Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2016

While many technical advances have made solar cells more efficient and affordable, a disadvantage remains in the fact that solar cells produce no power when it’s raining. The positively charged ions, including sodium, calcium, and ammonium ions, can bind to the graphene surface. This discharging process results in a reduced current.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

The ability to store power is a major challenge and an essential ingredient for the scale up and widespread deployment of affordable solar power. The initial prototype used antimony on the bottom, an electrolyte such as sodium sulfide in the middle, and magnesium at the top. The researchers have since switched.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The work, recently published in the journal Science , could advance the development of solid-state batteries that are efficient and affordable. Our work is the first to solve this problem by designing a solid electrolyte with not just one metal but with a team of affordable metals. —Zeng et al.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 9, 2011

Scott Elrod, VP and Director of PARC’s Hardware Systems Laboratory (HSL) research organization also directs the Cleantech Innovation Program at PARC, which develops solutions for delivering affordable solar energy, increasing solar cell efficiency, purifying water, managing energy utilization, and producing renewable fuels.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

Improved energy storage technologies will allow for expanded integration of renewable energy resources like wind and photovoltaic systems and will improve frequency regulation and peak energy management. Demonstration of Sodium Ion Battery for Grid Level Applications. into a reliable, dispatchable distributed generation resource.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2023

However, policies to incentivize small affordable entry-level BEVs, adopt innovative battery chemistries and reduce private car journeys, could cut demand for key metals lithium, nickel, cobalt and manganese by 36-49%. lithium batteries without cobalt or nickel (LFP), or sodium-ion batteries) and fewer km driven by private car.

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Get Electric Vehicle

MARCH 31, 2021

Now being witnessed the revolution and inspired by the success companies all around the world is investing boatload of money and resources into the development of new technologies in the electric vehicle sector. Along with sodium-based alternatives, could soon supplant the seemingly obsolete lithium-ion battery. #2.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Such integrated systems produce both hydrogen and electricity using renewable resources and allow electricity produced in off-peak periods to be stored as hydrogen used for energy requirements such as peak electric power or for fueling vehicles (e.g. transit buses or other heavy duty vehicles).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2016

Their work, reported in an open-access paper in the journal Nature Communications, could make liquid metal battery technology even more practical and affordable, and open up a whole family of potential variations that could make use of local resources. Click to enlarge. Takanari Ouchi, Hojong Kim, Brian L. Spatocco & Donald R.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2015

The Energy Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) announced $55 million in funding for 18 innovative projects as part of ARPA-E’s two newest programs: Transportation Energy Resources from Renewable Agriculture (TERRA) and GENerators for Small Electrical and Thermal Systems (GENSETS). GENSETS Solid State Devices Awards.

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Charged EVs

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Several aspects are key in choosing a location, including the availability of all the resources and the ecosystem we need—battery metals, renewable energy, talent and infrastructure, close to our customers. For Umicore, our plans to build our pCAM and CAM gigafactory in Canada were made and announced before the IRA made headlines.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Several aspects are key in choosing a location, including the availability of all the resources and the ecosystem we need—battery metals, renewable energy, talent and infrastructure, close to our customers. For Umicore, our plans to build our pCAM and CAM gigafactory in Canada were made and announced before the IRA made headlines.

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