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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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

DECEMBER 21, 2009

The long-term goal is to achieve up to 300 kW of charging capacity—enabling a quick recharge in roughly 6 minutes. The development engineers are also investigating how the constant switching on and off of the batteries affects the power grid; the harmonics this generates could knock the grid out of sync.

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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

APRIL 30, 2010

and the Tokyo Institute of Technology are developing a smart charging system to exploit wind power produced at night to charge electric vehicles. The technology developed by the alliance is expected to help reduce this investment burden, which has prevented a wider adoption of wind power generation. Mitsubishi Corp.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2018

A battery, based on electrodes made of sodium and nickel chloride and using thea new type of metal mesh membrane, could be used for grid-scale installations to make intermittent power sources such as wind and solar capable of delivering reliable baseload electricity. -Al 2 O 3 membrane. —David Sadoway.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2009

(MHI) has decided to build a commercial production verification plant in Nagasaki Prefecture and launch its operation by autumn 2010 in a move toward the company’s full-scale entry into the lithium-ion secondary (rechargeable) battery market.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 18, 2009

Ford Motor Company has developed an intelligent vehicle-to-grid communications and control system for its plug-in hybrid electric vehicles that communicates directly with the electric grid. All 21 of Ford’s fleet of plug-in hybrid Escapes eventually will be equipped with the vehicle-to-grid communications technology.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 4, 2024

Photo: Alsym Energy Boston-based Alsym Energy, which is developing a nonflammable rechargeable battery that’s cobalt and lithium-free, has announced a $78 million funding round. Alsym Energy, which was founded in April 2015, has developed a non-flammable, high-performance rechargeable battery chemistry that’s lithium- and cobalt-free.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Excitingly, lead batteries are now becoming more common as energy storage for renewables, such as solar and wind, as local grids and independent electricity systems come on line. Lead batteries currently account for 75% of worldwide rechargeable battery energy storage.

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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

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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Cars That Think

JUNE 12, 2023

As countries transition away from fossil fuels to green sources of energy like wind and solar, there will be natural lulls in energy production due to weather conditions. They gradually lose capacity with each discharge and recharge cycle, and they can be fire hazards. When does it make sense to buy electricity directly from the grid?

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Charged EVs

MAY 2, 2024

An off-grid energy system basically consists of just four key components: 1) a battery to store energy; 2) one or more renewable energy sources (e.g. solar panels, wind turbines, hydroelectric turbines); 3) an appropriate DC-input charger for said source; and 4) a DC-to-AC inverter to power the house, EV charger, well pump, etc.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2013

The PNNL technology tells a vehicle’s battery charger when to start and stop charging based upon existing conditions on the electrical grid. The Grid Friendly EV Charger Controller technology notifies the car’s battery charger when to start and stop charging based upon existing conditions on the electrical grid. Source: PNNL.

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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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Green Car Congress

MAY 30, 2013

The carport will enable NSA Mid-South to recharge its current fleet of 17 electric vehicles with renewable electricity in approximately four hours, while reducing demand on the commercial power grid.

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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

MAY 26, 2010

The introduction of electric vehicles on a large scale in the UK can only have a beneficial effect on CO 2 emissions if low-carbon electricity, universal broadband provision and smart grids are in place to support the transition, according to a new report published by the UK Royal Academy of Engineering.

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Driivz

AUGUST 30, 2023

Renewable energy can also be under-utilized when the wind is blowing and the sun is shining, but demand is lower than supply. Companies can reduce costs by using locally generated renewable energy, typically solar, to power EV charging instead of grid electricity. On the other hand, between peaks are periods of under-utilized capacity.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2011

The charging station is connected to the public grid by a primary coil that is completely underground. The resulting magnetic field induces an electric current in the secondary coil, which recharges the battery. Electricity is transmitted from the grid through all of the components to the battery at an efficiency of more than 90%.

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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 22, 2016

On the other hand, drivers of other vehicles waste considerable time making special trips to refuel their internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles at the liquid fuel station or their battery electric vehicle (BEV) at the rapid recharging station. Slow Level 1 charging [ 11 ] should be used to recharge PHEVLER batteries whenever possible.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 26, 2011

The lithium-ion rechargeable battery energy storage system installed in the microgrid system uses 320 units of a 50 Ah-class cell. MHI has been marketing the lithium-ion rechargeable battery energy storage system for multi-unit apartment buildings.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2010

The batteries can be recharged either by plugging into the grid, or exchanged in 3 minutes for a battery charged with renewable energy at an Aurica Power Exchange Package (PEP) swapping station. The PEP station concept is not compatible with the Better Place system. Aurica envisions a battery swap in 3 minutes or less.

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My Energi

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Whether small-scale wind turbines, solar thermal technology or ground source heat pumps, consumers are quickly moving away from reliance on mains supply and the uncontrollable pressure of market volatility. Each of our products help households to consume more of their self-generated energy and minimise reliance on the grid. In result?

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Baua Electric

MAY 2, 2024

An off-grid energy system basically consists of just four key components: 1) a battery to store energy; 2) one or more renewable energy sources (e.g. solar panels, wind turbines, hydroelectric turbines); 3) an appropriate DC-input charger for said source; and 4) a DC-to-AC inverter to power the house, EV charger, well pump, etc.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2011

Japan’s first container-type large-capacity energy storage system using lithium-ion rechargeable batteries. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2011

kWh used to power the car) that is recharged via a regular wall socket. All surplus electricity can be used to charge the family’s electrically-powered Volvo or be used in the joint electricity grid. When the house generates more electricity than it requires, the surplus is delivered to the electricity grid.

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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. Especially for sources like wind and solar, which have discontinuous availability.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Last month, the company was chosen to supply the batteries that will power a DOE-funded smart grid energy storage project by Portland General Electric (PGE) that will help manage peak demand and smooth the variations in power from renewable sources like wind and solar. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

International Battery (IB), a US manufacturer and developer of large-format lithium-ion rechargeable batteries, has been chosen as the battery system provider for the first-of-its-kind Community Energy Storage (CES) systems, developed by S&C Electric Company for American Electric Power (AEP). The requirements for CES are very demanding.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 25, 2022

The 124-megawatt solar plant adjacent to Korea Zinc’s Townsville refinery, completed in 2018, cut a quarter of the coal-heavy grid power it had been using to run its power-intensive electrolytic process. Ark’s first move was to access more renewable power in Australia by buying into a 923-MW wind farm that’s expected to spin up in 2024.

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Driivz

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

If the power is generated using solar or wind power, then EV driving is emission free. During peak times, energy can also be supplanted by onsite storage and even from other vehicles using V2G (vehicle-to-grid) technology. In Europe, 93% of the population has the option to use 100% renewable power for charging vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2010

With this solar energy system, we will be able to gain vital understanding about the integration of renewable power, smart-grid technologies and energy storage at an industrial facility. Michigan Assembly’s energy storage system will be able to recharge from the grid during off-peak hours when energy is available at a lower cost.

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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. when electricity rates are cheaper, or when the grid is using only renewable energy such as wind or solar power.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 17, 2011

This near real-time information will also help utility providers better manage power grid loads during peak charging times. With this project we can show how electric vehicles can create a balance between supply and demand for smarter energy grids.

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