Grist

AUGUST 14, 2020

Imagine a world where instead of threading the walls of your house with copper wires that deliver electricity from the grid, the walls themselves stored that energy, potentially drawn from a solar array on your roof. Scientists like D’Arcy are trying to develop novel materials that can rival lithium-ion.

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Charged

MAY 27, 2021

There was a big bundle of news, which will take the media some days to fully unpack, but the gist of it is that, under a plan dubbed Ford+, the automaker will be allocating capital to three priority areas: fully electric vehicles, commercial solutions and connected services. That should translate to somewhere around 1.5

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

where developers are increasingly pairing large-scale solar arrays with batteries. Shortly afterward, Daimler announced a deal with Norwegian power firm Statkraft to cover its 24/7 electricity demand in Germany with renewables. But the market has seen a rash of major project announcements recently, driven in particular by the U.S.,

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Solar is the first element, battery storage is the second, and electric vehicles are the third.”. Staples opted for lithium-ion batteries instead because the German firm Sonnen’s battery package offered the ability to create a virtual power plant. People are becoming more and more aware of these technologies.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Rio Tinto says it will invest $98 million in a 34-megawatt PV array and 12-megawatt-hour lithium-ion battery system to help power its Koodaideri mine in Pilbara, Western Australia. Anglo American has also installed an 84-kilowatt floating solar array at its tailings pond at Los Bronces, a first for the industry, Martinez said.

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

In a statement this week, the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) said the money would be invested into an array of different projects within the current decade, including investments in clean power, carbon capture and storage (CCS), further electrification of its operations, and a raft of new energy efficiency measures.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 10, 2020

Swapping diesel-powered trucks for electric models and equipping ships to plug into the grid while at berth offers life-saving public health benefits. But it can also substantially increase electricity demand at ports. Brown later signed SB 100, which requires 100 percent carbon-free electricity in California by 2045.

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

But batteries undeniably remain the most common form of energy storage and are widely regarded as a critical component of the net zero transition and an enabler of both vehicle electrification and cleaner, more efficient grids dominated by intermittent solar and wind power. It will take four more years for costs to fall back to 2021 levels.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Large-scale grid batteries comprising 100MW of electricity storage capacity are expected to go online later this year in Oxford and Kent as part of a tie-up between Pivot Power and Finnish technology firm Wärtsilä announced yesterday.

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Charged

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Battery management systems (BMS)—the electronic brains that monitors and maintains lithium ion battery packs—are essential for the safe and efficient operation of the batteries powering a variety of applications, including electric vehicles. Temperature monitoring. Sensors are essential to managing battery system temperatures.

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Charged

JULY 9, 2020

electric vehicles), stationary energy storage and microgrids. Non-utility markets are showing up with six types of services: demand response; energy efficiency; distributed solar; electric vehicles (or mobile energy storage); and stationary energy storage. What types of challenges might VGI face in the near term?

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Charged

JUNE 19, 2023

The increase in demand for EV Batteries has already permanently transformed the car manufacturing landscape, with almost all major automotive companies now operating electric vehicle production lines. Electrode Manufacturing Electrode slurry is coated onto copper and aluminum foil to facilitate electric flow.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA) has announced that its proprietary Detroit ePowertrain will power the upcoming Freightliner eCascadia and Freightliner eM2, as part of Daimler Trucks’ strategy to establish a uniform basic architecture for its global line-up of battery-electric vehicles.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Lithium-ion batteries utterly dominate grid storage deployments these days. That marked the single largest equity investment in a stationary storage company, according to Wood Mackenzie’s investment database (battery companies targeting electric vehicles have raised bigger rounds). Munich Re vets flow batteries.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

The flagship scheme, delivered by framework contractor Absolute Solar & Wind Ltd, is part of a £2 million renewables project which includes the company’s largest single solar energy array to date. Invinity Energy Systems is providing key components of the energy storage project.

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Charged

JANUARY 29, 2024

Maithri Venkat: I have been working in lithium-ion cell development for automotive applications for the past eight years. For economy options, the cells are the biggest cost driver in the vehicle. Charged : Can you elaborate on why battery cell development is so important for electric vehicles?

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Elemental Excelerator

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Solar panels, wind turbines, batteries, and electric vehicles are becoming mainstream and cost effective, allowing us to transition much faster away from fossil fuels. First of all, critical minerals such as cobalt, lithium, graphite, manganese, and others are the building blocks of many clean technology applications.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

This creates opportunities to deploy solar directly on sources of energy consumption, such as covering the exterior of electric vehicles with solar paneling to extend a vehicle’s range. Perovskites are highly flexible and can conceivably be applied to curved and irregular surfaces.

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Charged

JUNE 28, 2023

We will also showcase a case study of cooling architecture analysis for electric vehicles (EVs) to demonstrate the practical application of these techniques. However, for an electrified vehicle, there are multiple components that need to be maintained at different temperatures. Basic generative engineering process workflow.

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Charged

DECEMBER 13, 2022

million battery-electric vehicle (EV) sales by the start of 2021—a prediction seen by many as overly optimistic. In fact, Bloomberg Green expects this growth to continue with more than 10 million plug-in vehicle sales this year—up from 6.6 We are seeing electric air travel take off at great speed. million in 2021 and 3.2

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