Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 26, 2011

MHI) has delivered a large-capacity Li-ion battery energy storage system to the Shimizu Institute of Technology in Tokyo. The energy storage system, which is capable of 100 kW output with 60 kWh capacity, is currently one of the largest indoor lithium-ion battery-based systems in Japan. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd., (MHI)

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Green Car Congress

JULY 27, 2011

Li-ion battery manufacturer A123 Systems will supply a 500kW Li-ion energy storage solution to Dongfang Electric Corporation (DEC), the third largest manufacturer of wind turbines in the People’s Republic of China and the country’s largest exporter of power equipment.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

AES Gener has ordered 20MW of A123’s advanced Li-ion energy storage solutions for a spinning reserve project in Northern Chile. AES Gener will deploy A123’s energy storage solutions at a new 500MW power plant called Angamos.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Li-ion battery maker A123 Systems will supply a Grid Battery System (GBS) to Maui Electric Company (MECO), a utility serving residents and businesses on the islands of Maui, Lanai and Molokai in Hawaii.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 31, 2013

Portland General Electric showcased its 5 MW lithium-ion energy storage system to the public today at the utility’s Salem Smart Power Center in South Salem, Ore. The energy storage facility is part of PGE’s contribution to the Battelle-led Pacific Northwest Smart Grid Demonstration Project.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

has exclusively licensed five battery technologies from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) designed to eliminate the use of cobalt metal in lithium-ion batteries. The advancement is aimed at accelerating the production of electric vehicles and energy storage solutions for the power grid.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2012

Panasonic Corporation will begin mass- production this month of a compact, secure and long-life lithium-ion battery system the company has developed for European homes. The lithium-ion battery system consists of the Panasonic battery module with nominal capacity of 1.35

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2015

Toshiba’s BESS, integrating an array of 6MW-2MWh SCiB lithium-ion batteries, will be delivered in November, and the system is scheduled to start operation in December. The project will be carried out by Sumitomo Corporation, Sumitomo Corporation of Americas and Renewable Energy Systems Americas, a US renewable energy developer.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

To determine the technical feasibility and commercial viability of these second-life applications, Duke Energy and ITOCHU will first gather and analyze data from at least 2,000 kWh of Ener1 lithium-ion batteries deployed in a fleet of approximately 80 Think plug-in EVs.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2014

In addition, a lithium-ion battery storage unit will be added to the basement. Rose sees a host of advantages in decentralized power generation, but none more significant than being able to secure supply. As Germany continues to move toward a new energy economy, increasing demand is being placed on the country’s power grids.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2017

Results of a study by a team at the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute, SOEST, University of Hawaii at Manoa, suggest that the additional cycling to discharge vehicle batteries to the power grid in a vehicle-to-grid (V2G) scenario, even at constant power, is detrimental to EV battery cell performance. —Dubarry et al.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2017

Vattenfall and the BMW Group have signed a contract for the delivery of up to 1,000 lithium-ion batteries this year. The batteries—each with a capacity of 33 kWh—are equipped with a BMW-owned battery management system and are also used by the car manufacturer in the BMW i3.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2011

exhibited five models from its Light Commercial Vehicles (LCV) lineup, including three trucks all based on the Atlas 24 model equipped with Nissan LEAF components and other EV-related technologies at the 2011 Tokyo Truck Show: the e-NT400 Atlas Concept; the Atlas F24 Refrigerator Van by Li-ion Battery; and the Atlas F24 Power Supply Truck.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

A123 Systems announced the grand opening of the largest lithium ion automotive battery production facility in North America, which it calls the largest, based on available data. The new plant in Livonia, Mich.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2011

The cost of Li-ion batteries currently affects the affordability of plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles (PHEV/EV) for consumers. While these PHEV/EV batteries degraded to 70%-80% of their original power/capacity are insufficient for automotive use, these aged batteries may still be useful and could be reused in other applications.

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San Diego Li-ion Batteries Battery 225

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Li-ion battery manufacturer A123 Systems will supply six Grid Battery Systems (GBSs) to Northern Powergrid, an electricity distribution network operator that delivers power to more than 3.8 The GBSs will be designed for peak-load shifting and to manage fluctuations in voltage on the power grid.

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Blink Charging

JULY 28, 2022

An EV battery doesn’t look much different from the one you have currently powering your smartphone. An EV doesn’t use only one Li-ion (lithium-ion) battery, though. While on the road, the motor turns this alteration into power. Li-ion batteries have been around since 1991, but only in 2008 were applied to cars.

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Setec Powerr

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Lithium-ion batteries are far more complex and sophisticated than simple gas tanks. How does a lithium-ion battery work? In short, lithium-ion batteries store and release energy through chemical reactions. Charging and discharging Li-ion batteries generates heat, and too much heat can shorten the long-term life of the battery.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have developed a new zinc-polyiodide redox flow battery offering more than two times the energy density of the next-best flow battery used to store renewable energy and support the power grid. Source: Li et al. Bin Li, Zimin Nie, M. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2015

The announcement comes four weeks after Tesla Motors announced its own entry into the ESS market with the home PowerWall Li-ion battery system ( earlier post ), although Daimler has been considering the move for several years. Deutsche ACCUmotive has delivered more than 60,000 lithium-ion batteries to date.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 30, 2021

2021 was a big year for energy-related news, what with the ongoing hunt for new forms of energy storage and cleaner if not carbon-free electricity and events and research that spotlighted the weak links in our power grid. IEEE Spectrum did its best to cover those developments, and these were the stories that our readers liked best.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

The project partners have shown that Li-ion automobile battery storage systems can be used for highly dynamic system support and system recovery—specifically for a black start in power plants and to support mass inertia. These are second-life and replacement batteries.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2013

Li-ion battery maker A123 Systems LLC, a newly formed, wholly owned subsidiary of Wanxiang America Corporation, has acquired substantially all of the non-government business assets of bankrupt A123 Systems, Inc. A123’s joint venture with Shanghai Automotive. Lead-Acid Replacement.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2011

Under the MOU, the two companies will collaborate on research in the field of next-generation lithium-ion battery cell technologies. We at Toyota are already using lithium-ion batteries in hybrids and plug-in hybrids, but it is necessary for us to further improve these lithium-ion batteries. liter and 2.0-liter

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

A123 Systems has been selected to develop Li-ion battery packs for a new, 2012 model year electric passenger car from Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation (SAIC), the largest automaker in China.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Li-ion battery manufacturer Ener1, Inc. has signed a strategic cooperation deal with a division of the Russian Federal Grid Company (FGC) to co-develop storage systems under a nation-wide grid modernization program. —Bruce Curtis, President of Ener1 Grid Storage.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2013

Broadly, the LCA found that the principal source of environmental impacts for the combustion engined cars is the use phase; the principal sources of environmental impacts for EVs are production—notably that of the Li-ion battery pack—and the source of electricity. Li-ion system production in the LCA.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2009

In addition, on 1 April, the company will introduce organizations to plan and propose R&D and business strategies for the whole Hitachi Group regarding lithium-ion battery and renewable energy-related businesses. Lithium-ion Battery Business. Hitachi says that it will “ take steps to quickly launch businesses in these areas. ”.

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Get Electric Vehicle

AUGUST 31, 2023

When an EV is plugged into a charger, it can give back energy to the power grid or any other required places during peak demand and only charge when the overall demand is lower.  What is Bidirectional Charging? As EVs become more common, all-electric cars may include V2L and/or V2H functionality as standard equipment by 2030.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2013

R&D in this area is looking into controls for vehicle energy management systems, power grid communication, battery life monitoring, temperature management systems, EV sensors, and predictive control. —“Paving the way to electrified road transport”.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2016

The battery storage system also includes a voltage converter and power electronics to manage the energy flow between renewable energy sources, the house interface, and the Li-Ion high-voltage battery from the BMW i3. The battery storage system electrified by BMW i can be equipped with new or second-life batteries.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2010

Li-ion manufacturer Ener1, Inc. signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Russia’s Federal Grid Company (FGC) to help develop new opportunities to use high-performance battery systems to improve the reliability and performance of the Russian electricity system, which is facing record setting demand on an aging grid.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

Ford has into a partnership with Johnson Controls-Saft (JCS) to develop advanced lithium-ion battery system to power Ford’s first production plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) beginning in 2012. Ford’s current demonstration fleet of Escape plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) is using JCS Li-ion packs.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Stanford University researchers have devised a new way to make lithium-ion battery packs last longer and suffer less deterioration from fast charging. Related research has centered on single lithium-ion cells, which generally don’t lose charge capacity as quickly as full battery packs do. —Simona Onori. Resources. Allam and S.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

MAHLE Powertrain and Allotrope Energy have unveiled a new battery technology which offers ultra-fast recharging coupled with good power density. In addition, Li-C cells are free from rare-earth metals, are fully recyclable, and are not susceptible to the runaway events. Lithium-carbon battery.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2009

Costs of light-duty plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) are high—largely due to their lithium-ion batteries—and unlikely to drastically decrease in the near future, according to a new report from the National Research Council (NRC). Most of the electricity used to power these cars will be supplied from the nation’s power grid.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

These new GaN power devices will enable the next generation of low-cost, fast, small, and reliable power electronics, which are key for efficient power conversion in data centers, solar farms, power grids, and electric vehicles. Stanford University.

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