Smart Energy International

JUNE 6, 2022

MOBI (Mobility Open Blockchain Initiative) has released the first Battery State of Health standard as a component of its Battery Initiative. With the standard , MOBI aims to accelerate the use of battery health as a key parameter in various business applications and regulatory frameworks.

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Charged

JANUARY 19, 2024

It’s widely believed that frequent DC fast charging stresses a battery, shortening its useful lifetime. Battery data specialist Recurrent recently released the results of a study on the subject.) Qnovo provides automotive OEMs with software designed to mitigate damage to a battery pack from frequent fast charging.

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MAY 22, 2023

UK-based Metis Engineering has launched Cell Guard, a battery safety sensor, to detect lithium-ion battery cell venting and monitor battery health in EVs and energy storage systems. Cell Guard provides consumers with valuable and detailed information on used EV battery condition.” Source: Metis Engineering

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Solar Power World

APRIL 15, 2024

The operations and maintenance (O&M) of a utility-scale solar project is largely obvious — keep solar panels clean, monitor inverter health, maintain the grounds and check tracker mechanisms for wear. But… The post Q&A with Power Factors on large-scale battery O&M considerations appeared first on Solar Power World.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 4, 2023

In response, the London Fire Brigade has started the #ChargeSafe campaign, to alert people to the potential dangers of the bikes’ lithium-ion batteries, if they are of a poor quality and safety measures are not taken. These dangers are also present in electric car batteries.

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Charged

OCTOBER 17, 2023

German battery-analytics software developer ACCURE has completed a $7.8-million ACCURE plans to use the funding to accelerate its growth and the development of predictive analytics software designed to enhance battery safety, performance and longevity for energy storage. Source: ACCURE

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Charged

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Safety is more than just the chassis of the vehicle; it also lies within the electronic materials of the interior components, such as the sensor technology within the battery management. These sensors track, measure and monitor battery health, humidity, control temperature and energy management.

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altenergymag

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Dragonfly IntelLigence™ technology will provide Battle Born Batteries with reliable communication capabilities via unique mesh network connectivity, enabling accurate remote monitoring for entire lithium battery banks via the Dragonfly Energy Mobile App.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Bloomy Controls has launched a new battery-simulating test system that “brings the rigor and discipline of the hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) design validation lab onto the individual desktops of multi-person, multi-site development teams.” Source: Bloomy Controls

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Charged

DECEMBER 28, 2023

An e-bike often has only a rudimentary battery management system (if it has any at all),” Hanley writes. “A A proper BMS keeps track of the state of health of the battery cells in a battery pack. Each charger is designed to supply the correct voltage and current for the battery pack it came with.

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Charged

OCTOBER 11, 2023

In recycling, one of the biggest cost items is transporting the materials, and this is obviously the case for EV batteries, which are heavy and pose health and safety risks. According to the companies, transportation represents 41% of the total cost of battery recycling, and contributes 3.5%

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Li-ion is the principal battery chemistry used in EVs, for example. Photoionisation detection (PID) sensors are able to detect potential problems before they occur in the manufacture and use of lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries, and the enormous variety of devices that use rechargeable batteries. Famously, in 2016, around 2.5

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 12, 2023

A used batteries collection point at a recycling facility in Bunya, Australia in February 2022. Stop Battery Fires” has been created in partnership with the UK’s National Fire Chiefs Council (NFCC) , and is now available for local authorities to share. To participate in the survey please click on the survey link.

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Charged

JUNE 15, 2022

This trend will be driven in large part by investment into the critical components that make electric vehicles safe, reliable and functional, including the battery management system. The battery management system is the brains behind the battery pack, allowing it to optimize battery efficiency and maximize range.

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Charged

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Predictive battery analytics provider TWAICE is so confident in the accuracy of its data, it’s willing to provide insurance. TWAICE provides predictive analytics software for companies working with batteries, addressing key concerns such as health, warranty and safety. Source: TWAICE.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 11, 2023

An exploded view of an EV battery. A circular economy for electric vehicle batteries appears to be still some way off, but metal recycling expert EMR claims to be making inroads, and to be helping shape the future of the sector. A lot of this work is already underway.

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Charged

JULY 18, 2022

BASF has announced it will build a black mass plant for recycling batteries in Schwarzheide, Germany, where it already has a cathode active materials production and recycling facility. The company says the new plant, which is expected to begin production in early 2024, will be built to the highest environmental, health and safety standards.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 14, 2021

Yorkshire Water is rolling out 34 remote battery powered actuators across key sites in the region, and the utility says it is already seeing benefits. The water company is working in partnership with R2M Limited to install 3S remote battery powered actuators.

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Charged

JULY 26, 2023

The authors of the endless articles warning of the environmental costs of battery raw materials are invariably “big fans” of EVs, but they’re naturally concerned that they may not be “as green as they claim.” As demand rises for battery raw materials, EV industry players are working to reduce the environmental costs of extraction.

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Charged

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Stanford University researchers have found a way to make lithium-ion battery packs last longer and suffer less deterioration from fast charging. The research team started by creating a high-fidelity computer model of battery behavior that represents the physical and chemical changes that occur inside a battery during its operational life. “If

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Charged

MARCH 16, 2023

Comemso Electronics has announced a modular system for testing battery management systems (BMS), combined with a comprehensive new graphical interface for parameterization and visualization of the BMS test process. Comemso offers the ability to test and measure your system at a cell level with high precision.” Source: Comemso Electronics

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Solar Industry

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

a global clean energy storage company, has been named as the battery provider for a 34.4 Our batteries are ideally suited for daily use in the Central Valley’s extreme heat, and we’re proud to provide the resources the hospital needs to ensure safe, reliable operations,” says Tim Harris, Redflow CEO and managing director.

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Charged

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Metis Engineering has earned ISO certification of its Production Battery Safety Sensor, which designed to monitor the health of a lithium-ion battery pack and detect cell venting. It also monitors humidity, dew point and air temperature parameters to ensure that the battery continues to operate in optimum conditions.”. “It

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Protecting satellite imagery from fraud, Citopia network for a global battery passport and a high performance non-flammable battery option for warm climates are on the week’s technology radar. Information that would be included would be on the battery’s composition, its state of health, history and more. Have you read?

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Charged

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Battery supplier SES has released Apollo, a 107 Ah Li-metal battery for EVs. The company also announced plans for its Shanghai Giga plant, a 300,000-square-foot facility that the company hopes will be capable of producing 1 GWh of batteries annually by 2023. Source: SES via Green Car Congress.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 10, 2020

In the power sector, another 100 megawatt battery just got contracted to support the grid near Los Angeles. This marks the first battery deal for Clean Power Alliance. Big battery hotspot. Southern California's grid has become a hotspot for very large batteries stepping in to provide grid capacity.

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Energy Storage News

DECEMBER 7, 2023

If you’re working with or investing in battery storage, smart battery analytics can be the difference between success and failure. Energy-Storage.news speaks with Dr Arnaud Delaille, PowerUp.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Under current EU law and also post Brexit, manufacturers retain responsibility for the safe disposal of electric car batteries. Under current EU law and also post Brexit, manufacturers retain responsibility for the safe disposal of electric car batteries. This will help to transform the economics of the electric vehicle market.”.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Battery analytics specialist Silver Power System (SPS) has partnered with Imperial College, the London EV Company and the Watt Electric Vehicle Company on a research program designed to predict battery lifespan. While digital models of EV batteries have been created, they have lacked accurate real-world data to back them up.

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Impact Alpha

MAY 3, 2023

Featured: Investing in Health Opportunities for impact investors to champion reproductive care after Dobbs. The post The Brief: Investing in reproductive care, gender lens on fintech, clean cookstove acquisition, long-duration batteries, Chicago’s muni impact investors appeared first on ImpactAlpha. Greetings, Agents of Impact!

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MAY 5, 2022

Infineon has introduced a new series of battery management ICs designed for battery modules, cell-to-pack topologies and cell-to-car topologies in EVs, hybrids and energy storage systems. The TLE9015DQU is a battery-monitoring transceiver IC intended for connecting many TLE9012DQUs inside a battery.

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Charged

OCTOBER 22, 2020

BearingPoint and TWAICE have partnered to study the factors that influence batteries’ state of health in both the short and long runs, using predictive analytics. The partnership provides an end-to-end perspective on battery analytics, monitoring and life cycle management through artificial intelligence. Source: TWAICE.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 30, 2020

Batteries aren’t dead when they come to the end of their useful life in an electric vehicle. Reused or “second-life” lithium-ion batteries still have a lot of juice left in them, but so far the concept of using these batteries in stationary applications has yet to gain real market traction.

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Charged

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Battery analytics software company TWAICE has joined forces with ViriCiti , a telematics provider for electric bus fleets, in order to enable OEMs and fleet operators to optimize the management of their e-bus batteries and increase their residual value. “We Source: TWAICE.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

General Motors will use an almost completely wireless battery management system (wBMS)—the first of its kind, according to GM—for production EVs. This wireless system, developed with Analog Devices, will allow GM to power many types of EVs from a common set of battery components. Source: GM.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

ACCURE , a software and AI battery analytics company based in Aachen, Germany, has received $8 million in Series A funding from Blue Bear Capital, Capnamic Ventures and 42CAP. Today, more than 220,000 battery systems representing over 750 MWh worldwide are under ACCURE’s management. “We Source: ACCURE.

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Charged

DECEMBER 8, 2021

London-based startup Breathe Battery Technologies has raised £1.5 Breathe will use the new capital to scale up and accelerate the deployment of its intelligent battery management algorithms. Source: Breathe Battery Technologies. million ($2 million) in a new funding round led by Speedinvest.

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