Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2023

Globally, the battery industry needs to invest at least $514 billion across the whole supply chain to meet expected demand in 2030, and $920 billion by 2035, according to a new analysis by Benchmark. Demand for lithium ion batteries is forecast to grow to 3.7 However, batteries are the fastest-growing demand market for nickel.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2021

Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have developed a sensor system called IntelliVent that can prevent dangerous conditions from developing in outdoor battery cabinets. IntelliVent is a patent-pending, deflagration-prevention system for cabinet-style battery enclosures.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Eos Z3 battery module Z3 battery modules store electrical energy through zinc deposition. The streamlined Eos Z3 battery module design features an aqueous electrolyte, bipolar electrodes, and a polymer casing. The project secured an up to $398.6-million

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2015

Nissan and Endesa, an Enel Group subsidiary, signed an agreement at the Geneva International Motor Show pledging to work together to deliver a mass-market V2G system and an innovative business model designed to leverage this technology. Endesa will host a full demonstration of the market-ready and low cost system in Madrid on 12 March.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2021

Ford unveiled the F-150 Lightning battery-electric pickup. F-150 Lightning offers a standard-range battery targeting 230 miles of EPA-estimated range and an extended-range battery targeting 300 miles of EPA-estimated range. —Kumar Galhotra, Ford president, Americas and International Markets Group, Ford Motor Company.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2012

Balqon Corporation, a developer of heavy-duty electric vehicles, drive systems and lithium battery storage devices, has introduced high-capacity lithium-ion batteries as an alternative to the current industrial deep cycle lead acid batteries. HIQAP batteries include large format 1000 Ah and 700 Ah, 3.25

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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

JUNE 4, 2014

In an event in San Francisco, Ford Motor Company and Samsung SDI, an affiliate of Samsung Group, outlined several collaborative research efforts on next-generation battery technology for non-hybrid vehicles. Ford suggested the dual battery system might go into production soon. Lead-acid (left) and Li-ion battery (right).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2022

In 2021, Next Generation Manufacturing Canada (NGen) launched a call for proposals to support R&D projects for zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) manufacturing, systems, components, and batteries in Canada. The selected projects are: Advanced Manufacturing Process Innovations – Flex-Ion Battery Innovation Center. Lead: Ventra Group Co.;

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Driivz

OCTOBER 8, 2023

EVs of all classes offer fleet owners significant advantages over internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles. They are quieter, cleaner, have better acceleration, and cost less to keep running because electricity is cheaper than diesel and EVs require less maintenance than their ICE counterparts.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Achates Power will develop a highly efficient opposed-piston engine for hybrid vehicles (“HOPE-Hybrid”) using a unique engine design that minimizes energy losses typical in conventional internal combustion engines. Georgia Tech will develop a new approach to internally cool permanent magnet motors. Georgia Tech Research Corporation.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2012

With this method, low-carbon electricity generated from regional or home solar generators, or low-cost late night electricity, can be stored in a vehicle’s drive battery and then used to supply power to the household during peak consumption times. when running the engine in the Prius PHV as a generator.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2016

Cadenza Innovation , a Li-ion battery startup founded in 2012 by Dr. Christina Lampe-Onnerud, former CEO and founder of Boston Power ( earlier post ), has raised more than $5 million in growth capital. Non-expanding cells and no cascading result in space effective and low cost module designs.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2012

Long-Lived, High-Energy-Density and Low-Cost Lithium-Ion Batteries for Automotive, Grid Energy and Medical. Lithium-ion batteries for cars must meet more stringent requirements than those for portable electronics. Batteries for grid energy storage and medical devices have similar requirements.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

million to develop an advanced smart charging technology that maintains plug-in electric vehicle consumer needs while reducing charging loads, to achieve electricity grid benefits. The proposed project addresses the problem of access and signals/controls for local data streams in order to control electricity systems loads for grid management.

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Setec Powerr

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Battery technology currently requires lithium and other rare earth metals, which must be mined. A critical issue in decarbonization will also be the role of the electrical grid itself. Enhanced, smaller, and lower-priced solar and battery installations could massively disrupt this approach to electricity generation.

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Wallbox

JANUARY 4, 2021

The proportion of grid electricity generated by renewables such as wind and solar energy fluctuates depending on how hard the wind is blowing or how strong the sun is shining. This can lead to a huge variation in the grid power available, which can be a problem for power companies. How EVs can help balance the grid.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2019

Low Cost Roll-to-Roll Manufacturing of Reusable Sorbents for Energy and Water Industries, $150,000 Qualification of SAS4A/SASSYS-1 for Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor Authorization and Licensing, $674,484 Advanced Reactor Concepts LLC, Chevy Chase, Md. MetalTek International, Watertown, Wis. Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2015

Stealth-mode battery start-up 24M has introduced its new semi-solid lithium-ion cell. Together, our inventions achieve what lithium-ion has yet to do—meet the ultra-low cost targets of the grid and transportation industries. By 2020 our battery costs will be less than $100 a kilowatt-hour (kWh).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2010

The awards in this tranche focus on power electronics, grid-scale energy storage, and building efficiency; of the 43, three are categorized specifically for the automotive market—power electronics projects led by HRL Laboratories, LLC; Arkansas Power Electronics International, Inc.; and Case Western Reserve University.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2016

million through the Advanced Vehicle Power Technology Alliance to support projects specifically focused on advanced high-voltage electrolytes for batteries and advanced engine and powertrain technologies to improve vehicle fuel efficiency. Grid Modernization for Electric Vehicles (Area of Interest 2). Description. Federal funding.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

To help California mitigate its ever-growing wildfires, this year CalSEED has included companies that are innovating in technologies that will build wildfire resiliency into the grid. This novel technology would deliver safe, reliable, resilient, and cost-effective electric power in the grid. rechargeable battery?technology?that

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Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2011

Announcements from major manufacturers in terms of future production plans for electric and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (EVs and PHEVs) are far below sales targets set by countries, according to a newly updated Electric Vehicle Roadmap report from the International Energy Agency. battery requirements).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2012

ARPA-E says there is an opportunity for innovation in design and control of systems to manage the difficulties of maintaining the state of health and safety of batteries. New approaches to achieve higher fidelity, more robust and lower cost sensing and control of the environment across a battery pack are needed. Performance.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

The DOE-QTR defines six key strategies: increase vehicle efficiency; electrification of the light duty fleet; deploy alternative fuels; increase building and industrial efficiency; modernize the electrical grid; and deploy clean electricity. DOE’s most significant role in transport research is here.

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Cars That Think

MAY 5, 2022

Efforts include the work done by societies such as the IEEE Power & Energy Society , to which I belong; conferences such as the IEEE Sustainable Power and Energy Conference ; publications including IEEE Electrification ; and technical standards, like IEEE 1547 for connecting distributed energy resources to the grid. Nuclear power.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 25, 2022

Building every electrolyzer promised for 2030 would provide only about one-sixth of the green hydrogen required to meet climate targets, according to figures from the International Energy Agency in Paris. To become a low-cost producer of green hydrogen, we first have to become an extreme user—to make it pervasive across our business.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2011

Deutch and Moniz note that manufacturing is key to achieving a commercially successful EV battery pack—i.e., low cost is only achieved in large-volume, highly automated factories. The analogous progression for CO 2 emissions is less clear. —Deutch and Moniz.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

These include: Next-generation internal combustion engine. While there are significant requirements for infrastructure and incentives to bring about the widespread electrification of vehicles, improvements to the internal combustion engine could be quickly deployed and assuage many of the voices currently clamoring for change.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2009

Battery pack state of charge vs. distance for the ADDZEV vehicle under all-electric power on the UDDC cycle. A collaboration led by the UK’s Cranfield University has developed a retrofit plug-in hybrid conversion system for a conventional internal combustion engine vehicle. Source: Cranfield. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2013

The FOA contains a total of 11 areas of interest (AOIs) in the general areas of advanced lightweighting and propulsion materials; advanced battery development; power electronics; advanced heating, ventilation, air conditioning systems; and fuels and lubricants. High Temperature DC Bus Capacitor Cost Reduction & Performance Improvements.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2012

This latest round of ARPA-E projects seek to address the remaining challenges in energy storage technologies, which could revolutionize the way Americans store and use energy in electric vehicles, the grid and beyond, while also potentially improving the access to energy for the US. that are inserted into battery packs to monitor and measure.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2016

During past eight years the number of plug-in electric vehicle models has increased from one to more than 20, battery costs have decreased 70%, and the number of electric vehicle charging stations has increased from less than 500 in 2008 to more than 16,000 today—a 40-fold increase. National Grid. Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Specifically, the project will demonstrate a 50-kW capacitive wireless charging system with 150 kW/m 2 power transfer density and 95% efficiency, while meeting fringing-field safety standards and increasing grid reliability by minimizing power pulsations. Lithium- and Transition Metal-Free High-Energy Fast-Charging Batteries - $3,400,000.

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Charged EVs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Q&A with Smartville CEO and co-founder Antoni Tong What do EV batteries have in common with athletes and politicians? Once they age out (or get voted out) of their positions, they have the opportunity to have a lucrative (and in the case of batteries, useful) second career. Smartville , which recently won a $5.9-million

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2020

From a presentation given by Faith Birol, Executive Director, International Energy Agency, on hydrogen’s role in tackling energy and climate challenges. Italy and its companies have the opportunity to pioneer this approach at an international level. Low-cost hydrogen to break-even before 2030—earlier than other European markets.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

On July 26, in a rare glimpse into progress on his company's purported game-changer battery, Tesla CEO Elon Musk was in true Muskian form, raising hopes and tempering expectations in one cryptic swoop : We have successfully validated performance and lifetime of our 4680 cells produced at our Kato facility in California.

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