Cars That Think

APRIL 15, 2022

While rechargeable batteries are the solution of choice for consumer-level use, they are impractical for grid-scale consideration. Molten-salt batteries , as the name implies, use a liquid, molten-salt electrolyte, which freezes at room temperature, allowing the batteries to be stored in an inactive state.

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EV Connect

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

EV Batteries: The Basics Electric cars are powered by rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, which are more energy dense than the lead-acid batteries found in internal combustion engines or rechargeable nickel-cadmium batteries found in some hybrids. How Do EV Batteries Degrade?

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2017

A deeper understanding of the charging and discharging reactions is viewed as the key for the further development of this type of rechargeable battery to market maturity. In addition, their main constituent—iron—is an abundant and therefore cheap material. 2017.10.023.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

The experiment seemed to prove the feasibility of the technology. AC Propulsion’s president, Tom Gage, explains the company’s vehicle-to-grid technology at a 2001 conference in Seattle. And indeed, that’s how promoters of vehicle-to-grid technology perceive the EV. And with the revival of the EV, the V2G concept was reborn.

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Plug In India

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The big issue with sodium-ion batteries is that they can store only about two-thirds of the energy of Li-ion batteries of equivalent size. ​Rechargeable sodium-ion batteries are similar in construction to lithium-ion ones. Read the C&EN research here Lithium right now is very expensive and Sodium is quite cheap.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2014

In a typical non-aqueous rechargeable Li–O 2 battery, lithium peroxide (Li 2 O 2 ) is the discharging product formed on the oxygen electrode surface and is oxidized back to O 2 and Li + in a following charging process. The state of the art is to use a solar panel to capture the light, and then use a cheap battery to store the energy.

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Charged EVs

AUGUST 2, 2023

If we’re going to hit the numbers we need to hit for fleet adoption, we need as many places for those vehicles to recharge as possible. Those guys don’t have the wherewithal to finance a battery-electric truck that costs twice as much as a diesel truck, and they’re usually buying third- or fourth-owner diesels anyway, that are super-cheap.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

Recharging a battery can take 5-8 hours, but costs only a few cents a day. But some advanced new bicycles can store energy when they brake, meaning they can go many times further, and some advanced new batteries can charge up in a fraction of the time. Safe places to park and recharge are also needed.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Similarly, rechargeable organic liquids—used to store hydrogen in a liquid carrier form—must be handled with great care as several react violently with strong oxidants, have fire and explosion hazards and, in certain cases, carry toxicity concerns from occupational exposure.

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EV Central

DECEMBER 28, 2022

The Atto 3 is charmingly if idiosyncratically styled, has a decent equipment list, a range between recharges as much as 400km in the real world, acceptable performance from its 150kW e-motor and a comfy if not especially dynamic ride/handling balance. It’s the first ‘affordable’ EV that’s not felt heavily compromised or compromising.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

News | Markets | Technology | Personal Finance | Small Business | CNN.com RSS Newsletters Video Home Fortune 500 Technology Investing Management Rankings Warren Buffett takes charge Warren Buffett hasnt just seen the car of the future, hes sitting in the drivers seat. "Its a completely different business model."

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Cheap to run but expensive to buy, they offer theprospect of low or zero carbon emissions, but manufacturers won’t sell themunless motorists want to buy them – and motorists won’t buy unless the priceis right and there are enough places to charge the batteries. So the car uses an electrical store to power the drive motor.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

And in a true smart grid, electric cars will not only be able to draw on electricity to run their motors, they will also be able to do the reverse: send electricity stored in their batteries back into the grid when it is needed. Battery recharging would typically take two to four hours, he said. . While utilities such as E.ON

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Cleantech Blog Cleantechblog.com, the premier cleantech site for commentary on news and technology relating to clean tech, greentech, energy, climate change and carbon, and the environment. Several early models of passenger vehicles have enough energy stored in advanced batteries to power several homes for hours.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Millions will plug-in their electric vehicles [EV], plug-in hybrids [PHEV] and fuel cell vehicles [FCV] at night when electricity is cheap, then plug-in during the day when energy is expensive and sell those extra electrons at a profit. Hybrid electric buses and heavy trucks could power many homes or a school or a hospital in an emergency.

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