Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2014

We are pleased that the concept delivered results that exceed our expectations. ABB’s Onboard DC Grid concept. As a result, the fuel consumption and emissions are reduced significantly in comparison with traditional propulsion systems. Our Onboard DC Grid is a significant step forward for electric propulsion.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2017

One of the most significant impediments to an increased market share for plug-in vehicles is the high cost of rechargeable energy storage. The new cell and BMS are intended to achieve 400Wh/kg cell energy density with practical cycle life and performance metrics. This project was led by OXIS and part-funded by Innovate UK.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Comparison of Fuel Consumption, Fun to Drive and System Cost of the different powertrain concepts. Stage 1 of the Turbohybrid powertrain concept. Nevertheless, the most essential fuel economy aspect of the Turbohybrid concept is the possibility of a high level of downsizing and downspeeding. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2016

Porsche’s Mission E concept. The concept version of the Mission E unveiled at the 2015 Frankfurt Motor Show is a four-door, four-seat sport car that delivers more than 600 hp (440 kW) system power and more than 500 km driving range. Porsche will also focus on recruiting production planners familiar with Factory 4.0 Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 18, 2011

Energy storage. Energy storage power. Energy capacity. H 2 storage capacity. They are now accompanied by the lithium-ion batteries which store energy that is recovered during braking; the new hybrid is able to run for several kilometers on battery power alone. Three more buses are to follow next year.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2014

The researchers suggested that the inherent safety and stability features of such devices make them very promising for many applications, especially for large-scale static energy storage. Matsubara (2014) “A concept of dual-salt polyvalent-metal storage battery ,” J. Magnesium is low-cost, safe and environmentally benign.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2013

The hydraulic system, which uses compressed air for energy storage, basically comprises two hydraulic units and their pressure accumulators. In comparison, PSA Peugeot Citroën’s 3-cylinder gasoline engines with manual gearshift produce 104 g of CO 2 per km in combined-cycle driving. Certified fuel consumption stands at 2.9

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2011

The concept of the Ricardo Split-Cycle engine. The Ricardo Split-Cycle engine concept incorporates the following: Liquid Nitrogen (LN 2 ) injection during compression to control temperature rise and increase mass. The IsoEngine concept. Source: Neville Jackson. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have developed a new zinc-polyiodide redox flow battery offering more than two times the energy density of the next-best flow battery used to store renewable energy and support the power grid. Lab tests revealed the demonstration battery discharged 167 Wh l -1 of electrolyte.

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Baua Electric

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Cycle Life Testing: Explore the concept of cycle life and how testing helps predict the number of charge-discharge cycles a battery can undergo before its performance degrades. Voltage Analysis: Voltage is a critical factor in determining a battery’s performance.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2013

The working concept of I3 – /I – redox reaction in the aqueous Li-I 2 battery. A team from Japan’s RIKEN, led by Hye Ryung Byon, has developed a lithium-iodine (Li-I 2 ) battery system with a significantly higher energy density than conventional lithium-ion batteries. The specific energy density (~0.33 Zhao et al.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Stanford University’s Precourt Institute for Energy (PIE), TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy and Precourt Energy Efficiency Center (PEEC) have awarded 9 faculty seed grants totaling $2.2 million for promising new research in clean technology and energy efficiency. PI: Jonathan Levav, Graduate School of Business (GSB).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2011

Philipp Rösler noted that basic research needs include those in energy storage as well as for material and energy efficiency, and that the Federal Government in May 2011 had provided the €1 billion for that purpose. “ The state should steer technological developments with the utmost restraint.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

An NREL report summarizing the 2011 Alkaline Membrane Fuel Cell Workshop noted that: In comparison with PEMFCs, AMFCs offer the advantage of avoiding Pt or Pt group metal (PGM) electrocatalysts, one of the primary limitations in the commercial deployment of fuel cells. … An alternative is the alkaline environment of the AEMFC. Giner, Inc.

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Clean Fleet Report

APRIL 12, 2024

This breaks the norm of a fuel cell vehicle run solely on hydrogen or simply with a battery for energy storage. MPGe is a measurement of how far a car can travel electrically, on the same amount of energy as is contained in 1 gallon of gasoline. Honda has created a proof-of-concept Class 8 hydrogen fuel cell truck in the U.S.,

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The AMG concept offers very high recuperation efficiency, as the system allows only minimal mechanical and hydraulic losses from the engine and transmission. The development of the lithium-ion energy storage system is inspired by technologies that have already been proven in the Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team’s Formula 1 hybrid racing cars.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2015

The charging voltage reduction translates to energy savings of close to 20% compared to conventional Li−I batteries. This concept, the researchers notes in their paper in the Journal of the American Chemical Society , also serves as a guiding design that can be extended to other metal-redox flow battery systems.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

Appendix B: Car of the Future: A Comparison of Alternative Vehicles. Appendix C: Intricacies of the Grid—transfer of power vs. energy. It is alarming to see comparisons of the Chevrolet Volt PHEV with battery electric cars when the comparison focuses only on the electric range and ignores the other important differences.

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Charged EVs

JULY 29, 2021

Vic Shao: For new EV fleet operators, charging as a service can be a difficult concept to wrap their heads around without some sort of comparison to parallel industries, so when I talk about charging as a service, I typically draw an analogy to solar PPAs [power purchase agreements]. Three big challenges for large EV fleets .

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2013

There is an emphasis on developing and improving energy storage technologies, as they are one of the most critical components needed to enable the wide-spread commercialization of electric drive vehicles. for high-energy batteries for use in PHEV40 (PHEVs with a 40 mile all electric range) and EV light-duty vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

The remainder of the funding should go to other areas, including Basic Energy Sciences, the report by the team from the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs suggests. The largest percentage increases we recommend compared to 2009 funding levels are for energy storage, buildings, bioenergy, and solar photovoltaics.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Well take a look at these three different energy resupply methods and outline some of their strengths as well as weaknesses. Hit the jump for a comparison that includes plenty of pics and video. Gallery: Plugging in at home Battery swap stations are a concept often associated with Better Place , an EV infrastructure company.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) is the concept of using stored energy in a plug-in hybrids (or electric cars) battery to send power to the electrical grid when necessary. When plugged in, hybrids with advanced controllers can announce their identity, location and storage capacity to the grid.

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