CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 14, 2023

Chinese electric vehicle giant BYD thinks the USA’s Inflation Reduction Act is preventing the sale of cheap electric cars in the United States. Does this make sense? We asked BYD’s CEO whether or not the company would bring its popular electric vehicles (EVs) to the US a couple of times in the past decade. We’ve […]

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

China dominates BloombergNEF’s (BNEF) lithium-ion battery supply chain ranking in 2020, having quickly surpassed Japan and Korea that were leaders for the majority of the previous decade. —James Frith, BNEF’s head of energy storage.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Volvo Buses is participating in a research project in which used electric bus batteries are used as solar energy storage units. Batteries from electric bus route 55 in Gothenburg, Sweden are being used for solar energy storage in a second-life application. What we are examining here is exactly how good that potential is.

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JULY 14, 2022

Cheap and abundant, sodium is a promising candidate for new battery technology. However, the limited performance of sodium-ion batteries has hindered large-scale application. A paper on the work appears in Nature Energy. Sodium-ion batteries (NIBs) have attracted worldwide attention for next-generation energy storage systems.

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 30, 2021

In the past week, CleanTechnica readers were most attracted to stories about cool & cheap electric motorcycles, an Australian pastime that electric vehicles are sure to kill, and the standard-range Tesla Model 3 and Model Y getting LFP batteries.

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Baua Electric

MAY 9, 2024

China has released draft guidelines aimed at reining in the country’s lithium battery industry , which has been in Western crosshairs over fears subsidised overproduction could flood global markets with cut-price exports.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2015

Stanford University scientists have created a new ultrahigh surface area three-dimensional porous graphitic carbon material that significantly boosts the performance of energy-storage technologies. Our designer carbon is simple to make, relatively cheap and meets all of the critical requirements for high-performance electrodes.

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MARCH 20, 2019

Professor Kondo-Francois Aguey-Zinsou and his team at UNSW’s School of Chemical Engineering have developed a system that provides cheap storage and transportation of hydrogen which they expect will provide a new alternative for energy storage within two years. with a particle size below 10 nm).

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APRIL 1, 2019

In the paper, the team reviewed a range of factors specific to the use of Li-ion as an SLI battery in light of some of the technology challenges and market opportunities. This energy sector is primarily driven by the need for low-cost with reasonably long cycle-life energy storage technology, for which the lead-acid battery is well suited.

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Get Electric Vehicle

JANUARY 24, 2024

The first mass-produced electric vehicle (EV) using a sodium-ion battery has been introduced by JAC Motors. While lithium-ion batteries are more developed and have a higher density than sodium-ion batteries, sodium-ion batteries are cheaper, dependable, and have better cold-weather performance. Why Do We Care?

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

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). Battery research and development is burgeoning far beyond Tesla, and the difficult hunt is on to move past lithium ion.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 31, 2021

Another week has flown by and we’ve got another roundup of our top (most popular) stories of the week. This past week, the interest (and content) was all over the map, as it was last week. Hydrogen trains in California, the various tech options on the market when upgrading your water heater, and the US […].

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Electric Vehicles India

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Okaya Group an energy storage solutions provider has recently launched a new electric scooter ‘Okaya Freedum’ with a price tag starting at Rs 69,900. It’s a low-speed electric scooter that comes with two battery options lead-acid battery or a lithium-ion battery. Okaya Freedum electric scooter.

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Plug In India

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

By Kamlesh & Raphae Every major automaker has announced plans to build Lithium-Ion battery gigafactories. So there is a lot of Lithium out there, even if we continue to use Lithium-Ion batteries for the next 20 years, we are good. On discharge, the sodium ions return from the anode to the cathode.

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Qnovo

JULY 2, 2020

Tesla’s market valuation hit today $225 Billion, more than the valuation of any other auto manufacturer, highlighting the importance of the lithium-ion battery to our economies. The battery is the product differentiator for electric vehicles, stationary energy storage and many consumer devices.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

Then, as electricity entrepreneurs expanded power generation and transmission capacity, they faced the new problem of what to do with all the cheap off-peak, nighttime electricity they could now produce. The need for large-scale electrochemical energy storage as a grid-stabilizing source of demand disappeared.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Celgard will work with Morrow to develop, test, and commercialize next-generation dry-process battery separators that will be used in Morrow high-voltage battery cells with lithium nickel manganese oxide (LNMO) cathode material for electric vehicle (EV) and energy storage system (ESS) applications. Source: Morrow Batteries.

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JUNE 2, 2020

A paper on their work is published in the journal, ACS Energy Letters. Although O3-layered metal oxides are promising cathode materials for high-energy Na-ion batteries, they suffer from fast capacity fade. —Yuehe Lin, professor in WSU’s School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, co-corresponding author.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2011

The US Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) is conducting research on alternative options to reduce costs and make large-scale energy storage safer and more practical. Innovative fabrication methods can also lead to significant energy storage system improvements.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2010

Projected incremental mass due to the energy storage and electricity generation system for (a) a 100- and (b) 300-mile range for a battery electric vehicle and a fuel cell electric vehicle. One promising direction is the development of materials that enable the intercalation of more than one lithium ion per transition metal, they note.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 30, 2024

Sodium-ion batteries offer benefits over their lithium-ion counterparts. Modern life runs on lithium-ion batteries , powering smartphones, laptops and electric cars alike. Natron Energy Inc. will unveil what it bills as the first full-scale plant in the US for making sodium-ion batteries on Monday.

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Setec Powerr

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Lithium iron phosphate battery refers to the lithium-ion battery with lithium iron phosphate as the cathode material. Lithium-ion battery cathode materials mainly include lithium cobaltate, manganate, nickelate, ternary materials, lithium iron phosphate, etc. Power storage power.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

After years of anticipation, sodium-ion batteries are starting to deliver on their promise for energy storage. But so far, their commercialization is limited to large-scale uses such as storing energy on the grid. Sodium-ion batteries just don't have the oomph needed for EVs and laptops.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) can leverage its abundant cobalt resources and hydroelectric power to become a low-cost and low-emissions producer of lithium-ion battery cathode precursor materials, according to a new study on a unified African supply chain by BloombergNEF (BNEF).

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