Teslarati

JANUARY 12, 2024

Stellantis Ventures became a strategic investor of France-based Tiamat, which is developing and commercializing sodium-ion battery technology. According to the legacy automaker, Tiamat is the first company in the world to recently commercialize sodium-ion technology in an electrified product.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2022

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) will award $38 million to 12 projects that will work to reduce the impacts of light-water reactor used nuclear fuel (UNF) disposal. Earlier post.) Award amount: $2,711,342). Award amount: $1,454,074).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2014

Using the MCS, PowerStream can determine when it is most economical to use the resources powering its microgrid or when they need to revert to using power from the provincial power grid.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

The TWR commercial reactor plant design is a 1,150 MW liquid-sodium-cooled fast reactor that uses depleted uranium as fuel. The novel design allows for the use of depleted uranium generated by the enrichment process used for existing light water reactors fueled with enriched uranium. Source: TerraPower. Click to enlarge.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Other academic partners include University of Birmingham, University of Cambridge, University of Liverpool, University of Oxford, University College London and Diamond Light Source. Next generation sodium ion batteries–NEXGENNA.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Researchers in the Netherlands have demonstrated the direct conversion of synthesis gas through a Fischer-Tropsch process to C 2 through C 4 light olefins with selectivity up to 60 wt.% using catalysts that constitute iron nanoparticles (promoted by sulfur plus sodium) homogeneously dispersed on weakly interactive ?-alumina

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NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The total estimated volume of recoverable heavy oil is almost the same as the remaining light reserves in the world. With the depletion of light oil resources and rising energy demands, the successful recovery of heavy oil is becoming increasingly important. —Yuichiro Nagatsu, corresponding author.

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JANUARY 4, 2010

Horizon will introduce a micro-fuel cell power supply called MiniPak, which extends the off-grid runtimes of small electronic devices including cell phones, lighting products, and many USB powered devices. HydroPak offers 60W output (120W peak) using water-activated sodium borohydride cartridges supplied by Horizon.

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DECEMBER 11, 2020

The PNNL researchers have developed a process to grow high-performance crystals in molten salts—sodium chloride, common table salt—at high temperature. Part of the research was done using the National Synchrotron Light Source II at Brookhaven.

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DECEMBER 29, 2014

Researchers from Nanyang Technical University (NTU) in Singapore have shown high-capacity, high-rate, and durable lithium- and sodium-ion battery (LIB and NIB) performance using single-crystalline long-range-ordered bilayered VO 2 nanoarray electrodes. The VO 2 nanoarrays are supported on graphene foam (GF) and coated with a thin (?2

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

Iveco has presented a prototype of its new Electric Daily in Brazil, destined to be the first zero emission light commercial vehicle produced in Latin America. The prototype, based on a crew cab Daily 55C, is equipped with three sealed Zebra Z5 sodium nickel chloride batteries. The Electric Daily in Brazil. Click to enlarge.

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Electric Vehicles India

AUGUST 22, 2021

CATL unveils new sodium-ion battery for electric vehicles . The Contemporary Amperex Technology Ltd (CATL), the world’s largest electric car battery maker has unveiled a new battery that runs on the affordable and abundantly available sodium instead of lithium. CATL unveils new sodium-ion battery.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2016

The process produces a toxic byproduct referred to as black liquor—a primarily liquid mixture of pulping residues (such as lignin and hemicellulose) and inorganic chemicals from the Kraft process (sodium hydroxide and sodium sulfide, for example). tons of black liquor dry solids.

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JANUARY 18, 2011

The electrolyte is transformed into a sodium sulfate salt, which is then used in textiles, glass, and detergent manufacturing. Johnson Controls is the leading supplier of lead-acid batteries for virtually every type of passenger car, light truck and utility vehicle. More than 98% of the batteries are recycled.

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JANUARY 26, 2017

The chemistries that are included in the report are all lithium ion (Li-ion) chemistries, flow battery chemistries, sodium-metal halide, and advanced lead-acid. The report does not include experimental batteries that have not yet reached mass production. Advanced batteries energy capacity by segment, world markets: 3Q 2016.

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OCTOBER 18, 2021

As the plasma cools, atoms recombine with electrons and in the process emit light in the UV, optical and IR regimes. With the higher voltage, the X-555 effectively analyzes all of the light REEs including lanthanum (La), cerium (Ce), praseodymium (Pr), neodymium (Nd) samarium (Sm); plus heavy REEs europium (Eu), and gadolinium (Gd).

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Baua Electric

MARCH 7, 2024

Stellantis Ventures has made a strategic investment in France-based sodium-ion battery developer Tiamat. Tiamat says its sodium-ion technology is lithium- and cobalt-free and cheaper per kilowatt hour (kWh) when compared with lithium-ion batteries. The wide availability of sodium boosts sustainability and material sovereignty.

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Baua Electric

JULY 22, 2024

Others, such as the Coalition, say renewables can’t “keep the lights on” at all and Australia should pursue nuclear energy instead. But a new way to firm up the world’s electricity grids is fast developing: sodium-ion batteries. Sodium-ion batteries are now almost ready to fill the long-term storage gap.

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Baua Electric

JULY 22, 2024

Others, such as the Coalition, say renewables can’t “keep the lights on” at all and Australia should pursue nuclear energy instead. But a new way to firm up the world’s electricity grids is fast developing: sodium-ion batteries. Sodium-ion batteries are now almost ready to fill the long-term storage gap.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Power is provided by two air-cooled sodium nickel chloride battery packs, integrated under the floor of the vehicle so they don’t compromise luggage space or vehicle stability.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Other processes convert the spent electrolyte into calcium sulphate (gypsum) or sodium sulphate (soda), which can be used for various applications such as building products or detergents. In some processes the spent electrolyte is separated and filtered to make it suitable for regenerating fresh acid for a variety of applications.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 12, 2024

Tiamat was one of 11 top-performing technology startups honoured with a Stellantis Ventures Award in 2023, and is the first company in the world to have recently commercialized a sodium-ion technology in an electrified product. Sodium-ion technology offers a lower cost per kilowatt-hour and is free of lithium and cobalt.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2023

lithium batteries without cobalt or nickel (LFP), or sodium-ion batteries) and fewer km driven by private car. Strong industrial policy is needed to scale up European production of new technologies such as iron-based (LFP) and sodium-based (Na-ion) batteries.

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OCTOBER 31, 2010

Several Green Goats are still being used for light duty service, Pike notes, but the vehicles have not been available since 2007. General Electric (GE) has built a plant to manufacture sodium metal halide batteries ( earlier post ), and is showing a prototype road locomotive using those batteries that it intends to bring to market.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2014

If you put a pair of sodium and chlorine atoms at each lattice point, they form sodium and chlorine sub-lattices and you get salt. When you have more than one atom at each point, each type of atom forms its own sub-lattice. For example, if you put a pair of carbon atoms at each point (forming two FCC sub-lattices), you get diamond.

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JANUARY 9, 2010

GE claimed the largest of the battery-related awards, with a $25.5 To foster investment and job creation in clean energy manufacturing, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act included a tax credit for investments in manufacturing facilities for clean energy technologies (the Section 48C program).

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DECEMBER 18, 2014

Lead battery and car manufacturers have requested that the current exemption for lead-based batteries within the ELV Directive’s wider ban on lead in light-duty vehicles is maintained for at least another eight years. Other battery technologies (nickel-metal hydride, lead-based etc.)

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OCTOBER 15, 2020

million: ALD Technical Solutions is developing light-weight, easy-to-install, long-lasting, and cost-effective structural composite reinforcement system which will be installed and cured-in-place around existing Aluminum Conductor Steel Reinforced transmission lines to increase power capacity and power efficiency, and also decrease sag.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2021

To create a bismuth-rich surface, the scientists placed one sample in a solution of sodium hydroxide, a strong base. After proving that the chemical treatment successfully altered the first layer of atoms, the team compared the light-induced electrochemical behavior of the treated and nontreated samples. —Kyoung-Shin Choi.

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JANUARY 21, 2020

Other categories that received funding included Gravity storage, Flow batteries, CAES, Energy storage downstream, Fuel cells, Liquid metal batteries, Thermal energy storage, Solid-state batteries, Sodium-based batteries, and Zinc-air batteries. A total of 33 VC investors participated in Energy Efficiency funding in 9M 2019.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 12, 2024

Stellantis Ventures, the corporate venture fund of Stellantis, today announced its participation as a strategic investor in Tiamat, a France-based company that is developing and commercializing sodium-ion battery technology. Sodium-ion technology offers a lower cost per kilowatt-hour and is free of lithium and cobalt.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 13, 2022

We start with a Bose-Einstein condensate, 1 million sodium atoms that share one and the same quantum-mechanical wave function”, says Martin Zwierlein , a professor of physics at MIT. Light travels in both one way and the other in the fiber, and if the entire thing is spinning, you should get an interference pattern.

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The Truth About Cars

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Light-emitting diodes (LED) and high-intensity discharge (HID) headlamps are significantly brighter than the units used in previous eras. Often tolerable in urban settings featuring substantial ambient lighting, modern headlamps are frequently blinding to oncoming traffic in an otherwise dark rural environment. Everything is LED.

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MARCH 19, 2011

metal and complex hydrides, high-surface area adsorbents, and chemical hydrogen storage materials) have been proposed and investigated as hydrogen storage media in recent years, none are currently able to satisfy all the performance targets required for light-duty vehicles powered by hydrogen fuel cells. While numerous candidates (i.e.,

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APRIL 3, 2016

The new solar cell can be excited by incident light on sunny days and raindrops on rainy days, yielding an optimal solar-to-electric conversion efficiency of 6.53% under AM 1.5 The positively charged ions, including sodium, calcium, and ammonium ions, can bind to the graphene surface.

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OCTOBER 26, 2009

Eagle Picher, in partnership with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, will develop a new generation of high energy, low cost planar liquid sodium beta batteries for grid scale electrical power storage applications. Ammonothermal Bulk GaN Crystal Growth for Energy Efficient Lighting. DOE grant: $7,200,000).

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JANUARY 9, 2012

Key sound attenuation features, such as a structural front engine cover, structural cam cover, and light weight composite acoustic intake manifold cover. is tuned to deliver more of its torque at lower rpm, giving the ATS a stronger feel at launch and during on-demand maneuvers, such as passing or accelerating on a freeway entrance ramp.

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