Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 27, 2021

In addition, Janus Electric has developed a proprietary exchangeable battery system that negates the need for lengthy recharge times by allowing batteries to be swapped out of vehicles at designated change and charge stations in a matter of minutes. Janus can convert all prime mover makes and models to electric power.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2011

Aldrich Materials Science , a strategic technology initiative of Sigma-Aldrich Corporation, has signed an agreement to collaborate on the scale-up and commercialization of next-generation boron hydride hydrogen-storage materials with Ilika plc , an advanced cleantech materials discovery company.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

51-year-old Energy Conversion Devices, Inc. OBC is the inventor and worldwide licensor of NiMH rechargeable battery technology and is pursuing advanced battery technologies, including cathode materials for lithium-ion chemistry batteries. We firmly believe there is a strong and sustainable commercial market for UNI-SOLAR products.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2022

Batteries are poor energy storage solutions for heavy horsepower use, and they require frequent recharging with traditional electricity. This means that the average 150-car train would have to replace almost 50% of the cars with battery tenders.

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Electric Vehicles India

AUGUST 30, 2021

An international team of researchers led by Stanford University has developed rechargeable batteries that store the charge up to 6 times more than the normal currently available commercial ones. Non-rechargeable batteries can not be done and when it drains their chemistry cannot be restored.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2022

The new capital will be used to support FreeWire’s growth plans as the company accelerates commercial deployments of its battery-integrated ultrafast EV charging technology and increases manufacturing capacity to meet growing global customer demand, including high priority markets such as the UK, Canada, Japan, and Australia/New Zealand.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2009

Electric vehicle manufacturer Think Global and Ener1, one of its battery partners, are supplying a fully integrated electric drivetrain powered by a lithium-ion battery system to Japan Post for the conversion of delivery vehicles as part of a comprehensive road-testing program. Tags: Conversions Electric (Battery) Fleets Japan.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2010

Cash for Conversions” will start by fixing many of our 100 million trucks, vans, and buses. We won’t need new power plants, since we have enough off-peak electricity to recharge as many retrofits as we can build. When they’re mass-produced, conversions will cost under $10-$15,000. They now gulp down one third of the oil we use.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 26, 2015

Symbio FCell has delivered the first five Renault Kangoo ZE Light commercial vehicles (LCVs) powered by its hydrogen Fuel Cell Range-Extender, as part of a full fleet project led by the Conseil Général de la Manche which will ultimately deploy 40 vehicles. Earlier post.) La Manche is a département in West Normandy, France.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2011

OBC) a subsidiary of Energy Conversion Devices, Inc. OBC invented NiMH rechargeable battery technology that is used globally in hybrid-electric vehicles, and in many consumer and commercial rechargeable batteries. Ovonic Battery Company, Inc. has extended its license agreement with GS Yuasa International Ltd.,

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2011

Under the agreement, Remy HVH 250 electric motors ( earlier post ) will act as an onboard generator to recharge batteries and deliver electric drivetrain traction power for ALTe’s hybrid vehicle powertrain conversions.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2011

Balqon Corporation, a developer of electric drive system technology for commercial electric vehicles, announced its new Nautilus XR E20 terminal tractor ( earlier post ) at the 2011 Alternative Clean Transportation (ACT) Expo. The vehicle fully recharges in less than two and a half hours.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

The implementation of this industrial and commercial ecosystem will take place gradually between 2021 and 2024, replacing the production of new vehicles. Groupe Renault is creating the REFACTORY in Flins, the first European circular economy site dedicated to mobility. By 2030, it will employ more than 3,000 people in dedicated professions.

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Drive Electric

JUNE 25, 2023

This electricity is then used to propel the vehicle’s electric motor and recharge its battery. The conversion of Hydrogen to electricity in fuel cells can achieve up to 60% efficiency, significantly higher than ICE and EVs. There is no existing commercial supply of green Hydrogen or a nationally accessible supply of biofuels.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2017

Conversion of Landfill Gas to Drop-in Renewable Fuel This project closes the logistic loop from feedstock to end point user by allowing waste hauling trucks to unload and refuel at the same landfill site with a renewable diesel fuel derived from the very waste they hauled. Trash2Cash-Energy LLC. This has the potential to displace over 4.2

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 18, 2014

Researchers at the University of Alberta are developing , and, via their spin-out AdvEn Solutions working to commercialize, a new high power- and -energy density battery system: lithium-carbon-fluorine (Li-C-F). Their system is based on a lithium-carbon battery configuration, but with a different approach.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2010

The power generated from the solar panels installed on the roof is stored to be used to recharge the electric hybrid bicycle batteries and illuminate the parking lot lights. kW) are installed on the roof to generate sufficient power to recharge the batteries of a total of 100 eneloop bike units and illuminate the LED parking lot lights.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2014

Onboard batteries are recharged by regenerative braking as well as grid charging. Founded in 1999, US Hybrid Corporation specializes in the design and manufacture of integrated power conversion components for fuel cell, electric, and hybrid medium- and heavy-duty vehicles, as well as for renewable energy generation and storage.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2011

The actual system has been installed at the Nagasaki Shipyard & Machinery Works of MHI in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan, to begin verification testing for a power stabilization system application from early July towards the commercialization of the system. Click to enlarge. Each container unit can be moved by container trailers.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2017

The vehicle program is a collaboration between Efficient Drivetrains and North American Repower , California’s leading natural gas engine management and conversion technology company. The EDI PowerDrive 6000 has been durability tested over 1.5 The truck offers 20+ miles of all electric range, and a top speed of 65 mph.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Ecolectro’s AEIs would be resilient to the harsh operating conditions present in existing alkaline exchange membranes that prevent their widespread adoption in commercial applications. Novel Polymer-enhanced Rechargeable Aluminum-Alkaline Battery Technology – $2,000,000. Ionic Materials, Inc. University of California, San Diego.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2014

They can thus be optimized for applications such as carbon capture, wastewater filtration, and natural gas storage, and for use in devices including fuel cells, rechargeable batteries, and solar cells. However, despite decades of effort, no lab-developed catalyst for achieving that conversion has been commercialized.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Solid, dense carbon particles provides high energy density to the rechargeable batteries. Herein, we report the conversion of allergenic pollen grains into carbon microstructures through a facile, one-step, solid-state thermochemical decomposition in an inert atmosphere at elevated temperatures. —Tang and Pol. —Vilas Pol.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2014

Qiang Dai and Christian Lastoskie found that BEVs and FCVs in particular offer significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, especially if carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) technologies are implemented at the fuel conversion facilities. The FCV has an overall energy conversion efficiency about 30%.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2017

It can be recharged from a low-cost power supply, and refueled with hydrogen in three minutes (3.8 Symbio currently has several hundred converted Renault Kangoo ZE Maxi light electric commercial vehicles equipped with a 22 kWh battery pack and 5 kW hydrogen fuel range extender with 2.08 kg hydrogen at 700 bar).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2009

ReVolt Technology Ltd, a technology company which has developed a rechargeable zinc-air battery ( earlier post ), and BASF have entered a joint-development agreement to speed the development and commercialization of ReVolt’s rechargeable zinc-air battery system. Source: ReVolt. Click to enlarge. million in ReVolt.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2014

In electronic devices, WBG semiconductors can eliminate up to 90% of the power losses that currently occur during AC-to-DC and DC-to-AC electricity conversion, and they can handle voltages more than 10 times higher than Si-based devices, greatly enhancing performance in high-power applications. SiC ahead in road to commercialization.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

As previously announced ( earlier post ), Volvo Buses will officially launch the new plug-in 7900 Electric Hybrid bus at the International IAA Commercial Vehicles show in September. Recharging takes approximately 6 minutes at end stations. Volvo 7900 Electric Hybrid with overhead conductive charging station and pantograph extended.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

The selected project will use a unique class of electrochemical sensors created at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) to develop low cost electronics packaging that is manufacturable at high volume and will integrate the LANL sensor into a commercial package that can meet the codes and standards for being deployed at a hydrogen fueling station.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2015

As FCEVs become increasingly commercially available, the Energy Department is focused on reducing the costs and increasing technical advancements of critical hydrogen infrastructure including production, delivery, and storage. Subtopics include Microbial Biomass Conversion. Subtopic 1a: Microbial biomass conversion.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2009

SDG&E tested the performance of two 2007-model Prius hybrids and then converted them into plug-in hybrids, using a Hymotion 5 kWh lithium-ion battery conversion kit. California’s electricity capacity could recharge as many as 4 million plug-in hybrids when charged during off-peak hours when electricity use is low. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2021

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced more than $30 million in federal funding, matched by more than $35 million in private sector funds, for 68 projects that will accelerate the commercialization of promising energy technologies—ranging from clean energy and advanced manufacturing, to building efficiency and next-generation materials.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2015

Small businesses that win awards in these programs keep the rights to any technology developed and are encouraged to commercialize the technology. While the original charter of the program focused on technological innovation, the current programs have evolved to have a greater focus on commercialization. Organization. Description.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Zaghib currently serves as Administrator of the energy storage and conversion unit at Hydro-Québec. Karim Zaghib at Hydro-Québec’s research institute, IREQ. Dr. Zaghib subsequently exploited, improved and patented novel aspects of LTO technology. (Dr.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2010

The company plans initially to commercialize advanced primary battery systems in multiple form factors (coin, cell, film or prismatic), targeting a wide range of portable power applications spanning the transportation, government and defense, medical, industrial, portable electronics and specialty application markets. 3 V system.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 2, 2022

Schneider’s development path started soon after that dinner-table conversation. Tang, who was working as a technical product manager at the Ford Greenfield Labs , convinced Schneider that he could form a team capable of commercializing the product. For example, one problem that affects the noise in the sensor signals is fog.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Targeted for EV/PHEV OEMs who base their designs on liquid-cooled battery solutions to fuel high-performance, higher power commercial vehicles or premium performance vehicles, Swing Medley shares the same capabilities as Boston-Power’s portfolio of air-cooled battery systems.

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