Cars That Think

APRIL 11, 2023

Whenever new technologies are introduced into the power grid, there’s always a chance they could disrupt the system, possibly even leading to blackouts. Finding ways to deal with the impact on the grid caused by incorporating renewable energy has been the focus of Vijay Vittal ’s research for nearly 20 years.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2012

(MHI), jointly with SSE plc (formerly Scottish and Southern Energy plc), will begin an energy storage system demonstration project using the power grid in the UK’s Orkney Islands, which has a high proportion of renewable energy generation in relation to demand. In the project, Mitsubishi Power Systems Europe, Ltd.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2023

The CEA and Renault Group have jointly developed a new electronic power converter architecture directly integrated into the vehicle’s charger. Due to the use of ferrite materials, dedicated to high frequency, and a shaping injection process called Power Injection Molding, the converter has become more compact.

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Driivz

JULY 14, 2021

Grid balancing ensures that the energy supply meets the volume of energy demanded. In the short run, when utilities cannot balance their local grids, they must buy energy on the open market – an expensive OPEX proposition – to meet immediate demand and prevent outages. How can EV charging service providers help achieve grid balancing?

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Endesa, Spain’s largest utility, has developed a prototype V2G (Vehicle to Grid) charger that enables electric vehicles to return stored power to the grid. In addition to selling vehicle power to the electricity market, users will be able to use the electricity from their vehicles to power their homes.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2012

The purpose of this project is to demonstrate load shifting by charging at night when demand is low, storing power produced from renewable sources in rechargeable batteries, and supplying such power back to the grid when factory facilities and offices face peak demand. Building and components. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2023

In the articulated bus variant, available from June, the eCitaro fuel cell can run for around 350 kilometers without having to recharge, offering space for up to 128 passengers. The eCitaro fuel cell can thus seamlessly replace city buses with combustion engines.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2011

CNR has created the Move in Pure package that has the threefold advantage of providing remote recharging of electric vehicle batteries, guaranteeing the consumer that the energy used comes from the company’s hydroelectricity, wind power or solar production, and ensuring that the French national electricity grid (RTE) remains balanced.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 29, 2018

Hitachi’s V2X Charger is the first recharger that not only recharges an electric car but can also discharge the energy back into the building/grid providing different flexibilities including kW, ?kW, This energy can then be discharged back into the grid when appropriate. kW, kWh and VAR.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2011

The SSFC could enable new models such as transportation ‘fuels’ tuned for power versus range, or cold versus warm climates, with flexible refueling and recycling options. Redox flow batteries have such a design, in which active materials are stored within external reservoirs and pumped into an ion-exchange/electron-extraction power stack.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2019

Connected to the grid or even off-grid, the station can charge up to four electric cars simultaneously, based on the principle of a ‘power bank’, two with DC quick charging. The charging station can be used as interim storage for eco-power; however, when connected to the mains power grid, it becomes a permanent charging point.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2016

Romeo Power , a Santa Monica, California -based startup will design and manufacture electric vehicle battery packs that the company says will outperform any battery systems on the EV market today. Romeo Power’s EV and consumer lines will launch in early 2017; the company also plans an industrial line.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2010

Toshiba Corporation is proposing the development of an electric vehicle charging system—the “Charge Grid”—that features the deployment of its Li-ion battery storage systems (specifically, its SCiB batteries, earlier post ) in various areas. The announcement was made at Smart Grid Exhibition 2010, which runs from June 16 to 18, 2010, in Tokyo.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 18, 2024

The BioCharger is designed to provide off-grid power from vegetative waste. Then, it converts the residual heat energy into electric energy and stores it in a connected Battery Storage Module. The accompanying charging mechanism allows the stored energy to be used for off-grid EV and machinery charging.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2009

US-based lithium-ion battery producer EnerDel will supply the advanced battery systems at the heart of a new project, based in Tsukuba City, Japan, combining electric vehicles (EVs), stationary grid storage, solar power and a rapid charging infrastructure a in a real-world operating environment. Earlier post.).

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Driivz

AUGUST 18, 2021

Vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology, part of smart energy management , will help stabilize that demand – if we make V2G easy, convenient, and profitable for drivers to use. V2G returns the energy stored in EV batteries to the grid. EV owners don’t view their cars as devices that store energy for someone else’s use.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 12, 2023

The company is building these shipping container systems, which work like giant batteries that store energy as heat and pressurized air , rather than a chemical reaction (Cheesecake’s name is derived from a nerdy acronym for their technology.) They gradually lose capacity with each discharge and recharge cycle, and they can be fire hazards.

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Baua Electric

MAY 1, 2024

They drained 15 times the battery’s optimal capacity, the total amount of energy it could store, for 45 seconds to simulate the discharge needed during vertical takeoff. The cells were then further drained at a more normal discharge rate and then recharged.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2017

With the E-STOR system, the batteries are recharged at low power, and the stored energy is then released at high power. It thus becomes possible to offer electric vehicle charging services in locations where constructing a high power connection to the power grid would be very costly.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 2, 2010

PCS = Power Conditioning Subsystem. Mitsubishi Corporation (MC), Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC) and Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (MELCO) have agreed to collaborate on a smart grid research project incorporating electric-vehicle-to-X (e.g., Outline of the scope of the project. FEMS = Factory Energy Management System. EIS system.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2016

Described in a paper published in the RSC journal Energy & Environmental Science , the smart membrane separator could enable the design of a new category of rechargeable/refillable energy storage devices with high energy density and specific power that would overcome the contemporary limitations of electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

The US Department of Energy is awarding $620 million for projects around the country to demonstrate advanced Smart Grid technologies and integrated systems. Smart grid regional demonstrations involving plug-in vehicles include (ranked by DOE funding): Columbus Southern Power Company (doing business as AEP Ohio).

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Driivz

AUGUST 30, 2023

Smart EV charging and energy management uses intelligence to ensure the safe delivery of power to EVs charging at your location without compromising the delivery of electricity to your facilities. Simply put, smart energy management is a power optimization tool or type of load balancer for EV charging infrastructures.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2019

Solid electrolytes are considered to be key components for next-generation lithium metal-based rechargeable batteries. The method used in this work has great potential for building reliable alkaline metal-based rechargeable batteries. The interdisciplinary research team published their findings in the current issue of Joule.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

This storage system will allow Fastned to deploy multiple high powered chargers per site while reducing the strain on the grid. The battery acts as a buffer between the electricity grid and the vehicles charging. It will also allow Fastned to store the solar energy from its solar roofs on-site. Payment is via an app.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2019

While the Plug-in Hybrid (PHEV) charges the battery via the grid with a plug, the MHEV does not have a battery that can be recharged via a plug, but is equipped with a 48V belt starter generator. Its power is transmitted to the crankshaft by the belt drive. A DC/DC converter supplies the conventional 12V grid with voltage.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2009

The US Department of Energy delivered more than $47 million in funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act for eight projects to further smart grid demonstration projects in seven states. The $47 million in new Recovery Act awards will support existing projects that are advancing demonstration-scale smart grid technologies.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 26, 2019

The forty-foot Xcelsior CHARGE H2 was equipped with a Ballard Power Systems fuel cell, producing electricity in motion to continuously recharge the 100 kWh of batteries to power a Siemens electric drive motor. These results exceeded the 300-mile range performance target by 17% without refueling.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2010

Ford, Detroit Edison and Xtreme Power are teaming up to establish one of Michigan’s largest solar power generation systems and electric vehicle charging stations at Ford’s Michigan Assembly Plant in Wayne, Mich. Xtreme Power of Austin, Texas, is supplying its Dynamic Power Resource on-site energy storage and power management system.

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Baua Electric

DECEMBER 29, 2023

The device can provide power to or from a home, vehicle, campsite, or more. At home, the device can provide energy to and from an EV or the grid. On the go, it can be used as an accessory power for lights, cooking, and entertainment. It can also include solar power to harness clean energy from the sun.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2010

Itochu Corporation, Mazda, Family Mart, EnerDel and 11 other partners have launched a 3-year project in Tsukuba City, Japan—the “Green Crossover Project”—designed to showcase a real-world integration of the smart grid, stationary lithium-ion grid storage, electric vehicles, rapid recharging and renewable energy technologies.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Zap and Helion are part of a renaissance in fusion-energy R&D aimed at achieving practical fusion power using much more modest facilities than the vast International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) being built in southern France, at a cost estimated to be north of US $22 billion by the time it’s completed.

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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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Clean Fleet Report

JUNE 20, 2023

That certainly poses a challenge for recharging EVs with clean energy, but these predictions are from consumers, not industry experts. Experts assert the grid is up to the charging task A 2022 McKinsey study estimated 2030 EV charging demands would equal roughly 230 billion kilowatt-hours —about 5% of current total electricity demands.

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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. Sustainable technologies should make it possible to store power from the grid and feed power back into it.

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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 ). Source: ARPA-E. Click to enlarge.

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EV Info

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Let’s look at the benefits and issues of using Hydrogen as fuel and remember that efficiency in the total power supply train, not just at the motor is critical. Most of today’s hydrogen use is grey; Blue: during the steam reforming process, a high proportion of carbon generated is captured and stored underground.

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