Energy Storage

As demand for electric vehicles and stationary energy storage grows, there will be an increased need to properly manage waste and end-of-life Li-ion batteries, providing an opportunity for new businesses, business models and processes. As part of this, recycling will play a key role. This premium article will cover the processes and technologies used for Li-ion battery recycling.

Redox flow batteries are rechargeable devices that store energy in reversible redox couples (active materials).

In Graubünden, a new 1.25 megawatt large-scale battery has put into operation. At the beginning of 2020, the largest Swiss indoor battery with 1.35 megawatts was connected to the grid in Thurgau. Both storage power plants support Swissgrid with primary and secondary control energy, stabilize local grids and serve to avoid peak loads.

Yotta Energy has selected Flex as its manufacturing partner for the production of its PV-Coupled energy storage system. This partnership will allow Yotta to rapidly scale its technology for commercial and industrial markets.

Exploration of extremely cold environments, from Earth's polar regions to the moon and Mars, requires technology that can rapidly store and deliver electricity at ultralow temperatures. NASA's Perseverance rover, for example, needs heaters to keep the rover's battery system from freezing in Martian temperatures averaging about -81 F (-62 C).

Patents can provide useful insight into innovation trends within a certain technology area, with a patent landscape providing information on the following as somewhat of proxy for innovation and activity in a market. This premium article presents an overview of a patent landscape performed on the Li-ion battery space.

This article series is intended to assist those designing or using electronic and small electrical devices seeking to modernise. It will also assist those in their value chains even including investors and governments. The advances revealed and predicted apply widely from medical electronics to personal and household electronics, Internet of Things and more.

C's Techno are a spin-out from the Nagoya Institute of Technology and specialize in graphene growth via plasma-enhanced CVD. IDTechEx spoke with Professor Masayoshi Umeno (director) and Dr Ritesh Vishwakarma.

Omniflow is a company that transforms simple streetlights to a smart IoT platform. IDTechEx spoke with Pedro Ruão (CEO).

For batteries to fit into narrow and crooked spaces and to store more energy for e.g. electric mobility, flexibly adaptable cells are required. So far, however, lithium-ion battery cells have been produced in standardized formats and rigid systems.

Registration data for the US delivery van market in 2020, with the market share of major OEMs. Detail on the electrification plans of major OEMs and start-up electric delivery van manufactures. Tesla confirm they will definitely make an electric van

Thursday 15 April 2021 - Green Hydrogen Production Systems: Future Development of the Hydrogen Industry. Understanding of the hydrogen economy concept: characteristics and problematics; Technical analysis of the major electrolyser technologies; and Future evolution of hydrogen market.

Join the IDTechEx webinar Wednesday 31 March 2021 - An introduction to urban air mobility and air taxi services; The basics of eVTOL aircraft design architectures; Background into ongoing eVTOL projects for passenger transportation; and much more!

Carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) is generating much enthusiasm across the world, with the hopes that it could play a major role in the fight against climate change. However, amidst this enthusiasm, the industry suffered an apparent setback in mid-2020 when the Petra Nova facility in Texas, then the world's largest CCUS facility for a coal-fired power station, was closed down.

Voltabox provide Li-ion battery packs to markets outside of cars. This interview focussed on their new material to replace metal housings in battery packs.

We are looking for entrepreneurial, enthusiastic people to join IDTechEx to apply their technical knowledge. You will be involved with technology scouting, market research and consultancy in a rapidly growing, exciting, global firm.

Researchers have produced a structural battery that performs ten times better than all previous versions. It contains carbon fibre that serves simultaneously as an electrode, conductor, and load-bearing material. Their latest research breakthrough paves the way for essentially 'massless' energy storage in vehicles and other technology.

The NAS batteries will be used in Mongolia's first solar power plant construction project with an adjoining battery energy storage system. The introduction of large-capacity NAS batteries alongside the solar power generation facilities will enable solar power-generated electricity to be used day or night.

The all-new battery powertrain developed by Williams Advanced Engineering for Triumph Motorcycles' TE-1 project will set new standards for electric bike performance.

On March 15th 2021, Volkswagen held a Tesla-like event, Power Day, outlining their strategy and technology roadmap for their shift toward electric vehicles (EVs). This premium article will focus specifically on VW's long-term strategy to make use of high-manganese cathodes, delving into what is meant by 'high-manganese cathodes', how they compare to other cathode materials with regards to performance and cost, and the commercial activity and opportunity they hold.