Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2012

An all-electric, battery-powered prototype demonstration bus under joint development by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. The 40-foot “E-Bus” is based on New Flyer’s 40-foot Xcelsior heavy-duty transit bus and is powered by a 120 kWh lithium-ion rechargeable battery pack developed by MHI. Earlier post.) Daisuke Mukai et al.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Sharp Corporation has developed an Intelligent Power Conditioner that enables batteries in electric vehicles to be used as storage batteries for the home. Sharp Intelligent Power Converter. The technology can make use of EV traction batteries as part of a residential power storage system. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Honda selected Toshiba Corporation’s SCiB rechargeable Li-ion battery to power the Fit EV. The SCiB cells use lithium titanate oxide in the battery anode, enabling rapid charge times and a long battery life, with stable power discharge in a wide range of environments. 20Ah SCiB cell. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 31, 2019

Greenlots, a US-based provider of electric vehicle (EV) charging and energy management software and solutions, signed an agreement to become a wholly owned subsidiary of Shell New Energies US LLC, a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell plc. Shell established its New Energies division in 2016.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2021

will be built on a comprehensive hardware upgrade, with 508 TOPS ECU computing power supported by two Orin-X autonomous driving SoC (System-on-the-Chip) units, 8-million-pixel front-view binocular camera and 2.9-million-pixel The evolving smart mobility ecosystem depends on highly efficient and full-coverage power infrastructure.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2013

BMW Group and Vattenfall have started a new research project on the secondary use of high-voltage EV batteries using batteries from the MINI E and the BMW ActiveE as stationary power storage.

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BMW Mini E Battery Batteries 239

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2018

A battery, based on electrodes made of sodium and nickel chloride and using thea new type of metal mesh membrane, could be used for grid-scale installations to make intermittent power sources such as wind and solar capable of delivering reliable baseload electricity. —David Sadoway.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2010

Ford, Detroit Edison and Xtreme Power are teaming up to establish one of Michigan’s largest solar power generation systems and electric vehicle charging stations at Ford’s Michigan Assembly Plant in Wayne, Mich. Renewable or green power supplies 3% of Ford’s energy needs worldwide. Electric vehicle battery charging.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

An Israeli startup thinks they may have found the solution to rural electric vehicle charging and power storage. One of the most significant challenges facing electric vehicle charging in rural areas worldwide is inconsistent power generation; if power isn’t generated, you can’t charge your car.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

GM and ABB partnered to produce a prototype back-up power storage unit that repackages five used Volt batteries into a modular unit that becomes an uninterruptible power supply and grid power balancing system. a community energy storage system—built from five used Chevrolet Volt batteries. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2022

Traveling from Sindelfingen across the Swiss Alps and Northern Italy, to its destination of Cassis on the Côte d’Azur, the VISION EQXX electric concept ( earlier post ) from Mercedes-Benz covered more than 1,000 km (621 miles) in everyday traffic on a single battery charge. The decisive factor is the power-to-weight ratio.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 17, 2013

A composite blend of carbon fibers and polymer resin is being developed that can store and charge more energy faster than conventional batteries can. This material can then be used around the vehicle, replacing existing components, to store and charge energy. Click to enlarge. Close up of the trunk lid carbon fiber composite.

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Energy Storage Volvo Carbon Fiber Energy 368

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation has developed a technology for efficiently managing photovoltaic (PV) and other power-generation systems and also the charging/discharging of electric vehicles (EVs) parked on company campuses. Energy-management system for power generation and power storage.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2010

Lithium-ion batteries using the newly developed cathode material are expected to be used for electrical power storage in wind power generation and other new energy fields, and as industrial power sources for electric-powered construction machinery designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Toshiba Corporation will support a two-year study of power management to be done by Tohoku Electric Power Co., Bringing renewable power sources into the electricity grid is accompanied by concerns for the quality and variability of the supply; renewables are subject to fluctuations in output.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2010

The use of new oxide-based materials in the current SCiB cells results in capacity loss after 3000 charge-discharge cycles of less than 10%; SCiB cells achieve more than 6000 charge-discharge cycles. More than 90% of the SCiB cell capacity can be charged in just 5 minutes using a large charging current (max.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2012

Milczarek and Inganäs describe how a class of organic compounds known as quinones allows the lignin derivatives to shed a proton and store this electric charge in its place. The polypyrrole is able to hold on to the loose proton until the charge is released and the proton returns to the quinone group of the lignin derivative.

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Polymer Battery Batteries Renewable 268

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

announced that Continental Automotive Systems’ Maxwell-powered voltage stabilization system (VSS) will be a standard feature on 2016. Maxwell’s ultracapacitors, in Continental’s VSS design, also serve as an additional power source for stabilizing the vehicle’s electrical system during periods of high power demand.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2015

Toshiba Corporation will supply a large-scale battery energy storage system (BESS) to Tohoku Electric Power Company’s “Minami-Soma Substation Project to Verify the Improvement of Supply-demand Balance With Large-capacity Power Storage Systems″. end of February 2016.

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Electric Cars Report

JULY 15, 2022

Volkswagen commissioned the first fast-charging park in Saxony, which is supplied with energy largely from a so-called power storage container (PSC). The PSC is a type of enormous electricity storage unit and consists of 96 cell modules with a net capacity of 570 kWh.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2010

Keio University spin-out ELIIY Power Co., ELIIY plans to market stationary power systems for commercial and residential applications. Built at a cost of roughly 5 billion yen, the plant can make lithium ion battery cells with a charge capacity of 150 watt-hours at a rate of 200,000 cells a year. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2016

Partners Volkswagen AG, Lichtblick SE, SMA Solar Technology AG and the Fraunhofer Institute Wind Energy and Energy System Technology (IWES) have submitted the final report from the INEES research project (Intelligent integration of electric vehicles into the power grid for the provision of system services). Volkswagen AG equipped 20 e-up!

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Teslarati

MAY 14, 2021

A few years ago, Tesla teamed up with the Government of South Australia and various energy authorities to build South Australia’s Virtual Power Plant. Today, the Tesla-powered VPP seems to be providing substantial energy security to Australian homes. “Even if all lights go out in the neighborhood, you will still have power.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2016

The remarkable advantage for BMW customers in using BMW i3 batteries as a plug and play storage application is the ability to tap into an alternative resource for residential and commercial backup power, thus using renewable energy much more efficiently, and enabling additional revenues from the energy market.

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Energy Storage BMW Energy Battery 210

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2018

a US-based manufacturer of mobile electric vehicle (EV) rapid charging systems, and plans to roll out FreeWire’s Mobi Charger units for use at selected BP retail sites in the UK and Europe during 2018. Freewire products currently offer Level 2 charging at 7.5 kW or DC fast charging at 50 kW.

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Electrek

JANUARY 11, 2023

Power storage and solar experts Growatt have just debuted the VITA 550 Portable Power Station after the success of its INFINITY 1500 and optional solar panel arrays. Read on to learn more about this small device that offers big possibilities for charging a wide array of appliances.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Anticipating strong future demand, Toshiba Corporation will construct a second dedicated production facility for its safe, long-life, rapid charge SCiB battery ( earlier post ), in the Kashiwazaki Frontier Park, in Kashiwazaki city, Niigata prefecture. Construction is scheduled to start in April 2010, with a completion date of October 2010.

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Electrek

JULY 10, 2023

Patio furniture company SunVilla and tech company Suntek have paired up to launch a solar + battery powered storage shed that can charge electric outdoor lawn equipment. more… The post This solar + battery storage shed can charge up your electric tools appeared first on Electrek.

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InsideEVs

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Thanks to bi-directional charging, the 30-seat vehicle can serve as a power storage resource when it’s not transporting students.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

A study of a hybrid tugboat, funded by the California Air Resources Board (ARB) and conducted by UC Riverside, found that when compared with a conventional diesel-powered version, a hybrid tugboat can reduce emissions of PM 2.5 kWh of energy when fully charged. modes shore power, dock, transit, ship assist and barge move.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 2, 2023

Lithium is a stellar element for an electrochemical cell in many ways—it combines a high power storage capacity and cell voltage with fast ion migration. However, lithium-based systems have an increased risk of fire, as dendrites can form with repeated charging, which in the worst case lead to an internal short circuit.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2012

Rated at 2.7V (2.85V surge), the new iCAP represents the lowest weight, lowest equivalent series resistance (ESR) and highest power density currently available in the market for energy storage cells, the company says. Ioxus, Inc. introduced its new iCAP 3,000 Farad (F) ultracapacitor, the first size in a new family of cell products.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2022

The disc-shaped major assembly with integrated power electronics and a thickness of eight centimeters has been integrated between the combustion engine and the automatic transmission. The combustion engine’s speed is not reduced, the peak power is only throttled imperceptibly and replaced by the electric motor.

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Hybrid Mercedes Energy Storage Store 259

Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2010

The power generated from the solar panels installed on the roof is stored to be used to recharge the electric hybrid bicycle batteries and illuminate the parking lot lights. Sanyo is using its new Standard Battery System for Power Storage announced in November 2009 in the system. Each Solar Parking Lot holds 40 eneloop bikes.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2019

The funding will help them deliver phase one of a four-stage project that includes the creation of prototypes of their hydrogen energy storage solution for residential and commercial use; demonstration units; and testing and optimization that will enable full commercialization of the product. —Professor Aguey-Zinsou.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2012

The desalination battery operates in a similar way to capacitive desalination techniques, but instead of storing charge in the electrical double layer (built at the surface of the electrode) it is held in the chemical bonds (bulk of the electrode material). In their paper, the team reports demonstrating an energy consumption of 0.29

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2015

This Vehicle to Grid (V2G) system consists of the Endesa two-way charger and an energy management system that can also integrate such off-grid, and renewable, power generation as solar panels and wind turbines. Endesa will host a full demonstration of the market-ready and low cost system in Madrid on 12 March.

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