Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2015

Researchers at the Beijing Institute of Technology have found a way to process biomass-derived natural silk to create carbon-based nanosheets that could potentially be used in Li-ion batteries and other energy storage devices. through a facile synthesis route for highly efficient energy storage devices. —Hou et al.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2010

Hybrid electric locomotive sales will have an increasing presence in global rail markets between 2015 and 2020, according to a new report from Pike Research. In 2001, Railpower launched the first hybrid electric switching locomotive in North America, using battery energy storage, called the Green Goat.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 27, 2015

Advanced Batteries for Transportation and Renewable Energy Storage. The focus is on high-energy density and high-power density batteries suitable for transportation and renewable energy storage applications. Closing date for applications is 20 October 2015.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2014

Following the consultation the Commission is expected to release its opinion in the first half of 2015. The study also concludes that lead-based batteries will remain the only viable mass market energy storage system in automotive applications for the foreseeable future. The review.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2015

Researchers at the Skoltech Center for Electrochemical Energy Storage (CEES), a partnership between the MIT Materials Processing Center and Lomonosov Moscow State University, are focusing on the development of higher capacity batteries. Craig Carter, with their associates, published a study in Advanced Energy Materials (Li et al.

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