Posts tagged Hybrid Vehicles
Panasonic’s new home battery could store a week’s-worth of electricity
Dec 24th
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Panasonic is charging into the green space headlong — first with deals to supply batteries for electric and hybrid vehicles — and now announcing that it will launch a massive lithium-ion storage battery capable of powering an average home for up to a week, the company says.
This is significant for two reasons. First, [...]
Dept. of Energy hands out $100M more to risky biofuel, battery and carbon capture projects
Dec 7th
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The U.S. Department of Energy has been placing a lot of emphasis on bold, out-of-the-box plays when it comes to cleantech — an attitude that led to the creation of ARPA-E, its Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy. At the end of October, it gave $151 million in grants to 37 high-risk projects aimed at [...]
Car battery maker EnerDel nabs early toehold in grid storage
Nov 30th
The success of a cleaner, more efficient super grid hinges on the development of large-capacity storage — we heard that time and time again at GreenBeat 2009, from investors Vinod Khosla and Peter Wagner, as well as from Al Gore and Innovation Competition winner Locust Storage. Now, EnerDel, a subsidiary of Ener1, known for making [...]
Car battery maker EnerDel branches into grid storage
Nov 30th
The success of a cleaner, more efficient super grid hinges on the development of large-capacity storage — we heard that time and time again at GreenBeat 2009, from investors Vinod Khosla and Peter Wagner, as well as from Al Gore and Innovation Competition winner Locust Storage. Now, EnerDel, a subsidiary of Ener1, known for making [...]
