Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2021

Friend Family Distinguished Professor of Engineering, have been exploring the use of low-cost materials to create rechargeable batteries that will make energy storage more affordable. The group previously demonstrated the potential of zinc-anode batteries. A paper on the work is published in Nature Energy.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2022

For the BMW Group Plant Leipzig, the farewell to the BMW i3 is linked to the start of a new chapter in electric mobility. At the same time, the BMW Group Plant Leipzig becomes the first location in the company’s global production network where BMW and MINI models are manufactured together. kWh/100 km according to WLTP, 13.1 - 14.0

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Altairnano has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Shenhua Science & Technology and its research affiliate, the National Institute of Clean and Low-carbon Energy (NICE), jointly to develop, deploy and promote industrial applications of lithium titanate-based energy storage systems in China.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2022

The tests close to the Arctic Circle see the BMW Group pressing ahead with its development process for the BMW iX5 Hydrogen. —Jürgen Guldner, Vice President of Hydrogen Fuel Cell Technology and Vehicle Projects at the BMW Group. The electric motor can add the energy stored in a power battery to the mix.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2023

The BMW Group produces the fuel cell systems for the pilot fleet at its in-house competence center for hydrogen in Munich. The BMW Group sources the individual fuel cells from the Toyota Motor Corporation. The stack housing is manufactured in the light metal foundry at BMW Group Plant Landshut using a sand casting technique.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 9, 2024

JSW Energy announced on Monday that it has initiated the construction activities for its Battery Energy Storage Project ( BESS ), thus marking its foray into energy storage services business. JSW Energy Ltd is one of the leading private sector power producers in India and part of the USD 23 billion JSW Group.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

These 32 demonstration projects, which include large-scale energy storage, smart meters, distribution and transmission system monitoring devices, plug-in vehicles, and a range of other smart technologies, will act as models for deploying integrated Smart Grid systems on a broader scale. Tehachapi Wind Energy Storage Project.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

Researchers from Imperial College London and their European partners, including Volvo Car Corporation, are developing a prototype multifunctional structural composite material composed of carbon fibers and a polymer resin which can store and discharge electrical energy and which is also strong and lightweight enough to be used for car parts.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2022

Now, a group of researchers from the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) led by Prof. The team designed a core-shell type material where the core was made up of SiMP coated in a layer of carbon with silicon oxycarbide black glasses grafted on as the shell layer. The new material retained 99.4%

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Groupe Renault, Europe’s number one manufacturer of electric vehicles, has formed a new subsidiary: Renault Energy Services. The aim of this new subsidiary is to have an active presence in the energy and smart grid sectors, both of which are fundamental to the expansion of electric mobility.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2020

Currently, hydrogen is mainly produced centrally from fossil resources and compressed or liquefied in an expensive and energy-intensive process in order to be able to supply it to filling stations. Additionally, expensive infrastructure with high investment costs is needed there to store large quantities of hydrogen. OSOD H2 generator.

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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

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The selected projects, sponsored by private companies across seven different states, will develop novel technologies that enhance existing clean energy infrastructure, such as aircraft electrification, rapid electric vehicle (EV) charging, and advanced floating offshore wind turbine technologies. Quidnet Energy, Inc. municipal utility.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2009

A Michigan State University (MSU) researcher and his students have developed a nanomaterial—xGnP Exfoliated Graphite NanoPlatelets—that makes plastic stiffer, lighter and stronger and could result in more fuel-efficient airplanes and cars as well as more durable medical and sports equipment and enhanced energy storage systems.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2014

Researchers at Harvard have demonstrated a metal-free organic–inorganic aqueous flow battery—a quinone–bromide flow battery (QBFB)—as an example of a class of energy storage materials that exploits the favorable chemical and electrochemical properties of a family of molecules known as quinones. —Huskinson et al.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Contour Energy Systems, Inc. has acquired a carbon nanotube technology that can significantly improve the power capability of lithium-ion batteries, through an exclusive technology licensing agreement with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Earlier post.) Earlier post.). —MIT Professor Yang Shao-Horn.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2014

Volvo Car Group and engineering company Flybrid Automotive, part of the Torotrak Group, have been conducting UK tests of lightweight Flybrid flywheel KERS (Kinetic Energy Recovery System) technology. —Derek Crabb, Vice President Powertrain Engineering at Volvo Car Group. Rear-axle KERS unit. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2021

The estimated sodium storage up to C 6.9 The approach, reported in an open-access paper in Science Advances , provides a way to design carbon-based materials for sodium-ion batteries. Sodium ions are larger than lithium ions and interact differently, and cannot be efficiently stored in the graphite structure as Li ions are.

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Baua Electric

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Energy Storage: Renewable energy sources are often intermittent, meaning they don’t produce energy consistently. Effective integration requires strategies to manage and mitigate the impact of intermittent energy production on the stability of the grid.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2013

If the energy in the flywheel is combined with the combustion engine’s full capacity, it will give the car an extra 80 horsepower. The energy in the flywheel can then be used to accelerate the vehicle when it is time to move off again or to power the vehicle once it reaches cruising speed. Earlier post.). —Derek Crabb.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 21, 2013

The technology can be also used to store surplus energy in the gas pipeline system and to balance energy supply against demand. Clariant is also part of iC 4 , a R&D cooperation of major participants from the chemical and energy sectors. The e-gas plant will produce an average of 1.4 Earlier post.).

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Not least of those considerations is energy storage [and generation].” For capacitors, voltage translates to electrons stored —the voltage drop across a capacitor is proportional to its total charge.) The group fabricated their device using CFRP, sodium potassium niobate (KNN) nanoparticles, and epoxy resin.

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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

MARCH 23, 2012

Milczarek and Inganäs describe how a class of organic compounds known as quinones allows the lignin derivatives to shed a proton and store this electric charge in its place. The polypyrrole is able to hold on to the loose proton until the charge is released and the proton returns to the quinone group of the lignin derivative.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

At its recent “Kia Sustainability Movement” virtual presentation, Kia Corporation announced a commitment to achieve carbon neutrality throughout its value chain by 2045. Achieving carbon neutrality will be based on three key pillars: Sustainable Mobility; Sustainable Planet; and Sustainable Energy. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2017

Substantial progress in battery technology is essential if we are to succeed in an energy transition towards a more carbon-neutral society. 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.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2013

Over the years, extensive efforts have been devoted to addressing the first two problems, by encapsulating sulphur particles with conducting materials, including porous carbon, graphene oxide and conductive polymers, in an attempt to improve their electronic conductivity and limit polysulphide dissolution.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2015

In the hydraulic hybrid system, hydraulic pumps and the lightweight accumulator store braking energy; upon acceleration the stored energy provides torque to the wheels. Steelhead Composites manufactures accumulators from aluminum tubing and spun carbon fiber. System in place underneath a truck. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2014

The tenth competition under the Low Carbon Vehicles Innovation Platform’s integrated delivery program (IDP), IDP10 is targeting the building of an integrated low-carbon-vehicle innovation chain, from the science base, through collaborative R&D to fleet-level demonstration. million (US$3.12 The IDP10-funded project will cost £3.25

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2013

The lightweight electric motor, developed by the McLaren Electronics arm of the Group, produces 176 bhp (131 kW), and is unique to the McLaren P1. In developing the IPAS technology for the McLaren P1, power delivery was prioritized over energy storage. The motor produces maximum torque of 260 N·m (192 lb-ft).

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Cars That Think

MAY 5, 2022

For example, organizations such as the Sierra Club and the World Wildlife Fund aspire to make the world carbon-neutral in 30 to 40 years. The concern about climate change is across all age groups. Battery energy storage. You cannot make wind and solar energy useful throughout the day unless you can store it.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

Silicon electrodes coated with the self-healing polymer lasted 10 times longer than those without the new polymer, healing any cracks within just a few hours, said Stanford Professor Zhenan Bao, whose group has been working on flexible electronic skin for use in robots, sensors, prosthetic limbs and other applications.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2009

The vehicles under evaluation include a parallel hybrid electric diesel collector from Mack Trucks (a Volvo Group subsidiary); a series-hybrid and an hydraulic parallel hybrid collector ( earlier post ) from Crane Carrier; and the Kenworth T370 diesel-electric hybrid (for the rack truck). Energy storage is a 288 cell ultracapacitor system.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2011

Classification of potential electrical storage for stationary applications. published in the ACS journal Chemical Reviews , reviews in detail four stationary storage systems considered the most promising candidates for electrochemical energy storage: vanadium redox flow; sodium-beta alumina membrane; lithium-ion; and lead-carbon batteries.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2010

When incorporated into resins, fuzzy fibers enable composites to be tailored for electrical and thermal conductivity, chemical and biological sensing, energy storage and conversion, thermal management and other properties. NAHF-XTM inventor Khalid Lafdi, Group Leader for Carbon Materials at UDRI. Brian Rice.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Siemens has developed an electrolysis system based on PEM (proton exchange membrane) technology, which enables large quantities of energy to be captured and stored through the conversion of electrical current into hydrogen. The H2FUTURE project is an important milestone on the path towards coupling the energy and industry sectors.

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Plug In India

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

In India, OLA Electric and Tata group have plans to make cells at a large scale. Demand for the element is so great for applications including electric vehicles, portable electronic devices, and stationary energy units, that lithium mining companies are struggling to keep up. But Lithium has a fundamental problem.

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