Green Car Congress

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Comparison of Fuel Consumption, Fun to Drive and System Cost of the different powertrain concepts. AVL says that its smart recharging concept guarantees the filling of the “torque gap” at low speeds under all circumstances of acceleration even with a small energy storage system. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2011

Classification of potential electrical storage for stationary applications. To smooth out the intermittency of renewable energy production, low-cost electrical energy storage (EES) will become necessary. The most commonly used systems today work by converting electricity to kinetic (e.g.,

Li-ion 231

Li-ion Energy Storage Grid Carbon 231

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2012

Luis Ortiz, are also founders of Liquid Metal Battery Corporation (LMBC), a Cambridge, Massachusetts company founded in 2010 to develop new forms of electric storage batteries that work in large, grid-scale applications. Sadoway (2012) Magnesium–Antimony Liquid Metal Battery for Stationary Energy Storage. Earlier post.).

MIT 301

MIT Molten Salt Batteries Battery 301