Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2014

RAL researchers are proposing a new process for the decomposition of ammonia to release hydrogen that involves the stoichiometric decomposition and formation of sodium amide from Na metal. To date, very few candidates show potential beyond that of the seminal work on titanium-doped sodium alanate. Credit: ACS, David et al. William I.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

Researchers within the RS2E network on electrochemical energy storage (Réseau sur le stockage électrochimique de l’énergie) in France have developed the first sodium-ion battery in an 18650 format. The main advantage of the prototype is that it relies on sodium, an element far more abundant and less costly than lithium.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

million research center, led by Michigan Engineering and funded by the US Department of Energy, will focus on understanding an emerging branch of science involving mechanical and chemical phenomena that affect advanced battery designs.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 11, 2010

In October 2008, Xcel began testing a one-megawatt sodium-sulfur (NaS) battery ( earlier post ) to demonstrate its ability to store wind energy and move it to the electricity grid when needed. They are able to store about 7.2 Modular and scalable in design. Xcel Energy purchased the battery from NGK Insulators Ltd.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2011

John Goodenough, are proposing a strategy for high-capacity next-generation alkali (lithium or sodium)-ion batteries using water-soluble redox couples as the cathode. The present sodium-sulfur battery operates above 300 °C. A = lithium or sodium (Li or Na), M represents a metal and 1 ≤ n < z. V was developed.

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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., an alloying material), in full sodium-ion configuration.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

The fast-growing electromobility sector is therefore looking for new ways to reduce the energy required to manufacture batteries and thus to design them to be as cost effective and environmentally friendly as possible. This coating contains the active components that are responsible for storing energy. —Benjamin Schumm.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2018

Therefore, it is of great importance to design new lithium ion conductors having not only high Li conductivity but also being stable during battery operation. The new design principle has been about five years in the making, Shao-Horn says. That’s where the new design principle comes in. —Muy et al.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Unlike a typical hydrogen fuel cell, the system doesn’t store its fuel as pressurized hydrogen gas, but stores it as a solid chemical material, making it easy for end-users to handle in the field. HES has been able to show that its system can store 7% of its weight as hydrogen with a fuel utilization rate of close to 90%.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

In trials, GE’s sodium metal halide Durathon batteries ( earlier post ) have successfully powered GE Mining’s Scoop, an underground vehicle that transports mining materials, at Coal River Energy, LLC in Alum Creek, West Virginia. Sodium-metal halide cell basic chemistry. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2009

The hydrogen storage system Sandia designed for GM. The sodium alanate material used to store the hydrogen resides within the tubes. Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have successfully designed and demonstrated key features of a hydrogen storage system that utilizes a complex metal hydride material—sodium alanate.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

But to incorporate many different types of sensors, we need different material designs and tools. For capacitors, voltage translates to electrons stored —the voltage drop across a capacitor is proportional to its total charge.) The group fabricated their device using CFRP, sodium potassium niobate (KNN) nanoparticles, and epoxy resin.

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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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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2013

The catalyst designed by the team led by Associate Professor Stephen Colbran of the UNSW School of Chemistry mimics the activity of naturally occurring metallo-(de)hydrogenase enzymes that catalyse reduction, such as alcohol dehydrogenase in yeast, that helps produce alcohol from sugar. —Stephen Colbran.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2011

Metal hydride tanks store hydrogen in a relatively manageable volume but are very heavy and expensive, as well as operating only at high temperatures or far too slowly. Here, we describe for the first time the design of a reversible hydrogen storage cycle based on the redox system bicarbonate/formate. at 20 °C in H 2 O).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2014

With regard to overall storage capability and potential for further fuel efficiency improvements, the demand for larger battery systems based on lithium, nickel and sodium will continue to grow through the increased market penetration of vehicles with higher levels of hybridization and electrification. Sodium-nickel chloride batteries.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 21, 2024

Researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT ), including one of Indian-origin, have designed a new battery material that could offer a more sustainable, cobalt-free way to power electric cars. The new battery also has comparable storage capacity and can be charged up faster than cobalt batteries.

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Driivz

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

From how much they cost and weigh to the amount of power they store and how long they take to charge, electric vehicle (EV) batteries have a significant impact on EVs themselves, the EV industry as a whole, and ultimately EV buyers.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2019

BroadBit uses it to produce new types of sodium-ion batteries. First, they mix the active materials, intended later to release the stored energy, with additives to create a paste. On a laboratory scale, the IWS can already coat electrode foil with a remarkable production speed of several meters per minute. 2019.05.033.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

Total has signed a research agreement with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to develop new stationary batteries that are designed to enable the storage of solar power. The Total-MIT research project is primarily focused on development of a low-cost, long-life battery suited to store the power generated by solar panels.

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Electric Vehicles India

JANUARY 23, 2023

The battery absorbs and stores this energy. Through continuous research and innovation, Loom Solar has worked on product integration and custom designs for the developing lithium battery segment. Reliance – EV Reliance New Energy Solar has acquired Faradion, a UK start-up that develops sodium-ion batteries.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2013

Researchers at Stanford University and SLAC led by Stanford associate professor Yi Cui have used a sulfur–TiO 2 yolk–shell design for a cathode material for a lithium-sulfur battery that achieved an initial specific capacity of 1,030?mAh?g (b) Capacity retention of sulfur–TiO 2 yolk–shell nanostructures cycled at 0.5 Click to enlarge.

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OCTOBER 28, 2022

Travertine will develop the design basis for a 1 ton/day CO 2 removal system to demonstrate the technical feasibility and commercial viability of this concept, taking it from proof-of-concept to field-ready. Leached critical elements are recovered as oxides, while carbonate minerals are precipitated using carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) from the air.

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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. Click to enlarge.

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Push EVs

APRIL 12, 2023

BYD DOLPHIN is the first model in the Ocean series and the first to adopt the “Ocean Aesthetics” design concept providing a dynamic, stylish, and highly recognisable visual symbol. In the car’s design, the dolphin, a marine mammal, is presented in both figurative and imaginative forms. The vehicle height is 1,570 mm.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2022

Upon discharge from a nuclear reactor, the UNF is initially stored in steel-lined concrete pools surrounded by water. Most of the nation’s used fuel is stored at more than 70 reactor sites across the country. It is later removed from the pools and placed into dry storage casks with protective shielding. Award amount: $2,796,545).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2017

A nearly threefold decrease of the stored kWh price to €200 per kWh at the pack level is predicted in the next 10 years, driven at least in part by both the large volume production and the realistic prospects of a second life for electric vehicle batteries. Source: Grey and Tarascon. Click to enlarge. Resources.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

The project will be designed with an innovative smart grid control system to improve grid reliability and enable the integration of wind and other intermittent renewable energy sources. Design, build, and deploy a utility-scale, low-cost compressed air energy storage system to support the integration of renewable energy sources onto the grid.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

The all-new electronic limited slip differential, Ultra Posi is designed for front and rear-wheel drive vehicles, performs comparably to four-wheel-drive and all-wheel-drive systems and provides up to a 10% savings in fuel economy, Eaton says. Electronic Limited Slip Differential. New Engine Valves. —Dave Genise.

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Green Cars News

MAY 10, 2009

Thanks to a project funded by General Motors, researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have designed and demonstrated key features of a hydrogen storage system that utilises sodium alanate. The system is not meant to fit on board a vehicle and sodium alanate is not the material of choice for onboard storage of hydrogen.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Energy storage is storing energy through a medium or device and releasing it when needed. Sodium-sulfur battery: Sodium-sulfur battery is a secondary battery with sodium metal as the negative electrode, sulfur as the positive electrode, and ceramic tube as the electrolyte diaphragm. Classification of energy storage.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 24, 2023

Monique closes her EV’s fueling port and heads onto the highway with enough stored energy to drive 640 kilometers (400 miles). The battery in her EV is a variation on the flow battery , a design in which spent electrolyte is replaced rather than recharged.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2011

published in the ACS journal Chemical Reviews , reviews in detail four stationary storage systems considered the most promising candidates for electrochemical energy storage: vanadium redox flow; sodium-beta alumina membrane; lithium-ion; and lead-carbon batteries. In their study, Yang et al. Credit: ACS, Yang et al. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Hydrogen produced by water electrolysis has the potential to be a useful means of storing excess electricity generated using wind, solar, and other intermittent renewable energy. Integrated renewable hydrogen systems and public-private community-based partnerships. transit buses or other heavy duty vehicles).

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Charged EVs

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Its physical structure allows it to store lithium ions. Graphite is the critical component of all current anode designs. Some advanced designs use a small amount of silicon, which can store more energy. Charged : Is it the physical structure of graphite that allows it to store the ions? John DeMaio: Correct.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2015

This allows storage of charge at a higher volumetric or gravimetric density, which translates to a higher stored energy density or storage capacity for a given size or weight. Other work focuses on sodium as an earth-abundant alternative to lithium, but while it could lower cost, sodium ions also carry just a single charge.

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Driivz

AUGUST 1, 2022

The idea of using the energy stored in EV batteries for other purposes started with vehicle-to-grid (V2G). Instead of generating more power during peak times, utilities would purchase stored energy from EV owners and distribute it over the grid. New chemistries such as sodium-ion offer promise of incremental improvement.

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