Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Volkswagen executives have been hinting for awhile now about taking a different approach to high-energy-density electrical storage for long-range electric vehicles than the more “conventional” next-generation Li-ion or Li-metal battery pathways. conventional capacitors). Source: Stanford.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2017

Vattenfall and the BMW Group have signed a contract for the delivery of up to 1,000 lithium-ion batteries this year. Vattenfall will purchase the new batteries from the BMW plant in Dingolfing and use them in all storage projects. megawatts (MW), it is Vattenfall’s first large storage project in the Netherlands.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2016

BMW i announced a home stationary energy storage system solution integrating its BMW i3 vehicle battery at EVS 29 in Montréal. The concept announced at EVS29 is the first market-ready home storage system using a second-life automotive BMW i3 high-voltage battery integrated by BECK Automation (Würzburg, Germany).

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Energy Storage BMW Energy Batteries 210

Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2015

Analysis by Lux Research suggests that the market space represented by the emerging lower-cost, 200-mile-range EV will be the biggest coming growth opportunity in electric storage for transportation. billion worth of energy storage. billion worth of energy storage in 2014. Despite selling about 1.5

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2014

Woven carbon fiber can act as an electrode for lithium ion batteries. Researchers in Sweden are exploring the use of carbon fiber as an active electrode in a multifunctional structural Li-ion battery in an electric car; i.e., electrical storage is incorporated into the body of the car. In this €3.4-million

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

ESI GROUP : provider in virtual prototyping that takes into account the physics of materials. GDF SUEZ : provides energy and environmental efficiency solutions through multi-technical services in Europe, Brazil, Canada, India, Middle East. Hutchinson is developing electric energy storage system as ultracapacitor.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2009

Volkswagen is involved in a number of newer partnerships related to lithium-ion batteries and electric drive units: In 2008, Volkswagen and Sanyo announced partnership to work on next-generation high-performance automotive electric storage systems based on lithium-ion technology. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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