Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 10, 2018
Volvo Buses is participating in a research project in which used electric bus batteries are used as solar energy storage units. Batteries from electric bus route 55 in Gothenburg, Sweden are being used for solar energy storage in a second-life application. —Ylva Olofsson, Project Coordinator at Volvo.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 19, 2014
Volvo 7900 Electric Hybrid with overhead conductive charging station and pantograph extended. As previously announced ( earlier post ), Volvo Buses will officially launch the new plug-in 7900 Electric Hybrid bus at the International IAA Commercial Vehicles show in September. Volvo Electric Hybrid drive system.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 5, 2014
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. These are a trunk lid and a plenum cover, tested within the Volvo S80. In this €3.4-million million (US$4.7-million)
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.
Cars That Think
JUNE 12, 2023
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. Batteries have a powerful spigot, but that comes at the cost of a small tub.
Charged EVs
AUGUST 2, 2023
Supplying to Volvo Trucks or Daimler Trucks or whoever is more burdensome. Power to them for seeing it, understanding it, and being willing to be a first mover. Because the flatter your demand curve is, the lower your power costs are from the utility. Rustam Kocher: I’ve really been impressed with Volvo Trucks.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 27, 2014
The application filed by Graphene 3D has the potential to play an important role in achieving the ability to print electronic devices due to the necessity of providing a power source. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). Earlier post.).
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