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BMW i home energy storage system integrates 2nd-life i3 vehicle batteries

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BMW i announced a home stationary energy storage system solution integrating its BMW i3 vehicle battery at EVS 29 in Montréal. Together with the Federal Ministry of transport in Berlin, the project demonstrated that an energy positive home environment with a battery system is possible. BMW i 360° Electric.

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EU investing €1.8B in 17 large-scale clean tech projects

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Grants will be disbursed from the Innovation Fund to help bring technologies to the market in energy-intensive industries, hydrogen, renewable energy, carbon capture and storage infrastructure, and manufacturing of key components for energy storage and renewables. captured at a Combined Heat and Power (CHP) plant.

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Groupe Renault creating first European factory dedicated to the circular economy of mobility in Flins

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The entity will thus offer a turnkey service for the sales network: optimized transport of vehicles, supply of spare parts (Re-Cycle Center), renovation, storage, production of photos and videos and their online availability. to vehicle fleets and shared mobility players, such as the ZITY electric car-sharing service.

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1st French-American EV Technology Forum

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ESI has developed an extensive suite of coherent, industry-oriented applications to realistically simulate a product’s behavior during testing, to fine-tune manufacturing processes in accordance with desired product performance, and to evaluate the environment’s impact on performance.

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UC Davis researchers suggest we may be at the beginning of a real hydrogen transition in transportation

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NextSTEPS is a four-year (2011-2014) multidisciplinary research consortium, part of the Institute of Transportation Studies University of California, Davis. in the past few years important factors have emerged that are re-accelerating the commercialization of hydrogen and fuel cell technologies.

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PNNL study outlines requirements for grid storage, reviews four electrochemical energy storage systems: vanadium redox flow, Na-beta, Li-ion and lead-carbon

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Classification of potential electrical storage for stationary applications. To smooth out the intermittency of renewable energy production, low-cost electrical energy storage (EES) will become necessary. The most commonly used systems today work by converting electricity to kinetic (e.g.,

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Electric Vehicles Open-up New Business Opportunities

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It might be a successful business if you could start an electric scooter rental service in tourist places where people are more concerned about the environment. Online shop for electric car reselling. It is almost sure that the electric vehicle reselling industry grows in the near future. I would give you a use case.