Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2013

ARPA-E’s new program, Robust Affordable Next Generation Energy Storage Systems (RANGE) ( earlier post ), aims to accelerate widespread EV adoption by dramatically improving driving range and reliability, and by providing low-cost, low-carbon alternatives to today’s vehicles. Multiple-Electron Aqueous Battery.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Symbio ALP-5 range extender. The Franche-Comté region and La Poste (the French postal service) are testing hydrogen fuel cell range extender kits from Symbio FCell in three Renault Kangoo Z.E. This system is expected to double the range of the electric cars used for postal delivery. Click to enlarge. The three Kangoos Z.E.s

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2011

JBT AeroTech, InnovaTek and EnerFuel are developing a fuel cell range extender for battery-powered airport ground support equipment. The project’s overall objective is to develop a fuel cell power system capable of converting bio-jet fuel to electricity for the on-board recharging of an electric vehicle’s battery.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2015

Of these, 16 are vehicle-related, encompassing projects developing batteries, power electronics and improved combustion engine technology including on-board reformers, and two are specifically hydrogen fuel cell-related. These devices will enable a lighter, longer range and cost effective electric vehicles. 149,871.44.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2019

It could enable the design of tanks that are smaller, cheaper, more convenient and energy dense than existing hydrogen fuel technologies, and significantly out-perform battery-powered vehicles. A paper on their work is published in the journal Energy and Environmental Science.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2018

Stena Line, one of Europe’s leading ferry companies with 38 vessels and 21 routes in Northern Europe, is introducing battery power to its operations. Stena recently signed with Callenberg Technology Group for 1 MWh of batteries which will be installed on Stena Jutlandica which operates between Gothenburg and Frederikshavn.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2020

Cree has introduced the Wolfspeed 650V silicon carbide MOSFETs , delivering a wider range of industrial applications and enabling the next generation of Electric Vehicle (EV) onboard charging, data centers, and other renewable systems with industry-leading power efficiency. The new 15 m?

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Electric commercial vehicles that are powered solely by batteries are not suited for everyday operations, partly because of longer charging cycles and limited range. During stop-and-go traffic or traffic jams, the battery loses significant power. FST fuel cell stack.

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EV Central

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

As part of the new arrangement Volkswagen components will be integrated into Mahindra’s incoming battery-powered SUVs that will be built on its own INGLO architecture. Some of these vehicles will come to Australia, where Mahindra already has a presence with a range of utes and SUVs. 09 SUVs in 2026.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 16, 2024

Early government investment in charging infrastructure went a long way toward soothing the range anxiety that made car buyers in other places reluctant to make the switch to battery power from gasoline or diesel. Rapson, a professor at the University of California, Davis. “It

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2012

The US Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) Annual Energy Outlook 2012 (AEO2012) includes a High Technology Battery case that examines the potential impacts of significant breakthroughs in battery electric vehicle technology on the cost and price of all types of battery powered electric vehicles. Source: EIA.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The Cummins-led project was competitively selected under an industry solicitation issued in February to develop a fuel cell-powered hybrid truck that meets the needs of the emergency field in military and civilian markets. As specified in the solicitation, the vehicle is to be a Class 5 or Class 6 truck, heavy-duty vocational vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2019

The new Mercedes-Benz eSprinter ( earlier post ) is intended to cover the broadest possible range of use in urban logistics. A flexible payload and battery concept allow adaptation to individual needs for practical use. The range with a utilizable battery capacity of 47 kWh (installed: 55 kWh) is 168 kilometers (104.4

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

The Mobile Lung Unit features: The world’s first portable, battery-powered, full-body, 32-slice CT scanner, BodyTom, featuring an innovative internal drive system that can be easily transported. Motiv Power Systems all-electric/zero-emissions EPIC chassis, removing the need to idle an engine.

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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 21, 2023

Increased energy consumption from autonomous vehicle (AV) sensors and computational load as well as upfront costs of sensors are barriers to broad AV adoption. This saves electric vehicle battery power, extending driving range to promote wider EV adoption.

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EV Central

APRIL 11, 2024

That explains why the first three vans will all benefit from an advanced 800-volt electrical architecture and will be capable of being of being DC fast charged at levels previously only reserved for the most expensive battery-powered passenger cars.

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Electra Vehicles

JUNE 7, 2023

At Electra, our mission is to maximize the full potential of battery power to enable electric mobility to take us further. So, let’s discuss a few best practices to help extend the life of our batteries and the devices they power. Avoiding the hassle of having to charge your battery-powered devices is one obvious reason.

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Blink Charging

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

What Are EV Range Anxiety and Range Confidence? EV range anxiety is the fear of running out of power and getting stranded. Range confidence is the opposite. Today’s EVs have higher battery capacity, allowing EV drivers to charge less frequently. What Is EV Range Anxiety?

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

In addition to delivering a 64% savings in operating costs compared to conventional diesel trucks, the Canter E-Cells also reduced CO 2 emissions by 37% compared to diesel, taking into account the current power production mix in Portugal. The range of the lithium-ion batteries stabilized at 100 km (62 miles) per charge.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

The study investigated the the WTW energy and emissions from the use of natural gas in CNGVs with a range of CNGV fuel economy and natural gas compressor efficiency. The WTW analysis focused solely on the fuel-motive power cycle, disregarding the vehicle cycle—i.e.,

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2013

Researchers from the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have designed a new lithium/polysulfide (Li/PS) semi-liquid (flow) battery for large-scale energy storage, with lithium polysulfide (Li 2 S 8 ) in ether solvent as a catholyte and metallic lithium as an anode. Energy Environ.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2013

The 50 kg electric motor powering the BMW i3 generates a maximum output of 125 kW for a specific power (SP) of 2.5 The motor offers linear power delivery extending into high rev ranges, with maximum revs of 11,400 rpm. Reluctance motors include no magnet material on their rotors.

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Electric Vehicles India

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The Kolkata Police has announced that it is going to add 226 electric vehicles into its fleet in order to counter rising diesel prices and to escalate the maintenance costs of diesel-powered vehicles. The adoption of electric vehicles will help to phase out 200 diesel-powered vehicles that are around 15 years old.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 8, 2013

Nissan’s battery-powered LEAF has become the first fully electric vehicle to join the Motability Scheme, opening up zero emission motoring to the scheme’s 620,000 users. Thanks to a recharging cost of around £2 a time and a range of 124 miles, running a Nissan LEAF could save you around a £1,000[.].

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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. That’s about two thirds of the leasing cost of a LEAF nowadays. Of course, the anti-EV crowd picked up on that.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2016

Shortly, smart will be the only automaker worldwide to offer its entire model range both powered by internal combustion engines or operating on battery power. Mercedes-Benz will put the first fuel-cell-powered vehicle with plug-in technology into series production: the GLC F-CELL. We will invest 14.5 billion euro.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 24, 2023

It’s also the only orbital-class rocket in the world that uses engines with battery-powered pumps. In Q2, Rocket Lab even shipped an Electron to Virginia and completed a range of pad shakedown tests, including a wet dress rehearsal (WDR) and static fire test. Electron measures 18 meters (59 ft) tall, 1.2

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Through the Advanced Vehicle Power Technology Alliance between the Energy Department and the Department of the Army, the Army is contributing an additional $3 million in co-funding to support projects focused on lightweighting and propulsion materials, batteries, fuels, and lubricants. Advanced batteries: 13 projects, $22.5

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2010

The metallic separators significantly reduce the cost of the fuel cell stack and simplify the fuel cell manufacturing process. Vehicle range. Battery power. Key innovations include: Adoption of metallic separators (bipolar plates) in the Hyundai fuel cell stack. Advances in modularization which simplifies final assembly.

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Get Electric Vehicle

APRIL 10, 2022

  As we have mentioned in previous articles, the cost of EV batteries is linked to the higher price of EVs. The cost of an electric car’s battery is around 30 to 40% of the total vehicle cost. Battery-as-a-Service. Using this model, the upfront cost of an electric car can be reduced.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 16, 2024

As one of the leading suppliers of electric vehicle (EV) components to major automotive manufacturers in India, the company has sold over a hundred thousand batteries powering EVs covering more than 80 million km on Indian roads, the release said.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2014

Overview of the three vehicle classes identified in the study, and their corresponding battery technologies. Hybrid vehicles , including advanced micro-hybrid, mild-hybrid and full-hybrid vehicles rely on the battery to play a more active role, with the energy stored from braking used to boost the vehicle’s acceleration.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2010

Concerns about mileage potential before needing to recharge (50%) and battery life (34%) top the list. Cost of the vehicle, reliability and availability of charging stations are also key concerns many consumers have. —Chris Ely.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

With the GenH2 Truck, Daimler Trucks is demonstrating for the first time which specific technologies the manufacturer is driving forward at full speed so that heavy-duty fuel-cell trucks can perform flexible and demanding long-distance haul operations with ranges of up to 1,000 kilometers and more on a single tank of hydrogen.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2012

The plan lays out steps to strengthen the key core technology for new energy vehicles, including: Vigorously promoting battery technology and innovation, with a focus on battery power system security, reliability studies and lightweight design. Electric drive system power density of 2.5 kW/kg, at a cost of 200 yuan/kW.

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EV Central

OCTOBER 20, 2022

A new generation of the pioneering mid-sizer has just launched, with 45 per cent larger battery (now 20kWh), a pure electric range of up to 84km (NEDC), all-wheel-drive and seating for up to seven. Ergo, it’ll take you a very long time and lots of kilometres to recoup the cost if you were hoping to save money on fuel.

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