Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Rechargeable magnesium and calcium metal batteries (RMBs and RCBs) are promising alternatives to lithium-ion batteries because of the high crustal abundance and capacity of magnesium and calcium. This work provides a versatile electrolyte design strategy for divalent metal batteries. —Hou et al.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2020

Sion Power, a developer of high-energy, lithium-metal rechargeable batteries, said that its Licerion EV technology will have energy capacities of 420 Wh/kg and 700 Wh/L when scaled to commercial design. Though battery experts know fast charging is not ideal for battery longevity, the market demands this as an option.

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JANUARY 14, 2021

Octillion Power Systems, a global provider of advanced lithium-ion batteries, is providing battery packs for all-electric motorcoaches and city transit buses offered by ABC Companies and Lightning eMotors. The order marks the company’s first time supplying batteries for motorcoaches and buses in North America.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2021

Lithium-metal rechargeable battery developer Sion Power will introduce its Licerion rechargeable battery for electric vehicles at The Battery Show North America in Novi, Michigan in September. Sion Power says that it has successfully overcome the issues that dogged historical lithium metal chemistries—e.g.,

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2021

Proterra , a leading innovator in commercial vehicle electrification technology, and Lightning eMotors announced a new collaboration to power the Generation 4 Lightning Electric Transit commercial van using Proterra’s battery technology. —Tim Reeser, CEO of Lightning eMotors.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2021

has entered into an agreement with Sion Power Corporation ( earlier post ), a leading developer of high-energy rechargeable battery technology, to design and to supply battery cells based on their proprietary lithium-metal technology for commercial vehicle applications. Cummins Inc.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2021

Crowley Engineering Services has completed the design of the first fully electric US tugboat with autonomous technology. The 82-foot tug will provide 70 short tons of bollard pull, featuring an Azimuthing drive propulsion system with two 1,800 kW motors and a 6 MWh battery.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2023

A research team in China has developed an innovative self-powered system comprising an electrochemical Li-ion battery (LIB) recycling reactor and a triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) for recycling spent LFP batteries. W for powering the electrochemical recycling system and charging batteries. Zhang et al.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Kindred Motorworks, the San Francisco Bay Area producer of modernized vintage vehicles, has partnered with Idaho-based KORE Power, a developer of battery cell technology, to supply battery modules for the electrified models in the Kindred lineup. Kindred Motorworks selected KORE Power’s VDA 355 format battery modules.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Rolls-Royce has been awarded a contract to supply and install a large-scale mtu EnergyPack QG battery storage system on a turnkey basis to the Dutch energy company Semper Power in Vlissingen. Rolls-Royce has recently started supplying mtu EnergyPack QG large-scale storage solutions to go with its battery container solutions.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2022

The Mercedes-Benz battery-electric eActros has now been approved as a truck-and-trailer combination with a total weight of 40 tons. We are looking forward to intensive tests with the battery electric truck-and-trailer combination in the northern Black Forest. With four battery packs, the eActros 400 has a range of up to 400 kilometers.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2023

Nyobolt, the developer of ultra-fast charging niobium-based battery technology ( earlier post ) has partnered with UK designer Callum to showcase its advanced battery technology in an Elise-inspired electric sports car that can charge in six minutes.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Researchers at MIT and their colleagues are proposing a new design for electrodes that, based on the long-sought goal of using pure lithium metal as the anode, could lead to longer-lived batteries with higher energy densities. The metal then shrinks again during discharge, as the battery is used. —Ju Li.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2023

Motiv Power Systems announced the new Argo Series electric truck featuring a medium-duty EV cab designed from the ground up, with customer-driven miles and fleet owner feedback built in. The weight savings of composites means more payload, offsetting incremental battery weight.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2023

Microvast Holdings, a designer, developer, and manufacturer of lithium-ion battery solutions, and REE Automotive signed a supply and purchase agreement through which Microvast, through its wholly-owned subsidiary Microvast Gmbh, will offer MV-C Gen 4 HpCO high-energy lithium-ion battery packs for “Powered by REE” EV platforms.

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AUGUST 25, 2023

Technology group Wärtsilä will power the biggest battery electric ship yet built with its battery-electric propulsion system and waterjets. The uniquely designed vessel will be fully battery powered, with e-motor driven Wärtsilä waterjets as the main propulsors.

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JULY 16, 2023

The company says it has leveraged it advanced commercial battery and integration expertise to deliver to the Department of Defense partners a technologically advanced battery pack that can be scaled for use on operational military platforms and will set the stage for standardization of energy dense lithium batteries for the US Navy.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Solid Power, a developer of all-solid-state battery and sulfide-based electrolyte technology, has deepened its partnership with the BMW Group. Under an expanded Joint Development Agreement, Solid Power has granted the BMW Group a research and development license to Solid Power’s all-solid-state cell design and manufacturing know-how.

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OCTOBER 17, 2022

Thomas Built Buses (TBB), a leading manufacturer of school buses in North America and subsidiary of Daimler Truck North America (DTNA), announced the delivery of TBB’s 200 th Proterra Powered Saf-T-Liner C2 Jouley battery-electric school bus to Monroe County Public Schools in Indiana.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

A research team led by a group from Peking University has designed a new 3D carbon monolith, Hex-C 57 , using 5–7 nanoribbons as the building block, for use asan anode material for sodium-ion batteries.A paper on their work appears in the Journal of Power Sources. —Sun et al. mAhg −1 ) and volumetric capacity (314.61

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2021

In advance of next week’s Advanced Clean Transportation (ACT) Expo, Octillion Power Systems announced that bus operators have driven 20 million kilometers powered by its lithium-ion batteries. Battery manufacturing facilities operated by Octillion are in the United States, China, and India. Octillion’s 660-volt/88.9-kWh

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2023

Under an expanded Joint Development Agreement, BMW Group and Solid Power have added a research and development license as a basis for their common next steps. This license enables BMW to establish an all solid-state battery (ASSB) prototype line in its Cell Manufacturing Competence Center (CMCC) in Parsdorf near Munich.

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Electrek

APRIL 23, 2024

A new startup is partnering with Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) on a new portable battery energy storage system designed to power your job site with used Range Rover and Range Rover Sport PHEV batteries.

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OCTOBER 14, 2021

UK-based AMTE Power has secured a project from the Government’s Faraday Battery Challenge, worth £1 million, to develop a higher energy density variant of its Ultra High-Power (UHP) lithium-ion cell, with support from Imperial College London for battery modeling. Earlier post.).

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NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Atieva, the Silicon Valley-based technology wing of Lucid Motors, announced that the spec battery pack of its own design will power the entire 24-car Formula E field for the upcoming 2019/20 race season in association with its partners. Prior to this, the race cars were battery-limited to a half-race distance.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2021

CMAL) to partner in designing a hydrogen fuel-cell sea-going passenger and car ferry—a first for Europe. Lithium-ion batteries. Battery firefighting systems. The ferry will be designed around the requirements of Shapinsay in Orkney where hydrogen fuel is generated through wind power. Source: HYSEAS III.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Ulstein has introduced its second hydrogen hybrid vessel design for the offshore industry. Most new jack-up designs feature a battery hybrid system in addition to diesel gen sets, with a future option for hydrogen-powered fuel cell systems, Ulstein said. Battery energy storage. H 2 fuel cell system: PEM fuel cell.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2022

STMicroelectronics has released high-power modules for electric vehicles that boost performance and driving range. ST’s new silicon-carbide (SiC) power modules have been selected for Hyundai’s E-GMP electric-vehicle platform shared by KIA EV6 and several models. ACEPACK DRIVE SiC-based power module.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2021

Safety features include two wing-mounted electric motors, each with dual redundant motor windings, quad-redundant battery packs and a full airplane parachute. Building upon our successful cooperation on eFlyer 2 and eFlyer 4, we are very proud to bring our best expertise to support Bye Aerospace in the design of the new eFlyer 800.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2023

Technology and engineering services company WAE Technologies (WAE) launched Elysia, its mass-market Battery Intelligence software offering designed to unlock significant improvements in the life, safety, usable energy, power, and rapid charging times of any battery system.

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AUGUST 20, 2023

Moller-Maersk, has launched the second phase of its project to design the world’s first methanol hybrid fuel cell (MHFC) tug. to design the first methanol hybrid fuel cell (MHFC) tug. Secondary methanol-fueled generators will provide backup power if required without the need for a secondary fuel.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

XALT Energy is powering the US’ first, long-distance, all-electric passenger coach in tests with private and public transportation providers in the United States. NFI), to supply ultra-high energy lithium-ion battery packs for its zero-emission, MCI D45 CRTe LE CHARGE long-distance motor coach.

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AUGUST 6, 2020

Octillion Power Systems, a global provider of advanced lithium-ion storage systems for electric mobility ( earlier post ), announced a new demonstrator program for battery-leasing that allows batteries to be leased to fleet customers when they purchase vehicles. —Paul Beach, president, Octillion Power Systems.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

The Spallation Neutron Source ( earlier post ) at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory set a world record when its linear accelerator reached an operating power of 1.55 megawatts, which improves on the facility’s original design capability. The data will also be useful for novel catalyst designs. The SNS’ 1.55-megawatt

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AUGUST 20, 2021

Octillion Power Systems, a global provider of advanced lithium-ion batteries, has moved to a new US headquarters in Richmond, California. Octillion also has relocated a battery manufacturing line from its previous facility in Hayward, California, where the company has operated since its founding in 2009. Earlier post.)

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JUNE 2, 2023

China-based EV startup U Power Limited entered into a framework strategic cooperation agreement with Quantum Solutions Co., China-based EV startup U Power Limited entered into a framework strategic cooperation agreement with Quantum Solutions Co.,

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OCTOBER 27, 2022

The company’s batteries are suited for high performance automotive and aviation applications, where the combination of these features can drive the electrification of transportation. The long-term success of the eVTOL regional air mobility revolution depends on the continued development of high-performance batteries. Earlier post.).

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