for the manufacturing of lithium-ion batteries commonly used for everything from electric vehicles to cell phones and laptops. Those brines can contain as much as 250 to 300 parts-per-million lithium.

Waste 314
article thumbnail

ARPA-E awarding $36M to 22 projects in RANGE program for transformative EV storage

Green Car Congress

million to develop a solid-state Lithium-ion battery that requires less protective packaging, which reduces cost and overall vehicle weight to improve driving range. For example, the University of California, San Diego will receive approximately $3.5 Advanced Aqueous Lithium-Ion Batteries. Lead organization.

article thumbnail

California Energy Commission awards almost $1.6M for energy research projects; $600K to Seeo for solid-state Li-ion grid-storage battery system

Green Car Congress

Conventional Li-ion cell (left) compared to Seeo cell (right). The California Energy Commission has awarded $1,585,490 to spur research on projects including a solid-state Li-ion battery system for grid-scale energy storage. The Commission’s funding is the cost-share for the company’s $6.2 Click to enlarge.

Li-ion 186
article thumbnail

Panasonic to soon make new batteries for Tesla, could ‘reduce’ EV prices: report

Baua Electric

Panasonic has been working to increase the energy density of the 2170 cell, with Watanabe saying that the new improvements could help reduce the overall cost of an EV, Bloomberg reports. Swapping it out doesn’t require any new manufacturing processes, and using this in EVs “could soon enable 500-mile nonstop trips and 10-minute recharges.”

Price 52
article thumbnail

ARPA-E awards $37M for IONICS projects; improving solid-state batteries and fuel cells

Green Car Congress

By creating a pathway to replace expensive elements like platinum for more common metals to serve as catalysts, teams also hope to greatly reduce the cost of the fuel cell parts needed to generate electricity from chemical sources. Cold-Sintering Composite Structures for Solid Lithium Ion Conductors. Sila Nanotechnologies.

Li-ion 150
article thumbnail

Thermal Energy Storage Is No Longer Just Hot Air

Cars That Think

Recent years have seen the construction of large lithium-ion battery farms that do just that. But even energy-dense lithium-ion batteries have limitations, says Xiaobing Liu , who leads the Thermal Energy Storage Group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. It’s a rare material, and lots of places need batteries,” Liu said.