Grist

JANUARY 29, 2020

But the development of longer-lasting batteries gave buyers more confidence, sales jumped more than tenfold, and now, EV sightings have lost their safari-like wonder. The definition of a “nanomaterial” is contested , but is often considered to be anything that measures between 1 and 100 nanometers in length in at least one dimension.

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Charged

AUGUST 6, 2021

Williams Advanced Engineering (WAE) has been a battery supplier to the Formula E electric racing championship since 2014. WAE Principal Engineer Glen Pascoe recently discussed the challenges of creating a battery that can power Extreme E’s enormous Odyssey 21 racer in some of the most extreme locations on Earth. “In says Pascoe.

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Greentown Labs

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

What if we broadened the definition of a battery? What if, rather than electrochemical cells with anodes and cathodes, batteries were composed of thousands, or even millions, of internet-connected devices? Packetized Energy creates “virtual” batteries by tapping into smart devices in peoples’ homes and businesses.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

This is the third part of a series examining the McMicken battery fire of 2019 and its ramifications for the energy storage industry. This installment addresses the lessons for fighting fires at battery facilities. Proactive outreach to local firefighters has become crucial to the success of new battery projects.

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GreenBiz

JULY 17, 2020

For you and me, that means batteries last longer. That was definitely a risk, but we thought it was very important that is was something that we talk about along the way, so we did measurements every year," Moore said. . In fact, AMD overachieved the goal, delivering a 31.7 times improvement with its new Ryzen 7 4800H processor.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 26, 2020

Tucked inside that announcement was a big development: a massive grid-tied battery that will take over crucial duties from the last coal plant anywhere in Hawaii. With its ample capacity, the battery will both shift power from the solar-flooded midday hours to the evenings, and deliver fast frequency response to keep the grid humming.

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Charged

JANUARY 7, 2025

One of the beloved bugaboos bruited by EV boo-birds is that EV batteries will quickly wear out. Now that there are significant numbers of high-mileage EVs on the road, this deceitful dirge has been definitively debunked. Real-world accounts of long-serving batteries, for example in Tesla taxis , abound.

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The Verge: Energy

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

It’s portable because it has wheels, a handle, and slots for two batteries. As an avid vanlifer and cocktail enthusiast, I’m definitely tempted by the idea of making ice on the road. I never do it, though, because water and electricity are just too valuable when venturing away from civilization.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

  While the same could be said about battery electric cars, there has certainly been a more widespread rollout of recharging infrastructure for those vehicles in the passenger market than has been the case for H2. Definitely not.  There are far too many barriers in the way – first and foremost, a place to refuel. 

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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

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Specialized in electronics services for 30 years, SERMA Group carries out expertise and tests on batteries, power electronics and electric motors. Battery technology is constantly changing as are the associated robustness, reliability and safety requirements. Sponsored by Serma. E-POWERTRAIN.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The company builds its own battery packs, and has a current production capacity of 500 megawatt-hours per year. Dustin: The battery is the most vertically integrated. We take cells, and then we do custom-developed battery modules of various shapes and sizes, and build those into various shapes and sizes of ESS.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 1, 2020

California's plan to equip vulnerable citizens with batteries to keep the lights on during the upcoming fire season has gotten bogged down by bureaucracy, and coronavirus is making things worse. MWh battery system installed at a school in Southern California. A Stem 1.25-MWh Credit: Stem).

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 7, 2023

Assurances on the health of second-hand EV batteries – the number one barrier to purchasing a used EV – were identified as the single most effective solution to encourage drivers to make the switch to electric vehicles, significantly accelerating the transition to net zero in road transport.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 12, 2020

Residential solar installers are gearing up for a surge of demand for battery storage products as the critical California market swings from a COVID-19 shutdown straight into wildfire season. ” SunPower begins installing Equinox solar-battery systems. Texas is another area,” SunPower CEO Tom Werner told GTM.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

California regulators plan to address pleas from stakeholders in the energy storage industry to free up money for the state’s behind-the-meter battery incentive program, directing an additional $108.5 billion available through 2024 to cover part of the costs of installing batteries at homes and businesses.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

There are three main forms of graphite: spherical graphite is used in non-EV battery applications, whereas EV batteries use a blend of coated spherical graphite and synthetic graphite. The company manufactures 10,000 metric tonnes per year of purified spherical graphite for EV battery anodes. Graphite is a pure form of carbon.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

In 2020, Porsche delivered just over 20,000 units of its luxury Taycan EV—the first vehicle from a major automaker to sport an 800 V (nominal) battery, which is more than double the voltage of its competitors (and firmly into light-rail and switchyard locomotive territory, actually).

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Charged

JANUARY 29, 2024

Q&A with Lucid’s Battery Cell Technical Specialist Maithri Venkat. When it comes to battery cells for EVs, one size definitely doesn’t fit all. Charged spoke with Lucid Battery Cell Technical Specialist Maithri Venkat about how cell evaluation works, and how OEMs and cell suppliers can work together to improve the process.

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The Verge: Energy

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Image: EcoFlow EcoFlow just launched four new battery products designed to power everything from your Qi2-compatible phone, to RVs, to your home appliances in the event of a blackout. The expanded 45kWh battery limit is enough to boondock for a week or longer if your rig is big enough to store nine hulking 5kWh LFP batteries.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Convergent also finished a 1 megawatt/1 megawatt-hour battery for a Shell lubricants factory in Brockville. historically tackled demand charges for smaller commercial customers with smaller batteries, the Ontario program makes large batteries potentially worthwhile for much larger facilities.

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Charged

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Various off-grid solutions are available, but the best approach may be a flexible one—using some combination of onsite generation, battery storage and grid power, according to what’s available and what’s needed for the application. When we realized that, we developed our AC charger, and it couples nicely with batteries. kW EV chargers.

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Charged

JANUARY 27, 2021

Defective cells can shorten battery life, decrease range, and lead to safety issues. A leaky cell housing, one common failure mode for Li-ion batteries, can allow ambient humidity to come in contact with the electrolyte, triggering an exothermic (heat-releasing) chemical reaction.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The project is especially relevant for California, which enacted supportive policies for solar and battery storage, and where earthquakes, wildfires and mudslides regularly threaten the normal functioning of the electricity system. megawatt-hours of customer-sited battery storage installed around the country.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Leveling up: Batteries and bifacial. In particular, batteries and bifacial modules can bring new benefits. NextEra is already eyeing battery additions across its U.S. “There will definitely be cases of much, much younger sites being repowered,” said Cherry. In this case, a tracker replacement was the trigger.

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Charged

JANUARY 31, 2024

Q&A with Alex Urist, Vice President of XCharge North America Battery storage, once considered a nifty additional feature for large-scale charging infrastructure projects, is steadily becoming de rigueur for public and commercial charging deployments of all sizes. A battery-buffered system is just taking energy from the grid.

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The Verge: Energy

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Here’s how Redwood Materials is putting recycling at the heart of the burgeoning battery belt. There’s a bit of a battery manufacturing boom going on. In 2021, battery manufacturing in the United States totaled approximately 55 gigawatt-hours’ worth of cells, or roughly enough batteries to produce 700,000 EVs.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 14, 2019

California's outages come at a time when many residential solar sellers are rushing battery products to market or working to expand attachment rates for new sales. It’s definitely valuable,” said Michelle Davis, a senior solar analyst at WoodMac. No, definitely not.” How long will my battery system last?

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Business Green

JANUARY 5, 2022

British Lithium has announced it has extracted lithium from granite mined from Cornwall's bedrock, in an achievement it has hailed as both a world first and a major milestone in the development of a domestic supply of raw materials for the UK battery market.

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Charged

MARCH 6, 2025

The first generation of modern EVs shoehorned an electric motor and a battery into a vehicle that was designed around an engine, a transmission and a gas tank. When a certain American startup designed its second-generation vehicle, it put the battery pack on the bottom, in a flat platform. Peter Dow, REE Automotives VP of Engineering.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JULY 10, 2024

This indicates a considerable demand for H2-powered trucking While some have guessed that this may also reflect a move away from battery-powered rigs, it is definitely too early to tell whether that is in fact true. 

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Charged

JANUARY 9, 2023

The Faraday Institution recently introduced Battery Parameter eXchange (BPX), an open standard for physics-based lithium-ion battery models that defines three factors: battery parameters; the equations employing those parameters; and the reporting of experimental measurements used to validate the reported parameters.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 26, 2020

But beyond the high-level predictions, it’s hard to find a consistent definition of what this category actually means and exactly what it's supposed to do. Lithium-ion batteries have absolutely dominated new storage construction in recent years. That's largely because a market for such things hasn't really existed.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 16, 2022

National Battery Day – February 18th. We probably don’t realize how much we rely on batteries in our everyday lives. Batteries power our phones and appliances and drive our electric vehicles. National Battery Day celebrates these fuel cells and the value and convenience they give to society.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 27, 2019

operation: It will supply battery systems to an entire new residential community, with a contract in place to deliver grid services to the local utility. Sonnen will install more than 600 ecoLinx batteries in developer Wasatch Group's Soleil Lofts apartments in Herriman, Utah, a rapidly growing region south of Salt Lake City.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Current EV battery anodes are composed mostly of graphite. NanoGraf’s technology can be “dropped into” existing manufacturing processes, so battery makers can increase the silicon content of their anodes without expensive retooling. Ah battery. However, there is another candidate for this key position.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 22, 2021

MISO interconnection customers have the option of designating “hybrid” as fuel type when they submit an interconnection request before July 22, 2021, for the 2021 Definitive Planning Phase (DPP) cycle. But MISO does not have a tariff definition yet for hybrid resources. Definition of hybrid and co-located resource.

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