Cars That Think

JULY 30, 2023

Fifty years after the birth of the rechargeable lithium-ion battery, it’s easy to see its value. Did Exxon invent the rechargeable lithium battery? The battery’s performance was also unprecedented: It was both rechargeable and very high in energy output. It’s used in billions of laptops, cellphones, power tools, and cars.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2021

Volvo Cars is tripling electric car manufacturing capacity at its plant in Ghent, Belgium as it prepares to meet fast growing demand for its Recharge line-up of chargeable cars. The capacity increase comes as Volvo Cars also reports its full-year sales results for 2020, which showed a strong growth in demand for the company’s Recharge models.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2020

Volvo Cars formally inaugurated a new battery assembly line at its Belgian manufacturing plant in Ghent, where it will start building its first fully electric car, the XC40 Recharge P8, later this year. Volvo XC40 Recharge powertrain. The XC40 Recharge P8 is the first of a family of fully electric Volvos.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2017

University of Sydney team advances rechargeable zinc-air batteries with bimetallic oxide–graphene hybrid electrocatalyst. Up until now, rechargeable zinc-air batteries have been made with expensive precious metal catalysts, such as platinum and iridium oxide. They can then be applied to build rechargeable zinc-air batteries.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2019

FCA will build a new battery assembly complex in Turin as part of its overall e-mobility strategy. A journey passing through the recent partnerships on recharging infrastructure, Vehicle-to-Grid and services to support customers of hybrid and full electric cars, from Italy to the rest of the world.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Ewiva was launched in Rome at the grand opening of its first premium recharging station in Via Flaminia 871, which will offer a lounge open to all customers and 14 ultra-fast charging points each with up to 300 kW, all under a solar roof made of PV panels manufactured at the Enel’s 3Sun Gigafactory in Sicily.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2014

Kyocera’s “Solar Cycle Station” is a solar-powered recharging station—originally launched for electric-assisted bicycles in 2010—that uses the company’s high performance solar modules. Shintec Hozumi installed a 230kW Kyocera solar power generating system on the rooftop of its headquarters to provide clean energy for the building.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 23, 2021

Toyota is building hydrogen combustion engines. Both the 2021 Ford Mustang Mach-E and the 2021 Volvo XC40 Recharge are on the. Honda reveals more about its U.S. California is back on a path to setting its own vehicle emissions rules. And the list of EVs with top safety ratings is growing fast. This and more, here at Green Car Reports.

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InsideEVs

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The custom R1S and R1T both come with Optima Power Station trailers capable of Level 2 charging.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2022

Yamato Transport and Commercial Japan Partnership Technologies Corporation (CJPT) will begin studying the standardization and commercialization of replaceable and rechargeable cartridge batteries. Reduce the recharging burden: The burden related to the installation of recharging infrastructure can be reduced.

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InsideEVs

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

The automaker is currently filling orders into February 2022 and estimates it will build 6,000–7,000 units this year.

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Cars That Think

JULY 14, 2022

This spurred Julie Angus to cofound the startup Open Ocean Robotics to design, build, and operate oceangoing uncrewed surface vehicle (USV) drones. The company designs and builds the drone’s hull, deck, and circuit boards. Our boats can operate and travel nonstop for months, without needing refueling or external recharging.”

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InsideEVs

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

The Swedish automaker compares how much it emits to make an XC40 versus a fully-electric C40 or XC40 Recharge.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2021

This finding reinforces ongoing efforts to deploy at least an additional 20 DCFCs primarily on the perimeter of campus in order to serve both UC San Diego commuters as well as the general public in need of recharging. —Byron Washom, UCSD director of strategic energy initiatives and co-author.

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San Diego Charging Building DC 294

Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2023

Credit: Kmusser In addition, these funds include grants to the Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys to conduct geologic mapping in the Chena portion of the Yukon-Tanana region of east-central Alaska, building on earlier Earth MRI geophysical data collection and USGS research.

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Driivz

AUGUST 30, 2023

Installing and operating EV charging stations offers businesses and owners of commercial and industrial buildings a winning proposition. Building owners can work with a charge point operator or EV service provider to install and manage the EV chargers. EV charging itself creates a new “green” revenue opportunity.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2011

As the price of R134a refrigerant continues to rise, Delphi has introduced four air conditioning (A/C) recharging stations to its service portfolio that utilize an efficient method of recovering as much refrigerant from the car as possible to help garages lessen their refrigerant costs, while helping to protect the environment.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

Demand for secondary (rechargeable) batteries in the North American market is expected to continue to grow, not only for use in hybrid and electric vehicles, but also for stationary power sources including housing, large facilities of various industries and grid scale storage applications.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2022

announced that building solutions company Holcim US has ordered 10 units backed by deposits to secure Hypertruck ERX production slots. Hyliion Holdings Corp. The trucks will replace existing diesel fuel vehicles supporting cement and concrete operations in Texas and Oklahoma, as well as for the transport of roofing materials.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2018

Johnson Matthey (JM) is building a demonstration-scale plant in Clitheroe, UK to manufacture next-generation battery materials to power electric vehicles. Johnson Matthey says that eLNO represents a step-change in energy density compared to NMC(622), NMC(811) and NCA materials. And that’s the key element that’s there.

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Building Batteries Battery Production 170

Green Car Congress

APRIL 4, 2022

The LA-area depot is the first in a series that Zeem plans to build across the United States to enable medium- and heavy-duty fleet owners to electrify. The depot, a hub for zero-emission vehicle services, is the largest commercial EV charging installation in the US that supports medium- and heavy-duty electric vehicle fleets.

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Teslarati

MARCH 29, 2024

CATL and GM are also discussing the possibility of building a joint factory in North America. However, the pair have agreed that the annual capacity of their joint battery plant in North America would be no less than the plant CATL is currently building with Ford. Last year, Ford announced plans to build a $3.5

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

In the third quarter of 2011, Hydro-Québec generated $22 million from the granting of sub-licenses for the manufacture of Li-ion rechargeable battery materials. The latter has undertaken to build a plant in Québec. Süd-Chemie is already building a plant in Candiac through its subsidiary Phostech Lithium Inc. (A Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Electrify America recently unveiled its first application of a megawatt-level battery energy storage system (BESS) for electric vehicle (EV) charging stations, building upon the company’s existing BESS installations at more than 150 stations across the US, including more than 100 installations in California.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 22, 2014

With extensive electrical infrastructure already in place in built-up areas, plug-in electric cars are never too far from a potential recharging source. Now, California has ensured that new buildings at least will have.'

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2011

of China (SGCC) plans to build more electric charging stations in Beijing and several other cities this year to meet rising demand for electric vehicles. The major service of the stations will be providing batteries that are already recharged, Liu said at the company’s annual work meeting in Beijing.He People’s Daily.

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Building China Charging Batteries 258

Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2021

It builds upon the rail industry’s position as the most efficient and sustainable mode of transportation. Building on our long history of pioneering train energy management technologies, this demonstration of coupling 2.4 The battery locomotive charged at the rail yard and recharged during the trip through regenerative braking.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

France’s Eco2charge consortium, coordinated by Bouygues Energie & Services, recently launched an R&D program at the Fédération Nationale des Travaux Publics (National federation of public works) to accelerate the deployment of charging solutions for electric vehicles, especially in commercial buildings. second-life”).

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Building Commercial Energy Charging 218

Green Car Reports

JANUARY 20, 2020

Volvo revealed in October, amid the preview of the upcoming XC40 Recharge electric crossover, that an electric version of its next-generation XC90 SUV will be built at Volvo’s plant in Ridgeville, South Carolina, near Charleston. Now Volvo has confirmed a battery plant will be part of a plant expansion to accommodate it and other.

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South Carolina Volvo Batteries Battery 127

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

LionVolt spun off last year from TNO at Holst Centre, building on six years of research and development of its innovative battery design. They recharge rapidly, have a higher energy density, are intrinsically safe and have a long product lifespan. The battery that LionVolt is developing is based on 3D technology and solid-state layers.

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Lithium Ion Batteries Battery Recharge 435

Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2022

The turbogenerator will recharge batteries after take-off or power propellers directly, enabling aircraft to switch between power sources in flight. Rolls-Royce is also set to build on our existing network to offer maintenance services for electrical systems.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2020

The vehicles, which will enter into service in about 18 months, will be recharged by day using fast pantograph chargers deployed in three locations in the city; at night they will be charged at the bus depot at Legionów street. Operator Miejski Zak?ad ad Komunikacji (MZK) in Toru?, Poland, has bought six Solaris electric buses.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

The battery is rechargeable for 1000 cycles with a low polarization gap and can operate at high rates. The team established that this shortcoming is not the case for their new battery design by building and operating a test cell for 1000 cycles, demonstrating its stability over repeated charge and discharge. Ngo, Paul C.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2012

Instant Charge Electric Bus will run solely on batteries recharged by the electricity grid and will be distinctive in its ability to recharge its onboard battery to up to 80% capacity in less than 10 minutes using a buffered system that will have no direct impact on the electricity grid.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2022

The deal builds momentum in the market for the world’s first 100%, battery-powered locomotive and supports the Australia-based natural resource company’s plan to decarbonize its rail network. The FLXdrives will join the diesel locomotives to form a hybrid consist, and recharge during the trip through regenerative braking.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2020

Anzode is building a generation of inexpensive green batteries that are safer for the environment. Our rechargeable zinc-manganese batteries provide great performance and safety and are much cheaper than lithium, making them a viable solution for backup power and energy storage. Its proprietary technology is cathode-agnostic.

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Lithium Ion Batteries Battery Energy Storage 199

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2017

The new battery offers high-energy density and the ultra-rapid recharging required for automotive applications. A compact EV with a 32 kWh next generation SCiB pack could recharge to a 320 km (199 miles) drive range (JC08 test cycle) after six minutes—three times the distance possible with current lithium-ion batteries Toshiba said.

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