Green Car Congress

JANUARY 1, 2021

This event will feature pitches from a select group of ARPA-E teams developing energy storage technologies. ARPA-E has run and is running a number of programs directly related to energy storage. These include: AMPED (Advanced Management and Protection of Energy Storage Devices). Open funding solicitations.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2014

Hydro-Québec and Sony Corporation will establish a joint venture to research and develop a large-scale energy storage system for power grids. Furthermore, the energy storage system for such power supplies must be highly safe and reliable due to the need for an efficient and stable source of high capacity power.

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Baua Electric

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Is Rivian planning its own home energy system like the Tesla Powerwall? The EV maker’s recent patent for an Energy Storage Device hints one could be coming. Rivian energy storage device (Source: USPTO) The patent shows an image of an EV hooked up to an energy storage device.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2012

(MHI), jointly with SSE plc (formerly Scottish and Southern Energy plc), will begin an energy storage system demonstration project using the power grid in the UK’s Orkney Islands, which has a high proportion of renewable energy generation in relation to demand.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2018

A UPS-led consortium has deployed new smart-grid charging technology in London that overcomes the challenge of simultaneously recharging an entire fleet of electric vehicles (EVs) without the need for the expensive upgrade to the power supply grid. UPS thinks this is a world first, right in the heart of a mega-city.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

The US Department of Energy is awarding $620 million for projects around the country to demonstrate advanced Smart Grid technologies and integrated systems. Smart grid regional demonstrations involving plug-in vehicles include (ranked by DOE funding): Columbus Southern Power Company (doing business as AEP Ohio).

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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. Electrochem.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

They wanted to see whether an electric vehicle could feed electricity back to the grid. The company’s president, Tom Gage , dubbed the system “vehicle to grid” or V2G. For the utilities, it promised an economical way of meeting rising demand for electricity. AC Propulsion’s experiment was timely.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2022

FreeWire Technologies, a developer of ultrafast electric vehicle (EV) charging and energy management solutions, raised $125 million in new capital. FreeWire recently broke ground on a new 66,000-square-foot R&D facility in Newark, California to develop and manufacture new ultrafast charging and energy storage product offerings.

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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

OCTOBER 17, 2013

year EU-funded project developing a prototype material which can store and discharge electrical energy and which is also strong and lightweight enough to be used for car parts ( earlier post )—has created two components for the testing and further development of the technology. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2017

Results of a study by a team at the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute, SOEST, University of Hawaii at Manoa, suggest that the additional cycling to discharge vehicle batteries to the power grid in a vehicle-to-grid (V2G) scenario, even at constant power, is detrimental to EV battery cell performance. 2017.05.015.

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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. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd., (MHI), Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

BAE Systems has been selected by Alexander Dennis Limited (ADL) and the Republic of Ireland’s National Transport Authority (NTA) to supply up to 600 electric power and propulsion systems for its new fleet of buses in Ireland. Series-ER builds on that foundation, maximizing the efficiency of the energy storage system.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 26, 2011

MHI) has delivered a large-capacity Li-ion battery energy storage system to the Shimizu Institute of Technology in Tokyo. The energy storage system, which is capable of 100 kW output with 60 kWh capacity, is currently one of the largest indoor lithium-ion battery-based systems in Japan.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2019

Groupe Renault is beginning the first large-scale pilot schemes in alternating-current, vehicle-to-grid (V2G) charging in electric vehicles. Vehicle-to-grid charging is a key pillar of the smart electric ecosystems that Groupe Renault has set up. —Gilles Normand, Groupe Renault’s director of electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

The new report “ Battery Swapping for Electric Vehicles 2022-2032: Technology, Players and Forecasts ” by IDTechEx includes forecasts for global adoption of this technology outside of China. This is a unique feature of battery swapping stations that could be exploited in the future to make them act as grid-support units.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

Expanding its portfolio of solutions for the marine electrification industry, Leclanché is introducing a new “ports and harbor” infrastructure solution enabling hybrid and fully electric vessels to fast charge when returning to port. The agreement with Leclanché’s Stationary Solutions group provides the complete recharging infrastructure.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2021

The Mobile Power Station (MPS) is the first zero-emission modular platform that functions as both a multi-purpose off-road work vehicle and offers a grid-scale auxiliary power supply. It can also provide up to 500 kWh of on-demand electricity, via a configurable panel that offers multiple 110VAC and 208VAC outlets. The DANNAR 4.00

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2022

Batteries are poor energy storage solutions for heavy horsepower use, and they require frequent recharging with traditional electricity. The energy coming from the nation’s electric power grid still emits large amounts of criteria and GHG emissions.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 25, 2018

Electric vehicles are not only zero-emission and quieter and more pleasant to drive, they also clearly lower emissions of the carbon dioxide linked to climate change under most circumstances.

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Innovation News Network

AUGUST 4, 2022

Lithium is most commonly used for rechargeable batteries in our mobile phones, laptops, digital cameras, home and grid energy storage, and electric vehicles (EVs). Curtin University’s Professor Jacques Eksteen explores the Australian lithium industry and its role in the global battery supply chain.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

International Battery (IB), a US manufacturer and developer of large-format lithium-ion rechargeable batteries, has been chosen as the battery system provider for the first-of-its-kind Community Energy Storage (CES) systems, developed by S&C Electric Company for American Electric Power (AEP).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2011

The system will be integrated with a 750-kilowatt energy storage facility that can store 2 million watt-hours of energy using batteries. The project will also include a 50-kilowatt-hour facility to demonstrate the potential reuse of vehicle electric batteries for stationary energy storage.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2020

This standard defines the design and testing requirements to certify that bidirectional, grid tied, “smart” inverters and electric vehicle (EV) chargers can be safely used to support the distributed generation (DG) grid services and applications.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

BYD Ltd and Utility Partners of America (UPA) have put into service a 500 kWh containerized energy storage system (ESS) for one of the largest investor-owned utility companies in North America. BYD has supplied more than 100 MWh in energy storage stations across China and the world.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2010

24M Technologies launched as a new venture focused on commercializing next-generation energy storage systems based on technology out of A123 Systems. 24M will initially focus on grid storage applications. 24M will initially focus on grid storage applications. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2011

The new semi-solid flow cells, which can use established lithium intercalation compounds, could deliver energy densities of 300–500 Wh L -1 (specific energy of 130–250 Wh kg -1 ) at system-level costs, depending upon the chemistries, of $250 kWh -1 and $100 kWh -1 for transportation and grid level storage, respectively, the researchers conclude.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2010

The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) will award $8 million to help develop or commercialize 19 advanced energy storage projects. General Electric. Integrating battery and ultra-capacitors on a common power circuit serving two renewable-energy generation sources. Murray, Jr.,

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Setec Powerr

MARCH 22, 2023

The emergency mobile EV charging system is a mobile charging device that provides an effective solution to electric vehicle range anxiety. It can provide DC fast charging service for electric vehicles, so how does it replenish power? They are CHAdeMo, CCS2, AC Type 2 and AC Grid input. Today I will take you through the details.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

has selected Toshiba as the battery supplier for its next-generation, all-electric bus from Proterra Inc. The new fleet will use Toshiba’s Rechargeable Batteries (SCiB), a safe rechargeable battery solution with high-rate performance and long-life capabilities that is used in a wide range of applications, from EVs to grid energy storage.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2022

Now, a research team from the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) has developed a new electrolyte enabling a high-voltage sodium-ion battery with greatly extended longevity in laboratory tests. A paper on the work appears in Nature Energy. The research team continues to refine their design.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Opel has presented a specially-equipped Ampera extended range electric vehicle to the Technical Institute Karlsruhe (KIT), marking the beginning of a field trial in the research project iZEUS (intelligent Zero Emission Urban System) in Stuttgart. iZEUS Ampera. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2019

Solid electrolytes are considered to be key components for next-generation lithium metal-based rechargeable batteries. The method used in this work has great potential for building reliable alkaline metal-based rechargeable batteries. The interdisciplinary research team published their findings in the current issue of Joule.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

The Consortium, which includes more than 90 member companies worldwide supporting pre-competitive research into lead battery technology, is preparing for a surge in demand for energy storage in the next decade. I expect worldwide demand for energy storage to jump significantly in the next decade.

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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

MARCH 8, 2013

Schematic illustration of the aqueous rechargeable lithium battery (ARLB) using the coated lithium metal as anode, LiMn 2 O 4 as cathode and 0.5 Researchers from Fudan University in China and Technische Universität Chemnitz in Germany have developed an aqueous rechargeable lithium battery (ARLB) using coated Li metal as the anode.

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