Green Car Congress
JULY 15, 2022
At the Zwickau vehicle plant, Volkswagen commissioned the first fast-charging park in Saxony supplied with energy largely from a power storage container (PSC). The PSC is an electricity storage unit and consists of 96 cell modules with a net capacity of 570 kWh. 4 and have now been given a second purpose.
Cars That Think
JUNE 12, 2023
The shipping containers, which house a Frankenstein-like assortment of machine parts—motors repurposed from Volvo truck engines, giant tanks of compressed air, huge silos of piping hot sand—are produced by a company called Cheesecake Energy. That’s why interest in unconventional solutions for energy storage has taken off in recent years.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 28, 2017
Vattenfall will purchase the new batteries from the BMW plant in Dingolfing and use them in all storage projects. The first energy storage from the BMW-i3 batteries is being built at the 122 MW onshore wind farm “Princess Alexia” near Amsterdam. This is a so-called storage control unit made of batteries.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 24, 2014
Alexander Dennis Limited (ADL), Britain’s biggest bus and coach manufacturer, has chosen GKN Hybrid Power as a preferred partner and committed to the purchase of 250 of its Gyrodrive electric flywheel hybrid systems ( earlier post ). Click to enlarge.
Driivz
AUGUST 18, 2021
That means millions of electricity storage units – the batteries – are available to the electric grid to serve peak demand, with the vehicles recharging during non-peak hours. V2G technology makes this two-way energy exchange possible, but it’s only useful to utility companies if it happens on a massive scale.
Charged EVs
AUGUST 2, 2023
Commercial EVs have been on the job for years now, at dozens of companies, in just about every conceivable use case, and they’ve proven that they can do the job better, quieter, more safely and above all, cheaper. However, the electric road ahead is not exactly clear. Rustam Kocher has been a pioneer in the commercial EV field.
Drive Electric
APRIL 12, 2023
Lithium is commonly used for rechargeable batteries, particularly in Electric Vehicles (EVs). With global EV purchases continually rising , the sudden surge in demand has caused consumer concerns about the resultant demand for lithiu m, and the availability of this valuable resource, leading many to ask: will the world run out of lithium?
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