Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2010

GE Energy Storage Technologies, a unit of GE Transportation, introduced its Durathon sodium-metal halide battery ( earlier post ) for critical backup power. Sodium-metal halide cell basic chemistry. GE is also using the technology to develop advanced transportation energy storage systems. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2016

Despite substantial cost reductions in recent years (59-70% per kWh between 2007 and 2014), lithium ion batteries are still significantly more expensive than the Department of Energy target of $125/kWh by 2022. Here we show that even substantial increases in lithium costs will have relatively small ( —Ciez and Whitacre.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2010

In 2001, Railpower launched the first hybrid electric switching locomotive in North America, using battery energy storage, called the Green Goat. Several Green Goats are still being used for light duty service, Pike notes, but the vehicles have not been available since 2007.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2010

We are funding innovative projects in a number of key areas which include internal combustion engine technologies, energy storage and management, lightweight structures and new propulsion technologies. High energy sodium-nickel battery cell for EV application (Acronym: NINACELL).

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