Aquion Energy says its sodium-ion battery technology can solve these problems. The Pittsburgh, Pa.-based startup says its technology can deliver round-trip energy efficiency of 85 percent, a ten-year, 5,000-plus-cycle lifespan, energy storage capacity optimized to charge and discharge for multi-hour applications, and perhaps most notably, a price point of $250 per kilowatt-hour -- much lower than the $500-and-up per kilowatt-hour of today’s competing technologies.
Aquion Energy Closes $55M VC Round for Grid-Scale Battery Plans : Greentech Media
Amprius, a startup working on a new type of long-lasting lithium-ion batteries for laptops and electric vehicles, has started to sell its batteries for use in portable electronics. The company recently raised $30 million in venture capital to develop its next-generation batteries, which use high-energy silicon electrodes. The company says the batteries will store about 50 percent more energy than the battery cells in today’s electric vehicles.
High Energy Silicon Batteries Edge Closer to Market | MIT Technology Review
Last week, GTM Research released a new report on distributed energy storage in the commercial sector. It explores distributed energy storage as a driver of a new paradigm for electricity supply, delving into the market potential, deployment barriers, incentives and regulations, and wholesale market opportunities.
4 Factors Driving the Commercial Energy Storage Market : Greentech Media
Tweet Ramez Naam, author of The Infinite Resource: The Power of Ideas on a Finite Planet, recently explained that lithium-ion batteries have a fifteen year history of exponential price reduction. Between 1991 and 2005, the capacity that could be bought with $100 went up by a factor of 11. The trend continues through to the present day.
Will there be a Battery Singularity by 2025 ?
Sumitomo Corp. (8053) said it installed a power storage system using recycled electric-vehicle batteries near a solar power station in the western prefecture of Osaka. The 600-kilowatt system is the world’s first large-scale power storage system from used EV batteries, the Tokyo-based company said in a statement today. The device uses 16 used batteries.
Sumitomo Sets Up Solar Power Storage System With Used Batteries - Bloomberg
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Sumitomo Corp. (8053) said it installed a power storage system using recycled electric-vehicle batteries near a solar power station in the western prefecture of Osaka. The 600-kilowatt system is the world’s first large-scale power storage system from used EV batteries, the Tokyo-based company said in a statement today. The device uses 16 used batteries.
Sumitomo Sets Up Solar Power Storage System With Used Batteries - Bloomberg
Interesting article as it highlights the fact that many if not most automotive grade Li ion batteries will have significant useful service lives following death of the chassis. That resale market should become substantial in years to come. It was one of the reasons I was so interested in Ener1 and its advanced batteries.
Unfortunately there were a couple of bad business decisions made by HEV and ...in my mind at least...a suspect Chapter 7 filing. One of the original major holders (a Russian billionare) was able to subsequently buy the company's substantial intellectual and manufacturing assets from the bankruptcy court for pennies on the dollar. A very sad investment outcome for us little guys.
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'admin' pid='37156' datel Wrote:
Sumitomo Corp. (8053) said it installed a power storage system using recycled electric-vehicle batteries near a solar power station in the western prefecture of Osaka. The 600-kilowatt system is the world’s first large-scale power storage system from used EV batteries, the Tokyo-based company said in a statement today. The device uses 16 used batteries.
Sumitomo Sets Up Solar Power Storage System With Used Batteries - Bloomberg
Interesting article as it highlights the fact that many if not most automotive grade Li ion batteries will have significant useful service lives following death of the chassis. That resale market should become substantial in years to come. It was one of the reasons I was so interested in Ener1 and its advanced batteries.
Unfortunately there were a couple of bad business decisions made by HEV and ...in my mind at least...a suspect Chapter 7 filing. One of the original major holders (a Russian billionare) was able to subsequently buy the company's substantial intellectual and manufacturing assets from the bankruptcy court for pennies on the dollar. A very sad investment outcome for us little guys.
Yea, that's tough, and generally that innovative space is risky, although if you got hold of the right tail, you can ride a tiger to riches. But in the meantime, there is so much that can go wrong. I genuinly believe one should only reserve a small part of one's portfolio to that space, and have multiple stocks, which then become like options.