Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Two studies—led by a team from Seattle City Light, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), and Sandia National Laboratories—are exploring the potential of shifting from fossil fuel to clean hydrogen as fuel to power medium-and heavy-duty vehicles. million DOE award, $150,000 City Light = $1.5 million project total).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

Depending on their capital needs, manufacturers can apply to receive assistance via financial grants through DOE’s Office of Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chains (MESC) or preferable debt financing through DOE’s Loan Program Office. Converting and Retrofitting America’s Manufacturing Plants.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2021

The license also includes ORNL’s Oak Ridge Converter, which eliminates one of the power conversion stages needed for wireless power transfer, resulting in more compact and less costly stationary infrastructure. The Oak Ridge Converter will be part of the TCF project and is included in the HEVO licensing agreement.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2010

A sustainable and reversible energy storage cycle based on hydrogen storage in, and release from, formic acid. note, in addition to hydrogen generation, “ a sustainable and reversible energy storage cycle can be envisioned by storage of hydrogen in formic acid and release from it ”. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Under the FOCUS program, projects will develop advanced solar converters that turn sunlight into electricity for immediate use, while also producing heat that can be stored at low cost for later use as well as innovative storage systems that accept both heat and electricity from variable solar sources. b) Hybrid storage system.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2010

Canada-based Rapid Electric Vehicles (REV) has begun production of four converted electric bi-directional charging Ancillary Power Vehicles (APVs) ( earlier post ) as part of the US Army Tank Automotive Research Development Engineering Center (TARDEC) Micro-Grid project at Wheeler Air Base, Hawaii.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2013

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) has issued a Funding Opportunity Announcement ( DE-FOA-0000882 ) for up to $20 million for the Modern Electro/Thermochemical Advancements for Light-metal Systems (METALS) program. Light metals background. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

The Oshkosh Extreme Racing team Light Concept Vehicle (LCV) M2. Oshkosh Corporation ran two Light Concept Vehicles (LCV) through the 43 rd Annual Tecate SCORE Baja 1000 off-road race course in Mexico, 18-20 November; one crossed the finish line of the 1,061-mile desert course. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2010

ALTe is developing light- and medium-duty series plug-in hybrid electric vehicle powertrain systems—initially as conversions, but ultimately extending to an OEM basis. The converted pickup has a towing capacity of 6,500 lbs (2,948 kg). . The battery pack was assembled into a saddlebag configuration under the truck bed.

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Baua Electric

AUGUST 13, 2024

Some customers choose an off-grid solution that incorporates solar power and energy storage in order to avoid the long lead times that are often required to get a new utility interconnection, and/or to offer a backup power source in case of a power outage. For example, a parking lot that has a lighting circuit.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

This means that energy can be converted with more than 99% efficiency, significantly decreasing energy loss and playing a major role in reducing carbon dioxide emissions. Cree is an innovator of Wolfspeed power and radio frequency (RF) semiconductors and lighting class LEDs.

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Teslarati

JUNE 23, 2021

Known for its over 3,000 hours of annual sunshine, Lhasa was an ideal location for Tesla to install a Supercharger facility outfit with a solar panel canopy and Tesla Powerwalls for energy storage needs. It was originally a part of the plan to have Superchargers powered by solar and battery storage systems.

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Cars That Think

MAY 23, 2022

Therefore, a power grid will not simply keep the lights on and air pumping but also support the mining and fuel-processing facilities that will concurrently work to reduce the supply requirements from Earth. For that, energy storage and power management will be critical.

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Clean Fleet Report

JULY 17, 2023

Kinetic energy is the energy possessed by an object due to its motion, and finding innovative ways to capture and utilize this energy can have significant environmental benefits. Turning motion into electricity Wind turbines are a prime example of harnessing kinetic energy from the movement of air molecules.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2018

Solid-state Li batteries (LBs) show great promise as energy-storage devices because of their high energy density and good safety. O 4 have beeen extensively investigated to further increase their energy density. The batteries were made by stacking various layers via thin-film deposition methods.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2018

ton converted multipurpose transit vehicle in Taipei. Having undergone extensive development to produce a battery module design with market-leading power density, it was imperative for XING Mobility that its partner motor provider was well-matched to produce high power output, while crucially remaining light and small.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2020

Funded through the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), projects will conduct research in advanced batteries, electrification, and manufacturing in support of DOE’s Energy Storage Grand Challenge. General Motors LLC. Washington State University. 2,500,000.

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Baua Electric

JULY 9, 2024

From garage to global; from worrying about keeping the lights on to a 2bn EUR valuation; from converted BMW 3 Series to the world’s fastest accelerating production car and from hypercar maker to Tier 1 EV tech supplier and energy storage pioneers.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2018

Almost all electrical consumers in production—computers, industrial drives, robots and production technologies, hall lighting and so on—already require direct current. However, today’s production grids are powered by alternating current—which has to be converted.

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Setec Powerr

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

This series of battery systems are suitable for UPS or energy storage systems with a battery voltage of 100V to 800V and a minimum standby time of more than 10min. High voltage series BMS products are battery management systems developed for large-scale high-voltage battery energy storage systems.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2013

Siemens is currently installing the first Sitras SES (stationary energy storage) Energy Storage Unit with supercapacitor technology in the US on the new TriMet Portland-Milwaukie Light Rail Transit Line. Sitras SES. Click to enlarge. —Dan Blocher, executive director of TriMet Capital Projects.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Based on a Ford Focus, this ADEPT prototype incorporates a 48V electrical architecture, a SpeedStart 10kW (later to be upgraded to 12.5kW) belt integrated starter generator and TIGERS turbine integrated exhaust gas energy recovery system, both switched reluctance machines supplied by CPT, and an advanced lead carbon battery pack provided by EALABC.

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Diesel Downsizing Lead Acid Gasoline-Electric 231

Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2018

The European H2FUTURE project consortium, comprising voestalpine, Siemens, VERBUND, and Austrian Power Grid, together with the research partners K1-MET and ECN, officially gave the green light to the construction of a 6 MW “green” hydrogen pilot production plant—the world’s largest—at a voestalpine Linz steel plant.

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Hydrogen Industry Industrial Green 240

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2009

With the initiation of the EFRCs in April 2008, the Department of Energy (DOE) budgeted approximately $100 million for multiple EFRC awards starting in FY 2009. Dramatically increase our fundamental knowledge of the physical structure of biopolymers in plant cell walls to provide a basis for improved methods for converting biomass into fuels.

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Energy Energy Storage Conversion Solar 150

Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2021

Development of the lithium-ion energy storage system began in 2016 and was inspired by technologies that have proven themselves in the Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team’s Formula 1 hybrid racing cars. Due to this individual solution, the battery system could be designed in a particularly light and compact manner.

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Mercedes Hybrid Battery Batteries 448

Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2011

Technologies for low-cost production of advanced biofuels are limited by the small amount of available energy captured by photosynthesis and the inefficient processes used to convert plant matter to fuel. PETRO aims to create plants that capture more energy from sunlight and convert that energy directly into fuels.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2017

The hydrogen gas can also be used as a chemical energy storage and can later be reconverted into electricity in a fuel cell, albeit with an additional penalty in terms of losses in conversion. In larger refineries light olefins—ethylene, propylene and butenes—are separated from this fraction.

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Renewable Fuel CO2 Hydrogen 244

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2013

The hydraulic system, which uses compressed air for energy storage, basically comprises two hydraulic units and their pressure accumulators. This energy can then be used to drive the car. PSA says the technology—called “Hybrid Air”—will be fitted on B-segment models starting in 2016.

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Baua Electric

DECEMBER 30, 2023

The primary goal is to increase the share of clean and sustainable energy in the overall energy mix, thereby reducing dependence on fossil fuels and mitigating environmental impacts. These systems store excess energy generated during periods of high production and release it when demand is high or when renewable generation is low.

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Energy Energy Storage Grid Store 52

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2013

mpg) for light trucks by 2025 (54.5 mpg light duty average, or 4.3 The objective of this area of interest is to conduct focused fundamental research and development on issues impeding the commercialization of the next-generation, high-performance energy storage device. mpg) for cars and 203 gCO 2 /mi (43.7

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 9, 2013

Projects selected in this area are expected to improve the fuel efficiency of light-, medium- and heavy-duty vehicles. Through the Advanced Vehicle Power Technology Alliance between the Department of Energy and the Department of the Army, the Army is contributing $3.5

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Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

The need for large-scale electrochemical energy storage as a grid-stabilizing source of demand disappeared. When utilities considered storage technology at all in the succeeding decades, it was generally in the form of pumped-storage hydropower, an expensive piece of infrastructure that could be built only in hilly terrain.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2013

EnerG2 , a manufacturer of advanced carbon materials for next-generation energy storage (generally for batteries and ultracapacitors), has leveraged its polymer chemistry technologies to develop materials for adsorbed natural gas (ANG) applications. million operating worldwide, according to Natural Gas Vehicles for America.

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Qnovo

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Sony converted their ideas into the first commercial lithium-ion battery product in 1991. So it is about time that these scientists are recognized for their contributions and for initiating a revolution in energy storage. Yoshino’s contributions on the graphite anode came in 1980s at Asahi Kasei in Japan.

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Lithium Ion Battery Batteries San Francisco 59

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2009

ARPA-E’s first solicitation, announced earlier this year, was highly competitive and resulted in awarding $151 million to 37 projects aimed at transformational innovations in energy storage, biofuels, carbon capture, renewable power, building efficiency, vehicles, and other areas. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2018

Spodumene crystals are light-green and can reach 30 cm in size. The electrochemical plant will use Nemaska Lithium’s proprietary process to convert the spodumene concentrate into the purest lithium hydroxide on the market. Resources below the pit will be developed using the underground mine. Source: Nemaska Lithium Feasibility Study.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2011

This project will optimize fuel-based control of novel combustion strategies in light- and heavy-duty vehicles to enable diesel-like efficiencies with ultra-low engine-out emissions. Light-weighting materials. These projects are being undertaken as part of the Clean Energy Dialogue with Canada. GMZ Energy, Inc.

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