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Volvo partnership will recycle EV batteries into energy storage

Teslarati

As the world transitions to sustainable transportation through electric vehicles (EVs), some are considering ways to reduce EV battery waste. One such company includes Volvo, which has announced a partnership to recycle old EV batteries into new energy storage systems.

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Thermal Energy Storage Is No Longer Just Hot Air

Cars That Think

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. Despite its name, Cheesecake Energy isn’t in the food business.

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Volvo CE and Rolls-Royce develop wood-burning charger for off-grid EVs

Baua Electric

Volvo CE AirBurners BioCharger; image via Air Burners. When work is being done off the grid in remote locations, it can be hard to keep construction equipment fueled up – regardless of whether that fuel is liquid or electric. And, of course, it turns what would otherwise be “waste heat” into useful electricity.

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A wood-burning EV charger? – Charged EVs

Baua Electric

Florida-based Air Burners, a manufacturer of air curtain burner systems, collaborated with Rolls-Royce and Volvo Construction Equipment to develop a portable machine that turns biomass waste into energy. The BioCharger is designed to provide off-grid power from vegetative waste.

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Volvo CE unveils the next generation of its autonomous electric load carrier concept

Green Car Congress

Volvo Construction Equipment (CE) presented the HX2 autonomous, battery-electric, load carrier at CONEXPO/CON-AGG 2017. Volvo CE showcased the first-generation of the prototype HX machine—HX1—at the company’s Xploration Forum in September last year. Since then, Volvo CE’s engineers have been further developing the machine.

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DOE announces $139M in funding for 55 projects to advance innovative vehicle technologies

Green Car Congress

Funded through the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), projects will conduct research in advanced batteries, electrification, and manufacturing in support of DOE’s Energy Storage Grand Challenge. Utility Managed Smart Charging for Consumer and Grid Benefits.

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The State of Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicle Electrification

Driivz

They weigh more than 10,000 pounds and include tractor-trailers and other freight trucks, school and public transit buses, delivery trucks, utility vehicles (including waste disposal), construction vehicles, and shuttles. What do we mean by MHDs ? Delivery vans, commercial-use vans, and pickup trucks are considered light-duty vehicles.