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APRIL 17, 2014

For the first time, the modular system from Vossloh Kiepe has been combined with the PRIMOVE inductive charging system from Bombardier ( earlier post ). The PRIMOVE inductive charging system system is designed with an output of 200 kW, and uses an undercarriage pantograph-like mechanism lowered above the in-ground charging pad.

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AUGUST 1, 2022

Cummins has invested $24 million in Germany-based VoltStorage, a developer of stationary flow batteries. By investing in VoltStorage, we are taking steps to advance solutions focused on the grid and energy storage. The company says that it has the largest fleet of operating flow batteries in the world. Source: VoltStorage.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2017

million) 15 MWh battery storage project from swb, an energy services provider in Germany. The hybrid storage solution developed by swb consists of six Leclanché storage containers, which interact with a swb thermal storage infrastructure to ensure cost effective grid ancillary services.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2012

launched its lithium-ion energy storage system for home usage. For consumers subject to time-of-use charges, the EnergyBlock can be used to store off-peak power to be used later during peak times, lowering the amount of peak-rate costs for the user. Electrovaya Inc.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

XING Mobility , a developer of immersion cooling battery technology for industrial applications, will introduce its IMMERSIO Cell-to-Pack (CTP) product at the IAA Mobility show in Munich, Germany. XING’s IMMERSIO CTP Solution is a flexible pack concept that can be customized to meet the specific needs of various applications.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Leclanché SA reported that year-long testing of its 60 Ah G/NMC battery cells has shown them to be both high energy density and high cycle life—critical characteristics for a wide range of automotive and e-transportation energy storage solutions. 1C/1C continuous for a 100% DoD at room temperature conditions.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Testing of the first 50 BMW i3 cars equipped with bidirectional charging technology is expected to start under real-world everyday conditions in early 2021. This will effectively turn the electric vehicles’ batteries into mobile energy storage devices that can also supply electricity when required.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Nissan and power management leader Eaton are broadening their portfolio of xStorage Home residential energy storage solutions—which can use second-life EV batteries—by introducing a range of six product configurations, giving consumers greater choice to meet their energy needs.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

Norway now has two swap stations in operation, and Nio claims it will have 20 swap stations across Europe in countries including Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, and Sweden by the end of this year. The IDTechEx report includes the supply chain and energy storage capacities for various battery swapping players.

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MAY 21, 2021

The batteries will combine high energy density with ultra-long cycle life as well as fast-charging ability to meet the unique requirements of battery-electric long-haul trucks. Now CATL is expanding globally, and has opened subsidiaries in Munich (Germany); Paris (France); Yokohama (Japan); and Detroit (USA).

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DECEMBER 6, 2017

Honda has invested in advanced bi-directional charging technology at its European R&D site in Offenbach, Germany, which is helping to balance demand and store energy more efficiently across the facility. Since its installation in June, the EV charging station has supplied power for 447 charge sessions and has saved 3.87

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The European Nikola Tre BEV is produced by the Nikola IVECO Europe joint venture in its dedicated manufacturing plant in Ulm, Germany. The vehicle, which has a wheelbase of 4,021 mm, features nine batteries with a total energy storage up to 738 kWh, which delivers a range of up to 530 km. Nikola Tre FCEV beta.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2019

Groupe Renault is beginning the first large-scale pilot schemes in alternating-current, vehicle-to-grid (V2G) charging in electric vehicles. Groupe Renault places the reversible charger inside vehicles, so it just requires a simple, inexpensive adaptation of the existing charging terminals to implement V2G charging.

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JANUARY 30, 2022

Skeleton Technologies, a producer of supercapacitor and energy storage systems, closed its Round D3 with €37.6 Round D3 investments will be used to scale-up the supercapacitor production in Saxony, Germany to meet customer demand and to continue the development of new battery technologies based on curved graphene.

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MAY 25, 2019

Audi has opened Germany’s largest multi-use battery energy storage unit on the EUREF Campus in Berlin. acre EUREF campus serves as a site for pilot projects for the transition to sustainable energy and networked mobility. The Audi storage unit has a capacity of 1.9 MWh, the storage unit could supply the entire 5.5

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AUGUST 29, 2017

UK-based Connected Energy and Groupe Renault have installed two quick-charge stations based on Connected Energy’s E-STOR energy storage technology on highways in Belgium and Germany. The E-STOR technology developed by Connected Energy uses second-life batteries from Renault electric vehicles.

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OCTOBER 28, 2017

and Daimler AG have invested in The Mobility House AG —a leading Germany-based provider of EV charging solutions and operator of stationary energy storage systems built with EV batteries. The V2G technology allows integration of EVs into the power grid as an aggregated swarm energy storage.

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APRIL 4, 2020

Certified battery system components are exempt from tests ordinarily required for storage battery system components, and allow a battery system to be built in a relatively short period of time. Ships are responsible for about 800 million metric tons of CO 2 every year, roughly equivalent to the annual emission of Germany.

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JANUARY 21, 2010

RWE, GE, Züblin, and Germany’s National Research Center for Aeronautics are cooperating in the ADELE project, which is developing large-scale adiabatic compressed air energy storage. Furthermore, the compressed air will not be heated any longer by means of natural gas—thus avoiding CO 2 emissions.

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CleanTechnica EVs

DECEMBER 7, 2023

A new flow battery aims to relieve EV fast-charging bottlenecks and free up more critical materials for EV batteries, too. The post New Flow Battery To Be Tested At 1970’s Gas Station Rehabbed For EV Charging appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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AUGUST 7, 2011

The analysis of Gartner’s latest EV readiness study conducted in Germany in the first and second quarter of 2011 showed that the majority of German consumers prefer a gasoline-powered vehicle for their next vehicle purchase, followed by hybrid technology which saw consumer interest increasing compared to 2010. Earlier post.).

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OCTOBER 7, 2020

This marks the largest order outside of Germany for the Mercedes-Benz eCitaro since production began. The energy storage batteries for the Rennes city buses are built with eight latest-generation lithium-ion battery packs. Pantographs enable intermediate charging outside the depot and thus extend the range.

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JANUARY 13, 2017

BMW has selected Bochum, Germany-based Scienlab as a strategic partner and is investing in test laboratories for developing energy storages and inverters. Scienlab electronic systems GmbH in Bochum produces test systems to test industrial products as well as electrified drive train components for electric and hybrid vehicles.

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MAY 5, 2022

To meet fast-approaching targets worldwide for vehicle electrification and EV adoption, Group14’s next-generation materials help lithium-silicon batteries deliver 50% higher performance than traditional lithium-ion batteries, eliminating range and charge anxiety. Our investment in Group14 is an important step for Porsche’s M&A activities.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Leclanché will support Narada with technology transfer to achieve low-cost, scale manufacturing of Leclanché’s proprietary high-cycling and fast-charging lithium titanate (LTO) and high energy density graphite nickel manganese cobalt (G-NMC) battery storage technologies. GWh fabrication facility in 2017.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2020

During the first charging process of a new Li-ion battery cell, trace amounts of electrolyte components decompose sacrificially to form what is called a solid–electrolyte interphase (SEI) on the anode surface. Germany Cooperation on Energy Storage.

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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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MARCH 17, 2015

Led by commercial systems, IHS expects 700 megawatts (MW) of PV systems with energy storage will be installed by 2018, compared to just 30 MW in 2014. The market growth for energy-storage PV systems has been largely driven by suppliers like STEM and Green Charge Networks.

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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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NOVEMBER 6, 2015

RNV began using SuperCaps energy storage systems in 2009, and has integrated this technology into 30 of their trams. This provided sufficient energy for short catenary-free operation (CFO) distances. Electric drivetrain elements of a PRIMOVE tram, this one with inductive charging. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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MAY 28, 2019

Graphene-based catalysts have an advantage over metal-based ones in that they are stable and controllable, making them suitable for use in fuel cells, energy storage and conversion devices, and in water electrolysis.

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APRIL 17, 2014

Saft sees significant potential in this market” —Christer Steen, Saft Sales Manager for the Nordic countries and Germany. The batteries will be fully charged during the ferry’s overnight stay in the harbor with two partial charging sessions during the course of the day.

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JUNE 4, 2012

kWh and a battery management system designed to control charge and discharge of the battery in accordance with customer needs. Features of the residential energy storage system include: Life time of 5,000 cycles, based on 80% DOD and non-extreme temperatures.

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APRIL 19, 2021

These batteries are manufactured at the Daimler plants in Kamenz (Germany) and Jawor (Poland). The standard Navigation with Electric Intelligence calculates the fastest route to the destination, including any necessary charging stops. Charging at a Mercedes-Benz Wallbox is considerably faster than at a household socket.

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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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MAY 1, 2015

Following last night’s unveiling of Tesla Motors’ new lineup of stationary energy storage systems ( earlier post ), more early partners and pilots are emerging. The Tesla batteries will be charged daily from the existing PG&E electricity grid system during off-peak hours, when electricity rates are lowest. Earlier post.).

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FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The new entity, which is slated to kick off operations in Germany and the Netherlands in early 2025, says they’ll partner with manufacturers for maximum compatibility among models and types of e-bike. IEEE Spectrum reported on the issues surrounding battery charging and the lingering belief that EV batteries are fire hazards.

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