Envia Systems Receives Grants To Develop Battery Technology For EVs

Envia Systems has received a $4m grant from the US Department of Energy's (DOE) newly formed Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) and $1m from the California Energy Commission (CEC). Envi...

Published: 17-Mar-2010

Ice Energy Begins First Phase Of Thermal Energy Storage Project

Ice Energy has started the first phase of its 53MW thermal energy storage project, which is expected to reduce peak electrical demand by shifting as many as 64GWh of electrical consumption from peak t...

Published: 17-Mar-2010

Beacon Power Installs Flywheel Energy Storage System At California Wind Farm

Beacon Power has installed and connected a Smart Energy 25 (Gen 4) flywheel energy storage system at a wind farm in Tehachapi, California. The system is part of a wind power/flywheel demonstration pro...

Published: 15-Mar-2010

Ice, Austin Energy Team Up For Distributed Energy Storage Pilot Project

Ice Energy, a provider of advanced energy storage for the electric utility industry, has installed a distributed energy storage pilot project, in conjunction with Austin Energy, at the South Austin Re...

Published: 12-Mar-2010

A123 To Develop Lithium Ion Battery Systems For Navistar EV

A123 Systems, a developer and manufacturer of advanced Nanophosphate lithium ion batteries and systems, has signed an agreement to develop lithium ion battery systems for electric vehicles for Navista...

Published: 11-Mar-2010

Balqon Introduces New Battery Management System

Balqon, a developer and manufacturer of zero emissions heavy-duty electric vehicles for Class 7 and Class 8 applications, has introduced a new Battery Management System (BMS) designed to prolong batte...

Published: 03-Mar-2010

Kemet Bags Contract From DOE For Electrolytic Capacitors

Kemet, a manufacturer of electrolytic capacitors, has bagged a $31.7m contract from the US Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory. As a part of the contract Kemet will produce fi...

Published: 03-Mar-2010

Voith Selects Maxwell Ultracapacitor Modules For Hybrid Transit Bus Drive Systems

Maxwell Technologies (Maxwell) has said that Voith Turbo (Voith), a producer of heavy vehicle drive systems, has selected Maxwell's 125-volt Boostcap ultracapacitor modules for braking energy recupera...

Published: 03-Mar-2010

Discover Energy, Optimum Partner On Lithium Battery Technologies

Discover Energy, a clean and green stored energy solutions, has formalized its eight year partnership with Optimum Battery in the commercialization of advance battery technologies including Lithium te...

Published: 02-Mar-2010

GM Partners With Apriso, HP For Chevrolet Volt Battery Assembly Operations

Apriso and HP have said that General Motors has selected and is implementing an Apriso product to expand visibility into and control over battery manufacturing and supply chain operations. ...

Published: 02-Mar-2010

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