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. A paper on the work is published in Nature. —Donald Sadoway.
Cars That Think
JUNE 12, 2023
Batteries that can hold large amounts of energy are large and expensive, requiring a substantial investment to install. Energy storage has two main factors—how fast it can be charged and discharged (the spigot) and how much total energy it can hold (the bathtub). But Liu says residential customers don’t see demand charges.
Cars That Think
JULY 15, 2023
Gretchen Ertl/CFS/MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center What sets CFS’s technology apart is its use of high-temperature superconducting tape, which is layered and stacked to create extremely strong electromagnets that will shape and confine the unruly plasma and keep the bulk of the charged particles away from the tokamak’s walls.
Cars That Think
MARCH 14, 2022
The California-based Hyperlight Energy will be piloting an installation where they plan to use existing oil wells as solar thermal wellsprings, with the stored energy being converted back to clean electricity when required. A possible answer, though, might lie in oil wells.
Baua Electric
DECEMBER 30, 2023
Because they usually sit for a long period of time, their charging can be shifted to periods when either solar generation is high or electricity prices are low. Thermal Storage: Molten Salt Storage: This involves storing heat in molten salt and using it to generate steam, which then drives a turbine to produce electricity.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 21, 2013
Each system comprises electronic components that can be used with a variety of batteries and motors and installed on conventional medium- and heavy-duty chassis, modifying them into all-electric battery operated vehicles that have no tailpipe emissions. Currently, these powertrains are primarily installed in shuttle buses and delivery trucks.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 27, 2016
charging a battery). 1 MW), making them suitable for both small, distributed and large, centralized installations. There are many classes of ion conductors, including aqueous and nonaqueous salt solutions; solid ceramics; polymers and polymer gels; molten salts; and others.
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