Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2021

Current Direct , a new €12-million research and innovation project funded by the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 program, is proposing an innovative lithium-ion cell optimized for waterborne transport, using novel manufacturing techniques allowing for a consistent cost reduction compared to the current market prices.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

The US Department of Energy is awarding $620 million for projects around the country to demonstrate advanced Smart Grid technologies and integrated systems. The selected projects include advanced battery systems (including flow batteries), flywheels, and compressed air energy systems. New York State Electric & Gas Corporation.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 1, 2022

Patented zero-volt safe transport and storage. Low cost – total cost of ownership already comparable to lead-acid with potential for further reductions in costs. Performance – energy density on par with lithium-ion phosphate and with wider operating temperature range of -30 °C to +60 °C.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2014

The study, which provides a joint industry analysis of how different types of batteries are used in different automotive applications, concludes that lead-based batteries will by necessity remain the most wide-spread energy storage system in automotive applications for the foreseeable future. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2021

Adding another school district fleet electrification program to its growing list of customers, AMPLY Power has been selected to manage the charging of electric school buses for the Palermo Union Elementary School District in Northern California. kWh through AMPLY’s fully-managed, turnkey charging services.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2013

The battery shows an energy density of up to 446 Wh kg -1 —about 80% higher than conventional Li-ion batteries, and much higher than energy densities reported for earlier ARLBs (30–45 Wh kg -1 ). Higher practical energy density. Higher energy efficiency. Lower cost of production, using well-known materials.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The research pathways focus on fuel diversification, vehicle efficiency, energy storage, lightweight materials, and new mobility technologies to improve the overall energy efficiency and affordability of the transportation system. Transportation and Energy Analysis (Up to $1.2 a 2015 baseline of 36 miles per gallon).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2017

In the UK, Renault and Powervault are partnering to re-use electric vehicle (EV) batteries in home energy storage units. This partnership will reduce the cost of a Powervault smart battery unit by 30%, helping Powervault to bring home energy storage to the tipping point of mass-market roll-out in the UK.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2021

With prior ARPA-E support, Sila developed a unique drop-in replacement silicon (Si) dominant composite anode powder that boosts automotive lithium-ion battery (LIB) energy density by 20%+ and enables fast charging. kW/kg), and improved energy density (450 Wh/kg) for electric aviation. 24M Technologies, Inc. Ionic Materials.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2013

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) will award approximately $36 million to 22 projects to develop transformational electric vehicle (EV) energy storage systems using innovative chemistries, architectures and designs. Advanced Aqueous Lithium-Ion Batteries.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 14, 2022

The idea, says Daniel Codd , a researcher in renewable energy systems at the University of California, San Diego, is to store solar-produced heat in rock formations below the surface, creating a solar-charged geothermal resource in which heat is stored for meaningful durations. But we can still reduce the carbon [cost] of that oil.”

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Driivz

OCTOBER 8, 2023

They are quieter, cleaner, have better acceleration, and cost less to keep running because electricity is cheaper than diesel and EVs require less maintenance than their ICE counterparts. Fleet operators have to purchase EVs, purchase, install and manage depot EV charging infrastructure, retrain drivers, and transition maintenance staff.

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CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

The abundance and low cost of sodium has made it a promising alternative to lithium for an ion battery system. Overall, the outlook for the use of sodium-ion batteries in current technology is favorable, as long as cost, safety, cyclic stability, and energy density guidelines are met.

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Get Electric Vehicle

AUGUST 16, 2023

Their desirability arises from their high energy density, extended life cycle, and consistently reduced cost of manufacturing. Lithium-ion battery prices have declined dramatically over the last decade as manufacturing technologies became more efficient and cost-effective.   The above-mentioned advantages come at a cost.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Nano One produces low-cost high-performance energy storage materials for batteries as well as a wide range of advanced nanostructured composite materials. For electric vehicles, this could translate into fewer battery cells, less weight, less cost extended range, longer lifetime or better warranties.

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Get Electric Vehicle

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

According to research organisation BloombergNEF, the cost of lithium-ion battery packs has decreased by 14% to a historic low of $139/kWh.   Thus the industry keeps testing lithium iron phosphate (LFP) which is a low-cost alternative to Lithium-ion. These two will help the price to be kept moderately.

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Charged EVs

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

As more fleets of medium- and heavy-duty vehicles go electric, there’s a growing awareness that building the necessary charging infrastructure will be a complex proposition, requiring specialized expertise and considerable capital. Neha Palmer: My background has been energy my entire career.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2011

Yet-Ming Chiang will give a talk on “Scaling Lithium Ion (or other) Chemistries Using a Flow Battery Architecture” at the upcoming 4 th Symposium on Energy Storage: Beyond Li-ion , to be held at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 7-–9 June 2011. V cell voltage and have low ion concentrations (typically 1.2

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 27, 2021

A new technology from Australia is certainly raising this prospect, offering a novel approach to stationary energy storage—whose packaging at least harkens back to the old, familiar car battery. On the other hand, lithium-ion is temperature sensitive and state-of-charge sensitive. What we are good at is energy shifting.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 27, 2021

A new technology from Australia is certainly raising this prospect, offering a novel approach to stationary energy storage—whose packaging at least harkens back to the old, familiar car battery. On the other hand, lithium-ion is temperature sensitive and state-of-charge sensitive. What we are good at is energy shifting.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2011

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. Funds for the 13 projects come from the Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) program. The total cost of the project is $12.4 Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2018

Currently, liquid electrolyte still [dominates] the commercial LIB market since they are low cost, easy to prepare and [feature] high ionic conductivity. a) Comparison of full state-of-charge curves of the LiNi 0.6 Nail-penetration tests showed that LiNi 0.6 The resulting hybrids were labelled SSE-5 and SSE-10.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

The Precourt Institute for Energy, the umbrella organization for energy research and education at Stanford, will fund the following four studies: Nanostructured Polymers for High-Performance Batteries. One way to lower the cost of solar power is to dramatically reduce the thickness of light-absorbing layers in solar cells.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2016

The collaboration, forged by the White House in partnership with DOE and the Department of Transportation (DOT), the US Air Force and US Army, and the Environmental Protection Agency, is centered on a set of Guiding Principles to Promote Electric Vehicles and Charging Infrastructure. 46 organizations have signed on to the principles so far.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2017

In addition, material sustainability is also a critical factor when considering the total economic and environmental benefits for grid-scale energy storage applications. Crucial to the idea of lowering the cost of battery materials, myo-inositol is an abundant organic compound familiar to industry.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2012

This partnership brings together 17 scientists and engineers from nine universities across Canada, who will work on reducing the cost of PEMFCs through the exploration of alternative non-platinum metals and the fabrication of advanced layer structures. Batteries for grid energy storage and medical devices have similar requirements.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

Low-cost 14V micro hybrid systems and full (strong) hybrid (i.e., Energy storage technology solutions for advanced vehicles by vehicle category. billion in 2015 and $9.2 billion in 2020. Source: AAB. Click to enlarge. High-voltage Li-ion batteries for hybrids.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2011

Technologies for low-cost production of advanced biofuels are limited by the small amount of available energy captured by photosynthesis and the inefficient processes used to convert plant matter to fuel. More than 90% of energy technologies involve the transport and conversion of thermal energy.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2010

The US Department of Energy is awarding $106 million in funding for 37 research projects selected in the second round by the DOE’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). Better Batteries - Batteries for Electrical Energy Storage in Transportation (BEEST). Earlier post.). Earlier post.) per gallon. Description.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The awardees went through a rigorous process including a review with CalSEED’s curated technical advisory committee, who volunteered their time and expertise to select the most promising future clean energy technologies. that boosts the energy capacity via nanotechnology-enabled self-assembly of functional nanocomponents, reducing?the

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2012

The US Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) has selected 19 new projects to receive a total of $43 million to develop breakthrough energy storage technologies and support promising small businesses. Advanced Management And Protection Of Energy-Storage Devices (AMPED).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 18, 2018

The cost of producing, delivering, and dispensing hydrogen in early markets for light duty vehicles during recent commercial station deployments was estimated to be $13-$16/gallon gasoline equivalent (gge). 2c) Breakthrough Infrastructure R&D: materials and component R&D to reduce cost and station footprint.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2009

Designed from the ground up, the system features power management electronics and component electronics that control the MESA modular energy storage system (mStor), electric Generator module (mGen) and the electric motor module (mDrive). The system is built around a FlexRay kernel. The flex-fuel microturbine weighs less than 500 lbs.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2011

Classification of potential electrical storage for stationary applications. published in the ACS journal Chemical Reviews , reviews in detail four stationary storage systems considered the most promising candidates for electrochemical energy storage: vanadium redox flow; sodium-beta alumina membrane; lithium-ion; and lead-carbon batteries.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The selected projects will focus on technologies such as revolutionizing fuel cells for light- and heavy-duty vehicles, and technologies to generate less nuclear waste and reduce the cost of fuel. Field-Focused Load-Leveled Dynamic Wireless Charging System for Electric Vehicles - $1,425,000. Select OPEN 2021 projects include: Synteris.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

This results in a range of system level requirements from different manufacturers, dictated by vehicle targets and other issues such as battery state-of-charge and energy storage capability. SR machines are ideally suited to this concept of low cost development, while reducing the cost of production components.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2013

Further, alloying or coating pathways towards low-cost, effective passive films, have not been sufficiently explored in a sound and scientific way. These capacitors must meet demanding performance targets while achieving significant reductions in cost to meet future commercial demands. Characteristics. Earlier post.)

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