Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2019

Researchers at WMG, University of Warwick, have repurposed end-of-life electric vehicle batteries as small energy storage systems (ESS) for off-grid locations in developing countries or isolated communities. These challenges include: How to protect the lithium-ion cells from over-charge and discharge.

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DECEMBER 1, 2019

We believe that an electrified transportation system coupled with increased urbanization will rapidly increase the demands on utilities to strengthen their grids in a quick and flexible manner. As technology provider, Northvolt will deliver a lithium-ion battery system based around its modular battery system, Voltrack.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2020

Faradion’s sodium-ion technology provides similar performance to conventional chemistries, while replacing expensive materials such as cobalt and lithium with far more abundant sodium. Unlike lithium-ion batteries, Faradion’s sodium-ion batteries have exceptional thermal stability and safety.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The haul truck is not the only electrification effort in the mine—energy storage such as SuperBattery can also be used in stabilizing the grid of mines or to electrify wheel loaders and other machinery. Skeleton’s patented Curved Graphene material allows for 100 x faster charging compared to standard Lithium-ion batteries.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2020

Vulcan will pump hot lithium-rich brine from production wells up to the surface, then use the co-generated geothermal energy to drive lithium extraction using its proprietary technique, with excess renewable energy as a saleable by-product that can be fed back into the grid. Batteries are a key technology of our time.

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MARCH 16, 2022

Called the Off Grid Battery Energy Storage System (ESS), Pramac’s technology—which features lithium-ion cells from Jaguar I-PACE batteries taken from prototype and engineering test vehicles—supplies zero-emission power where access to the grid supply is limited or unavailable.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2022

Charge CCCV (C4V), a lithium ion battery technology company ( earlier post ), has introduced LiSER (Lithium Slim Energy Reserve), a novel cell technology platform. C4V’s LiSER technology encompasses an in-house patented battery cell design that allows OEMs to bypass modules and build the pack directly.

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MAY 5, 2022

Critically, Natron’s sodium-ion batteries do not contain lithium, cobalt, nickel, copper, or other minerals that have driven recent pricing volatility of the lithium-ion supply chain. Future applications may also include electric vehicles and grid energy storage.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JANUARY 14, 2024

Having crossed some technical hurdles, low cost sodium batteries are hurtling towards the market for grid energy storage, EVs, and more. The post Sodium Batteries Challenge Lithium-Ion On Cost, Supply Chain appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2018

Having that flexibility in charging strategies might even/further down the line help consumers benefit from financial incentives from power companies seeking to balance grid supplies using vehicles connected to the grid.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2022

South 8 will leverage the funding to accelerate the commercialization of its patented Liquefied Gas Electrolyte (LiGas) technology for high-performance batteries for electric vehicle, grid storage, aerospace, and defense applications. ?

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MARCH 18, 2021

The partnership enables sodium-ion battery technology to be incorporated in a range of renewable energy applications including residential energy storage, commercial micro-grids, wind turbine and tidal energy storage.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Global Power Synergy PLC (GPSC) is building a battery manufacturing facility in Thailand using 24M’s novel SemiSolid lithium-ion technology ( earlier post ). In May 2019, 24M delivered 40 grid-scale, 110 Amp-Hour (Ah) li-ion cells to GPSC. GPSC is the main power and utility company of PTT Group. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2022

Lithium consumption for batteries has increased significantly in recent years because rechargeable lithium batteries are used extensively in the growing market for electric vehicles and portable electronic devices, and increasingly are used in electric tools, and grid storage applications. Source: Statista.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 28, 2019

Highview Power’s proprietary liquid air energy storage system, called CRYOBattery, relies on low-risk, proven technology, generates zero emissions, has zero water impact and can be delivered at a cost of approximately half of the current cost of traditional lithium-ion batteries.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2021

SiFAB is a proprietary silicon anode battery technology developed by Unifrax which enables significantly greater energy density in lithium-ion battery systems than prevailing technologies. The proprietary nanoporous fiber structure has optimal shape and porosity to accommodate the swelling of silicon, allowing for long cycle life.

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OCTOBER 20, 2022

billion to 21 projects to expand domestic manufacturing of batteries for electric vehicles (EVs) and the electrical grid and for materials and components currently imported from other countries. In September 2022, Cirba Solutions announced plans to construct a 75,000-square-foot facility in Eloy, Arizona to recycle lithium-ion batteries.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

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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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

By combining the benefits of supercapacitors and traditional lithium-ion batteries, the new lithium-carbon technology enables a full charge to be delivered in a similar time to refuelling an internal combustion-powered vehicle. Lithium-carbon battery.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

China dominates BloombergNEF’s (BNEF) lithium-ion battery supply chain ranking in 2020, having quickly surpassed Japan and Korea that were leaders for the majority of the previous decade. France performed best in the environmental category, helped by its electricity grids low carbon emissions factor, at 28gCO2/kWh in 2019.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2021

The Mobile Power Station (MPS) is the first zero-emission modular platform that functions as both a multi-purpose off-road work vehicle and offers a grid-scale auxiliary power supply. can provide up to a half Megawatt of energy storage in its high-capacity BMW lithium-ion battery packs. The DANNAR 4.00

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OCTOBER 12, 2016

Last October, 24M and NEC ES announced the signing of an MoU whereby 24M agreed to supply its semi-solid lithium-ion cells for use in NEC ES’ integrated storage systems. With 24M semisolid lithium-ion battery cells, NEC ES will be able to include better batteries for a better price in our next generation energy storage systems.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2019

Supported by a new five-year, $500,000- grant from the National Science Foundation, a researcher from the University of Kansas is developing machine learning technology to monitor and prevent overheating in lithium-ion batteries. Nowadays these lithium-ion batteries are everyplace in our society. —Huazhen Fang.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2019

BNEF projects that it will be made possible by further sharp declines in the cost of lithium-ion batteries, on top of an 85% reduction in the 2010-18 period. This is a new era of dispatchable renewables, based on new contract structures between developer and grid. —Logan Goldie-Scot, head of energy storage at BNEF.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2023

Hard rock sources of lithium currently make up 60% of global mined lithium supply and are forecast to continue to do so through to 2030, according to Benchmark’s Lithium Forecast. Both the Australian and the Chinese electricity grids are highly dependent on fossil fuels with a large amount of coal power.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Our products will also have useful applications in existing power grids, such as in managing consumption peaks. EVLO’s lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries are safer than conventional lithium-ion batteries, since their molecular structure provides intrinsic protection against thermal runaway.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2014

In line with its systematic focus on specialty chemicals, Evonik said it had been seeking “new perspectives” for its lithium-ion business. With approximately 380 employees, it develops, produces and distributes large lithium-ion battery cells. Li-Tec Battery GmbH is based in Kamenz near Dresden.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 31, 2022

A robust performance is maintained even after 1000 cycles and 80% capacity, the point at which rival lithium-ion fast charging technologies start to rapidly deteriorate in performance.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2021

The cost of the rechargeable lithium-ion batteries used for phones, laptops, and cars has fallen significantly over the last three decades, and has been a major driver of the rapid growth of those technologies. Lithium-ion cell prices. Ziegler and Trancik.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2021

The US should develop a federal policy framework that supports manufacturing electrodes, cells, and packs domestically and encourages demand growth for lithium-ion batteries. Enable US end-of-life reuse and critical materials recycling at scale and a full competitive value chain in the United States.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

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. SPARKZ Inc.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2013

Amprius’ plan, outlined at the DOE Merit Review in 2012, is to start with consumer electronics and move to vehicle and grid storage markets. a developer of lithium-ion batteries using silicon nanowire anodes ( earlier post ), has launched the first generation of its high-capacity and high-energy-density Li-ion batteries.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 25, 2020

FREYR AS and 24M Technologies signed a definitive License and Services Agreement to use 24M’s SemiSolid lithium-ion battery platform technology ( earlier post ) in FREYR’s planned facilities in Mo i Rana, Norway. —Tom Jensen, the CEO of FREYR. 24M’s SemiSolid battery cell simplifies and enables stronger recycling opportunities.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2014

in September 2010, to address the secondary use of EV lithium-ion batteries. Batteries Electric (Battery) Power Generation Smart charging Smart Grid' Sumitomo Corporation created the joint venture company, 4R Energy Corporation , in collaboration with Nissan Motor Co., Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

It consists of lithium-ion batteries to meet short-term demand; high-temperature batteries to supply power for several hours; and lead-acid batteries when the average discharge time is one hour or less. Beta-motion GmbH’s high-output lithium-ion batteries will be used for efficient load management.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2020

Mercom Capital Group, llc, a global clean energy research and communications firm, released its report on funding and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity for the Battery Storage, Smart Grid, and Energy Efficiency sectors for 2019. Lithium-ion based battery technology companies received the most funding in 2019 with $1.4

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JUNE 30, 2023

Following the development of its Prussian White cathode, Altris also measured its highest energy density to date in a commercial-sized sodium-ion battery cell, amounting to 150 Wh/kg. This makes the battery cell commercially viable for applications such as grid energy storage connected to renewable energy production.

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