Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2021

Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have developed a sensor system called IntelliVent that can prevent dangerous conditions from developing in outdoor battery cabinets. The April 2019 incident in Arizona at an energy storage facility left four firefighters injured, two seriously.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2018

Lithium and cobalt are fundamental components of present lithium-ion batteries. The researchers present these results in the journal Nature Reviews Materials as part of a cost and resource analysis of sodium-ion batteries. … b | The energy-storage demand for the reference devices.

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JUNE 1, 2015

Stanford University scientists have created a new ultrahigh surface area three-dimensional porous graphitic carbon material that significantly boosts the performance of energy-storage technologies. Their results are presented in an open access paper published in the journal ACS Central Science. —To et al.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

The battery should also be of relatively low cost, durable, safe and fully recyclable. The EU Battery Alliance currently comprises more than 50 companies within the emerging lithium ion battery sector, plus numerous support and government agencies. The Alliance’s action plan is almost ready to be implemented.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2015

American Lithium Energy Corporation. Ballast Energy, Inc. High Loading Lithium-Ion Electrode Architecture for Low Cost Electric Vehicle Batteries Ballast Energy, Inc. is developing the next generation of lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles with a unique cost cutting innovation.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2013

That is about three times as much power per square centimeter as other membrane-less system—a power density that is an order of magnitude higher than that of many lithium-ion batteries and other commercial and experimental energy-storage systems. A paper on the work is published in Nature Communications.

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DECEMBER 11, 2016

Their findings suggest that prismatic cells, which are able to further capitalize on the cost reduction from larger formats, can offer further reductions than those possible for cylindrical cells. However, none of these changes are sufficient to reach the DOE energy storage target of $125 kWh by 2020 , the study found.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 27, 2021

A new technology from Australia is certainly raising this prospect, offering a novel approach to stationary energy storage—whose packaging at least harkens back to the old, familiar car battery. In theory, they should be a good choice for applications, such as storing surplus energy from renewables.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2015

Stealth-mode battery start-up 24M has introduced its new semi-solid lithium-ion cell. Together, our inventions achieve what lithium-ion has yet to do—meet the ultra-low cost targets of the grid and transportation industries. By 2020 our battery costs will be less than $100 a kilowatt-hour (kWh).

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 27, 2021

A new technology from Australia is certainly raising this prospect, offering a novel approach to stationary energy storage—whose packaging at least harkens back to the old, familiar car battery. In theory, they should be a good choice for applications, such as storing surplus energy from renewables.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Ecolectro is developing alkaline exchange ionomers (AEIs) to enable low-cost fuel cell and electrolyzer technologies. Ecolectro’s AEIs would be resilient to the harsh operating conditions present in existing alkaline exchange membranes that prevent their widespread adoption in commercial applications. University of Delaware.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2024

In its Resources and Energy Quarterly, the Australian Office of the Chief Economist (AOCE) predicted that as the market moves into a phase of excess supply, lithium prices will probably fall this year and BloombergNEF’s annual battery price survey predicts the price of the Lithium-Ion battery will also likely to reduce.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

HPL was spun out from Professor Graetzel’s laboratory at the EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland) in 2003 and is focused on the development of nano-structured metal oxide energy storage materials and novel electrolytes for use in next generation lithium ion batteries.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2014

Part of the evidence submitted to the EU Commission is a study— A Review of Battery Technologies for Automotive Applications —which found that there are at present no alternatives, either technically or economically, to lead-based batteries for the SLI (Starting – Lighting – Ignition) function in vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2011

The cell operates without a catalyst and has high storage efficiency. The possibility of a flow-through mode for the cathode allows flexibility of the cell design for safe, large-capacity electrical-energy storage at an acceptable cost, they conclude. The present sodium-sulfur battery operates above 300 °C.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 28, 2012

his outstanding contributions in the fields of solid state chemistry and electrochemistry, particularly in the area of materials chemistry related to energy storage. The Li 2 CO 3 and Li carboxylates present at the end of discharge and those that form on charge result in polarization on the subsequent charge. O2 battery.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

The Precourt Institute for Energy, the umbrella organization for energy research and education at Stanford, will fund the following four studies: Nanostructured Polymers for High-Performance Batteries. The goal is to produce stable, high-capacity lithium-ion batteries and eventually develop novel all-polymer batteries at scale.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2013

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 Click to enlarge. kWh kg -1 cell (1.0 500 km) [311 miles]. —Zhao et al.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2016

Zenyatta called the results another step in the process of qualifying Zenyatta’s Albany graphite for existing fuel cell markets in transportation and stationary energy storage. From an environmental and cost advantage, the Ballard report also concluded: Zenyatta graphite provides a clean carbon option for fuel cell components (i.e.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

Low-cost 14V micro hybrid systems and full (strong) hybrid (i.e., Energy storage technology solutions for advanced vehicles by vehicle category. Li-ion battery technology entered the HEV market in 2009 and is the preferred technology for most hybrid electric applications in the future, according to the report.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2013

Even so, there is considerable uncertainty about the results presented here. Fuel cells, batteries, biofuels, low-GHG production of hydrogen, carbon capture and storage, and vehicle efficiency should all be part of the current R&D strategy. It is unclear which options may emerge as the more promising and cost-effective.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

These new GaN power devices will enable the next generation of low-cost, fast, small, and reliable power electronics, which are key for efficient power conversion in data centers, solar farms, power grids, and electric vehicles. Stanford University. The Ohio State University. University of Washington. University of Maryland.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2016

MIT professor Donald Sadoway and his team have demonstrated a long-cycle-life calcium-metal-based liquid-metal rechargeable battery for grid-scale energy storage, overcoming the problems that have precluded the use of the element: its high melting temperature, high reactivity and unfavorably high solubility in molten salts.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have found that adding graphene—sheets made up of single carbon atoms—to titanium dioxide (TiO 2 ) results in lithium-ion electrode materials that significantly outperform standard titanium dioxide materials. Wang et al. Wang et al.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2012

Compared to Li-ion batteries: PbC batteries are more affordable [3x] than lithium-ion or supercapacitors; PbC batteries have recycling value at end-of-life [$35/lbs], while Lithium-ion batteries have recycling cost at end-of-life [~$75/lbs]. Thelen (2011) Energy Savings, a. start-stop) vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2016

US Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz used the Washington DC Auto show as the venue to announce $58 million in funding for vehicle technology advancements. Area of Interest (AOI) 3: Accelerated Development and Deployment of Low-Cost Automotive Mg Sheet Components. per pound of weight saved. Carbon Fiber Polymer Composite.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2014

Area Of Interest (AOI) 1: Development of Low-Cost, High-Strength Automotive Aluminum Sheet. This AOI is to address two major technical gaps in the performance of automotive aluminum alloys: Low strength among cost competitive automotive sheet alloys such as 5xxx and 6xxx series. AOI 3: Beyond Lithium Ion Technologies. ($8M)

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

This is from "Commercializing Plug-In Hybrids" (pdf), the current CalCars 24-slide presentation about PHEVs available along with other documents at CalCars Downloads. Agrees on environmental and economic benefits, though some presentations backtrack on that; says batteries need further development before commitment to mass-production.

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