Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Working with Fermata Energy, a vehicle-to-grid (V2G) systems company, Nissan North America is launching a new pilot program under the Nissan Energy Share initiative which leverages bi?directional Leading the industry, Nissan has also received certification for second-life LEAF batteries to be used in stationary energy storage.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 27, 2022

Unlike those you may have grown accustomed to seeing, many of these stations don’t just charge electric cars—they can also send power from vehicle batteries to the local utility grid for use by homes and businesses. Debates over the feasibility and value of such vehicle-to-grid technology go back decades. Kempton and Letendre’s.

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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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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

The Nissan LEAF, paired with the LEAF-to-Home power supply system, can be used as back-up power source in emergency situations if there are power outages and/or shortages by providing the stored electricity held in the Nissan LEAF’s onboard batteries. The lithium-ion batteries of Nissan LEAF can store 24 kWh of electricity.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2012

(MHI), jointly with SSE plc (formerly Scottish and Southern Energy plc), will begin an energy storage system demonstration project using the power grid in the UK’s Orkney Islands, which has a high proportion of renewable energy generation in relation to demand. In the project, Mitsubishi Power Systems Europe, Ltd.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

The falling cost of batteries is set to drive a boom in the installation of energy storage systems around the world in the years from now to 2040, according to the latest annual forecast from research company Bloomberg NEF (BNEF). This will transform the economic case for batteries in both the vehicle and the electricity sector.

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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., technology being undertaken by Japan’s New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO).

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Vehicle to Home power supply system, which aims to use EV technology to help power grids cope with peaks in demand, provide power during natural disasters, and make electricity from renewable sources more viable.By Electricity is stored or supplied automatically in accordance with a household’s electricity capacity and consumption.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2017

(TEPCO) has made a £500,000 (US$621,000) equity investment in Moixa Energy Holdings , a UK-based provider of residential batteries and platforms for managing storage services. Moixa offers a compact and affordable smart battery for residential customers that helps households to save money by storing spare solar or cheap tariff electricity.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

The battery stores power from the grid or from solar panels and stores it for later household use. For consumers subject to time-of-use charges, the EnergyBlock can be used to store off-peak power to be used later during peak times, lowering the amount of peak-rate costs for the user. Electrovaya Inc. —Dr.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2014

Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have devised an alloying strategy that enables sodium-beta batteries to operate at significantly lower temperatures. The new electrode enables sodium-beta batteries to last longer, helps streamline their manufacturing process and reduces the risk of accidental fire.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2012

Schematic of a redox flow battery. Sandia researchers have developed a new family of electrochemically reversible, metal-based ionic liquid (MetILs) that could lead to non-aqueous redox (reducing-oxidizing) flow-battery energy storage systems ( earlier post ) able to cost-effectively store three times more energy than today’s batteries.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2011

Researchers at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences report that a 2 kW vanadium redox flow battery under development there for grid storage has been in operation for 1,429 days as of 4 June, with a total running time of more than 34,000 hours and 10,000 charge/discharge cycles.

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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. The vehicle was converted by Tokyo R&D, and is scheduled to hit the streets on regular local routes in Toyama, a coastal city located on the Sea of Japan.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2011

Example of a lithium-water rechargeable battery. Researchers at the University of Texas, including Dr. John Goodenough, are proposing a strategy for high-capacity next-generation alkali (lithium or sodium)-ion batteries using water-soluble redox couples as the cathode. The present sodium-sulfur battery operates above 300 °C.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2012

A 100 VAC inverter onboard the Prius PHV converts stored power into AC suitable for home use, while power flow is controlled according to communication between vehicle, charging stand and the home. This kind of optimal energy flow can be automatically controlled by a home energy management system (HEMS).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2020

China and Japan, for instance, now have more than 40 thousand charging stations each. The rapid adoption of EVs will pose challenges for utilities as the increased capacity creates overload peaks that compromise the stability of the grid. The quantity of charging stations presented a substantial growth in the past years.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2011

MHI), has developed Japan’s first cargo container-type large-capacity energy storage system using Li-ion batteries. Japan’s first container-type large-capacity energy storage system using lithium-ion rechargeable batteries. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd., (MHI), Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2012

GS Battery (USA) Inc., , the US subsidiary of Japan-based battery maker GS Yuasa, announced the deployment of its Hybrid Energy System (HES) for renewable energy storage and EV charging. —Jeff Hires, Engineering Manager, GS Battery and the HES designer.

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Blink Charging

MARCH 3, 2022

One of the first places this theory has been tested is Japan. Japan has widely accepted EVs and was the first to put EVs to work during natural disasters. Japan is prone to thousands of tsunamis and earthquakes each year. As a result of this project, Nissan and 4R Energy were honored by the Association for Resilience Japan.

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EV Central

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Ahead of its debut at the Japan Mobility Show on October 25, Nissan has previewed an electric people-mover that can read the brain waves of its passengers and play music and set interior lighting to reflect their mood. READ MORE: Next Nissan Patrol going electric?

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2009

and Sumitomo Corporation are planning to initiate a business venture to “Reuse, Resell, Refabricate and Recycle” (4R) lithium-ion batteries previously used in electric cars, giving them a second-life as energy-storage solutions in markets worldwide. Nissan Motor Co., Recycle : Implement end-of-life recycling to salvage raw materials.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 30, 2022

A Sea-Monster-Proof Internet The initial segment of what will be the first underwater fiber-optic link to skirt the North Pole, connecting Japan and Europe, will light up in early 2023. The transmission line will sidestep the growing difficulties of connecting renewable-energy sources to the power grid.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2010

Ener1 has signed up two new customers for its Li-ion batteries: Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) and Toro. Hyundai Heavy Industries in Korea will receive Li-ion battery packs for electric buses; the packs are similar configurations as packs currently in operation in California with AC Transit. Grid Energy Storage. million and 136.0

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 19, 2023

Longer term, California, the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, Japan, and Western Australia are all looking to the sea to help meet their demands for hydrogen. Airplanes, for example, won’t be able to fly long distances on battery power. Offshore wind parks can meet both of these criteria. It turns out that the former option is better.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2011

Part of the larger Windows Azure platform, Windows Azure is a platform for running Windows applications and storing data in the cloud. As part of its smart-grid activities, TMC is conducting trials in Japan of its Toyota Smart Center pilot program, which plans to link people, automobiles and homes for integrated control of energy consumption.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Projects include: Trip Estimation Techniques to Better Manage Hybrid Vehicle Batteries. This novel study examines the “micro grids” that owners of these resources likely will form for negotiating with their local utilities. Electrochemical Splitting of Supercritical Carbon Dioxide.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

MMC has targeted top-of-class fuel efficiency (Japan market version) of 30 km per liter (70.6 MMC’s plug-in hybrid system uses high-capacity batteries that allow the vehicle to cover more than 50 km (31 miles) in all-electric mode alone, allowing it to be driven solely as an EV for most everyday situations. mpg US, 3.33

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Charged EVs

JANUARY 31, 2024

Q&A with Alex Urist, Vice President of XCharge North America Battery storage, once considered a nifty additional feature for large-scale charging infrastructure projects, is steadily becoming de rigueur for public and commercial charging deployments of all sizes. A battery-buffered system is just taking energy from the grid.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 16, 2014

Nissan Motor Corporation has begun testing in Japan of a system to use electric vehicle technology to help power grids cope with peaks in demand. to assess the effectiveness of EV batteries when used for energy management. to assess the effectiveness of EV batteries when used for energy management. to 8:00 p.m.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2010

Scientists from the Energy Technology Research Institute, AIST in Tsukuba, Japan, have developed a lithium-water electrochemical cell for the controlled generation of hydrogen and electricity. In other words, energy from the sun can be “stored” in the metal, and then be used on demand by reacting the lithium in the fuel cell.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 31, 2024

Q&A with Alex Urist, Vice President of XCharge North America Battery storage, once considered a nifty additional feature for large-scale charging infrastructure projects, is steadily becoming de rigueur for public and commercial charging deployments of all sizes. A battery-buffered system is just taking energy from the grid.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2011

published in the ACS journal Chemical Reviews , reviews in detail four stationary storage systems considered the most promising candidates for electrochemical energy storage: vanadium redox flow; sodium-beta alumina membrane; lithium-ion; and lead-carbon batteries. In their study, Yang et al. The need for storage.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Tesla’s Megapack power storage systems are being deployed around much of the world, effectively offering massive batteries for storing energy from renewable sources such as solar or wind energy. a Panasonic test site in Japan and elsewhere.

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EV Connect

JANUARY 8, 2024

Before you plug in, take a moment to learn the difference between AC and DC charging, how much time it will take, and whether there are any consequences for your route planning or battery maintenance. AC is the type of electricity that flows through power grids and into homes and businesses, including to power EV chargers.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Zenith produces the world’s first portable radio, which includes large batteries, vacuum tubes, and a horn speaker; an early model is here being held by Admiral Donald B. Sanyo Electric of Japan buys TV business from Warwick Electronics; Andrea Radia, a small New York-area family-owned company, fades from the market.)

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

2014 has been a year of rapid growth for the fuel cell market with positive progress being made globally, especially in markets such as US, UK, Germany, France and Japan. This renewable production capacity is increasingly important to ensure the existing power grid can accept more renewable sources.

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