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AI-powered EV batteries: The next welcome change – ET Auto

Baua Electric

As interest in AI surges, so too has scrutiny of the technology’s energy intensity and its corresponding burden on data centres and power grids. Chemix , an AI-powered EV battery developer, has completed a USD 20 million Series A funding round, led by Ibex Investors.

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Gravity Batteries, Green Hydrogen, and a Thorium Reactor for China

Cars That Think

2021 was a big year for energy-related news, what with the ongoing hunt for new forms of energy storage and cleaner if not carbon-free electricity and events and research that spotlighted the weak links in our power grid. She looked at a recent study out of the U.S. Well, let's think.

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AI-powered EV batteries: The next welcome change – ET Auto

Baua Electric

As interest in AI surges, so too has scrutiny of the technology’s energy intensity and its corresponding burden on data centres and power grids. The three-year-old startup will use the funding to scale its technology, which uses algorithms to design and optimise novel batteries for electric vehicle makers.

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Excel PHEV Study

Plug In Partners

A new study shows that Plug-ins can both reduce driving expenses and vehicle emissions. The study found that PHEVs may result in a reduction of the overall expense of owning a vehicle and, with the help of smart-grid technologies, eliminate harmful vehicle emissions by up to 50 percent. Here is the story.

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Stamp of Approval

Plug In Partners

E PRI and the National Resource Defense Council have recently released a new study which shows the environmental as well as the economic benefits of plug-ins. Plug-in hybrids seen as vehicles for change A study projects lower emissions and sufficient power grid capacity. That would be equal to removing 82.5

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Can the World’s Largest Cruise Ship Really Be Climate-Friendly?

Baua Electric

A 2021 study published in the Marine Pollution Bulletin found that despite technical advances, cruising remains a major source of air, water and land pollution affecting fragile habitats and human health. is mostly methane, a powerful gas that traps more heat in the atmosphere over time than carbon dioxide.

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PHEVLERs are the Zero CO2 Clean Green Machines of the Future

Green Car Congress

Frank (email: afrank@efficientdrivetrains.com) Dr. Frank is Professor Emeritus, Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering at the University of California, Davis, where he established the Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS-Davis), and was director of the US Department of Energy’s National Center of Hybrid Excellence at UC Davis.

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