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Volvo Buses in project researching use of second-life electric bus batteries to store solar energy

Green Car Congress

This is part of a research project in which Volvo Buses, Göteborg Energi, Riksbyggen and Johanneberg Science Park are working together to examine electricity storage in apartment blocks that have their own electricity production via solar panels. The battery warehouse consists of 14 used lithium-ion electric bus batteries.

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SpaceX is building launch pad tanks out of Starship parts and that’s a big deal

Teslarati

SpaceX has begun installing the first of numerous propellant storage tanks at its first orbital South Texas launch facilities – a mostly ordinary and expected step made extraordinary by the fact that those tanks will be built out of Starship parts. Instead, SpaceX has decided to design and build its own propellant storage tanks.

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Topsoe and First Ammonia sign 5GW electrolyzer agreement for green ammonia

Green Car Congress

Ammonia saved humanity from starvation a century ago as a replacement for depleted sources of fertilizers, in large part due to Topsoe’s excellence. Green ammonia has the highest volumetric energy density out of all the hydrogen-based energy sources—much more than pure hydrogen—which makes it cheap and easy to store and transport.

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Thermal Energy Storage Is No Longer Just Hot Air

Cars That Think

The shipping containers, which house a Frankenstein-like assortment of machine parts—motors repurposed from Volvo truck engines, giant tanks of compressed air, huge silos of piping hot sand—are produced by a company called Cheesecake Energy. Despite its name, Cheesecake Energy isn’t in the food business.

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How to become a lifestyle brand on the cheap, or the China EV startup dilemma

China EV

It’s part of Made in China 2025 ! But state funds can’t be invested in loss-making enterprises, so it seems the aid will likely take the form of a loan to buy land in Beijing on which to build a plant. Why build a plant if your sales are dismal, one might ask? Next to a Tesla store, let me add. Not at all!

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SpaceX installs second Starship-derived fuel tank at orbital launch pad

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Built with the same parts, facilities, and equipment as flightworthy Starship prototypes, SpaceX’s plans to build grounded storage tanks out of rocket parts went from a complete surprise to initial hardware delivery in less than two months. miles from its Boca Chica rocket factory to a nearby launch complex.

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Why the National Renewable Energy Laboratory just banned electric bikes

Baua Electric

According to the NREL’s fire marshal Nicholas Bartlett, micromobility devices such as electric scooters and bikes are no longer permitted to be charged or stored in the buildings. E-bike fires in buildings are exceedingly rare. The NREL has an annual budget of US $783.5 million and a staff of over 2,600 people.