Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2009

Exide Technologies entered into a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the US Department of Energy’s Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) and the University of Idaho to develop and commercialize improvements on lead-acid battery technology for applications including hybrid electric vehicles and renewable energy storage.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2011

Escalating investment in geothermal power could result in a 134% increase in global geothermal capacity between 2010 and 2020, from 10.7 Currently, the United States is the global geothermal leader with 3.1 NETL will partner with Penn State, West Virginia University, and the University of Pittsburgh in the 2-year effort.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2018

Burgeoning demands for mobility and private vehicle ownership undermine global efforts to reduce energy-related greenhouse gas emissions. Here, we develop state-of-the-art representations of consumer preferences in multiple global energy-economy models, specifically focusing on the non-financial preferences of individuals.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2014

The Global Climate and Energy Project (GCEP) at Stanford University has awarded $10.5 Photo-electrochemically rechargeable zinc-air batteries. GCEP is an industry partnership that supports innovative research on energy technologies that address the challenge of global climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

A global battery consortium charged with advancing lead battery technology has re-launched as it prepares a new technical roadmap designed to extend both the performance and lifetime of the core battery technology. The Consortium includes an advisory panel made up of global battery experts who help define, assess and guide research.

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JUNE 26, 2007

G oogle proved it is serious about Plug Ins with its new Recharge IT initiative. Willett Kempton , University of Delaware: $150,000 for megawatt scale vehicle-to-grid research and implementation planning." Google is committed to using its resources to help solve the global climate challenge,” said Dr. Brilliant.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2011

Using technology developed by Proterra, the lightweight, composite-body bus recharges in about 10 minutes. This equity investment further demonstrates GM’s commitment to electric propulsion and supports our commitment to identify and invest in technology solutions that help advance the global transportation industry. Proterra Inc.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2016

A team of researchers University of South Florida is using naturally occurring fungi to drive an environmentally friendly recycling process to extract cobalt and lithium from tons of waste batteries. Although a global problem, the US leads the way as the largest generator of electronic waste. —Jeffrey A. Cunningham, Ph.D.,

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2017

How do we meet growing global biofuel needs and also meet the 50 to 100 percent increase in demand for food expected by 2050? A REMUS docking station allows the vehicle to recharge and transmit data. The WHOI-lead project teams will collaborate with a third MARINER project awarded to a team led by the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2014

Onboard batteries are recharged by regenerative braking as well as grid charging. The Hawaii Natural Energy Institute is an organized research unit of the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) of the University of Hawaii at M?noa Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

a leading global producer of specialty lithium salts for lithium batteries, to form a new joint venture platform that will create an integrated global producer of lithium battery electrolytes. Foosung Co., —John Televantos, a Partner at Arsenal Capital, an investor in Novolyte since 2008. Novolyte received in 2009 a $20.6-million

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

A new study sponsored by Indiana University concludes that President Obama’s vision of one million plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) on US roads by 2015 will require concentrated efforts action from all stakeholders— the auto industry, federal government, the scientific community, and consumers—to be realized.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2018

Now, a team of researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institut in Switzerland, with colleagues at Leiden University (Netherlands) and PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency have used Monte Carlo and global sensitivity analysis to quantify parametric uncertainty of the impacts.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2011

have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to establish a joint venture for high-volume production of superior quality Lithium Iron Phosphate (LFP); LFP is a cost-effective, safe and eco-friendly cathode material for use in rechargeable lithium-ion batteries. Süd-Chemie AG and LG Chem, Ltd.

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Plugs and Cars

NOVEMBER 22, 2007

nk Global views London as a first market when it relaunches the Th!nk We want to test it and get it into production,” Mr [Anders] Jensen, head of the Smart brand team, told the Financial Times on Wednesday.The brand chose London for the pilot in part because of its network of free public recharging stations. Norway's Th!nk

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2016

Scotland-based route optimization specialist Route Monkey ( earlier post ) has signed a partnership agreement with global GPS navigation expert Sygic. Working together, Sygic and Route Monkey can also schedule stops at charge points en route to top-up the batteries, and provide real-time navigation to recharging stations.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

The management solution would allows charging stations to recharge vehicles at different times of the day, according to user needs (arrival and departure times, load level on arrival and level initially required depending on the distance to make …), and consistent with the overall energy site management (production and power consumption).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Volkswagen Group of America’s Innovation Hub Knoxville, the company’s technology unit for applied materials science, has expanded its research collaboration with Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UT). —Scott Keogh, President & CEO at Volkswagen Group of America.

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Driivz

AUGUST 30, 2023

Businesses, hospitals, and universities that offer workplace EV charging can attract and retain employees , while retail districts and shopping centers can attract tenants and increase customer traffic. Some estimates suggest that on a global level, EV charging will only account for about 4% of total demand for electricity by 2030.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2013

The Navy entered into a contract with Powdermet to develop the company’s EnComP nanocomposite membranes for rechargeable magnesium batteries. Huge for EVs and renewables, where energy storage has been an issue.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2010

NC State University. Medical University of South Carolina. Columbia University. This novel high energy battery concept is based upon a closed loop system in which the zinc (anode), suspended as slurry in a storage tank, is transported through reaction tubes (cathode) to facilitate the discharge and recharge of the battery.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

The supply agreement between Süd-Chemie and Evonik lays the foundation for the preferred delivery by Süd-Chemie to Evonik of high-performance lithium iron phosphate (LiFePO 4 , also referred to as LFP), to be used in rechargeable lithium-ion batteries.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2019

That means that even though electric vehicles produce no greenhouse emissions while they are being driven, the process of recharging the car’s batteries results in significant emissions. —Heather MacLean, professor of civil and mineral engineering at the University of Toronto, who was not associated with this work.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2014

According to a report from Frost and Sullivan (Kumar, 2013), fleet managers adopted more than half of EVs sold globally up to 2013. 2013) Strategic Outlook of the Global Electric Vehicle Market. Thereafter fleet managers adopted or indicated an intent to adopt a larger number of EVs because of the benefits that they offer. 2014.05.022.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

In a speech at the National Press Club, US Energy Secretary Steven Chu said that the success of China and other countries in clean energy industries represents a new “Sputnik Moment” for the United States, and will require a similar mobilization of innovation to enable the US to compete in the global race for the jobs of the future.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

More than 30 UK companies and seven universities will take part in the development projects, which have a total value, including contributions from the companies, of £20 million (US$33 million). Led by Nissan Motor Manufacturing (UK) Ltd and the University of Sheffield. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2012

A team from Stanford University and Ruhr-Universität Bochum have demonstrated the novel concept of a “desalination battery” that uses an electrical energy input to extract sodium and chloride ions from seawater and to generate fresh water. The electrodes are then recharged in this solution, releasing ions and creating brine.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 28, 2012

A team at the University of St. Professor Bruce, a Fellow of the Royal Society and the Royal Society of Edinburgh, received the inaugural UK Science Award from global coatings company AkzoNobel earlier this year. Andrews (Scotland) led by Prof. 2012 AkzoNobel UK Science Award. 2012 AkzoNobel UK Science Award.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2014

The home, located on the West Village campus of the University of California, Davis, is capable of producing more energy on-site from renewable sources than it consumes annually, including enough energy to power a Honda Fit EV for daily commuting. Concrete accounts for approximately 5% of global anthropogenic CO 2 emissions.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

OBC is the inventor and worldwide licensor of NiMH rechargeable battery technology and is pursuing advanced battery technologies, including cathode materials for lithium-ion chemistry batteries. Earlier post.) 35 OBC employees have been hired by BASF as part of this transaction. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.

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Charged EVs

DECEMBER 21, 2022

A 150 kW charger may recharge a battery pack to 80 percent in about 2.5 With luck, not every electric truck launch will take place amidst a global pandemic, as the Volvo LIGHTS project did. The LIGHTS team had the Volvo VNR Electric tractor assessed by a team at the University of California, Riverside on a heavy-duty dynamometer.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2012

The fifth annual report on China’s auto industry—2012 Chinese Auto Industry Development Report—says that the next 20-30 years will be a “critical period” that will see the formation of a global new-energy vehicle industry. This area also includes exploration of different business models for recharging.

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EV Connect

APRIL 12, 2021

A recent report from BlueWeave Consulting forecasts a global compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 10.6% Local hotels, motels, restaurants and other businesses that hope to attract people passing through have a lot to gain by offering a place to recharge. per year from 2021 to 2027. During that time, EV sales are expected to double.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 15, 2009

Northern India, probably the most heavily irrigated region in the world, is rapidly depleting its groundwater, according to a new study by researchers from the National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad (CSIR), India; the University of Colorado, Boulder; and the US National Center for Atmospheric Research. Tiwari et al.

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Plug In India

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

​Rechargeable sodium-ion batteries are similar in construction to lithium-ion ones. Also sodium is universally available. The sodium-ion technology developed by Faradion provides a globally leading energy storage and battery solution which is safe, sustainable, provides high energy density, and is significantly cost competitive.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2009

The World Automotive Summit was organized by global automotive engineering association, FISITA, in association with VDI-FVT, the automotive and traffic technologies division of the German Association of Engineers. Ouyang Minggao, Director of China’s State Key Laboratory of Automotive Safety and Energy, based within Tsinghua University.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2009

Infrastructure, recharging and business models. GM’s Jon Lauckner, Vice President, Global Program Management, highlighted one of the mundane challenges facing automakers and customers: who will wire up the home 220V charging system, and how quickly? Director, Manufacturing Research Center, Western Michigan University.

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