Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

million grant award to deliver multiple Intelligent Energy Storage Systems (IESS) at various locations for Toronto Hydro and London Hydro. This project is supported by the Ontario Ministry of Energy’s Smart Grid Fund. Canada-based Li-ion battery maker Electrovaya Inc. has received a $1.3-million

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2018

A UPS-led consortium has deployed new smart-grid charging technology in London that overcomes the challenge of simultaneously recharging an entire fleet of electric vehicles (EVs) without the need for the expensive upgrade to the power supply grid. A key part of this initiative is the use of onsite energy storage batteries.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

By focusing on one-hour flights, the Wright Spirit addresses the world’s busiest city pairs, such as Seoul-Jeju (world’s busiest route, 14 million passengers annually), London-Paris, Rio de Janeiro-São Paulo, and San Francisco-Los Angeles. The program now proceeds with on-going ground testing and final selection of the propulsion system.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2021

ion Ventures, a modern utility and energy storage infrastructure specialist, and LiNa Energy , a solid-state battery technology developer, concluded their first successful trial of LiNa’s proprietary solid-state sodium-nickel battery platform at an undisclosed location in South East England last week.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2020

The Series-E system combines motors, energy storage, and smart controls to create a clean form of electric drive power for buses and their accessories such as air conditioning, air compressors, cooling systems, heat, power steering, and doors. Series-E components.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2015

The Ricardo-led FlySafe research collaboration—involving a range of leading industrial and academic partners including the University of Brighton’s Centre for Automotive Engineering—has delivered an innovative flywheel safety test environment to enable the development of next-generation flywheel energy storage systems.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

KTSi trackside flywheel systems provide voltage support to overtaxed sections of electric rail systems, eliminating slowdowns, as well as capturing, storing and reusing the regenerative braking energy of rail cars. Kinetic Traction was formed earlier this year in the wake of the collapse of advanced flywheel energy storage company Pentadyne.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Hydrogen demand is currently concentrated in oil refining and ammonia production, but nearly 90% of projected demand growth through 2050 comes from new sectors like heavy-duty transportation, steel production, and long-term energy storage.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2010

This ISE hydrogen fuel cell series hybrid bus, one of five that has been built using ISE technology, is slated for operation at the 2012 Olympics in London. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2021

Battery modeling , led by Dr Gregory Offer, Imperial College London, with researchers from the Universities of Bath, Birmingham, Lancaster, Oxford, Portsmouth, Southampton, Warwick and UCL. Degradation mechanisms can occur on length-scales from the nano to the macroscopic, and timescales from seconds up to years.

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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

AUGUST 14, 2020

Metz and Janelle London finds that state vehicle electrification mandates can withstand legal challenges based on federal preemption if they are based solely on reasons for transitioning to electric vehicles that are within the state's authority. Advocates intend to seek passage of a similar bill in 2021. 433 doi: 10.36640/mjeal.9.2.state.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2019

Researchers at Imperial College London (ICL) developed a model to determine the lifetime costs (i.e., levelized cost)—as opposed to the investment cost—of 9 electricity storage technologies for 12 different applications between 2015 and 2050. An open-access paper on their work is published in the journal Joule.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Around 150 units of the light-duty FUSO eCanter are already in customer operation in cities around the globe such as New York City, Tokyo, Berlin, London, Amsterdam, Paris and Lisbon. In the United States, the all-electric medium Freightliner eM2 and the heavy-duty Freightliner eCascadia trucks are also in practical customer testing.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2021

This partnership covers all subsea energy storage offshore in Ireland and will also support the creation of a proposed new Green Hydrogen Valley centered around the Poolbeg peninsula in Dublin, which will enable green hydrogen production and storage that can be used to decarbonize heavy transport, shipping, industry and power generation.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2019

Vantage Power is an award-winning London-based technology company specializing in developing electrified propulsion and connected vehicle technologies for medium- and heavy-duty vehicle manufacturers and their suppliers.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 25, 2018

Electric vehicles are not only zero-emission and quieter and more pleasant to drive, they also clearly lower emissions of the carbon dioxide linked to climate change under most circumstances. For fleet operators who recharge large fleets of electric vehicles overnight, however, the load on electric grids and consequent demand charges pose a.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2020

However, wind and solar generation is location specific, and it is not as simple as transmitting wind power from Scotland to power homes in London. But, if you look a specific areas in the UK, take London, the daily wind power output could be far lower, and therefore the need will not be 3-4 times, but far greater.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2019

London-based AP Ventures has made a follow-on investment in Greyrock Energy , Inc. These include companies targeting hydrogen infrastructure; fuel-cell electric mobility; energy storage platforms; water treatment solutions; sensors; durable electronics; and biomedical devices.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2022

Widely ignored, although gaining attention, is China’s strategic positioning as a crucial gatekeeper to several key “green” technologies, including battery energy storage to support electric vehicles (EVs)—specifically, battery electric vehicles (BEVs)—along with stationary storage for power grids.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Of the many applications for lithium batteries, electric vehicles (EVs) and energy storage solutions (ESS) stand out as by far the largest and fastest growing sectors, driven by the world-wide shift from traditional fossil-fueled vehicles towards cleaner forms of transport and energy use.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2009

New hybrid buses in London. Separately, four of 10 new Optare Tempos equipped with the GM-Allison Hybrid EP-System recently became operational in East London—the first buses using the patented two-mode parallel hybrid technology in the UK. The Optare Tempo hybrid. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 22, 2023

Andrew Forrest, the founder of Fortescue Future Industries (FFI), a subsidiary of Fortescue Metals Group, has clearly articulated the way forward for hydrogen at the Financial Times Hydrogen Summit in London last week.

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JUNE 11, 2013

Williams’ battery energy storage capability first originated from its Formula One program following the introduction of Kinetic Energy Recovery Systems (KERS) into the sport in 2009.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2013

In the ELFA system developed by Siemens, the electric motors act as generators during braking and feed electricity back into an energy storage unit. The bus can use this energy to run entirely on electric power for stretches at a time and thus with zero emissions. The first prototype recently went into service in Hanoi.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

The company’s strategy is use its Dutch network as a blueprint to roll-out fast charging stations across Europe and it is expanding quickly: in April, Fastned signed an agreement with Transport for London to become a partner for the development of the city’s 300 fast charging points by 2020, and in September the company was awarded a subsidy of €4.1

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

With Cambridge, university partners include University of Glasgow, University College London, Newcastle University, Imperial College London, University of Strathclyde, University of Manchester, University of Southampton, University of Liverpool and University of Warwick.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2017

If the data highlights a potential capacity issue, then other initiatives could be implemented—such as smart charging, vehicle to grid technology, energy storage, or joining networks together—in preference to more costly and disruptive infrastructure reinforcement works.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Researchers at Imperial College London have developed a membrane-based extraction system for the production of biofuels which uses less than 25% of the energy of current processes and produces ten times more biofuel with more than 99.5% The open-access findings are published in the RSC journal Energy & Environmental Science.

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OCTOBER 6, 2015

In addition to avoiding additional stress upon the local distribution network, E-STOR can also play an important role as part of a smart grid, in acting as a useful energy buffer to absorb surplus generating capacity—something that is particularly attractive as the intermittent renewable proportion of the generating mix increases.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2013

Other partners involved in the project are Syfer, NanoForce, Valeo, Queen Mary, University of London and Queen’s University Belfast. Gregg (2012) Increasing recoverable energy storage in electroceramic capacitors using “dead-layer” engineering. Resources. McMillen, A. Douglas, T. Correia, P. Weaver, M. Cain, and J.

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JUNE 2, 2009

a provider of lithium iron magnesium phosphate energy storage solutions, has signed a memorandum of understanding with Siemens Drive Technologies Division to develop modular and scalable energy storage systems compatible with a standard interface of Siemens’ ELFA Hybrid drive marine propulsion system.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2011

There are already Graphene centers of research excellence at Manchester, Cambridge, Lancaster, Exeter, Bath, Oxford and Durham universities and Imperial College London. Its potential uses include flexible touchscreens, pollution sensors and biomedical sensors, as ell as emerging applications in energy storage systems.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

A decade ago it became possible to get your electricity in the UK from a department store chain (though with the actual power supplied first by a Scottish utility and— as of 2018 —arranged and managed by Octopus Energy). Harmony Energy seems pretty pleased. Without it, you are not going to get there."

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2014

The energy is drawn from the flywheel and converted back into electricity to power the traction motor, which helps accelerate the bus back up to speed, generating fuel savings of more than 20% at a significantly lower cost and weight (60 kg, 132 lbs) than battery hybrid alternatives. Useable stored energy is 1.2MJ, with peak power of 120kW.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2014

million (US$14 million); In 2013-2014, RCUK and NSFC supported five joint projects in energy storage, with £10 million investment from the RCUK Energy Programme and NSFC. Under the MoU, the UK and China will each commit £10 million of matched resources over the next three years and there will be approximately £6.6

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Teslarati

APRIL 20, 2022

Currently, LFP batteries are used in most of our standard range vehicle products, as well as commercial energy storage applications. As a result of our energy efficient motors, a Model 3 with an LFP battery pack can still achieve a 267-mile EPA range.”

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