CN EV Post

MARCH 28, 2023

The 450-MWh battery storage project will be deployed in Texas and is expected to begin commercial operations in 2024. Image credit: CATL ) CATL recently entered into a 450 MWh supply agreement with US battery storage project developer HGP, the battery giant's latest similar agreement with a US company.

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Teslarati

JULY 10, 2023

Recent photos from Gigafactory Texas suggest that the buildout of the facility’s Megapack farm is well underway. The photos were shared by longtime Gigafactory Texas watcher Jeff Roberts , who has been capturing the developments at the complex since its early days. Happy Sunday from Giga Texas!

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CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 23, 2023

Tesla announced a week ago that Giga Texas (its large factory just outside of Austin, Texas) had produced 10 million of the company’s new 4680 battery cells. That sounds like a lot! Well, let’s be honest, that is a lot! However, it’s probably not as many as you’d think on the surface.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Austin, Texas-based energy research organization Pecan Street Inc. launched Texas’ first grid-tied vehicle-to-grid (V2G) testing center at its lab in Austin, turning electric vehicles into a dispatchable load shaving tool for the municipally-owned electric utility, Austin Energy.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2023

Tesla hosted its Investor Day on Wednesday at its Texas plant, and livestreamed the event. The 3+-hour presentation focused first on the macro transition to a sustainable economy, supported by some 240 TWh of energy storage. Any battery chemistry will be accepted.

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Electrek

MARCH 31, 2023

Texas A&M University scientists have been working with metal-free, water-based battery electrodes, and they’re finding that the difference in energy storage capacity is as much as 1,000%. more… The post Scientists have found major storage capacity in water-based batteries appeared first on Electrek.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2022

Bolivian micro-mobility and clean energy startup MOBI has partnered with American direct lithium extraction company Energy Exploration Technologies Inc. Both companies will work towards creating a Bolivian domestic lithium battery supply chain to develop the region’s electric mobility market. EnergyX) ( earlier post ).

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Electrek

JANUARY 26, 2024

If you’re looking to save money by transitioning to solar energy and ensure your home is prepared for grid outages and extreme weather, BLUETTI has you covered. BLUETTI, one of the most trusted names in energy storage solutions, has announced the exciting launch of the BLUETTI Solar+ Program for Texas homeowners.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 22, 2023

Tesla announced a week ago that Giga Texas (its large factory just outside of Austin, Texas) had produced 10 million of the company’s new 4680 battery cells. That sounds like a lot! Well, let’s be honest, that is a lot! However, it’s probably not as many as you’d think on the surface.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Update: Elon Musk told Teslarati the expansion plans will accommodate Tesla Giga Texas’s “ecological paradise.” Ecological paradise plans from south portion of Giga Texas to river look great, however we must first get the factory financially on its feet. Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 21, 2022.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Tesla has officially entered the Texas market as an energy provider, new documents from the Texas Public Utility Commission state. In August, Tesla Energy had officially filed an application with the Texas Public Utility Commission to sell power in the Lone Star State. The story was initially reported by Gizmodo.

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 3, 2023

Starting with Texas, Tesla (TSLA) is now expanding its wings as a retail electricity provider. The electric auto manufacturing and energy company is currently providing cost-effective electricity to its Tesla vehicle owners and Tesla Powerwall (home battery storage) customers.

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CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

As Tesla’s energy business continues to grow, backup power generation will remain at the center of future developments.

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Teslarati

APRIL 7, 2023

Tesla has announced that its 2023 Annual Shareholder Meeting, also known as the 2023 Cyber Roundup, will take place on Tuesday, May 16, 2023, at 3 PM CT at Gigafactory Texas. Straubel’s role as CEO of Redwood Materials, a company focused on battery recycling , would also be invaluable.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 20, 2024

Photo: Mortensen The US battery storage market shattered deployment records across all segments in Q4 2023 – a 101% increase from the previous quarter. These benefits to the grid have been evident, especially in recent years, as storage has provided reliability and stability during critical moments like historic heat waves.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

million research center, led by Michigan Engineering and funded by the US Department of Energy, will focus on understanding an emerging branch of science involving mechanical and chemical phenomena that affect advanced battery designs. Those include long-duration energy storage and hydrogen fuel cells.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

The US Department of Energy is awarding $620 million for projects around the country to demonstrate advanced Smart Grid technologies and integrated systems. The selected projects include advanced battery systems (including flow batteries), flywheels, and compressed air energy systems.

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 2, 2022

Tesla is planning to expand the Gigafactory Texas general assembly area by 500,000 square feet, as revealed in a permit filed by the automaker with the city of Austin, Texas. Public records from the Austin Build + Connect (ABC) website show that Tesla has applied for an expansion of Giga Texas by 500,000 sq. ft. […].

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 10, 2024

The Electric Reliability Council of Texas in December said it expects around 4.46 GW of battery storage to be available by July 2024. Battery storage works by storing excess power generated during periods of low electricity demand and releasing it when demand is high. GW and 3.2 GW and 3.2

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2020

Researchers from the University of California San Diego (UCSD) and the University of Texas at Austin, with colleagues at the US Army Research Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, have developed a thick cobalt-free high voltage spinel (LiNi 0.5 O 4 (LNMO)) cathode material with high areal capacity. —Li et al.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2021

Rising global demand for electric vehicles and economic energy storage systems has led to projections showing an orders-of-magnitude increase in demand for lithium. EnergyX is also exploring the use of its LiTAS technology as a component of solid-state batteries. Earlier post.) tons by 2040. Source: EnergyX.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 7, 2024

Tesla’s Megapacks offer energy storage for renewable sources like solar, and as the company deploys more and more of these projects around the world, one large site with these giant batteries has just gone online in Hawaii. Tesla highlights latest milestone in Megapack energy storage deployment What are your thoughts?

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Tesla’s Giga Texas continues to grow and flourish, and yesterday, Jeff Roberts, one of the drone pilots who is part of the “Quad Squad” tracking progress at Giga Texas, was able to film large semi trucks delivering cathodes directly into the factory.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JANUARY 7, 2023

New battery management system technology from Texas Instruments can help maximize range and charging performance.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2021

Researchers at the MIT Energy Initiative have investigated the grid impacts of scaled up highway fast-charging (HFC) infrastructure by using an operations model of the 2033 Texas power grid with uniquely high spatial and temporal resolution. Mowry, Dharik S. Mallapragada (2021). 2021.112508.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2015

Duke Energy, Samsung SDI and Younicos are partnering to update Duke Energy’s 36-megawatt (MW) energy storage and power management system at the company’s Notrees Windpower Project in west Texas. The system, one of the US’ largest, has been operating since 2012 with lead acid batteries.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2011

The system will be integrated with a 750-kilowatt energy storage facility that can store 2 million watt-hours of energy using batteries. The project will also include a 50-kilowatt-hour facility to demonstrate the potential reuse of vehicle electric batteries for stationary energy 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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Teslarati

AUGUST 19, 2021

Tesla appears to be making a play for Japan’s energy sector, with recent reports stating that the company is looking to provide local power companies with large battery storage and energy management systems. Tesla, for its part, has remained silent about its battery storage push in Japan.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2011

Example of a lithium-water rechargeable battery. Researchers at the University of Texas, including Dr. John Goodenough, are proposing a strategy for high-capacity next-generation alkali (lithium or sodium)-ion batteries using water-soluble redox couples as the cathode. The present sodium-sulfur battery operates above 300 °C.

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Teslarati

APRIL 12, 2021

Tesla ( NASDAQ:TSLA ) has received a vote of confidence from Canaccord Genuity analyst Jed Dorsheimer, who stated that the EV maker is moving towards an “Apple-esque ecosystem” of products that are focused on sustainable energy. . Yet, it remains battery supply constrained. Don’t hesitate to contact us for news tips.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 26, 2024

If you’re looking to save money by transitioning to solar energy and ensure your home is prepared for grid outages and extreme weather, BLUETTI has you covered. BLUETTI, one of the most trusted names in energy storage solutions, has announced the exciting launch of the BLUETTI Solar+ Program for Texas homeowners.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2011

In return, LiFePO 4 +C Licensing AG receives rights to two recent battery material patents from A123. The market has recognized the ability of phosphate-based lithium ion technology to meet the growing demand for reliable, high-performance energy storage in transportation, grid and commercial applications.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Contour Energy Systems, Inc, developer of new fluorine-based battery chemistries, nanomaterials science and manufacturing processes for lithium-ion energy storage systems ( earlier post ) is merging with Li-ion battery maker ActaCell Energy Systems, a spin-off from the University of Texas at Austin ( earlier post.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

Tesla has reached a new milestone with the installation of its Powerwall energy storage systems around the world, just as the company starts rolling out its next-generation version of the system in the U.S. On Friday, the Tesla Energy account on X said that the company has reached 600,000 Powerwall installations worldwide.

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CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

AUSTIN, Texas — As electric vehicles grow in popularity, the spotlight shines more brightly on some of their remaining major issues. Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin are tackling two of the bigger challenges facing electric vehicles: limited range and slow recharging.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2009

Vycon Energy has developed a flywheel energy storage technology for rubber tired gantry cranes (RTG) that can either be retrofit to existing RTG cranes or included as part of a new build. The flywheel incorporates a high-speed motor controller design developed by University of Texas researcher Dr. Mark Flynn.

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