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

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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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2013

ARPA-E’s new program, Robust Affordable Next Generation Energy Storage Systems (RANGE) ( earlier post ), aims to accelerate widespread EV adoption by dramatically improving driving range and reliability, and by providing low-cost, low-carbon alternatives to today’s vehicles. Long-Life Rechargeable Alkaline Battery for EVs.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2022

Composed of earth-abundant elements that can be ethically sourced and operated at moderately elevated temperatures just above the boiling point of water, this chemistry has all the requisites of a low-cost, rechargeable, fire-resistant, recyclable battery. —Pang et al.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

The funds will be used to develop novel membranes and lithium-metal anodes for the next generation of high-energy-density, low-cost batteries. Using thick electrodes, the cell also stores more energy, bettering the performance of the battery as well as its cost. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2014

All hybrid, plug-in hybrid and full electric vehicles equipped with high-voltage, advanced rechargeable battery systems also utilize a second electrical system on 12V level for controls, comfort features, redundancy and safety features. In full-hybrid vehicles, the stored energy is also used for a certain range of electric driving.

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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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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2014

Their low cost and ability to start the engine at cold temperatures sets them apart in conventional and basic micro-hybrid vehicles, and as auxiliary batteries in all other automotive applications, according to the report. In full-hybrid vehicles, the stored energy is also used for a certain range of electric driving.

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EV Connect

AUGUST 28, 2023

We can’t expect the market to move en masse towards electric until the public recharging network matches the landscape for petrol-powered vehicles. Today’s gas station is no longer just a row of pumps, but has typically expanded to a grocery store, coffee stop, ATM and car wash. Everyone wins.

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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

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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Driivz

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

From how much they cost and weigh to the amount of power they store and how long they take to charge, electric vehicle (EV) batteries have a significant impact on EVs themselves, the EV industry as a whole, and ultimately EV buyers. All three components offer opportunities for improvement.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Stanford researchers have developed a sodium-ion battery (SIB) that can store the same amount of energy as a state-of-the-art lithium ion, at substantially lower cost. The researchers focused mainly on the favorable cost-performance comparisons between their sodium-ion battery and lithium.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 27, 2021

In theory, they should be a good choice for applications, such as storing surplus energy from renewables. The Gelion battery recharges during the day, then takes over when the sun doesn't shine. Zinc-bromine technologies can do well due to the low cost of materials."

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 27, 2021

In theory, they should be a good choice for applications, such as storing surplus energy from renewables. The Gelion battery recharges during the day, then takes over when the sun doesn't shine. Zinc-bromine technologies can do well due to the low cost of materials."

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2010

ARPA-E’s first solicitation awarded $151 million to 37 projects aimed at transformational innovations in energy storage, biofuels, carbon capture, renewable power, building efficiency, vehicles, and other areas. This process is less than 1% efficient at converting sunlight to stored chemical energy. Sion Power Corporation.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2011

Example of a lithium-water rechargeable battery. note that an aqueous cathode has a low viscosity and can be easily circulated in a flow-through configuration at room temperature. The aqueous cathode could be individually stored in tank, reducing the volume of the battery and increasing the design flexibility of the battery structure.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2010

GE is developing improvements to its sodium metal halide batteries for use in a new generation of cleaner locomotives and stationary applications to smooth intermittent renewable power generation as it interconnects with the grid and critical load back-up power and other applications. Next-generation lithium-ion rechargeable batteries.

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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. Brunini, W.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

Smart grid regional demonstrations involving plug-in vehicles include (ranked by DOE funding): Columbus Southern Power Company (doing business as AEP Ohio). DOE funding $75,161,246, total project value with cost share $150,322,492). Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. Beacon Power Corporation (MA). 24,978,264.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2011

MJ of low heating value/kg of corn stover; η BTF is the biomass-to-fuel (BTF) efficiency through biorefineries or power stations without significant inputs or outputs of other energy. η BTF can be calculated as E F /E B , where E F is the fuel produced in biorefineries or power stations. Huang and Zhang.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2015

The Energy Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) will award $60 million in funding to 23 new projects aimed at creating highly efficient and scalable dry-cooling technologies for thermoelectric power plants and developing prototype technologies to explore new pathways for fusion power.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2012

A pair of researchers at Tohoku University in Japan have developed a novel rechargeable solid-state lithium battery with an organic crystalline cathode. Many of such compounds are low-cost, and some are even biomass in origin. Hanyu & Honma. Click to enlarge. Scientific Reports 2, Article number: 453 doi: 10.1038/srep00453.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2015

Conventional compressors can account for over half of the station’s cost, have poor reliability, and have insufficient flow rates for a mature FCEV market. kWh/L (40 g H 2 /L); and $10/kWh ($333/kg H 2 stored). kWh/L (70 g H 2 /L); and $8/kWh ($267/kg H 2 stored). materials‐based storage or cryo‐compressed tankers). kWh/kg (5.5

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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). Energy Storing Efficient HVAC, $595,558. Reducing Protein Production Costs to Enable Cell Free Biocatalysis, $400,000.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2014

3 (a value comparable to that of 4 V–500 µAh thin-film lithium batteries) while maintaining a power density more than two orders of magnitude higher than that of batteries, as well as a long cycle life. Or, they say, the fiber could be a space-saving power source and serve as “energy-carrying wires” in medical implants.

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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

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

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

By creating high performance parts built with solid ion conductors—solids in which ions can be mobile and store energy—the IONICS program will focus on new ways to process and integrate these parts into devices with the goal of accelerating their commercial deployment. —ARPA-E Director Dr. Ellen D.

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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. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2014

As well as being lighter and smaller, it features greater efficiency and power. The relocated and re-engineered turbo means throttle response time and low-end torque have improved. The relocated and re-engineered turbo means throttle response time and low-end torque have improved. liter unit. 48-volt hybrid version of the i40.

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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. It solves the storage problems faced by the electric utility companies in absorbing and adapting to the highly variable power and energy generated by solar and wind. slow charge.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2009

Batteries, particularly lithium-ion, store large amounts of energy but have more difficulty with high power or fast recharge. Electrostatic capacitors are characterized by high power but energy storage is limited because only surface charge is used. Wh kg -1 ) characteristic of electrochemical supercapacitors.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2015

Armed with this insight into battery cathode discharge processes, we can target new materials designed to address critical battery issues associated with power and efficiency. As these single-use batteries discharge, the lithium ions stored in the anode travel to the cathode, displacing silver ions along the way.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Volvo Ford-owned company exploring PHEVs "ReCharge" flex-fuel series 60-mile concept PHEV w/wheel motors. The F6 DM uses ferrous batteries, with no lithium content, that BYD says are high-energy density and low cost. Blue Concept PHEV Van with diesel or hydrogen fuel cells and rooftop photovoltaic.

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Plug In India

APRIL 28, 2021

The motor delivers a peak power of 3.5 kW - and can do a sustained power of 2.5 Since you are storing petrol inside, functionality does not get affected for that reason. Most rechargeable cylindrical cells use a chemistry with a nominal voltage around 3.7 This will improve productivity - at relatively low cost.

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