Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

The US electric grid is experiencing something of a mid-life crisis. It’s not just that the nation’s power system is aging; it was designed and built with the presumption of a stable climate and a centralized, unidirectional flow of electricity. But that premise is quickly changing.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 30, 2021

2021 was a big year for energy-related news, what with the ongoing hunt for new forms of energy storage and cleaner if not carbon-free electricity and events and research that spotlighted the weak links in our power grid. No battery is perfect, however, so engineers keep pushing for new and improved ways to store those electrons.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2022

Wallbox, a leading provider of electric vehicle (EV) charging and energy management solutions worldwide, introduced Quasar 2, the latest generation of its bidirectional home chargers designed specifically for the North American market. The average American experienced more than eight hours of power interruption in 2020.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2016

Partners Volkswagen AG, Lichtblick SE, SMA Solar Technology AG and the Fraunhofer Institute Wind Energy and Energy System Technology (IWES) have submitted the final report from the INEES research project (Intelligent integration of electric vehicles into the power grid for the provision of system services).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2017

With the E-STOR system, the batteries are recharged at low power, and the stored energy is then released at high power. It thus becomes possible to offer electric vehicle charging services in locations where constructing a high power connection to the power grid would be very costly.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

While the infrastructural world and local electric cals struggle to keep up with the rising number of EVs hitting the road, FreeWire has introduced a unique lineup of battery integrated chargers that are easier to install and utilize existing low-voltage and low-power grid connections while still delivering DC EV charging performance levels.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Flow batteries are typically used in stationary applications like power-grid storage,but as Charette notes in our cover story, “ Can Flow Batteries Finally Beat Lithium? Influit’s battery circulates an energy-dense nanoelectrofuel to store 15 to 25 times as much energy as a similarly sized conventional flow battery.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2019

Thorsten Nicklaß, formerly CEO of the Digital Energy Solutions joint venture and now designated CEO of Elli, announced that the new Volkswagen Group company would also offer to customers outside the Group green power from renewable sources that was 100% CO 2 -neutral.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 11, 2017

TRU gensets are typically engine-powered generators designed to provide power to electrically driven refrigeration units. Carrier Transicold’s Vector 8100) that are plugged into the electric power grid while in use. TRUs and TRU gensets emit diesel PM, NO x , greenhouse gases and other pollutants.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 22, 2024

Bidirectional charging to serve as home backup power Bidirectional charging is also part of the Neue Klasse vehicles. ” The Vision Neue Klasse X is also further proof that future BMW interiors will adopt a minimalist, screen-focused design. . “This lowers electricity costs and helps stabilize networks.”

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Baua Electric

MARCH 22, 2024

Bidirectional charging to serve as home backup power Bidirectional charging is also part of the Neue Klasse vehicles. ” The Vision Neue Klasse X is also further proof that future BMW interiors will adopt a minimalist, screen-focused design. . “This lowers electricity costs and helps stabilize networks.”

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2015

Nissan and Endesa, an Enel Group subsidiary, signed an agreement at the Geneva International Motor Show pledging to work together to deliver a mass-market V2G system and an innovative business model designed to leverage this technology. Designing and evaluating potential affordable energy and mobility pack offers.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

The Urban EV Concept is built on a completely new platform, and sets the direction for the technology and design that will appear on a future battery electric Honda production model. Honda’s Urban EV Concept showcases advanced technology within a simple and sophisticated design. Honda also unveiled the Power Manager Concept.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2014

The traditional design of sodium-beta batteries consists of two electrodes separated by a solid membrane made of the ceramic material beta alumina. They often store electricity generated by rows of solar panels and wind turbines. A paper on the work is published in Nature Communications. —Xiaochuan Lu, lead author.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2012

This marks the first time for the company to produce in volume such a system designed for Europe. kWh and a battery management system designed to control charge and discharge of the battery in accordance with customer needs. In so doing, Panasonic aims for a leading position in providing a solution to protect the power grid system.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2015

Working with a group of nearly 100 BMW i3 drivers, selected from approximately 400 applicants, BMW i ChargeForward will demonstrate how intelligent management of electric vehicle charging can contribute to optimizing electric power grid efficiency while reducing total cost of electric vehicle ownership.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2021

The gigafactory currently operated by Volkswagen in Salzgitter will produce the unified cell for the high-volume segment from 2025 and develop innovations in process, design and chemistry. This will allow green electricity from the solar energy system to be stored in the vehicle and fed back into the home network if needed.

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Wallbox

DECEMBER 28, 2021

To make it clear, in a unidirectional (one-way) EV charger, electricity flows from the electric grid into the electric vehicle and with a bidirectional (two-way) EV charger, electricity can flow both ways. Let’s put it this way, if you’ve already paid to charge your vehicle, why not use the left-over power to run your home too?

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Baua Electric

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) and Grid-to-Vehicle (G2V) are two-way communication technologies that involve the flow of electricity between electric vehicles (EVs) and the power grid. Let’s explore each in detail: Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) Technology: 1. Grid-to-Vehicle (G2V) Technology: 1.

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Driivz

MARCH 23, 2022

V2X, meaning vehicle-to-everything, is the overarching term for transferring the electricity stored in electric vehicle (EV) batteries to the grid, buildings, houses, and other energy-consuming destinations. These terms designate the different destinations for the electricity drawn from the connected EV battery.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2015

Eguana designed the package around LG Chem’s battery modules and supplies its Bi-Direx inverter and controls subassembly. The low voltage design enables high-capacity batteries to operate in lower power ratings needed for decentralized systems (i.e. Basic product capacity is 6.4 residential rooftop solar).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2016

The battery storage system also includes a voltage converter and power electronics to manage the energy flow between renewable energy sources, the house interface, and the Li-Ion high-voltage battery from the BMW i3. The system has been designed to be integrated into the house energy supply chain. BMW i 360° Electric.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

For example, using SETEC POWER’s 180kW fast charger , EVs can be charged from 0-80% in just 10 minutes. Charging centers are public charging stations designed for fast charging. Some models will take several hours to charge if plugged into a charger, others need a few minutes only when plugged into a DC charger.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Reuse possibilities for these batteries include providing a supplemental home energy supply, storing renewable power and providing a fast-charging power source for EVs. Duke Energy will provide engineering design support for battery installations, as well as supply test sites and personnel.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2015

Working with a select group of BMW i3 drivers, BMW i ChargeForward will demonstrate how intelligent management of electric vehicle charging can contribute to improved electric power grid efficiency while reducing total cost of electric vehicle ownership. EV battery “second life” system using MINI E vehicle batteries.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Pierre Sames, Germanischer Lloyd’s Head of Research and Rule Development, examined the potential use of fuel cells in shipping, the use of renewable energy to produce hydrogen for use as fuel, the economics of the technology and looked at two concept designs for fuel-cell driven, hydrogen-fueled vessels. Germanischer Lloyd.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 30, 2022

The world’s largest pumped-energy-storage station—a technique that stores energy by pumping it uphill to a reservoir—is set to complete phase two of its construction in 2023. The components are for startup NuScale , whose design promises to drastically reduce cost and installation time.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

It occurred in the wake of the California electricity crisis of 2000 and 2001, when mismanaged deregulation, market manipulation, and environmental catastrophe combined to unhinge the power grid. Electricity is a commodity that is bought and sold, and yet unlike most other commodities, it cannot easily be stored.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2014

Cloud computing refers to the practice of using a network of remote servers to store, manage and process data, rather than a local server or a personal computer. Today’s clouds are designed with a specific set of technologies ‘baked in’, meaning some kinds of applications work well in the cloud, and some don’t.

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Cars That Think

JULY 20, 2021

Normally during a heat wave, people have the option of escaping their homes and seeking cooler temperatures in public spaces like libraries, coffee shops, and stores. And it slowed urgent repair and maintenance of the power grid, with work crews having to practice social distancing due to the pandemic. COVID-19 changed all that.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2013

The bidirectional charging units are capable of providing up to 300 kW of power to plug-in electric vehicles and also can discharge a like amount of stored energy from the vehicle batteries to the grid or microgrid via Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) standard J1772-compliant bidirectional charging cables.

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EV Connect

JANUARY 9, 2023

Unlike most existing EV charging technology, which sends energy only in one direction — from a power source to a car’s battery — bidirectional charging allows the vehicle to send that energy for use by other devices. Through a converter that’s usually present in the charger, it allows vehicles to send energy directly back to the grid.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Both prologue variants provide a view into coming Audi design language, as well as the technology experience inside and outside. The lithium-ion battery pack in the rear storing 14.1 AWC technology provides energy from a floor plate which is connected to the power grid and which can be embedded on or into the asphalt.

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Blink Charging

JULY 28, 2022

The first batteries could power vehicles to “neck-breaking” speeds of up to 14 mph. It was designed by the Italian chemist Alessandro Volta. Every time the charge-discharge process is repeated, the battery loses a little of its capacity to store and generate power. Yet, it was a revolution, nonetheless. Miles Ahead.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2019

Intelligent design allows the hybrid-specific version of the transmission to be no more than 15 millimeters longer than corresponding variants for conventionally powered variants of the new BMW 3 Series Sedan. Energy stored in the high-voltage battery is used to power the auxiliary heating. Geofencing.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 19, 2023

Denmark is planning a hydrogen island designed to generate about 1 million tonnes of offshore hydrogen starting in 2030. Airplanes, for example, won’t be able to fly long distances on battery power. Almost all hydrogen produced today is designated as brown, black, or gray, meaning it was generated by burning natural gas or coal.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 27, 2023

How and where can carbon dioxide be meaningfully captured, and how can it be stored, and where? And this is actually where now you have to spend most of your energy because now you have to reheat this mixture to separate the CO 2 and get a very high content CO 2 stream out that you can then store, and then you can reuse the amine.

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