Battery, Electrical Storage, Grid and Light

ORNL demos 20 kW bi-directional wireless charging on UPS PHEV truck; 11" air gap, >92% efficiency

Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2020

The system transferred electricity from the power grid to the vehicle battery terminals at more than 92% efficiency. At a 20-kilowatt level, it would take about three hours to charge the vehicle’s 60-kilowatt-hour battery packs. ORNL’s bidirectional technology is fully compliant with grid power quality standards.

Charging

Charging PHEV Grid Energy Storage

Volvo Buses in project researching use of second-life electric bus batteries to store solar energy

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Volvo Buses is participating in a research project in which used electric bus batteries are used as solar energy storage units. Batteries from electric bus route 55 in Gothenburg, Sweden are being used for solar energy storage in a second-life application. —Ylva Olofsson, Project Coordinator at Volvo.

Store

Store Volvo Solar Energy

GE and SCE unveil first battery-gas turbine hybrid system

Green Car Congress

APRIL 18, 2017

GE and Southern California Edison (SCE) unveiled the first battery-gas turbine hybrid system in Norwalk, California: the LM6000 Hybrid Electric Gas Turbine (Hybrid EGT). At the heart of the Hybrid EGT is a novel control system which seamlessly blends output between the battery and the gas turbine. The unit integrates a 10 MW, 4.3

Gas

Gas Hybrid Batteries Battery

Solar and Battery Companies Rattle Utility Powerhouses

Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

It's being marketed as the " Tesla Energy Plan ," and is available to any individual household in this region of 24 million people that has a solar panel system, a grid connection—and a Tesla powerwall, the Palo Alto firm's gigafactory-made 13.5 kWh battery wall unit. For bigger national grids it gets more complicated.

Solar

Solar Companies Batteries Battery

Brattle Group: electric power sector investments of $75B – $125B needed to support projected 20M EVs in US by 2030

Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2020

A new study released by economists at The Brattle Group concludes that an investment in the range of $75–125 billion would be needed across the electric power sector supply chain by 2030 to serve 20 million EVs—the target selected for the analysis—including adding 1–2 million public chargers.

Power

Power Powered Grid EPRI

ALTe Powertrain and Inmatech form JV for hybrid electric storage devices; Li-ion cells, supercaps, and control electronics

Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2011

ALTe Powertrain Technologies, the developer of a Range Extended Electric Powertrain used to repower light commercial vehicles up to 26,000 GVW ( earlier post ), has signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) to form a joint venture with Inmatech, Inc. ,

Li-ion

Li-ion Electrical Storage Lithium Ion Hybrid

JRC study finds 8 metals for low-carbon energy technologies at risk of shortages; EVs, wind and solar, and lighting the applications of most concern

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

The applications, i.e. technologies, of particular concern as a result are electric vehicles, wind and solar energy, and lighting. The researchers investigated the sensitivity to these sources of uncertainty in depth for hybrid and electric vehicles and lighting. Increasing primary supply. Substitution.

Wind

Wind Light Solar Carbon

Study Finds PHEV Li-ion Cells Show Little Capacity Fade Under Combined Driving and V2G Usage; Economic Model Suggests Incentives Will Be Required for Vehicle Owners to Participate in V2G

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2009

A new draft working paper published by the Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry Center concluded that a PHEV pack comprising lithium iron phosphate cells would incur little capacity loss from combining vehicle-to-grid (V2G) activities with regular driving. The battery pack energy capacity was assumed to be 16 kWh.

PHEV

PHEV Li-ion Grid Lithium Ion

Study Finds PHEV Li-ion Iron Phosphate Cells Show Little Capacity Fade Under Combined Driving and V2G Usage; Economic Model Suggests Incentives Will Be Required for Vehicle Owners to Participate in V2G

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry Center have concluded that a PHEV pack comprising lithium iron phosphate cells would incur little capacity loss from combining vehicle-to-grid (V2G) activities with regular driving. The battery pack energy capacity was assumed to be 16 kWh.

PHEV

PHEV Li-ion Grid Lithium Ion

UC Davis researchers suggest we may be at the beginning of a real hydrogen transition in transportation

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 15, 2014

If these regional rollouts succeed, hydrogen FCVs might be just a few years behind plug-in vehicles in the commercialization process and might ultimately capture a larger share of the light-duty vehicle market. —“The Hydrogen Transition”. Driving factors. Transition issues.

Davis

Davis Hydrogen Transportation North America

Clearing the roadblocks to electrification of heavy-duty trucks

Charged EVs

AUGUST 2, 2023

Charged : You recently wrote, “Commercial vehicle battery packs are tough to source.” Is the supply of battery packs going to be a bottleneck? Rustam Kocher: I think it’s going to be an issue for any company that has a large battery pack. It’s easier to sell to the light-duty market. It’s less time and effort.

Fleet

Fleet Portland Charging Building

Mad Power thoughts

EV Info

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Yet whenever we troublemakers raised this issue, we were told not to worry – it would resolve itself, they said, either because wind is usually blowing somewhere, or through the development of electricity storage in giant battery farms. The cost of grid management has soared to nearly £2billion a year in the last two decades.

Power

Power Powered Wind Coal

Liquid Air Energy Network forms in UK; focus on transportation and energy storage

Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2013

The main potential applications are in electricity storage, transport and the recovery of waste heat. Liquid air offers significant potential benefits as a future energy vector, both for use in light duty propulsion and as an enabler for other promising low carbon powertrain innovations, particularly waste heat harvesting.

Energy Storage

Energy Storage Transportation Energy Waste

EV Driven

ORNL demos 20 kW bi-directional wireless charging on UPS PHEV truck; 11" air gap, >92% efficiency

Volvo Buses in project researching use of second-life electric bus batteries to store solar energy

GE and SCE unveil first battery-gas turbine hybrid system

Solar and Battery Companies Rattle Utility Powerhouses

Brattle Group: electric power sector investments of $75B – $125B needed to support projected 20M EVs in US by 2030

ALTe Powertrain and Inmatech form JV for hybrid electric storage devices; Li-ion cells, supercaps, and control electronics

JRC study finds 8 metals for low-carbon energy technologies at risk of shortages; EVs, wind and solar, and lighting the applications of most concern

Study Finds PHEV Li-ion Cells Show Little Capacity Fade Under Combined Driving and V2G Usage; Economic Model Suggests Incentives Will Be Required for Vehicle Owners to Participate in V2G

Study Finds PHEV Li-ion Iron Phosphate Cells Show Little Capacity Fade Under Combined Driving and V2G Usage; Economic Model Suggests Incentives Will Be Required for Vehicle Owners to Participate in V2G

UC Davis researchers suggest we may be at the beginning of a real hydrogen transition in transportation

Clearing the roadblocks to electrification of heavy-duty trucks

Mad Power thoughts

Liquid Air Energy Network forms in UK; focus on transportation and energy storage

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