Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2018

The energy control stations at BMW Group Plants Dingolfing and Landshut are stepping up their activities in the balancing-power market in Germany. Together with other highly-flexible controllable systems in the BMW Group production network, they will contribute to the stability of the public grid outside of the plant.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2012

and Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) on a new pilot project that will allow communication between electric vehicles (EVs) and the power grid. This project will demonstrate and test an electric vehicle’s ability to receive and respond to charge instructions based on the grid condition and the vehicle’s battery state.

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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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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2010

With nations around the world seeking to derive a greater percentage of their energy needs from renewable energy sources, we believe we have only begun to scratch the surface of the renewable energy grid interconnection market’s potential. AMSC founder and Chief Executive Officer Greg Yurek.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

The research project has the goal of integrating electrical vehicles as mobile energy storage units in the future intelligent power grid (smart grid). A charging station connects the Meriva as a storage unit to this local energy grid. —Rita Forst, Opel’s Vice President of Engineering.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2015

Several groups have made pioneering contributions toward this goal. Our group has also demonstrated photo-assisted charging of a Li–O 2 battery. Both the CE and PE are in contact with the flowing catholyte, which is stored in a reservoir connected to the catholyte chamber and pumped through the device using a peristaltic pump.

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Solar Li-ion Batteries Battery 150