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Thermal Energy Storage Is No Longer Just Hot Air

Cars That Think

JUNE 12, 2023

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. The motor drives a piston that compresses air, which gets hot as it’s compressed.

Energy Storage

Energy Storage Energy Molten Salt Grid

California Energy Commission awards more than $5.5M for green transportation projects and $1.8M for 20 energy research projects

Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2013

based in Foster City (San Mateo County), will receive $2,379,050 to establish a pilot production line capable of assembling 20 Motiv Electric Power Control Systems a month. The device would also capture a wide range of solar temperatures, including those too high to be captured by current state-of-the-art molten-salt heat storage devices.

San Diego

San Diego California Energy Transportation

EV Driven

Thermal Energy Storage Is No Longer Just Hot Air

California Energy Commission awards more than $5.5M for green transportation projects and $1.8M for 20 energy research projects

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