Green Car Reports

JULY 26, 2021

And are iron-air batteries good for a smart-energy grid? The 2022 Mercedes-Benz EQS establishes the serene side of a growing cohort of large electric luxury cars. A dynamic wireless charging project could put the tech on the Interstate in Indiana. This and more, here at Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 8, 2019

(BJEV), a subsidiary of the BAIC Group, have entered into a development partnership to establish second-life energy storage systems in China in the future. Together, Mercedes-Benz Energy and Beijing Electric Vehicle plan to set up the first 2nd-life energy storage unit in Beijing, making use of retired BJEV electric car batteries.

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CleanTechnica EVs

DECEMBER 24, 2022

Lithium-ion batteries are essential for decarbonizing transportation through electric vehicles and building a resilient, renewable energy grid through energy storage batteries.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2009

General Motors further expanded its battery research and development capabilities by opening what it called the largest and most technologically advanced battery lab in the US on its Technical Center campus in Warren, MI. The Global Battery Systems Lab spans 33,000 sq. 64 test channels (available for individual battery tests).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2016

BMW i announced a home stationary energy storage system solution integrating its BMW i3 vehicle battery at EVS 29 in Montréal. The system utilizes BMW i3 high-voltage batteries and can be expanded to incorporate second-life batteries as they become available in the market.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2010

Demand is being driven by several key trends including the proliferation of renewable energy from variable sources such as wind and solar, the expansion of utility smart grid initiatives, and the introduction of plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles, Pike says. Energy storage on the grid addresses several pressing market needs.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2011

These vehicles will be studied to help evolve all-electric vehicle technology and to establish a foundation of understanding on utility grid needs by modeling impact of future all-electric vehicle growth on the shared energy grid.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2022

Northvolt intends to establish a battery gigafactory in Heide, Schleswig-Holstein, northern Germany. With an annual potential production capacity of 60 GWh, Northvolt Drei will deliver a supply of sustainably produced lithium-ion batteries to the European market, sufficient for some one million electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

The battery-electric Opel Meriva research vehicle. Opel is developing three battery-electric versions of its Meriva small MPV as research vehicles to participate in the MeRegioMobil research project funded by the German Ministry of Economics and Technology. Users then receive the one bill from their energy provider.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2021

The European Clean Hydrogen Alliance is one of the many measures being taken by the European Union to bolster its position as a world leader in the production and deployment of hydrogen in industry and the energy grid. It is also one of a host of actions intended to support the EU’s goal to reach carbon neutrality by 2050.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

The research found: GHG of a currently available BEV model and PHEV model are roughly the same in on-road performance when factoring in pollutants created by electricity production for the average US energy grid used to charge batteries. Manufacturing is a component of GHG emissions.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

rechargeable battery?technology?that that boosts the energy capacity via nanotechnology-enabled self-assembly of functional nanocomponents, reducing?the the cost of energy storage?by inRG Solutions, LLC aims to design, build, and test a novel system continuously evaluating the physical condition of the electric grid.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2015

After debuting the first solar air battery—a photo-assisted charging Li-O 2 battery—last fall ( earlier post ), researchers at The Ohio State University led by Professor Yiying Wu have now developed a new system combining a solar cell and a battery into a single device.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2012

These vehicles can reach a maximum speed of 90 km/h (56 mph) and have a system of recovering energy during braking. This will provide sufficient energy to run the equivalent of some 30 electric trucks for a year. Green electricity will also be made part of the equation.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2013

EnerG2, a manufacturer of advanced carbons for next-generation energy storage ( earlier post ), has begun production of nano-structured hard carbon for Li-ion battery anodes that it says can boost anode capacity by more than 50% over standard graphite. Click to enlarge. We have broken through a critical performance barrier.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2020

DERConnect will address an outstanding national need for large-scale testing capabilities across universities, national labs, industry, utility companies and Independent System Operators to validate future technologies for autonomous energy grids in real-word scenarios. Industry partners include Johnson Controls and Sunspec Alliance.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2022

The pilot program will allow Duke Energy to draw energy up to three times per month during higher peak winter and summer months, and one time per month during the remaining months of the year, for testing and research purposes and to support the energy grid during peak usage hours.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 18, 2024

This collaborative effort aims to research sustainable energy solutions and provide local energy grid resilience PLANO, Texas and WASHINGTON, D.C. Toyota Motor North America (Toyota) and local energy utility Pepco are working together on vehicle-to-grid (V2G) research for battery electric vehicles (BEVs) using a Toyota bZ4X.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2013

The US Department of Energy (DOE) and its National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) announced the Energy Systems Integration Facility (ESIF) in Golden, Colorado, as the latest Energy Department user facility and the only one in the nation focused on utility-scale clean energy grid integration.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 17, 2011

The device, roughly the size of a phonebook, was installed in several electric vehicles, including a Renault Twingo to collect information on the vehicle’s battery charge level, location and the power source. With this project we can show how electric vehicles can create a balance between supply and demand for smarter energy grids.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

A globally integrated standard is to ensure that customers always have direct and easy access to the energy grid, independent of vehicle brand and supplier of electric energy. Tags: Electric (Battery) Infrastructure Vehicle Systems. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Tesla CEO Elon Musk made a bet that he'd build the world's largest lithium-ion battery in Australia in 100 days. If his company failed, Musk would personally pay for the project, but the battery is now ready for its first test ahead of full operation—and on schedule.

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Green Energy Consumers

DECEMBER 16, 2024

A few weeks ago, we celebrated the passage of the 2024 climate bill in Massachusetts, An Act promoting a clean energy grid, advancing equity and protecting ratepayers , and wrote about its provisions related to reforming natural gas utilities, procuring battery storage, and siting and permitting.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2023

We will expand our lineup of battery electric vehicles, or BEVs, which represent one important option, over the next several years. Collectively serving as an energy grid, BEVs can enhance the energy security of society. At the same time, we are boldly preparing for the future.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Xcel Energy has launched a new pilot for customers of five major automakers to make it easier for consumers to make the switch to electric vehicles in Colorado and to charge their EVs at times when renewable energy production is high and demand on the energy grid is low.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 25, 2024

He was hired as a Staff Electrical Engineer in June 2014, though it only took six months before he was promoted to Tesla Energy Grid Solutions Manager in November 2014. In February 2016, Snyder was promoted to Tesla Energy Grid Solutions Senior Manager, a post he would hold for 2 years.

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Baua Electric

AUGUST 8, 2023

Known as “vehicle to grid,” two-way charging works through sending energy to the grid from an EV’s battery future the auto is parked and plugged in. The PG&E grid has confronted a barrage of demanding situations from latter climate. Mark Chediak contributed to this file.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2010

ARPA-E’s second solicitation announced in December, 2009—which has yielded nearly 500 concept papers—focused specifically on three areas of technology representing new approaches for biofuels, carbon capture, and batteries for electric vehicles. Earlier post.). Agile Delivery of Electrical Power Technology (ADEPT).

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CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Do more EVs mean more pain, or more HELP for the aging US energy grid?

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2018

With this business model, we can help stabilize the grid and expand the use of sustainably-generated electricity. Through intelligent connectivity and management of electricity producers, consumers and storage options, we are helping shape the energy grid of the future. Joachim Kolling, head of BMW Energy Services.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

BMW supplemented the smart charging of these vehicles with a solar-powered battery system made from BMW Group second-life EV batteries to support the grid during these demand response events, as necessary. If a customer does not opt-out, the vehicle charging can be shifted to meet the needs of the energy grid.

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Teslarati

APRIL 10, 2023

While many have called this move a roadblock to California’s carbon neutrality goals and have rightly pointed out that this policy change comes at a vulnerable time for the California energy grid, new incentives are being put in place to balance out this change.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 28, 2022

A Tesla-powered Slovenian energy company has just launched its third–and largest–Megapack project to date, helping support 70 percent of the country’s energy grid. Slovenia’s NGEN first started utilizing Tesla Megapacks for energy storage and grid stabilization in 2019. MWh capacity.

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Teslarati

APRIL 13, 2022

The amount of stress put on the energy grid during the off-peak times is significantly lower than other hours of the day. The off-peak rates simply encourage owners to charge at less “crowded” times of the day as it puts less stress on the grid, which uses more energy during daytime hours.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 18, 2018

The ISO 15118 standard also describes further types of applications such as the future integration of electric vehicles in the energy grid (smart charging), thus laying the foundations for a secure, sustainable charging infrastructure.

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Electric Cars Report

JUNE 19, 2024

Toyota and local energy utility Pepco are working together on vehicle-to-grid (V2G) research for battery electric vehicles using a Toyota bZ4X. V2G technology has the potential […] The post Toyota and Pepco Team Up to Research Vehicle-to-Grid Technology in Maryland appeared first on Electric Cars Report.

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Baua Electric

MAY 1, 2024

Research in ACS Energy Letters shows the potential to improve batteries in aerial EVs that take off and land vertically. The research team developed a new electrolyte to address these challenges and said the “stressed out” batteries could also have second lives in lighter applications.

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