Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2021

Awardees across 12 projects will focus on developing next-generation lithium batteries with improved lifespan, safety, and affordability; improving the performance and durability of electrolytes that carry ions within batteries; and increasing the power density of electric drive systems. West Virginia University Research Corporation.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2009

Dominion Virginia Power has added two plug-in electric hybrid cars and two hybrid-powered bucket trucks to its fleet as part of its efforts to determine the impact of plug-in vehicles on electricity demand and to find ways to conserve energy and reduce vehicle emissions. A Dominion PHEV Prius and hybrid bucket truck. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2017

Among the awardees are Mercedes-Benz Research & Development North America and GM, with separate projects on Li-sulfur batteries, as two of the fifteen Phase 1 “Battery Seedling” Projects. Research innovative iron-based materials for high energy cathodes for high energy lithium ion battery technologies. University of Virginia.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The University of Texas at Arlington will develop acoustic stimulation and electrolytic proton production to produce lithium (Li) and nickel (Ni) from CO 2 -reactive minerals and rocks that contain calcium (Ca) and magnesium (Mg), while sequestering CO 2 in the form of carbonate solids. An estimated 2.2 2,200,000).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2020

Area of Interest (AOI) 01a: Lithium Ion Batteries using Silicon-based Anodes-Research. Rational Electrolyte Design for Li-ion Batteries with Micro-Sized Silicon Anodes. AOI 01b: Lithium Ion Batteries using Silicon-based Anodes-Research, Development, and Validation. Virginia Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2009

has received a $100,000 grant from the Department of Energy (DOE) to continue its research into the development of high-performance lithium-ion batteries. ADA combined these optimized electrodes with environmentally-benign electrolytes to demonstrate the performance of lithium-ion batteries. ADA Technologies, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2013

The Prius Plug-in is available in 15 states (California, Oregon, Washington, Arizona, Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia and Hawaii). kWh Li-ion battery pack. Running in EV mode, the system switches to full hybrid mode under full acceleration.).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

All of the designs use lithium-ion battery technology. Six of the seventeen EcoCAR teams, including Georgia Tech, Howard University, Michigan Tech University, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Texas Tech, and West Virginia University, have designed Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles which are constructed with a large lithium-ion battery.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The X Prize winners are Edison2 of Lynchburg, Virginia; X-Tracer of Winterthur, Switzerland; and Li-ion Motors Corporation of Mooresville, North Carolina. Tags: Green cars Latest news E85 Edison2 Li-ion Motors Progressive Insurance Automotive X Prize Very Light Car X prize X-Tracer.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The winning teams—Edison2 of Lynchburg, Virginia; X-Tracer of Winterthur, Switzerland; and Li-ion Motors Corp. Li-ion Motors’ “Wave II” won the $2.5 The X PRIZE Foundation awarded $10 million to three teams who successfully completed the rigorous Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2009

Almost half of the EcoCAR teams chose to design EREVs, including Ohio State, University of Wisconsin, Virginia Tech, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Mississippi State University, North Carolina State University, Penn State and University of Victoria. Plug-in capability. Renewable fuels (when a liquid fuel is required).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2014

Most electrolytes currently used in Li-ion batteries contain halogens, which are toxic. An in-depth study based on first-principles calculations by researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University has shown that the anions of commercially available electrolytes for Li-ion batteries are all superhalogens.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2017

Virginia Commonwealth University researchers have devised a new lithium superionic conductor with Li + conductivity comparable with that of the organic liquid electrolytes. In a lithium-ion battery, positive lithium ions flow between electrodes via electrolytes.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2016

Develop fluorine containing carbonate solvents that will allow existing lithium ion batteries to operating above 4.5 Design a novel gel electrolyte that possesses a self‐healing property to suppress dendrites at the lithium metal electrode and traps polysulfides that are detrimental to Li‐S battery cycle life. Daikin America, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 18, 2017

The key challenge in reducing emissions is that they can occur over a very broad range of operating conditions, and especially exhaust temperatures ,” explained Rajamani Gounder, the Larry and Virginia Faith Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering in Purdue University’s Davidson School of Chemical Engineering. Parekh, Sichi Li, Arthur J.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

kWh Li-ion pack enabling an electric range of up to 15 miles (24 km) at speeds of up to 62 mph (100 km/h), according to Toyota. The Li-ion pack is almost half the weight of the earlier pack, and so much more compact that the dimensions of the plug-in Prius are the same as those of the iconic liftback—i.e.,

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2011

This includes research on appropriate anodes, cathodes, and electrolytes for magnesium (Mg)-, sodium (Na)-, and lithium (Li)-based batteries and novel transition metal oxide- and nitride-based supercapacitor electrode materials. Magnesium is much more abundant in the Earth’s crust, making it less expensive than Li by a factor of 24.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Target energy density is 6-20 times that available state-of-the-art Li-ion batteries and at. Silicon Coated Nanofiber Paper as a Lithium-Ion Anode. This is the first round of projects funded under ARPA-E, which is receiving total of $400 million under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. DOE Grant: $4,000,000).

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Cars That Think

MARCH 29, 2022

kilowatt-hour lithium-ion battery pack (with 84 pouch-style cells courtesy of SK Innovation ) that’s laser-welded behind two racy sport seats. Including its 72-kg Li-ion battery, the Ferrari’s hybrid hardware adds just 275 kg, a gain that’s more than made up for via improved power and traction.

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