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WattStorage : Solutions for hybridization of vehicles
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25 septembre 2015

Electric Car Market Share & Financial Incentives — Country Comparison

Electric Car Market Share & Financial Incentives — Country Comparison
Incentives are an interesting thing. Sometimes, the ones you think will work the best don’t work too well. Sometimes, ones you don’t think will have as much effect end up having a huge effect. Sometimes, incentives work great with one population but don’t...
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25 juillet 2015

Apple Electric iCar Is Coming: Tim Cook Hires Chrysler Executive Doug Betts.

Apple Electric iCar Is Coming: Tim Cook Hires Chrysler Executive Doug Betts.
We have another confirmation that Apple is very serious about its Titan project and electric iCar is in the making. This announcement will change the EVs market overnight. You can find my investigation on this rumour mill below on the links. Now London's...
12 juin 2016

Peugeot develops solar energy charging station for EVs in France

Peugeot develops solar energy charging station for EVs in France
The Driveco Parasol is a charging station comprising 88 photovoltaic panels and lithium-ion batteries for the production and storage of solar energy. With this method, electricity can be distributed at any time, even when sunlight levels are low. NEW...
20 mars 2015

Goodyear Concept BH03 Electricity Generating Tire – A New Form of Range Extender?

Goodyear Concept BH03 Electricity Generating Tire – A New Form of Range Extender?
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company introduced the BH03, a radical concept tire at the 2015 Geneva International Motor Show that directly effects the plug-in electric car and hybrid markets. This tire generates electricity through both static and dynamic...
25 mars 2015

‘Batteries are just a ticket to the ball game’ - an interview with Greensmith

‘Batteries are just a ticket to the ball game’ - an interview with Greensmith
Battery modules as represented in Greensmith's energy storage modelling and design software. Image: Greensmith. According to GTM Research, the US deployed just over 60MW of energy storage in 2014, mostly at grid scale. One firm, Greensmith, which produces...
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7 mai 2015

ZAF Energy Systems to Showcase Next-Generation Zinc-Air Battery Technology at CAFE Foundation’s Electric Aircraft Symposium

ZAF Energy Systems to Showcase Next-Generation Zinc-Air Battery Technology at CAFE Foundation’s Electric Aircraft Symposium
ZAF’s Zinc-Air Chemistry Produces Twice the Energy Density at Half the Weight and Less Than a Fourth of the Cost of Lithium-Ion; Zinc-Air Is Safe and Environmentally Benign, More Technically and Economically Viable Than Lithium-Ion. ZAF’s zinc technology...
15 juin 2016

Volvo CEO says hybrids will supplant diesels, even in Europe

Volvo CEO says hybrids will supplant diesels, even in Europe
volvol 40.1 concept Tougher emissions standards will lead to the replacement of diesels by gasoline-electric hybrids over the next decade or so, Samuelsson told Car and Driver in a recent interview. Hybrids offer lower emissions than diesels, but Samuelsson...
14 décembre 2016

Recycling EV Batteries More Cost-Competitive Than Using For Home Energy Storage - Lux Research Echoes Tesla CTO JB Straubel

Recycling EV Batteries More Cost-Competitive Than Using For Home Energy Storage - Lux Research Echoes Tesla CTO JB Straubel
It makes more sense from an economic standpoint to recycle old plug-in electric vehicle batteries than to reuse them directly for home energy storage, according to a new report from Lux Research. The primary reason? According to Lux Research, reused plug-in...
2 janvier 2015

Graphene Could Kill Lithium-Ion Batteries

Graphene Could Kill Lithium-Ion Batteries
Don’t break out the widow’s weeds just yet, but it looks like momentum is building for energy storage to move past the lithium-ion phase and get into the more powerful territory of lithium-sulfur technology. In the latest development, a multinational...
27 janvier 2015

Bosch cooperates with BMW and Vattenfall on a second life electric vehicles batteries project

Bosch cooperates with BMW and Vattenfall on a second life electric vehicles batteries project
What to do with valuable batteries once they have reached the end of their life cycle in electric vehicles? A project involving three partners is connecting old batteries in Hamburg to form a large-scale storage system to keep the power grid stable. Lithium-ion...
3 mai 2015

Could the new Tesla battery transform the "energy infrastructure"?

Could the new Tesla battery transform the "energy infrastructure"?
Elon Musk / Credit Photo Reuters Rebecca Cooks According to Elon Musk, founder and boss, Tesla was never a simple EV manufacturer B ut a technology company whose mission is to innovate in the field of energy. Thursday, April 30th, he made a new step in...
1 septembre 2015

5 Predictions For The Electric Vehicle Market From Morgan Stanley

5 Predictions For The Electric Vehicle Market From Morgan Stanley
1. Battery cost is expected to drop significantly And by significantly, Morgan Stanley means by a good deal more than half. The report points to Tesla, which aims to produce a battery that costs only $US100/kWh – currently, the average EV battery costs...
27 mai 2016

Hyundai: “we are making electric plug-ins until hydrogen fuel cell vehicles take hold”

Hyundai: “we are making electric plug-ins until hydrogen fuel cell vehicles take hold”
credit photo Hyundai Dave Zuchowski, CEO of Hyundai Motor America, announced that his company is developing a lineup of electric plug-in vehicles for the company’s new Genesis luxury brand. While talking with Auto News for the announcement, he added that...
5 mars 2015

Better Battery-Control Software Could Double Charging Speed: Research

Better Battery-Control Software Could Double Charging Speed: Research
2014-chevrolet-spark-ev-prototype-sausalito-ca-nov-2012_100409382_l New battery charge estimation algorithms developed by engineers at the University of California (UC), San Diego, are on the verge of vastly improve the capabilities of current lithium-ion...
24 février 2015

Advances In Lithium-Sulfur Batteries Offer Promise For Electric Cars

Advances In Lithium-Sulfur Batteries Offer Promise For Electric Cars
Commercial uses of the element sulfur date back centuries, but it may be the key to a new generation of batteries with high theoretical energy density and relatively low cost. The principles of a lithium-sulfur battery have been known for decades, but...
17 février 2016

The Global Market for Lithium Ion Batteries for Vehicles Is Expected to Total $221 Billion from 2015 to 2024

The Global Market for Lithium Ion Batteries for Vehicles Is Expected to Total $221 Billion from 2015 to 2024
credit photo NIssa n New lithium-based battery likely to be included in production vehicles before 2024 A recent report from Navigant Research analyzes the global market for lithium ion (Li-ion) batteries for automotive applications, with market forecasts...
24 avril 2016

Capacitor Science turns simple capacitor into high density, high energy storage device by altering dielectric materials.

Capacitor Science turns simple capacitor into high density, high energy storage device by altering dielectric materials.
Capacitor Sciences is developing patent-pending materials to create nano-structured crystalline thin films, that when used as the dielectric material in a capacitor, will be able to create high performance capacitive energy storage cells capable of surpassing...
3 novembre 2014

Drives System Saves Space and Weight in Electric Cars

Drives System Saves Space and Weight in Electric Cars
Siemens has developed a solution for integrating an electric car’s motor and inverter in a single housing. Until now, the motor and the inverter, which converts the battery’s direct current into alternating current for the motor, were two separate components....
9 février 2016

BMW launches energy storage company

BMW launches energy storage company
credit photo BMW Electromobility is increasingly becoming a component in a multidisciplinary energy interaction – with the batteries being the pivotal point in the system. The latest move in this game: Carmaker BMW has launched a joint venture with heating...
9 février 2015

The Changing Regulations Pertaining to the Transportation of Lithium Batteries

 The Changing Regulations Pertaining to the Transportation of Lithium Batteries
In August the US Department of Transportation (DOT) issued final rule HM-224F affecting the safe transport of lithium batteries. DOT announced that the effects from the revisions of HM-224F will “strengthen safety conditions for the shipment of lithium...
12 décembre 2014

Chevy EN-V 2.0 To Be Used In EV-Sharing Program

Chevy EN-V 2.0 To Be Used In EV-Sharing Program
Shanghai Jiao Tong University and General Motors China have started a collaboration and joined in a quest for sustainable urban mobility. Shanghai Jiao Tong University hopes this project will result in a model that will be used to widely integrate small...
2 février 2015

Understanding Lithium-Ion Battery Safety and Its Implications

Understanding Lithium-Ion Battery Safety and Its Implications
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) report about the January 7, 2013, fire on board a Japan Airlines Boeing 787-8 aircraft at Boston’s Logan Airport said that the fire involved a lithium-ion battery located in the aircraft’s the auxiliary...
20 février 2015

Top EV Battery Manufacturers — 2014 Top 10 In Sales

Top EV Battery Manufacturers — 2014 Top 10 In Sales
Comprehensive sales figures for EV Battery manufacturers in 2014 recently became available, giving us further insight into the fast-growing market. Altogether, the year saw an increase of 54% over the previous year. As far as the major players in the...
5 avril 2016

How Soon Can Tesla Get Battery Cell Costs Below $100 per Kilowatt-Hour?

How Soon Can Tesla Get Battery Cell Costs Below $100 per Kilowatt-Hour?
credit photo Tesla Where does the lithium-ion battery industry -- and most notably, Tesla/Panasonic -- stand today on battery costs? Solar veterans will recall a time not so long ago when the industry's biggest dream was a PV module with a cost of 99...
20 décembre 2014

Volvo hybrid bus with Siemens fast-charging system starts service in Hamburg

Volvo hybrid bus with Siemens fast-charging system starts service in Hamburg
Officially launched at the International IAA Commercial Vehicles show, the Volvo 7900 Electric Hybrid buses equipped with a Siemens fast charging systems has taken its maiden tour in Hamburg, where it will be deployed from December on the 109 service....
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