Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2022

Austrian bus company Österreichische Postbus AG (ÖBB Postbus) has signed another framework agreement with Solaris for the delivery of up to 106 battery-electric and hydrogen buses that would be deployed throughout Austria. Additionally, every ordered vehicle will be equipped with a Solaris High Power battery.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 21, 2018

Researchers from around the world are looking for the successor to the lithium-ion battery for electric cars, power tools, and electronics—one that will store more energy with less size and weight, charge more quickly, and have improved safety. All battery chemistries come with tradeoffs.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2019

In the run-up to IAA 2019, Continental Powertrain is now presenting a 48-volt high-power drive system with 30 kW, enabling a full-hybrid vehicle. If, for example, the system was supplemented by on-board charging technology and a larger battery, this would make even a plug-in hybrid drive featuring 48-volt technology possible.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2020

High-energy nickel (Ni)–rich cathode will play a key role in advanced lithium (Li)–ion batteries, but it suffers from moisture sensitivity, side reactions, and gas generation. Researchers are working on ways to store more energy in the cathode materials by increasing nickel content. But large-scale deployment has been a challenge.

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InsideEVs

JULY 24, 2022

It consists of battery modules from ID.3 4 models and stores 570 kWh of energy.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2020

Researchers at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and Jilin University in Changchun/China have investigated a highly promising anode material for future high-performance batteries: lithium lanthanum titanate with a perovskite crystal structure (LLTO). Cell voltage and storage capacity ultimately determine the energy density of a battery.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Wood for her outstanding research results in the area of lithium-ion batteries. Particle shape and fabrication-induced alignment can cause tortuosity anisotropy, which can impact battery performance. Among her other research areas, Dr. Wood has analyzed how the microstructure of electrodes influences the efficiency of batteries.

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Blink Charging

JUNE 8, 2023

Electric vehicles (EVs) are set to revolutionize every aspect of American life, and that includes convenience stores and truck stops, especially those along the United States federal highway system. Here are five reasons why convenience stores and truck stops should be thinking about EV charging this year.

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Blink Charging

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

As dealerships embrace electrification to maintain competitiveness , it’s crucial to also explore the benefits of integrating battery energy storage systems (BESS). Discover key insights into incorporating battery storage for your dealership’s sustainable energy storage. What are battery energy storage systems?

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2021

Na is comparable to graphite for standard lithium ion batteries. The approach, reported in an open-access paper in Science Advances , provides a way to design carbon-based materials for sodium-ion batteries. This nanoscale and reversible process is now at the base of most batteries. The estimated sodium storage up to C 6.9

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 8, 2016

TU Delft student team Forze presented the Forze VII hydrogen racer to the public for the first time on Sunday during the Gamma Racing Day at the TT Circuit in Assen. The Forze VII is built using an ADESS-03 LMP3 monocoque and is powered by a 100 kW Ballard FC Velocity MK1100 stack with Forze balance of plant along with a battery pack.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2021

Conventional Li-ion batteries work by cationic redox, when a metal ion changes its oxidation state as lithium is inserted or removed. Within this insertion framework, only one lithium-ion can be stored per metal ion. Lithium-rich cathodes, however, can store much more. —Hasnain Hafiz, lead author.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2021

SAE International has released J2464: Electric and Hybrid Electric Vehicle Rechargeable Energy Storage System (RESS) Safety and Abuse Testing , a revised recommended practice for establishing safe battery systems. —Bob Galyen, chair of the SAE Vehicle Battery Standards Steering Committee.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2021

The recently launched testing program will pave the way for the BMW Group to present a small-series model with this sustainable drive technology, developed on the basis of the BMW X5, in late 2022. Energy stored in a performance buffer battery is also used for dynamic acceleration maneuvers and short bursts of speed for overtaking.

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Setec Powerr

MARCH 20, 2023

With the rapid development of electric vehicles, energy storage, and other fields, the performance of lithium batteries has also put forward higher requirements. In the case of constant battery volume and weight, the performance of battery storage energy mainly depends on the energy density of the battery.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2022

However, silicon nanomaterials come with certain demerits, such as a large demand and supply gap, difficult and expensive synthesis process, and, most important, a threat of fast battery dry-up. Now, a group of researchers from the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) led by Prof. Nandan et al.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2019

In-wheel electric motors for each of the vehicle’s four wheels and low positioning of the battery enable better handling of inertia and high-level driving performance. Onboard AI distinguishes the voices of vehicle occupants, and uses personalized information stored on the driver’s control key to serve as a partner.

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Blink Charging

JUNE 8, 2023

Electric vehicles (EVs) are set to revolutionize every aspect of American life, and that includes convenience stores and truck stops, especially those along the United States federal highway system. Here are five reasons why convenience stores and truck stops should be thinking about EV charging this year.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2015

McCloskey for his outstanding research results in the area of lithium-oxygen batteries. Dr. McCloskey has analyzed the fundamental electrochemical processes in this type of battery by examining the stability of electrolytes and electrode materials. Powerful batteries are the key here to achieving the breakthrough in electric mobility.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 12, 2024

The Fraunhofer Institute for Production Systems and Design Technology IPK, a research institute in Berlin, is participating with the Battery Pass Consortium to design and implement the technical standards of the EU’s digital battery passport.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2021

This initiative with Watsontown Trucking Company and Camrett Logistics presents an exciting opportunity to continue partnering with fleets that were already servicing our local NRV logistics routes, and to utilize Volvo VNR Electrics to reduce the carbon footprint of our own supply chain. Producers Dairy.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2019

Supported by a new five-year, $500,000- grant from the National Science Foundation, a researcher from the University of Kansas is developing machine learning technology to monitor and prevent overheating in lithium-ion batteries. Nowadays these lithium-ion batteries are everyplace in our society. —Huazhen Fang.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Researchers at MIT and their colleagues are proposing a new design for electrodes that, based on the long-sought goal of using pure lithium metal as the anode, could lead to longer-lived batteries with higher energy densities. The metal then shrinks again during discharge, as the battery is used.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

The models can be delivered with different battery sizes according to the vehicles’ intended use and budget. With the MEB it is possible—dependent on battery size and the model concerned—to achieve ranges of about 330 to more than 500 km (as per WLTP). Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles has combined the battery in the I.D.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2015

On 27 June, during the French leg of the FIA WTCC, GreenGT will present the GreenGT H2, a hydrogen fuel cell racing car, on the Paul Ricard circuit. The GreenGT H2, which runs without a battery, achieves the performance of a GT and has a range comparable with competition cars powered by an internal combustion engine, the company says.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 10, 2024

GW of battery storage to be available by July 2024. US battery storage capacity could increase by 89% by the end of 2024 if all planned energy storage systems are brought online at the targeted time, the Energy Information Administration said on Tuesday. GW of installed battery storage capacity, respectively. GW and 3.2

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

In July, L-Charge presented its rapid mobile charging station for electric vehicles and launched its test operation in Moscow. L-Charge’s charging stations are mini power stations capable of generating and storing energy and charging electric cars with no need for a grid connection.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2023

The US Department of Energy is funding a demonstration of Sunvapor ’s solar steam and thermal battery technology to lower further the Carbon Intensity (CI) of the renewable dimethyl ether (DME) produced by Oberon Fuels at its Maverick Innovation Center in Brawley, California.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Mercedes-Benz will present a fuel-cell powered design study of an off-road SUV, the Ener-G-Force, based on the concept of a future police car developed for the Los Angeles Design Challenge. The storage units for the electricity generated in this process are housed in the side skirts, which can also hold hot-swappable battery packs.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2013

With the Science Award Electrochemistry, which is endowed with prize money of €50,000, BASF and Volkswagen are seeking to support scientific and engineering achievements in the electrochemistry, and provide an incentive for the development of high-performance energy stores. However, the potential from this business segment is enormous.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2012

The jury of experts from BASF, Volkswagen and representatives from the world of science selected Yabuuchi for results of his research on different battery technologies. Yabuuchi has showed, among other things, how new battery materials can improve the efficiency of lithium-ion and sodium-ion batteries.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2020

The hydrogen is stored in gaseous form in five new-generation tanks mounted on the bus roof. The bus is also fitted with a Solaris High Power battery acting as an additional electric power storage facility. 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

MAY 14, 2018

Akasol is introducing its first cylindrical-cells battery system with very high energy density (221 Wh/kg) at The Battery Show Europe this week. AKAModule 60 CYC allows building high-energy battery systems thanks to its modular structure. At the show, Akasol will present a 40 kWh AKASYSTEM 15 AKM 60 CYC as an example.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Tesla may be quite silent about the progress of its 4680 cells and structural battery packs, but recent sightings of Model Y test bodies in Gigafactory Texas suggest that the rollout of the innovative technology may be closer than expected. Notice it has no floor? Don’t hesitate to contact us with news tips.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2014

Woven carbon fiber can act as an electrode for lithium ion batteries. Researchers in Sweden are exploring the use of carbon fiber as an active electrode in a multifunctional structural Li-ion battery in an electric car; i.e., electrical storage is incorporated into the body of the car. Photo: Peter Larsson) Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Renault has presented EOLAB, a new prototype which explores ways to deliver ultra-low fuel consumption. kWh battery, the motor is sufficient to power the light weight car under electrical power. As a lighter car needs less energy to be moved forward, the battery can be both smaller and less expensive. Click to enlarge.

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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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