Cars That Think

APRIL 11, 2023

Whenever new technologies are introduced into the power grid, there’s always a chance they could disrupt the system, possibly even leading to blackouts. Finding ways to deal with the impact on the grid caused by incorporating renewable energy has been the focus of Vijay Vittal ’s research for nearly 20 years.

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AUGUST 8, 2019

Daimler AG, with its wholly owned subsidiary Mercedes-Benz Energy GmbH, and Beijing Electric Vehicle Co., BJEV), a subsidiary of the BAIC Group, have entered into a development partnership to establish second-life energy storage systems in China in the future. —Gordon Gassmann, CEO of Mercedes-Benz Energy.

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JANUARY 20, 2016

Hecate Canada Storage II, LLP, an emerging Canadian Project Development and Electrical Systems Integrator, has selected Switzerland-based Leclanché as the exclusive partner to provide 13MW / 53MWh Li-ion battery Energy Storage Systems in one of the largest Grid Ancillary Services energy storage projects in North America.

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JUNE 16, 2022

United and United Airlines Ventures (UAV) announced an investment in and commercial agreement with Dimensional Energy. Dimensional Energy, which recently received a $3.1-million Dimensional has also received grants from the National Science Foundation and both the Department of Energy’s ARPA-e and Solar Energy Technology Office (SETO).

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JULY 2, 2015

Duke Energy, Samsung SDI and Younicos are partnering to update Duke Energy’s 36-megawatt (MW) energy storage and power management system at the company’s Notrees Windpower Project in west Texas. Over the course of 2016, these batteries will be gradually replaced with lithium-ion technology.

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MARCH 6, 2017

Nissan, Mitsubishi Corporation, Mitsubishi Motors Corporation, PSA Groupe, NUVVE, Frederiksberg Forsyning, Enel, Insero and DTU (Technical University of Denmark) Electrical Engineering (PowerLabDK) are partnering in the Danish project Parker to develop a universal definition for grid integration for electric vehicles.

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JULY 12, 2023

The trial was conducted by Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) in partnership with ClearFlame and Duke Energy. There’s a clear need in the power generation market for reliable clean power to supplement and complement EV grids, whether during episodic black-outs, daily peak power periods or when a rapid recharge is required.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 12, 2023

The shipping containers, which house a Frankenstein-like assortment of machine parts—motors repurposed from Volvo truck engines, giant tanks of compressed air, huge silos of piping hot sand—are produced by a company called Cheesecake Energy. Despite its name, Cheesecake Energy isn’t in the food business.

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JANUARY 22, 2015

Eos Energy Storage announced the commercial availability of its MW-scale Aurora system for deliveries starting in 2016. Eos’s grid-scale product is designed to reliably integrate renewable energy, improve grid efficiency and resiliency, and reduce costs for utilities and consumers.

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JANUARY 26, 2017

According to a new report from Navigant Research, the shipment volume of advanced batteries for the first three quarters of 2016 equates to more than 323.5 GWh of energy capacity, 61.4 The majority of the advanced batteries in 2016 have been manufactured in Asia Pacific and shipped around the world. GW of power capacity, and $3.8

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Baua Electric

MARCH 7, 2024

Bowlus revealed its most rugged travel trailer yet, the off-grid Rivet. The Bowlus Rivet features a “yacht-quality” battery and solar power system that allows “indefinite time off-grid in all conditions.” In 2016, Bowlus launched the first lithium-powered RV, complete with a 4kWh lithium-ion power system.

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APRIL 22, 2020

The system transferred electricity from the power grid to the vehicle battery terminals at more than 92% efficiency. With its bi-directional design, the system also supports use of the vehicle’s batteries for energy storage. ORNL’s bidirectional technology is fully compliant with grid power quality standards. —Omer Onar.

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My Energi

OCTOBER 11, 2023

British smart home energy technology manufacturer, myenergi, has secured an investment of £30m to support significant future growth and internationalisation from Energy Impact Partners (EIP). Transportation is responsible for nearly a quarter of the global energy related CO2 and road transport makes up the lion’s share of it. “We

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APRIL 24, 2017

of Canadian natural gas demand in 2016, up from 11.8% in 2005, according to a new report by Canada’s National Energy Board (NEB). From 2005 to 2016, natural gas purchased by oil sands projects more than tripled, from 0.73 Bcf/d in 2016. Sources: Alberta Energy Regulator and NEB. Bcf/d to an estimated 8.27

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 18, 2022

Nikolai Steinberg, a former chief engineer at Chernobyl and member of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s governing board, called running the plant “a crime” in an email interview with IEEE Spectrum. To date, plant operators have continued to respond to orders from Ukraine’s grid operator.)

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Cars That Think

JUNE 27, 2022

Unlike those you may have grown accustomed to seeing, many of these stations don’t just charge electric cars—they can also send power from vehicle batteries to the local utility grid for use by homes and businesses. Debates over the feasibility and value of such vehicle-to-grid technology go back decades. This is good for the grid.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JANUARY 4, 2023

In 7 years of electrification and deployment of wind and solar, the US barely budged the needle, in fact declining slightly to more wasted energy in 2016 and 2017 before improving again in 2018 and onward.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

Cuomo’s Reforming the Energy Vision (REV) strategy, will design, build and deliver a 500 kW lithium-ion battery system to add energy resilience and efficiency to electric grid. The advanced Transportable Energy Storage System (TESS) is an adoption of Electrovaya’s standard stationary energy storage system.

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MAY 29, 2015

Daimler is entering the commercial and residential stationary energy storage system (ESS) market with its wholly-owned subsidiary Deutsche ACCUmotive. Daimler’s first industrial-scale lithium-ion unit is already on the grid and is being operated by the partner companies The Mobility House AG and GETEC Energie AG.

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Teslarati

MAY 3, 2021

Tesla is releasing the specifications for its new Powerwall+ energy storage system, according to a new product information sheet that a potential customer posted. Tesla’s Powerwall is the energy storage system that the company utilizes for Solar customers. It is linked to the grid but did not come with its own Inverter.

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MARCH 12, 2015

The California Energy Commission (CEC) has awarded $2.1 million to Eos Energy Storage, LLC to demonstrate an AC-integrated system incorporating the company’s zinc hybrid-cathode battery technology (“Zynth”) to enhance renewable energy generation and provide grid-scale, multi-hour energy storage.

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JUNE 13, 2023

Dahn held the position of NSERC/Tesla Canada Industrial Research Chair with Dalhousie University from 2016 to 2021. He was the NSERC/3M Canada Industrial Research Chair in Materials for Advanced Batteries at Dalhousie University from 1996 until 2016, when he began his exclusive partnership with Tesla. In 2021, Prof. Previously, Prof.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Nissan first introduced a Serena e-POWER model in 2018 ( earlier post )—the second second model with the e-POWER system, which was first introduced in the Nissan Note in Japan in 2016. e-Power vehicles do not use grid charging. e-Power vehicles do not use grid charging. Serena e-POWER Engine.

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JANUARY 22, 2016

An 8.75MW battery storage network which will capture and reuse the energy created by braking subway cars will help Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) reduce operating costs, ensure energy resiliency, and support the stability of the electrical grid. Saft will provide the lithium-ion battery technology.

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MARCH 18, 2017

Global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions were flat for a third straight year in 2016 even as the global economy grew, according to the International Energy Agency. Global emissions from the energy sector stood at 32.1 IEA will explore US and natural gas prospects in details in the next World Energy Outlook 2017.

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DECEMBER 21, 2015

XALT Energy and Efficient Drivetrains (EDI) announced a tentative agreement through which XALT will supply EDI with its NMC graphite Lithium-ion battery energy storage packs for use in EDI’s PHEV PowerDrive and electric power export solutions. The packs will be used for commercial truck fleet replacement orders.

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JULY 18, 2011

In its new report Energy Storage on the Grid (ESG), Pike Research forecasts that global spending in the ESG market will reach a little over $22 billion over the next 10 years. Electric grids require balance in order to function properly. Electric grids require balance in order to function properly. Earlier post.).

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Lion’s trucks are purpose-built for electric propulsion, provide for modularity in energy capacity, are agnostic on charging technology, are vehicle-to-grid enabled, and have a range of up to 250 miles. Lion’s trucks are available for purchase today.

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JANUARY 20, 2016

Battery cost reductions, government funding programs and utility tenders led to a 45% increase in the global energy storage pipeline in the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2015 compared to the previous quarter. According to IHS Inc., the global pipeline of planned battery and flywheel projects had reached 1.6 gigawatts (GW) in Q4 2015.

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AUGUST 1, 2022

By investing in VoltStorage, we are taking steps to advance solutions focused on the grid and energy storage. Headquartered in Munich, VoltStorage was founded in 2016 by Jakob Bitner, Michael Peither and Felix Kiefl. —Jennifer Rumsey, President and COO, Cummins. Each battery cell is enclosed by two bipolar plates.

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APRIL 20, 2018

Now, Shanghai Energy , the largest supplier in the country, will build the largest production base, strengthening China’s leading role in the new energy industry. In 2016, the top three by wet-process separator sales in China were Shanghai Energy, Suzhou GreenPower, and Foshan Jinhui Hi-tech Optoelectronic.

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DECEMBER 12, 2018

At CES 2019 in January, Honda will debut its Wireless Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) system, co-developed with WiTricity—a bi-directional energy management system that has the potential to reduce CO 2 and create new value for customers. Block diagram for a bi-directional WPT system. Tachikawa et al. Tachikawa, K., and Atasoy, O.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Sand is emerging as a key ingredient in the race to develop a viable electricity storage system for renewable energies. Australia-based Latent Heat Storage has developed a low cost thermal energy storage system based on the latent heat properties of silicon derived from sand. —Jonathan Whalley. —Jonathan Whalley.

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MAY 11, 2017

The California Energy Commission awarded more than $24 million in grants today for clean energy freight transportation projects in Los Angeles and Long Beach and more than $12 million for other clean transportation projects. The loans have an interest rate of 1% and are repaid within 20 years from energy cost savings.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Southern California Edison (SCE) opened the largest battery energy storage project in North America—the Tehachapi Energy Storage Project—to modernize the grid to integrate more clean energy. It will also help us to gain a better understanding of the value and benefit of battery energy storage.

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MARCH 30, 2022

While the country is one of the world’s largest producers of wind and solar renewable energy, it faces the issue of renewable energy being weather-dependent and prone to fluctuation. Geely Holding has been developing methanol vehicles and green methanol technologies for more than 17 years.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Daimler AG, with its wholly owned subsidiary ACCUMOTIVE, and enercity (Stadtwerke Hannover AG) will begin construction of a new stationary energy storage system (ESS) this year; the facility also functions as a spare parts storage facility for electromotive battery systems. Further major projects are scheduled to start in 2016.

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