Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2016

John Goodenough, known around the world for his pioneering work that led to the invention of the rechargeable lithium-ion battery, have devised a new strategy for a safe, low-cost, all-solid-state rechargeable sodium or lithium battery cell that has the required energy density and cycle life for a battery that powers an all-electric road vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2019

With recent and projected cost declines in wind, solar, and lithium-ion batteries, electrification using batteries has become a viable option for applications compatible with the inherent range limitations and recharging time. A paper on the work is published in the journal Joule. Zhao et al.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2019

These pilot schemes will begin today in Utrecht (the Netherlands) in an ecosystem developed by We Drive Solar and on Porto Santo Island (in the archipelago of Madeira, Portugal) with Empresa de Electricidade da Madeira, an energy supplier. —Gilles Normand, Groupe Renault’s director of electric vehicles.

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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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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The best-known wearable energy-harvesting tech today is, of course, solar, which pulls down electrons from sunlight or ambient light. But solar is just the opening gambit. A backpack with a giant solar panel might work technically, but not in reality. Leveraging watch tech for…bisons? Batteries die before animals do.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2010

Marcelo da Luz and his Power of One (XOF1) solar car ( earlier post ) arrived in the hamlet of Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories, Canada after successfully traveling 187 km (116 miles) from the town of Inuvik over one of the longest seasonal ice roads in the world. Wind was from the south. The expedition took 9.5 Click to enlarge.

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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

AUGUST 27, 2018

The model will be 100% recharged with electric power from clean sources such as wind and solar. The regenerative brake acts before the pneumatic brake, to decelerate the vehicle, recovering up to 30% of energy during braking and using it to recharge the batteries. It uses LiFePO 4 lithium-ion battery packs.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 27, 2018

If, however, it is permanently attached to the power supply with up to 30 kW via alternating current, the battery pack perpetually recharges itself. The mobile charging stations are a decisive step toward an efficient network of charging points.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2019

And this involves, for example, analyzing and installing recharging terminals in customers’ garages anywhere in Brazil. Battery recharging can be performed flexibly (30% in 15 minutes or 100% in 3 hours) to meet the most varied demands of the operation, as well as the availability of infrastructure.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2019

Energy cost of charging electric cars: There are implications for the electrical power generation in the UK needed to recharge these vehicles. Both these wind turbine and solar generation options for the added electrical power generation capacity have substantial demands for steel, aluminium, cement and glass.

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Drive Electric

JUNE 25, 2023

This electricity is then used to propel the vehicle’s electric motor and recharge its battery. Moreover, hydrogen can quickly be produced through various methods , including electrolysis powered by renewable energy sources like solar and wind. Read more on How FCEVs work? So why do we not see many HFCVs on our roads?

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2014

The new company will utilize Hydro-Québec’s operation and control technologies for electric power supplies as well as its lithium-ion battery material technology, together with Sony’s control technologies for safe, reliable, olivine-type lithium-ion iron phosphate rechargeable batteries and highly scalable module systems.

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MARCH 23, 2022

Credit: Shell Recharge Germany. Shell’s Recharge Card is also bundled in the service, which should provide customers with a healthy number of accessible charging stations around Germany. Credit: Shell Recharge Germany. The Teslas stand as Shell’s longest-range EVs for its subscription service in Germany.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2014

Up to 30 electric vehicles at a time can recharge in Fraunhofer IAO’s parking garage. This year will see the installation of a photovoltaic unit and a small wind power system at the Fraunhofer Institute Center Stuttgart IZS, where up to 30 electric vehicles at a time can recharge at AC charge spots in the Fraunhofer Campus parking garage.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2010

Ford, Detroit Edison and Xtreme Power are teaming up to establish one of Michigan’s largest solar power generation systems and electric vehicle charging stations at Ford’s Michigan Assembly Plant in Wayne, Mich. Ford will work with Detroit Edison to install a 500 kW solar photovoltaic panel system at Michigan Assembly.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2011

kWh used to power the car) that is recharged via a regular wall socket. Solar cells on the house roof and exterior provide the house with electricity. The solar cells are supplied by a manufacturer that is partly owned by Vattenfall. A wind-catcher in the entry hall prevents large airflows between the inside and the outside.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2019

By contrast, when it is permanently connected to the mains power grid, the battery pack continuously and independently recharges itself. When the energy content of the battery built into the charging station falls below a defined value, the depleted charging station is simply replaced by a charged one.

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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. E-STOR works with a company’s onsite solar PV, or micro wind turbines, storing and releasing energy directly into site systems thereby avoiding the financial shortfalls of exporting to the Grid.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2012

The 40-foot “E-Bus” is based on New Flyer’s 40-foot Xcelsior heavy-duty transit bus and is powered by a 120 kWh lithium-ion rechargeable battery pack developed by MHI. The bus will be demonstrated on the streets of Winnipeg over the next two years. Daisuke Mukai et al.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2014

Energy procurement is being shifted toward more sustainable sources, like biomass and solar power. For example, in Mexico, Nissan is using wind turbines to help run its Aguascalientes plant. Nissan is reducing the environmental impact of its corporate activities through widespread power conservation.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 2, 2021

But the efficiency equation is more complicated than that because, unlike petrol pumps, recharging stations do not transfer energy perfectly. Some people will use this information to adapt their choices about where and when to recharge. For them, recharge efficiency might be just as important as MPGe rating.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 25, 2022

The carbon-free rigs will pack 50 kilos of hydrogen zapped from water using electricity from the refinery’s dedicated solar power plant. 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.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2011

The resulting magnetic field induces an electric current in the secondary coil, which recharges the battery. The system also enables the smart use of energy, whereby the car also serves as a storage unit and most of the energy is surplus electricity from solar and wind power facilities.

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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

JANUARY 21, 2013

This interim solution would offer a distributed store of electrical energy that can spread the cost of storing off-peak power in a rechargeable battery. Goodenough and Kyu-Sung Park (2013) The Li-Ion Rechargeable Battery: A Perspective. —Goodenough and Park. Journal of the American Chemical Society doi: 10.1021/ja3091438.

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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. Energy consumption also tends to peak during early evening hours , which is inconveniently right when solar energy output decreases.

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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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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

The Auris hybrid concept uses solar panels on the roof for ventilation support and dashboard to recharge mobile consumer electronics devices. Road and engine noise have been suppressed by comprehensive use of soundproofing materials, and full thickness glazing and an acoustic windscreen reduce wind noise at cruising speeds.

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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. The system installed for verification testing in Nagasaki is currently being adjusted towards an in-plant electric-load leveling test.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2013

The funding will also be used for the firm to develop an improved lithium titanate anode material that could improve battery safety and make more efficient rechargeable batteries for a variety of uses, including modular utility electric systems for use at wind and solar generating sites.

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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

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 20, 2020

In a previous study, the researchers found that instead of charging and recharging every battery until it failed—the usual way of testing a battery’s lifetime—they could predict how long a battery would last after only its first 100 charging cycles. The team used this power to their advantage in two key ways.

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Driivz

JULY 14, 2021

With vehicle to Grid (V2G), vehicles’ batteries provide power to the grid during times of peak demand, and the vehicles’ batteries are recharged during times of lower demand. The grid draws on the vehicle’s stored energy and then directs energy back to the vehicle to recharge the battery, so it is ready for usage when needed.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

That is, their use is not only carbon neutral in nature, but has associated with it, an equivalent amount of carbon sequestration, thus providing up to twice the global warming reduction benefits of technologies such as solar or wind electricity production and solar or wind recharged electric vehicles.

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Driivz

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

If the power is generated using solar or wind power, then EV driving is emission free. Charge point operators increasingly use smart energy management to incorporate energy from onsite renewables, usually solar panels, into the power supplied to the chargers, further reducing carbon footprint.

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