Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2020

The European Commission is proposing modernizing EU legislation on batteries; this would be the first initiative delivered among the actions announced in the new Circular Economy Action Plan. They promote competitive sustainability and are necessary for green transport, clean energy and to achieve climate neutrality by 2050.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 18, 2023

Anthropogenic climate change confronts humanity with a challenge: How can we keep warm now as we try to prevent our world from overheating in the future? It is a daunting question that a startup called Polar Night Energy, in the small and chilly nation of Finland (Figure 1), is attempting to answer. There is nothing special here!”

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2022

Fermata Energy, a vehicle-to-everything (V2X) technology services provider, recently raised $40 million to accelerate the company’s growth with investment from new partners, including funds managed by global investment firm Carlyle and Verizon Ventures.

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Cars That Think

MAY 5, 2022

The IEEE Board of Directors formed an ad hoc committee on climate change in February to coordinate its response to the global threat. Rahman: Its charter is to develop a cross-IEEE strategy to synchronize and guide the organization’s response to changes in the global climate. Why should IEEE be involved in combating climate change?

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Solar Flow-R system distributes solar energy to light electric vehicle batteries and utility consumers. The Paris Motor Show saw the debut of a solar energy storage system to support light electric vehicle battery swaps and charging. V, 30 Ah) high energy lithium-ion battery pack. Click to enlarge.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

Starting a company to develop an energy technology that fights climate change is hard—a lot harder than starting a software company. Breakthroughs in battery technology, carbon sequestration, and other energy technologies that result in a five-fold improvement over current technology could literally change the world.

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Baua Electric

JULY 22, 2024

But a new way to firm up the world’s electricity grids is fast developing: sodium-ion batteries. This emerging energy storage technology could be a game-changer – enabling our grids to run on 100% renewables. Such facilities provide either short or long-term (more than 100 hours) storage.

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Baua Electric

JULY 22, 2024

But a new way to firm up the world’s electricity grids is fast developing: sodium-ion batteries. This emerging energy storage technology could be a game-changer – enabling our grids to run on 100% renewables. Such facilities provide either short or long-term (more than 100 hours) storage.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 30, 2021

2021 was a big year for energy-related news, what with the ongoing hunt for new forms of energy storage and cleaner if not carbon-free electricity and events and research that spotlighted the weak links in our power grid. billion EV battery plant —that’s GM’s and LG Chem’s new mega-gigafactory in Lordstown, Ohio.

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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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NOVEMBER 24, 2023

However, this shift introduces a new challenge: the recycling of EV batteries. These batteries, essential to the operation of EVs, eventually reach the end of their life cycle. This duration is influenced by several factors: Battery Type: Different battery chemistries have varying lifespans.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2020

With battery storage able to provide a unique role in balancing a renewable electricity grid, Toby Gill, CEO of Intelligent Power Generation, asks could innovations in green hydrogen and biofuel technologies contribute to a more optimized and economical energy mix? by Toby Gill, CEO, Intelligent Power Generation.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2022

Grants will be disbursed from the Innovation Fund to help bring technologies to the market in energy-intensive industries, hydrogen, renewable energy, carbon capture and storage infrastructure, and manufacturing of key components for energy storage and renewables. A third project will capture the CO?

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Purely battery-electric solutions are often out of the question for these deep-sea applications due to their high weight and space requirements. The fuel cell system can be flexibly combined with a maritime battery systems to create particularly efficient hybrid solutions.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 18, 2024

Then, it converts the residual heat energy into electric energy and stores it in a connected Battery Storage Module. The accompanying charging mechanism allows the stored energy to be used for off-grid EV and machinery charging.

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JUNE 23, 2021

Known for its over 3,000 hours of annual sunshine, Lhasa was an ideal location for Tesla to install a Supercharger facility outfit with a solar panel canopy and Tesla Powerwalls for energy storage needs. It was originally a part of the plan to have Superchargers powered by solar and battery storage systems.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 1, 2016

Nissan’s new regional office in France will house the largest grid-integrated electric vehicle (EV) system and second-life battery storage unit yet installed in a building, anywhere. The company hopes to extend this innovative battery technology to other major Nissan sites and facilities around the world over the next few years.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2013

These funds will be invested, in part, in analyzing multiple stand-alone energy storage technologies to further improve the microgrid. It provides a crucial real-life demonstration of technology that can help to provide California a future of clean, sustainable and reliable energy. —Energy Commission Chair Robert B.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2016

The Solar Impulse 2 —the solar airplane that recently completed a round-the-world flight— used batteries from Kokam, based on that company’s advanced Ultra High Energy Lithium Nickel Manganese Cobalt (NMC) Oxide (Ultra High Energy NMC) technology. Total mass of the batteries is 633kg (2,077 lb).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is contributing about €19 million (US$24 million) to a new €36-million ($US46 million), 3-year, public-private research project to improve further the safety of lithium-ion batteries for electric and hybrid vehicles. Another objective of the research is a “Digital Battery Passport”.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2011

The SSFC could enable new models such as transportation ‘fuels’ tuned for power versus range, or cold versus warm climates, with flexible refueling and recycling options. The new semi-solid lithium flow cell offers energy densities that are an order of magnitude greater than previous aqueous flow batteries. Source: Duduta et al.

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Baua Electric

DECEMBER 30, 2023

Smart thermostats are advanced heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) control devices that use technology to provide enhanced energy efficiency, convenience, and customization for users. Lead-Acid: Historically one of the most widely used battery technologies, lead-acid batteries are still used in certain stationary applications.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2019

The lithium-ion battery has an energy content of 80 kWh. In this way, any command which is controllable via MBUX can be stored for simple access. A sophisticated system with a heat pump and electric heater boosters pre-climatizes the interior. The energy storage unit is surrounded by a stable frame that can absorb energy.

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Cars That Think

MAY 31, 2024

Gas Li-ion batteries thwart extreme cold South 8 Technologies demonstrates the cold tolerance of its Li-ion battery by burying it in ice at the 2024 ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit. That’s a big improvement on conventional Li-ion batteries, which start to degrade when temps reach 0 °C and shut down at about –20 °C.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have developed a new zinc-polyiodide redox flow battery offering more than two times the energy density of the next-best flow battery used to store renewable energy and support the power grid. Flow batteries. Source: Li et al. Click to enlarge.

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Baua Electric

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Energy Storage: Renewable energy sources are often intermittent, meaning they don’t produce energy consistently. Effective integration requires strategies to manage and mitigate the impact of intermittent energy production on the stability of the grid.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2014

Researchers at the Institute of Environmental Sciences at Leiden University, The Netherlands) have concluded that the energy demand and climate impacts of using CO 2 to produce synthetic hydrocarbon fuels by using existing technologies can be greater than the impacts of existing hydrocarbon fuels. Credit: ACS, van der Giesen et al.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2015

Brown also called for reductions in the release of methane, black carbon and other potent pollutants across industries, along with managing farms, rangelands, forests and wetlands so they can store carbon. Under laws that you have enacted, we are on track to meet our 2020 goal of one-third of our electricity from renewable energy.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2018

In Germany, all Mercedes-Benz plants will be supplied with CO 2 -neutral energy. The preparations for exclusively green electricity for a climate-friendly production in Europe are already well advanced. Thereby, we completely forego coal-based electricity and obtain our electrical energy from only renewable sources.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2011

The new product, designed to complement batteries, was first displayed in March at the Mid-America Trucking Show in Louisville, KY. Unlike batteries, which produce and store energy by means of a chemical reaction, Maxwell ultracapacitor products store energy in an electric field. Maxwell Technologies, Inc.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 12, 2024

The resulting heat is converted into electric energy and stored in a connected Battery Storage Module, or BSM. That energy can then be used to charge battery-electric vehicles, construction equipment, and portable power tools throughout the job site. Especially when that job site is deep in the woods.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2019

Hydrogen can be obtained from renewable energy sources in a climate-neutral fashion, and forms the basis for the production of a variety of synthetic fuels using power-to-X technology. In 2017, MAN Energy Solutions acquired a 40 percent stake in Aspin Kemp Associates, a Canadian company specializing in battery technology.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

The new drive system from MTU—a hybrid power pack—uses a generator to convert the kinetic energy generated during braking into electrical energy. This electrical energy is temporarily stored in batteries and then used as required for operation. million (US$2.5 —State Secretary Rainer Bomba.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Energy storage and nuclear fusion—two reliable crowd pleasers when the crowd you’re talking about is readers of IEEE Spectrum —are well represented among our most widely read energy stories of 2023. And yet more air conditioning exacerbates the very problem—climate change—that is driving the need for more air conditioning.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2014

A 10 kWh battery energy storage system in the garage, using the same lithium-ion cells that are used in the Honda Fit EV, allows stored solar energy to be used at night, when household demand typically peaks and electric vehicles are usually charged. Electric (Battery) Smart charging Solar Sustainability'

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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. Electricity is a commodity that is bought and sold, and yet unlike most other commodities, it cannot easily be stored.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2011

This source of energy, generated in a climate-friendly manner, can be used to power fuel-cell vehicles in the medium-term. Audi says that its e-gas project provides an answer to the question as to how green power can be efficiently stored, irrespective of location. As needed, this gas could also flow back.

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