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. Tenants are just starting to move into their new apartments.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 7, 2023

The new site is expected to open in mid-2024 in Xin Park, and the news comes after Tesla last year announced plans to close select stores in China in an attempt to restrategize. Currently, Tesla has around 300 stores across China. Tesla exec shares insights on Giga Shanghai’s 2M production milestone What are your thoughts?

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

The team’s battery chemistry with the solid electrolyte can potentially boost the energy density by as much as four times above lithium-ion batteries, which translates into longer driving range. A lithium-air battery based on lithium oxide (Li 2 O) formation can theoretically deliver an energy density that is comparable to that of gasoline.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2022

Perovskite materials may hold the potential to play an important role in a process to produce hydrogen in a renewable manner, according to an analysis from scientists at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). A conceptual solar thermochemical hydrogen production platform. —Zhiwen Ma, a senior engineer at NREL.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2021

U-Haul—the largest US retailer of propane—has purchased one million gallons of renewable propane to sell at its company-owned and -operated stores across California for the second year in row. to continue supplying the fuel at more than 60 propane-dispensing stores in the state. Earlier post.) Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2022

The US Department of Energy (DOE) closed on a $504.4-million million loan guarantee to the Advanced Clean Energy Storage project in Delta, Utah (ACES Delta)—marking the first loan guarantee for a new clean energy technology project from DOE’s Loan Programs Office (LPO) since 2014.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2021

Energy infrastructure developer Bakken Energy (Bakken) has reached agreement with Basin Electric Power Cooperative (Basin Electric) on key terms and conditions to purchase the assets of the Dakota Gasification Company (Dakota Gas), a subsidiary of Basin Electric, and the owner of the Great Plains Synfuels Plant.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2023

The US Department of Energy is funding a demonstration of Sunvapor ’s solar steam and thermal battery technology to lower further the Carbon Intensity (CI) of the renewable dimethyl ether (DME) produced by Oberon Fuels at its Maverick Innovation Center in Brawley, California.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2021

The Cummins electrolyzer system is installed at the Air Liquide hydrogen production facility in Bécancour, Québec. This is a modular and scalable electrolyzer platform designed to address utility-scale hydrogen production. Global technology and power solutions leader Cummins Inc. The Cummins PEM Electrolyzer can produce more than?3,000

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2019

A team from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems, and Georgia Tech has developed a a wave-energy-driven electrochemical CO 2 reduction system that converts ocean wave energy to chemical energy in the form of formic acid, a liquid fuel. Leung et al.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2022

General Motors has finalized energy sourcing agreements required to secure 100% of the energy needed to power all its US facilities by 2025. Sourcing renewable energy is a critical component of GM’s plans to decarbonize. This is the main way through which GM is achieving its renewable energy goal.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2022

General Motors introduced Ultium Home and Ultium Commercial, which in combination with the existing Ultium Charge 360, create an ecosystem of energy management products and services that will be housed under a new business unit called GM Energy.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2021

Air Products has selected Haldor Topsoe’s low-carbon SynCOR technology for a world-scale net-zero hydrogen energy complex in Canada. The captured CO 2 will be stored underground. This industry-proven and advanced technology produces hydrogen at large scale with low emissions and energy consumption. Earlier post.)

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JUNE 30, 2023

In the burgeoning era of electric vehicles (EVs), convenience stores sit on a gold mine of opportunity. As the world shifts from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources, the electric vehicle market is booming, creating an urgent need for charging infrastructure. Choosing the right EV charger is crucial for convenience stores.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2021

ŠKODA AUTO, a subsidiary of the Volkswagen Group, is introducing a smart energy storage system using second-life batteries from electric vehicles. The system stores sustainably generated electricity in used batteries that come from the all-electric SUV ŠKODA ENYAQ iV as well as the plug-in hybrid models SUPERB iV and OCTAVIA iV.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2021

Toyota has commissioned Victoria’s first commercial-grade permanent hydrogen production, storage and refuelling facility at its former manufacturing site at Altona in Melbourne’s west. Power for the electrolyzer is drawn from a combination of an 87kW solar array, a 100kW battery storage and the grid, depending on what’s available at the time.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Ford is partnering with solar company Sunrun to enhance home energy management, leveraging the onboard battery capability of the all-electric F-150 Lightning. —Matt Stover, Ford charging and energy services director. The F-150 Lightning extended-range battery system can store 131 kWh and deliver up to 9.6

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2021

Starfire Energy, a Colorado-based developer of modular chemical plants for the carbon-free production of ammonia and hydrogen, has closed a major funding round. Proceeds will be used to advance the development of commercial-scale applications to decarbonize ammonia production and unlock its potential as a zero-carbon energy carrier.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2023

million from the US Department of Energy Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO). The project aims to enable large-scale production of green hydrogen from solar energy by leveraging concentrating solar power (CSP) infrastructure and solar heat to split water (H 2 O) into hydrogen (H 2 ) and oxygen (O 2 ).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2021

The BMW i Hydrogen NEXT uses fuel cells from the product development cooperation with the Toyota Motor Corporation. Energy stored in a performance buffer battery is also used for dynamic acceleration maneuvers and short bursts of speed for overtaking.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Siemens Energy, Duke Energy and Clemson University have teamed up to study the use of hydrogen for energy storage and as a low- or no-carbon fuel source to produce energy at Duke Energy’s combined heat and power plant located at Clemson University in South Carolina.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2022

Skeleton Technologies and Class8 Energy, a Canadian equipment distributor, have signed a €11.6-million Through this agreement, Skeleton’s products will be distributed to the fast-growing North American heavy vehicles market. —Jean Labrie, CEO of Class8 Energy.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

There are only a few days left before the Tesla Cybertruck’s first deliveries, and in an apparent effort to generate more attention for the vehicle, the EV maker has brought its all-electric pickup truck to several of its physical stores. The Cybertruck looked like it was ready for mass production. TSLA halo effect.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2023

GM Energy announced product details and specifications for its initial suite of upcoming Ultium Home offerings. The initial suite of Ultium Home products will be offered through bundle options, providing customers with the ability to select solutions that align with their energy needs and budget. kW AC charge speed.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2019

Bloom Energy, a developer of solid oxide fuel cell power generators, announced the ability of its Energy Servers to operate on renewable hydrogen. Current Bloom Energy Servers generate electricity using natural gas or biogas as fuel. Bloom Energy Servers can operate on pure hydrogen or a combination of natural gas and hydrogen.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2023

Canada-based Vortex Energy has completed a hydrogen storage capacity assessment for the East and West Salt Structures at the Robinsons River Salt Project. Salt is a key product used in food, chemical applications, pharmaceuticals and as a de-icing product.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2021

General Motors plans to source 100% renewable energy to power its US sites by 2025—five years earlier than previously announced, and 25 years ahead of its initial target that was set in 2016. Sourcing renewable energy is a critical component of GM’s plans to decarbonize its portfolio.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Eos Energy, a provider of safe, scalable, efficient, and sustainable zinc-powered long-duration stationary energy storage systems, announced Project AMAZE (American Made Zinc Energy), a $500-million planned expansion and a significant milestone to build 8 GWh of clean energy storage production capacity.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2022

The serial production of the BMW i3 has ended , some eight and a half years after it was launched. At the same time, the BMW Group Plant Leipzig becomes the first location in the company’s global production network where BMW and MINI models are manufactured together. The BMW i3 (combined power consumption: 16.3 - 15.3

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2020

Researchers at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) have developed a steam-carrier-adopted composite membrane reactor system to produce pure H 2 (>99.99%) from ammonia with high productivity (>0.35 Membrane reactor for production of H 2 from NH 3. mol-H 2 g cat ?1 Credit: KIST. —Park et al. Jo Young Suk from KIST.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Researchers from the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering and Fujitsu have applied quantum-inspired computing to find the promising, previously unexplored chemical family of Ru-Cr-Mn-Sb-O 2 as acidic oxygen evolution reaction catalysts for hydrogen production. A paper on their work appears in the journal Matter.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2018

million) STORE&GO research project. In this second stage, hydrogen from regenerative energy sources is converted into methane (CH 4 ), i.e. synthetic natural gas, using CO 2 from a bio-ethanol plant. This stored energy is then available as backup whenever there is an insufficient supply of solar and wind power.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2020

Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corporation (Toshiba ESS) announced that its hydrogen-based autonomous energy supply system H2One, which Toshiba ESS delivered and installed on the rooftop of Toranomon Hills Business Tower (Minato-ku, Tokyo), has started full-scale operation with the opening of commercial facilities.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2018

Seven-Eleven and Toyota entered into a basic agreement in August 2017 regarding considerations toward energy conservation and carbon dioxide emission reduction in store distribution and operation. The Seven & i Group is currently addressing five key issues, one of them being non-wasteful usage of products, ingredients and energy.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Hyundai Home gives homeowners in select states an easy way to produce, store, and use their own energy to power their lives at home and on the road. The collaboration combines Electrum’s home energy expertise and national network of certified installers with Hyundai’s leadership in electric mobility.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2021

Bloom Energy announced an agreement with Idaho National Laboratory (INL) to test the use of nuclear energy to produce clean hydrogen through Bloom Energy’s solid-oxide, high-temperature electrolyzer. First announced in July 2020, Bloom Energy’s electrolyzer converts water (or steam) into hydrogen and oxygen.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2023

The National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) has published The Hydrogen Safety Review for Gas Turbines, SOFC, and High Temperature Hydrogen Production to review and summarize the unique safety challenges involved with the production, transportation and storage of hydrogen.

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