Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 10, 2018
Batteries from electric bus route 55 in Gothenburg, Sweden are being used for solar energy storage in a second-life application. The reuse and recycling of batteries is a key issue as increasing numbers of cities plan transition to electrically powered transport.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 11, 2014
To store 50 hours of energy from a 1-megawatt power capacity wind turbine (50 megawatt-hours), for example, a possible solution would be to buy traditional batteries with 50 megawatt-hours of energy storage, but they would come with 50 megawatts of power capacity. You could theoretically put this on any node on the grid.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 2, 2015
Analysis by Lux Research suggests that the market space represented by the emerging lower-cost, 200-mile-range EV will be the biggest coming growth opportunity in electric storage for transportation. of the new cars that consumers buy around the world. —Lux Research.
Cars That Think
JUNE 12, 2023
“So that may create this need for storage…And then there will be a competition between thermal and electric [storage].” Heating Up the Grid On some level, getting value from energy storage systems is an optimization problem. When does it make sense to buy electricity directly from the grid?
Driivz
AUGUST 18, 2021
That means millions of electricity storage units – the batteries – are available to the electric grid to serve peak demand, with the vehicles recharging during non-peak hours. The thinking goes like this: Most vehicles are stationary 95 percent of the time. The State of V2G Today.
Driivz
MAY 10, 2022
Getting owner buy-in to the idea is another obstacle; people buy EVs to use for transportation, not to serve as grid assets. Technology and data: deploy peak-shaving technologies and high-tech electricity storage, including EV batteries, large battery arrays, and thermal storage systems.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 28, 2009
Can these things add up to make a car that people want to buy? It seems like it still may be cheaper to just buy a well used Lotus Elise and modify it yourself. I think electric cars are the furture and this unit has some real world experience. I also think it will be cheap, which is why I think someone will buy the group.
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