Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2021

Interest in higher energy-density batteries that pair alkali metal electrodes with solid electrolytes is high; however, such batteries have been plagued by a tendency for dendrites to form on one of the electrodes, eventually bridging the electrolyte and shorting out the battery cell. Eschler, C.M., Fincher, C.D.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

New research conducted by the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) has identified a specific building block that improves the anode in lithium-ion batteries. Traditionally, graphite is used for the anode of a lithium-ion battery, but this carbon material has major limitations.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2021

Just under a year after the initial concept idea, Audi Sport has started testing the new Audi RS Q e-tron series hybrid, with which Audi will tackle the Dakar Rally in January 2022. It is part of an energy converter that charges the high-voltage battery while driving. Earlier post.). In addition, energy is recuperated during braking.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 25, 2024

Lotus Technology and NIO detailed plans to co-develop EV charging and battery swap technologies alongside wishes to create a unified battery standard system. NIO Inc. ($NIO) Like NIO, Wuhan Lotus Technology Co., better known as Lotus ($LOT) , is another name with deep ties to China.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2011

Persson, a scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, described the benefit of using high throughput computation to tackle this problem in battery research. Magnesium-ion batteries theoretically could offer good electrochemical performance, while being safer and less expensive than Li-ion batteries. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2021

Toyota Motor Corporation announced Toyota bZ, its newly established series of battery-electric vehicles (BEVs), in establishment of a full line-up of electrified vehicles. In its development of BEVs, Toyota has taken two distinct approaches based on the idea of utilizing the advantages of BEVs, considering CO 2 reductions from LCA.

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Setec Powerr

MARCH 27, 2023

However, the performance of an EV relies heavily on its battery, which is susceptible to degradation over time. The EV 80% rule refers to designing the battery capacity of electric vehicles to be around 80% of its maximum capacity to achieve optimal performance and lifespan. Why is 80% battery capacity the optimal choice?

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Get Electric Vehicle

JULY 26, 2021

Lithium-ion batteries have a profound role in triggering the EV revolution going on now. The ingenious idea to incorporate Li-ion batteries transformed electric vehicles from boring and lame to thrilling and exhilarating. to create an Aluminium-air battery. The energy density is of multiple times of a Li-ion battery.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Researchers in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a new family of anode materials that can double the charge capacity of lithium-ion battery anodes. As a metallic foil, the IdEA anode does not require an external current collector, significantly reducing the fraction of inactive components.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 1, 2013

Hino) will begin trials using a small battery-electric truck (EV Truck) in Yamato delivery operations. In light of current battery performance, TMC and Hino believe that it is possible to offer practical commercial electric vehicles for lightweight and short-distance applications. EV Trucks for the trial. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2016

A team of researchers University of South Florida is using naturally occurring fungi to drive an environmentally friendly recycling process to extract cobalt and lithium from tons of waste batteries. The idea first came from a student who had experience extracting some metals from waste slag left over from smelting operations.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2019

We believe in what Mate Rimac and his company have to offer, which is why we have now increased our stake and intend to intensify our collaboration in the field of battery technology. The company also develops and produces high-performance electric drives and battery systems. —Rimac Managing Director Mate Rimac.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2018

Researchers led by a team from MIT, with colleagues from Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), BMW Group, and Tokyo Institute of Technology have developed a fundamentally new approach to alter ion mobility and stability against oxidation of lithium ion conductors—a key component of rechargeable batteries—using lattice dynamics.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2013

The working concept of I3 – /I – redox reaction in the aqueous Li-I 2 battery. A team from Japan’s RIKEN, led by Hye Ryung Byon, has developed a lithium-iodine (Li-I 2 ) battery system with a significantly higher energy density than conventional lithium-ion batteries. Zhao et al. Click to enlarge. kWh kg -1 cell (1.0

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Stanford researchers have developed a sodium-ion battery (SIB) that can store the same amount of energy as a state-of-the-art lithium ion, at substantially lower cost. Crucial to the idea of lowering the cost of battery materials, myo-inositol is an abundant organic compound familiar to industry. —Lee et al.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Maybe flow batteries aren’t always everything they’re cracked up to be. A new technology from Australia is certainly raising this prospect, offering a novel approach to stationary energy storage—whose packaging at least harkens back to the old, familiar car battery. This makes for a super safe battery."

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Setec Powerr

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Batteries are a vital part of electric cars and mobile phones, and once they run out of power, they will make it impossible for you to move. What if you do accidentally run out of battery while you’re out and about and can’t find a place to recharge it? That may not seem like an extra time saver, but the idea of ??the

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Maybe flow batteries aren't always everything they're cracked up to be. A new technology from Australia is certainly raising this prospect, offering a novel approach to stationary energy storage—whose packaging at least harkens back to the old, familiar car battery. This makes for a super safe battery."

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Teslarati

MAY 27, 2021

In Tesla’s newly published “Integrated Tonneau Cover for a Vehicle” patent, several inventors submit their idea and designs for the Cybertruck’s fully mechanical tonneau cover. The full patent document is available below. Tesla Cybertruck Tonneau Solar Patent by Joey Klender on Scribd.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2012

Operating principle of oxygen rocking batteries using CLFO. Researchers at the University of Tokyo are exploring the development of novel lithium-free “oxygen rocking” rechargeable aqueous batteries for large-scale energy storage. have reached an idea that compounds A 1? have reached an idea that compounds A 1?x

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Baua Electric

MARCH 18, 2024

They interviewed EV users in both Sweden and the US and found unanticipated and previously unreported EV charging habits and ideas. This third model is used only when a driver needs to take a trip longer than their battery range, so they have to plan for DC fast charging availability. How likely is an unexpected trip tomorrow?”

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2018

It can flash charge its battery in just 20 seconds as passengers board and disembark. The idea is to run the system under extreme winter weather conditions; ABB and its project partners expect to gain valuable insights from this pilot project. This is the first time TOSA technology is being used in an Alpine region. Bottom: Close-up.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

DNA has a high concentration of heteroatoms, including oxygen, nitrogen and phosphorus, that can anchor soluble polysulfides to improve the cycling performance of Li/S batteries. Rechargeable lithium/sulfur battery promises an appealing candidate for energy storage to power portable devices and electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

The winning concepts were: A molten air battery that uses a molten salt electrolyte at elevated temperature from Professor Stuart Licht at George Washington University. A novel rechargeable zinc battery from the research group of Professors Paul Wright and James Evans from the University of California, Berkeley.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Researchers at Cornell led by Professor Lyndon Archer, in collaboration with Professor Ravishankar Sundararaman at Rensselaer Polytechnic, have demonstrated a new technique for enabling the use of high-capacity lithium metal anodes in rechargeable batteries.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2013

The memory effect of the battery is written in a cycle with partial charging (here, 50% of the battery’s storage capacity) followed by complete discharge. Ours is the first study that has specifically looked for a memory effect in lithium-ion batteries. But the key was the idea of looking for it at all. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 7, 2013

The problem with battery electric cars is that you can''t take them on long trips, because they take so long to recharge. That''s the idea discussed by CEO Elon Musk at Tuesday''s annual shareholder meeting of Tesla.' Or so goes the common wisdom, anyhow.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2014

Schematic of hybrid anode placed in a Li–S battery. Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have designed a lithium–sulfur battery using electrically connected graphite and lithium metal as a hybrid anode to control undesirable surface reactions on lithium. Huang et al. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

The Salton Sea geothermal field in California potentially holds enough lithium to meet all of the US’ domestic battery needs, with even enough left over to export some of it. Normally the cooled fluid would simply be reinjected underground, but the idea is to first extract the lithium from the brine before injecting it back.

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Clean Fleet Report

JUNE 30, 2022

DCFC is by far the best option, but you might not be able to reach a station every time you need to recharge. An EV’s battery life can fluctuate for many reasons, so you can’t expect it to drive exactly the same distance after every recharge. Weather is one of the factors that will influence your EV’s battery life.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

For this trend to continue, though, mining companies need to find a lot more of the metals used to build electric cars and their batteries. He’s the co-founder and president of KoBold Metals , an AI-powered mineral exploration company working to discover the materials for electric vehicle batteries. Today I’m talking with Josh Goldman.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 1, 2016

Well, here's a novel idea for electric-car fans to kick off the week with. Zero-emission cars powered by electric motors shouldn't use batteries that can be recharged, because a public charging network is "a dead end." Instead, they should use flow-cell batteries that can be "refueled" in minutes at centralized filling stations.

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Baua Electric

DECEMBER 29, 2023

The device contains a battery pack that can send, receive, and store energy from the grid or vehicle. The idea sounds very similar to Tesla’s Powerwall. The Powerwall is a rechargeable home battery system that can be used with solar panels. At home, the device can provide energy to and from an EV or the grid.

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The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

But it’s probably a good idea to temper whatever excitement you may have about the M5 Touring being broadly available here. kWh battery needs to be recharged. BMW hasn’t confirmed anything either way and likely won’t until the M5 makes its official debut later this year.

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Teslarati

JULY 22, 2021

After sparring with the idea of purchasing another Ford Explorer for the police fleet, cost-effectiveness became the big question. Regenerative braking means that the engine slows the car and recaptures some of the kinetic energy, replenishing the battery and reducing wear on the friction brakes. Reduced maintenance.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The electric powertrain and the high-performance battery with 400 volts are AMG-exclusive, in-house developments. Just like in Formula 1, the battery is specifically designed for fast power output and draw with innovative direct cooling of the cells. kWh battery is 13 kilometers (8 miles). The AMG high-performance battery.

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Charged EVs

MAY 11, 2022

With the battery pack below the cabin and bed, the Lightning has a much lower center of gravity than any F-150 powered by an engine. It’s the ability to use its battery to power your house during an electricity outage—if you get the big battery and high-end spec, and have a house with wiring that accommodates it.

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