Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The advancement is aimed at accelerating the production of electric vehicles and energy storage solutions for the power grid. is evaluating a location for an R&D and prototyping facility in the US to scale these technologies to meet the demands of customers in the mobility and grid sectors. SPARKZ Inc. SPARKZ Inc.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

A second opposed-piston engine project is led by Achates Power ( earlier post ). Achates Power will develop a highly efficient opposed-piston engine for hybrid vehicles (“HOPE-Hybrid”) using a unique engine design that minimizes energy losses typical in conventional internal combustion engines. Georgia Tech Research Corporation.

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Driivz

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Smart energy management can improve the economics of fleet electrification The majority of light commercial EVs and medium-duty EV trucks will operate as “return to base” vehicles, parking at the fleet depot overnight and recharging their batteries to be ready for the next day’s work.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) will award up to $30 million to fund a new program focused on the development of transformational electrochemical technologies to enable low-cost distributed power generation. DE-FOA-0001026 ). Click to enlarge. Source: ARPA-E.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

A novel rechargeable zinc battery from the research group of Professors Paul Wright and James Evans from the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Patrik Johansson from the Chalmers University suggests the usd of abundant aluminum for a sustainable battery technology that directly addresses the need of low-cost concepts.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2011

The California Energy Commission has awarded $1,585,490 to spur research on projects including a solid-state Li-ion battery system for grid-scale energy storage. The project is intended to help validate the performance advantages of the company’s technology for use in grid-tied energy storage and community energy storage—i.e.,

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2011

Example of a lithium-water rechargeable battery. Furthermore, the aqueous cathode does not suffer from H 2 evolution from the solution, and the battery is efficiently rechargeable, they note. The new strategy promises to be applicable to both the electric-vehicle market and the problem of electrical energy storage for the grid.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2015

In addition to powering small electronic devices, Al-ion batteries could be used to store renewable energy on the electrical grid, Dai said. Aluminum has long been an attractive material for batteries, mainly because of its low cost, low flammability and high-charge storage capacity. —Prof. Resources. “An

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Cars That Think

APRIL 15, 2022

As the pressure to decarbonize electricity grids mounts, so does the need to have long-term storage options for power generated from renewables. While rechargeable batteries are the solution of choice for consumer-level use, they are impractical for grid-scale consideration.

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Driivz

MARCH 26, 2023

Free or low-cost workplace EV charging is itself an attractive benefit for existing and prospective employees. Companies can recoup some of the cost of offering employees free or low-cost workplace charging by allowing visitors to use the charging stations for a fee. Increasing employee satisfaction and loyalty.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2010

The awards are being made to companies and universities across New York that are involved in advanced research and development of energy storage applications that could benefit transportation, utility Smart Grid applications, renewable energy technologies, and other industries. Next-generation lithium-ion rechargeable batteries.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 25, 2022

They’ve been studying up on renewable energy, hydrogen power, and electric vehicles, preparing for the big day in April when their remote-controlled vehicles will rumble for 4 hours in Gladstone, a port city in Queensland. And while coal plants still supplied over half of Australia’s power in 2021, change is afoot.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The solicitation was designed as a call for early-stage clean energy innovations that fall within five defined technology areas: energy efficiency; energy storage; AI/machine learning; advanced power electronics/power conditioning; and zero- and negative-carbon emission generation. rechargeable battery?technology?that

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Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2011

Electric-drive vehicles are unlikely to succeed in the next five to ten years without strong policy support, especially in two areas, the roadmap says: making vehicles cost competitive with today’s internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles, and ensuring adequate recharging infrastructure is in place.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2017

The rise of renewable solar and wind power is demanding sustainable storage technologies using components that are inexpensive, Earth-abundant and environmental friendly. In addition, material sustainability is also a critical factor when considering the total economic and environmental benefits for grid-scale energy storage applications.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 27, 2021

—Thomas Maschmeyer, Gelion Technologies As for applications, with a charging rate sweet spot of 4 hours and a discharge rate of between 2 to 36 hours, the Gelion Endure is not suitable for quick bursts of high power, as is needed in electric vehicles or to stabilize the voltage in an electric grid.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 24, 2009

An intelligent vehicle-to-grid communications and control system for its plug-in hybrid electric vehicles that “talks” directly with the nation’s electric grid has been unveiled today courtesy of carmaker, Ford. The first of the specially equipped plug-in hybrids has been delivered to American Electric Power of Columbus, Ohio.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 27, 2021

—Thomas Maschmeyer, Gelion Technologies As for applications, with a charging rate sweet spot of 4 hours and a discharge rate of between 2 to 36 hours, the Gelion Endure is not suitable for quick bursts of high power, as is needed in electric vehicles or to stabilize the voltage in an electric grid.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2015

Together, our inventions achieve what lithium-ion has yet to do—meet the ultra-low cost targets of the grid and transportation industries. By 2020 our battery costs will be less than $100 a kilowatt-hour (kWh). —“Semi-Solid Lithium Rechargeable Flow Battery”. Earlier post.). Flexible and modular.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2013

As part of the Advanced Vehicle Power Technology Alliance between DOE and the Department of the Army, the Army plans to contribute $3.5 Further, alloying or coating pathways towards low-cost, effective passive films, have not been sufficiently explored in a sound and scientific way.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2010

The use of the reformer in conjunction with the high-temperature 3-5 kW fuel cell would enable the use of conventional hydrocarbon fuels to recharge the batteries in the EV. The HT-PEM fuel cell has much lower susceptibility to CO poisoning than LT-PEM cells; this enables simplified and low-cost integration with reformers.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2012

This latest round of ARPA-E projects seek to address the remaining challenges in energy storage technologies, which could revolutionize the way Americans store and use energy in electric vehicles, the grid and beyond, while also potentially improving the access to energy for the US. cost associated with thermal management.

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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. Solar ADEPT: Solar Agile Delivery of Electrical Power Technology ($14.7 Lead organization.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2021

High Efficiency Power-to-Gas in a Modular Hybrid Electrobioreactor, $1,000,000. Actinide-Molten Fluoride Salt Property Measurement and Low-Level Detection, $1,500,000. Kairos Power (Alameda, California). Grid-Edge Intelligent Distribution Automation System for Self-Healing Distribution Grids, $550,000.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2011

The resulting improved electrical capacity and recharging lifetime of the nanowires. low-cost Na-ion battery system for upcoming power and energy. Lithium-ion rechargeable batteries perform well, but are too expensive for widespread use on the grid. makes them a promising candidate to construct a viable and.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

Though the PHEV combines the two types of energy and power, it is not merely a temporary “transition” between gasoline and diesel cars to pure electric cars. At present, PHEV technology alone is equipped to improve the current electric grid. Appendix C: Intricacies of the Grid—transfer of power vs. energy.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

In particular, IONICS projects will work to improve energy storage and conversion technologies in three categories: transportation batteries, grid-level storage, and fuel cells. The Oak Ridge National Laboratory team seeks to find glassy lithium-ion conductors that are stable and can be fully integrated into battery cells at a low cost.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2012

In April, Axion Power International Inc received an order from Norfolk Southern Corp (NS) for PbC lead-carbon batteries for use in an all-battery-powered switcher locomotive. This larger, more powerful unit will require approximately twice the number of batteries as contained in the electric yard switcher. Source: NS.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2016

MIT professor Donald Sadoway and his team have demonstrated a long-cycle-life calcium-metal-based liquid-metal rechargeable battery for grid-scale energy storage, overcoming the problems that have precluded the use of the element: its high melting temperature, high reactivity and unfavorably high solubility in molten salts.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

6K Energy has developed NMC 811 at 1-3 microns, the smaller size range enables customers to improve charge time, extend run time and improve power. Low cost sources of these materials are sorely needed to maximize the energy density of EV batteries via bimodal size distributions, and to improve power in portable power applications.

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Green Cars News

JULY 28, 2009

It has also outlined targets for the National Grid to increase the amount of electricity that comes from purely renewable sources. Though they appear to be favoured over hydrogen fuel cells and even algae-based biofuels; range, practicality and power remain three key stumbling blocks.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2015

The Route extended range electric powertrains incorporate a range-extending genset designed to recharge the high-power battery pack (currently from A123 Systems) and Wrightspeed’s own geared traction drive (GTD) ( earlier post ). The recuperator and combustor are at left; the generator with integrated power electronics at right.

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Get Electric Vehicle

APRIL 13, 2021

Everyone wants to be young we want to look young, feel young, but what is the best way to be younger than to ride a cycle I don’t see any other answer the fun would multiply if it’s an electric-powered cycle. In short, they provide low-cost, energy-efficient, and emission-free transportation with physical and health advantages.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Small long-term evaluation program, including modeling of vehicle-to-grid building benefits and economics, begun with Southern California Edison, joined by EPRI, other utilities, US DOE. Volvo Ford-owned company exploring PHEVs "ReCharge" flex-fuel series 60-mile concept PHEV w/wheel motors. Establishing dealer network.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Powered by Blogrunner Previous post The Promise of a Better Light Bulb? Even so, most next gen EV manufacturers are focused on lithium ion (and to a lesser extent NiMH) as the core technology to power their cars. Wind, hydro, DC transmission lines, and smart grid electronics are also Portland strengths. — Larry 4.

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