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Two studies exploring battery costs for hybrids and plug-ins: LEESS, PHEV20, and PHEV40

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For PHEV20 batteries, TIAX found significant overlap in battery costs among five cathode classes, with wider variation within each chemistry based on the electrode design than between chemistries. Modelled costs of LEESS systems. Given the pack specification, this worked out to a pack cost to OEM ranging from $3,112 to $5,125.

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Study Finds Bioelectricity Better Option Than Liquid Biofuels for Transportation Output and GHG Emissions

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In the assessment, the team used The Energy and Resources Group Biofuel Analysis Meta-Model (EBAMM) to consider scenarios covering a range of feedstocks and energy conversion technologies including corn and cellulosic ethanol, and four different vehicle classes: small- and mid-size cars and small and full-size SUVs.

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Harvard team demonstrates new metal-free organic–inorganic aqueous flow battery; potential breakthrough for low-cost grid-scale storage

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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. Click to enlarge. Background.

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Mad Power thoughts

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As for the middle-class Extinction Rebellion poseurs and their road-closing chums from Insult Britain, sorry Insulate Britain, they are basing their apocalyptic predictions of ‘catastrophe’ and billions of deaths on gross exaggerations. The cost of grid management has soared to nearly £2billion a year in the last two decades.

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Clearing the roadblocks to electrification of heavy-duty trucks

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It’s called Electric Island. You’re not going to be able to pull a Class 8 truck up to a consumer charging station and charge it towing the trailer. Once your total cost of ownership is lower with a zero-emission vehicle, then that’s a spreadsheet decision. It won’t work. What happens when we plug in 1.2-megawatt

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