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.

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Store Volvo Solar Energy 273

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)

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Carbon Fiber Carbon Li-ion Electric Vehicles 317

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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Energy Storage Energy Polymer Carbon Fiber 225

Charged EVs

AUGUST 2, 2023

Supplying to Volvo Trucks or Daimler Trucks or whoever is more burdensome. Whether that’s Volvo, Freightliner, PACCAR or Navistar, they have relationships with those OEMs and so they’re going to trust them to build a vehicle that will perform under the conditions that they need it to perform. It’s less time and effort.

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Fleet Portland Charging Building 52

Driivz

MAY 31, 2022

At the same time, a communications session is established between the charger, the other chargers and energy resources at the charging location (the infrastructure), the grid, and the charging operator’s smart EV charging and energy management platform.

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EV Smart Charging Energy Grid 52