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Thermal Energy Storage Is No Longer Just Hot Air

Cars That Think

The shipping containers, which house a Frankenstein-like assortment of machine parts—motors repurposed from Volvo truck engines, giant tanks of compressed air, huge silos of piping hot sand—are produced by a company called Cheesecake Energy. They gradually lose capacity with each discharge and recharge cycle, and they can be fire hazards.

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Clearing the roadblocks to electrification of heavy-duty trucks

Charged EVs

Supplying to Volvo Trucks or Daimler Trucks or whoever is more burdensome. We need Love’s, we need Flying J, we need Pilot, we need all of the current fleet fuel and service providers to move to providing electricity for medium and heavy trucks and buses. Iron phosphate batteries are great because they’re durable, they’re cheap.

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