Green Car Congress
APRIL 26, 2022
Faulty car windows often go in the recycling bin when the cracked part cannot be fixed. A closed material circuit does not yet exist for damaged car glass. Using an innovative recycling process, the car windows are first broken into small pieces. That plate glass is then turned into a new car window.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 26, 2013
A new study published in the journal Nature Materials has found a way to suppress the thermal conductivity in sodium cobaltate so that it can be used to harvest waste energy, with potential applications such as automotive waste heat recovery. CoO 2 , which has a large-period superstructure. —Voneshen et al. Gutmann, M.
Green Car Congress
JULY 2, 2021
Waste tires have been used mainly for recovering energy sources; only small proportions of the carbon black contained in these tires are recycled, since mineral ash accounts for around 20% of its content. Around three kilograms of carbon black—also known as industrial soot—are found in a standard car tire. © Fraunhofer IBP.
CleanTechnica EVs
SEPTEMBER 14, 2021
Sodium batteries. Sulfur batteries. The quest for cheaper, more powerful batteries is accelerating.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 11, 2011
is considering targeting its lower-temperature molten-salt electrolyte battery, being developed in partnership with Kyoto University ( earlier post ), to makers of electric and hybrid passenger cars, according to Bloomberg. Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd. A drawback to the general class of molten salt batteries (e.g.,
Baua Electric
JANUARY 21, 2024
Researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT ), including one of Indian-origin, have designed a new battery material that could offer a more sustainable, cobalt-free way to power electric cars. Automaker Lamborghini has licensed the patent on the technology.
Cars That Think
APRIL 15, 2022
They used nickel and aluminium as materials for the cathode and anode respectively, with sodium aluminium tetrachloride (NaAlCl 4 ) as the molten-salt electrolyte—all relatively cheap, earth-abundant materials. However, in the PNNL team’s demonstration, the freeze–thaw mechanism of the molten salt is able to circumvent that problem.
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