Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2017

The funding comes from CEC’s Electric Program Investment Charge (EPIC) program, which funds clean energy innovation to reduce pollution, foster economic development, and meet the state’s climate goals. ICF International estimates that such a system could save California 3.2

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Researchers at Georgia Tech have developed a promising new conversion-type cathode and electrolyte system that replaces expensive metals and traditional liquid electrolyte with lower cost transition metal fluorides and a solid polymer electrolyte. A paper on their work is published in the journal Nature Materials. —Huang et al.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2023

Specifically, after 345 charge/discharge cycles at high current, this acidic reaction mechanism retained 82.8% of peak charge capacity. h is achieved with an estimated raw active materials cost of $7.02 h is achieved with an estimated raw active materials cost of $7.02 mAh cm −2 , a discharge duration of 28.2

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2014

Discharge mode is shown; the arrows are reversed for electrolytic/charge mode. The two main components—the electrochemical conversion hardware through which the fluids are flowed (which sets the peak power capacity) and the chemical storage tanks (which set the energy capacity)—may be independently sized. Cell schematic.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2021

The platform can also use low-cost and high-specific-energy conversion-type cathodes that are not suitable in lithium-ion or other liquid-based cell architectures. Solid Power’s multi-product portfolio is specifically geared to satisfy automotive OEM objectives of early and sustained success.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2020

Electric vehicles are the next frontier in the clean energy transition, and we are committed to making charging EVs easy, convenient and affordable for customers. Electric vehicles charged on the increasingly clean Xcel Energy system will have about 80% lower carbon emissions than gas-powered cars by 2030.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Such a plant would feed a 50,000 metric ton per year conversion plant to produce battery grade lithium hydroxide to support domestic manufacturing of the lithium-ion battery cells to power 750,000 electric vehicles per year. PVDF enables EV batteries to go farther on charge, contributes to cycle life, and enhances battery durability.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2014

Researchers will design self-healing polymers that can stretch to accommodate large volume changes in the battery during charge and discharge. The mineral perovskite is a promising, low-cost material for enhancing the efficiency of silicon solar cells. efficiency, low-cost silicon solar cells. modified plants.

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Setec Powerr

AUGUST 4, 2021

EV DC fast charging stations are becoming more and more popular for the people in the city. Since you live within commuting distance, most of your car charging time depends on the time that you put on car parking time, where they do the electric public charger setup in order on a car, and who else will take it.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Validated ab-initio models to support “Materials by Design” methodologies for bulk materials and interfaces with physical, optical, chemical and electronic properties optimized for solar to hydrogen conversion.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2018

are promising anode candidate materials, owing to their high theoretical capacity and low cost. Among those materials, Mn 3 O 4 has been intensively investigated as one of the most promising anode materials due to its abundance, low oxidation potential and competitive electrochemical performance. Li/Li + ). 2018.05.064.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Saratoga Energy has won a National Science Foundation grant to scale up its breakthrough process for generating low-cost, top quality carbon nanotubes from carbon dioxide for use in making high-performance Li-ion batteries, such as those used in electric vehicles, grid storage, and military and aerospace applications.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

Schematic illustration of the designed hybrid-seawater fuel cell and a schematic diagram at the charged–discharged state. Thus, we have designed a novel energy conversion and storage system using seawater, or more precisely, the NaCl dissolved in seawater, as a sodium source. Click to enlarge.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 14, 2022

The idea, says Daniel Codd , a researcher in renewable energy systems at the University of California, San Diego, is to store solar-produced heat in rock formations below the surface, creating a solar-charged geothermal resource in which heat is stored for meaningful durations.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2022

An international team of researchers led by Quanguan Pang at Peking University and Donald Sadoway at MIT reports a bidirectional, rapidly charging aluminum–chalcogen battery operating with a molten-salt electrolyte composed of NaCl–KCl–AlCl 3. The heat is naturally produced electrochemically by the charging and discharging of the battery.

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Charged EVs

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

As more fleets of medium- and heavy-duty vehicles go electric, there’s a growing awareness that building the necessary charging infrastructure will be a complex proposition, requiring specialized expertise and considerable capital. TeraWatt has only recently come out of stealth mode, and has yet to announce any major customers.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

nm, average) of iron pyrite (FeS 2 ) nanoparticles are advantageous to sustain reversible conversion reactions in sodium ion and lithium ion batteries. FeS 2 is particularly attractive for energy storage technology due to its earth abundance, low toxicity, and low raw material cost. …

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2017

This is due to the lack of electrocatalysts that successfully reduce and generate oxygen during the discharging and charging of a battery. Metal oxides of earth-abundant elements are promising electrocatalysts to overcome the sluggish oxygen evolution and oxygen reduction reaction (OER/ORR) in many electrochemical energy-conversion devices.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2013

FedEx is also working with XL Hybrids, a developer of low-cost hybrid electric powertrain system, to convert ten conventionally-powered panel vans into more fuel-efficient, hybrid vehicles. In 2008, FedEx Corp.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Bright Automotive launched eSolutions with a just-announced contract from the US Army TACOM to conduct a demonstration project on a low-cost plug-in hybrid electric solution for non-tactical military vehicles. Conversions. Tags: Conversions Hybrids Plug-ins. Bright Automotive, Inc., Vehicle Engineering. Energy Storage.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) will award up to $30 million to fund a new program focused on the development of transformational electrochemical technologies to enable low-cost distributed power generation. ITFCs with in-situ charge storage for dynamic response.

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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

DECEMBER 7, 2011

Charging and discharging of the TREATS thermal storage will be achieved via the solid state converters. is a provider of breakthrough solid-state energy conversion technology to the refrigeration, HVAC, and power generation markets. TREATS is the second ARPA-E collaborative agreement signed by Sheetak. Sheetak Inc.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 3, 2014

an “artificial leaf” to produce hydrogen—based on a nanowire mesh that lends itself to large-scale, low-cost production. mol, which corresponds to an overall solar-to-fuel conversion efficiency of 0.0017%. A paper describing their work is published in the journal ACS Nano. —Liu et al.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Silicon is one of the numerous alternative anode materials but, despite a high theoretical capacity, shows serious volume expansion (> 300%) and low electric conductivity which impedes its success in extensive application. anode; (b) the first three cycles charge-discharge profiles at a current density of 0.1

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2012

The testing process compares fuel economy performance from the vehicle in its original condition with the performance using XL Hybrids’ charge-sustaining hybrid system. The test was completed using a Chevrolet 2500 Express cargo van fitted with the original equipment manufacturer’s 4.8L engine and 6-speed transmission.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2009

SDG&E tested the performance of two 2007-model Prius hybrids and then converted them into plug-in hybrids, using a Hymotion 5 kWh lithium-ion battery conversion kit. L/100km), achieved a 58% increase in gas mileage, a 37% decrease in carbon dioxide tailpipe emissions, and a 10% reduction in fuel costs. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2009

Battery pack state of charge vs. distance for the ADDZEV vehicle under all-electric power on the UDDC cycle. A collaboration led by the UK’s Cranfield University has developed a retrofit plug-in hybrid conversion system for a conventional internal combustion engine vehicle. Tags: Conversions Hybrids Plug-ins. Source: Cranfield.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2014

charge curves at 33.3 Researchers in Japan report in a paper in the journal ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces that amorphous Fe 3+ -based oxide nanoparticles produced by Leptothrix ochracea , an aquatic bacteria living worldwide, show a potential as an Fe 3+ /Fe 0 conversion anode material for lithium-ion batteries. mA/g (0.05

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2012

Polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) are being developed worldwide as clean energy conversion devices. Long-Lived, High-Energy-Density and Low-Cost Lithium-Ion Batteries for Automotive, Grid Energy and Medical. GM Canada, and Hydrogenics. APC Investment: $4,176,005 (through NSERC and CFI).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2011

Technologies for low-cost production of advanced biofuels are limited by the small amount of available energy captured by photosynthesis and the inefficient processes used to convert plant matter to fuel. If successful, PETRO will create biofuels for half their current cost, finally making them cost-competitive with fuels from oil.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

This project explores the use of specially designed nanostructured polymers to make high-energy, low-cost, flexible and stretchable batteries. The long-term goal of this project is to develop a water-splitting device that operates at high temperatures (up to 400 °C), dramatically improving solar-to-hydrogen conversion efficiencies.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2015

Subtopics include Microbial Biomass Conversion. Design, Deployment, and Validation of Advanced, Low-cost Mobile Hydrogen Refuelers. Subtopic 1a: Microbial biomass conversion. The long-term goal of hydrogen production and delivery R&D is a high-volume hydrogen cost of. Catalysts and Supports.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2018

Cost effective solar fuel generation is hindered by the semiconductor material not meeting certain essential criteria to achieve highly efficient solar to hydrogen conversion. However further work is required to investigate and improve slow charge carrier dynamics and low light absorption challenges of LaFeO 3 photoelectrodes.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 3, 2015

Li-S batteries, as noted many times, are attractive next-generation batteries, especially for electric vehicles, because of their advantageous of high theoretical capacity (1675 mAh/g), high specific energy density (2500 Wh/kg), low cost, and environmental friendliness. a) Discharge and charge profiles at 0.1

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2010

This subtopic seeks fuel-focused research on the facilitation or enhancement of advanced combustion regime engine operation– e.g., Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition (HCCI), Low Temperature Combustion (LTC), etc. Subtopics include: Low-Cost Development of Magnesium. Development of Low-Cost Carbon Fiber.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2013

The hybrid material effectively catalyzes the conversion of liquid water to hydrogen gas while remaining stable in an acidic environment. Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) have developed a low-cost, stable, effective catalyst made from earth-abundant molybdenum and common soybeans (MoSoy). -Mo

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