Energy Storage

Honda has announced key targets for sales of electrified vehicles in North America, with a plan to make battery-electric and fuel cell electric vehicles to represent 100% of its vehicle sales by 2040, progressing from sales of 40% by 2030 and 80% by 2035.

The solution at Essity has been developed through a collaboration between Volvo Cars, Essity, Stena Fastigheter and BatteryLoop, a company within Stena Recycling that is a leader in the reuse and recycling of batteries, primarily from the automotive industry.

A 4th generation of SerEnergy's fuel cell units: SereneU will now be released. The new generation introduces many advantages, such as longer lifetime, less service and maintenances, and improved total cost of ownership.

XING Mobility and Castrol announced a partnership to further develop XING Mobility's immersion cooling battery technology, utilizing Castrol's advanced thermal management fluid to deliver unprecedented power and safety to the rapidly growing electric vehicle market.

The ChargedEVs online conference presents many topics around the electric vehicle (EV) market. In the following article, we cover the presentations that focussed on adhesive and/or insulation materials for EV batteries, motors and electronics. In this article we cover the talks covered by the following companies: -3M -Axalta -DuPont -Elantas -Epoxies -Huntsman -Parker Lord

The outcome of IDTechEx's calculation regarding the Levelized Cost of Storage (LCOS) of Li-ion battery and Redox Flow Battery shows a considerable lower LCOS for the redox flow battery system on LiB. This articles explains the exact assumptions and values are provided, showing the reader the exact formula employed by IDTechEx.

Will Li-ion batteries continue to dominate the stationary storage market?

The BEV Innovation Virtual Summit covered specific technology-based talks from some of the key players in the electric vehicle market as well as more general talks around the future of manufacturing and market overview. In this article we cover the technology-related talks for electric vehicles covered by the following presenters: -MANN+HUMMEL -Shell -Dow -Protean

COVID-19 has had a drastic effect on the automotive industry. Despite these damning figures, there is a silver lining. This article looks at the 3 types of cars where sales saw an increase across most of the globe.

Ten years ago, IDTechEx correctly predicted that fuel cell cars would be a failure. Fuel cells are more promising for aircraft compared to cars because aircraft, particularly eVTOL, have severe safety issues caused by cold, old or faulty batteries, the longer ranges being currently impossible.

The deployment of zero-emission buses in the US has lacked the impetus of the electrification efforts seen in China and Europe, as discussed in IDTechEx's report "Electric, Hybrid and Fuel Cell Buses 2021-2040". This is about to change.

Energy harvesting technology for devices

Various components within EVs require sealing including the battery enclosures, coolant lines and many others. Dow has a range of silicone sealing solutions tailored for the electric vehicle market.

Each year, April 22nd marks Earth Day, a worldwide event that aims to diversify, educate and activate the environmental movement. To mark Earth Day 2021, here are some of the technologies that IDTechEx believes will be instrumental in winning the fight against climate change.

The liquid air energy storage plant uses cryogenically-liquefied air as a medium for storing energy. It is especially suitable for special applications that require large amounts of energy over a discharge time of several hours, and enables fluctuating, renewable sources to bear base-loads.

An innovative fuel cell system based on high-temperature proton exchange membrane technology from Blue World Technologies is being constructed for testing at the Alfa Laval Test & Training Centre in Aalborg, Denmark.

The Morrison and Marshall Governments have signed a $1.08 billion State Energy and Emissions Reduction Deal that will deliver secure, reliable and affordable energy to South Australians and help Australia continue to meet and beat its emissions reduction targets.

Increased electrification of transportation, including inland waterway transport, will play a key role in helping Portugal achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. According to the national 2050 Carbon Neutrality Roadmap, the transport sector aims to achieve 98 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions compared to 2005, by strengthening the role of the public transport system and replacing current fossil fuel means of transportation with a mainly electric fleet.

Bostik hosted a webinar recently (13/04/21) covering their adhesive and sealant solutions for electric vehicle (EV) batteries.

Rio Tinto has commenced production of battery-grade lithium from waste rock at a lithium demonstration plant at the Boron mine site in California, United States.