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How do sodium-ion batteries charge within seconds – ET Auto

Baua Electric

The research team, led by Professor Jeung Ku Kang , tackled this challenge by utilizing two distinct metal-organic frameworks for the optimized synthesis of the hybrid batteries. As the technology matures, it could lead to more efficient power grids, smarter energy management systems, and even new types of portable electronics.

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Mercedes-Benz Cars plants in Germany to be supplied with CO2-neutral energy from 2022

Green Car Congress

According to its slogan— digital, flexible, green—it will set standards within the worldwide automobile production. The event will be accompanied by an exhibition with examples of sustainable and green projects in the global production organization of Mercedes-Benz Cars.

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

Cars That Think

It occurred in the wake of the California electricity crisis of 2000 and 2001, when mismanaged deregulation, market manipulation, and environmental catastrophe combined to unhinge the power grid. AC Propulsion’s president, Tom Gage, explains the company’s vehicle-to-grid technology at a 2001 conference in Seattle.

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GM publishes “Blue Paper” on sustainable urban mobility; integrating input from Sustainable Urban Mobility events in Shanghai

Green Car Congress

The Blue Paper is an important document that integrates the learnings from our forums and participation in Expo 2010, which have provided a compelling vision of the future of the automobile and urban communities. Align government tax, regulatory, and procurement policies to support the vision of connected electrically driven vehicles.

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Geely invests in Carbon Recycling Intl.; vehicles fueled by methanol from CO2, water and renewable energy

Green Car Congress

Geely’s Englon SC7 sedan was the first methanol-fueled car to receive approval from China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. Vulcanol is fuel-grade methanol, a clean burning, high-octane fuel that can be blended with gasoline for automobiles and used in the production of biodiesel or fuel ethers (DME, MTBE, OME etc.).

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BMW Group plants stepping up activities in balancing-power market to contribute to grid stability

Green Car Congress

This is necessary because power generation from renewable energies depends on availability of sun and wind and can therefore only be controlled to a limited extent. For this reason, network operators utilize so-called electricity balancing to ensure that the power grid remains stable, despite increasing integration of renewable energies.

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Siemens Highlights Prototypes of New Drive Systems for Electric Cars

Green Car Congress

Siemens Corporate Technology , Siemens’ research organization, supplied the drive systems for the prototypes of two electric cars shown at the Geneva Motor Show. Preliminary studies have shown that of the millions of cars in the industrial countries, over 90 percent are idle for comparatively long periods of time each day.