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Thermal Energy Storage Is No Longer Just Hot Air

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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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European Researchers Developing Multifunctional Structural Composite Material That Can Double as Energy Storage

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Ultimately, they expect that this material could be used in hybrid and electric vehicles to make them lighter, more compact and more energy efficient, enabling drivers to travel for longer distances before needing to recharge their cars. In the new €3.4-million million (US$4.7-million) Emile Greenhalgh. Shirshova, N.,

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Volvo Buses officially launches the all-new plug-in Electric Hybrid bus

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The Volvo Electric Hybrid Driveline is an extension of the well-proven driveline used in the Volvo 7900 Hybrid. The difference lies in a more powerful electric motor, increased energy storage and equipment for overhead conductive opportunity charging. Recharging takes approximately 6 minutes at end stations.

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AVL Concept Turbohybrid Mild Hybrid System Approaches Full Hybrid Fuel Savings at Lower Cost; Improved Driveability

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AVL says that its smart recharging concept guarantees the filling of the “torque gap” at low speeds under all circumstances of acceleration even with a small energy storage system. engine (green hatched area) is applied to charging the energy storage system rather than in directly delivering torque.

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