Axion Power International, the developer of advanced lead-carbon batteries and energy storage systems, talked of ongoing work in the transportation sector at this week’s Agrion Global Network for Energy event. Vani Dantam, senior vice president…
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Siemens is currently installing its first Sitras Energy Storage (SES) unit with supercapacitor technology in the US, on the TriMet Portland-Milwaukie Light Rail Transit Line. The southeast Portland Tacoma substation location will house the first…
A Portland, US, light rail system is to implement a braking-energy recuperation system using ultracapacitors produced by Maxwell Technologies and a USD$4.2 million grant from the US Department of Transportation’s Transit Investment for Greenhouse Gas…
Gravity and rolling stock are the keys to Jim Kelly’s Advanced Rail Energy Storage concept. An electric motor powered by surplus electricity propels a train up a slope and when the electricity is required during…
The US already has one and now the UK is tinkering with the idea of making battery-operated trains, with the government publishing a study to say that the vehicles are a future possibility for the…
Battery giant Saft has just announced that it has cut the ribbon on a new factory in Bidadi, Bangalore, with its partner Amalgamations. The factory, which will double Saft’s local capacity, will produce advanced rechargeable…
It’s not just what you do, it’s the way you do it. That’s what researchers into lead acid batteries found, when they successfully designed a charging algorithm to overcome some of the aging processes that…