Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2013

Evonik Industries, STEAG, and other project partners put a lithium electricity storage system (LESSY) into operation at STEAG’s Fenne power plant in Völklingen, Saarland, Germany. The large-format energy storage system was developed under a research initiative sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2011

and 4R Energy Corporation, a joint venture established by Nissan and Sumitomo Corporation in September 2010 to explore second-life applications for automotive battery packs ( earlier post ), have developed a charging system for electric vehicles that combines a solar power generation system with high-capacity lithium-ion batteries.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Canada-based Li-ion maker Electrovaya Inc. is the energy storage partner for a utility demonstration project led by CEATI International Inc., The project has been conditionally approved for partial funding support from the Government of Canada’s Clean Energy Fund and final contract negotiations are underway.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2011

ALTe Powertrain Technologies, the developer of a Range Extended Electric Powertrain used to repower light commercial vehicles up to 26,000 GVW ( earlier post ), has signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) to form a joint venture with Inmatech, Inc. , The applications will range from automotive batteries to stationary grid power leveling devices.

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 31, 2021

Energy Storage in Sand Offers Low-Cost Pathway for Reliable Electricity and Heat Supply in Renewable Energy Era.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2023

KAUST researchers have demonstrated the use of laser pulses to modify the structure of a promising alternative electrode material known as MXene, boosting its energy capacity and other key properties. The researchers made an anode from the laser-scribed material and tested it in a lithium-ion battery over 1000 charge-discharge cycles.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

German utility STEAG is investing around €100 million in grid energy storage systems (ESS) totalling 90 MW, equipped with Li-ion cells from LG Chem. Storage facilities and the creation of flexibility are essential elements in the implementation of the energy transition in Germany.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2015

Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC) and Mitsubishi Corporation (MC) announced the launch of a joint demonstration project for utilizing used lithium-ion batteries from electric-powered vehicles. Low voltage (48 Volts) Energy Storage System use of new automotive batteries.

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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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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

All eyes these days may be on Elon Musk's space venture—which has just put people in orbit —but here on Earth you can now get your monthly electric bill courtesy of a different Musk enterprise. Tesla and its partner Octopus Energy Germany recently rolled out retail utility services in two large German states. kWh battery wall unit.

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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. It is meant to maintain the security of supply with a feed-in of 100% renewable energy.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

Researchers from Imperial College London and their European partners, including Volvo Car Corporation, are developing a prototype multifunctional structural composite material composed of carbon fibers and a polymer resin which can store and discharge electrical energy and which is also strong and lightweight enough to be used for car parts.

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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. Hackenberg.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

The parts and materials resulting from this activity will also enrich the activities of Factory VO, as well as Re-Energy and Re-Cycle. RE-ENERGY: To offer solutions for the production, storage and management of green energies.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2009

Degradation as a function of (a) capacity (Ah) processed by cell or (b) energy (Wh) at different DoD. To determine the quantity and rate of energy transferred to and from a battery during driving conditions, they used a simple physics model that computed the energy needed to propel a typical vehicle through the trip profile.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Degradation as a function of (a) capacity (Ah) processed by cell or (b) energy (Wh) at different DoD. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry Center have concluded that a PHEV pack comprising lithium iron phosphate cells would incur little capacity loss from combining vehicle-to-grid (V2G) activities with regular driving.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 14, 2010

The California Centre for Sustainable Energy is leading a research study into using electric vehicle batteries as household electric storage devices after receiving a grant for $992,000 from the University of California. The grant was awarded by the Plug-in Hybrid [.].

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Green Cars News

MAY 21, 2009

The project is led by Argonne, Maxwell Technologies and Gold Peak Battery USA with the objective of developing a high power and high energy electrical storage system that combines the strengths of high power density for ultracapacitors with high energy storage for lithium-ion batteries.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

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. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2021

Israel-based StoreDot, a developer of extreme fast charging (XFC) battery technology for electric vehicles (EVs), announced a new framework agreement with its strategic battery manufacturing partner EVE Energy Co., These capabilities will be demonstrated later this year via our first EV form factor prototype produced with EVE Energy.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 2, 2011

Soon the electricity stored in the lithium-ion batteries of a Nissan LEAF could make its way into the home. That’s because Nissan has introduced a vehicle-to-home power system that can be installed in ordinary homes.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2023

Used and damaged cars are often disposed of via energy-intensive scrapping processes—even when many of their parts are still fully functional. A camera moves slowly over a lithium ion battery, which has just been extracted from a car that was damaged in an accident. The battery system does not need to be thrown away.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2011

Classification of potential electrical storage for stationary applications. such as (1) frequency regulation and load following; (2) cold start services; (3) contingency reserves; and (4) energy services that shift generation from peak to off-peak periods. Credit: ACS, Yang et al. Click to enlarge. In their study, Yang et al.

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Drive Electric

APRIL 12, 2023

Here’s some insight on this from the experts at Drive Electric. How much lithium is available globally? According to data from the US Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory , a single EV’s lithium-ion battery pack contains approximately 8 kgs of lithium.

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EV Central

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Roev also plans to use lithium-iron phosphate (LFP) batteries, similar to those used in Rear-Wheel Drive versions of the Tesla Model 3 and Tesla Model Y. Without nickel and cobalt – two of the more expensive materials in many lithium-ion batteries – the batteries in the Roev EVs should be cheaper to manufacture.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2009

Batteries, particularly lithium-ion, store large amounts of energy but have more difficulty with high power or fast recharge. Electrostatic capacitors are characterized by high power but energy storage is limited because only surface charge is used. Gary Rubloff. Banerjee et al.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 6, 2021

It’s getting cleaner and prospects are improving BY TIM BENFORD: PRESIDENT OF DRIVE ELECTRIC DAYTON, PAST VICE-PRESIDENT OF ELECTRIC AUTO ASSOCIATION. Green Energy Ohio plant in Dayton, OH. years if the car is charged using renewable energy. This C02 stays in the atmosphere for thousands of years. Is it becoming cleaner?

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 6, 2021

It’s getting cleaner and prospects are improving BY TIM BENFORD: PRESIDENT OF DRIVE ELECTRIC DAYTON, PAST VICE-PRESIDENT OF ELECTRIC AUTO ASSOCIATION. Green Energy Ohio plant in Dayton, OH. years if the car is charged using renewable energy. This C02 stays in the atmosphere for thousands of years. Is it becoming cleaner?

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Variations of lithium-ion batteries, as used on a smaller scale in laptops andmobile phones, are seen as the next big step. Virtually all the world’s bigmotor manufacturers are building prototypes using lithium-ion batteries butso far they have reached production only in a few low-volume models.

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