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JUNE 28, 2018

Exide Industries Ltd, India’s largest manufacturer of lead acid storage batteries and power storage solutions provider, and Switzerland-based Li-ion battery manufacturer Leclanché SA announced a joint venture to build lithium-ion batteries and provide energy storage systems for India’s electric vehicle market and grid-based applications.

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JUNE 21, 2020

H2One consists of a hydrogen generator, a hydrogen storage tank, and hydrogen fuel cells, and batteries. The overall system is controlled by Toshiba’senergy management system H2EMS, which carries out power generation and power storage with associated operation of a 30-kW solar power system and batteries.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2014

Sumitomo Corporation has developed and installed the first large-scale power storage system which utilizes used batteries collected from electric vehicles. This commercial scale storage system, built on Yume-shima Island, Osaka, will begin operating in February 2014. Earlier post.) Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Nissan reports a successful early field test of a system that will allow companies to regulate their electricity bills using the batteries of Nissan LEAFs used by their staff to commute to work. Vehicle-To-Building” allows up to six Nissan LEAF EVs to be connected to a building’s power distribution board. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Now, increasing demands for lithium-ion battery technology that specifically targets commercial vehicles as well as marine and rail applications has prompted Freudenberg to acquire a more than 50% share of the battery manufacturer. GM), through the US Advanced Battery Consortium LLC. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2020

After successful test runs in Vienna in June, the bus was handed over to the Dr. Richard Group, the largest private bus operator in Austria, which presented the vehicle in St. Over the course of numerous tests of battery buses we were able to gain a valuable insight into their practical operation and implementation.

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JUNE 4, 2020

The first vehicles will make it to Bolzano, Cologne and Wuppertal by the end of this year. The Solaris Urbino 12 hydrogen buses use a set of fuel cells with a power of 70 kW. The bus is also fitted with a Solaris High Power battery acting as an additional electric power storage facility.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2020

The vehicles will roll out onto the streets of the Swedish city of Sandviken in autumn 2021. The Urbino 12 hydrogen buses are fueled with power generated by a 70 kW fuel cell. Besides that, the ordered vehicles will be fitted with Solaris High Power battery acting as an additional electric power storage facility.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2013

BMW Group and Vattenfall have started a new research project on the secondary use of high-voltage EV batteries using batteries from the MINI E and the BMW ActiveE as stationary power storage.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Honda selected Toshiba Corporation’s SCiB rechargeable Li-ion battery to power the Fit EV. Toshiba will supply battery modules for the new car, which Honda will launch in summer 2012 in Japan and the US. The SCiB charges in about half the time of a typical Li-ion battery, Toshiba says. Earlier post.) Earlier post.)

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OCTOBER 23, 2020

RATP will devote most of this time testing the operational capabilities of the vehicle in regular passenger traffic. The Solaris hydrogen-powered bus tests will be carried out in the south of Paris. The bus is also fitted with a Solaris High Power battery acting as an additional electric power storage facility.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation has developed a technology for efficiently managing photovoltaic (PV) and other power-generation systems and also the charging/discharging of electric vehicles (EVs) parked on company campuses. Energy-management system for power generation and power storage.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

The world’s largest 2nd-use battery storage is starting up. The 13 MWh project is now nearing completion after a construction time of just under one year; a total of 1,000 battery systems from second-generation smart fortwo electric drive cars are being grouped into a battery storage in Lünen, Westphalia.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2010

Hitachi and Hitachi Vehicle Energy, Ltd., which develops and manufactures lithium-ion batteries for automotive applications such as hybrid electric vehicles, have developed new lithium-ion batteries for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, a first for the Hitachi Group. Tags: Batteries Hybrids Plug-ins.

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APRIL 3, 2012

China BAK Battery, Inc. million subsidy for its battery module project from the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) and Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT). The government funds will be used to further develop the battery module. has received a $1.9-million

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2011

CODA Holdings, a developer of Lithium-ion battery systems and all-electric vehicles, announced the initial closing of a Series D preferred investment round totaling $76 million, bringing the company's total invested capital to more than $200 million. billion Ah of energy storage (4.4 billion Ah of energy storage (4.4

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2013

Scientists at the Zentrum für Sonnenenergie- und Wasserstoff-Forschung Baden-Württemberg (ZSW) (Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research Baden-Württemberg) have developed Li-ion batteries that have already demonstrated a very high cycle life of more than 10,000 full cycles with retention of more than 85% of original capacity.

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MARCH 28, 2017

Vattenfall and the BMW Group have signed a contract for the delivery of up to 1,000 lithium-ion batteries this year. The batteries—each with a capacity of 33 kWh—are equipped with a BMW-owned battery management system and are also used by the car manufacturer in the BMW i3. With a capacity of 3.2 Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Sharp Corporation has developed an Intelligent Power Conditioner that enables batteries in electric vehicles to be used as storage batteries for the home. Sharp Intelligent Power Converter. The technology can make use of EV traction batteries as part of a residential power storage system.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2010

California-based electric car and battery company CODA Automotive ( earlier post ), together with its China-based joint venture partner, Lishen Power Battery, has secured $394 million of committed capital. In 2009, CODA, which had an existing long-term sourcing contract with Lishen (Tianjin Lishen Battery Joint-Stock Co.,

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MARCH 5, 2015

The two companies have agreed to collaborate on the following activities: Introduction of V2G services in the European market; Exploring the use of second-life EV batteries for stationary applications (including households, buildings, grid); and. Designing and evaluating potential affordable energy and mobility pack offers.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2009

(MHI) has decided to build a commercial production verification plant in Nagasaki Prefecture and launch its operation by autumn 2010 in a move toward the company’s full-scale entry into the lithium-ion secondary (rechargeable) battery market. The commercial production verification plant, slated for.

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APRIL 6, 2010

Keio University spin-out ELIIY Power Co., has begun operations at its new Li-ion battery manufacturing plant in Kawasaki. ELIIY plans to market stationary power systems for commercial and residential applications. A cell with that capacity can hold 60 times more charge than the tiny lithium ion batteries used in cell phones.In

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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2010

Porsche AG, Stuttgart is researching and developing all-electric vehicles, with three electric Boxsters to be in testing as part of the Stuttgart Model Region for Electromobility project. The flywheel power storage system is recharged whenever the driver applies the brakes. Tags: Electric (Battery) Hybrids Plug-ins.

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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. To make the material suitable for use in Na-ion batteries, some of the oxygen must be removed.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2012

This licensing agreement will now help us to address the growing demand from global battery and automotive industries for reliable sources of high quality lithium iron phosphate. —Yves Caprara, CEO of Prayon Group. Lithium iron phosphate is a cathode material the performance and. Phosphates (OCP S.A.)

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2010

Toshiba Corporation announced that it is working with Mitsubishi Motors Corporation to bring its SCiB battery ( earlier post ) to electric vehicles (EVs). The SCiB is Toshiba’s rechargeable lithium-ion battery that combines high levels of safety with a long life and rapid recharging. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2015

A team of researchers in South Korea and Italy has demonstrated a highly reliable lithium–sulfur battery showing cycle performance comparable to that of commercially available lithium-ion batteries while offering more than double the energy density. sulfur battery system is its use of a lithium?metal Credit: ACS, Lee et al.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2015

On the transportation side, if the agency operates a fleet of at least 20 motor vehicles, the directive is to improve agency fleet and vehicle efficiency and management by: Eliminating unnecessary or non-essential vehicles from the agency’s fleet inventory.

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JANUARY 30, 2018

a US-based manufacturer of mobile electric vehicle (EV) rapid charging systems, and plans to roll out FreeWire’s Mobi Charger units for use at selected BP retail sites in the UK and Europe during 2018. The L2 models recharge from a wall outlet; each unit is equipped with dual J1772 plugs and can charge 2 vehicles at once.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2020

The set of type 4 composite tanks, placed longitudinally above the first axle of the vehicle, has a total volume of 1560 liters. The bus is also fitted with a Solaris High Power battery which acts as an additional electric power storage facility.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Supporting this supercharging network, XPeng will also launch power storage facilities in both piles and mobile vehicles. XPeng currently has 1,648 free charging stations servicing 98.6% of its car owners, and 439 branded supercharging stations across China. HT Aero flying car.

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MARCH 20, 2019

Professor Aguey-Zinsou believes that his invention would offer significant advantages over current power storage solutions for home solar systems, such as the Tesla Powerwall battery. We can actually store about seven times more energy than the current systems. —Professor Aguey-Zinsou.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2009

The University of Glamorgan (Wales) and Atraverda, an advanced material company that owns the intellectual property rights to a conductive ceramic known as Ebonex, are collaborating to produce a commercially viable bi-polar lead-acid battery. Bi-polar lead-acid batteries approach the storage densities of NiMH, but at lower cost.

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JANUARY 4, 2021

Bidirectional charging allows you to send energy both ways – from the grid into your vehicle (G2V) and from the vehicle to the grid (V2G) or building (V2B). This turns EV batteries into a source for power storage that can be leveraged to balance energy capacity in your condo.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2016

Partners Volkswagen AG, Lichtblick SE, SMA Solar Technology AG and the Fraunhofer Institute Wind Energy and Energy System Technology (IWES) have submitted the final report from the INEES research project (Intelligent integration of electric vehicles into the power grid for the provision of system services).

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OCTOBER 17, 2013

A composite blend of carbon fibers and polymer resin is being developed that can store and charge more energy faster than conventional batteries can. Earlier work has been focused on multifunctional structural batteries and dielectric capacitors. Trunk lid being mounted on to the test vehicle. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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