Volvo's Electric Storage System Can Recharge 20 EVs Per Day
InsideEVs
APRIL 8, 2025
Volvo introduces a stationary battery with a 500 kWh capacity. It could be useful for natural disasters or quick recharges.
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Volvo Buses officially launches the all-new plug-in Electric Hybrid bus
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.
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Graphene 3D Lab showing prototype 3D printed battery; potential for structural batteries
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 27, 2014
Graphene 3D envisions printing batteries on demand and in remote locations, using the technology to 3D print supercapacitors that can be recharged much faster than the conventional battery, or printing batteries that are incorporated in the body of car. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).
European Researchers Developing Multifunctional Structural Composite Material That Can Double as Energy Storage
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.
Thermal Energy Storage Is No Longer Just Hot Air
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. They gradually lose capacity with each discharge and recharge cycle, and they can be fire hazards.
The Essential Guide to EV Smart Charging and Smart Energy Management
Driivz
MAY 31, 2022
The energy from the EV batteries is available to the electric grid to serve peak needs, with the vehicles recharging during non-peak hours. Most vehicles remain stationary more than 95 percent of the time, so V2G leverages that inactivity, enabling a two-way energy exchange between vehicle and grid.
Clearing the roadblocks to electrification of heavy-duty trucks
Charged EVs
AUGUST 2, 2023
Supplying to Volvo Trucks or Daimler Trucks or whoever is more burdensome. We need Love’s, we need Flying J, we need Pilot, we need all of the current fleet fuel and service providers to move to providing electricity for medium and heavy trucks and buses. Rustam Kocher: I’ve really been impressed with Volvo Trucks.
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