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Category: Energy Storage

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  • Energy Storage

MIT Engineers Design New Low-Cost Battery For Energy Storage

Brian is the editor of the popular energy technology site New Energy and Fuel. The site’s mission is to inform, stimulate, amuse and abuse the… MIT engineers have created a Continue Reading

Posted On : 26 Sep 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • China
  • Energy Storage
  • USA

Chinese Top Battery Maker Halts N. American Plans After Pelosi Visit To Taiwan

Note: According to Reuters’ sources, CATL is pressing ahead with plans to deliver lower-cost lithium iron batteries to Ford Motor Co. and with plans for battery production in North America Continue Reading

Posted On : 4 Aug 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage

Juniper Research: EV battery pack shipments to reach 30M units in 2027, up from 10M in 2022; led by commercial vehicles

A new study from Juniper Research forecasts that the volume of electric vehicle battery pack shipments will reach 30 million in 2027 up from 10 million in 2022. The research Continue Reading

Posted On : 2 Aug 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage

Battery Recycling: The Next Big Challenge For The EV Boom

The surge in electric vehicle demand has sparked a boom in the battery metals industry. Battery metals pose a serious environmental and health hazard if not handled properly. Recycling old Continue Reading

Posted On : 28 Jul 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage

GM Slows Down, Needs More Batteries

General Motors GM -3.42%▼ and Ford are doing what they can to reassure investors they will have enough electric-vehicle batteries to take on Tesla in the coming years. True security Continue Reading

Posted On : 27 Jul 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage

Energy Department to Lend GM Joint Venture $2.5 Billion for Battery-Cell Plants

The U.S. Energy Department said it would loan to a General Motors Co. GM -0.43%▼ joint venture $2.5 billion to fund the construction of three battery-cell factories , part of Continue Reading

Posted On : 26 Jul 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage
  • Transportation
  • USA

Ford to buy cheaper CATL EV batteries to catch Tesla

Ford Motor Co (F.N) on Thursday said it will import lower-cost lithium iron batteries for its North American electric pickup trucks and SUVs from Chinese battery champion CATL (300750.SZ) , Continue Reading

Posted On : 22 Jul 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • China
  • Energy Storage

New EV Battery Boasts 1,000km Range

A new battery from Contemporary Amperex Technology Co Ltd promises to resolve one of the chief complaints that drivers have with electric vehicles: battery range. The next-generation Qilin battery—named after Continue Reading

Posted On : 24 Jun 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • China
  • Energy Storage

CATL launches 3rd generation of cell-to-pack; 72% volume utilization efficiency, up to 255 Wh/kg

CATL launched Qilin, the third generation of its CTP (cell-to-pack) technology. With a record-breaking volume utilization efficiency of 72% and an energy density of up to 255 Wh/kg, it achieves Continue Reading

Posted On : 24 Jun 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage

Old Electric-Vehicle Batteries Are Getting a Second Life

A grid-storage unit in West Sussex, U.K., part of a project from Renault SA and Connected Energy using second-life EV batteries from Renault vehicles. Millions of electric vehicles will be Continue Reading

Posted On : 13 Jun 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage

QuantumScape data shows 15-minute fast charging of solid-state cell for hundreds of consecutive cycles

Solid-state Li-metal battery company QuantumScape released data showing its battery cells have completed 400 consecutive 15-minute fast-charging (4C) cycles from 10% to 80% of the cell’s capacity while retaining well Continue Reading

Posted On : 31 Jan 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage
  • Solar

Solar Power and Battery Storage Will Be the Real Test for Tesla

This year, the company is attempting to push solutions for the home and the grid. Illustration: Baptiste Virot for Bloomberg Businessweek Elon Musk has long insisted that Tesla Inc. is Continue Reading

Posted On : 11 Jan 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage

This Oilfield Service Company Is Pivoting To Battery Tech

Reduced activity has left the oilfield service sector scrambling for new sources of revenue. One company, in particular, is looking to green energy applications using materials that have been primarily Continue Reading

Posted On : 4 Jan 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage

AIMPLAS developing transformation processes for thermoplastic composites that can replace metal components of battery systems

The VETERIA21 Project, funded by the Valencian Regional Government and implemented by AIMPLAS, will develop new, more efficient transformation processes for thermoplastic composites so they can be used to replace Continue Reading

Posted On : 4 Jan 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage

JAIST researchers develop promising anode material for ultrafast charging

To overcome the slow charging times of conventional lithium-ion batteries, scientists from Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) have developed a new anode material for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) Continue Reading

Posted On : 28 Dec 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage

SLAC, Stanford researchers revitalize batteries by bringing ‘dead’ lithium back to life

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University may have found a way to revitalize rechargeable lithium batteries, potentially boosting the range of electric vehicles Continue Reading

Posted On : 24 Dec 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage
  • USA

Battery Storage Soars on U.S. Electric Grid – WSJ

Companies are poised to install record amounts of batteries on America’s electric grid this year, as government mandates and a steep decline in costs fuel rapid growth in power storage. Continue Reading

Posted On : 22 Dec 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage

Proterra to build EV battery system factory in South Carolina

As demand for commercial electric vehicles continues to grow across the United States and around the world, Proterra announced plans to open a new EV battery system manufacturing plant in Continue Reading

Posted On : 15 Dec 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage

UK Company Looks To Build Europe’s Largest Battery

Sembcorp Energy UK has announced plans to build Europe’s largest battery in Teeside to boost its portfolio and strengthen the UK’s renewable infrastructure as the country pushes to reach net-zero Continue Reading

Posted On : 15 Dec 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage

Did QuantumScape Just Solve a 40-Year-Old Battery Problem?

Did QuantumScape Just Solve a 40-Year-Old Battery Problem? Earlier this year, the startup claimed to have a revolutionary solid-state lithium-ion cell that could change EVs forever. Now it has data Continue Reading

Posted On : 13 Dec 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage

Inside Clean Energy: Batteries Got Cheaper in 2021. So How Close Are We to EVs That Cost Less than Gasoline Vehicles?

The price of the batteries that power electric vehicles has fallen by about 90 percent since 2010, a continuing trend that will soon make EVs less expensive than gasoline vehicles. Continue Reading

Posted On : 10 Dec 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage

ORNL team develops low-cost scalable method to join materials in solid-state batteries; electrochemical pulse

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a scalable, low-cost method to improve the joining of materials in solid-state batteries, resolving one of the big Continue Reading

Posted On : 12 Nov 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage

Energy Vault to provide 1.6 GWh of gravity energy storage to support DG Fuels SAF projects

Energy Vault, a company developing grid-scale gravity energy storage solutions, has entered into an energy storage system agreement with DG Fuels, a developer of renewable hydrogen and biogenic-based, synthetic sustainable Continue Reading

Posted On : 1 Nov 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage

QuantumScape releases third-party test results for solid-state Li-metal battery confirming Dec 2020 report

QuantumScape Corporation, a developer of next-generation solid-state lithium-metal batteries for use in electric vehicles, released an independent third-party laboratory testing report on the performance of its solid-state lithium-metal battery cells. Continue Reading

Posted On : 1 Nov 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage

U.S. Loosens China Grip on $46 Billion Lithium-Battery Industry

The U.S. is narrowing the gap on China’s dominance of the $46 billion lithium-ion battery industry thanks to investments from Tesla Inc. and the Biden administration’s policy push to drive Continue Reading

Posted On : 8 Oct 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage

GM building new center for next-generation battery cell technology

General Motors announced the Wallace Battery Cell Innovation Center, an all-new facility that will significantly expand the company’s battery technology operations and accelerate development and commercialization of longer range, more Continue Reading

Posted On : 6 Oct 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage

Battery giants face skills gap that could jam electric highway

The South Korean battery giants powering many of the world’s electric vehicles face a skills shortage that could drag on the global race towards zero-emissions transport. The country’s three major Continue Reading

Posted On : 6 Oct 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage

Volkswagen, Ford, Other Big Auto Makers Push to Make Solid-State Batteries the Next Big Thing for EVs

The configuration has the potential to deliver faster charging times and make the packs safer by eliminating the flammable electrolyte solution used in lithium-ion batteries, auto executives and analysts say. Continue Reading

Posted On : 29 Sep 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage

Toyota’s Big Bet On Solid State Batteries Could Boost The Entire Sector

With the global electrification drive in full swing, electric cars have constantly been improving in terms of mileage, performance, charging time–and costs. And, Wright’s law has so far proven to Continue Reading

Posted On : 16 Sep 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage

An Extremely Low-Tech Solution To Our Energy Storage Problem

In the past decade, renewable energies have advanced leaps and bounds and dramatically dropped in price. Wind and solar have become scalable, tradable as commodities, and have even outgrown their Continue Reading

Posted On : 9 Sep 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage

Inside Clean Energy: In California, the World’s Largest Battery Storage System Gets Even Larger

Vistra’s lithium-ion battery system is co-located on the site of its existing Moss Landing Power Plant in Monterey County. Photo Courtesy of Vistra Corp. The largest battery storage facility in Continue Reading

Posted On : 3 Sep 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage

Iron-Air Batteries Could Be The Breakthrough Energy Markets Are Waiting For

Last year, we made a financial projection for the price of electricity long term, with or without decarbonization (“Electricity decarbonization is not that expensive, so let’s get on with it”, Continue Reading

Posted On : 27 Aug 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage
  • USA

U.S. Large-Scale Battery Storage Capacity Is Booming

Large-scale battery power capacity in the United States jumped by 35 percent last year to reach 1,650 megawatts (MW), and the significant growth of the past few years is set Continue Reading

Posted On : 21 Aug 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage
  • United Kingdom

UK-based consortium to develop prototype solid-state batteries for automotive

A consortium of seven UK-based organizations has signed a memorandum of understanding to combine ambitions to develop world-leading prototype solid-state battery technology, targeting automotive applications. Solid-state batteries offer significant potential Continue Reading

Posted On : 21 Aug 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage

Peak Oil: Is This Top U.S. Refiner Ditching Oil For Batteries? | OilPrice.com

Refiner Phillips 66 is betting on EV batteries for the future because it thinks we have already reached peak oil demand. The company has announced a strategic investment in an Australian lithium-ion Continue Reading

Posted On : 11 Aug 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage

Gates-Backed Battery Firm Gets Funding From Reliance, Others – Bloomberg

Ambri Inc., a Bill Gates-backed venture that makes batteries for power grids, said it secured $144 million to build production plants in funding led by billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries Continue Reading

Posted On : 10 Aug 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage

University of Münster team reviews battery cost forecasts, provides consolidated view – Green Car Congress

A team at the University of Münster has reviewed 53 studies that provide time- or technology-specific cost estimates for lithium-ion, solid-state, lithium–sulfur and lithium–air batteries among more than 2,000 publications Continue Reading

Posted On : 4 Aug 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • China
  • Energy Storage

China aims to install over 30 GW of new energy storage by 2025

 China aims to install more than 30 gigawatts (GW) of new energy storage capacity by 2025, its state planner said on Friday, as part of efforts to boost renewable power Continue Reading

Posted On : 23 Jul 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage

Startup Claims Breakthrough in Long-Duration Batteries

A four-year-old startup says it has built an inexpensive battery that can discharge power for days using one of the most common elements on Earth: iron. Form Energy Inc.’s batteries Continue Reading

Posted On : 23 Jul 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage

Startup Unveils Frugal Iron-Based Energy Storage

Form Energy, a startup developing energy storage solutions, said on Thursday that it had developed an iron-air battery chemistry that could help incorporate more renewable energy into the power grid. Continue Reading

Posted On : 23 Jul 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • California
  • Energy Storage

California Battery Boom Didn’t Come Fast Enough to Beat the Heat

Big batteries intended to save California from blackouts haven’t been added in time to stave off the threat of outages as the state struggles to meet power demand during this Continue Reading

Posted On : 18 Jun 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage

University of Michigan researchers lay out hurdles for Li-metal, solid-state batteries

In a perspective piece in the journal Joule , researchers at the University of Michigan lay out the main questions facing lithium-metal, solid-state batteries. To develop the questions, they worked Continue Reading

Posted On : 29 May 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage

Cement-Based Batteries Could Solve The Energy Storage Problem

Researchers have developed a concept for a rechargeable battery based on cement—a world-first such concept that they suggest could one day turn buildings into giant energy storage facilities. The proof Continue Reading

Posted On : 25 May 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage

World first concept for rechargeable cement-based batteries

​Imagine an entire twenty storey concrete building which can store energy like a giant battery. Thanks to unique research from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, such a vision could someday Continue Reading

Posted On : 25 May 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage

Rechargeable Concrete Battery

A rechargeable cement-based battery was developed, with an average energy density of 7 Wh/m 2 (or 0.8 Wh/L) during six charge/discharge cycles. Iron (Fe) and zinc (Zn) were selected as Continue Reading

Posted On : 25 May 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage

Ford, SK Innovation to form JV to manufacture battery cells and modules; 60 GWh/year from BlueOvalSK

Ford and SK Innovation signed an MoU to create a joint venture—to be called BlueOvalSK—to produce approximately 60 GWh annually in traction battery cells and array modules, starting mid-decade, with Continue Reading

Posted On : 21 May 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage
  • USA

Natural Gas, America’s No. 1 Power Source, Already Has a New Challenger: Batteries

Vistra Corp. owns 36 natural-gas power plants, one of America’s largest fleets. It doesn’t plan to buy or build anymore. Instead, Vistra intends to invest more than $1 billion in solar Continue Reading

Posted On : 17 May 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage

Harvard team develops long-life Li-metal solid-state battery

A team at Harvard has a developed a design for a solid-state battery that uses a hierarchy of interface stabilities (to lithium metal responses), to achieve an ultrahigh current density Continue Reading

Posted On : 17 May 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage

Ford plans to develop and produce electric vehicle batteries

Saying that it wants to control the key technology for electric vehicles, Ford plans to open a battery development center near Detroit by the end of next year. The company Continue Reading

Posted On : 28 Apr 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage

QuantumScape (QS) Stock Hit By a Short-Seller Attack. Its CEO Is Fighting Back

QuantumScape Corp. is the hottest battery-maker on the market, with recent valuations hovering between $13 billion and $20 billion. While the San Jose, California-based startup says its next-generation battery will Continue Reading

Posted On : 28 Apr 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple

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