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Toyota energy storage, Mercedes EQB details, Ford CEO on EV shakeout: Today’s Car News

Green Car Reports

Toyota gets in the home energy storage business—albeit only in Japan, for now. This and more, here at Green Car Reports. Mercedes puts a price on its EQB electric SUV. And Ford’s CEO sees EVs as the spark for a big industry consolidation. In a financial.

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Tesla to build new Megafactory in Shanghai to produce Megapack energy storage system

CN EV Post

The Megafactory is planned to initially produce up to 10,000 units of commercial energy storage batteries per year, with an energy storage scale of nearly 40 GWh, and the product will be available to the global markets. For more articles, please visit CnEVPost.

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Electrochemical energy storage startup SPARKZ licenses ORNL cobalt-free battery tech

Green Car Congress

Stealth-mode electrochemical energy storage startup SPARKZ Inc. has exclusively licensed five battery technologies from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) designed to eliminate the use of cobalt metal in lithium-ion batteries. I look at this as a very strategic partnership. —Ilias Belharouak.

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SwRI opens Energy Storage Technology Center

Green Car Congress

Southwest Research Institute has opened a new Energy Storage Technology Center , bringing its diverse scientific research, development and evaluation of energy storage systems under one roof. We now have 10 times the laboratory space devoted to energy storage research and testing.

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Thermal Energy Storage Is No Longer Just Hot Air

Cars That Think

Cheesecake is part of a cohort of companies trying to meet a growing need for alternative forms of energy storage. As countries transition away from fossil fuels to green sources of energy like wind and solar, there will be natural lulls in energy production due to weather conditions.

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ABB partners with Vigor selects ABB as propulsion and energy storage partner for hybrid-electric ferries

Green Car Congress

American shipbuilding company Vigor Fab LLC has selected ABB as the hybrid-electric propulsion and energy storage system provider for the newest additions to the Washington State Ferry fleet—the largest US ferry system.

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Electrify America to Install EV Charging Stations with Battery Energy Storage at the Port of Long Beach to Serve Drayage Trucks

Electric Cars Report

Electrify America announced plans to install 30 electric fleet-dedicated chargers paired with battery energy storage systems (BESS) at the Port of Long Beach, California, as part of Electrify America’s $25 million “Green City” investment in the region at the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles.