Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 10, 2018
Batteries from electric bus route 55 in Gothenburg, Sweden are being used for solar energy storage in a second-life application. The reuse and recycling of batteries is a key issue as increasing numbers of cities plan transition to electrically powered transport.
Cars That Think
JUNE 12, 2023
The shipping containers, which house a Frankenstein-like assortment of machine parts—motors repurposed from Volvo truck engines, giant tanks of compressed air, huge silos of piping hot sand—are produced by a company called Cheesecake Energy. When does it make sense to buy electricity directly from the grid?
Cars That Think
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
Even so, Tesla also now has gear on the market that institutional battery storage developers can use to run load-balancing trade operations: the consumer won't see those, but it's part of ongoing changes as renewables become more important in the power game. That would be something to reckon with.
EV Info
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
Yet whenever we troublemakers raised this issue, we were told not to worry – it would resolve itself, they said, either because wind is usually blowing somewhere, or through the development of electricity storage in giant battery farms. Northern England would now be as brimming with home-grown gas as parts of Pennsylvania and Texas.
Charged EVs
AUGUST 2, 2023
I was a big part of building the first-of-its-kind—at least in the Western world that we knew of—heavy-duty charging site in Portland, Oregon. It’s called Electric Island. Iron phosphate batteries are great because they’re durable, they’re cheap. Charged : You’ve also said that heavy-duty charging is going to be a huge hurdle.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 28, 2009
Thankfully, since parts of the powertrain in the Circuit are also used in other Chrysler ENVI vehicles - like the all-electric USPS minivan that was unveiled earlier today - work that is done on one model can be applied to others. Not to mention the parts you most definitely could sell from the running gear.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 21, 2009
Home Business Industry Sectors Engineering MY PROFILE SHOP JOBS PROPERTY CLASSIFIEDS From The Sunday Times April 19, 2009 Slow start for charge of the electric cars Ray Hutton Electric cars need a boost. Only when we have an efficient method of electricity storage will the electric car/van/bus become a viable proposition.
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