Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2014

The Electric Power Research Institute, 8 automakers and 15 utilities are working to develop and to demonstrate an open platform that would integrate plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) with smart grid technologies enabling utilities to support PEV charging regardless of location. Automakers and V2G. Earlier post.) Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2021

The BMW Group and Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) announced an expanded partnership that further leverages renewable energy to sustainably power electric vehicles (EVs). The goal of the phase-three pilot is to continue to make smart charging more beneficial to the grid and more rewarding for BMW EV drivers.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2023

Major ridesourcing companies Uber and Lyft have promised all-electric fleets by 2030 in an effort to reduce their carbon footprint. Lead author Aniruddh Mohan and colleagues wanted to develop a method that evaluated the life-cycle costs and benefits for two battery-powered ridesource fleets and a gasoline-powered one. 2c07030

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2021

Clean Energy Ventures , a $110-million venture capital firm investing in early-stage climate tech startups, is leading the investments in two battery startups: one in the upstream ( N th Cycle ) and one in the downstream ( Volexion ). million in funding from investors led by climate tech venture capital firm Clean Energy Ventures.

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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

AUGUST 9, 2017

The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) announced a trial for a new type of electrolyzer which could see excess renewable energy stored in the gas grid and used to decarbonize Australia’s gas supply. Storing renewable energy directly in the gas network was a logical first route to market for the invention.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

There have been vigorous debates pro and con in the United States and elsewhere over whether electric grids can support EVs at scale. Palo Alto’s government has set a very aggressive Sustainability and Climate Action Plan with a goal of reducing its greenhouse gas emissions to 80 percent below the 1990 level by the year 2030.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2010

The introduction of electric vehicles on a large scale in the UK can only have a beneficial effect on CO 2 emissions if low-carbon electricity, universal broadband provision and smart grids are in place to support the transition, according to a new report published by the UK Royal Academy of Engineering.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2020

Funded through the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), projects will conduct research in advanced batteries, electrification, and manufacturing in support of DOE’s Energy Storage Grand Challenge. Area of Interest (AOI) 01a: Lithium Ion Batteries using Silicon-based Anodes-Research.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2019

Improvements to a class of battery electrolyte first introduced in 2017—liquefied gas electrolytes—could pave the way to replacing the graphite anode with a lithium-metal anode. Meng and colleagues’ approach was to switch to a more compatible electrolyte, called liquefied gas electrolytes. —Yang et al.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2018

Researchers at WMG at the University of Warwick (UK) have developed a method to assess the maximum current for commercial 18650 Li-ion batteries, using novel instrumentation methods enabling in operando measurements. times higher than the manufacturer-stated maximum. Amietszajew et al. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

the developer of a novel liquefied gas electrolyte. The new 12,500 square feet facility allows for team expansion and for the construction of a small pilot production line where South 8 plans to fill lithium-ion batteries with its LiGas electrolyte. South 8 Technologies, Inc., and Chief Technology Officer Jungwoo Lee, Ph.D.,

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2019

According to a new study published by the ifo Institue Center for Economic Studies (CESifo) in Germany, EVs will barely help cut CO 2 emissions in the country over the coming years, as the introduction of electric vehicles does not necessarily lead to a reduction in CO 2 emissions from road traffic given the current power generation mix.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2022

There are now more than 29,000 electric vehicles registered in New York City and Westchester, including 1,262 added in February, the most recent month for which data are available, according to Con Edison, the electricity, gas and steam utility for New York CIty and Westchester County, NY. SmartCharge Registrations on the Rise.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2021

In 2019, Amazon announced plans to obtain 100,000 electric delivery vehicles. UPS has ordered 10,000 of them and FedEx plans to be fully electric by 2040. A key point of the study is that both the emissions directly tied to charging the vehicles and emissions that result from manufacturing the batteries must be considered.

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Charging Vehicles Gas-Electric Emissions 186

Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2016

BMW i announced a home stationary energy storage system solution integrating its BMW i3 vehicle battery at EVS 29 in Montréal. The system utilizes BMW i3 high-voltage batteries and can be expanded to incorporate second-life batteries as they become available in the market.

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Baua Electric

MAY 21, 2024

In a major clean energy benchmark, wind, solar, and hydro exceeded 100% of demand on California’s main grid for 69 of the past 75 days. May 21 update: Stanford University professor of civil and environmental engineering Mark Z. h/day Excess demand goes mostly to batteries & exports pic.twitter.com/WueWQvKCtc — Mark Z.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Under current policies, home energy storage systems would also often increase carbon emissions, according to a study by a team of researchers at the University of California San Diego published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology. The study modeled deployment across a wide range of regions, utilities and battery operation modes.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2013

. $750,000 to research value-based design options for the standardization of plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) batteries. The project survey will include identifying barriers to standardizing, researching methods to implement battery system standards, and recommending potential paths to the commercial adoption of battery standards.

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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

MARCH 8, 2018

Researchers at Australia’s RMIT University have demonstrated for the first time a working rechargeable “proton battery”. The rechargeable battery is environmentally friendly, and has the potential, with further development, to store more energy than currently-available lithium ion batteries. Earlier post.) Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The selected startups are focused on decarbonizing industrial processes through innovative energy storage and heating technologies, as well as optimizing electric vehicle charging through hardware and software solutions. —Yesim Jonsson, Shell’s GCxN program manager.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2014

RMIT University (Australia) researchers have developed a concept battery based on storing protons produced by splitting water—a reversible fuel cell with integrated solid proton storage electrode. As only an inflow of water is needed in the charge mode, and air in discharge mode, the system is called a “proton flow battery”.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2011

The California Energy Commission has awarded $1,585,490 to spur research on projects including a solid-state Li-ion battery system for grid-scale energy storage. to develop and test a 25 kWh prototype battery system based on nanostructured polymer electrolytes. control over mechanical and electrical properties.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2010

The California Center for Sustainable Energy (CCSE) will lead a joint research study of how the useful lifespan of electric vehicle batteries could be extended by repurposing them as household electric storage devices with a $992,000 grant from the University of California. of Monrovia, Calif.; Flux Power of Vista, Calif.;

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2014

Researchers at the University of Maryland, with colleagues at the University of Illinois at Chicago, report on a new method for expanding graphite for use as a superior anode for sodium-ion batteries in a paper in Nature Communications. They won’t be as powerful as lithium-ion batteries. 1 at a current density of 20?

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Sodium Li-ion Maryland Batteries 210

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2019

Researchers at MIT and the Ford Motor Company have found that depending on the location, lightweight conventional vehicles could have a lower lifecycle greenhouse gas impact than electric vehicles, at least in the near term. Their paper is published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. —Wu et al.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2022

ClearFlame’s solution, grounded in technology developed during doctoral studies at Stanford University and validated using more than $3 million in grant funding, addresses this problem by elevating combustion temperatures in order to enable use of non-traditional fuels without sacrificing performance. per mile, lower than electric by $0.97

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Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2016

An international team from MIT, Argonne National Laboratory and Peking University has demonstrated a lab-scale proof-of-concept of a new type of cathode for Li-air batteries that could overcome the current drawbacks to the technology, including a high potential gap (>1.2 V) V in O 2 (gas) → O x− (condensed phase), and η charging > 1.1

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Teslarati

MARCH 4, 2022

Ford and University of Michigan researchers conducted a new study that evaluated the savings in greenhouse gas emissions in battery-electric pickup trucks relative to gas-powered pickups. It also assessed the reductions in other light-duty vehicles when compared to their gas-powered counterparts.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2015

Stanford Professor Yi Cui has received one of this year’s five Resonate Awards from Caltech’s Resnick Sustainability Institute for engineering enhanced batteries and other sustainable energy related devices through innovations in nanotechnology. The Resonate Awards honor breakthrough achievements in energy science and sustainability.

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Charged EVs

MAY 8, 2023

In recent testimony, Nuvve CEO Gregory Poilasne told the lawmakers that bidirectional charging can reduce the total cost of EV ownership, and that it’s essential for integrating more renewable energy into the grid. Going bi adds several nifty new benefits to driving electric. That’s one way.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

The selected OPEN 2018 projects are in 21 states and fall into 9 technical categories, including transportation, electricity generation and delivery, and energy efficiency. . Electric motor-generators on each crankshaft will improve engine efficiency by modifying the piston dynamics and resulting combustion process.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2018

A study published by the Centre on Regulation in Europe (CERRE) has explored the possible impact of increased electrification of road transportation and domestic heating and cooking on the energy system (electricity and gas), as well as on CO 2 emissions and on GDP.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2020

Replacing a gasoline-powered ride-hailing vehicle with an electric vehicle can deliver three times the carbon benefits of a personally owned electric vehicle, according to a study by a University of California, Davis, researcher of Uber and Lyft data. The paper is published in the journal Nature Energy. Nat Energy (2020).

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EV Connect

JANUARY 9, 2023

Electric vehicle (EV) technology is advancing quickly. With each passing year, the potential of a road free of gas-guzzling cars looks more realistic. Batteries get more powerful , charging grows more efficient, and the path to an all-EV future becomes increasingly clear. The path doesn’t end there, however.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2011

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) will partner with an industry-academia team led by the California Center for Sustainable Energy (CCSE) to investigate secondary applications for aged battery packs from electric drive vehicles. Assess the economic benefit of second uses.

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