BP Wind Energy has installed a high-performance energy storage solution at its Titan 1 Wind Energy site in South Dakota, a first for BP’s U.S.-operated wind business and an important first installation of battery technology that could hold promise for other sites. The technology will improve energy efficiency at the site, help address the intermittency…
BP launches wind & battery storage project with Tesla
BP Wind Energy, through its wholly-owned subsidiary Rolling Thunder I Power Partners LLC, has signed a purchase agreement to install a high-storage battery at its Titan 1 Wind Farm in South Dakota. The project is the first of its kind in BP’s U.S. operated wind business and a potential step forward in the performance and…
‘Just the beginning’ as Australia flips switch on world’s largest electric-grid battery
Tesla has provided a 129-megawatt-hour battery for South Australia.
Three aspirations for long distance EVs
All the publicity currently goes to the work of giving regular and premium cars longer range than is currently available.
Tesla chooses LG Chem to supply Li-Ion cells for its roadster upgrade
Tesla, in comparison, is aiming to sell 50,000 Model S and Model X vehicles per year representing around 3.9 GWh and $1 billion in Li-ion battery packs.
Linde wind plant a necessary step in creating hydrogen-fueled cars
Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by editor Alex Webb from Bloomberg Business. After decades of research, Linde says the elements needed to make hydrogen-fueled cars a viable challenger to Tesla’s battery-driven vehicles are finally falling into place. The company recently opened a plant that uses wind power to convert water into the gas. That completes…
Many Tesla patents now released to free to EV developers
Editor’s note: The development of the electric vehicle industry is just one more step toward more energy independence. And an equally exciting thought is that electric vehicles could run on wind generated power, recharging at night when electric demand is lowest.This post is a blog by Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors. In early…
Why Tesla is important to the wind industry
Electric vehicles with 60 mile ranges and long recharge times are likely to be tethered to a cord in the garage for an overnight recharge, and used only for short commutes. The situation will persist until their range improves with new batteries or many fast chargers are readily available. How could the industry move things…
Electric vehicles of all sorts are good for the wind industry
Toyota has introduced a hydrogen-powered fuel-cell vehicle to its North American market at the 2014 CES in Las Vegas. Although technically a concept, the company says a production version of the FCV (fuel-cell vehicle) will go on sale in the U.S. sometime in 2015. This confirms, at least to me, we are at the new dawn…