The flying car got one step closer to reality earlier this month when the Japanese eVTOL company, SkyDrive, completed the country’s first manned flight of an electric vertical take-off and landing vehicle (eVTOL).
The Nissan LEAF is infamous for its battery problems. It started with the fast degrading 24kWh battery in the original 2010 Nissan LEAF. That battery was not up to the hot conditions of US Southwest states. It was replaced by a battery with a different chemistry, the 24kWh “lizard battery” in 2014. In 2015, the model year 2016 (MY2016) LEAF got a slightly larger 30kWh battery option. In the MY2018 Nissan LEAF, an even bigger 40kWh battery was offered.
The Tokyo-based manufacturer NEC is reportedly in final talks with the China-based investment group GSR to sell its battery electrode subsidiary, NEC Energy Devices, according to recent reports.
If the deal goes through, then that means that NEC will have completely exited the expensive lithium-ion business — presuming that the sale of NEC’s interest in its automotive battery joint venture with Nissan Motor to GSR also goes through.
A memorandum of understanding has been signed by 24M and NEC Energy Solutions whereby 24M has agreed to supply its semisolid lithium-ion cells for use in NEC Energy Solutions’ integrated storage systems. The companies will also work together “to ensure that supplied 24M cells enhance NEC system energy density, life and … [continued]
A new residential financing deal packages energy storage with solar panels in a combined rental and lease deal, so homeowners pay no money up front.
Originally published on ABB Conversations. By Marzio Zambetti The difference between solar PV on one side of the Atlantic versus the other Most of us are probably familiar with differences between American electrical standards and those used in most of the rest of the world through personal electronics. Today’s laptop computers … [continued]
Originally published on EnergyPost. By Karel Beckman NEC Corporation has announced the commissioning of an Energy Storage System (ESS) for Enel Group subsidiary Enel Distribuzione, Italy’s largest distribution system operator. The ESS can store two megawatt hours (2MWh) of renewable power for release into the grid as required, making it the … [continued]
NEC Italia, which is a subsidiary of NEC Europe, and Acea Spa, an Italian utility serving the Rome metropolitan area, have announced an agreement to develop innovative lithium-ion battery storage systems to be implemented in Acea’s primary and secondary power substations. This agreement was signed in December 2012, and it … [continued]
Not long ago, we saw the development of salt-tolerant crops in areas that couldn’t be irrigated or were damaged by a flood of salt-water. And then came the massive wave swamping northern Japan last March — it would seem like good timing, but it’s difficult to grow even salt-tolerant strains of anything in the wake of that mess.
