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. Despite its name, Cheesecake Energy isn’t in the food business.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2022

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced the finalists in the $4-million American-Made Geothermal Lithium Extraction Prize, a competition supporting innovations that help lower the costs and reduce the environmental impacts of extracting lithium from geothermal brines.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2015

The California Energy Commission (CEC) has awarded $2.1 million to Eos Energy Storage, LLC to demonstrate an AC-integrated system incorporating the company’s zinc hybrid-cathode battery technology (“Zynth”) to enhance renewable energy generation and provide grid-scale, multi-hour energy storage.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

German utility STEAG is investing around €100 million in grid energy storage systems (ESS) totalling 90 MW, equipped with Li-ion cells from LG Chem. Using the existing plant sites provides synergies in the infrastructure and therefore keeps the investment costs low, STEAG said.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2021

The US Department of Energy announced Stage 1 winners of the Conductivity-enhanced materials for Affordable, Breakthrough Leapfrog Electric and thermal applications ( CABLE ) Conductor Manufacturing Prize. The CABLE Conductor Manufacturing Prize is led by DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s?Advanced

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2016

BMW i announced a home stationary energy storage system solution integrating its BMW i3 vehicle battery at EVS 29 in Montréal. The concept announced at EVS29 is the first market-ready home storage system using a second-life automotive BMW i3 high-voltage battery integrated by BECK Automation (Würzburg, Germany).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Sand is emerging as a key ingredient in the race to develop a viable electricity storage system for renewable energies. Australia-based Latent Heat Storage has developed a low cost thermal energy storage system based on the latent heat properties of silicon derived from sand. —Jonathan Whalley.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced 15 Phase 1 semifinalists of the American-Made Geothermal Lithium Extraction Prize, a $4-million competition designed to advance technologies and techniques to support direct lithium extraction from geothermal brines. Nearly all of the US lithium stock is imported. American-Made Geothermal Prize?is

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2018

Seven companies—Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc. TEPCO); TEPCO Energy Partner, Inc.; TEPCO Power Grid, Inc.; Japan is promoting the adoption and expansion of renewable energy sources as a measure to reduce greenhouse gases. Hitachi Systems Power Service, Ltd.; and Hitachi Solutions, Ltd.—have

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Driivz

MAY 10, 2022

Part 1 of this two-part blog discusses the challenges facing electric utilities – both electricity generators and grid operators – with electric vehicle (EV) adoption coinciding with the electrification of buildings, heating, and industry. That is one way to balance the load on the grid.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2015

Working with a select group of BMW i3 drivers, BMW i ChargeForward will demonstrate how intelligent management of electric vehicle charging can contribute to improved electric power grid efficiency while reducing total cost of electric vehicle ownership. Program participation. BMW i Home Charging Services.

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Driivz

AUGUST 18, 2021

The 2020 International Energy Agency’s Global EV Outlook projects that by 2030, the share of electricity going towards EV charging could rise to as high as 4–10% at peak demand. V2G returns the energy stored in EV batteries to the grid. EV owners don’t view their cars as devices that store energy for someone else’s use.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

is the energy storage partner for a utility demonstration project led by CEATI International Inc., The total project cost is estimated at approximately $7.5 The project has been conditionally approved for partial funding support from the Government of Canada’s Clean Energy Fund and final contract negotiations are underway.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2011

ALTe Powertrain Technologies, the developer of a Range Extended Electric Powertrain used to repower light commercial vehicles up to 26,000 GVW ( earlier post ), has signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) to form a joint venture with Inmatech, Inc. , The applications will range from automotive batteries to stationary grid power leveling devices.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2010

The California Center for Sustainable Energy (CCSE) will lead a joint research study of how the useful lifespan of electric vehicle batteries could be extended by repurposing them as household electric storage devices with a $992,000 grant from the University of California. —Mike Ferry.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2015

The case for using Power-to-Gas solutions to store renewable energy is compelling for a number of important use cases, according to a new white paper released by the California Hydrogen Business Council (CHBC). P2G systems use electrolysis powered by renewable energy to split water into hydrogen and oxygen—i.e., Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2020

While this creates a large opportunity for the electricity industry to increase sales and infrastructure investments, it also comes with new challenges that will need to be addressed. The batteries installed in 20 million EVs will have up to 1,600 GWh of electricity storage capacity.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2012

UniEnergy Technologies LLC has signed a license agreement with Battelle to further develop and commercialize a vanadium redox flow battery developed at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) that holds promise for storing large amounts of renewable energy and providing greater stability to the energy grid. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2015

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) has issued a $125-million open Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA). Because of the enormous breadth of energy technologies solicited under an OPEN FOA, it is impossible to provide the well?defined Battery Storage For Transportation.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2016

The 2016 Chevrolet Volt with an electric range of 53 miles [ 2 ] is the first commercial car that almost qualifies as a PHEVLER. PHEVLERs [ 3 ] are a disruptive technology that will help revolutionize both the clean transportation and the clean stationary energy sectors of our economy. PHEVLERs use the Existing Energy Infrastructure.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2009

Smart Grid electric transportation applications summary communications diagram. The US Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released for public review a report that identifies issues and proposes priorities for developing technical standards and an architecture for a US Smart Grid.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2016

sonnen, the European market leader for smart energy storage systems, announced a partnership with SolarWorld, the largest crystalline-silicon solar manufacturer in the US and PetersenDean, the nation’s largest residential roofing company with more than a million roofs under its belt. Guaranteed lifetime is 10,000 cycles or 10 years.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2015

Working with a group of nearly 100 BMW i3 drivers, selected from approximately 400 applicants, BMW i ChargeForward will demonstrate how intelligent management of electric vehicle charging can contribute to optimizing electric power grid efficiency while reducing total cost of electric vehicle ownership.

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Blink Charging

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

We previously discussed how electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE) can help you collect Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) credits. The chargers must meet ENERGY STAR certified criteria and be capable of responding to time-of-use market signals (ie your equipment should be demand response-ready ).

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Wallbox

JANUARY 4, 2021

The proportion of grid electricity generated by renewables such as wind and solar energy fluctuates depending on how hard the wind is blowing or how strong the sun is shining. This can lead to a huge variation in the grid power available, which can be a problem for power companies. How EVs can help balance the grid.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

A new European Joint Research Centre (JRC) study looking into the supply of raw materials for the manufacture of low-carbon energy technologies found that eight metals were at high risk of shortages. The applications, i.e. technologies, of particular concern as a result are electric vehicles, wind and solar energy, and lighting.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2009

Degradation as a function of (a) capacity (Ah) processed by cell or (b) energy (Wh) at different DoD. Statistical analyses indicated that rapid battery cycling incurred when driving degraded the cells more than slower, vehicle-to-grid galvanostatic cycling. The battery pack energy capacity was assumed to be 16 kWh. CEIC-09-02).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 15, 2014

Key to realizing the potential role for hydrogen in transportation is automakers’ continuing commitment to hydrogen FCVs as a necessary complement to plug-in electric vehicles and a critical component of their long-term strategy to provide vehicles that contribute to energy and climate policy goals. Public funding.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2011

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, has secured the rights to key patent technology from MIT. antimony and magnesium), and one layer of a salt.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Degradation as a function of (a) capacity (Ah) processed by cell or (b) energy (Wh) at different DoD. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry Center have concluded that a PHEV pack comprising lithium iron phosphate cells would incur little capacity loss from combining vehicle-to-grid (V2G) activities with regular driving.

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EV Info

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Had it not been so exceptionally calm in the run up to this autumn equinox, one could call the energy crisis a perfect storm. When David Cameron’s energy bill was being discussed in Parliament in 2013, the word on everybody’s lips was ‘trilemma’: how to ensure that energy was affordable, reliable and low-carbon.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2011

Classification of potential electrical storage for stationary applications. To be successful, systems will need to evolve—in some cases, considerably—to compete financially with the cost of natural gas production. Credit: ACS, Yang et al. Click to enlarge. In their study, Yang et al. In their study, Yang et al.

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Driivz

MAY 31, 2022

What is Smart Energy Management for EV Charging? How do EV Smart Charging and Smart Energy Management Work? Advantages of Smart Energy Management for Fleets. What is the Flexibility Market for Energy? . Smart EV Charging and Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G). Why Driivz for Smart EV Charging and Smart Energy Management?

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Green Cars News

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Smart meters will be rolled out through energy suppliers to every home by the end of 2020 under final plans published today by Energy and Climate Change Minister Lord Hunt. A paper setting out the case for developing smart grids in the UK is also being published.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2013

Schematic comparing the cost and dispatchability of PV to CSP with thermal storage. The “PV+Storage” box includes the high cost of electrical storage for PV. The FOCUS Program target zone for electricity generation is indicated. Source: ARPA-E. Click to enlarge.

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Charged EVs

AUGUST 2, 2023

Upfront costs are steadily approaching parity with legacy vehicles, purchase incentives are available, and new programs at the levels of federal (IRA, BIL), state (California’s ACT and ACF) and local (city zero-emission zones) government are driving (some would say “coercing”) companies to move forward quickly. megawatt chargers?

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2013

A new new forum for the advocacy and development of liquid air as an alternative technology to harness waste and surplus energy within power and transport—the Liquid Air Energy Network (LAEN)—has formed in the UK. The main potential applications are in electricity storage, transport and the recovery of waste heat.

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