Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

They wanted to see whether an electric vehicle could feed electricity back to the grid. The company’s president, Tom Gage , dubbed the system “vehicle to grid” or V2G. And EV owners would become entrepreneurs, selling electricity back to the grid. And indeed, that’s how promoters of vehicle-to-grid technology perceive the EV.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2022

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced the finalists in the $4-million American-Made Geothermal Lithium Extraction Prize, a competition supporting innovations that help lower the costs and reduce the environmental impacts of extracting lithium from geothermal brines.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2021

The US should develop a federal policy framework that supports manufacturing electrodes, cells, and packs domestically and encourages demand growth for lithium-ion batteries. Enable US end-of-life reuse and critical materials recycling at scale and a full competitive value chain in the United States.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2022

billion to 21 projects to expand domestic manufacturing of batteries for electric vehicles (EVs) and the electrical grid and for materials and components currently imported from other countries. Albemarle is finalizing the site selection for the lithium hydroxide conversion plant in the southeastern United States.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2012

Balqon Corporation, a developer of heavy-duty electric vehicles, drive systems and lithium battery storage devices, has introduced high-capacity lithium-ion batteries as an alternative to the current industrial deep cycle lead acid batteries. HIQAP batteries include large format 1000 Ah and 700 Ah, 3.25

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

The objective of this area of interest is to build new manufacturing plants or to retool, retrofit, or expand existing manufacturing plant(s) in the United States that can produce silicon anode active material or silicon containing electrodes. Commercial-scale domestic battery cathode manufacturing.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Founded by industry veteran and former US Department of Energy executive Sanjiv Malhotra, SPARKZ will begin commercialization of a cobalt-free, US-made Lithium-ion battery, while continuing its research and development focused on re-engineering the rest of the battery supply chain.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2015

Lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries have become the dominant new technology in grid storage, capturing a 90% share of systems proposed last year, according to analysts at Lux Research. Globally, as of January 2015, 1,100 MW and 2,523 MWh of grid storage have been deployed across 605 projects.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2022

The global push to convert the world to electric vehicles will cause supply chain complexities that could undermine the alternative energy transition in the United States, according to a new report from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. The detailed report— Need Nickel?

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2013

A plot of ESOI for 7 potential grid-scale energy storage technologies. Benson from Stanford University and Stanford’s Global Climate and Energy Project (GCEP) has quantified the energetic costs of 7 different grid-scale energy storage technologies over time. Credit: Barnhart and Benson, 2013. Click to enlarge. Barnhart and Sally M.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2019

Brought jointly by LGCMI, the US-subsidiary, and its parent corporation, the suits were filed concurrently with the United States International. Trade Commission and the United States District Court of Delaware. the lithium-ion battery division of LG Chem, which developed the world’s. Its advanced lithium.

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Blink Charging

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Electric vehicles, renewable energy systems, and grid energy storage all rely on efficient and affordable energy storage solutions, primarily lithium-ion batteries. In fact, the prices of lithium-ion battery packs actually went up a bit in 2023, compared to 2022, increasing by about $10.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

EnerDel’s new 3rd generation MHPS is designed for both remote and grid-tied microgrid applications that depend on diesel generators as the primary power source and is expected to be commercially available later this year. Ideal Power Inc., a developer of a novel indirect power conversion technology ( earlier post ), and EnerDel, Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

The US Department of Defense (DoD) has awarded EaglePicher $22 million in funding under the Defense Production Act Title III Program ( DPA Title III ) for Phase II of the Lithium-Ion Battery for Military Applications (LIMA) project. Currently, the US government relies on lithium-ion cells that are produced outside the US.

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Cars That Think

MAY 31, 2024

Nearly 400 exhibitors representing the boldest energy innovations in the United States came together last week at the annual ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit. That’s a big improvement on conventional Li-ion batteries, which start to degrade when temps reach 0 °C and shut down at about –20 °C.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2014

For the near term, they have been working on a dual-battery combining a lithium-ion battery with a 12-volt lead-acid battery that could enable regenerative braking technology in non-hybrid vehicles for greater fuel savings. The research advances lithium-ion battery technology currently available on Ford’s electrified vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2013

Li-ion battery maker A123 Systems LLC, a newly formed, wholly owned subsidiary of Wanxiang America Corporation, has acquired substantially all of the non-government business assets of bankrupt A123 Systems, Inc. A123 Systems LLC is targeting three core business areas: transportation, electric grid and lead-acid replacement.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2020

The 580 EV is powered by a 480-volt, 90 kWh lithium-ion battery pack that can be charged by any 220-volt/three-phase connection. Two units have already been sold to utilities in the United States: NYSEG and RG&E, AVANGRID companies, and National Grid.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Ultimately, the trucks could act as backup power sources to shorten planned or unplanned outages and boost the electric grid when needed. With a 402 hp (300 kW) electric motor and lithium-ion batteries, the vehicles have an electric range of up to 40 miles. The gasoline engine extends the range to 350 more miles.

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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. While lithium isn’t exactly in short supply, extracting it from the ground exacts a huge environmental cost.

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Baua Electric

MAY 9, 2024

Nikita Baliarsingh and Nishita Baliarsingh, Nexus Power Another startup is using coconut powder to enhance the efficiency of lithium-ion batteries. Protein Cell “We have 50 plus patents filed and I think ten or eleven of them are granted in India and we are still in the process of filing in the United States,” said Baliarsingh.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2016

These two integral features of Powin Energy’s bp-OS make lithium-ion batteries safer and more efficient by preventing them from overcharging or undercharging, avoiding costly unplanned outages, and extending battery life by reducing capacity fade. Powin’s bp-OS is compatible with all leading energy storage chemistries.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2013

LGCMI) is targeting the launch of commercial production of automotive lithium-ion battery cells in July, 2013 at its Holland, Michigan facility once it has successfully completed the Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) and gained customer approval. LG Chem Michigan Inc.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2014

A 10 kWh battery energy storage system in the garage, using the same lithium-ion cells that are used in the Honda Fit EV, allows stored solar energy to be used at night, when household demand typically peaks and electric vehicles are usually charged.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2009

and a leading global supplier of microporous separators used in primary and secondary (rechargeable) lithium-ion batteries, recently submitted an application for grant funding under the US Department of Energy (DOE) Electric Drive Vehicle (EDV) Battery and Component Manufacturing Initiative (DE-FOA-0000026). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

in a field study of household experiences and the technical impacts of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), in a smart grid environment. The cars, which are slated to arrive in mid-September, will be circulated in three-month stints among 108 randomly selected Boulder households that volunteered to be part of smart grid pilot tests.

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Get Electric Vehicle

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The main type of battery used is Lithium-ion and when the charge is depleted the batteries can be recharged again. For example, in 2021 residents of California welcomed the United state’s first electric fire truck. From the battery, the power is delivered to the control module and electric motors of the vehicle.

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Qnovo

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Lithium-ion batteries will power more applications — electrification of everything: The 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry highlights the progress lithium-ion batteries achieved in the past four decades. Increasingly, they are making inroads in transportation and grid storage applications. That must change.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2009

US-based Ener1 is creating a European Division and has appointed Ulrik Grape, a veteran of the lithium-ion business, as President of Ener1 Europe. Through its subsidiary EnerDel, it designs, develops and manufactures, advanced high energy density, lithium-ion batteries.

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Electric Vehicles India

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Mitigating potential grid impacts of tens of millions of vehicles being charged across the nation. Advanced lithium-ion batteries play an important role nowadays as technologies such as electric vehicles, stationary grid storage, and defence applications will be critical to secure America’s clean energy future. “I’m

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Cars That Think

MARCH 18, 2022

And in the last two weeks, one of the largest utility companies in the United States, Pacific Gas & Electric, announced plans to work with General Motors in experiments with their bidirectional charging technologies. Maybe it's not out of necessity that you don't have access to the grid,” Andersen says.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2012

The new units are anticipated to deliver fuel efficiency over a conventional truck of up to 50% annually, depending upon the use of the truck. The trucks are used for construction and maintenance of the Marshfield utility grid. The Richland Center unit of Wisconsin Public Power, Inc.

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Blink Charging

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

But, how is AI helping with EVs in the United States of America (and other countries)? The state of Michigan, for example, is using AI to help transportation planners decide where to put EV charging stations. Grid Management. AI and EV are working together to help the USA. In many ways, actually. Charger Deployment.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2011

They considered five main classes of batteries—aqueous electrolyte; Li-based (Li-ion and Li metal); high-temperature; redox-flow; and metal-air—in the context of three main questions: Based on the specific energy, is the couple suitable for electric vehicles or. only for grid-scale batteries? energy and energy density.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Johnson Controls and NEC had submitted complementary bids, Johnson Controls for the automotive and government assets and NEC for the grid and commercial assets. Earlier post.) Johnson Controls originally made a $125-million stalking-horse bid for A123’s automotive business. —Alex Molinaroli.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Announced in September, Hertz Global EV is championing an electric and plug-in hybrid vehicle mobility ecosystem, incorporating transportation options and a charging station grid for ease of use. kWh lithium-ion battery. The smart fortwo electric drive is powered by a 30 kW drive magneto-electric motor and 16.5

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JULY 24, 2018

We are also actively marketing the company to new and existing institutional shareholders with recent meetings in Asia, United States, London, Europe and Canada from which we have had much positive feedback. —Guy Bourassa, President and CEO of Nemaska Lithium. Electrochemical Plant Construction.

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