Cars That Think

DECEMBER 30, 2021

As power grids everywhere increasingly rely on intermittent renewable energy, batteries and other forms of energy storage that can even out the bumps in supply and demand are taking on a crucial role. No battery is perfect, however, so engineers keep pushing for new and improved ways to store those electrons.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

That all changed this year, after a team of IEEE volunteers traveled to the village and installed photovoltaic panels, a battery storage system, and a solar water heater at the Shree Batase Secondary School in Melamchi, which is about 45 kilometers from the capital city of Kathmandu.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 29, 2022

We will also make battery storage. So this is going to be very important for storing renewable energy — so, for solar and wind. In the following month, Tesla held its grand opening Cyber Rodeo event at Giga Texas. .” “Every vehicle that we make will be another step in the direction of a sustainable energy future.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2013

John Goodenough at the University of Texas at Austin and colleague Kyu-Sung Park have written a perspective paper on Li-ion batteries (LIBs), published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. More recently, at the University of Texas, Austin, Dr. Goodenough patented a new class of iron phosphate materials.

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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

MARCH 11, 2011

The primary element of one of Michigan’s largest solar power generation systems at Ford’s Michigan Assembly Plant is now up and running. Ford collaborated with DTE Energy to install the 500 kW solar photovoltaic panel system at Michigan Assembly. Michigan Assembly will operate on a blend of renewable and conventional electricity.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2010

Ford, Detroit Edison and Xtreme Power are teaming up to establish one of Michigan’s largest solar power generation systems and electric vehicle charging stations at Ford’s Michigan Assembly Plant in Wayne, Mich. Ford will work with Detroit Edison to install a 500 kW solar photovoltaic panel system at Michigan Assembly.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin, including Prof. With this glass, a rechargeable battery with a metallic lithium or sodium anode and an insertion-compound as cathode may require a polymer or liquid catholyte in contact with the cathode. Click to enlarge. —Braga et al. Maria Helena Braga, Nicholas S.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2018

Maven is now offering its first all-electric fleet of cars for use in the gig economy; 20 Chevrolet Bolt EVs are available for freelance drivers in Austin, Texas to earn money on their own schedules. Interested drivers can download the Maven app for Apple in the App Store and for Android in the Google Play Store.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Ford’s Michigan Assembly Plant is starting production of the 2012 Focus Electric ( earlier post )—a five-passenger, battery-electric car Ford expects will achieve more than a 100 miles per gallon equivalent (MPGe) fuel economy rating. 1 gallon of gasoline=33.7 Phoenix and Tucson, Ariz.; Portland, Ore.; Raleigh-Durham, N.C.;

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Teslarati

JULY 20, 2022

How is the 4680 ramp going, and is Giga Texas producing cells yet? Is Tesla still planning a software development kit and app store for third-party developers to make and sell Tesla apps? Will you need new battery or solar technology advancements? And what do you think 4680 production output will be by the end of 2022?

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Electric Auto Association

JULY 5, 2021

Houston chapter leads toward clean energy in Texas. I remember one guy who was irate just because he had to drive around us as he left a box store.” A demonstration of plug-in hybrids and full battery electrics at an HEAA meeting. Texas understands how to set up energy markets, Douglass said. “We Showing a home-brew EV.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

The selected projects include advanced battery systems (including flow batteries), flywheels, and compressed air energy systems. This project will develop and implement an Energy Internet microgrid, located in a large mixed-use infill development site in Austin, Texas. Pecan Street Project (TX).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2010

The second round was focused specifically on three areas of technology representing new approaches for advanced microbial biofuels (electrofuels); much higher capacity and less expensive batteries for electric vehicles; and carbon capture. This process is less than 1% efficient at converting sunlight to stored chemical energy.

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Teslarati

APRIL 26, 2021

He asks about the 4680 battery line (YES!). We’ve already ordered the equipment for battery production in Berlin and Austin as well. Elon comments on the “extremely deceptive” media coverage of the Texas crash. According to Kirkhorn, Tesla had been looking for a place to store its cash. We think we’re close to that point.

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EV Info

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The company reiterated that deliveries of its Semi electric heavy duty truck will begin in December, and confirmed that it is producing the Semi in Nevada, where it produces battery packs for its vehicles in the US. This division sells backup batteries for residential, commercial and utility use, and installs solar rooftops.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2016

PHEVLERs are defined as PHEVs with sufficient battery capacity for all electric driving of twice the average daily distance. [ Most homeowners have or can easily set up for plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) battery charging overnight while the driver sleeps. [ 5 ] Increasing numbers of drivers can get PEV charging at their workplace. [

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Laredo Bus Facility Solar Canopies: Provide shade structures with integrated, grid tied photovoltaic cells to be erected on the bus storage lot at the Laredo Bus Maintenance Facility. VIA Metropolitan Transit, Texas: $5,000,000. The project includes quick-charging stations at this terminal layover in route to recharge bus batteries.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2009

Solar Energy Conversion in Complex Materials (SECCM). Study complex material structures on the nanoscale to identify key features for their potential use as materials to convert solar energy and heat to electricity. Solar Fuels and Next Generation Photovoltaics. Polymer-Based Materials for Harvesting Solar Energy. $16.

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Clean Fleet Report

JUNE 8, 2022

headquarters in Plano, Texas, the first week of June to be among the first to drive the all-new 2023 Sequoia. The Sequoia Hybrid has a regenerative braking system that converts kinetic energy into electric energy, and stores it in the 1.87 kilowatt-hour battery. Power to tow. Clean Fleet Report was invited to Toyota’s U.S.

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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. The company also has Megapacks in use at many of its own facilities, including its Gigafactory in Austin, Texas.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 25, 2024

Photo: Rondo Alcoholic drinks giant Diageo will replace natural gas-fired heat with Rondo Energy’s Heat Batteries at its production sites in Kentucky and Illinois. Enter industrial heat company Rondo Energy’s Heat Batteries, which use electric heating elements, like in a toaster or oven, to turn clean power into high-temperature heat.

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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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Plug In Partners

APRIL 3, 2007

In Quest for Cleaner Energy, Texas City Touts Plug-In Car John J. Fialka Wall Street Journal March 26, 2007 AUSTIN, Texas -- Of all the plans cooked up by cities to combat pollution and global warming, the one hatched here is among the most ambitious -- and, some say, one of the more quixotic. Here's part of his story.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The new ARPA-E selections focus on accelerating innovations in clean technology while increasing US competitiveness in rare earth alternatives and breakthroughs in biofuels, thermal storage, grid controls, and solar power electronics. Solar ADEPT: Solar Agile Delivery of Electrical Power Technology ($14.7 Lead organization.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2021

To date, the TCF has funded more than 380 projects by unlocking more than $170 million in funding from more than 300 private sector partners, including automotive manufacturers, energy storage companies, utilities, bioenergy companies, solar providers, and aerospace companies. NovaCentrix (Austin, Texas). First Solar Inc.

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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

JANUARY 9, 2014

MyEnergi Lifestyle, a Ford Motor Company collaboration with Eaton, Infineon, SunPower and Whirlpool, retrofitted the homes of two families with energy-efficient appliances and solar panels, as well as providing the families with their own Ford C-MAX Energi plug-in hybrid vehicle.

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 11, 2022

So off they went to Texas (which is truck crazy) and California (which is EV crazy) to ask truck owners a wide range of questions about trucks. Standard Range Battery. 98 kilowatt-hour (kWh), liquid-cooled lithium-ion battery. Extended Range Battery. 131 kWh, liquid-cooled lithium-ion battery. Dual electric motors.

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Driivz

MAY 1, 2022

Vehicle to Grid (V2G) is one approach being taken, where stored energy from the electric vehicles is used to power the grid during peak hours, and then the vehicles are recharged during non-peak times. Origin is cross-promoting its solar energy system with Hyundai. Australian Utilities Taking the Lead. Powering the Future.

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Noodoe

JANUARY 7, 2022

School districts and manufacturers are developing systems so these rolling batteries can help balance local energy demands. School buses will, in theory, take power from the grid when it’s most plentiful, store it, and return that power when it’s needed most. IC Bus creates buses with some of the largest batteries in the industry.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Blog Archive ▼ 2009 (52) ▼ April (6) Waxman-Markey and REDD BlogRoll Review: Space Beams, Leaded Batteries, an. High-Speed Rail Unlocks Intermodal Potential Texas Excess Ford Expands Hybrid Success to Electric Vehicles ► March (17) Carbon Capture and Storage: To Be or Not To Be?

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