Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2017

In the UK, Renault and Powervault are partnering to re-use electric vehicle (EV) batteries in home energy storage units. This partnership will reduce the cost of a Powervault smart battery unit by 30%, helping Powervault to bring home energy storage to the tipping point of mass-market roll-out in the UK.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2019

US Energy Secretary Rick Perry announced $89 million to support innovative, advanced manufacturing research and development projects ( DE-FOA-0001980 ). This Department of Energy (DOE) Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) tackles key priorities such as domestic manufacturing for energy storage.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Leclanché will support Narada with technology transfer to achieve low-cost, scale manufacturing of Leclanché’s proprietary high-cycling and fast-charging lithium titanate (LTO) and high energy density graphite nickel manganese cobalt (G-NMC) battery storage technologies. GWh fabrication facility in 2017.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

The automotive industry, in its pursuit of vehicle electrification, is particularly interested in ASSB to boost vehicle range, while using an overall safer and simpler energy storage system as compared to current state of the art lithium-ion batteries. —,co-founder and CEO Doug Campbell. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2017

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside’s Bourns College of Engineering have used waste glass bottles and a low-cost chemical process to fabricate nanosilicon anodes for high-performance lithium-ion batteries. Coating the silicon nanoparticles with carbon to improve their stability and energy storage properties.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

In December 2017, ARENA announced the funding round into hydrogen R&D. It is the first time ARENA had sought to fund research into the hydrogen energy supply chain. Monash University low-cost robust, high-activity water splitting electrodes – $1,054,209. CSIRO Methane Fuel Carrier – $1,085,553.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2018

b | The energy-storage demand for the reference devices. The energy-storage demand is calculated by multiplying the number of devices by the individual battery size. The numbers of devices were determined using available market analyses and long-term projections. —HIU system analyst Dr. Marcel Weil.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2018

Synthetic graphite electrode prices rose nine-fold through the first three quarters of 2017, increasing from US$1,748/t in January 2017 to a high of US$16,309/t in September, according to Roskill Information Services. Scrap steel was banned from sale to such furnaces in early 2017, becoming available for use in EAFs.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2017

Li-sulfur batteries are looked to as a likely next-generation higher energy density energy storage system due to the high theoretical capacity, low cost and high earth abundance of sulfur. A paper on their work is published in the ACS journal Nano Letters. Junzheng Chen, Wesley A. Henderson, Huilin Pan, Brian R.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2017

In a paper in the Journal ChemSusChem they report that using a novel gel polymer electrolyte (GPE) enables stable performance close to the theoretical capacity (1675 mAh g -1 ) of a low cost sulfur-carbon composite with high active material loading, i.e. 70% S. Agostini et al. Click to enlarge. Agostini, M., Navarra, M. 201700977.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Recently, room temperature sodium-ion batteries (SIBs) have received tremendous attention for electrochemical energy storage applications owing to their low cost and the abundant resource of sodium compared with lithium. —Huang et al. and Huang, Y. 201701484.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Applicants to the Energy Department’s Fuel Cell Technologies Office’s fiscal year 2017 funding opportunity will collaborate with national lab consortia stemming from the EMN initiative. Source: “2015 Fuel Cell Technologies Market Report” Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

The battery should also be of relatively low cost, durable, safe and fully recyclable. The EU Battery Alliance was established by Vice-President for Energy Union Maroš Šef?ovic ovic in October 2017 following a high-level meeting with Europe’s leading industrial companies. EU Battery Alliance. Earlier post.)

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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. The Government of Canada is investing up to $1.9 These funds are non-dilutive and non-repayable and add to funds previously announced.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2017

Proposals will be due by 15 September 2017. The maximum individual total project cost is $1,000,000 per project; however, the target range for total project cost is expected to be from $50,000 to $300,000 per project. The H2@Scale concept has been built with participation from several national laboratories.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 1, 2017

An open-access paper on the work is published in the RSC journal Energy & Environmental Science. Replacing a conventional host insertion compound as a cathode by a redox center for plating an alkali-metal cathode provides a safe, low-cost, all-solid-state cell with a large capacity resulting in high energy density and a long cycle life.

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AUGUST 2, 2017

The work ultimately demonstrates that VO 2 (B) is a highly promising energy storage material and has no intrinsic hindrance in achieving superior cyclability with a very high power and capacity in a Li-ion conductor. In addition, the theoretical capacity and energy density of VO 2 (B) (323 mAh/g at a redox voltage of 2.6

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2017

In addition, material sustainability is also a critical factor when considering the total economic and environmental benefits for grid-scale energy storage applications. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences. Minah Lee, Jihyun Hong, Jeffrey Lopez, Yongming Sun, Dawei Feng, Kipil Lim, William C.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2016

Austrian manufacturer of high-performance batteries Kreisel Electric ( earlier post ) has introduced the MAVERO home energy storage system. First deliveries are planned for early 2017. MAVERO is a wall-mounted home energy storage system that stores electricity from any renewable energy source.

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OCTOBER 12, 2017

The research was supported by the Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) and reported in the journal Nature. Among the most interesting applications for the high-temperature pump would be low-cost grid storage for surplus energy produced by renewables. —Amy et al. Caleb Amy, et al.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

The first hydrogen TTO is focused on durable, high activity electrocatalyst with low platinum content and low cost for polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell applications. Conventional polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cell technology requires high content of platinum electrocatalyst, which raises manufacturing costs.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2016

Enable smart charging and vehicle grid integration through solutions such as demand response, and other energy storage and load management strategies. Alone, the federal government plans to purchase more than 500 plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) or EVs in fiscal year 2017. Municipal fleet electrification.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has announced the 2017 Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR/STTR) Phase I Release 2 topics , including three subtopics focused on hydrogen and fuel cell technologies. The vehicle topics: Electric Drive Vehicle Batteries.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2012

Applicants are sought to develop electrochemical energy storage technologies which support commercialization of micro, mild, and full HEVs, PHEVs, and EVs. Innovative subsystem component technologies in the areas of high-resolution low-cost NO x and NH 3 sensors. Subsystem Component Technologies.

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Teslarati

APRIL 24, 2024

And energy storage deployments: the Megapack, in particular, reached an all-time high in Q1 leading to record profitability for the energy business, and that looks likely to continue to increase in the quarters and years ahead. Our energy business continues to make meaningful progress with margins reaching a record of 24.6

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