Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2018

Now, a team from Spain, Italy and Germany reports an efficient lithium?ion ion battery using an enhanced sulfur–carbon composite cathode that exploits graphene carbon with a 3D array (3DG?S) V—yielding a theoretical energy density approaching 700 Wh kg S ?1 storage applications. S) and a silicon oxide?based

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2013

Researchers at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (Germany) report in the journal Angewandte Chemie their development of an enhanced platinum catalyst for the steam reforming of methanol to release hydrogen. A central problem of renewable energy technology lies in the great variation of energy generated (i.e., intermittency).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2020

The partners say that the technology used will offer the highest level of energy performance, both in terms of range and charging time, and a lower carbon footprint than that of the competition. In 2015, Total set an ambition to become the responsible energy major.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2018

As part of this joint venture, lithium hydroxide is to be extracted from residual brine from existing evaporation basins, which were constructed for the production of potassium chloride and lithium carbonate. There is a plan to establish a further joint venture to manufacture cathode material and battery systems in Bolivia and Germany.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Together with the local partners Thonburi Automotive Assembly Plant (TAAP) and Thonburi Energy Storage Systems (TESM), Mercedes-Benz AG has invested a total of more than €100 million in the battery production and a plant expansion of the existing vehicle production plant. The aim is a carbon neutral new car fleet until 2039.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2022

Cellforce Group is set to produce high-performance lithium-silicon battery cells in South Germany beginning in 2024 to be installed in electrically powered Porsche models. —Lutz Meschke, deputy chairman and member of the executive board of Finance and IT at Porsche AG. The battery cells are the combustion chamber of the future.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Tesla and its partner Octopus Energy Germany recently rolled out retail utility services in two large German states. A decade ago it became possible to get your electricity in the UK from a department store chain (though with the actual power supplied first by a Scottish utility and— as of 2018 —arranged and managed by Octopus Energy).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Mercedes-Benz Cars has begun production of the first Mercedes-Benz compact vehicles with plug-in hybrid drive ( earlier post ) at the Mercedes-Benz Rastatt plant in southern Germany. kWh, serves as an electric energy storage unit. It can be charged at an external AC or DC electric energy source.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Fraunhofer IWS in Dresden, Germany will hold its 3rd annual workshop on Lithium-sulfur batteries from 12-13 November 2014.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 26, 2015

Hydrogenics Corporation will supply a 1MW electrolyzer and provide engineering expertise to a consortium of companies working on the European project MefCO2 (methanol fuel from CO 2 ) in Germany. Carbon Capture and Conversion (CCC) Emissions Hydrogen Methanol Power-to-Gas' tonnes of CO 2. The project has a budget of €11 million (US$12.4

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CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

In recent months it’s become clear that there’s a distinctly non-cottage industry in Germany producing unintentionally and intentionally misleading reports. continued] The post German Energy Agency Dena Is Just As Subject To Hydrogen Gruppendenken As JRC & PIK appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Not only will electric vehicles with bidirectional charging capability be able to draw electrical power for their high-voltage battery when plugged into a compatible charging station or wallbox, they will also have the ability to reverse the process and feed energy back into the power grid.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2019

At the site of the Mercedes-Benz Untertürkheim plant in Germany, the construction of the battery factory at the Brühl sub-plant has begun with the symbolic foundation-laying ceremony. Mercedes-Benz Cars is investing more than one billion euros in a global battery production network within the worldwide Mercedes-Benz Cars production network.

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Teslarati

MARCH 30, 2023

Mercedes has announced a new wind power deal to ensure it reaches carbon neutrality as soon as possible. Countless automotive industry giants have become involved in the renewable energy sector , with varying levels of involvement.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2022

In 2021, global investment in the low-carbon energy transition totaled $755 billion, up 27% from $595 billion in 2020 and just $264 billion in 2011, according to Energy Transition Investment Trends 2022, a new report published by research firm BloombergNEF (BNEF). Germany, the U.K. from the year prior.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

The ReFactory aims to achieve a negative carbon balance by 2030—an objective in line with the Group’s ambition to achieve carbon neutrality in Europe by 2050. The Group is also developing mobile energy storage applications. When they are at the end of their life, the batteries are systematically recycled.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 21, 2013

Clariant, a global provider of specialty chemicals, has supplied a proprietary CO 2 -SNG (synthetic natural gas) catalyst for the methanation unit of Audi’s new power-to-gas facility in Werlte, Germany. Clariant is also part of iC 4 , a R&D cooperation of major participants from the chemical and energy sectors. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Significant cost reductions can be achieved by front-loading the deployment of renewables, mainly wind and solar photovoltaic, and by utilizing the technologies needed to balance their inherent intermittency, such as energy storage and thermal balancing power plants. As utilities do this, the mindset of energy leaders will change.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2011

Cell production is a key part of battery manufacture, accounting for the highest proportion of added value, notes the SGL Group, which not only supplies the electromobility sector with lightweight solutions based on carbon fiber composites but is also a major producer of graphite and carbon anode materials for lithium-ion batteries.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

Researchers from Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) in Korea and Karlsruher Institute of Technology in Germany have developed a novel energy conversion and storage system using seawater as a cathode. M solution of NaClO 4 in ethylene carbonate/diethyl carbonate (DEC; 1/1 vol.%). mm was used.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 2, 2024

Launching first in Europe, ENYRING is focusing on “collaborations between Yamaha Motor and strategic partner companies, and there are plans to launch operations to expand the business in Germany—starting with Berlin—and in the Netherlands.” But those same battery cells can still live on as stationary batteries in energy storage systems.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2010

A sustainable and reversible energy storage cycle based on hydrogen storage in, and release from, formic acid. note, in addition to hydrogen generation, “ a sustainable and reversible energy storage cycle can be envisioned by storage of hydrogen in formic acid and release from it ”. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2019

Reintroducing airships into the world’s transportation mix could contribute to lowering the transport sector’s carbon emissions and can play a role in establishing a sustainable hydrogen based economy, according to a new IIASA-led study. The open-access paper is published in the journal Energy Conversion and Management: X.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2011

Graphene is a novel carbon-based material that in laboratory testing has shown the potential to significantly increase both the energy density and power density of ultracapacitors. For vehicle applications, it is desirable to have devices with high energy density, high power density, long cycle and shelf life, and low cost.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 30, 2022

China's Big Hydro Plans China is in the midst of a gigantic buildup of hydro-energy capabilities. The world’s largest pumped-energy-storage station—a technique that stores energy by pumping it uphill to a reservoir—is set to complete phase two of its construction in 2023.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 4, 2019

This holistic approach also includes the use of vehicle batteries in stationary energy-storage devices after their mobile service life. The aspect of energy supply to the production locations also plays an important role. On downhill stretches and when braking, kinetic energy can be stored in the battery (recuperation).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 4, 2011

Lithium iron phosphate (LiFePO 4 , LFP) is a cathode material that, due to its performance and safety profile, is attractive for use in batteries in applications such as hybrid and electric drives in the automotive industry and for stationary energy storage. Such a layer must be thin enough to permit the passage of lithium ions.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Israel-based Chakratec, a provider of kinetic energy storage technology for electric vehicle (EV) charging, has completed a project with Premier Inn, a British hotel chain and the UK’s largest hotel brand, enabling guests at the hotel’s Leipzig, Germany, location to charge their EVs throughout their stay.

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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. It appears that this is poised to happen in at least three places in the world: California, Germany and Japan. But energy decision-makers have heard this before.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2011

If there are strong sea winds, for instance, then surplus power supplies can be converted to e-gas and stored in the largest available energy-storage system: the public gas network. If necessary, this energy can flow from the gas network back to the power grid at any time. Rated at 3.6

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 31, 2010

Researchers in China and Germany have coated carbon nanotubes (CNT) with a nanoporous layer of TiO 2 to create coaxial nanocables for use as electrode materials in Li-ion batteries (LIB). Carbon provides sufficient electronic conductivity but lacks sufficient ion conductivity. Credit: ACS, Cao et al. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2009

KG, the automotive lithium-ion battery joint venture formed in 2008 by Daimler AG and Evonik Industries AG ( earlier post ), will begin construction of its production facility this autumn in Kamenz, Germany. Even in a few years, therefore, many vehicles will have these “Made in Germany” energy storage systems on board.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 9, 2024

On the final day of the summit, seminars and conferences on subjects including circular de-carbonisation of the economy and going towards Net Zero through carbon trading, waste-to-energy recycling, opportunities in circular de-carbonisation of the economy and conferences are expected to be organised.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

HybridSHIP is concerned with introducing batteries for on-board energy storage, integrated with fuel cells and gas engines. Two recently opened projected in Germany, Dr Sames pointed out, have demonstrated how using hydrogen to store surplus energy was already a viable technology. Germanischer Lloyd.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2022

The production of the high-performance lithium-ion batteries for the EQS SUV and the EQE SUV is carbon-neutral. The energy storage units are assembled into a complete system on an approximately 984 yard long production line with more than 70 workstations.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

The Advanced Lead Acid Battery Consortium (ALABC) last month showcased three hybrid electric concept vehicles resulting from its R&D program that demonstrate the real-world potential of lead-carbon batteries in 48V architectures. All three vehicles feature advanced lead-carbon batteries, also known as carbon-enhanced lead-acid batteries.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2019

Partners of the P2X Kopernikus project on the premises of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany have demonstrated the production of fuel from air-captured CO2 using—for the first time—a container-based test facility integrating all four chemical process steps needed to implement a continuous process.

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