GreenBiz

JUNE 3, 2021

Transportation companies are addressing the circular economy not just with the materials that go into their cars and facilities, but also with the batteries they run on as the industry moves toward producing more electric vehicles. . ReJoule ’s battery diagnostics technology can ensure EV batteries are more reliable, safer and longer-lasting.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 10, 2020

CALSTART says that the surge is coming from a combination of market demand, policies and economics as EV battery costs continue to drop. This article is adapted from GreenBiz's weekly newsletter, Transport Weekly, running Tuesdays. Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere).

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Solar plus battery storage can provide value in two ways: first, energy reliability for customers during emergency power outages, and second, during non-emergencies, to help the grid balance demand and generation," said Dawn Weisz, chief executive of California utility MCE, during a breakout session at last week’s virtual VERGE 20 event. .

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GreenBiz

MARCH 26, 2021

Power struggle: The looming high-tech battery crisis. Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere). Sponsored Article. Stories discussed this week (4:22). How infrastructure is banking on green banks. Unilever sets out net-zero plan for shareholder vote. Corporate Strategy.

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Charged

JANUARY 30, 2025

As Michael Barnard and Rish Ghatikar explain in a recent CleanTechnica article (part of a series of articles on electric trucking), the superpower that unlocks the value of electric truck charging is a microgrid, which combines EV chargers with local energy generation and storage. It features 8 MWh of buffering battery storage, 5.2

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Battery leasing is another model gaining traction, according to the panelists. Currently, batteries are the most expensive part of an electric vehicle; this model allows customers to purchase a vehicle upfront minus the battery, which is paid for in small increments comparable in cost to purchasing fuel for traditional trucks or buses.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 7, 2021

It would buoy domestic EV production: Asian countries own the world's EV battery production markets. But Biden is hoping to boost domestic manufacturing of batteries and EVs through incentives for automakers. Former President Barack Obama's green recovery stimulus invested in battery and EV manufacturing with some mixed results.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 13, 2020

For fundamental economic reasons, solar power generation plus battery storage will provide at least half of electric power generation globally by 2030. You can have solar on your roof, a battery bank in your garage and be immune from power shutoffs, rising prices and vulnerability of all sorts. Sponsored Article. Contributors.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 28, 2020

Its vehicle and battery production also will be carbon-neutral, using clean energy. Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere). Sponsored Article. Mercedes-Benz says by the end of the year it will offer five electric vehicle models and 20 plug-in hybrid vehicle editions.

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Green Living Guy

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Recycling of electric car batteries can be easier, cheaper, and more environmentally friendly. That’s according to a new scientific article from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, which outlines an optimized recycling process. The post Perfecting the EV Battery Recycling Process appeared first on Green Living Guy.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 17, 2020

AGCO is testing the battery-powered Fendt e100 Vario for a range of farming and municipal applications. "It Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere). Sponsored Article. With new CEO Eric Hansotia poised to step up Jan. Innovation. Food & Agriculture. Electric Vehicles.

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Canary Media

JUNE 12, 2024

This article is the second in a two-part series on home batteries. In case you missed it, here’s part 1: “ Is adding a battery to your… Canary Media’s Electrified Life column shares real-world tales, tips, and insights to demystify what individuals can do to shift their homes and lives to clean electric power.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 1, 2021

The key to making this work for drivers, however, is ensuring that no matter how the charging times are shifted, drivers always will wake up to a fully charged battery with no impact on their mobility, Langton said. Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere). Sponsored Article.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 17, 2020

While EVs can be cheaper to operate, compared to gasoline costs, high battery costs still can make many EVs more expensive than traditional cars. Updated: This article was updated June 17 with information from Lyft's media call. Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere).

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Hydrogen Fuel News

MARCH 12, 2025

Hydrogen Buses: Higher Costs, Longer Lifespan When comparing hydrogen buses to battery-electric buses, one of the most notable differences is cost. million per unit compared to $700,000$900,000 for battery-electric models. Hydrogen buses are significantly more expensive upfront, with prices often exceeding $1.2 Whats Next?

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

The semi-trucks will be the trickiest vehicles to adopt zero emission technologies, be that batteries, hydrogen or alternative fuels. Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere). Sponsored Article. 1 on the city of Oakland's circular renewable diesel project). Clean Fleets.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 3, 2021

Swapping all that diesel and jet fuel with batteries and biofuels won't be easy. Decarbonizing FedEx's airline fleet will be even more difficult than moving its trucks to batteries. Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere). Sponsored Article. Courtesy of FedEx. Supply Chain.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 19, 2021

Car companies are now battery companies. Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere). Sponsored Article. Episode 260: Disclosure dialogue, your employees want purpose. Heather Clancy. Fri, 03/19/2021 - 00:15. Week in Review. Stories discussed this week (3:50). Finance & Investing.

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GreenBiz

JULY 21, 2021

In the past year, big-name OEMs have revealed plans for an entire lineup of new battery-electric commercial vehicles — ranging from Ford’s unveiling of the 2022 E-Transit to Mercedes-Benz’s announcement that eSprinter is heading to the U.S. Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere).

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

If you use social media, you probably see a never-ending stream of “articles” insisting that EV batteries wear out in a few years, making the cars worthless, that they can’t be recycled, they’re full of poisonous chemicals, yada yada yada. That would be news to Nissan’s UK Marketing Director Nic Thomas.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 4, 2021

That article was one of GreenBiz's most popular stories throughout the year. These new vehicles are quickly bumping up against familiar challenges of battery range, production capacity and charging, or fueling, infrastructure. delivered its 100th battery-electric truck in the U.S Sponsored Article. in early 2020.

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Energy Storage News

MAY 14, 2024

While Norway once aimed to be the ‘battery of Europe’ it has since been overtaken other Nordic countries Sweden and Finland for BESS deployments. Research firm LCP Delta’s Jon Ferris explores the region’s energy storage market dynamics in this long-form article.

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GreenBiz

MAY 5, 2021

They tend to have longer routes — so need bigger batteries — and they also have many more high-end features, such as power outlets at every seat, WiFi access, bathroom and premium seats, carpeting, and heating and cooling. . Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere). Sponsored Article.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

The grid of the future should prioritize flexibility and nimbleness, and greater deployment of resources such as batteries and larger demand response programs. However, the grid of the future should prioritize flexibility and nimbleness, and greater deployment of resources such as batteries and larger demand response programs. .

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Charged

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Now China’s GAC Group has announced “breakthrough progress” with a graphene-based super-fast-charging battery, which the company says has entered the phase of vehicle testing. The battery has also passed the dreaded Battery Shooting Test. To date, there’s been no confirmation that Tesla has a graphene battery in the pipeline.

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Charged

JANUARY 25, 2022

Researchers at the University of Michigan have developed a lithium-sulfur battery which they estimate will be able to achieve 1,000 real-world cycles with fast charging.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Battery recycling and manufacturing company Ascend Elements (formerly known as Battery Resourcers ) is planning to open a battery recycling plant in Georgia by August of 2022, where it will recycle lithium, cobalt and nickel.

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Charged

OCTOBER 25, 2023

US-based EV battery recycler Smartville has introduced a new battery energy storage system (BESS) using retired EV batteries. See the feature article in our July-September issue.) Our EV battery repurposing and reuse platform is a key link to a lithium battery circular economy.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Here are a few of IKEA’s other recent waste reduction and circular economy efforts: The retailer plans to remove all non-rechargeable alkaline batteries from its global home furnishing offerings by October 2021. Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere). Sponsored Article.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 30, 2020

We as the corporate customers, manufacturers, battery suppliers, we need to move this curve faster,” Rachey said. Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere). Sponsored Article. I'm in favor of any policy that makes consumer adoption easier, but we can't sit around and wait for that.

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Charged

JUNE 8, 2021

Why is the idea of battery swapping so persistently popular in the mainstream press? In a recent article in IEEE Spectrum , Lawrence Ulrich equates battery swapping with hydrogen fuel cells, calling both “automotive ideas that are never quite born, but just won’t die.”. Swapping has come back from the dead, however.

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Charged

AUGUST 24, 2020

It’s usually one of the first objections cited by EV naysayers: batteries can’t or won’t be recycled, and they contain hazardous materials that will end up in landfills. In fact, no such sinister scenario is likely—most of the components of Li-ion batteries are valuable, and it’s quite feasible, technically and economically, to recycle them.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have presented a new concept to fabricate high-performance electrode materials for sodium batteries. The results show that the capacity could match lithium-ion batteries. Sodium ions are larger than lithium ions and cannot be efficiently stored in the graphite structure.

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Charged

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Despite what the anti-EV brigade would like you to believe, recycling lithium-ion batteries is quite feasible both technologically and financially, and several companies are doing so right now. These days, JB is living on a spread in the spectacular Nevada desert, where he has plenty of room to work on solar and battery storage projects.

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GreenBiz

JULY 17, 2020

For you and me, that means batteries last longer. Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere). Sponsored Article. In fact, AMD overachieved the goal, delivering a 31.7 times improvement with its new Ryzen 7 4800H processor. million kilowatt-hours.). Information Technology. Courtesy of.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 26, 2020

We'll also consider all technologies from battery electric to alternative fuels to efficiency tech. Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere). Sponsored Article. Who's being aggressive? Who's being innovative? Who is rapidly speeding toward a goal to decarbonize their fleet? .

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Charged

MAY 6, 2024

According to an article in Forbes, 2023 was the first time more than 1 million EVs were sold in the U.S. It is, therefore, important to remove heat from battery and powertrain components efficiently. What is Battery Safety? These are applied in between heat source (battery) and heat sink (cooling plate/ribbon).

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