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BMW i home energy storage system integrates 2nd-life i3 vehicle batteries

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Following in-vehicle usage, the BMW i3 battery retains most of its original capacity, thus continuing to offer years of emissions free power storage and expanding the sustainability concept beyond the individual vehicle life. In 2014, BMW integrated high-voltage batteries into a stationary storage system in Hamburg.

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Global investment in renewable power reached $270.2B in 2014, ~17% up from 2013; biofuel investment fell 8% to 10-year low

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billion set in 2011. The increase reflected several influences, according to the report, including a boom in solar installations in China and Japan—totalling $74.9 billion, up 7% on the year but well below its all-time high reached in 2011. Biomass Fuels Power Generation Solar Wind' billion, up 39% from 2013.

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A More Detailed Look at a Prismatic Li-ion Cell and Pack Manufacturing Process

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The element is compliant enough to allow for compression when installed into a module. . As Prabahakar Patel of CPI pointed out last year “ Lithium-ion battery costs have already come down by a factor of 15 over the past 18 years ”. Each cell has a unique (2D) bar code and another bar code is assigned to each element. The element.

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