Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2015

At the 21 st UN Conference on Climate Change (COP21) in Paris this week, Nissan announced the development of a Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) system which will allow drivers to operate as individual energy hubs with the ability to store, use or return electricity to the grid. Earlier post.). Click to enlarge.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 11, 2024

Would you spend a week off-grid in this luxury electric RV ? The eTH electric RV features a luxurious interior, smart tech, and clean energy for a week of off-grid capabilities. With up to 7 days of off-grid capabilities, it will likely feature a big battery pack. It likely won’t come cheap.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2017

(TEPCO) has made a £500,000 (US$621,000) equity investment in Moixa Energy Holdings , a UK-based provider of residential batteries and platforms for managing storage services. Moixa offers a compact and affordable smart battery for residential customers that helps households to save money by storing spare solar or cheap tariff electricity.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2015

The two companies have agreed to collaborate on the following activities: Introduction of V2G services in the European market; Exploring the use of second-life EV batteries for stationary applications (including households, buildings, grid); and. Designing and evaluating potential affordable energy and mobility pack offers.

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Driivz

AUGUST 30, 2023

The good news is that smart EV charging and energy management software can control EV charging energy consumption and save on electricity bills. What is smart EV charging and energy management? What are the benefits of smart EV energy management? EVs bring a growing appetite for electricity.

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My Energi

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The UK’s original smart charger just got smarter The world’s first solar-compatible smart electric vehicle charger, the zappi from myenergi, can now integrate with Octopus Energy’s Intelligent Octopus Go tariff, enabling EV drivers to minimise their home charging costs with access to six hours of low-cost energy every night.

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Driivz

MAY 15, 2023

California, the EV adoption and clean energy leader in the U.S., The bill, SB-233 , aims to advance grid resilience and protect the climate by using EVs as “batteries on wheels,” tapping their stored energy to balance electricity supply and demand rather than bringing high-polluting peak generators online.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

launched its lithium-ion energy storage system for home usage. The battery stores power from the grid or from solar panels and stores it for later household use. In some regions, utilities occasionally provide negative pricing to dump excess power when demand is very low, so users may actually be paid to store energy.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 26, 2024

Between my electric bikes, e-motorcycles, e-ATVs, electric tractors, and a few other things I’m probably forgetting, having a weather-sealed, solar-powered off-grid charging shed would be a big benefit. With 1,200W of theoretical power (and probably more like 900W of solid real-world Florida solar energy), that would be a decent flow rate.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 15, 2022

As the pressure to decarbonize electricity grids mounts, so does the need to have long-term storage options for power generated from renewables. While rechargeable batteries are the solution of choice for consumer-level use, they are impractical for grid-scale consideration.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2014

Researchers at Harvard have demonstrated a metal-free organic–inorganic aqueous flow battery—a quinone–bromide flow battery (QBFB)—as an example of a class of energy storage materials that exploits the favorable chemical and electrochemical properties of a family of molecules known as quinones.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 18, 2023

It is a daunting question that a startup called Polar Night Energy, in the small and chilly nation of Finland (Figure 1), is attempting to answer. When you ask people about cleaner energy, they think of electricity,” says Tommi Eronen, CEO of Polar Night Energy. Sand is efficient, nontoxic, portable, and cheap!”. “We

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2018

A battery, based on electrodes made of sodium and nickel chloride and using thea new type of metal mesh membrane, could be used for grid-scale installations to make intermittent power sources such as wind and solar capable of delivering reliable baseload electricity. through the MIT Energy Initiative. —David Sadoway.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2014

Scientists at USC have developed a novel water-based Organic Redox Flow Battery (ORBAT) for lower cost, long lasting large-scale energy storage. Since grid-scale electrical energy storage requires hundreds of gigawatt-hours to be stored, the batteries for this application must be inexpensive, robust, safe and sustainable.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2022

Cheap and abundant, sodium is a promising candidate for new battery technology. Now, a research team from the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) has developed a new electrolyte enabling a high-voltage sodium-ion battery with greatly extended longevity in laboratory tests. —Phung Le.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2015

a provider of energy intelligence software (EIS), will collaborate with Tesla on the deployment and management of energy storage systems in commercial and industrial buildings. Enablement of EnerNOC customer sites with Tesla energy storage systems is currently underway. EnerNOC, Inc., Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2019

A traditional solar panel converts between 18 to 20% of the solar energy into electricity. If that electric power is used to split the water into hydrogen gas and oxygen, you lose a lot of energy. It is not connected to the gas grid. It only uses power from the grid in the winter. —Johan Martens.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2016

As described in a paper in the journal Nature Energy , the cathode consisting of nanoscale amorphous lithia (nanolithia) confined in a cobalt oxide enabled charge/discharge between solid Li 2 O/Li 2 O 2 /LiO 2 without any gas evolution. V) causes severe energy efficiency and thermal management problems. Courtesy of the researchers.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

—James Frith, BNEF’s head of energy storage. Key distinguishing factors are the environmental footprint of industry, the availability of cheap but clean electricity, a technically skilled labor force, and incentives driving battery demand. These factors may be more important than a monopoly on one specific critical metal.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2019

million investment from Providence Asset Group to develop a hydrogen hydride storage system that could mean cheaper, safer storage for renewable energy for a range of applications, including residential. We can actually store about seven times more energy than the current systems. with a particle size below 10 nm).

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Baua Electric

MAY 7, 2024

So all those cheap EVs need to be fast-charged, and what better place to expand than BYD’s home city? According to data from the Southern Power Grid Shenzhen Power Supply Bureau, Shenzhen’s EV charging volume reached 670 million kilowatt-hours in Q1 2024, an 11% increase year-over-year. The city of 12.5 The city of 12.5

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The chemical process employed by the scientists also could reduce costs and energy requirements for producing liquid hydrocarbons and other chemicals used by industry. The team tapped a novel energy source from the nanoworld to trigger a common chemical reaction that eliminates carbon dioxide. Credit: NIST.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2019

A paper on their work is published in the journal Applied Energy. Fuel cell plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (FC-PHEVs) can have extended range while utilizing cheap grid electricity, but has poor durability of onboard fuel cells due to dynamic loading. This is clean energy that could boom. The future is very bright.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2016

Nissan and multinational power company Enel will launch the first major vehicle-to-grid (V2G) trial carried out in the UK. By giving Nissan electric vehicle owners the ability to plug their vehicles into the V2G system, owners will have the flexibility and power to sell stored energy from their vehicle battery back to the National Grid.

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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. The German initiative comes on the heels of a similar rollout through Octopus Energy last November in the United Kingdom. For bigger national grids it gets more complicated. kWh battery wall unit.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

EV charging suppliers are torn between energy costs, expansion needs, and remaining price competitive (to name a few factors). With cheap energy generation, one high cost of EV charging can be removed, assisting organizations in achieving profitability. Renewables offer a great way to help balance the scale. billion debt.

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Charged EVs

JANUARY 25, 2024

Although both can be caused by the same phenomena, transients are more likely the result of nearby lightning strikes and step changes in loading on the grid, while surges are more likely the result of the same phenomena occurring much farther away (the intervening grid equipment and distribution lines softening up the disturbances, so to speak).

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My Energi

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

40 i (40 kWh) – Cheap to run, cheap to buy, the Renault Zoe is the perfect all-rounder. There are many questions around how long you can keep an EV, when you will need a new battery, whether the range drops quickly after purchase and if the risks outweigh the benefits now the energy crisis is seeing electricity prices rocket.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2018

We see $548 billion being invested in battery capacity by 2050, two thirds of that at the grid level and one third installed behind-the-meter by households and businesses. —Elena Giannakopoulou, head of energy economics at BNEF. Coal’s share in primary energy in 2017 fell to 27.6%, the lowest since 2004.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2017

In the UK, Renault and Powervault are partnering to re-use electric vehicle (EV) batteries in home energy storage units. This partnership will reduce the cost of a Powervault smart battery unit by 30%, helping Powervault to bring home energy storage to the tipping point of mass-market roll-out in the UK.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The California Sustainable Energy Entrepreneur Development (CalSEED) program announced that the fourth cohort of innovative clean energy concepts has been approved by the California Energy Commission (CEC); 28 companies out of 212 were selected to receive grants of $150,000 each.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Photo: China News Service Renewable energy costs in Asia last year were 13% cheaper than coal and are expected to be 32% cheaper by 2030, according to a new study. This is significant because it marks a shift toward making renewables increasingly competitive with coal, a mainstay in APAC’s energy mix. Get started here. –

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2014

In a new study published in the journal Applied Energy , Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) researchers found that controlled charging of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) reduces the costs of integrating the vehicles into an electricity system by 54–73% depending on the scenario. —Weis et al. Weis et al. Click to enlarge.

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Plug in America

JULY 21, 2023

EVs are Better for the Grid Electric vehicles are essentially mobile power storage that can get us where we need to go. Since most EVs are only in use a small fraction of each day, they can often charge when energy on the grid is clean, cheap, and abundant. grid actually diversifies U.S. petroleum consumption.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

An open-access paper on their study appears in the journal Nature Energy. Improved battery technology plus access to cheap renewable electricity open the possibility of battery-electric rail. This mobile energy storage capability would also create a potential new revenue stream for freight rail operators. —Amol Phadke.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 30, 2022

It’s about one-twentieth the size of the minibus-scale geostationary satellites already in orbit, allowing for cheap and quick deployment. China's Big Hydro Plans China is in the midst of a gigantic buildup of hydro-energy capabilities. United States’ Wind on the Wire The largest renewable-energy infrastructure project in U.S.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 25, 2024

Although both can be caused by the same phenomena, transients are more likely the result of nearby lightning strikes and step changes in loading on the grid, while surges are more likely the result of the same phenomena occurring much farther away (the intervening grid equipment and distribution lines softening up the disturbances, so to speak).

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