Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Four companies—Pathfinder Renewable Wind Energy, Magnum Energy, Dresser-Rand and Duke-American Transmission—have proposed a first-in-the-US, $8-billion green energy initiative that would bring large amounts of clean electricity to the Los Angeles area by 2023. million LA-area homes.

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DECEMBER 9, 2022

. “Megapack is quieter and supports the local electric grid with energy shifting and stabilizing services and seamless integration with more renewable sources,” Tesla said in its video. With the 40 Tesla Megapacks now installed, the Deux-Acren plant can store up to 100MH of energy and up to 50MW of power.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2015

In the co-production mode, the co-produced hydrogen is stored for use in a turbine-based hydrogen water power (H2WP) cycle with calculated hydrogen-to-electricity efficiency of 65-70%—comparable to fuel cell efficiencies. Similarly, in standalone hydrogen mode, pressurized hydrogen is produced at efficiencies approaching ~50%.

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OCTOBER 28, 2022

billion yuan, making it a new energy unicorn. In 2015, Volkswagen was accused of deliberately installing exhaust cheating software that only turned on in laboratory conditions, and its products produced 40 times the emissions under real driving conditions than laboratory conditions. billion US dollars, or about 16.4

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Nano One produces low-cost high-performance energy storage materials for batteries as well as a wide range of advanced nanostructured composite materials. ASIP was created as part of the Canadian Federal Government’s Economic Action Plan 2015. The Government of Canada is investing up to $1.9 —Nano One CEO Dan Blondal.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2015

It can store information up to 790 kelvins with thermal and time-stable, long-range magnetic order, which could have a potential impact for data storage application. Department of Energy (DOE) through grant DE-SC0006420. The team’s findings will appear in an open-access paper in Applied Physics Letters. El-Gendy, Ahmed A.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

The partners have launched the Second Life Batteries alliance and are interconnecting used batteries from electric vehicles to form a large-scale energy storage system in Hamburg. The partners expect the storage unit to be operational by the end of 2015. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2015

Through this route, we shall ultimately be working together closely with science in order to further optimize energy storage systems in terms of their range and hence increase the attractiveness of electric vehicles. —Dr. 2015a) “Expanding the Ragone plot: pushing the limits of energy storage.” McCloskey, B. 1505728112.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Unlike alloying or intercalation processes, in which the SEI effects limit the performance of ultrafine nanoparticles, the Vanderbilt study highlights the benefit of quantum dot length-scale nanocrystal electrodes for nanoscale metal sulfide compounds that store energy through chemical conversion reactions. Cohn, and Cary L.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

for the delivery of the first Intensium Flex Li-ion battery system to power and store energy for the ECO-H System. Through its ability to provide power and store energy using Saft Li-ion batteries, the system allows for immediate on-demand power and the leveling of power usage peaks for rigs.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2013

When applying storage batteries for the purpose of providing a stable supply of renewable energy, they are required to be (1) available for storing bulk energy (high output, large capacity), (2) available for state of charge (SOC) management, (3) highly responsive, and (4) available for short-term, high-output operations.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

This is intended to continuously measure, assess and store data on safety-relevant factors, even in extreme conditions such as winter temperatures below -10°C or summer temperatures above 30°C. SafeBatt began in July 2012 and will end on 30 June 2015. Another objective of the research is a “Digital Battery Passport”.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2010

LiPF 6 facilitates the transport of lithium ions within the battery, which allows the batteries to store and discharge energy. billion in 2015, driven by demand for plug-in hybrid and all-electric vehicles. Honeywell has developed a novel, environmentally-sound process to manufacture high-purity LiPF 6. billion in 2010 to $10.1

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2015

The system, they suggest in a paper published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society , provides an alternative route to artificial photosynthesis for directly harvesting and storing solar energy in the form of chemical fuel. —Li et al. C 6 H 12 (g) → C 6 H 6 (g) + 3H 2 (g), ΔH (298K) = 206 kJ/mol (1). —Li et al.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2015

An interdisciplinary team of researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and KIT-founded Helmholtz Institute Ulm (HIU) has developed a new Li-ion cathode material based on a new storage principle, resulting in increased energy storage density. New storage material with (left) and without lithium (right).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2015

BMW i ChargeForward is designed to explore how to better match the impact of electric vehicles with other dynamic energy supply and demand sources. The study has two parts, a managed charge pilot program involving BMW i3 owners and a battery second life energy storage system.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2016

The new grants—part of DOE’s Computational Materials Sciences (CMS) program launched in 2015 as part of the US Materials Genome Initiative—reflect the enormous recent growth in computing power and the increasing capability of high-performance computers to model and simulate the behavior of matter at the atomic and molecular scales.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2013

Siemens is currently installing the first Sitras SES (stationary energy storage) Energy Storage Unit with supercapacitor technology in the US on the new TriMet Portland-Milwaukie Light Rail Transit Line. The use of just a single energy storage unit could save a maximum of 500,000 kWh per year, Siemens says.

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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.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have developed a new zinc-polyiodide redox flow battery offering more than two times the energy density of the next-best flow battery used to store renewable energy and support the power grid. When power is needed, the two liquids are pumped into the central stack.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2015

The recent emerging demand for extended-range electric vehicles has stimulated the development of high-energy storage systems, especially the highly promising lithium–sulfur and lithium–air batteries, in which lithium metal anodes are employed.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2016

Among the new features in the R18 are a more radical aerodynamics concept, including a new safety cell; a Li-ion battery replacing the flywheel energy storage system; and a revised V6 TDI diesel engine. With the new R18, Audi is switching to a Li-ion battery for energy storage. The shutoff logic includes crash detection.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Wal-Mart uses Class 8 trucks to haul its trailers and deliver product to its stores. In addition to its work at highway speeds, the engine also charges an onboard energy storage system, which provides power to the electric motor when demand is high. ArvinMeritor Dual-Mode Hybrid Propulsion.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2015

Co-founded by MIT’s Dr. Yet-Ming Chiang, 24M’s Chief Scientist, the company is leveraging existing, preferred energy storage chemistry but using a new cell design with semi-solid (a mixture of solid and liquid phases) thick electrodes and manufacturing innovations to deliver what it says will be up to a 50% reduction in current Li-ion costs.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2015

Graphene is a unique material that has been widely investigated and found to have broad applications in fields such as energy storage, electronics, and electrocatalysis. Tour (2015) “In situ Formation of Metal Oxide Nanocrystals Embedded in Laser-Induced Graphene” ACS Nano doi: 10.1021/acsnano.5b04138. 5b04138.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

HybridSHIP is concerned with introducing batteries for on-board energy storage, integrated with fuel cells and gas engines. Two recently opened projected in Germany, Dr Sames pointed out, have demonstrated how using hydrogen to store surplus energy was already a viable technology. Germanischer Lloyd.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2015

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers and their colleagues from Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and the Nanosystem Research Institute in Japan have identified electrical charge-induced changes in the structure and bonding of graphitic carbon electrodes that may one day affect the way energy is stored. Wittstock, A.,

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2015

Samsung SDI unveiled two residential energy storage systems (ESS) at Intersolar Europe 2015 in Munich, Germany. As a DC system, the Samsung All-in-One system is highly efficient in storing solar energy into electrical energy because PV generation in form of DC is stored in battery without DC/AC inverting.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

A comprehensive investigation of the EDL structure and associated charge transfer processes constitutes an essential step towards understanding and improvement of a variety of electrochemical processes, such as electrocatalysis, electrochemical energy storage, ion transport through biological membranes and corrosion.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2015

BMW Group, Innovation Days Efficient Dynamics 2015: Hydrogen Fuel Cell eDrive Technology. The stored energy can then be used for all-electric driving at a later stage in the journey, for example when driving through an urban area. BMW is collaborating with Toyota on fuel cell systems. Earlier post.). Earlier post. l/100 km/26.7-28.3

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

The concept expresses a potential styling direction for Honda’s next-generation fuel-cell vehicle anticipated to launch in the US and Japan in 2015, followed by Europe. Two hydrogen storage tanks, with a total capacity of 5.64 The energy is stored in a 24 kWh lithium-ion polymer battery, jointly developed with LG Chemical.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2010

a wholly-owned subsidiary of ISE Limited, a developer, manufacturer and distributor of energy storage systems (ESS) and heavy-duty hybrid-electric drive systems, signed a 5-year exclusive supply agreement with Optare UK Ltd, effective 21 June, for its ultracapacitor-based Ultra-E energy storage systems. Earlier post.).

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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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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2015

NREL research confirms that after being used to power a car, a Li-ion battery retains approximately 70% of its initial capacity—making its reuse a valuable energy storage option for electric utilities, before battery materials are recycled. —Ahmad Pesaran, NREL Energy Storage Group Manager.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

In 2012, the US Department of Energy (DOE) awarded $120 million over five years to establish a new Batteries and Energy Storage Hub known as the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR). Crabtree (2015) Click to enlarge. Source: Crabtree (2015) Click to enlarge. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2015

Researchers at the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR), Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have successfully used an in situ NMR technique to probe the transient electrochemical and chemical reactions occurring during the cycling of a Li–sulfur system. Compared with conventional Li-ion batteries (LIBs), Li?S

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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2016

The concept version of the Mission E unveiled at the 2015 Frankfurt Motor Show is a four-door, four-seat sport car that delivers more than 600 hp (440 kW) system power and more than 500 km driving range. seconds and a charging time of around 15 minutes to reach an 80% charge of electrical energy.

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