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BNEF ups forecast for global investment in stationary energy storage, sees majority of capacity likely to be grid-scale

Green Car Congress

The total demand for batteries from the stationary storage and electric transport sectors is forecast to be 4,584GWh combined by 2040, providing a major opportunity for battery makers and miners of component metals such as lithium, cobalt and nickel. There is a fundamental transition developing in the power system and transportation sector.

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Proposed California Bill SB-233 Mandates Bidirectional Charging for EVs to Advance Grid and Climate Protection

Driivz

The bill, SB-233 , aims to advance grid resilience and protect the climate by using EVs as “batteries on wheels,” tapping their stored energy to balance electricity supply and demand rather than bringing high-polluting peak generators online. Vehicle-to-building works much the same way but on a larger scale.

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

Green Car Congress

The reuse and recycling of batteries is a key issue as increasing numbers of cities plan transition to electrically powered transport. It can also be used to buy and store electricity from the national grid when it is cheap and green, for later use. What we are examining here is exactly how good that potential is.

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Thermal Energy Storage Is No Longer Just Hot Air

Cars That Think

The bathtub is cheap for us, so when it comes to how much we can store, we can increase that capacity quite cheaply,” says Michael Simpson , the cofounder of Cheesecake Energy. Getting a 100 percent decarbonized grid is nothing but an optimization problem.”—Matthew When does it make sense to buy electricity directly from the grid?

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10 Reasons Your Next Car Should Be an EV

Plug in America

EVs Cost Less to Fuel Powering your ride with electricity costs about 60% less than buying gasoline. EVs Improve Public Health Transportation emissions are the leading source of air pollution in the U.S. EVs are Better for the Grid Electric vehicles are essentially mobile power storage that can get us where we need to go.

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Billionaire Brings Tesla Autopilot Rebuke

Cars That Think

Got to prove you are awake by touching the wheel, but you can buy a weight on Amazon to hang on the wheel to get round that. What happened when you submitted your test results to the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration ? I know of no examples of someone shutting down a grid with malware. What’s next?

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Clearing the roadblocks to electrification of heavy-duty trucks

Charged EVs

For some (not all) use cases, the economic advantages of going electric have been clear for a long time, and yet we’ve seen a dozen EV manufacturers go bust while trying to address the commercial market, while fleet operators continue to buy diesel vehicles, which continue to belch out clouds of oily black smoke.

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