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The Mother of All EV-Solar-Smart Grid Integrations
The ambitious Austin, TX-based Pecan Street project is piloting a number of green neighborhood technologies, but the real challenge will be getting these systems to talk to each other to reduce energy consumption and peak loads.
Date: 10/11/2011
Type: News
Technologies: Batteries, Buildings, Control Systems, Solar/Photovoltaics, Communication, Energy Conversion, Energy Storage, Smart Grid, Transportation
Tags: batteries, electric cars, electric vehicles, home energy management, peak load, photovoltaics, smart grid
The Battery 500 Project
In this video, experts talk about the research and development behind lithium-air battery technology and why they feel it may represent the future of energy storage for electric vehicles.
Date: 07/08/2010
Type: Video
Technologies: Batteries
Tags: electric vehicles, energy storage, lithium-air
Super-High Pressures Used to Create Super Battery: 'Most Condensed Form of Energy Storage Outside of Nuclear Energy'
Washington State University researchers used super-high pressures to create a compact, never-before-seen material capable of storing vast amounts of energy.
Date: 07/05/2010
Type: News
Technologies: Batteries, Energy Storage
Tags: batteries, energy storage, semiconductors
Sulphur Breakthrough Significantly Boosts Lithium Battery Capacity
Stanford researchers have discovered a way to use graphene-coated sulphur particles as a means of increasing the specific capacity of lithium batteries.
Date: 07/05/2011
Type: News
Technologies: Batteries
Tags: graphene, lithium batteries, nanoengineering
Startup's Battery Could Provide Cheaper Grid Storage
Battery startup Primus Power's newly designed flow batteries could make grid scale energy storage cheaper.
Date: 06/07/2011
Type: News
Technologies: Batteries
Tags: flow battery, modular design
Start-up Promises a Revolutionary Grid Battery
Battery developer Eos Energy Storage claims to have solved key problems holding back a battery technology that could revolutionize grid energy storage. If the company is right, its zinc-air batteries will be able to store energy for half the cost compared to natural gas.
Date: 01/04/2012
Type: News
Technologies: Batteries
Tags: battery efficiency, battery storage capacity
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Squeezing More Energy Out of Batteries
Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center has developed a new printing technology that promises to pack more energy into batteries for electric vehicles: the technology could increase battery storage capacity by 10 to 30 percent.
Date: 03/02/2011
Type: Article
Technologies: Batteries, Energy Storage
Tags: auto batteries, battery efficiency, battery storage capacity, electric vehicles, electrodes, energy density, lithium metal-air batteries, llithium-ion batteries
Smarter Control of Electric Vehicle Batteries
Nanoelectronics technology is improving the way that batteries and motors in electric vehicles are controlled, giving them a longer range on each charge.
Date: 01/13/2010
Type: News
Technologies: Batteries, Transportation
Tags: electric vehicles, nanoelectronics
Silicon-Coated Nanonets Could Build a Better Lithium-Ion Battery
Researchers at Boston College use nanotechnology to develope a new anode material which could improve lithium-ion batteries.
Date: 02/18/2010
Type: News
Technologies: Batteries, Energy Storage
Tags: lithium ion battery, nanotechnology
Si-containing Anode Material Doubles Li-ion Battery Current Capacity
Dow Corning Toray Co Ltd exhibited a silicon-containing carbon material for negative electrode of lithium-ion batteries which more than doubles the capacity.
Date: 05/29/2009
Type: News
Technologies: Batteries
Tags: batteries, Dow Corning Toray, lithium-ion

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