Charged EVs

APRIL 1, 2024

The economic benefits of recycling Li-ion batteries are clear, but at present, only a small percentage of them are recycled. In contrast, lead-acid batteries have a 99% recycling rate in the US. The two main processes for recycling lithium-ion batteries are pyrometallurgy and hydrometallurgy.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2023

In June, CPKC and CSX Corporation announced their intent to enter into a joint venture for the building and deployment of hydrogen locomotive conversion kits for diesel electric locomotives. As an initial step in the collaboration, CSX plans to convert one of its diesel locomotives using a hydrogen conversion kit developed by CPKC.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

The Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC) UK, with experts and stakeholders from industry, academia and funding and support bodies, has published an updated power electronics value chain which shows an end-to-end supply chain view of materials and components required for volume manufacturing of automotive inverters, converters, and onboard chargers.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 22, 2024

-based Bedeo is launching a Land Rover Defender EV conversion based around in-wheel motors from Bedeo-owned Protean Electric. The Defender is the first in a series of “Reborn Electric: Icons” conversions, according to a Bedeo press release. The company didn’t reveal the curb weight of this example.

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EV Central

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Australian manufacturer Roev plans to do just that from 2023 by converting Toyota Hiluxes and Ford Rangers to electric, with conversions priced from $47,990. That makes the locally-converted utes cheaper than the LDV eT60 that has just gone on sale priced from $92,990 drive-away. 2023 Roev electric Toyota HiLux.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2022

The cobalt, manganese and nickel found in battery cathodes are expensive to mine; scientists have for years sought a way to create new batteries from spent ones. When a car battery reaches the end of its service life, it is collected, dismantled and shredded. Building a battery is like building a tower out of Legos.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2023

Operating throughout the city and surrounding areas of Newport, South Wales, the transport operator currently has 49 electric buses and coaches in fleet, further building on this with an Equipmake partnership which will electrify ICE buses for use on school and city routes.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

UPS and the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) announced that new technology will be developed to convert UPS package delivery vehicles from diesel to electric. UPS and Unique Electric Solutions LLC (UES LLC) will design, build, test and make the conversions. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2022

As a result, Volkswagen is creating the conditions in 2022 for building 1.2 Volkswagen has invested around €1 million in converting the Emden plant with its 8,000 employees. The Salzgitter location is being expanded further into a European battery hub. Chattanooga (ID.4) 4) and Hanover will also commence production this year.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2019

By focusing on energy-related advanced manufacturing technologies, we are building a new era of manufacturing that will stimulate the economy, create jobs and build American energy independence. —US Secretary of Energy Rick Perry.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2023

The conversion of coal to higher value materials, such as graphene, graphite or carbon nanotubes, is of high interest, and a number of researchers have proposed processes. At its core, the research is focused on harnessing carbon, the key building block for synthetic graphite and many other products.

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Electric Vehicless

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

If you want to convert your bicycle into an electric bike than you are on the right track. It is easy to convert your bicycle into an electric bike, but if you consider some technical things during selection of an electric bike kit than it will ease your journey to convert the bicycle into an electric bike & running it.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 1, 2024

The economic benefits of recycling Li-ion batteries are clear, but at present, only a small percentage of them are recycled. In contrast, lead-acid batteries have a 99% recycling rate in the US. The two main processes for recycling lithium-ion batteries are pyrometallurgy and hydrometallurgy.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2016

Researchers from George Washington University and Vanderbilt University have demonstrated the conversion of atmospheric CO 2 into carbon nanofibers (CNFs) and carbon nanotubes (CNTs) for use as high-performance anodes in both lithium-ion and sodium-ion batteries. Earlier post.) —Stuart Licht. —Licht et al.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2021

Housed within a vehicle’s catalytic converter, the Eco-lytic catalyst support fiber is designed to replace the existing catalytic converter or add to existing systems in order to enhance emission reduction, consume fewer precious metals and raw materials, and drive lower energy usage through vehicle weight reduction.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

At Zwickau, Volkswagen is converting an entire vehicle plant from 100% internal combustion engines to 100% electric vehicles for the first time. Our conversion work is proceeding entirely to schedule. Twelve entirely new buildings or parts of buildings are currently under construction at the plant site. With the ID.3,

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2020

The company recently took over the entire building on the campus located at Southwest 14 th Street and Taft Avenue, expanding its square footage from 45,000 to 142,000. Bringing these conversion lines in-house significantly reduces costs and provides greater quality control. —Tim Reeser, CEO, Lightning Systems.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The grant enables CP to increase the number of hydrogen locomotive conversions in the project from one to three and add hydrogen production and fueling facilities. It builds on the $15 million CP already planned to invest in the development project in 2021.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Simply put, Germany took a perfectly working battery-electric vehicle, modified it with a synthetic methanol engine, and dubbed it as a work of true innovation. Karliczek, for his part, noted in a press release that such a project is incredibly important since “green hydrogen” is a valuable building block for climate protection.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2010

Canada-based Rapid Electric Vehicles (REV) has begun production of four converted electric bi-directional charging Ancillary Power Vehicles (APVs) ( earlier post ) as part of the US Army Tank Automotive Research Development Engineering Center (TARDEC) Micro-Grid project at Wheeler Air Base, Hawaii.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The new plant builds on the experience and knowledge gained from its predecessors, which processed ~400 m 3 of lithium rich brine over the lifespans. Recently, the company converted mineral exploration permits into 21-year mineral leases—the first for lithium brines in Saskatchewan.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2020

Together with Lightning eMotors, formerly known as Lightning Systems, the partners have created a five-step process for identifying, assessing and converting a wide range of “donor” diesel coach models that fit the criteria for fast-track battery electric conversion.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 14, 2022

Solar batteries work as a short-term solution, but not when it comes to long-term storage or to power, say, an entire city. Hyperlight Energy The company is building a demonstration plant at its alpha site with the oil company Hathaway at Bakersfield, Calif., One of the main impediments to harnessing solar energy is storage.

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Electric Vehicless

SEPTEMBER 6, 2020

If you want to convert your bicycle into an electric bike than you are on the right track. It is easy to convert your bicycle into an electric bike, but if you consider some technical things during selection of an electric bike kit than it will ease your journey to convert the bicycle into an electric bike & running it.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2023

Most EVs use alternating current (AC) induction or permanent magnet motors, which are powered by onboard battery packs. An inverter takes the direct current (DC) voltage input from the batteries and converts it to the AC power required to operate the vehicle’s motor.

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DC Long Beach Conversion Engine 284

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Every car by Lunaz goes through a full bare metal restoration and re-engineering process ahead of conversion to the company’s proprietary electric powertrain. Every car by Lunaz represents an individual customer build. The restoration and conversion process represents re-engineering from the ground up.

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Tax Range Price Production 286

Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2023

The proposed development will include a quarry, a beneficiation plant and a conversion unit co-located on Imerys’ brownfield site to produce high-purity lithium. The project will also build upon British Lithium’s entrepreneurial spirit and committed team. British Lithium pilot plant. Li with a Li recovery of more than 90%.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 31, 2022

Li-Cycle will operate its sixth and largest lithium-ion battery recycling Spoke facility co-located at the Ultium Cells battery cell manufacturing mega-factory site in Warren, Ohio. The new Spoke facility will support Li-Cycle’s previously announced multi-year agreement to process the battery manufacturing scrap from that mega-factory.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 4, 2019

The agency will field test the use of electric buses in Baton Rouge and study how these battery electric buses could be used on routes in Louisiana’s capital. In 2016, the AVTA board set a goal of becoming the nation’s first all-electric fleet and vowed to convert all of its aging diesel buses. AVTA was one of BYD’s first customers.

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BYD Miles Emissions North America 320

Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2023

The key parts of the company’s strategy include introducing a next-generation modular architecture for EVs, strengthening EV production capacity, battery development capabilities and future businesses. The company is also exploring different form factors of batteries to enhance versatility. New EV platform.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2022

The selected projects cover a wide range of sectors contributing to the EU's decarbonization efforts such as production, distribution and use of green hydrogen, waste-to-hydrogen, offshore wind, manufacturing of photovoltaic (PV) modules, battery storage and recycling, carbon capture and storage, sustainable aviation fuels, and advanced biofuels.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2022

The gaseous hydrogen will be converted to liquid hydrogen using Air Products’ proprietary technology. The combination of our reliable engineering and best-in-class technology with Air Products’ speed, strategic investment and build-own-operate model, will be the differentiator on this new hydrogen market—which we create now.

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Arizona Hydrogen Production United States 195

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

51-year-old Energy Conversion Devices, Inc. On 13 February ECD sold its majority owned subsidiary, Ovonic Battery Company, Inc. OBC is the inventor and worldwide licensor of NiMH rechargeable battery technology and is pursuing advanced battery technologies, including cathode materials for lithium-ion chemistry batteries.

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Baua Electric

MAY 7, 2024

Photo: Sonnenkraft Austrian solar manufacturer Sonnenkraft has debuted its new “Terracotta” solar panel that matches red-tiled roofs and is historic-building compliant. The 400W double-glass solar panels have red frames, and have general building approval from the German Institute for Building Technology (DIBt).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

The conversion of REE ore to individual REE products is done in two main stages. The second is the more complex separation stage that converts the mixed REE Carbonate to commercial pure-grade REEs. A private sector landlord is handling the construction of the building in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, which will be leased to SRC.

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The Truth About Cars

MAY 9, 2023

Far from a backyard Sawzall job, this conversion involves a semi-electric soft top, roll cage which conforms to FIA standards, snazzy new wheels, different upholstery (water resistant, perhaps), and the expected scattershot blast of badges and emblems. Depending on spec, it can take upwards of 3 months to create one of these machines.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2022

Time constraints and the need to consider sustainability aspects that are playing an ever more critical role in motor racing, as well as the automobile industry in general, meant that returning to the drawing board to design a completely new engine and building it at great cost was not an option. BMW M Hybrid V8 engine. —Ulrich Schulz.

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