Green Car Congress

JANUARY 20, 2022

They could also back up or temporarily replace grid-sourced electricity for residential and small commercial enterprises at times of power disruption. This MPG variant also contains features not typically found on diesel generators, such as battery backup and output regulation. Retail EV Charging Stations.

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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. V2X technology enables electric vehicle (EV) integration with the continued growth in renewable energy into the electric power grid.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Battery cells are assembled into standardized battery modules in production. Two ABB robots are used in the production process to ensure that high safety and quality requirements are met: one places the battery cells in the module housing and the other joins them by means of a highly precise laser welding process.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2010

US-based lithium-ion battery producer EnerDel is partnering with the real estate arm of Japan’s industrial trading giant, ITOCHU Corporation, to develop and produce the advanced battery systems for a residential smart grid energy storage project to be installed in a major apartment building near Tokyo. Earlier post.).

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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

AUGUST 17, 2020

This standard defines the design and testing requirements to certify that bidirectional, grid tied, “smart” inverters and electric vehicle (EV) chargers can be safely used to support the distributed generation (DG) grid services and applications.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Mitsubishi Corporation (MC), Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC) and Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (MELCO) have agreed to collaborate on a smart grid research project incorporating electric-vehicle-to-X (e.g., MC, MMC and MELCO have worked on Smart Grid systems to utilize these batteries since last March.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

The US Department of Energy is awarding $620 million for projects around the country to demonstrate advanced Smart Grid technologies and integrated systems. The selected projects include advanced battery systems (including flow batteries), flywheels, and compressed air energy systems.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Toyota Motor Corporation and Honda R&D Co., 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. Honda’s Power Exporter 9000 portable external power output device.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

The two companies are collaborating to determine how the Volt’s 16-kWh lithium-ion batteries can be used to provide stationary electric grid storage systems once the batteries have fulfilled their usefulness in customers’ vehicles. Bly announced the partnership Tuesday at the EV Battery Tech conference in Troy, Michigan.

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Volt GM Batteries Battery 240

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2009

US-based lithium-ion battery producer EnerDel will supply the advanced battery systems at the heart of a new project, based in Tsukuba City, Japan, combining electric vehicles (EVs), stationary grid storage, solar power and a rapid charging infrastructure a in a real-world operating environment. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2010

Toshiba Corporation is proposing the development of an electric vehicle charging system—the “Charge Grid”—that features the deployment of its Li-ion battery storage systems (specifically, its SCiB batteries, earlier post ) in various areas. Toshiba said it plans to commercialize the Charge Grid system in a few years.

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Teslarati

APRIL 1, 2021

In an announcement on Wednesday, tech giant Apple revealed that it is building a big battery storage project at a Northern California solar farm. Apple has declined to comment on the matter, and Tesla has not issued a response about reports on the battery storage project. .

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Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2011

and 4R Energy Corporation, a joint venture established by Nissan and Sumitomo Corporation in September 2010 to explore second-life applications for automotive battery packs ( earlier post ), have developed a charging system for electric vehicles that combines a solar power generation system with high-capacity lithium-ion batteries.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2012

Balqon Corporation, a developer of heavy-duty electric vehicles, drive systems and lithium-ion battery storage devices, has installed a one MWh lithium-ion battery storage system at the University of California, Riverside (UCR); the system has gone operational, providing electric power to the Bourns College of Engineering building.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Use of electric vehicles would achieve greater reductions in GHG emissions, corresponding to the rate that the electric grid becomes cleaner, through greater reliance on renewables and low- and non-emitting generation. With a 62% share of light- and medium-duty vehicles in 2050 electric vehicles would consume 13% of grid-supplied electricity.

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EPRI Cleaner Grid Vehicles 150

Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2011

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, has secured the rights to key patent technology from MIT. Patents for all liquid metal battery inventions were licensed from MIT.

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MIT Batteries Battery Energy Storage 210

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2016

An 8.75MW battery storage network which will capture and reuse the energy created by braking subway cars will help Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) reduce operating costs, ensure energy resiliency, and support the stability of the electrical grid. Saft will provide the lithium-ion battery technology.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2016

Silicon Valley-based Sprig Electric is among the first electrical contractors in the nation to pair Tesla’s Powerpack stationary battery system ( earlier post ) with a 350 kW commercial rooftop photovoltaic (PV) system to optimize energy savings. Customers can use the battery’s stored electricity to reduce peak demand.

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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

JULY 21, 2009

The US Department of Energy delivered more than $47 million in funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act for eight projects to further smart grid demonstration projects in seven states. The $47 million in new Recovery Act awards will support existing projects that are advancing demonstration-scale smart grid technologies.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2015

Esstalion Technologies, the joint venture formed in 2014 by Sony Corporation and Hydro-Québec, will soon begin testing the first prototype of a large-capacity energy storage system. MW and can store 1.2 The battery modules are manufactured by Sony and use Hydro-Québec’s lithium iron phosphate technology.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2014

Ambri, developer of Liquid Metal Battery grid-scale energy storage technology, closed a $35-million Series C equity financing. The energy is stored in the liquid metals that want to react with one another but can do so only by transferring ions across the electrolyte, which results in the flow of electric current out of the battery.

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Setec Powerr

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Recently, the Ministry of Transport, the National Energy Administration, the State Grid Corporation of China, and China Southern Power Grid Corporation jointly issued the Action Plan for Accelerating the Construction of Charging Infrastructure along the Highway, establishing three phased construction goals.

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Wallbox

JANUARY 4, 2021

Whilst with unidirectional (one-way) EV chargers, electricity flows from the electric grid into the electric vehicle, with bidirectional (two-way) EV chargers, electricity can flow both ways. They can even control the amount of power supplied to and from the battery. V2G: Vehicle to Grid. But how does this work?

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 11, 2010

Xcel Energy has released the preliminary results from its wind-to-battery (W2B) storage project in Minnesota, and termed the technology successful. In October 2008, Xcel began testing a one-megawatt sodium-sulfur (NaS) battery ( earlier post ) to demonstrate its ability to store wind energy and move it to the electricity grid when needed.

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Energy Storage Sodium Wind Energy 210

Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2019

for misappropriation of Li-ion battery trade secrets, tortious interference with prospective economic advantage and other. Brought jointly by LGCMI, the US-subsidiary, and its parent corporation, the suits were filed concurrently with the United States International. first commercial pouch-type Li-ion battery for automobiles.

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Li-ion Lithium Ion Charging Delaware 220

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Toshiba Corporation will support a two-year study of power management to be done by Tohoku Electric Power Co., Bringing renewable power sources into the electricity grid is accompanied by concerns for the quality and variability of the supply; renewables are subject to fluctuations in output.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 16, 2024

Blue Bird Corporation (Nasdaq: BLBD) got the single largest order of electric school buses to date from the second-largest public school system in the US. Both models use the Cummins PowerDrive 7000 powertrain system with a battery capacity of 196 kW and a range of up to 130 miles on a single charge.

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Los Angeles Solar Electric Electrical 52

Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2012

Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) has developed a vehicle-to_home (V2H) system for the mutual sharing of power between plug-in vehicles—plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHVs) and electric vehicles (EVs)—and homes. Energy management with the V2H system. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.). when running the engine in the Prius PHV as a generator.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2010

Lithium-ion battery maker EnerDel has been selected to provide the heavy-duty battery systems used to power Japan’s first lithium-ion-powered electric bus. EnerDel’s heavy duty battery systems are also being used in 16 fuel cell buses made by coach builder Van Hool and UTC Power, a unit of United Technologies Corporation.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2010

The awards are being made to companies and universities across New York that are involved in advanced research and development of energy storage applications that could benefit transportation, utility Smart Grid applications, renewable energy technologies, and other industries. Ultralife Corporation. Murray, Jr., Cornell University.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2016

A team from Ford’s Research and Innovation Center and LG Chem’s Corporate R&D group has reported the first cradle-to-gate (i.e., the factory gate—before delivery to the consumer) emissions assessment for a mass-produced battery in a commercial battery electric vehicle (BEV)—the lithium-ion battery pack used in the Ford Focus BEV.

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Manufacturer Commercial Ford Batteries 170

Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2010

Itochu Corporation, Mazda, Family Mart, EnerDel and 11 other partners have launched a 3-year project in Tsukuba City, Japan—the “Green Crossover Project”—designed to showcase a real-world integration of the smart grid, stationary lithium-ion grid storage, electric vehicles, rapid recharging and renewable energy technologies.

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Li-ion Japan Green Charging 218

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2013

The bidirectional charging units are capable of providing up to 300 kW of power to plug-in electric vehicles and also can discharge a like amount of stored energy from the vehicle batteries to the grid or microgrid via Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) standard J1772-compliant bidirectional charging cables.

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Driivz

JULY 2, 2023

Electric school buses equipped with vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology also have tremendous potential as “batteries on wheels” that can store electricity and provide it to the grid or to buildings when needed. An indicative survey by the Corporate Electric Vehicle Alliance of its 24 members, who operate more than 1.3

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 9, 2024

These vehicles store the hydrogen in strong, high-pressure tanks, allowing them to achieve ranges comparable to conventional gasoline vehicles on a full tank. This legislative support is matched by a surge in corporate interest, with major fossil fuel companies investing heavily in the potential of a hydrogen-powered future.

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