Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

In trials, GE’s sodium metal halide Durathon batteries ( earlier post ) have successfully powered GE Mining’s Scoop, an underground vehicle that transports mining materials, at Coal River Energy, LLC in Alum Creek, West Virginia. Additionally, the battery contains no lead acid materials. Click to enlarge.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JANUARY 15, 2023

CATL is trying to find a way to build a battery factory in North America, but navigating the political crosscurrents is difficult.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 28, 2019

Thomas Built Buses Inc (TBB) has been selected as the provider of all 50 electric school buses allocated for the initial phase of Dominion Energy’s electric school bus replacement program in Virginia. After the initial 50, Dominion Energy plans to add 200 per year for the next 5 years. —Proterra CEO Ryan Popple.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 15, 2015

NASA’s Game Changing Development (GCD) program has selected two proposals for Phase II awards targeted toward developing new energy storage technologies to replace the battery systems currently used by America’s space program. of Sunnyvale, California: Silicon Anode Based Cells for High Specific Energy Li + Systems.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2020

Funded through the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), projects will conduct research in advanced batteries, electrification, and manufacturing in support of DOE’s Energy Storage Grand Challenge. Project description. Federal share. Enovix Corporation.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2014

If connection to the AC grid is not available, then the ENVILINE ESS (Energy Storage System) stores the surplus braking energy and feeds it to the power line to assist the acceleration of the train. When used with batteries, ESS can also provide emergency power and generate revenues by participating in the local energy markets.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 27, 2013

Innovators at NASA’s Glenn Research Center have developed an automated pulse-and-glide technique using a flywheel energy storage system for on-road vehicles; the technology, which NASA Glenn says can improve fuel economy over existing internal combustion or battery hybrid systems by 40-100%, is available for licensing.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2018

—four times less weight and half the size of conventional DC fast EV chargers (DCFC), as well as a high voltage direct current (HVDC) port to utilize energy storage and renewable energy systems, minimizing demand on the power grid. The proposed XFC design is expected to offer grid-to-vehicle efficiency up to 96.5%—four

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2020

Such reasons include advantages to the electrical grid such as load balancing and energy storage, increased jobs and economic development, reduced stormwater pollution and consumer savings. The article points to the 2019 Supreme Court case of Virginia Uranium v.

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CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Volvo Trucks North America brought customers, partners, and media out to its customer center in Dublin, Virginia as part of its 2022 Electromobility Summit.

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Driivz

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Incentives from governments and utilities, along with declining battery prices and increasing battery efficiency and supply, also contribute to reductions in upfront costs. Then use that stored energy to charge EVs during peak times.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

Around the same time, however, General Motors and other automakers were in the process of decommissioning their battery EV fleets, the key component of V2G. As utilities shifted to more reliable alternating-current systems, they phased out these costly backup batteries.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2011

The US Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) is conducting research on alternative options to reduce costs and make large-scale energy storage safer and more practical. Innovative fabrication methods can also lead to significant energy storage system improvements.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

Develop reversible fuel cells for energy storage applications based on alkaline exchange membrane technology. Develop a new class of anion exchange membranes with high oxidative-stability for use in cerium redox-flow batteries and with potential for use in fuel cell applications. Virginia Tech. Giner, Inc. 2011.04.043.

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Blink Charging

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Just as conventional internal combustion engine (ICE) cars measure fuel by the gallon, EV owners measure their energy consumption in kWh. This metric quantifies the energy transferred to an EV’s battery during charging, similar to filling up an ICE vehicle. Kentucky will implement the kWh tax starting in January 2024.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 14, 2022

Volvo Trucks first began taking customer orders for its first Volvo VNR Electric model in December 2020, with commercial production starting in Q2 2021 at the company’s New River Valley manufacturing plant in Dublin, Virginia. Improvements in battery design have resulted in an up to 40% increase in storage capacity for each battery.

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Cars That Think

MAY 5, 2022

Rahman is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Virginia Tech. that provides buildings with energy-efficiency solutions. Battery energy storage. You cannot make wind and solar energy useful throughout the day unless you can store it. His answers have been edited for clarity.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2009

With the initiation of the EFRCs in April 2008, the Department of Energy (DOE) budgeted approximately $100 million for multiple EFRC awards starting in FY 2009. Nanostructured Interfaces for Energy Generation, Conversion, and Storage. Center for Electrical Energy Storage: Tailored Interfaces. $19.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2022

The Volvo VNR Electric has an operating range of up to 440 km (273 miles) and energy storage of up to 565 kWh. The truck can be 80% charged in 90 minutes with the six-battery package and 60 minutes with the four-battery version.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2022

In January 2022, Volvo Trucks announced enhancements to its Volvo VNR Electric model ( earlier post ), including a six-battery package option with an increased energy storage of up to 565 kWh and an operational range of up to 275 miles. Receive energy consumption reports and measurement charts.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

The project includes quick-charging stations at this terminal layover in route to recharge bus batteries. Grid sourced electrical energy used to recharge the bus batteries will be augmented with solar energy collected with panels procured and installed under this project. Arlington Transit – ART, Virginia: $1,500,000.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2021

To date, the TCF has funded more than 380 projects by unlocking more than $170 million in funding from more than 300 private sector partners, including automotive manufacturers, energy storage companies, utilities, bioenergy companies, solar providers, and aerospace companies. Lynchburg, Virginia). NovaCentrix (Austin, Texas).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Non-strategic Elements having Secure Supply Chains A Virginia Commonwealth University led team will. Fluctuations for Advanced Thermal Energy Storage NAVITASMAX will develop a novel heat storage method for. energy density over existing systems by an order of. will enable low cost, fully dispatchable solar energy.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2017

If successful, the team will greatly increase transformer functionality and reduce size over current technologies, affecting application areas like grid energy storage, solar photovoltaics and electric vehicle fast chargers, while also enabling better grid monitoring and easy retrofits. Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 17, 2023

An obvious example involves the making of millions of EV batteries. For example, Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm has stated that the U.S. needs over 100 battery cell manufacturing locations by 2035” to meet the projected EV demand. Currently, 15 battery factories are in operation or will be within five years.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

The projects selected are grouped into 10 areas: Energy Storage (6 projects). Biomass Energy (5 projects). Conventional Energy (1 project). ENERGY STORAGE. Planar Na-beta Batteries for Renewable Integration and Grid Applications. Arizona State University, in partnership with Fluidic Energy Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2016

Despite the extraordinary mechanical, energy conversion and optical properties reported for three-dimensional (3D) architectures at the micro- and nanoscale, we have yet to capitalize on this to create billets of material at substantial sizes. We’re seeing some of the benefits you only get from the nanoscale at the macroscale.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 20, 2022

Scientists and engineers have extended the range of EVs by cramming ever more energy into their batteries, and vehicle charging networks have expanded in many countries. For EVs, much of the environmental burden centers on the production of batteries, the most energy- and resource-intensive component of the vehicle.

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