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ALABC lead-acid UltraBattery Civic hybrid surpasses 100,000 miles of fleet duty

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A Honda Civic hybrid retrofitted with lead-carbon UltraBattery modules ( earlier post ) (provided by East Penn Manufacturing) has recorded more than 100,000 miles (161,000 km) of courier duty in the local area of Phoenix, AZ. That’s when we approached the US DOE and Ecotality about operating a vehicle in a fleet in and around Phoenix.

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CMU team details impact of regional and drive-cycle variations on degradation of a PHEV battery pack

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Effect of air cooling on capacity fade and battery life when annual miles driven are 14,700 miles. The battery industry traditionally defines end-of-life (EOL) as the point where the battery’s energy storage capacity drops by 20% of its initial value—indicated by the solid horizontal black line on the first two charts.

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Chrysler/DOE Ram PHEV project exploring battery life modeling

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The program is slated to rack of 9 million miles of data, with 1.4 million miles in sub-freezing temperatures and 1.1 grid storage and load balancing for the battery pack; and integration with renewable energy. This then brings attention to the AT-PZEV battery warranty requirements of 10 years, 150,000 miles.

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US DOE Offers Abengoa Solar a Conditional Commitment for $1.45B Loan Guarantee for Concentrating Solar Power Plant

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Solana will include six hours of molten salt thermal energy storage capability, which will allow energy to be dispatched as needed during cloudy periods and after sunset. The plant will be located 70 miles southwest of Phoenix, near Gila Bend, Arizona. The plant will be operational in 2011.

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The State of Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicle Electrification

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Public transit buses are also steadily electrifying, led by California, New York City and the Washington, DC area as well as cities like Pittsburgh and Phoenix. In Europe , the electric bus is flourishing, with a 48% increase in registrations in 2021 compared to 2020.

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Is aviation the best application yet for hydrogen fuel cells?

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The goal is to demonstrate a 19-seat aircraft with a 350-mile flight in early 2023. Well, let’s look at them from first principles and see, with the energy demands and the utilization of the vehicle that you have in aviation, what makes sense. When it comes to utilizing that energy, fuel cells are 50-60% efficiency.