Cars That Think
NOVEMBER 1, 2023
Wearable devices, like nearly every other piece of tech, need energy. The best-known wearable energy-harvesting tech today is, of course, solar, which pulls down electrons from sunlight or ambient light. Leveraging watch tech for…bisons? Fortunately, though, at wearables’ modest power budgets, energy is effectively everywhere.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 25, 2009
Improved energy storage technologies will allow for expanded integration of renewable energy resources like wind and photovoltaic systems and will improve frequency regulation and peak energy management. Tehachapi Wind Energy Storage Project. Notrees Wind Storage. Wind Firming EnergyFarm. 29,561,142. 125,006,103.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 20, 2009
This new class of batteries could enable continuous power supply from renewable energy sources, such as wind and solar and a more stable, reliable grid. The initial prototype used antimony on the bottom, an electrolyte such as sodium sulfide in the middle, and magnesium at the top. The researchers have since switched.
Charged EVs
APRIL 1, 2024
Grid stabilization, solar arrays, wind farms, and even home energy storage systems—some of those are coming offline and already going to their second set of batteries. There are real challenges with waste streams—they yield a lot of sulfuric acid and sodium sulfate, which will need to get landfilled.
Charged EVs
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
Umicore is actively working with cell manufacturers to advance SSB tech, and recently opened a material prototyping center in Belgium that supports all the steps in SSB production, from formulation to testing. Automakers have high hopes for solid-state batteries, mainly because of their improved safety characteristics.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 15, 2020
Five of the 28 innovations will help protect the grid from wildfires/PSPSs, four of these five will provide climate and weather risk prediction to electric infrastructure and services, and one is a hard tech innovation to reinforce transmission lines.
Cars That Think
DECEMBER 24, 2023
At the depot, the spent fuel could be recharged with electricity from any source—solar, wind, hydroelectric, nuclear, or fossil fuels. Then there are the new battery chemistries that are not lithium based—for instance, sodium-ion and graphene-based batteries. The recharging could also be done at a service station or in the EV itself.
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