Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2022

The Scandlines zero-emission ferry project, announced in November 2021 and which will result in the world’s largest electric-powered hybrid ferry, will run on an advanced 10 MWh lithium-ion battery energy storage system (BESS) from Leclanché. Delivery will begin in January 2023.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2017

Siemens AG and The AES Corporation are forming a new global energy storage technology and services company under the name Fluence. The joint venture will bring together AES’ experience deploying energy storage in seven countries with Siemens’ energy technology leadership and its global sales presence in more than 160 countries.

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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.

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

emissions by 385 tons - the equivalent emissions of 7,000 gasoline-powered passenger vehicles. The locomotives are expected to reduce airborne particulate matter (PM2.5)

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2021

A consortium comprising Solaris Bus & Coach, Impact Clean Power Technology S.A. and TAURON Polska Energia will implement a project titled “Second Life ESS” with the aim to create a prototype system to store electric energy based on retired electric bus batteries. PKM Jaworzno is one of Poland’s leaders in e-mobility.

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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 Leading the industry, Nissan has also received certification for second-life LEAF batteries to be used in stationary energy storage.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2016

Described in a paper published in the RSC journal Energy & Environmental Science , the smart membrane separator could enable the design of a new category of rechargeable/refillable energy storage devices with high energy density and specific power that would overcome the contemporary limitations of electric vehicles.

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Get Electric Vehicle

JANUARY 7, 2022

At the EICMA event, a fully electric motorcycle showing a revolutionary power train technology concept that makes use of ultracapacitors will be unveiled to the public. The technology can be used in a real-world electric vehicle (EV) powertrain by combining them with traditional lithium-ion cells to form a hybrid battery system.

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 5, 2022

Electrifying Air and Sea Vehicles Could Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Lower Noise, and Expand Mobility Options for Rural Communities Some have called 2023 the “year of the electric vehicle (EV),” noting the dozens of new battery-powered models set to come available in the United States across all vehicle classes.

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Clean Fleet Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Questions & Answers from our Friends at EarthTalk® Are solid-state electric vehicle (EV) batteries a solution to some of the issues with the lithium-ion batteries powering our EVs today? This cuts the risk of fires, and allows for more storage. These have prompted researchers to explore alternatives.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2013

A plot of ESOI for 7 potential grid-scale energy storage technologies. Benson from Stanford University and Stanford’s Global Climate and Energy Project (GCEP) has quantified the energetic costs of 7 different grid-scale energy storage technologies over time. Credit: Barnhart and Benson, 2013. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2015

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 162 projects to receive about $26.6 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. Ballast Energy, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2014

The study, which provides a joint industry analysis of how different types of batteries are used in different automotive applications, concludes that lead-based batteries will by necessity remain the most wide-spread energy storage system in automotive applications for the foreseeable future.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2012

The project will be the first of its kind to demonstrate a highly efficient and cost effective electric energy storage system specifically designed and optimized for grid-tied PV applications. The project team will develop, test and demonstrate the proposed technology at SMUD’s corporate headquarters in Sacramento, California.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2014

Saft has received an order from Stockholm ferry operator Ballerina for lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery systems that will power a new electric ferry boat for the city of Stockholm. To deliver the required duty, Saft is supplying its marine battery systems with a total energy storage capacity of 500 kWh, at 650 V.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2018

Rolls-Royce is launching a lithium-ion based energy storage system for ships. Rolls-Royce has been delivering energy storage systems since 2010, however the actual energy storage units were previously supplied by an external party. Illustration of a ship system setup with batteries.

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Teslarati

MARCH 12, 2024

The upcoming battery cell manufacturing plant will be built under the jointly established Beijing Era New Energy Technology Co., The joint venture company will cover the development, production, and selling of lithium-ion batteries, power batteries, and energy storage batteries.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2019

Audi has opened Germany’s largest multi-use battery energy storage unit on the EUREF Campus in Berlin. acre EUREF campus serves as a site for pilot projects for the transition to sustainable energy and networked mobility. The Audi storage unit has a capacity of 1.9 The Audi storage unit has a capacity of 1.9

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2022

Widely ignored, although gaining attention, is China’s strategic positioning as a crucial gatekeeper to several key “green” technologies, including battery energy storage to support electric vehicles (EVs)—specifically, battery electric vehicles (BEVs)—along with stationary storage for power grids.

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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. —Morris et al.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Of the eleven competing energy storage technologies analyzed in a recent report from Pike Research, the cleantech industry analyst firm forecasts that Li-ion batteries will be the fastest growing category for the Stationary Utility Energy Storage (SUES) sector, growing to a $1.1 Source: Pike, ORNL.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Start-up ION Energy , a company building high-performance energy storage systems and electric vehicle infrastructure, has acquired the French battery management company, Freemens SAS. As part of the cash-plus-equity transaction, the entire Freemens engineering and sales team willÚ join the core team of ION.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2011

In its new report Energy Storage on the Grid (ESG), Pike Research forecasts that global spending in the ESG market will reach a little over $22 billion over the next 10 years. Energy storage on the grid is reaching a turning point. Installed revenue by ESG technology, worldwide. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

The unique feature of the M5BAT (Modular Multimegawatt, Multitechnology Medium-Voltage Battery Storage System) storage system lies in its modular design, which combines different battery technologies for optimal use. Beta-motion GmbH’s high-output lithium-ion batteries will be used for efficient load management.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2013

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) will award approximately $36 million to 22 projects to develop transformational electric vehicle (EV) energy storage systems using innovative chemistries, architectures and designs. Advanced Aqueous Lithium-Ion Batteries.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2013

MIT researchers have engineered a new rechargeable, membrane-less hydrogen bromine laminar flow battery with high power density. The membrane-less design enables power densities of 0.795?W?cm 2 at room temperature and atmospheric pressure, with a round-trip voltage efficiency of 92% at 25% of peak power.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2014

The FOA will give equal consideration to all proposals submitted, including submissions that address the following Areas of Interest: Energy Storage R&D. VTO is seeking projects that address the major challenges to developing and commercializing batteries for plug?in energy batteries. energy lithium?ion

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2019

A new solution by Nordic clean energy company Fortum makes more than 80% of an electric vehicle (EV) battery recyclable, returns the scarce metals back into circulation and resolves the sustainability gap by reducing the need to mine cobalt, nickel, and other scarce metals. —Kalle Saarimaa.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2010

The NZN concept relies on high energy density storage systems incorporated into the local grid, as well as efficient photovoltaic generation. If we are going to create some of the batteries, you better be ready to crank out some cycles.” You generate energy locally using renewables. You commoditize energy.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

It occurred in the wake of the California electricity crisis of 2000 and 2001, when mismanaged deregulation, market manipulation, and environmental catastrophe combined to unhinge the power grid. If too much or too little electricity is present in the power grid, the network can suddenly become unbalanced.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 5, 2023

In a series of new reports, researchers at Argonne have tracked and analyzed new investments in electric vehicle production

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Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2014

Source: Power Japan Plus. Start-up Power Japan Plus announced plans to commercialize a dual-carbon battery technology, which it calls the Ryden dual carbon battery. During discharge, both anions and lithium ions are released back into the electrolyte. Source: Power Japan Plus. Click to enlarge.

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Electra Vehicles

JUNE 7, 2023

With the rise in production of lithium-ion batteries, , projected to soar over the next decade from about 700 GWh in 2022 to around 4.7 TWh by 2030, batteries are poised to play an even larger part of our lives. But what will happen when these batteries reach the end of their usable life?

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2011

Yi Cui has developed nanoparticle copper hexacyanoferrate (CuHCF) battery cathode materials that demonstrate long cycle life and high power for use in grid storage applications. Stationary energy storage systems that can operate for many cycles, at high power, with high round-trip energy efficiency, and at low cost are required.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 16, 2024

At the heart of this collaboration lies noco-noco’s X-SEPA separator technology capable of extending the life of the conventional lithium-ion batteries fivefold, when used with a proprietary electrolyte, Greenfuel said in a release. GW from Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) with storage of 208.25

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2020

This new benchmark for speed of charging is possible through an ultra-high 900V+ electrical architecture, custom lithium-ion battery cells, a robust battery and thermal management system, and the Lucid Air’s powertrain efficiency. Ultra-high voltage 900V+ electrical architecture. ESS in the future.

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Cars That Think

JULY 15, 2021

Thirty-two years later, our laptops are powered by much, much lighter lithium-ion or lithium-polymer batteries. My lap is relieved, but the battery life is the same—it's still about 10 hours, as it was with the Macintosh Portable. We're living in battery-powered times.

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