Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2011

exhibited five models from its Light Commercial Vehicles (LCV) lineup, including three trucks all based on the Atlas 24 model equipped with Nissan LEAF components and other EV-related technologies at the 2011 Tokyo Truck Show: the e-NT400 Atlas Concept; the Atlas F24 Refrigerator Van by Li-ion Battery; and the Atlas F24 Power Supply Truck.

Nissan

Teslarati

AUGUST 26, 2024

Tesla has highlighted an important milestone in the deployment of battery power in Texas this month, as solar and energy storage systems continue to become utilized in increasing volumes. According to Tesla and the agency, batteries sent more power to the grid in Texas on August 20 than ever before.

Texas

Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2011

In conjunction with the Plug-in 2011 event in Raleigh, NC, GM and ABB demonstrated a lab prototype of a distributed energy storage (DES) system that combines Volt battery technology and a proven grid-tied electric power inverter. —Sandeep Bala, ABB Power Electronics R&D Engineer. Earlier post.)

Volt

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

KTSi) have signed a long-term cooperation Agreement to advance and promote innovative, clean flywheel-based energy storage and recycling systems for mass transit rail and grid applications. Williams Grand Prix Engineering Limited (Williams F1) and Kinetic Traction Systems, Inc.

Energy Storage

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2010

Ford and PGE will work together to share information on charging needs and requirements to ensure the electrical grid can support the necessary demand for electric vehicles, as well as partner on consumer education outreach around electric vehicles.

Portland

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2020

These storage systems are intended mainly for power producers, transmission providers and distributors, as well as the commercial and industrial markets for medium- and large-scale storage. EVLO systems also include power control and energy management software. Hydro-Québec has launched EVLO Energy Storage Inc.

Energy Storage

Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2011

This includes research on appropriate anodes, cathodes, and electrolytes for magnesium (Mg)-, sodium (Na)-, and lithium (Li)-based batteries and novel transition metal oxide- and nitride-based supercapacitor electrode materials. High-energy density magnesium batteries for smart electrical grids. Earlier post.)

Energy Storage

Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2022

The delivery comes just months after BrightDrop’s commercialization of the Zevo 600 as the fastest vehicle to market in GM’s history. In 2003, FedEx was the first delivery company to use hybrid vehicles for pickup and delivery and, in 1994, the company used its first electric vehicle—an acid battery-powered vehicle in California.

Vehicles

Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

They wanted to see whether an electric vehicle could feed electricity back to the grid. The company’s president, Tom Gage , dubbed the system “vehicle to grid” or V2G. And EV owners would become entrepreneurs, selling electricity back to the grid. And indeed, that’s how promoters of vehicle-to-grid technology perceive the EV.

Grid

Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2020

Voltpack Mobile System will serve as a modular power supply solution which can be configured to meet energy and power requirements of a wide variety of market scenarios. Energy storage provides fast access to power when customers need to peak-shave or the capacity of the grid connection is insufficient.

Energy Storage

Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2022

million in funding for Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) to develop three new pilot programs to test how bidirectional electric vehicles (EVs) and chargers can provide power to the electric grid and other benefits to customers. V2X Commercial Pilot ($2.7 The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has approved $11.7

Grid

Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2010

Distribution of battery requirements for consumer-selected PHEV designs (shaded circles) compared to USABC, MIT and EPRI performance requirements. The USABC specifies two PHEV designs to guide its battery requirements: an AE-10 crossover and AE-40 mid-sized car. grid only). Source: Axsen et al. Click to enlarge. CD operation.

Davis

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Volta Trucks, a start-up electric vehicle manufacturer, has revealed the new Volta Zero—its first vehicle and the world’s first purpose-built full-electric 16-tonne commercial vehicle designed specifically for inner-city parcel and freight distribution. The Flax weave is reinforced with Bcomp’s patented powerRibs grid technology.

Commercial

Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2021

announced a battery and power electronics development and supply agreement and an investment in eNow, Inc., a provider of solar and battery power systems that enable fully-electric Transport Refrigeration Units (eTRUs) for Class 8 commercial trailers. XL Fleet Corp.

Fleet

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have designed , fabricated and demonstrated a PHEV traction drive power electronics system that functions as the on-board charger, and that also provides significant mobile power generation and vehicle-to-grid support capabilities. FY08 prototype test setup.

Plug-in

Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2023

Furthermore, the improved insight and control provided by Elysia, reduces an OEM’s need to oversize or overengineer battery systems, enabling them to be lighter, cheaper and more sustainable.

Battery

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Working with Fermata Energy, a vehicle-to-grid (V2G) systems company, Nissan North America is launching a new pilot program under the Nissan Energy Share initiative which leverages bi?directional directional EV charging technology to partially power its North American headquarters in Franklin, TN, and its design center in San Diego, CA.

Nissan

Cars That Think

JUNE 27, 2022

Unlike those you may have grown accustomed to seeing, many of these stations don’t just charge electric cars—they can also send power from vehicle batteries to the local utility grid for use by homes and businesses. Debates over the feasibility and value of such vehicle-to-grid technology go back decades.

Grid

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2013

That is about three times as much power per square centimeter as other membrane-less system—a power density that is an order of magnitude higher than that of many lithium-ion batteries and other commercial and experimental energy-storage systems. Membrane-less hydrogen bromine flow battery. Braff, Martin Z.

Recharge

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2010

Plug-in electric vehicles—plug-in hybrids and full battery-powered—will represent nearly 20% of the global market for light vehicles in 2030, according to findings in a study on the business case for Plugged-in Electric Vehicles (PEVs) by automotive industry analysts at IHS Global Insight. share for battery-electrics.

Insight

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

Miljobil is a Li-ion battery pack integrator, which was earlier part of Tata Motors. Hero is also expecting an increase in sales of Li-ion battery powered electric two-wheelers in the price-sensitive Indian market as a result of India’s recently announced National EV policy.

Li-ion

Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2013

The P40-24 offers numerous advantages over lead-acid battery powered UPS systems, such as a smaller footprint, longer life and higher operating temperature capabilities, the company says. The module was designed to leverage the capabilities of our patented cathode material.

Li-ion

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2012

Luis Ortiz, are also founders of 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. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

MIT

Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2014

The fuel cell and 28 kWh lithium-ion battery pack power the vehicle’s 200 kW powertrain, air conditioning, and auxiliary systems. Onboard batteries are recharged by regenerative braking as well as grid charging. Earlier post.).

Hawaii

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

The US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is collaborating with Oorja Protonics , a developer and manufacturer of direct methanol fuel cell technology ( earlier post ) on a two-year project to deploy and demonstrate methanol fuel cells for power pallet jacks in four commercial wholesale distribution centers.

Fuel

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2009

7,444,192 ) by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for technology that facilitates the optimal charging, management, control and maintenance of battery packs, chargers and electric vehicles (EVs). These same capabilities could also be applied by utilities to help enable real-time grid balancing on a local level.

Electric Vehicles

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

MMC has so far been focusing its EV technology in the Japanese minicar class: MMC rolled out the i-MiEV EV in 2009 and will introduce its second mass-produced EV—the MINICAB-MiEV minicar-class light commercial EV—in December this year.

Mitsubishi

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

Ioxus , a young (2006) ultracapacitor spin-off from Custom Electronics, an established supplier of high-reliability capacitors to commercial and military clients since 1964, is targeting the development of higher power density, compact ultracapacitors, applied in a full range of applications spanning military, industrial and automotive needs.

Power

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2015

Grid Modernization for Electric Vehicles. The objective of this effort is to identify specific dissimilar material joining and/or corrosion protection challenges preventing near term introduction of lightweight materials, and to bring novel technologies addressing these challenges to near-commercial readiness.

Li-ion

Charged EVs

MAY 8, 2023

In recent testimony, Nuvve CEO Gregory Poilasne told the lawmakers that bidirectional charging can reduce the total cost of EV ownership, and that it’s essential for integrating more renewable energy into the grid. In just a few years, every new EV, on both the consumer and commercial sides, is likely to be bi. That’s one way.

Charging

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2017

Hardware built with WBG devices has the potential to be smaller, lighter, and much more energy-efficient, with applications across valuable sectors including transportation, information technology, the grid, and consumer electronics. Grid-Connected Modular Soft-Switching Solid State Transformers. Empower Semiconductor. Opcondys, Inc.

Convert

Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2012

In April, Axion Power International Inc received an order from Norfolk Southern Corp (NS) for PbC lead-carbon batteries for use in an all-battery-powered switcher locomotive. The proposed system uses a very small starter battery, the sole function of which is to start the engine. Source: NS. Click to enlarge.

Lead Acid

Electric Auto Association

APRIL 6, 2022

Regardless of how or where you charge, not all the electrical energy pulled from the grid—those watts—will make it into the “fuel tank” (battery). EV batteries store and produce DC electricity, not AC electricity. DC fast chargers convert AC grid power to DC charging power in the charger itself, not in the vehicle.

DC

Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2012

A key aim of the TSB approach is to develop projects that are closer to commercial reality. A quartet of inverters controls the motors and their energy regeneration role under braking, the recovered power being directed to a lithium-ion battery mounted behind the seats.

Infinity

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

This renewable production capacity is increasingly important to ensure the existing power grid can accept more renewable sources. The ability to carry more energy on-board the fuel cell vehicle in comparison to a battery powered car means that the fuel cell vehicles have greater range.

Fuel

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2016

In this context, we … compare the driving range of electric vehicles from a full recharge and note that the driving miles per recharge time (min) for commercially viable battery technology is ~0.1–0.4 plugin EVs to Tesla’s 85 kWh battery pack). plugin EVs to Tesla’s 85 kWh battery pack). —Herya and Sundaresan.

Energy Storage

Cars That Think

JULY 15, 2021

My lap is relieved, but the battery life is the same—it's still about 10 hours, as it was with the Macintosh Portable. Batteries have gotten a whole lot better, but they have not gotten Moore's-Law better. We're living in battery-powered times. Tesla is now, arguably, a battery company.

Battery