Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Batteries from electric bus route 55 in Gothenburg, Sweden are being used for solar energy storage in a second-life application. The reuse and recycling of batteries is a key issue as increasing numbers of cities plan transition to electrically powered transport.

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Store Volvo Solar Energy 273

Teslarati

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The system now has 50 MW of power and 100 MWh of capacity and supports the local grid. Tesla noted that the Deux-Acren project, which installed the Megapacks, is now one of the largest storage systems in Europe. This project is an important step for the development of electricity storage solutions in Europe.

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Belgium Tesla Energy Storage Financing 123

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Sand is emerging as a key ingredient in the race to develop a viable electricity storage system for renewable energies. Australia-based Latent Heat Storage has developed a low cost thermal energy storage system based on the latent heat properties of silicon derived from sand. by Andrew Spence. —Jonathan Whalley.

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Energy Storage Renewable Energy Grid 150

Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2014

Ambri, developer of Liquid Metal Battery grid-scale energy storage technology, closed a $35-million Series C equity financing. This latest funding round will enable Ambri to deliver commercial systems to customers, build its initial commercial-scale manufacturing plant, and continue technology development. Earlier post.)

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Companies Batteries Battery Massachusetts 210

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 15, 2014

A few regions (notably California, Japan and Germany) have committed significant funds to support the next crucial steps forward on infrastructure build-out. Their results indicate that it would be technically feasible to build out a hydrogen infrastructure coordinated with vehicle rollouts in a series of lighthouse cities.

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Davis Hydrogen Transportation North America 250

Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2013

This would create an energy market in which only the amount of electricity actually in demand is fed into the grid. For example, the investor offering the lowest feed-in tariff would be awarded the contract to build a new wind farm. Rising electricity costs can be partly offset by systems that use less energy.

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Germany Energy Renewable Grid 239

Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2011

Liquid Metal Battery Corporation (LMBC), a Cambridge, Massachusetts company founded in 2010 to develop new forms of electric storage batteries that work in large, grid-scale applications, has secured the rights to key patent technology from MIT. —Luis Ortiz, LMBC’s President.

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MIT Batteries Battery Energy Storage 210

Charged EVs

AUGUST 2, 2023

When we were first starting off at Daimler Truck, trying to find a battery cell supplier that would build us a pack that was good in the truck was difficult. I was a big part of building the first-of-its-kind—at least in the Western world that we knew of—heavy-duty charging site in Portland, Oregon. It’s called Electric Island.

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Fleet Portland Charging Building 52

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2015

Building efficiency. in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), and battery electric vehicles (EVs). Battery Storage For Transportation. Technologies that apply thermal storage, and non?battery battery electric storage, such as supercapacitors and others specifically for transportation application.

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Transportation Energy 2015 Fuel 150

Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2014

The report concludes that the decade from 2020 is when electrification of vehicles (including plug-in hybrids, battery electric vehicles and/or fuel cell vehicles) is likely to become a mainstream offer, providing there are advances in electricity storage technology and assuming adequate grid capacity.

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Renewable Transportation Fuel Energy 255

EV Info

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

It comes upon us when we have barely started ripping out our gas boilers to make way for the expensive and inefficient heat pumps the Government is telling us to buy, or building the costly new power stations that will be needed to charge the electric cars we will all soon require. This was plain wrong. Energy Solutions.

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Power Powered Wind Coal 52

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

The study builds on a 2011 effort which looked into the six key applications of the Strategic Energy Technology (SET) Plan: wind, solar, nuclear fission, bioenergy, carbon capture and storage (CCS) and the electricity grid. The risk arises from EU dependency on imports, growing demand worldwide and geopolitical reasons.

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Wind Light Solar Carbon 290

Driivz

MAY 31, 2022

Smart EV Charging in Commercial and Industrial Buildings. Smart EV Charging and Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G). It requires a data connection between the EV, the charger, the charge point operator’s cloud-based charging management platform and the grid. . Demand side response reduces energy demand during times of grid stress.

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EV Smart Charging Energy Grid 52

EV Central

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

But the newcomer is a lot more than just another electric car brand. Roev, which stands for renewable optimised electric vehicles, has detailed plans to build electric utes, initially starting with Toyota Hiluxes and Ford Rangers converted to electric and eventually branching out to a ute designed and engineered in Australia.

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Conversion Manufacturer Vehicles Australia 86