article thumbnail

UCSD, South 8 team report improved liquefied-gas electrolytes for Li-metal batteries

Green Car Congress

The research, published in the journal Joule , builds on innovations first reported in Science in 2017 by the same research group at the University of California San Diego and the university spinout South 8 Technologies. At minus 60 ?C, C, the team demonstrated lithium-metal anode cycling efficiency of 98.4%. 1721646).

Gas 247
article thumbnail

Smart Charging: How AI and IoT are Transforming EV Charging

Get Electric Vehicle

By embracing AI and IoT, we can ensure that the EV charging infrastructure evolves from merely a network of charging points to an intelligent system that enhances the EV ownership experience, supports grid stability, and propels us toward a more sustainable future.

article thumbnail

China Will Attempt First Carbon-Neutral Winter Olympics

Cars That Think

Powering them with clean energy sources won’t be difficult given China’s plentiful renewable capacity, says Michael Davidson , an engineering-systems and global-policy expert at the University of California, San Diego. Case in point: The flexible DC grid put into place in Zhiangjiakou in 2020 will let 22.5

Carbon 105
article thumbnail

Why EVs Aren't a Climate Change Panacea

Cars That Think

For instance, Alexandre Milovanoff at the University of Toronto and his colleagues’ research (which is described in depth in a recent Spectrum article ) demonstrates the U.S. The San Diego backlash over a mileage tax may be just the beginning. The likelihood of this occurring is infinitesimal. billion to more than 2 billion.

article thumbnail

Clearing the roadblocks to electrification of heavy-duty trucks

Charged EVs

Portland General Electric was also involved with the West Coast Clean Transit Corridor (WCCC), which is a movement towards getting truck and bus charging stations like Electric Island built from Vancouver down to San Diego so that you could move goods and freight all up and down the West coast, at 50-mile intervals. A lot heavier.

Fleet 52
article thumbnail

Packaging second-life EV batteries into a plug-and-play energy storage system

Charged EVs

Smartville currently has a pilot project up and running at the University of California San Diego. A project developer will then take our EMS control interface and incorporate it with a larger site-level controller, which includes other energy components such as renewables, loads, grid-metering and switches.

article thumbnail

Coming Soon – The Electric City

Revenge of the Electric Car

From the article: “The San Francisco building code will soon be revised to require that new structures be wired for car chargers. And at the headquarters of Pacific Gas and Electric, utility executives are preparing “heat maps” of neighborhoods that they fear may overload the power grid in their exuberance for electric cars.&#.