This site uses cookies to improve your experience. To help us insure we adhere to various privacy regulations, please select your country/region of residence. If you do not select a country, we will assume you are from the United States. Select your Cookie Settings or view our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.
Cookie Settings
Cookies and similar technologies are used on this website for proper function of the website, for tracking performance analytics and for marketing purposes. We and some of our third-party providers may use cookie data for various purposes. Please review the cookie settings below and choose your preference.
Used for the proper function of the website
Used for monitoring website traffic and interactions
Cookie Settings
Cookies and similar technologies are used on this website for proper function of the website, for tracking performance analytics and for marketing purposes. We and some of our third-party providers may use cookie data for various purposes. Please review the cookie settings below and choose your preference.
Strictly Necessary: Used for the proper function of the website
Performance/Analytics: Used for monitoring website traffic and interactions
Electrify America recently unveiled its first application of a megawatt-level battery energystorage system (BESS) for electric vehicle (EV) charging stations, building upon the company’s existing BESS installations at more than 150 stations across the US, including more than 100 installations in California.
The Dow Chemical Company is organizing a new business that will manufacture advantaged battery materials for the energystorage industry. Estimates of the energystorage industry project growth from $24 billion today to $74 billion by 2020, with the largest growth opportunity in the automotive market.
Electrify America plans to install 30 electric fleet-dedicated chargers paired with battery energystorage systems (BESS) at the Port of Long Beach, California, as part of Electrify America’s $25-million “Green City” investment in the region at the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles.
The chargers utilize the fastest technology availabletoday—providing speeds of up to 150kW and 350kW—to help reduce the amount of time spent charging. Stations are located along major routes and in metro areas, placed near shopping, banking and dining amenities.
Consumers will soon be able to purchase electric vehicles with 200 miles of range for less than $40,000, almost half the price of the long range EVs availabletoday. Still, EVs will account for more than 80% of the energystorage demand, due to their larger battery packs. million plug-in vehicles.
That is about three times as much power per square centimeter as other membrane-less system—a power density that is an order of magnitude higher than that of many lithium-ion batteries and other commercial and experimental energy-storage systems. A paper on the work is published in Nature Communications. —Braff et al.
This allows engineers to optimize battery energystorage and layout for each vehicle design. Complexity Reduction: The vehicle and propulsion systems were designed together to minimize complexity and part counts beyond today’s EVs, which are less complex than conventional vehicles powered by internal combustion engines.
The agreement is to spend up to $25 million over five years on fundamental research in the areas of global energy transition and new energy technology. Shell is pleased to enter into a multi-year research collaboration agreement with the Energy Biosciences Institute.
Electron Energy Corporation will develop a technology to. lower cost than those availabletoday, based on a friction. ARPA-E OPEN 2012 selections: Transportation EnergyStorage. that could improve the amount of energystorage allowing an. High-Energy Electro-Chemical Capacitor. and gas wells.
With funding provided by the California Energy Commission, Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) demonstrated its LX1 prototype mid-sized (20 ton) hybrid-electric wheel loader ( earlier post ), a piece of equipment widely used in the construction, refuse, and agricultural industries, that achieved a 50% improvement in fuel efficiency.
Electrify America will purchase an interest in an energystorage program with the utility company. This will help reduce Electrify America’s demand charges and increase the overall grid benefit of its energystorage. —SMUD CEO and General Manager Arlen Orchard.
Thus, SOFC systems availabletoday are heavily subsidized. Hydrogen or chemicals such as syngas can be produced using different energy sources (fossil, nuclear, renewables) in SOEC mode from one configuration of SOFC/SOEC. This FOA is focused on small-scale applications (5-25 kW), for which there is a near-term market (e.g.,
As a result, the Relay is the most environmentally-friendly, safe and efficient light-duty mining vehicle of its kind availabletoday. It uses an exceptionally efficient and robustly-tested rechargeable energystorage system (RESS). —Paul Summers, Miller Technology’s Lead Battery Electric Vehicle Engineer.
By teaming with Electrify America, Lucid Air owners who take US delivery will be offered three years of complimentary charging at speeds faster than any other production car availabletoday. ESS in the future.
Tesla Cybertruck reached a new peak charging speed with a third-party charger from Nxu, a tech company that specializes in innovative EV charging and energystorage solutions. “We believe we’ve created one of the fastest charging units availabletoday, and now we have the data to substantiate those claims.
Algae cultures tend to be relatively dilute, and the energy requirement to remove water from the cultures can be a significant portion of the energy balance. Additionally, few of current harvesting and dewatering technologies availabletoday are amenable to scaling for larger production scenarios of 1,000 acre or larger algal farms.
—Nora Lobenstein, head of all energystorage systems at Porsche. The charging capacity of up to 350 kilowatts per charging point enables accordingly designed vehicles to achieve significantly shorter charging times compared to the systems availabletoday. Plug in and charge fast” is the motto.
The 8 BREAKERS projects will work to develop new direct current (DC) devices to better manage power by eliminating electrical faults, improving efficiency and reaction times, and potentially enabling greater proliferation of energystorage and renewable resources.
They’re mainly along for the ride to demonstrate that photovoltaic solar technology is real and availabletoday. Zebra batteries have an energy density of around 90Whr/kg. That gives a cummulative energystorage capacity of 28kWhrs. The Q-Cells PV solar modules produce upwards of 600 watts.
It aims to offer its AC bidirectional charger at a price comparable to that of a monodirectional charger availabletoday. Not just as a means of getting from A to B, but as a mobile energystorage unit that can save people money and support the transition from fossil fuels.”
These vehicles have larger battery packs with more energystorage and a greater capability to be discharged. EPA and NHTSA expect that automobile manufacturers will meet the proposed standards by utilizing technologies that are mainly availabletoday, but with more widespread use across the light-duty vehicle fleet.
ARA’s ACTIVE cooling technology will use a depolymerization thermochemical cycle to provide supplemental cooling and cool energystorage that can work as a standalone system or be synchronized with air-cooled units in order to cool below the ambient dry bulb temperature. ALPHA AWARDS. Lead organization. Description.
.” Construction has begun on a flexible microgrid that features energy sources availabletoday, including a 230-kW solar photovoltaic system, a 1-MW stationary proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell generator, 325-kW solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC), and an onsite 500-kWh battery energystorage system.
Another strikingly different concept evidenced by the PHEV is that it is essentially a large, portable battery that can store energy gathered during one part of the day, and then use it later to power not only itself but also the vehicle owner’s home. The Hydrogen car and its issues.
Most charge points availabletoday take much longer to re-energize batteries than it does to fill a gas-powered cars tank. The demands on the grid would require a lot of infrastructure work without some sort of "energy reservoir" in place. They have several stations already built and plan on thousands more.
We organize all of the trending information in your field so you don't have to. Join 5,000+ users and stay up to date on the latest articles your peers are reading.
You know about us, now we want to get to know you!
Let's personalize your content
Let's get even more personalized
We recognize your account from another site in our network, please click 'Send Email' below to continue with verifying your account and setting a password.
Let's personalize your content