CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 24, 2021

One of the best thing about electric and hybrid vehicles is that the energy doesn’t get completely wasted when you need to brake. By using an electric motor as a generator, you can slow a vehicle down and put some of that kinetic energy into a battery pack so you can use it again later. […].

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Advanced batteries are vital to the entire clean energy economy, but the US currently does not produce enough of the critical minerals and battery materials needed to power clean energy technologies. MW-Scale Swappable and Reusable Second-Use EV Battery Energy Storage Unit for Maximum Cost-Effectiveness.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2022

The Peterbilt Model 579EV will deliver the RNG to the Dane County landfill facility, where it will be injected into the natural gas pipeline to be used as clean transportation fuel on the west coast. Electric vehicle transportation is the next step in the Middleton digester’s clean energy endeavors.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2016

BMW i announced a home stationary energy storage system solution integrating its BMW i3 vehicle battery at EVS 29 in Montréal. Utilizing real-time energy readings, the system can measure the available energy supply and demand, making the necessary calculations to determine the optimal time to charge or discharge the system.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2023

Aqua Metals is leading the development of the innovative conversion process, designed to replace chemical catalysts with clean electricity, and enables the sustainable production of cost-effective CAM precursors by eliminating embedded emissions, recurring expenses, and chemical waste byproducts.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 17, 2022

Toward the end of last month, we missed an important press release from GM in the shuffle of cleantech news, but it’s something that’s worth going back to, because it’s an important piece of a big efficiency problem that plagues every automobile: getting some good from waste heat.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2023

The Review is part of NETL’s Hydrogen Safety Field Work Proposal to support the US Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management’s strategic vision for safe, widespread and large-scale production and utilization of hydrogen as a carbon-free energy storage medium.

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Teslarati

APRIL 30, 2024

At the time, the company planned to produce 10,000 Megapacks per year, equivalent to 40 GWh worth of energy storage at the factory. Tesla China didn’t waste any time recruiting for the Shanghai <egafactory. Tesla’s Megapacks have been a mainstay in Australia’s expanding clean energy market.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

KTSi trackside flywheel systems provide voltage support to overtaxed sections of electric rail systems, eliminating slowdowns, as well as capturing, storing and reusing the regenerative braking energy of rail cars. Kinetic Traction was formed earlier this year in the wake of the collapse of advanced flywheel energy storage company Pentadyne.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 12, 2021

By Paul Bell The EU and the UK risk wasting €27bn in battery investments if they fail to strengthen car and van CO2 emission standards, analysis from Transport & Environment (T&E) shows. Originally published on Transport & Environment.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) is launching Clean High-Efficiency Diesel Engine VII (CHEDE-VII), the seventh phase of the industry’s longest-running diesel research consortium. Consortium membership allows companies to share costs and access more research than would be feasible if funded individually.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

This strategy eliminates capital and environmentally intensive chemical conversion steps, eliminates large volumes of wasteful by-product and aligns us with legislation in North America and Europe to fast-track battery supply chains from secure and readily available sources of critical minerals.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2013

The US Department of Energy (DOE) launched the Clean Energy Manufacturing Initiative (CEMI), which will focus on growing US manufacturing of clean energy products and boosting US competitiveness through major improvements in manufacturing energy productivity. Clean Energy Manufacturing Initiative.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2022

Decarbonizing Iron and Steel: This topic will focus on advancements that enable decarbonization in ore-based or scrap-based iron and steelmaking operations, and that convert other existing iron and steelmaking ancillary and thermal processes to use clean fuels or electricity.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2020

—Christoph Noeres, Head of the Energy Storage & Hydrogen unit at thyssenkrupp. In order to bring the fluctuating availability of electricity from renewable sources into line with electricity demand, solutions are needed for the storage and subsequent use of surplus energy. thyssenkrupp and E.ON

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2020

Funded through the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), projects will conduct research in advanced batteries, electrification, and manufacturing in support of DOE’s Energy Storage Grand Challenge. Clean Fuels Ohio. Denver Metro Clean Cities Coalition.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

This supports the building of localized supply chains for battery-grade materials to accelerate the clean energy transition. The Rochester Hub’s hydrometallurgical process produces no wastewater discharge, minimal solid waste streams and relatively low air emissions.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 18, 2024

Florida-based Air Burners, a manufacturer of air curtain burner systems, collaborated with Rolls-Royce and Volvo Construction Equipment to develop a portable machine that turns biomass waste into energy. The BioCharger is designed to provide off-grid power from vegetative waste.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 5, 2024

An Argonne partnership with a Minnesota mining company is taking waste from one battery production process and using it in another. Researchers investigate how to use mining waste in battery production. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory is developing a new process that could dramatically increase the.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 12, 2024

And when you’re tasked with clearing trees, blazing trails, and quite literally laying the foundations of infrastructure and energy grid expansion, there simply isn’t a place to plug in your electric equipment. The resulting heat is converted into electric energy and stored in a connected Battery Storage Module, or BSM.

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Cars That Think

MAY 31, 2024

Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy ( ARPA-E ), showcased the agency’s bets on early-stage energy technologies that can disrupt the status quo. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm spoke at the summit. The people in this room are America’s best hope” in the race to unleash the power of clean energy, she said.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2017

With funding provided by the California Energy Commission, Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) demonstrated its LX1 prototype mid-sized (20 ton) hybrid-electric wheel loader ( earlier post ), a piece of equipment widely used in the construction, refuse, and agricultural industries, that achieved a 50% improvement in fuel efficiency.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 19, 2024

A further sign of Nissan’s commitment to electrification is a new joint project with Altilium , a UK-based clean technology group, which is aimed at improving the sustainability of UK-made EV batteries by recycling used batteries and reducing reliance on imported raw materials.

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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. the cost of energy storage?by

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2020

They promote competitive sustainability and are necessary for green transport, clean energy and to achieve climate neutrality by 2050. Since 2006, batteries and waste batteries have been regulated at EU level under the Batteries Directive (2006/66/EC). Background.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2016

As one of the outcomes of the “Three Amigos” meeting in Ottawa, Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, US President Barack Obama, and Mexico President Enrique Peña Nieto committed to an “ambitious and enduring” North American Climate, Clean Energy, and Environment Partnership. 50% clean power target.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2019

A new solution by Nordic clean energy company Fortum makes more than 80% of an electric vehicle (EV) battery recyclable, returns the scarce metals back into circulation and resolves the sustainability gap by reducing the need to mine cobalt, nickel, and other scarce metals. The current recycling rate for batteries is approximately 50%.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2017

Coradia iLint combines different innovative elements: clean energy conversion; flexible energy storage in batteries; and smart management of the traction power and available energy. The hydrogen used for the test runs is the by-product of an industrial process, which is reasonably reused as a waste product.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Chan Park of University of California, Riverside will receive $94,407 to develop a fuel sensing technology for natural gas vehicles.The technology has the potential to help the state attain its clean air standards and increase adoption of natural gas vehicles in California through the development of new sources of renewable natural gas.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2014

EPIC is a multi-year, research investment program focused on electricity-related innovations, finding new energy solutions and bringing clean energy ideas to the marketplace. Colony Energy Partners Tulare, LLC: $5 million to construct a digester for processing waste that will produce 2.8 Halotechnics and UCLA: $1.5

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Setec Powerr

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

On the other hand, the two-way charging technology will further promote the transition of cars to clean energy while redefining the functions and application scenarios of electric vehicles. If it were not for my car, I would have wasted all the time and energy going there,” he says.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2013

Direct research partner for Fraunhofer will be UBC’s Clean Energy Research Centre, CERC. Using the surplus electricity from wind or solar power plants to generate hydrogen is a possible option for energy storage. Total funding of €4 million (US$5.3

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Charged EVs

APRIL 1, 2024

Several companies are developing chemical processes, but these are still at pilot scale, and Aqua’s execs see serious challenges in delivering the required product purity and dealing with waste streams. Other batteries are coming from battery energy storage systems. But the other piece about pyro is that it’s inefficient.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2021

This proposed project will significantly (1) reduce Si anode costs; (2) improve efficiency and reduce waste in production; (3) reduce engineering and cost risks; and (4) reduce EV battery costs and accelerate the move to clean transportation and renewable energy. 24M Technologies, Inc.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 4, 2024

The approach also improves the batteries’ energy density, safety, and recyclability. Today the company unveiled the battery recycling process Liforever, a potential battery technology game-changer for EVs and energy storage systems. Usually, only the more expensive metals are salvaged for reuse.

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Baua Electric

DECEMBER 30, 2023

Renewable Energy Integration HEMS can integrate with renewable energy sources such as solar panels or wind turbines, allowing users to maximize the use of clean energy. These systems store excess energy generated during periods of high production and release it when demand is high or when renewable generation is low.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 30, 2023

Ford isn’t going to waste time and money trying to offer 600-mile EVs, but it is going to focus on […] In another recent article, I explored how Ford is taking the Tesla approach to EVs, not only with its recently announced adoption of Tesla’s NACS plug, but also in a previously-discussed approach to vehicle efficiency.

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