Energy Storage

IDTechEx forecast Li-ion demand to grow almost 10-fold from 2020-2030, but can supply meet this demand? Automotive manufacturers the world over are pledging to electrify their fleets.

Enovix Corporation has secured $45 million in new funds to produce and commercialize its 3D Silicon Lithium-ion Battery.

An increasing number of news articles about "Redox Flow Batteries" are present on the web. This technology, mostly adopted in on-grid and off-grid applications, has been studied for the last 50 years, and it is currently being commercialized (most of the time) in a containerized size, for medium- and large-scale applications.

The pandemic infection of COVID-19 has led to the lockdown of a considerable number of cities, leading to reduced pollution activity. With the large number of renewable energy sources employed in the last decades to decarbonise the energy sector, a growing number of energy storage devices have been coupled with renewable energy sources.

FreeWire Technologies develops mobile energy storage systems for electric vehicle charging and power applications.

6K launches 6K ENERGY division to bring high performance energy storage materials to electric vehicle, grid storage and consumer markets.

Harmony Energy has secured planning permission for a new 49.5MW battery energy storage system in Salisbury, Wiltshire.

China based electric vehicle and battery manufacturer released details of their new battery design for EVs.

BYD has announced the launch of the Blade Battery, a development set to mitigate concerns about battery safety in electric vehicles.

Electrification and autonomy will ultimately dominate the automotive space. Future autonomous electric vehicles (EVs), especially shared autonomous fleets such as robotaxis will have no driver to perform the charging tasks. In that case, how will future autonomous EVs be refuelled? This premium article will provide an overview of charging solutions for autonomous EVs including conductive robotic charging and wireless charging. Alternative solutions such as battery swapping will also be discussed.

Printed Energy is an Australian company that is developing batteries based on Zn and MnO that can be directly printed in any shape onto a customer's device. Their target markets are RFID enabled sensors for IoT applications, and wearable devices including skin patches.

Aggreko acquired Younicos in July 2017 to diversify its business into stationary energy storage. Younicos originally provided stationary energy storage systems with a focus on front-of-meter grid-level solutions. Since October 2018 Younicos has been fully integrated into Aggreko's brand.

This profile discusses Volkswagen Group's involvement in electric vehicle robot charging.

WiTricity develops systems that deliver power wirelessly to devices using batteries through a technology known as magnetic resonance.

Electrify America is a company that owns and manages a network of electric vehicle charging stations. The company aims to deploy one of the most extensive EV charging networks across the US, supporting CCS, CHAdeMO (DC charging) and J1772 standards (Level 2 charging) so almost every EV can be charged.

Green Motion is a Switzerland-based EV charger manufacturer.

This profile discusses Qualcomm's own wireless electric vehicle charging (WEVC) system, called Halo.

This profile discusses Webasto's business in electric vehicle charging infrastructure.

BP ChargeMaster is an electric vehicle charging solution provider that supplies charging units for residential, commercial and public uses and operates one of UK's largest public charging network.

The porous mostly-silicon films can hold more lithium ions and move them around super-fast. And they're cheap.