Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2020

Researchers at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and Jilin University in Changchun/China have investigated a highly promising anode material for future high-performance batteries: lithium lanthanum titanate with a perovskite crystal structure (LLTO). Illustration: Fei Du/Jilin University.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University may have found a way to revitalize rechargeable lithium batteries, potentially boosting the range of electric vehicles and battery life in next-gen electronic devices.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2022

However, lithium can form dendrites if it is not uniformly and effectively stored when cycling process, leading to large volume expansion of electrode, which in turn may shorten the battery’s cycle life and cause safety issues such as fire and explosion triggered by internal short-circuits. capacity retention). 2c01309.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 9, 2021

Instead of using machine learning just to speed up scientific analysis by looking for patterns in data—as typically done—the researchers combined it with knowledge gained from experiments and equations guided by physics to discover and explain a process that shortens the lifetimes of fast-charging lithium-ion batteries.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

However, there still remain some major hurdles to the development of Ca-based batteries, one of them being a lack of knowledge on suitable cathode materials that can efficiently store and release Ca in a reversible manner. Haesun Park, Chung-Ang University, co-corresponding author. —Prof. Haesun Park, Christopher J.

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MARCH 23, 2021

Researchers from Chalmers University of Technology, in collaboration with KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, have produced a structural battery that performs ten times better than all previous versions. The carbon fiber acts as a host for the lithium and thus stores the energy. Image: Marcus Folino. Carlstedt, D.,

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

Amorphous nature of the Li 2 RuO 3 -Li 2 SO 4 matrix enables inclusion of active material with high conductivity and ductility for achieving favorable interfaces with charge transfer capabilities, leading to the stable operation of all-solid-state batteries. Credit: Atsushi Sakuda, Osaka Prefecture University. —Nagao et al.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2017

University of Sydney team advances rechargeable zinc-air batteries with bimetallic oxide–graphene hybrid electrocatalyst. Cheaper to produce than lithium-ion batteries, they can also store more energy (theoretically five times more than that of lithium-ion batteries), are much safer, and are more environmentally friendly. Resources.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 17, 2020

This is especially important when batteries are charged super-fast, creating more of the types of battery damage that can lead to fires. But in our study, making the collector 80% lighter increased the energy density of lithium-ion batteries—how much energy they can store in a given weight—by 16-26%. Yusheng Ye et al.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Magnesium ions hold twice the charge of lithium, while having a similar ionic radius. The other circumvents the difficulties by storing magnesium cation in its complex forms. Lebens-Higgins also is affiliated with the Binghamton University. —Dong et al. Neither approach is practical. —first author Hui Dong.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2016

Chemists from the Universities of Basel and Zurich have reproduced one of the crucial phases of natural photosynthesis using artificial molecules. Green plants are able to temporarily store electric charges after the absorption of sunlight by using a molecular charge accumulator. Resources. Orazietti, M.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The selected projects, led by universities, national laboratories, and the private sector aim to develop commercially scalable technologies that will enable greater domestic supplies of copper, nickel, lithium, cobalt, rare earth elements, and other critical elements. Columbia University. Harvard University. Earlier post.)The

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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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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2021

Among the advantages of aluminum is that it is abundant in the earth’s crust, it is trivalent and light, and it therefore has a high capacity to store more energy than many other metals. —lead author Jingxu (Kent) Zheng, currently a postdoc at MIT. However, aluminum can be tricky to integrate into a battery’s electrodes.

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Driivz

AUGUST 30, 2023

Installing and operating EV charging stations offers businesses and owners of commercial and industrial buildings a winning proposition. EV charging itself creates a new “green” revenue opportunity. Building owners can work with a charge point operator or EV service provider to install and manage the EV chargers.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Layers of graphene separated by nanotube pillars of boron nitride (PGBN) may be a excellent material for on-board hydrogen storage in vehicles, according to a computational study by a pair of Rice University scientists. The Department of Energy’s current target for economic storage media is the ability to store more than 5.5%

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

A team from the National University of Singapore's Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Initiative (NUSNNI), led by principle investigator Dr. Xian Ning Xie, has developed a polystyrene membrane-based supercapacitor that they say will be easier to scale up than the current alternatives. Click to enlarge. —Xie et al.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2020

Metal-Air Batteries (MABs), which use oxygen from ambient air as recourses to store and convert energy, have received considerable attention for their potential use in electric vehicles (EVs) owing to their large storage capacity, lightweight, and affordability. Gorte (University of Pennsylvania), Professor John M. Gorte, John M.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2018

Researchers from the University of Cambridge, with colleagues from Argonne National Laboratory in the US and Diamond Light Source, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, UK, have identified a group of materials—niobium tungsten oxides—that could be used to make even higher power batteries. Griffith et al. —Griffith et al.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2020

Hydrogen researchers at Graz University of Technology (Austria), together with the Graz-based start-up Rouge H2 Engineering , have developed a cost-effective process for the decentralized production of high-purity hydrogen using chemical looping. The iron-based material is charged with steam and high-purity hydrogen is released.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2015

The V-Charge (Valet Charge) research project, a four-year, €5.63-million The vehicle not only automatically looks for an empty parking space, but finds an empty space with charging infrastructure and inductively charges its battery. million (US$6.21-million)

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2018

A international team of researchers, led by Lancaster University in the UK and Jilin University in China, reports the first organically synthesized sp?sp The scientists discovered that OSPC-1 is able to store more than twice as many lithium ions, and therefore power, as graphite at the same mid-range speed of charging.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

New research conducted by the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) has identified a specific building block that improves the anode in lithium-ion batteries. But in graphite anodes, six atoms of carbon are needed to store one lithium ion, so the energy density of these batteries is low.

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Charged EVs

MAY 8, 2023

In recent testimony, Nuvve CEO Gregory Poilasne told the lawmakers that bidirectional charging can reduce the total cost of EV ownership, and that it’s essential for integrating more renewable energy into the grid. Charged : We’ve been covering your company for several years. What did you tell the folks in Sacramento?

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2011

A team from Stanford led by Dr. Yi Cui, and Dr. Bruce Logan from Penn State University have developed a device they call a “mixing entropy battery” which can extract energy from the salinity difference between seawater and river water and store it as useful electrochemical energy. Click to enlarge. —La Mantia et al.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2014

Unlike other devices, the team’s is the first to utilize oxygen anions (negatively-charged ions) instead of cations (positive ions) to store its energy. The device uses a perovskite material (LaMnO 3 ), a structure containing vacant sites where oxygen anions can be stored, making these advancements a possibility. Resources.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2013

The California Energy Commission (CEC) approved funding to advance further the development of its pioneering 42 MW peak microgrid and expand electric vehicle charging at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). million award to increase its previously awarded funding of $1,394,298 for the university’s microgrid.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2018

The Rice University lab of chemist James Tour has shown that thin nanotube films effectively stop dendrites that grow naturally from unprotected lithium metal anodes in batteries. An illustration shows how lithium metal anodes developed at Rice University are protected from dendrite growth by a film of carbon nanotubes.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 2, 2019

University College London and University of Illinois at Chicago researchers report a new, scalable method for making a material that can reversibly store magnesium ions at high-voltage. —Professor Jordi Cabana (University of Illinois at Chicago). The study is published RSC journal Nanoscale. Linhua Hu, Ian D.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2011

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a self-assembling three-dimensional nanostructure for battery cathodes (Li-ion and NiMH) that allows for faster charging and discharging without sacrificing energy storage capacity. Most capacitors store very little energy. b) Lithiated MnO 2 cathode.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2019

A team from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems, and Georgia Tech has developed a a wave-energy-driven electrochemical CO 2 reduction system that converts ocean wave energy to chemical energy in the form of formic acid, a liquid fuel. —Leung et al.

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JUNE 10, 2019

The fade in battery capacity is due to the formation and thickening of internal and surface passivation layers during charge and discharge cycles. materials that get converted into entirely new products when they react with lithium), can store more energy than today’s electrode materials because they can accommodate more lithium ions.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2014

RMIT University (Australia) researchers have developed a concept battery based on storing protons produced by splitting water—a reversible fuel cell with integrated solid proton storage electrode. As only an inflow of water is needed in the charge mode, and air in discharge mode, the system is called a “proton flow battery”.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2021

It’s been known that dendrites form more rapidly when the current flow is higher—which is generally desirable in order to allow rapid charging. —Co-author Venkatasubramanian Viswanathan, professor of mechanical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. Eschler, C.M., Fincher, C.D.

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Drive Electric

APRIL 4, 2023

If you want to learn more about whether EV’s are good for the environment, check out our previous resource here. Rather than extracting resources from the environment, transforming them into goods, and then discarding them, this programme aims to maximise the lifespan of these resources. How would the scheme work?

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AUGUST 25, 2017

Magnesium rechargeable batteries (MRBs) are emerging as an attractive candidate for energy storage in terms of safety, energy density, and scalability because magnesium metal has ideal properties as a battery anode: high capacity, low redox potential, dendrite-free deposition, and earth-abundant resources. 1 V vs Mg/Mg 2+ with capacity of ca.

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AUGUST 16, 2021

Scientists of Ural Federal University and the Institute of Metallurgy of the Ural Branch of RAS (Russian Academy of Sciences) have developed and successfully tested the technology of joint non-waste processing of electric furnace and ladle slag to obtain pig iron and Portland cement clinker. Sheshukov, O.Y., Egiazar’yan, D.K. Lobanov, D.A.

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