Cars That Think

JUNE 12, 2023

Cheesecake is part of a cohort of companies trying to meet a growing need for alternative forms of energy storage. As countries transition away from fossil fuels to green sources of energy like wind and solar, there will be natural lulls in energy production due to weather conditions.

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Setec Powerr

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

We are transitioning from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources such as wind and solar, and the use of energy storage is becoming more widespread. And with the popularity of electric vehicles, the grid is under more and more pressure, so the demand for energy storage is growing. Battery storage.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2022

By investing in VoltStorage, we are taking steps to advance solutions focused on the grid and energy storage. VoltStorage develops and produces commercial storage systems based on the particularly ecological vanadium redox flow technology for commercial and agricultural enterprises. Vanadium redox flow battery cell.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Photo: Paired Power Meet PairTree – a solar-powered canopy that charges EVs off-grid – that’s made by US-based solar charging infrastructure manufacturer Paired Power. What sets it apart is its use of bifacial solar panels. kW units increase energy yield by up to 15% compared to traditional panels.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2013

Researchers from the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have designed a new lithium/polysulfide (Li/PS) semi-liquid (flow) battery for large-scale energy storage, with lithium polysulfide (Li 2 S 8 ) in ether solvent as a catholyte and metallic lithium as an anode.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2023

The new battery design could help ease integration of renewable energy into the electrical grid at lower cost, using Earth-abundant metals, according to a study just published in Energy Storage Materials. Specifically, after 345 charge/discharge cycles at high current, this acidic reaction mechanism retained 82.8%

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Semper Power develops and operates energy storage systems for wind and solar farm developers, distribution grid operators and industrial customers. When fully charged, the system has the capacity to supply 8,000 households with electrical energy for an entire day.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 31, 2011

BYD and the State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC) have finished construction on what may be the world’s largest battery energy storage station. Although BYD manufactures 1GW of solar panels annually, their role in this project was primarily providing energy storage batteries in arrays larger than a football field.

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Teslarati

JUNE 23, 2021

Tesla China announced earlier that it has launched a solar-powered Supercharger facility in Lhasa, the administrative capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region. The announcement was originally made by the Tesla China Charging Team, who shared details and photos of the new Supercharger stalls in Lhasa.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 11, 2010

Xcel Energy has released the preliminary results from its wind-to-battery (W2B) storage project in Minnesota, and termed the technology successful. We have proved that this technology can perform the functions of storage that we were looking for to help us manage the variability of wind energy on our operating system.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2015

Nissan Motor Company and Green Charge Networks, a provider of commercial energy storage, are partnering to deploy second-life Li-ion vehicle batteries for stationary commercial energy storage in the US and international markets. General availability is targeted for Q4 2015.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2013

Researchers at MIT are proposing using a variation on pumped hydroelectric systems for storage of electricity produced by offshore wind farms. The key to this Ocean Renewable Energy Storage (ORES) system is the placement of 30-meter-diameter hollow concrete spheres on the seafloor under the wind turbines.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2013

will more than quadruple production capacity for large lithium ion batteries (LIBs) for solar and wind power generation. The current Hitachi cells for large-scale energy storage systems have 75 Ah capacity (CH75). The Nikkei reports that Hitachi Chemical Co. The company will spend ¥2.2 according to the report.

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Electric Vehicles India

MARCH 31, 2021

India’s first grid-connected li-ion battery-based energy storage system. MWh battery energy storage system will provide a better solution of power backup to preferential consumers in case of a grid outage. As electric vehicles need electricity to charge, there is a need for this kind of innovations.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2016

Kokam has successfully deployed two Lithium Nickel Manganese Cobalt (NMC) Oxide Energy Storage Systems (ESSs)—a 24-megawatt (MW) system / 9-megawatt hour (MWh) and a 16 MW / 6 MWh system—for frequency regulation on the South Korean electricity grid.

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 29, 2024

continued] The post Booming Chinese EV Market, $7 Billion For Solar From Biden, Tesla Updates Galore — Top News of the Week appeared first on CleanTechnica. China just reached 43% of new car sales being plugin cars! Full electrics (BEVs) accounted for 28% market share. President Joe Biden just.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Testing of the first 50 BMW i3 cars equipped with bidirectional charging technology is expected to start under real-world everyday conditions in early 2021. This will effectively turn the electric vehicles’ batteries into mobile energy storage devices that can also supply electricity when required.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Renault and distributed energy storage company Connected Energy are partnering to develop sustainable and efficient ways of using electric vehicle batteries at the end of their useable in-vehicle life in order to supply innovative and more affordable vehicle charging solutions. Connected Energy Ltd. E-STOR diagram.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2019

The idea, reported in a paper in the journal Energy Storage Materials has potential for large scale applications, including storage of solar and wind energy. So far, aluminum batteries are only half as energy dense as lithium-ion batteries, but our long-term goal is to achieve the same energy density.

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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. Pecan Street Project (TX).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2019

Audi has opened Germany’s largest multi-use battery energy storage unit on the EUREF Campus in Berlin. acre EUREF campus serves as a site for pilot projects for the transition to sustainable energy and networked mobility. The Audi storage unit has a capacity of 1.9 MWh, the storage unit could supply the entire 5.5

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2019

Groupe Renault is beginning the first large-scale pilot schemes in alternating-current, vehicle-to-grid (V2G) charging in electric vehicles. Groupe Renault places the reversible charger inside vehicles, so it just requires a simple, inexpensive adaptation of the existing charging terminals to implement V2G charging.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Tesla and its partner Octopus Energy Germany recently rolled out retail utility services in two large German states. The German initiative comes on the heels of a similar rollout through Octopus Energy last November in the United Kingdom. Harmony Energy seems pretty pleased. kWh battery wall unit.

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Cars That Think

JULY 15, 2021

A novel project in Australia aims to harness the sun’s energy in two different ways: by storing it and by using it to produce green hydrogen. Dozens of solar farms in the country’s southeastern region are slated to use “ hydrogen batteries ” in coming years. All together they’ll represent a 300-megawatt solar installation.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

A global battery consortium charged with advancing lead battery technology has re-launched as it prepares a new technical roadmap designed to extend both the performance and lifetime of the core battery technology. I expect worldwide demand for energy storage to jump significantly in the next decade.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Most utilities struggle with the fact that renewable and distributed energy sources are not as stable as traditional sources, such as natural-gas power plants. Solar panel output depends on the weather, for example, as do wind turbines. The goal is to make the testbed available to outside research teams and industry by 2025.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2017

Leclanché North America, part of Switzerland's Leclanché SA; eCAMION, based in Toronto; and SGEM, based in Geneva; will partner to develop and to install a network of 34 fast-charging stations along the Trans-Canada Highway (TCH). eCAMION and Leclanché have formed a Toronto-based joint venture, named FAST Charge Inc., million (US$13.6

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Teslarati

MAY 4, 2023

Rimac has announced that it has started an energy storage division within its business, set to take on the likes of the Tesla Megapack. As the use of renewable energy systems like wind and solar has grown in popularity, the need for energy storage systems to back up these renewables has grown as well.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

the developer of advanced lead­carbon PbC batteries and energy storage systems ( earlier post ), announced that its PowerCube battery energy storage and battery system is being integrated as a power resource for the PJM Regulation Market, which serves 58 million people in all or parts of 13 states and the District of Columbia.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2019

Professor Kondo-Francois Aguey-Zinsou and his team at UNSW’s School of Chemical Engineering have developed a system that provides cheap storage and transportation of hydrogen which they expect will provide a new alternative for energy storage within two years. —Professor Aguey-Zinsou.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 15, 2024

Photo: Salt River Project Arizona’s largest battery storage system is now online and, along with solar and wind, will help power a new Google data center – here’s why that matters. The $600 million solar + battery storage project sits on 3,000 acres south of Buckeye. million in tax revenue over 35 years.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2022

These materials can be used in electric car batteries increasing the energy and power density, speeding up the charge rate and improving the lifetime significantly. Turning CO 2 into sustainable materials that can be used in energy storage has the potential to revolutionize the whole industry.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2012

kWh and a battery management system designed to control charge and discharge of the battery in accordance with customer needs. It will also enable households to reduce the dependence on grid power and facilitate the further spread of green energy.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2017

UK-based Connected Energy and Groupe Renault have installed two quick-charge stations based on Connected Energy’s E-STOR energy storage technology on highways in Belgium and Germany. The E-STOR technology developed by Connected Energy uses second-life batteries from Renault electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2014

The California Energy Commission approved its first $10 million to fund Electric Program Investment Charge (EPIC) research and development (R&D) projects during its monthly business meeting today. Also, $1 million to address solar energy forecasting for large-scale concentrating solar power and photovoltaic plants.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2017

through its US subsidiary EnerNOC, has acquired California-based eMotorWerks, a North American supplier of electric vehicle (EV) charging stations, called JuiceBox, and owner and operator of JuiceNet, an Internet of Things (IoT) platform for the smart management of EV charging and other distributed energy storage facilities.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2014

Discharge mode is shown; the arrows are reversed for electrolytic/charge mode. In a paper in Nature , they suggest that the use of such redox-active organic molecules instead of redox-active metals represents a new and promising direction for realizing massive electrical energy storage at greatly reduced cost. Huskinson et al.

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