Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2011

and 4R Energy Corporation, a joint venture established by Nissan and Sumitomo Corporation in September 2010 to explore second-life applications for automotive battery packs ( earlier post ), have developed a charging system for electric vehicles that combines a solar power generation system with high-capacity lithium-ion batteries.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2013

Evonik Industries, STEAG, and other project partners put a lithium electricity storage system (LESSY) into operation at STEAG’s Fenne power plant in Völklingen, Saarland, Germany. The large-format energy storage system was developed under a research initiative sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Batteries from electric bus route 55 in Gothenburg, Sweden are being used for solar energy storage in a second-life application. The reuse and recycling of batteries is a key issue as increasing numbers of cities plan transition to electrically powered transport.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2023

The researchers made an anode from the laser-scribed material and tested it in a lithium-ion battery over 1000 charge-discharge cycles. With the nanodots in place, the material had a four-fold higher electrical storage capacity than the original MXene and almost reached the theoretical maximum capacity of graphite.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2015

Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC) and Mitsubishi Corporation (MC) announced the launch of a joint demonstration project for utilizing used lithium-ion batteries from electric-powered vehicles. The demonstration project will be inaugurated in September 2015 at Forsee Power’s new Headquarters near Paris.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

The large-scale, multi-site, multi-partner initiative will demonstrate the capabilities, versatility and economics of utility-scale electricity storage based on Electrovaya’s modular Lithium Ion SuperPolymer battery technology.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2011

introduced a system which enables electricity to be supplied from the lithium-ion batteries installed in Nissan LEAF to ordinary households (i.e., With this system, Nissan LEAF can be used as an electricity storage device for houses in preparation for power outages and/or shortages. Nissan Motor Co.,

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2014

Woven carbon fiber can act as an electrode for lithium ion batteries. Researchers in Sweden are exploring the use of carbon fiber as an active electrode in a multifunctional structural Li-ion battery in an electric car; i.e., electrical storage is incorporated into the body of the car.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2009

Sanyo Electric Co. will spend about ¥30 billion (US$314 million) to build an automotive lithium-ion battery plant. The new factory is expected to come onstream by the end of fiscal 2010, with capacity to produce enough lithium-ion batteries for more than 100,000 standard hybrid vehicles in fiscal 2011.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 12, 2023

Energy storage technology is seen as a way to help even out the imbalance in supply and demand by storing excess energy during periods of high production and using it when needed. Recent years have seen the construction of large lithium-ion battery farms that do just that.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2009

Volkswagen is involved in a number of newer partnerships related to lithium-ion batteries and electric drive units: In 2008, Volkswagen and Sanyo announced partnership to work on next-generation high-performance automotive electric storage systems based on lithium-ion technology. Hackenberg.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2017

Vattenfall and the BMW Group have signed a contract for the delivery of up to 1,000 lithium-ion batteries this year. Vattenfall will purchase the new batteries from the BMW plant in Dingolfing and use them in all storage projects. Other possible applications would be electricity storage in private households.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

The battery storage system developed in the course of the LESSY (Lithium Electricity Storage SYstem) project with the support of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy started commercial operation at the STEAG power plant in Völklingen-Fenne in February 2014, and was one of the first lithium-ion storage batteries in Germany to (..)

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

A decade ago it became possible to get your electricity in the UK from a department store chain (though with the actual power supplied first by a Scottish utility and— as of 2018 —arranged and managed by Octopus Energy). Battery research and development is burgeoning far beyond Tesla, and the difficult hunt is on to move past lithium ion.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2009

Rather, it is the integrated number of lithium ions that have been intercalated/de-intercalated into the electrodes, regardless of the DoD at which these events occur. In the absence of such incentives, it is unlikely that large-scale grid energy storage in PHEVs will be attractive to a large number of vehicle owners.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2015

Analysis by Lux Research suggests that the market space represented by the emerging lower-cost, 200-mile-range EV will be the biggest coming growth opportunity in electric storage for transportation. Comparable vehicles are expected from Volkswagen Group and Nissan.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2009

Vanadium has the potential to become an important element for future battery chemistries together with lithium-ion chemistries. Rocky Mountain’s primary asset is the Gibellini development stage vanadium project in Nevada.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 14, 2010

The California Centre for Sustainable Energy is leading a research study into using electric vehicle batteries as household electric storage devices after receiving a grant for $992,000 from the University of California. The grant was awarded by the Plug-in Hybrid [.].

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2009

However, in a companion paper assessing the economics of V2G for consumers, they also concluded that the maximum annual profit for a PHEV owner to engage in V2G (~$10-$120) would likely prove insufficient to encourage use of the battery pack for grid electricity storage and later off-vehicle use. Peterson et al. CEIC-09-02).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

The lithium-ion battery with a storage capacity of >10 kWh can be recharged either at a charging station or a household power socket. Whereas the lithium-ion battery in the Vision S 500 Plug-in Hybrid was placed behind the rear seats, the electric storage unit is now located under the rear seat in the F 800 Style.

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Green Cars News

MAY 21, 2009

The project is led by Argonne, Maxwell Technologies and Gold Peak Battery USA with the objective of developing a high power and high energy electrical storage system that combines the strengths of high power density for ultracapacitors with high energy storage for lithium-ion batteries.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

At the end of its first life in the vehicle and well before recycling, the battery provides an indispensable solution for the development of renewable and intermittent energies: electricity storage. New operating opportunities such as stationary storage make it possible to perpetuate the service that the battery offers.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 2, 2011

Soon the electricity stored in the lithium-ion batteries of a Nissan LEAF could make its way into the home. That’s because Nissan has introduced a vehicle-to-home power system that can be installed in ordinary homes.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

provided three examples of multifunctional power-generating and energy-storing materials: structural lithium-ion batteries, structural proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells, and structural capacitors. The laminated architecture of fibre composites mirrors the configuration of many current electrical storage devices.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

In addition, it plans to evaluate electric driving after changing the electrical storage module to a Li-ion battery pack. The initial powertrain consisted of the 1.6-liter AVL is continuing to benchmark the initial Turbohybrid system.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2023

A camera moves slowly over a lithium ion battery, which has just been extracted from a car that was damaged in an accident. If the energy storage system is older, it would be possible to use it in a smaller agricultural machine. EKODA’s circular economy strategy is intended to disrupt the single-minded fixation on recycling.

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 31, 2021

Energy Storage in Sand Offers Low-Cost Pathway for Reliable Electricity and Heat Supply in Renewable Energy Era.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2021

Israel-based StoreDot, a developer of extreme fast charging (XFC) battery technology for electric vehicles (EVs), announced a new framework agreement with its strategic battery manufacturing partner EVE Energy Co., EVE, which is listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, is a supplier of EV and electricity storage system (ESS) batteries in China.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2010

LION Smart GmbH, a tester of lithium-ion batteries and developer of battery packs and battery management systems ( earlier post ), has expanded its battery lab to 180 m² at the location Frieding, near Munich. LION Smart also offers advisory services in lithium-ion storage technology and is doing research in this field.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2011

Classification of potential electrical storage for stationary applications. Lithium-ion battery. Li-ion batteries store electrical energy in various compounds, comprising layers of different elements, such as lithium, manganese and cobalt. Credit: ACS, Yang et al. Click to enlarge.

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Drive Electric

APRIL 12, 2023

Here’s some insight on this from the experts at Drive Electric. How much lithium is available globally? According to data from the US Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory , a single EV’s lithium-ion battery pack contains approximately 8 kgs of lithium.

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EV Central

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Roev also plans to use lithium-iron phosphate (LFP) batteries, similar to those used in Rear-Wheel Drive versions of the Tesla Model 3 and Tesla Model Y. Without nickel and cobalt – two of the more expensive materials in many lithium-ion batteries – the batteries in the Roev EVs should be cheaper to manufacture.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2009

Batteries, particularly lithium-ion, store large amounts of energy but have more difficulty with high power or fast recharge. Electrostatic capacitors are characterized by high power but energy storage is limited because only surface charge is used. Gary Rubloff.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Scientists inform us that today’s transportation sector is the largest contributor to US greenhouse gas emissions driving climate change, but how clean are lithium-ion batteries? of burned gasoline into energy to turn the wheels, electric vehicles (EVs) use 59-62% of the electrical energy from the battery to do the same.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Variations of lithium-ion batteries, as used on a smaller scale in laptops andmobile phones, are seen as the next big step. Virtually all the world’s bigmotor manufacturers are building prototypes using lithium-ion batteries butso far they have reached production only in a few low-volume models.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Scientists inform us that today’s transportation sector is the largest contributor to US greenhouse gas emissions driving climate change, but how clean are lithium-ion batteries? of burned gasoline into energy to turn the wheels, electric vehicles (EVs) use 59-62% of the electrical energy from the battery to do the same.

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