The story these days is batteries, batteries, batteries. Scaling up electric vehicle production is all about scaling up batteries, and scaling up the mineral mining and refining essential to batteries. Scaling up renewable energy generation capacity is all about scaling up battery storage capacity to help with the fluctuations in … [continued]
The giant 690 MWac/966 MWdc Gemini solar power project planned for Las Vegas, Nevada, will include 1,416 MWh of energy storage capacity. This will be one of the largest solar+storage projects in the United States, or the world for that matter. Primergy Solar LLC is developing the $1.2 billion project. … [continued]
A large reason people were hesitant about the most current version of US electric vehicle subsidies was that it wouldn’t provide funding to vehicle makers who rely on China for minerals used in batteries. Some argued that if we only used battery materials from friendly countries, it would either lead … [continued]
Bloomberg New Energy Finance has upgraded its forecast for global energy storage (GES) by 13% thanks to recent developments in the US and Europe. GES currently sits at 50 GW. Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) is predicting that it will rise to almost 150 GW by 2025, and over 400 … [continued]
Toyota claims that by producing 900,000 conventional hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs), it has effectively produced and sold the equivalent of 300,000 BEVs. Whether this is true or not, I will leave the mathematicians and the wise ones who understand the battery chemistry way better than I do to chime in. … [continued]
When I reviewed another LiPOWER power station, I have to admit that I wasn’t terribly impressed. It worked, but I could tell that the fit and finish and build quality was a lot more AutoZone than most other stations. But, that having been said, the price was right, and it … [continued]
The EV battery world has changed a lot in the past few years. Let’s start with the 10 largest EV battery manufacturers through most of 2022, but then also look at how this list is different from a few years ago. As you can see above, CATL (Contemporary Amperex Technology … [continued]
Lithium-ion batteries are efficient, compact, and have a long lifespan — all factors that enable electric vehicles (EVs), which are powered by these batteries, to be a great substitute for their gasoline counterpart. Transportation is a large contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. By switching to EVs, and away from these … [continued]
Bristol-led team uses nanomaterials made from seaweed to create a strong battery separator, paving the way for greener and more efficient energy storage. Sodium-metal batteries (SMBs) are one of the most promising high-energy and low-cost energy storage systems for the next-generation of large-scale applications. However, one of the major impediments … [continued]
Back in the 1990s, researchers undertook the Human Genome Project, a 13-year journey designed to enable a new era of innovation in medicine. By assembling and sharing vast amounts of data to uncover the secrets behind the genetic determinants of disease, this project transformed the medical industry and led to … [continued]
