Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2013

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) will award approximately $36 million to 22 projects to develop transformational electric vehicle (EV) energy storage systems using innovative chemistries, architectures and designs. University of Houston. Princeton University.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

National Science Foundation —holds what are termed visioning events, wherein IEEE members and hundreds of other experts from academia, industry, and nonprofits can conceptualize bold ideas. Reports from recent visioning events are slated to be released to the public in the next few months. Greenhouse gas capture and elimination.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

In February, 2020, Rio Tinto announced a $100-million investment in a new solar plant at the Koodaideri mine in the Pilbara, Australia, as well as a lithium-ion battery energy storage system to help power its entire Pilbara power network. Partner to reduce the carbon footprint across the value chain.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2019

Supported by a new five-year, $500,000- grant from the National Science Foundation, a researcher from the University of Kansas is developing machine learning technology to monitor and prevent overheating in lithium-ion batteries. During the past decade, lithium batteries have become the most popular batteries for energy storage.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2013

EcoCAR 2: Plugging In to the Future named Pennsylvania State University its Year Two winner at the EcoCAR 2013 Competition in San Diego. The Penn State University Advanced Vehicle Team (PSU AVT) designed a series plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) fueled with E85. in May 2014.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

The Award Seminars were added to the annual Award event in 2008. 2018) “Niobium tungsten oxides for high-rate lithium-ion energy storage.” The award recognizes outstanding work on the science and technology of niobium. —Griffith et al. Griffith, K.J., Wiaderek, K.M., Nature 559, 556–563 doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0347-0.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2014

In an event in San Francisco, Ford Motor Company and Samsung SDI, an affiliate of Samsung Group, outlined several collaborative research efforts on next-generation battery technology for non-hybrid vehicles. —Ted Miller, senior manager, Energy Storage Strategy and Research, Ford Motor Company. Click to enlarge.

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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. This article, by researchers at PARC and the University of Washington, is one possible answer.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2015

We foresee a wide range of applicable battery applications in any market where energy storage is a high priority—like handheld electronics, automotive, and industrial energy storage. a poster at the US Department of Energy (DOE) Annual Merit Review Meeting (8-11 June) in Washington, DC. —Rob Privette.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 3, 2014

Electric school buses have energy storage capability and can serve as back-up energy resources during natural disasters and similar events. Under MassEVIP Phase 2, eligible applicants will include municipalities, state agencies, car-share companies, and public universities and colleges.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Ricardo will display the first functional integration prototype of the Advanced Diesel Electric Powertrain (ADEPT) collaborative research project ( earlier post ) in public for the first time this week at the Low Carbon Vehicle Event (LCV 2014) in the UK. 48V Diesel Fuel Efficiency'

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2013

Axeon will unveil its involvement in the SmartBatt project at the CENEX event at Millbrook on 4/5 September where its stand will display one of the new batteries. Overall, the program demonstrated that intelligent engineering, i.e. lightweight design and system integration, can lead to significantly higher energy densities at a system level.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2014

The energy is drawn from the flywheel and converted back into electricity to power the traction motor, which helps accelerate the bus back up to speed, generating fuel savings of more than 20% at a significantly lower cost and weight (60 kg, 132 lbs) than battery hybrid alternatives. Useable stored energy is 1.2MJ, with peak power of 120kW.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Audi—collaborating with Bosch, RWTH Aachen University, and others— launched the e performance project at the Audi Electronics Venture GmbH (AEV) on 1 October 2009 with the objective of developing a scalable systems architecture for electric-powered cars that also included a plug-in hybrid drive. e performance battery system.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 4, 2022

After a year of speculation based on little more than a person in a robot suit combined with some optimistic assertions made by Tesla CEO Elon Musk , many roboticists tuned in to the event livestream (or attended in person) to see what Tesla’s approach to humanoid robotics would turn out to be. Assistant Professor, University of Toronto.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

million) Low Carbon Vehicle Technology Project (LCVTP) Based in the UK’s West Midlands were revealed at a launch event held at the Heritage Motor Centre in Warwickshire. Waste Energy & Energy Storage. More details of the £29-million (US$44.7-million) Vehicle Supervisory Control. Lightweight Structures.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

The two discrete projects—ELEVATE (ELEctrochemical Vehicle Advanced Technology) and Ultra Efficient Engines and Fuels—will involve academics from eight UK universities. Other participating academic partners are: University of Warwick; University of Southampton; University College London; and University of Oxford.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Williams Hybrid Power (WHP, formerly Automotive Hybrid Power Limited prior to acquisition in 2008 of a significant shareholding by Williams F1) is developing a version of its flywheel system for use as the energy storage element of Williams F1’s Kinetic Energy Recovery System (KERS).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2016

The ADEPT project is led by Ricardo in a research partnership including the Advanced Lead Acid Battery Consortium (ALABC); Controlled Power Technologies (CPT); Faurecia Emissions Control Technologies UK Ltd; Ford Motor Company and the University of Nottingham. The final results will be presented at the UK’s LCV2016 event on 14-15 September.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2016

35 new businesses, non-profits, universities, and utilities signing on to DOE’s Workplace Charging Challenge and committing to provide electric vehicle charging access for their workforce. Enable smart charging and vehicle grid integration through solutions such as demand response, and other energy storage and load management strategies.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2012

Robert Blanchette, University of Minnesota) Click to enlarge. So the evolution of white rot is a very important event in the evolution of carbon cycle. —Clark University biologist David Hibbett, senior author. Scanning electron micrograph of wood being decayed by the white rot fungus. Punctularia strigoso-zonata.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Each microgrid includes generation, loads, transformers, distribution lines, protective devices, and, typically, energy storage. Maria was not an isolated event—since it struck, eight major storms have either hit the island directly or passed close enough to have caused flooding or power losses. Clockwise from top left: Erika P.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2019

Among the new power architectures that hold a great deal of promise are hybrid energy storage modules that integrate energy dense batteries with power dense ultracapacitors (UCs) into a single power supply that augments traditional generation technologies.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2014

In an event combining a first-customer ceremony and a media drive, Tustin (California) Hyundai’s Dealer Principal, John Patterson, handed over the keys to Hyundai’s first mass-produced Tucson Fuel Cell crossover ( earlier post ) to Timothy Bush, the first Hyundai Fuel Cell customer, with Hyundai executives in attendance. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2014

The US Department of Energy and General Motors Co. announced that the Ohio State University (OSU) team was the overall winner of the EcoCAR 2: Plugging In to the Future finals. An electric energy storage system from A123 Systems was installed in the former spare tire well to provide power to the rear electric traction motor.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

The 8 BREAKERS projects will work to develop new direct current (DC) devices to better manage power by eliminating electrical faults, improving efficiency and reaction times, and potentially enabling greater proliferation of energy storage and renewable resources. Marquette University, Ultra-Fast Resonant DC Breaker – $500,000.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Engineers from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) have designed a “2-in-1” electric motor unit which can increase the range of electric vehicles in hot climates. The approach unifies the EV traction and compressor drives into a single housing which drive together during braking events.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

million) to the project and will lead a consortium of 12 selected partners—eight from industry and three universities. Jaguar Land Rover showcased a number of the other collaborative research projects it is leading at the Low Carbon Vehicle (LCV) 2013 event. Jaguar Land Rover will contribute £4 million (US$6.3

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2018

Working with University College London in the UK, we have been able to use synchrotron imaging to watch failures in real time which allows us to design solutions. —NREL Senior Energy Storage Engineer Matt Keyser, who led the development work of the ISC.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Now, a research team at the US Department of Energy’s Joint Center for Energy Storage Research, led by scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), has discovered a set of chemical reactions involving magnesium that degrade battery performance even before the battery can be charged up. Ethan Crumlin.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2009

RegEnBoost integrates the three devices into a powertrain electrical power network (PEPN), which also incorporates a DC to DC converter and an enhanced lead acid battery, optimized for fast energy storage and release. Formed in 2006, the company is a spin-out from the Honda Ecotechnology Centre at Cranfield University.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 29, 2022

That would mean installing vast amounts of energy storage, such as. grid-scale batteries and pumped-hydro facilities, to hold the excess renewable power being generated, and interconnecting that storage with high-voltage transmission lines, so that supply can meet demand across the grid. There are a few possibilities.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 4, 2023

At all the robotics events I went to in the Bay Area, one of the biggest robotics hubs in the world, I could barely find anyone working on climate. Surprisingly, many founders I talked with echoed the shortage of roboticists in climate tech. This was disproportionate to the huge potential of robotics for solving climate problems.

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Clean Fleet Report

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Clean Fleet Report had the opportunity to drive the Ioniq 5 for a few hours at a Hyundai media event. A traditional center console has been reimagined as a moveable smaller console, or Universal Island, that incorporates cup holders and charge ports. As part of these events we may be offered free transportation, lodging or meals.

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APRIL 21, 2009

According to Peter Bruce, a chemist at the University of St Andrews, UK, “As far as I know, this is the fastest yet for this material.&# When the team tested the newly-coated cathode, they discovered it could be charged and discharged in as little as 9 seconds. is a Green Options Media Production.

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Charged EVs

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The company has sold some 950 buses to transit agencies, airports, universities, national parks and private companies in 43 states and provinces. Builders of heavy-duty EVs tend to use the term energy storage system , or ESS, which may consist of more than one battery pack.]. We’re working to get that into the industry.

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Green Cars News

APRIL 17, 2009

Both ministers drove a MINI E electric car at the event as they announced plans to support motorists by providing help worth £2000-£5000 towards buying their first electric or plug-in hybrid car when they hit the showrooms. The rechargeable battery is made up of 5,088 cells grouped into 48 modules.

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