Cars That Think

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Energy storage and nuclear fusion—two reliable crowd pleasers when the crowd you’re talking about is readers of IEEE Spectrum —are well represented among our most widely read energy stories of 2023. The company is one of a growing group targeting grid-scale applications, particularly for solar installations. Number one?

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Fusion Energy Lithium Ion Grid 80

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Laredo Bus Facility Solar Canopies: Provide shade structures with integrated, grid tied photovoltaic cells to be erected on the bus storage lot at the Laredo Bus Maintenance Facility. The project includes quick-charging stations at this terminal layover in route to recharge bus batteries. Of that, $26.5

Emissions 256

Emissions Gas Energy Maintenance 256

Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2021

To date, the TCF has funded more than 380 projects by unlocking more than $170 million in funding from more than 300 private sector partners, including automotive manufacturers, energy storage companies, utilities, bioenergy companies, solar providers, and aerospace companies. Northrup Grumman Corporation (Elkton, Maryland).

Commercial 170

Commercial Energy Albuquerque New York 170

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The new ARPA-E selections focus on accelerating innovations in clean technology while increasing US competitiveness in rare earth alternatives and breakthroughs in biofuels, thermal storage, grid controls, and solar power electronics. HEATS: High Energy Advanced Thermal Storage ($37.3 Abengoa Solar Inc. Arlington).

Energy 294

Energy Clean Cleaning Grid 294

Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2015

ARA’s ACTIVE cooling technology will use a depolymerization thermochemical cycle to provide supplemental cooling and cool energy storage that can work as a standalone system or be synchronized with air-cooled units in order to cool below the ambient dry bulb temperature. Radiative Cooled-Cold Storage Modules and Systems (RadiCold).

Fusion 150

Fusion Power Powered Low Cost 150

Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2009

Batteries, particularly lithium-ion, store large amounts of energy but have more difficulty with high power or fast recharge. Electrostatic capacitors are characterized by high power but energy storage is limited because only surface charge is used. Click to enlarge. Gary Rubloff.

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Energy Power Powered Energy Storage 150