Green Car Reports

JANUARY 27, 2020

Ahead of the arrival of the Volvo XC40 Recharge later this year, the Swedish automaker has opened its order books “in select markets” that include the U.S.

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APRIL 30, 2019

Researchers at the University of Science and Technology Beijing, with colleagues at Beijing Institute of Technology, have demonstrated the potential of rechargeable tellurium (Te) nanowire positive electrodes to construct ultrahigh-capacity rechargeable tellurium-aluminum batteries (TABs).

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JANUARY 24, 2020

Volvo Cars has opened order books for the XC40 Recharge P8 AWD ( earlier post ), the company’s first fully electric car which is based on the best-selling SUV, in selected markets. Production and the first customer deliveries of the XC40 Recharge P8 are scheduled to begin later this year.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Volvo Cars introduced the XC40 Recharge, the company’s first fully electric car and the first model to appear in its brand new Recharge car line concept. Recharge will be the overarching name for all chargeable Volvos with a fully electric and plug-in hybrid powertrain.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 17, 2019

If ever there were an argument for wireless charging, taxis may be it. And as with most things in electric cars, if there's a way to demonstrate the technology in action, Norway may find it.

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Plug In Partners

JUNE 26, 2007

G oogle proved it is serious about Plug Ins with its new Recharge IT initiative. Here is part of the story. Google.org to to Accelerate Plug-In Hybrid and Vehicle-to-Grid Technology Google.org , the philanthropic arm of Google Inc.

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APRIL 16, 2017

a rechargeable lithium-nitrogen (Li-N–) battery with the proposed reversible reaction of 6Li + N– ⇋ 2Li–N. Structure and rechargeability of a room-temperature Li-N 2 battery. (A)

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 18, 2019

The reveal of the 2021 Volvo XC40 Recharge on Wednesday did more than mark the introduction of Volvo’s first electric vehicle in its history; it at last served to show how close Volvo and Polestar might coexist at their closest points.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2017

The concept tire—which combines the functions of wheel and tire—is airless, connected, rechargeable, customizable and organic, is both a wheel and a tire. VISION is the first tire that recharges. Vision is made with an organic core that can be reused and recharged.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2019

Rechargeable lithium metal batteries with increased energy density, performance, and safety may be possible with a newly-developed, solid-electrolyte interphase (SEI), according to Penn State researchers.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2018

Researchers at Australia’s RMIT University have demonstrated for the first time a working rechargeable “proton battery”. The rechargeable battery is environmentally friendly, and has the potential, with further development, to store more energy than currently-available lithium ion batteries.

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Plug In Partners

SEPTEMBER 19, 2007

Volvo Cars is introducing the Volvo ReCharge Concept , a plug-in hybrid with individual electric wheel motors and batteries that can be recharged via a regular electrical outlet for maximum environmental benefit. The Volvo Recharge, like the Volt , is a series platform car.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Volvo rolled out the all-electric XC40 Recharge compact crossover in Los Angeles and said the electric vehicle will have two 150-kw electric motors, one on each axle, that combine to make 402 net horsepower and will be powered by a

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2018

Cuberg developed an advanced lithium metal rechargeable battery cell that is designed to be a drop-in solution to existing large-scale battery manufacturing processes. Boeing has invested in Berkeley, Calif.-based based Cuberg , Inc.,

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 18, 2019

The reveal of the 2021 Volvo XC40 Recharge on Wednesday did more than mark the introduction of Volvo’s first electric vehicle in its history; it at last served to show how close Volvo and Polestar might coexist at their closest points. The Polestar 2 and XC40 Recharge are both built on the compact modular architecture (CMA) platform jointly

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Electric Cars are for Girls

MARCH 6, 2010

Would it be possible to have a set of batteries recharging as your driving? I'm thinking of running a 10,000 watt generator that the recharger is plugged

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Balogh, Peng Lu, Li Yang, Jie Xiao, Jun Liu, Mei Cai (2018) “Hierarchical electrode architectures for high energy lithium-chalcogen rechargeable batteries,” Nano Energy , Volume 51, Pages 668-679 doi: 10.1016/j.nanoen.2018.07.015. Lithium-chalcogen batteries—e.g.,

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2019

Shortly before the market launch of its full-electric car sharing service WeShare in Berlin at the end of June, Volkswagen has entered a strategic partnership with the Lidl and Kaufland supermarket chains, which are owned by the Schwarz Group.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 22, 2015

The new solid-state electrolyte shows electrochemical stability up to 10 V vs Li/Li +. Credit: ACS, Rangasamy et al. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Researchers in Europe have been investigating the potential of the protonated hexatitanate H 2 Ti 6 O 13 as an anode material for rechargeable lithium batteries. The team tested the hexatitanate as a Li insertion material to assess its use as an electrode in lithium rechargeable batteries.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 10, 2017

Notably, alkaline batteries cannot be recharged, which means their application is often limited to single uses in small devices such as flashlights and remote controls. Alkaline batteries have been a staple energy source for decades, but their potential has been capped by their chemical properties. An alkaline battery finding its way to an. Batteries battery pack research research and development plug-in cars solid-state cell

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 27, 2020

Volvo opens up orders for its upcoming XC40 Recharge. GM confirms that it soon will have an assembly plant making only electric vehicles. A survey from AAA finds that range anxiety might be moot once you drive an EV. And wait, the first RAV4 EV is being recalled? This and more, here at Green Car Reports. Volvo has opened the order books for its. Today in Car News

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

Electric-car owners know that home recharging is virtually always cheaper, on a per-mile basis, than driving on gasoline. In some cases, it''s considerably cheaper. We recently reported on the sweet deal enjoyed by a Tesla Model S owner in Indianapolis, whose local utility charges just 2.3 cents per kWh for overnight EV charging. DON''T MISS: Life

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Electric cars pale in comparison to gasoline or diesel-powered cars when it comes to the time presently required to add energy for more driving distance. Although automakers have begun to curb "range anxiety" with longer-distance electric cars, battery charging times on lengthy road trips remain a hurdle for many buyers. The fastest "quick. Batteries battery pack plug-in cars charging Fast Charging

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Electric Cars are for Girls

MARCH 2, 2010

Is it better to recharge frequently after each use or to wait till the charge is low? Hi, Judith! That depends on the batteries you have in your electric

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Green Cars News

JUNE 23, 2014

Scientists in Switzerland are testing new technology which could allow electric buses to recharge in as little as 15 seconds; something that could massively increase their uptake.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

With charging stations still scarce in many areas, "range anxiety" is a continual concern for electric-car owners. Portable generators can provide electricity where this is no infrastructure, so could one rescue a stranded electric car?

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2015

has developed a new type of aluminum-air battery which can be recharged by refilling with salt or fresh water and which uses a modified structure to ensure longer battery lifetime. An aluminum–air battery with a rechargeable battery was fabricated, and its properties were stable for one month.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2018

Named the NTU-Blue Solutions Flash Shuttle, the fully electric vehicle only requires 20 seconds to recharge at stations which are fitted for its quick charging while passengers board and alight.

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Electric Cars are for Girls

MARCH 10, 2009

Why don't EV systems use alternators and regulators to recharge the batteries and run the motors? Hi, David - I get this question a

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Revenge of the Electric Car

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

Electric car and renewable energy enthusiast Gerry Gaydos shares his thoughts during a recent trip to California in the nicely narrated video short below. Gerry’s pursuit of renewable energy and electric drive began in the summer of 1997 when he spent time with some engineering students preparing a solar electric race car for the World Solar Challenge.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Today, it appears the future may include more electric SUVs, less ethanol in gasoline, a VW electric hill-climbing race car, and much, much faster battery recharging. Last week, Toshiba announced a battery cell that could offer the long-sought recharging time as quick as a gasoline refill. All this and more on Green Car Reports. The EPA is now run. Today in Car News

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 27, 2014

One advantage to plug-in electric cars is that they can operate with no carbon footprint if the electricity used to recharge them is generated from renewable sources. Burning liquid fuels, on the other hand, will always generate carbon emissions. Now Audi is offering a way for German buyers of its new 2015 Audi A3 e-tron plug-in hybrid model to

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 31, 2015

'SolidEnergy , an MIT spin-out commercializing solid electrolyte technology enabling the use of lithium metal anodes for high energy density rechargeable batteries ( earlier post ), says that in 2016, it and its battery manufacturing partners will release a 2 Ah commercial battery for the smartphone and wearable market. This is to be followed in 2017 by a 20 Ah electric vehicle battery offering more than two times the driving range of current Li-ion batteries. In 2014, the company announced a prototype 2Ah pouch cell with a volumetric energy density of more than 1200 Wh/L; subsequently the company said it had achieved 1337 Wh/L in a 2Ah pouch cell. Its Solid Polymer Ionic Liquid (SPIL) electrolyte enables the use of an ultra-thin lithium metal anode, and improves the cell-level energy density by 50% compared to graphite anodes and 30% compared to silicon-composite anodes. Source: SolidEnergy. Click to enlarge. The core of SolidEnergy’s technology is a Solid Polymer Ionic Liquid (SPIL) electrolyte, originally developed at and licensed from MIT. The SolidEnergy prototypes combine a cathode (SPIL can work with a range of cathode materials); the novel electrolyte; and a solid-polymer-coated lithium metal anode. The electrolyte combines ionic liquid and liquid polymer to provide both the safety and wide temperature capability required for advanced batteries, while the solid-polymer-coated lithium anode boosts energy density and cycle life. In addition, Lithium dendrite- suppressing additives boost safety. The polymer and ionic liquid both have low vapor pressure and are safe up to 300 °C, while the solid polymer coating with dendrite-suppressing additives prevent dendrite growth. As Dr. Hu and his colleagues at MIT noted in a 2011 paper in the Journal of Power Sources : The use of conventional lithium-ion batteries in high temperature applications (>50 °C) is currently inhibited by the high reactivity and volatility of liquid electrolytes. Solvent-free, solid-state polymer electrolytes allow for safe and stable operation of lithium-ion batteries, even at elevated temperatures. Recent advances in polymer synthesis have led to the development of novel materials that exhibit solid-like mechanical behavior while providing the ionic conductivities approaching that of liquid electrolytes. —Hu et al. That paper, and the subsequent patents awarded to MIT and licensed by SolidEnergy, involve the use of a solid graft copolymer electrolyte (GCE). A block copolymer consists of two chemically dissimilar polymers covalently bonded end-to-end. Under certain conditions, the different polymer blocks undergo micro-phase separation into periodically spaced nanoscopic domains. The morphology can be controlled by the overall composition of the copolymer. When a lithium salt is added, the polymer becomes a solid electrolyte, behaving mechanically like a rubbery solid but still possessing high ionic conductivity: a block copolymer electrolyte (BCE). In a 2004 paper in the Journal of Power Sources , Professor Sadoway of MIT observed that electrical conductivity of BCEs varied inversely with the glass transition temperature of one of the block components. In an effort to raise the electrical conductivity to even higher values, for the choice of secondary block we turned to poly(dimethyl siloxane) (PDMS) with its T g of ?123 ?C, substantially lower than that of any of the alkyl methacrylates in the previous study. To exploit this chemistry we chose to generate a microphase-separating graft copolymer consisting of a backbone of poly(oxy-ethylene)9 methacrylate (POEM) and long side chains of PDMS. POEM-g-PDMS with 70wt.% POEM and doped with lithium triflate proved to be a rubbery solid exhibiting electrical conductivity nearly equivalent to that of POEM homopolymer, a viscous liquid at room temperature. Termed a graft copolymer electrolyte (GCE), this material was prepared by a facile free-radical synthesis method that is industrially scalable. —Sadoway (2004). SolidEnergy’s Intellectual Property (IP) strategy focuses on the novel solid electrolyte, Li-metal anode, interface, packaging, and processing of the battery. SolidEneregy is collaborating with A123 Venture Technologies, a Massachusetts-based technology incubator. Resources. Qichao Hu, Solid Energy presentation at NREL Industry Growth Forum 2013. Qichao Hu, Sebastian Osswald, Reece Daniel, Yan Zhu, Steven Wesel, Luis Ortiz, Donald R. Sadoway (2011) “Graft copolymer-based lithium-ion battery for high-temperature operation,” Journal of Power Sources , Volume 196, Issue 13, Pages 5604-5610, doi: 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2011.03.001. Patrick E. Trapa, You-Yeon Won, Simon C. Mui, Elsa A. Olivetti, Biying Huang, Donald R. Sadoway, Anne M. Mayes, and Steven Dallek (2005) “Rubbery Graft Copolymer Electrolytes for Solid-State, Thin-Film Lithium Batteries” J. Electrochem. Soc. 152(1): A1-A5 doi: 10.1149/1.1824032. Donald Sadoway (2004) “Block and graft copolymer electrolytes for high-performance, solid-state, lithium batteries” Journal of Power Sources Volume 129, Issue 1, Pages 1-3 doi: doi:10.1016/j.jpowsour.2003.11.016. Batteries'

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Plugs and Cars

NOVEMBER 22, 2007

We want to test it and get it into production,” Mr [Anders] Jensen, head of the Smart brand team, told the Financial Times on Wednesday.The brand chose London for the pilot in part because of its network of free public recharging stations.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2011

Conductive and insulating materials company NAMICS Corporation is developing all-ceramic multi-layered rechargeable batteries based on a patent applied for with IOM Technology Corporation and Iwate University (Prof.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 15, 2015

Charging an electric car today isn't necessarily quite as easy as pulling up to the gas pump in a gasoline or diesel model. Long charging times and sparse public charging infrastructure can cause some inconvenience for electric-car drivers. But it could be worse. DON'T MISS: 1914 Detroit Electric: Pretty Spry For A Century Old (Video) (Jun 2011). History Vintage plug-in cars charging charging infrastructure

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 5, 2014

But the company has already started some lowkey marketing, with yesterday''s release of a YouTube video titled, "Recharge Your Soul." The first 2015 Kia Soul EV electric cars won''t reach U.S.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2014

A team of researchers from Kyoto University has demonstrated ion-exchanged MgFeSiO 4 as a feasible cathode material for use in high-energy-density rechargeable magnesium batteries. MgFeSiO 4 ) and constructed a rechargeable magnesium battery using this high-energy-density cathode material.

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MAY 31, 2016

kWh SCiB ( earlier post ) pack, Toshiba’s advanced lithium-ion rechargeable battery, and will make regular trips between All Nippon Airways Co.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Back in December, we first received confirmation of the "3.0" update for the Tesla Roadster, the electric-car maker''s very first product, sold in the U.S. from 2008 through 2011. Tesla claimed the update would boost the Roadster''s range 40 to 50 percent, and said a real-world demonstration was forthcoming. MORE: Tesla Roadster 3.0: 70-kWh Battery

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Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2013

The technology allows lithium-metal batteries to be recharged without the dendrite failure (short circuit) that has prevented rechargeable lithium-metal batteries from being commercially viable. Masses of dry components of the indicated electrodes.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2014

Sodium can serve as an alternative to lithium in rechargeable batteries as the reversible storage mechanisms for sodium ions are very similar (e.g., Schematic illustration of the designed hybrid-seawater fuel cell and a schematic diagram at the charged–discharged state. Kim et al.

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