Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

Schematic illustration of the designed hybrid-seawater fuel cell and a schematic diagram at the charged–discharged state. Sodium can serve as an alternative to lithium in rechargeable batteries as the reversible storage mechanisms for sodium ions are very similar (e.g., Click to enlarge. earlier post ). —Kim et al.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2023

The Mercedes-Benz eCitaro combines the tried and tested platform of the best-selling Mercedes-Benz city bus with new technological solutions and a novel design. In the currently available articulated bus variant, the eCitaro fuel cell can run for around 350 kilometers without recharging, while offering space for up to 128 passengers.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2019

The Volkswagen Group Components brand will be showcasing the near-series design study of its flexible quick charging station at the Geneva Motor Show. When the energy content of the battery built into the charging station falls below a defined value, the depleted charging station is simply replaced by a charged one.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2020

Rhombus Energy Solutions announced the certification of its high-power 60 kW AC to DC Power Conditioning System (PCS) charger unit to Underwriter Laboratories UL 1741 & 1741-SA standards. UL 1741 is UL’s Standard for Inverters, Converters, Controllers and Interconnection System Equipment for Use With Distributed Energy Resources.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2013

MIT researchers have engineered a new rechargeable, membrane-less hydrogen bromine laminar flow battery with high power density. The membrane-less design enables power densities of 0.795?W?cm Credit: Braff et al. Click to enlarge. A paper on the work is published in Nature Communications. —Braff et al.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 1, 2021

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) is hosting a pitch event, ARPA-E’s Battery/Storage Exposition, on 14 January 2021, from 1:00-3:00 pm EST. This event will feature pitches from a select group of ARPA-E teams developing energy storage technologies.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2018

Researchers led by a team from MIT, with colleagues from Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), BMW Group, and Tokyo Institute of Technology have developed a fundamentally new approach to alter ion mobility and stability against oxidation of lithium ion conductors—a key component of rechargeable batteries—using lattice dynamics.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2020

Capacitors that rapidly store and release electric energy are key components in modern electronics and power systems. However, the most commonly used ones have low energy densities compared to other storage systems such as batteries or fuel cells, which in turn cannot discharge and recharge rapidly without sustaining damage.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University may have found a way to revitalize rechargeable lithium batteries, potentially boosting the range of electric vehicles and battery life in next-gen electronic devices. —Fang Liu.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Designed both for city and intercity routes, it provides an excellent link between the urban and suburban road network across conurbations. The vehicle has been designed in such a way that its interior can be adapted to class I or class II type approval requirements. This allows it to recharge vehicles of various heights.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Designed both for city and intercity routes, it provides an excellent link between the urban and suburban road network across conurbations. The vehicle has been designed in such a way that its interior can be adapted to class I or class II type approval requirements. This allows it to recharge vehicles of various heights.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2011

Yet-Ming Chiang (co-founder of A123 Systems), report on their development of a new energy storage concept—a semi-solid flow cell (SSFC) combining the high energy density of rechargeable batteries with the flexible and scalable architecture of fuel cells and flow batteries—in a paper published in the journal Advanced Energy Materials.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2011

Gravimetric Ragone plot comparing energy and power characteristics of CNF electrodes based on the pristine and discharged electrode weight with that of LiCoO 2. This translates to an energy enhancement ~4 times greater than the state-of-the-art lithium intercalation compounds such as LiCoO 2 (~600 W h kg electrode -1 , the researchers said.

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Driivz

AUGUST 30, 2023

The good news is that smart EV charging and energy management software can control EV charging energy consumption and save on electricity bills. What is smart EV charging and energy management? What are the benefits of smart EV energy management? EVs bring a growing appetite for electricity.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2017

Researchers have achieved a significant boost in the storage capacity of magnesium-ion batteries through a new design for the cathode and a new understanding of the electrolyte. The new battery stores energy by inserting magnesium monochloride into a host, such as titanium disulfide. —Hyun Deog Yoo, first author.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2016

Described in a paper published in the RSC journal Energy & Environmental Science , the smart membrane separator could enable the design of a new category of rechargeable/refillable energy storage devices with high energy density and specific power that would overcome the contemporary limitations of electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2017

UK-based Connected Energy and Groupe Renault have installed two quick-charge stations based on Connected Energy’s E-STOR energy storage technology on highways in Belgium and Germany. The E-STOR technology developed by Connected Energy uses second-life batteries from Renault electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2022

This led us to OptiFuel’s modular, affordable designs. times the volume to store energy versus diesel, and hydrogen requires 11 times the volume, while lithium batteries require 50 to 75 times. Batteries are poor energy storage solutions for heavy horsepower use, and they require frequent recharging with traditional electricity.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2023

Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering and the School of Materials Science and Engineering, is using an aluminum-foil-based anode in a solid-state Li-ion battery to create batteries with higher energy density and greater stability. The new battery system is detailed in an open-access paper in Nature Communications. —Liu et al.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2020

The design of the articulated buses will be adapted to two recharging modes: by means of a 4-pole roof-mounted pantograph placed above the first vehicle axis; or using a plug-in charger. Energy will be stored in high density Solaris High Energy+ batteries.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2014

Scientists at USC have developed a novel water-based Organic Redox Flow Battery (ORBAT) for lower cost, long lasting large-scale energy storage. These properties render quinone-based redox couples very attractive for high-efficiency metal-free rechargeable batteries, they found. Schematic of ORBAT. Click to enlarge. —Yang et al.

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Charged EVs

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

It’s called the XC40 Recharge, and the earliest versions aren’t cheap, priced from about $55,000 including delivery. Volvo XC40 Recharge Volvo XC40 Recharge Volvo XC40 Recharge Volvo XC40 Recharge Volvo XC40 Recharge Volvo XC40 Recharge Volvo XC40 Recharge. Volvo’s first EV.

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Baua Electric

MAY 1, 2024

Research in ACS Energy Letters shows the potential to improve batteries in aerial EVs that take off and land vertically. The researchers manufactured a set of lithium-ion battery (LiB) cells containing a specially designed, fast-charging and discharging electrolyte.

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Qnovo

AUGUST 12, 2020

A common denominator is the battery’s energy density : it is the amount of electrical energy per unit volume (or per unit weight) that a rechargeable battery can store. Energy is measured in units of kWh. Hence energy density is in units of Wh per liter (Wh/l), or Wh per kg (Wh/kg). Let’s explore a little.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2023

The first time that an electric motor was matched to a 12-cylinder internal combustion engine in a Lamborghini was in 2019 with the Sián, which used a 25 kW electric engine to support the previous generation of V12, storing the electrical energy in a supercapacitor.

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My Energi

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Self-Generation Nation – Solar Sales Soar Amid Escalating Energy Costs. Over the past decade, the European energy marketplace has continued to experience increasing volatility. million installations across the UK , solar PV deployment provides a combined national energy capacity of approximately 13.6 With almost 1.1

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2019

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University’s Mellon College of Science and College of Engineering have developed a semiliquid lithium metal-based anode (SLMA) that represents a new paradigm in battery design for solid electrolyte batteries. The interdisciplinary research team published their findings in the current issue of Joule.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 18, 2024

Florida-based Air Burners, a manufacturer of air curtain burner systems, collaborated with Rolls-Royce and Volvo Construction Equipment to develop a portable machine that turns biomass waste into energy. The BioCharger is designed to provide off-grid power from vegetative waste.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2014

Sandia National Laboratories and Hawaii Hydrogen Carrier s (HHC) are partnering to design a solid-state metal-hydride hydrogen storage system for forklifts; the storage system can refuel at low pressure four to five times faster than it takes to charge a battery-powered forklift. Photo by Dino Vournas) Click to enlarge.

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Electric Vehicles India

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Electric three-wheelers design for handicapped persons . Here in this article, we will be discussing all-electric three-wheelers (autos) designs especially for handicapped people which means it can also be run by a handicapped person or handicapped user-friendly vehicle. Electric three-wheelers for handicapped.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2014

The Honda Smart Home US integrates a number of technologies, and is managed by Honda’s Home Energy Management System (HEMS). The home’s occupant will be able to use less than half of the energy of a similarly sized new home in the Davis area for heating, cooling and lighting. Click to enlarge. Photo by Dorian Toy. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2014

Renault’s Energy F1-2014 hybrid Power Unit ( earlier post ), designed and developed for the FIA Formula One World Championship this year, is ready for the track; the 2014 season kicks off in Australia on 16 March. New FIA regulations are driving energy efficiency levels higher this year, with two types of energy propelling the cars.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

The buses—full-size, low-floor models for the city’s regular route network—will operate on MHI’s high-performance “ MLIX ” lithium-ion rechargeable batteries. The MLIX cells use MHI’s own prismatic cell design and stacking architecture. kWh of capacity, and operates with a state of charge window of 10-90%.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2020

Kenworth K270E cabover is equipped with Dana-designed e-Powertrain system that is fully integrated and upfitted to the Kenworth chassis. Dana also supplies an e-power system, which generates, stores, and manages the energy for the vehicle and consists of electrified auxiliary systems, an on-board charger, and two battery packs.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2011

MHI), has developed Japan’s first cargo container-type large-capacity energy storage system using Li-ion batteries. Japan’s first container-type large-capacity energy storage system using lithium-ion rechargeable batteries. The system has a capacity of 408 kWh and is designed to have a system efficiency of 90%.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

MAHLE Powertrain and Allotrope Energy have unveiled a new battery technology which offers ultra-fast recharging coupled with good power density. Its stability, even at high temperatures, permits high current delivery and fast recharging, all without the need for complex external cooling or elaborate battery management systems.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2021

Transportation is our state’s greatest source of carbon emissions and we cannot afford to link an important goal like getting to 100% zero-emission vehicles to a separate policy that will take time to design and implement.

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