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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Electrek

AUGUST 2, 2022

The 900 megawatt (MW) Nant de France pumped storage power plant in Valais, Switzerland, came online in July after 14 years of challenging construction and testing. The gigantic “water battery” is capable of storing enough hydroelectric energy to power as many as 900,000 homes.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Groupe Renault is launching its “Advanced Battery Storage” program, which aims to build the biggest energy stationary storage system using EV batteries yet designed in Europe by 2020 (power: 70 MW / energy: 60MWh). The storage capacity will then be gradually expanded over time to contain the energy of 2,000 EV batteries.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2021

This strategic partnership is the beginning of a long-term collaboration involving the co-design, co-development, production, marketing, and sales of integrated fuel cell-battery solutions. The fuel cell module, which is powered by hydrogen stored in tanks on the vehicle, produces electricity which is supplied to the electric powertrain.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2022

The selected projects are located in Bulgaria, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland and Sweden. emissions coming from exhaust gases produced during lime production and store them permanently in offshore geological formations in France. A third project will capture the CO?

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Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2019

The energy needed to drive it will be stored in 160 kWh Solaris High Energy batteries. Solaris vehicles have been present in France since 2003. Since then, the company has delivered nearly 550 buses to the country, of which more than 100 went to Île-de-France region. The Solaris Urbino 8.9

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2022

LeydenJar , a Dutch developer of ultra-thin, pure silicon battery anodes, has secured the funding to build its first factory to produce silicon anode foil. LeydenJar’s innovative silicon anode foil allows batteries to store 70% more energy than the currently common graphite anode foil, while being extremely thin. greenSPEED.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2020

The bus is also fitted with a Solaris High Power battery acting as an additional electric power storage facility. The hydrogen is stored on the roof in five tanks. RATP Group is the largest French city carrier serving millions of passengers daily in Paris and the entire Île-de-France region. LE electric buses.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 6, 2023

ACC), a battery mobile production three way partnership between Stellantis, Mercedes-Benz and France-based power immense TotalEnergies, is eying Quebec because the imaginable location for a brandnew battery processing plant, in step with lobbyist filings with the Canadian executive. Car Cells Co.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2011

The Compagnie Nationale du Rhône (CNR), France’s leading producer of 100% renewable electricity, and Renault signed a partnership agreement at the Lyon International Motor Show. Move In Pure uses the random share of CNR’s production to store electricity in the vehicles via a remote controlled system.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

As with the PHEV F-150, which has been shown to provide up to a 50% MPG improvement and 33% CO 2 emissions reduction, the PHEV F-250 will include a driveshaft-mounted electric motor powered by a lithium-ion battery pack that can be charged using standard level 2 and 1 chargers.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 8, 2022

Vinfast outlines its plan for sales and customer service locations — VinFast Stores — in Germany, France, and the Netherlands. The Hyundai IONIQ 5’s V2L technology creates an act of kindness that supports the brand’s vision of Progress for Humanity. There are 50,000 reservations for the Fisker Ocean SUV.

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Teslarati

JULY 4, 2022

Elon Musk is arguably the world’s biggest clean energy advocate, and his company, Tesla, has built some of the biggest battery storage systems on the planet. Yet in recent comments, Musk has highlighted that he believes it’s a mistake to stigmatize nuclear energy today, especially as renewables like solar and batteries are still ramping up.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

Researchers within the RS2E network on electrochemical energy storage (Réseau sur le stockage électrochimique de l’énergie) in France have developed the first sodium-ion battery in an 18650 format. While numerous other laboratories are also working on Na-ion batteries (e.g., We are talking about a market as big as the EV market.”

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2017

In a review paper in the journal Nature Materials , Jean-Marie Tarascon (Professor at College de France and Director of RS2E, French Network on Electrochemical Energy Storage) and Clare Gray (Professor at the University of Cambridge), call for integrating the sustainability of battery materials into the R&D efforts to improve rechargeable batteries.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 4, 2014

Logistics specialist STEF has been testing an experimental 16 tonne all-electric vehicle under actual operating conditions for Carrefour France. Battery-electric Midlum. During deceleration phases, the propulsion motor becomes an electrical generator which recharges the batteries. Payload of the vehicle is 5.5

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The electric version of the Berlingo, the second biggest seller in its segment in Europe, offers a driving range of up to 275 km (WLTP) from its 50 kWh battery and a volume of up to 4.4m³. ë-Berlingo Van Control is available from €30,500 excluding tax (size M, increased load 800kg, 136hp/100kW electric motor, 50kWh battery).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Alongside Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium and Finland, the charging service is now also available in Norway, France, Spain, Great Britain and Italy. The service searches for suitable charging stations and performs invoicing via centrally stored payment details.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2020

In the other major cities in Germany, France, Spain and Italy, WeShare vehicles on offer will include Volkswagen’s e-Golf and e-up! One of the major challenges faced by WeShare in Berlin is battery charging. In all these cities, WeShare will be offering an all-electric fleet with a total of about 8,400 electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

The falling cost of batteries is set to drive a boom in the installation of energy storage systems around the world in the years from now to 2040, according to the latest annual forecast from research company Bloomberg NEF (BNEF). This will transform the economic case for batteries in both the vehicle and the electricity sector.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2020

BREYTNER, a zero-emission transport provider, will operate the truck for three months in retail logistics, such as replenishing stores and feeder lines for zero-emission last-mile solutions. The aim is to demonstrate the truck and the mobile refueling station at 6 locations in Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and France.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

The hybrid drives combine a modern diesel engine with an electric motor and batteries to recover braking energy, reducing fuel consumption and CO 2 emissions by up to 25%. In addition, the ability to run under battery power only can reduce noise pollution in city areas and stations by 75% (20 dB(A)).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2013

Although they are targeting an initial implementation France, they see it as broadly applicable. The hydrogen is combined with CO 2 to produce methane, which is pumped into and stored in the existing natural gas grid and used like natural gas for use in power generation, transportation, or other thermal and industrial uses.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 9, 2022

A total of 40 Tesla Megapack battery storage systems replaced a World War II turbojet generator in Lessines, Belgium, Tesla announced. With the 40 Tesla Megapacks now installed, the Deux-Acren plant can store up to 100MH of energy and up to 50MW of power. This system has 50MW of power & 100MWh of capacity.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2011

Liquid Metal Battery Corporation (LMBC), a Cambridge, Massachusetts company founded in 2010 to develop new forms of electric storage batteries that work in large, grid-scale applications, has secured the rights to key patent technology from MIT. Patents for all liquid metal battery inventions were licensed from MIT.

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Baua Electric

JULY 5, 2023

A number of the factories the place vehicles with STLA Medium are Sochaux, France (Peugeot 3008); Eisenach, Germany (Opel Grandland, 2024); Melfi, Italy (vehicles for DS, Opel and Lancia foundation in 2024); and in North The united states (Chrysler and Jeep), CEO Carlos Tavares mentioned.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2018

The trains are powered by an electrical traction drive; electrical energy is generated on-board in a fuel cell and intermediately stored in Li-ion batteries. Replacing the diesel traction with fuel cell technology enables sustainable train operation while its performance matches that of regular regional trains.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2019

Against this backdrop, Ballard’s zero-emission fuel cell modules offer a compelling value proposition for marine vessels, in both stand-alone and hybrid deployments with batteries.

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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. France-based Matra offers a line of electric bikes, scooters and quads. kWh battery can do 2.88

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

For example, placing lithium ions between the MXene sheets makes them good candidates for use as anodes in lithium-ion batteries. The fact that MXenes can accommodate ions and molecules in this way is significant because it expands their ability to store energy. —Yury Gogotsi. —Michel Barsoum.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

This is the France-based Bolloré Group’s first electric car sharing service in the US. The Bluecars run on Lithium Metal Polymer (LMP) batteries developed by Bolloré and have a range of 120 miles between charges. Drivers will simply swipe their card across the BlueIndy car windshield. The standard BlueIndy membership costs $9.99

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My Energi

APRIL 13, 2023

The funding will be used to expand the company’s operations, enhance its production capabilities, and invest in research and development to create new and innovative products that meet the evolving needs of consumers, including electric vehicle chargers and batteries for storing energy.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2016

By giving Nissan electric vehicle owners the ability to plug their vehicles into the V2G system, owners will have the flexibility and power to sell stored energy from their vehicle battery back to the National Grid. This energy capacity would be enough to power the UK, Germany and France. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

ton Maxity Electric with a 20 kW hydrogen fuel cell, along with two hydrogen tanks, with a 75-liter capacity each, making it possible to store 4 kg of H 2 at 350 bar. When idle, the fuel cell is available to recharge the battery as needed. tons, certified in France at 3.5 Electric (Battery) Fleets Fuel Cells Hybrids Hydrogen'

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Zap and Helion are part of a renaissance in fusion-energy R&D aimed at achieving practical fusion power using much more modest facilities than the vast International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) being built in southern France, at a cost estimated to be north of US $22 billion by the time it’s completed.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

The Urban EV Concept is built on a completely new platform, and sets the direction for the technology and design that will appear on a future battery electric Honda production model. While the EV is plugged in, the energy can be stored and used at home or sold back to the grid, potentially generating value for EV owners.

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All Cars Electric

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Daimler AG reported today that production of the second generation Smart ForTwo Electric Drive (ED) has begun at their plant in Hambach, France. The ForTwo employs modern lithium-ion batteries to store power for the car's electric drivetrain.

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