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The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) is hosting a pitch event, ARPA-E’s Battery/Storage Exposition, on 14 January 2021, from 1:00-3:00 pm EST. This event will feature pitches from a select group of ARPA-E teams developing energystorage technologies.
Researchers at Japan’s National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) and the NIMS-SoftBank Advanced Technologies Development Center have developed a lithium-air battery with an energy density of more than 500 Wh/kg—significantly higher than currently lithium ion batteries.
The California Center for Sustainable Energy (CCSE) will lead a joint research study of how the useful lifespan of electric vehicle batteries could be extended by repurposing them as household electricstorage devices with a $992,000 grant from the University of California. of Monrovia, Calif.; —Mike Ferry.
Volvo Buses is participating in a research project in which used electric bus batteries are used as solar energystorage units. Batteries from electric bus route 55 in Gothenburg, Sweden are being used for solar energystorage in a second-life application.
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and 4R Energy Corporation, a joint venture established by Nissan and Sumitomo Corporation in September 2010 to explore second-life applications for automotive battery packs ( earlier post ), have developed a charging system for electric vehicles that combines a solar power generation system with high-capacity lithium-ion batteries.
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Classification of potential electricalstorage for stationary applications. And besides technical improvements, the systems will need to be built to last, using materials that are safe and durable so that batteries could operate more than 15 years and require very little maintenance over their lifetime. The need for storage.
Israel-based StoreDot, a developer of extreme fast charging (XFC) battery technology for electric vehicles (EVs), announced a new framework agreement with its strategic battery manufacturing partner EVE Energy Co., In 2019, this XFC battery was used to demonstrate a full live charge of a two-wheeled EV in just 5 minutes.
Source: LowCVP, Element Energy. The UK’s LowCVP has published twin reports which set out how the UK could meet its 2020 targets defined in the EU’s Renewable Energy Directive, and proceed on a pathway to decarbonize road transport fuel in the period to 2030 and beyond. Illustrative impact of the fuel roadmap. Click to enlarge.
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Ambri, developer of Liquid Metal Battery grid-scale energystorage technology, closed a $35-million Series C equity financing. When the battery is being charged, some ions migrate through the insulating salt layer to collect at one of the terminals. Earlier post.) The cells are still in operation.
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