Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2012

(MHI), jointly with SSE plc (formerly Scottish and Southern Energy plc), will begin an energy storage system demonstration project using the power grid in the UK’s Orkney Islands, which has a high proportion of renewable energy generation in relation to demand. In the project, Mitsubishi Power Systems Europe, Ltd.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Battery cells are assembled into standardized battery modules in production. The products utilize the latest lithium-ion technology and are characterized by their high energy and power density as well as their long service life even under high loads. All data in the production process is recorded digitally on a continuous basis.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2020

The major driver for the project is the need to decarbonize the electrical grid, protect it from cybersecurity attacks and make it more resilient. We will be replicating the entire California power grid on one campus. The goal is to make the testbed available to outside research teams and industry by 2025.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2022

The pilot program will allow Duke Energy to draw energy up to three times per month during higher peak winter and summer months, and one time per month during the remaining months of the year, for testing and research purposes and to support the energy grid during peak usage hours.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2021

The Volkswagen Group presented its technology roadmap for batteries and charging up to 2030 today on its first “Power Day”. The goal of the roadmap is to reduce the complexity and cost of the battery significantly in order to make the electric car attractive and viable for as many people as possible. —Thomas Schmall.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2022

This technology can help enable a centralized power infrastructure to load balance, transport and store renewable energy through the EV, mobile device and IoT markets, as well as provide customer reliability.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2022

times the volume to store energy versus diesel, and hydrogen requires 11 times the volume, while lithium batteries require 50 to 75 times. This means that the average 150-car train would have to replace almost 50% of the cars with battery tenders. The reason for this is that RNG requires 2.5

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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. No battery is perfect, however, so engineers keep pushing for new and improved ways to store those electrons.

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Teslarati

JUNE 30, 2021

Arevon Asset Management has activated a 100 MW/400 MWh Saticoy battery storage system, powered by Tesla Megapacks, in Ventura County, California. The Saticoy battery’s stored energy will be supplied to Southern California Edison based on the terms of a 20-year purchase and sale agreement.

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Drive Electric

APRIL 4, 2023

However, as the number of EVs on our roads continues to grow, so too does the number of old EV batteries requiring responsible disposal. According to estimates from EECA, an EV battery is expected to last 10 to 20 years (and more than 350,000km!) So, what happens to EV batteries once they have done their dash?

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Daimler AG, with its wholly owned subsidiary ACCUMOTIVE, and enercity (Stadtwerke Hannover AG) will begin construction of a new stationary energy storage system (ESS) this year; the facility also functions as a spare parts storage facility for electromotive battery systems. Battery health. Daimler’s stationary storage business.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2019

The charging station can be used as interim storage for eco-power; however, when connected to the mains power grid, it becomes a permanent charging point. When the energy content of the battery built into the charging station falls below a defined value, the depleted charging station is simply replaced by a charged one.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

directional EV charging technology to partially power its North American headquarters in Franklin, TN, and its design center in San Diego, CA. Leading the industry, Nissan has also received certification for second-life LEAF batteries to be used in stationary energy storage. The next day, the cycle is repeated.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2014

A Massachusetts startup has signed a license agreement with Battelle to commercialize battery technology that can help store large amounts of renewable energy and improve the reliability of the nation''s power grid. based WattJoule Corporation will advance the commercial use of redox flow battery technology.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2020

When connected to the low-voltage grid, the station becomes a permanent charging point without the additional cost and effort required for a comparable fixed quick charging station. The built-in battery pack can store a buffer of energy meaning that it can be disconnected from the grid.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 28, 2019

With Highview Power’s liquid air energy storage solution, excess or off-peak electricity is used to clean and compress air which is then stored in liquid form in insulated tanks at temperatures approaching -320 ?F

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2017

The E-STOR technology developed by Connected Energy uses second-life batteries from Renault electric vehicles. With the E-STOR system, the batteries are recharged at low power, and the stored energy is then released at high power. Electric vehicle batteries generally have a service life of eight to ten years.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2023

Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) and BMW of North America (BMW) are collaborating to test how vehicle-to-everything (V2X) technology can serve as a solution to offset growing demand on the power grid, improve reliability for electric customers, and maximize the usage of renewable energy.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

will create a mobile power generation/output system—Moving e—that comprises a fuel cell bus that can carry a large amount of hydrogen; portable external power output devices; and portable batteries. The Moving e mobile power generation/output system will comprise: Toyota’s CHARGING STATION fuel cell bus.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2019

The company committed itself to working with governments and utility companies to support the adoption of electric vehicles, make charging them easier and more convenient, and develop second-life uses for electric car batteries. Since then, Nissan has formed partnerships around the world under its Nissan Energy initiative.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Gridtractor will help farmers integrate electric charging and vehicle to grid (V2G) into their operations to strengthen the power grid with its smart energy platform.

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Blink Charging

JULY 27, 2023

Blink Charging recently announced our first battery energy storage system (also referred to as a BES system or BESS) in Pennsylvania that includes four direct current fast chargers (DCFCs). Here’s what battery storage means for you. Here’s what battery storage means for you. What is a battery energy storage system?

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2014

Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have devised an alloying strategy that enables sodium-beta batteries to operate at significantly lower temperatures. The new electrode enables sodium-beta batteries to last longer, helps streamline their manufacturing process and reduces the risk of accidental fire.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 19, 2018

Charging network EVgo has installed second-life batteries from two BMW i3s to its charging station in Union City, California, the company announced last week. The two batteries each store 22 kwh of electricity to help balance the load on the power grid when electric cars are charging at peak times, according to a report in Charged EVs.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

GE’s Energy Storage business announced $63 million in new Durathon sodium-halide battery orders since the business launched in July. In its first weeks of operation, the business secured 10 new telecom customer orders across several regions, including Africa, Asia, India and the US powering a total of more than 3,500 cell towers.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2016

BMW i announced a home stationary energy storage system solution integrating its BMW i3 vehicle battery at EVS 29 in Montréal. The system utilizes BMW i3 high-voltage batteries and can be expanded to incorporate second-life batteries as they become available in the market.

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Blink Charging

JULY 28, 2022

Part of the answer to this question lies in the efficiency of EV batteries. Learn more about these batteries in this article, where we discuss the lifespan of different batteries and how to recycle them when the time comes. In fact, before burning petrol, most vehicles ran on electric batteries. Moving Forward.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

Bosch is cooperating with BMW and Vattenfall to explore second-life applications for EV batteries. The partners have launched the Second Life Batteries alliance and are interconnecting used batteries from electric vehicles to form a large-scale energy storage system in Hamburg. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2012

Panasonic Corporation will begin mass- production this month of a compact, secure and long-life lithium-ion battery system the company has developed for European homes. The lithium-ion battery system consists of the Panasonic battery module with nominal capacity of 1.35

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2016

Partners Volkswagen AG, Lichtblick SE, SMA Solar Technology AG and the Fraunhofer Institute Wind Energy and Energy System Technology (IWES) have submitted the final report from the INEES research project (Intelligent integration of electric vehicles into the power grid for the provision of system services).

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

During his reporting for that series, Charette ran across a startup called Influit Energy that is trying to commercialize a new type of flow battery. Flow batteries are typically used in stationary applications like power-grid storage,but as Charette notes in our cover story, “ Can Flow Batteries Finally Beat Lithium?

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Setec Powerr

JULY 15, 2022

The V2G system consists of intelligent interactive terminals, energy storage bidirectional converters, on-grid and off-grid automatic switching devices and accessories. V2G mainly realizes the power interaction between electric vehicles and the power grid. Compared with V2H, V2G is more attractive to everyone.

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Setec Powerr

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Vehicle to Home power supply system, which aims to use EV technology to help power grids cope with peaks in demand, provide power during natural disasters, and make electricity from renewable sources more viable.By It can also be used as back-up power source in case of power outages and/or shortages.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

But as grid management technologies evolve, this manual upstream coordination might give way to an increase in downstream controls, with a greater amount of electricity "traffic flow” coordinated at the distribution level.

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Teslarati

APRIL 11, 2022

Considering that electric vehicles are basically giant batteries on wheels, it is no surprise that several carmakers are exploring their potential use in vehicle-to-grid systems. Using a “swarm” of five Porsche Taycans and Porsche’s Home Energy Manager (HEM), the vehicles were connected to the power grid as buffers.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

signed an agreement to collaborate on advanced energy technologies, starting with the evaluation and testing of second-life applications for electric vehicle batteries. Duke Energy and ITOCHU believe batteries that become unsuitable for use in EVs could live on in other applications. Tags: Batteries Plug-ins. Earlier post.).

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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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