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. Tehachapi Wind Energy Storage Project.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2014

Researchers at the University of Maryland, with colleagues at the University of Illinois at Chicago, report on a new method for expanding graphite for use as a superior anode for sodium-ion batteries in a paper in Nature Communications. Galvanostatic studies showed that expanded graphite can deliver a high reversible capacity of 284?mAh?g

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Finally there may be new energy storage that requires less lithium. Under some reasonable assumptions, batteries cast off from fully electrified transportation can provide about one half day of our total power consumption including electrified transportation. February 17, 2009 9:11 am Link Smart grid great Dumb govt.

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