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JANUARY 10, 2013

The California Energy Commission (CEC) approved funding to advance further the development of its pioneering 42 MW peak microgrid and expand electric vehicle charging at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). The return on this investment extends far beyond the San Diego campus. Weisenmiller.

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JULY 24, 2020

Researchers from the University of California San Diego (UCSD) and the University of Texas at Austin, with colleagues at the US Army Research Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, have developed a thick cobalt-free high voltage spinel (LiNi 0.5 O 4 (LNMO)) cathode material with high areal capacity.

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APRIL 21, 2022

Bidirectional plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) present immense potential for increasing the country's energy security, resilience, economic vitality, and quality of life while supporting the electrical grid. A bidirectional fleet could also create new revenue opportunities for EV owners or fleets.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

This advancement opens opportunities spanning the spectrum from consumer, commercial and industrial electric vehicles to defense systems such as a connected battlefield, unmanned vehicles and subzero power to all-weather energy applications for grid storage and power backup to marine sea monitoring, electric boats, submarines and more.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Working with Fermata Energy, a vehicle-to-grid (V2G) systems company, Nissan North America is launching a new pilot program under the Nissan Energy Share initiative which leverages bi?directional Leading the industry, Nissan has also received certification for second-life LEAF batteries to be used in stationary energy storage.

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JULY 1, 2019

The research, published in the journal Joule , builds on innovations first reported in Science in 2017 by the same research group at the University of California San Diego and the university spinout South 8 Technologies. C, the team demonstrated lithium-metal anode cycling efficiency of 98.4%.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2018

The Loop-powered, long-haul trucks will work in demanding road operations, towing up to 80,000 pounds of freight throughout the San Diego and Los Angeles regions. —Ben Nyland, President and CEO of Loop Energy.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2018

Electric drivetrain power and control systems, as well as batteries and accessories, will be supplied by TransPower, a California-based manufacturer of integrated drive systems, full-electric truck solutions and energy-storage subsystems. Funding for the Peterbilt 520 deployment was provided by the California Energy Commission.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2017

Eguana Technologies , a provider of power conversion and control systems for distributed energy storage, and Bosch are collaborating on the Home Battery System (HBS) project. The Home Battery system and a summary of results to date will be on display at DistribuTECH in San Diego later this week.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

million advanced battery technology development contract for the development of a high-performance, hybrid energy storage system for automotive stop-start applications to Maxwell Technologies Inc. of San Diego, Calif. The submission deadline is Monday, 1 December.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2015

XG Sciences (XGS), a leading provider of graphene nanoplatelets, has demonstrated full battery cell cycle stability through more than 400 charge/discharge cycles with a charge storage capacity of 600 mAh/gram over a broad voltage window in its next generation silicon graphene ( earlier post ) (XG SiG) anode materials for lithium-ion batteries. “

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MARCH 15, 2020

In an open-access review paper published in Nature Nanotechnology , researchers at the University of California San Diego offer a research roadmap that includes four challenges that need to be addressed in order to advance all-solid-state batteries to commercialization. candidate at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering.

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JULY 18, 2018

Lithium-rich layered oxides (LRLO) are leading candidates for the next-generation cathode materials for energy storage, as they can deliver 50% excess capacity over commercially used compounds. —UC San Diego nanoengineering professor Shirley Meng, co-senior author. volts in the non-lithium-rich NMC materials.

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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. Developments from the project may be useful for other energy conversion technologies, such as ammonia production and high-temperature direct liquid fuel cells.

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APRIL 30, 2013

The project survey will include identifying barriers to standardizing, researching methods to implement battery system standards, and recommending potential paths to the commercial adoption of battery standards. This project includes $150,000 in match funding from San Diego Gas & Electric.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 14, 2022

The idea, says Daniel Codd , a researcher in renewable energy systems at the University of California, San Diego, is to store solar-produced heat in rock formations below the surface, creating a solar-charged geothermal resource in which heat is stored for meaningful durations. This can imply a long road to commercial success.”

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APRIL 6, 2011

The CCSE project team includes the UC Davis’s Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle Research Center; the UC Berkeley, Transportation Sustainability Research Center (TSRC); UC San Diego Strategic Energy Initiatives; San Diego Gas & Electric; and AeroVironment.

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DECEMBER 28, 2009

the developer of advanced lead-carbon PbC batteries, has been awarded a $248,650 grant from the Pennsylvania Energy Development Authority to assist in the development and deployment of an Axion PowerCube battery energy storage system. Axion Power International, Inc., The $248,650 grant is part of $1.5

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Cars That Think

MAY 31, 2024

Emily Waltz Made with a liquified gas electrolyte instead of the standard liquid solvent, a new kind of lithium-ion battery that stands up to extreme cold, made by South 8 Technologies in San Diego, won’t freeze until temps drop below –80 °C.

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Charged EVs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The company’s new Smartville 360 ESS is a scalable second-life energy storage system that’s designed to incorporate battery packs from different manufacturers (currently, Tesla and Nissan), at varying levels of health, into one unified system. We test them on their quality for energy storage applications.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2010

CSP technologies concentrate the sun’s energy and capture that energy as heat, which then drives an engine or turbine to produce electrical power. CSP plants can include low-cost energy storage, allowing them to provide electricity even when the sun is not shining. eSolar, Inc. Pasadena, CA – up to $10.8 million.

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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

JULY 11, 2018

EVgo, America’s largest public fast-charging network for electric vehicles (EVs), has launched a commercial installation of second-life battery storage at a public DC fast charging station. BMW provided the recycled energy storage packs from BMW i3s and continues to provide ongoing technical support.

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AUGUST 27, 2020

ASCEND projects work to develop innovative, lightweight, and ultra-efficient all-electric powertrain with advanced thermal management systems that help enable efficient net-zero carbon emissions for single-aisle passenger commercial aircraft. High Performance Metal-Supported SOFC System for Range Extension of Commercial Aviation; $2,263,000.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2016

Enable smart charging and vehicle grid integration through solutions such as demand response, and other energy storage and load management strategies. billion in loan guarantees to support innovative renewable energy and energy efficiency projects in the United States. University of California, San Diego.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

By creating high performance parts built with solid ion conductors—solids in which ions can be mobile and store energy—the IONICS program will focus on new ways to process and integrate these parts into devices with the goal of accelerating their commercial deployment. The Washington University in St.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

efficiency of green energy applications such as wind turbines. at San Diego, Mississippi State. California - San Diego, Moog Inc., performance to the best commercial magnets and be significantly less expensive. properties on a prototype bulk magnet exceeding state-of-the-art commercial magnets.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2009

Carbon nanotubes with controllably induced extrinsic defects could serve as supercapacitor electrodes with enhanced charge and energy storage capacity (inset: a magnified view of a single carbon nanotube). Source: UCSD. Click to enlarge. Resources. Hoefer and P.

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