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Notes from VoltQ's energy-storage research: batteries, electrolytes, EV supply chains and the materials behind them.
115 posts from VoltQ's earlier work in battery materials and energy storage.
- Solid state batteries are EVs finally cheaper than gasoline
- Sodium Ion Batteries Aluminium radicals BNEF outlook
- Questions to ask new battery technology in order to vet it
- Water-inside-Salt Electrolytes – WISE
- John Goodenough, the inventor of the Lithium Ion battery, obituary
- John Goodenough and Helena Bragas glass electrolyte battery
- Greater Bay Technology-new-chinese-startup-claims-long-range-and-fast-charging
- Economist: Deep Sea mining may ease the worlds battery materials woes
- Nickel foil added to batteries help charge them faster
- Assorted five New Battery Technologies
- Extend batteries lives by 30% using a simple circuit.
- Battery prices declined by 97% due to advances in chemistry and materials research & development
- Battery powered Locomotives to be made in Chicagoland
- EVs are much more efficient than Internal Combustion Engines
- VoltStorage raised 24 mn USD from Cummins engines
- Influit develops liquid lithium ion flow batteries
- Burning batteries in EV’s being transported by sea makes it tougher to put out fires on transporting ships.
- Net metering, drones are best for last mile delivery, BMW Neue Klasse combines batteries and hydrogen
- Batteries from Trees: Northvolt and Stora Enso
- Nikola acquires Romeo Power, Paper Battery invented, Nio makes a long range battery pack
- China dominates the EV supply chain: IEA
- Why Toyota is promoting Fuel Cell Vehicles & how they differ from Battery Electric Vehicles
- The Copper crunch and why Copper Recycling cannot fix it
- Nuclear Energy is clean – and the EU has classified it as such
- Tesla’s BESS in Australia is functioning fully as a giant inverter!
- Cuberg, a Northvolt subsidiary, doubles their cell’s energy density !
- Rapid battery cost declines accelerate the prospects of all-electric interregional container shipping: Nature magazine
- Indian EV sales and uptake of EVs by the Indian market: why is the Govt. of India promoting EVs?
- Ford secures battery supplies for 600,000 EVs a year from 2023: Nytimes, ArsTechnica
- Gold rush for soft-technology assets in Mobile telephony, Drone Airspace and potentially renewable energy?
- ESG investors are warming to nuclear power after EU labeled nuclear power as green
- Harman/Kardon, Clicking batteries, and lack of chargers causing lack of 4W EV adoption.
- The Atlantic on Battery Recycling: The ReCell center
- Volkswagen opens a battery manufacturing division – ArenaEV
- Sumant Sinha of Renew Power on energy storage in the HinduBusinessLine
- Its prudent to use EV 2Wheelers for shared mobility with battery swapping. For personal use and for last mile delivery use point charging.
- Ars Technica , EE Times on battery lifecycles
- SIX metals are key to a low-carbon future – Carbon Brief
- From Reuters: Customers want smaller, faster charging batteries and lower driving range in their EVs
- Battery materials demand and supply – 2025-2030-2035 – IESA – Indian Energy storage Alliance
- PV magazine reports that energy storage (ESS) in the US has tripled from 2020-2021
- Haryana State Govt Electric Vehicle Policy – Times of India
- IEA report on the Solar sector
- Herbert Diess VW in TheVerge, PV-Magazine IEA report on energy storage
- Sodium Ion batteries in IIT Kharagpur
- Jakson (Noida, india) starts a green Hydrogen company
- “Sand Battery” – hot tank of sand, “Water-battery” – giant water tanker are online in Scandinavia
- EU designates Nuclear and Natural Gas as green, sustainable sources of energy officially!
- Sodium Metal batteries – Nature Materials Paper
- David Roberts in Vox – how cheap does energy storage need to be to get to full deployment in the Solar and Wind sector?
- Water batteries in Switzerland have been around for a while
- High temperature (India-friendly) Lithium Sulfur batteries are stabilized by UC San Diego team
- JMK research on EV’s June 2022, and a presentation on the Electricity Amendment Bill
- Forbes and BP on statistics of world energy consumption
- Adreesh Ghoshal in the Medium on how batteries catch fire
- Economic Times on Show cause notice to EV manufacturers on Battery fires
- Sand batteries in Finland and Mercom on VC interest in Energy storage
- JMK research on Grid scale electricity storage and Mercom magazine on solar energy
- Ethics in battery science and materials properties – QuantumScape and Scorpion Capital
- A few really good Pdfs on aspects of the renewable energy tranformation and Web3
- Niti Aayog on Electric 2W penetration by 2024
- EU plans to ban the sale of internal combustion engines by 2035
- CATLs Story from 2011
- Connecticut bus catches fire and burns the entire bus
- Sales of 2W EVs
- Medium: Aircraft emissions are not as big as other sources of emissions. They are way tinier. Take that, electric aircraft startups~!
- Gabriel Popkin in Medium: New Materials (science) is necessary to decarbonize
- MIT Tech Review: Innovation that solves problems that are not the main pain point of the field or customer
- MIT Tech Review: Sulphur Flow batteries from Prof Yet Ming Chiang
- Ample Energy’s John D’Souza’s interview on Battery Swapping
- MIT Tech Review: Richard Martin : Why we don’t have better batteries and why changing chemistries is so tough.
- Full self drive needs a lot of work before it can be relied on fully !
- Covering Climate Now!
- Vox:Getting to 100% renewables requires cheap energy storage. But how cheap?
- VoltQ’s heroes 2 – Alan Octavian Hume’s ideas
- VoltQ’s heroes – John F Kennedy’s ideas
- Solid State Batteries are nearly here
- Leasing is a good model for car ownership
- Circular economy in Silicon PV and Lithium Ion batteries – NREL research paper – part 2
- Washington U – battery materials flowchart – excellent link!
- Circular economy in Silicon PV and Lithium Ion batteries – research paper – part 1
- Switzerland has a giant water-battery !
- Elektrek: USB-C charging for e-bikes?
- CATL’s new battery pack – Qilin – with excellent capacity and water cooling
- Everything about the chemistry of Lithium Ion Phosphate ; link on YouTube
- Canalys estimates that 6.5 million electric vehicles (EVs) were sold worldwide in 2021, up 109% on 2020!
- Nature Materials: that the difference in the charge-discharge operating voltage leading to low energy efficiency is due to long-lived kinetically hindered intermediate species of nickel.
- Recycling is being automated via computer vision aided robotics
- Cost-competitively meeting baseload demand 100% of the time requires storage energy capacity costs below $20/kWh
- Lithium demand forecast: APC UK
- Techcrunch on Lithium Iron Phosphate
- Lithium Iron Phosphate helps low cost EVs
- China is central to all EV and renewable supply chains
- Toyota will be recycling batteries with redwood materials
- QuantumScape Revolutionary Solid State battery is here!
- Battery GST will come down to 5% to make it in line with EV GST rates
- From Livemint: Monopoly and battery swapping
- Honda will be doing battery swapping in India
- Brian Gitt on chasing utopian renewable energy ideas!
- Mitra Chem interview, ARPA-E funding results, 51% of a batterys value lies in the cathode!
- Solar costs of panels have come down by 99% as per Vox Magazine
- Tsung Xu has written an excellent clean energy guide
- Vecmocon battery management systems
- Our Next energys mixed battery packs for BMW drive toa record range
- Companies that are driving better recycling technology for lithium batteries
- Lilium has achieved horizontal flight with horizontal electric thrust!
- Toyota is building home storage batteries
- Sila nanotechnologies is building batteries for Mercedes
- Quantscape senior personnel has resigned
- A novel manganese hydrogen battery has been developed!
- Thermal runaway in Lithium Ion batteries
- The role of innovation in the US
- Battery Fires in waste management
- Solar energy uptake has been lightning fast, globally
- 2017 outlook on Li Ion batteries by Prof Manthiram
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