Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2013

Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) and the California Energy Commission today unveiled a utility-scale sodium-sulfur battery energy storage system ( earlier post ) pilot project to better balance power needs of the electric grid. The system has a 4 megawatt capacity, and can store more than six hours of energy.

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Wallbox

JANUARY 4, 2021

With bidirectional EV charging, you can actually make money from your EV, among other exciting benefits. This is a common issue for many EV owners approaching the charging world. This article is your lighthouse: it will give you some background on what bidirectional EV charging means and how it works. But how does this work?

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2014

Discharge mode is shown; the arrows are reversed for electrolytic/charge mode. Quinones are naturally abundant, inexpensive, small organic molecules, and similar to molecules that store energy in plants and animals. Thus the amount of energy that can be stored is limited only by the size of the tanks. Cell schematic. Background.

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EV Connect

JANUARY 9, 2023

Batteries get more powerful , charging grows more efficient, and the path to an all-EV future becomes increasingly clear. With bidirectional charging, the batteries in our vehicles can not only provide fuel for the road but energy for our homes and even our shared electrical grid. What Is Bidirectional Charging?

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Blink Charging

JULY 27, 2023

Blink Charging recently announced our first battery energy storage system (also referred to as a BES system or BESS) in Pennsylvania that includes four direct current fast chargers (DCFCs). This innovative electric vehicle (EV) charging station will be beneficial to both drivers and businesses that want to host DCFC charging stations.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2010

Canada-based Rapid Electric Vehicles (REV) has begun production of four converted electric bi-directional charging Ancillary Power Vehicles (APVs) ( earlier post ) as part of the US Army Tank Automotive Research Development Engineering Center (TARDEC) Micro-Grid project at Wheeler Air Base, Hawaii.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2014

A 10 kWh battery energy storage system in the garage, using the same lithium-ion cells that are used in the Honda Fit EV, allows stored solar energy to be used at night, when household demand typically peaks and electric vehicles are usually charged. DC-to-DC electric vehicle charging. Photo by Dorian Toy. Click to enlarge.

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Charged EVs

MARCH 17, 2023

Some charging operators assume they need the highest-power DC chargers available, but it makes more sense to choose the right power levels for the use case of each specific charging site. Charged : When we started covering Tritium in 2011, the company was making a controller people used to build custom EVs.

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Setec Powerr

AUGUST 4, 2021

Electric vehicles can charge fast with a DC charging station. But we don’t have charge current (usually 1 amp rate/hr which only comes a particular of 60 mins.). Other applications that were discovered are of all vehicle (electroslubile) charging systems too! For that one needs EV grid infrastructure.

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MyEVOnline

AUGUST 3, 2020

Instead of getting confused by complicated mechanical jargon on the internet, keep reading to learn about the various benefits of bidirectional charging. How does Bidirectional Charging work? To understand the dynamics behind bidirectional charging, you should first know how an EV is normally charged.

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Electric Auto Association

APRIL 6, 2022

EV charge rate explained By Eric Cohen, WiTricity. We’ve all seen social media posts of EV owners wondering why the public charging station charged for more energy than the EV indicates it received. First, it’s important to ground on a few facts about EV charging: 1. Where do all those watts actually go? More info) 3.

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Setec Powerr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Faced with the challenges, fuel retailers must make changes, so what are the benefits and impacts of establishing electric vehicle charging stations for refueling? There are many benefits to adding electric vehicle charging stations to gas stations. These two types are identified based on charging speeds needed for each type of EV.

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Setec Powerr

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

And with the popularity of electric vehicles, the grid is under more and more pressure, so the demand for energy storage is growing. Just like we put food in the refrigerator, we can store it for days or weeks without eating it immediately or discarding it. So what exactly is energy storage? This article will answer your confusion.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

a developer of a novel indirect power conversion technology ( earlier post ), and EnerDel, Inc., has developed a novel, patented power conversion technology called Power Packet Switching Architecture (PPSA). All the energy runs through, and is temporarily stored in, a high-frequency AC link consisting of an inductor and capacitor.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 14, 2022

The California-based Hyperlight Energy will be piloting an installation where they plan to use existing oil wells as solar thermal wellsprings, with the stored energy being converted back to clean electricity when required. Thermal energy storage is a known low-cost, low-risk approach for storing solar energy in the form of heat,” adds Codd.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 1, 2024

Charged spoke with Steve Cotton, CEO and President, and David Regan, VP of Commercial, about the different ways to recycle batteries, and the challenges of building a full-scale circular supply chain for batteries. Charged : Do different companies handle different steps of the process that converts spent battery packs to minerals?

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2019

Finding cost-effective ways to replace the graphite anode in commercial lithium-ion batteries is of great interest because it could lead to lighter batteries capable of storing more charge, via a 50% increase in energy density at the cell level. for 500 charge cycles at room temperature. —Yang et al.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Current fuel cell research generally explores technologies that either operate at high temperatures for grid-scale applications or low temperatures for vehicle technologies. Excess electricity generated by the renewable resource could be used to electrochemically convert gaseous fuel such as methane to a liquid chemical to be stored in bulk.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2009

Battery pack state of charge vs. distance for the ADDZEV vehicle under all-electric power on the UDDC cycle. A collaboration led by the UK’s Cranfield University has developed a retrofit plug-in hybrid conversion system for a conventional internal combustion engine vehicle. Tags: Conversions Hybrids Plug-ins. Source: Cranfield.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2009

A new draft working paper published by the Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry Center concluded that a PHEV pack comprising lithium iron phosphate cells would incur little capacity loss from combining vehicle-to-grid (V2G) activities with regular driving. Test current profile used to simulate driving day for cells showing all trips.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2019

We are making it possible to store renewable energy by converting it into useful substances such as specialty chemicals or fuel. We are also contributing to the stability of the grid because production is so flexible that we can respond to fluctuations in power supply. —Karl-Josef Kuhn,in charge of Power2X research at Siemens.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2013

The primary goal of this funding opportunity ( DE-FOA-0000949 ) is to provide disruptive new solar conversion and storage technology options to enable a much higher penetration of solar energy generation into the US energy mix. The FOCUS Program target zone for electricity generation is indicated. Source: ARPA-E. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry Center have concluded that a PHEV pack comprising lithium iron phosphate cells would incur little capacity loss from combining vehicle-to-grid (V2G) activities with regular driving. Test current profile used to simulate driving day for cells showing all trips. Peterson et al. CEIC-09-02).

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The Truth About Cars

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

I’d imagine, however, that anyone shopping a nearly six-figure electric pickup truck isn’t the apprentice on the job site who is sent to the store when the job has run out of materials. It does, however, limit the overall range on a full charge to around 274 miles, which requires selecting the “Conserve” mode on the center touchscreen.&

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Charged EVs

APRIL 1, 2024

Charged spoke with Steve Cotton, CEO and President, and David Regan, VP of Commercial, about the different ways to recycle batteries, and the challenges of building a full-scale circular supply chain for batteries. Charged : Do different companies handle different steps of the process that converts spent battery packs to minerals?

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 31, 2024

Q&A with Alex Urist, Vice President of XCharge North America Battery storage, once considered a nifty additional feature for large-scale charging infrastructure projects, is steadily becoming de rigueur for public and commercial charging deployments of all sizes. A battery-buffered system is just taking energy from the grid.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

The development of better battery technology for storing electricity, is vital for increased use of renewables in both electricity and transportation, where electric vehicles can be plugged into the grid for charging. F of warming.

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Charged EVs

APRIL 6, 2023

Charged recently chatted with NI CEO Eric Starkloff to learn more about the company’s expanding EV-testing focus. Charged : We’ve been writing about EV battery testing technology for over a decade, and in the past few years, we’ve noticed a lot of new activity from NI. It’s a cool space.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Conversely, in a pessimistic scenario using low gasoline prices, shorter battery life, coal-powered charging, and ANL 2015 cost estimates, plug-in vehicles could produce more damages at substantially higher cost. Error bars represent variation of estimates based on charging electricity source (Base case is U.S. Michalek et al.

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Charged EVs

JANUARY 31, 2024

Q&A with Alex Urist, Vice President of XCharge North America Battery storage, once considered a nifty additional feature for large-scale charging infrastructure projects, is steadily becoming de rigueur for public and commercial charging deployments of all sizes. A battery-buffered system is just taking energy from the grid.

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Charged EVs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Anyone who would deploy any kind of large-scale EV charging project needs to work closely (and early) with their local electrical utility. Since 2010, OUC, a municipally-owned public utility, has installed hundreds of public charging stations, some powered by solar arrays. Q&A with the Orlando Utilities Commission’s Peter Westlake.

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My Electric Car

AUGUST 21, 2020

The hydrogen fuel cell in the FCEV acts to keep the battery charged, but can directly power the electric drive motor, similar to the function of a gasoline-powered range extender. More significantly it must be realized that hydrogen, just like a battery, is not an energy source in itself, but simply a means of storing energy.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2011

The future grid will face significant challenges by providing clean power from intermittent resources to a much more dynamic load. EES has been considered as a key enabler of the smart grid or future grid, which is expected to integrate a significant amount of renewable energy resources while providing fuel (i.e.,

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Get Electric Vehicle

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Customers desire vehicles with affordable price tags, quicker charging time, and greater ranges and developing battery technology is a great way to answer these questions.    The secret to making local energy storage effective for EV charging is smart energy management.

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Charged EVs

MARCH 30, 2023

Revel aims to promote EV adoption in cities by solving two interrelated problems: The company’s rideshare fleet generates demand to justify the cost of installing DC fast chargers, and its charging Superhub ensures that the fleet stays charged, while also offering charging to the public. Q&A with Revel COO Paul Suhey.

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Charged EVs

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Charged attended the New York City E-Prix in July, and spoke with several execs from EV infrastructure powerhouse ABB. A lot of what we do with Formula E, we’ll pull the lessons learned and the improvements to our mass-market chargers or equipment,” ABB Global E-Mobility Executive Stephanie Medeiros told Charged.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The new ARPA-E selections focus on accelerating innovations in clean technology while increasing US competitiveness in rare earth alternatives and breakthroughs in biofuels, thermal storage, grid controls, and solar power electronics. production of oil, which is stored in seeds and is convertible to. Camelina will be engineered with.

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