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DOE awarding $73.9M to 10 battery recycling projects

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The new funding will support research and development projects to address: Advanced Materials Separation, Scale-Up, and Reintegration for Lithium-Ion Battery Recycling for the Battery Supply Chain; and. An Environmentally Sustainable Solution to Completely Recycle and Upcycle Lithium-Ion Battery Components. 10,000,000.

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Audi opens 1.9 MWh battery storage unit on EUREF Campus in Berlin

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MWh and uses used lithium-ion batteries from development vehicles to test various interaction scenarios between electric cars and the power grid. This would allow charging with solar or wind power, depending on what is available. The Audi storage unit has a capacity of 1.9 With its capacity of 1.9

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Scaling & Aggregation Supercharge Electric Vehicle Charging With NREL Analyst Luke Lavin

CleanTechnica EVs

NREL Analyst Luke Lavin Discusses Pitfalls and Opportunities of Managed Charging Approaches This installment of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s (NREL’s) Tell Me Something Grid series features Luke Lavin, a member of NREL’s Grid Planning and Analysis Center. Distributed energy […]

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China’s first large-scale sodium-ion battery charges to 90% in 12 minutes

Baua Electric

Photo: China Southern Power Grid Energy Storage China’s first major sodium-ion battery energy storage station is now online, according to state-owned utility China Southern Power Grid Energy Storage. That’s enough to power 35,000 households and reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 50,000 tonnes annually.

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

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They wanted to see whether an electric vehicle could feed electricity back to the grid. The company’s president, Tom Gage , dubbed the system “vehicle to grid” or V2G. And EV owners would become entrepreneurs, selling electricity back to the grid. And indeed, that’s how promoters of vehicle-to-grid technology perceive the EV.

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Electric Vehicle Charging Principle

Setec Powerr

Next, let’s learn about the working principle and charging principle of electric vehicles. Other charging methods are not widely used yet. Slow charging (conventional charging, car charging) is suitable for car chargers and home wall-mounted charging piles. They can charge while cruising on the road.

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Electrochemical energy storage startup SPARKZ licenses ORNL cobalt-free battery tech

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has exclusively licensed five battery technologies from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) designed to eliminate the use of cobalt metal in lithium-ion batteries. The advancement is aimed at accelerating the production of electric vehicles and energy storage solutions for the power grid.