Remove 2016 Remove Building Remove Cheap Remove Grid
article thumbnail

Thermal Energy Storage Is No Longer Just Hot Air

Cars That Think

The company is building these shipping container systems, which work like giant batteries that store energy as heat and pressurized air , rather than a chemical reaction (Cheesecake’s name is derived from a nerdy acronym for their technology.) That’s why Liu’s Thermal Energy Storage Group at ORNL is focused primarily on buildings.

article thumbnail

Bloomberg NEF forecasts falling battery prices enabling surge in wind and solar to 50% of global generation by 2050

Green Car Congress

BNEF predicts that lithium-ion battery prices, already down by nearly 80% per megawatt-hour since 2010, will continue to tumble as electric vehicle manufacturing builds up through the 2020s. Coal emerges as the biggest loser in the long run. —Elena Giannakopoulou, head of energy economics at BNEF.

Wind 220
article thumbnail

Naysayer Alert – the hydrogen red herring

My Electric Car

Hence its supply would not be cheap, renewable nor sustainable in the long term. Why not simply use the electricity directly to charge electric cars via the already available distribution network – the electricity grid? 2016) Elon Musk explains why hydrogen cars are ‘incredibly dumb’ Business Insider [link]. Fletcher, S.,

article thumbnail

Q&A with CharIN North America President: It’s all about interoperability

Charged EVs

Without connectivity, you cannot really integrate transportation with the power grid. We were a startup company, and we sold our technology to STMicroelectronics, who produced it cheap. The same is applicable to those who try to build chargers. And that’s how IoTecha was born in 2016. It’s a must.

article thumbnail

2020 Top 10 Countries in the Global EV Revolution

EV Sales

The only exception to this geographical intra-Europe rule was Ukraine, entering the Top 10 in 2016-2018 on the power of grassroots-driven lively market of second-hand EV imports, which seems to have stalled in 2019-2020. That said, China also dominates the global E-bus market, delivering and building assembly plants all over the place.

2020 52