Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2010

Power companies buy windmill electricity generated during the daytime and resell it to households, factories and buildings. In order to store electricity generated at night, windmill operators need to install sodium-sulfur battery systems, which are as costly as power generators.

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Mitsubishi Wind EV Smart Charging 170

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2017

We need new storage technologies if more renewables are to be used on the electrical grid; similarly, the electrification of transport requires much cheaper and longer-lasting batteries. Substantial progress in battery technology is essential if we are to succeed in an energy transition towards a more carbon-neutral society. Click to enlarge.

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Li-ion Ni-Li Batteries Battery 150

Cars That Think

DECEMBER 24, 2023

Monique closes her EV’s fueling port and heads onto the highway with enough stored energy to drive 640 kilometers (400 miles). Flow batteries are safe, stable, long-lasting, and easily refilled, qualities that suit them well for balancing the grid, providing uninterrupted power, and backing up sources of electricity.

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Lithium Ion Batteries Battery Li-ion 145

Driivz

AUGUST 1, 2022

Smart EV charging delivers reliable, safe, renewable, and cost-effective energy to EVs while meeting the needs of drivers and local grids. It depends on sophisticated back-end software that captures data from EVs, networked chargers, and the grid. For buildings and fleets, site-level energy needs are also factored in.

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Electric Vehicles Charging Vehicles Grid 105

Get Electric Vehicle

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The batteries that use sodium instead of the pricey and rare lithium are the ones that are the closest to being on the market. Second EV batteries (Used EV batteries that are no longer used in cars) are used at public EV charging stations, fleet depots, commercial buildings, and other EV charging locations for local energy storage.

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Li-ion Lithium Ion Grid Charging 75

Blink Charging

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Most manufacturers provide battery warranties lasting seven or eight years, assuring consumers that EV batteries are expected to last. In recent years, alternative battery technologies, such as sodium-ion (Na-ion) batteries, have emerged as potentially transformative.

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Range Charging Lithium Ion United States 85

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Building Efficiency (3 projects). Planar Na-beta Batteries for Renewable Integration and Grid Applications. Eagle Picher, in partnership with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, will develop a new generation of high energy, low cost planar liquid sodium beta batteries for grid scale electrical power storage applications.

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Energy Grant Low Cost Li-ion 231

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2019

Natron Energy , a developer of new battery cell technology based on Prussian Blue analogue electrodes and a sodium-ion electrolyte, has closed a strategic investment by Chevron Technology Ventures (CTV) to support the development of stationary energy storage systems for demand charge management at electric vehicle (EV) charging stations.

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Chevron Sodium Energy Charging 288