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APRIL 15, 2022

BluE Nexus Corporation, AISIN CORPORATION, and DENSO Corporation jointly developed an eAxle for Toyota’s new battery-electric bZ4X. AISIN has developed and produced more than 5 million electric units since the launch of its first hybrid transmission in 2004. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Exide Technologies announced that large performance gains will be seen in its new range of Start-Stop batteries. The new AGM battery will achieve four times longer cycle life, 20% more power and more than three times the charge acceptance of a standard conventional battery, according to Exide.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Exploring the unrealized potential of lead batteries is the goal of a new collaboration between the US Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory and two leading lead recycling and lead battery manufacturing companies: RSR Technologies and East Penn Manufacturing.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

million National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to discover new 2D materials that can be used to manufacture better and cheaper batteries. Since the discovery of graphene in 2004, about 700 2D materials are predicted to be stable; many remain to be synthesized. The University of Illinois at Chicago has received a $1.44-million

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 31, 2015

SolidEnergy , an MIT spin-out commercializing solid electrolyte technology enabling the use of lithium metal anodes for high energy density rechargeable batteries ( earlier post ), says that in 2016, it and its battery manufacturing partners will release a 2 Ah commercial battery for the smartphone and wearable market.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2021

Ford announced that it will reveal the new battery-electric F-150 Lightning pickup—a revival of the name of the old Ford SVT Lightning performance truck—in 19 May in a livestreamed event at Ford World Headquarters in Dearborn. A second-generation version was introduced in 1999 and was produced until 2004.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

O 2 battery (0.5 The dash lines indicate the calculated thermodynamic potentials for the batteries. O 2 ) battery with low overpotentials. mA/cm 2 —the lowest ever reported in metal-oxygen batteries, according to the team. mA/cm 2 —the lowest ever reported in metal-oxygen batteries, according to the team.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2014

Researchers at Mie University in Japan have developed a new protected lithium electrode for aqueous lithium/air rechargeable batteries. Lead researcher Nobuyuki Imanishi said that the system has a practical energy density of more than 300 Wh/kg, about twice that of many commercial lithium-ion batteries.

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DIY Electric Car

MARCH 21, 2021

I have an electrical issue with a Delta-Q Quiq charger that won`t charge 6 GEL batteries that are used in a 2004’ GEM E825 golf cart. There are a bunch of wires that need to be connected in order to charge the batteries. 1 Red wire (Battery +). 1 Black wire (Battery -). I think the problem lies in the wiring.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2010

Sanyo Electric recently announced an agreement with Suzuki Motor to supply lithium-ion battery systems for the Swift Plug-in Hybrid. kWh Li-ion battery pack. Sanyo has been supplying nickel-metal hydride batteries for hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) to Honda and Ford since 2004. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2020

Since MY 2004, CO 2 emissions have decreased 23%, or 108 g/mi, and fuel economy has increased 30%, or 5.8 Other highlights from the report include: Since model year 2004, technology has been used to increase fuel economy (up 30%) and power (up 14%), while maintaining vehicle weight and reducing CO 2 emissions.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Proterra was founded in 2004 with headquarters in California and is a leader in the business with electric buses for local transport. In this way, we are broadening our scope in particular concerning the key technology of the battery – also with regard to North America. —Martin Daum.

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CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Back in 2004, Elon Musk became the largest shareholder and chairman of Tesla. Later, in 2008, Warren Buffett invested $232 million for a nearly 10% stake in BYD, a China-based company that makes lithium-ion batteries and electric cars.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Ford is expanding its electrified vehicles research and development program in Europe and Asia this year, creating a “hub-and-spoke” system that allows the global team to further accelerate battery technology and take advantage of market-specific opportunities. Ford electrified vehicle sales in the US.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The articulated electric buses will be equipped with 182 kWh Solaris High Power batteries. Solaris has been collaborating with Szczecin since 2004. The electric buses will be delivered to Szczecin by the end of September 2021. The contract is worth PLN 32 million (nearly €8 million).

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Electric Vehicles India

MAY 5, 2021

Ford Motors to Manufacture Batteries. Now, Ford and BMW together funded around $130 Million in a solid-state battery start-up named Solid Power and it also plans to open a new battery lab called Ford Ion Park with a team of 150 experts. Ford already has a Battery benchmarking and testing laboratory in Michigan.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2019

A special type of battery cell hardly heats up during charging or discharging phases. In addition to conventional CSC charging, the fast charging mode allows for a sensationally short charging time of only 4:40 minutes to 80% battery capacity with an exceptionally high recuperation rate. Acceleration is expected to be 0-100 km/h in 3.2

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2018

This year’s outlook is the first to highlight the significant impact that falling battery costs will have on the electricity mix over the coming decades. This year’s outlook is the first to highlight the significant impact that falling battery costs will have on the electricity mix over the coming decades.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2016

Li-sulfur battery developer OXIS Energy UK ( earlier post ) and Lithium Balance of Denmark are partnering to build a prototype Lithium-sulfur battery system primarily for the e-scooter market in China. Lithium Balance is a battery management expert which has supplied its BMS systems for Li-ion based e-scooters for a decade.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Lithium-ion battery cell for plug-in hybrid vehicles (left) and. Panasonic Corporation will supply prismatic lithium-ion battery cells for Ford Motor Company’s Fusion Hybrid Electric and C-Max Hybrid Electric as well as the Ford Fusion Energi and C-Max Energi plug-in hybrids. hybrid electric vehicles (right). Click to enlarge.

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MAY 4, 2022

The company provides specialist material solutions for many composite applications, including Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) storage tanks for marine bulk carriers and composite material for EV battery cases as well as high-quality prepregs for aerospace, marine and automotive markets.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2020

Lane Transit District (LTD) in Oregon has awarded New Flyer a contract for 11 Xcelsior CHARGE battery-electric forty-foot heavy-duty transit buses, including seven ABB depot chargers to support electric bus infrastructure development. LTD has a longstanding commitment to sustainability.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2011

Exide Technologies announced the production of its 2,500,000 th micro-hybrid battery in Europe. These advanced lead acid batteries are used in vehicles with Start-Stop systems aimed to cut the fuel consumption and CO 2 emissions. Both the AGM and ECM batteries are 100% recyclable.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

The Transit Bus Repower is a full-featured powertrain conversion of an existing diesel transit bus to a battery-electric bus. The powertrain features an active thermally-managed battery system, sourced from a Tier 1 battery cell manufacturer. Lightning Electric Repowered Gillig bus.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2015

A team of researchers in Japan, including colleagues from the R&D Center at batter-maker GS Yuasa, are exploring Li 3 NbO 4 -based (trilithium niobate) materials as new and promising electrode materials for high-energy rechargeable lithium batteries. A paper on their work is published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2009

Examples of prospective 3-D architectures for charge-insertion batteries, as proposed by Long et al. (a) In a 2004 paper in the ACS journal Chemical Reviews , Long et al. proposed configuring charge insertion batteries (i.e., In a 2004 paper in the ACS journal Chemical Reviews , Long et al.

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CleanTechnica EVs

DECEMBER 21, 2021

When I was there in 2004, it was generally a good idea to avoid putting your hands on things and avoid leaning on walls outdoors if wearing white. Some Context Air pollution has long been a major issue in Taiwan. Failure to do that could mean you’d get black soot on your face or dark […].

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 15, 2018

Toyota's hybrid-electric system, launched in Japan in 1997, likely didn't break even until sometime after the 2004 launch of the second-generation Prius. Long-range battery-electric vehicles are the same, according to analysts and insiders: the question.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2011

a leading maker of battery-electric commercial transit buses. Proterra’s EcoRide BE-35 battery electric bus ( earlier post ) is averaging up to 24 mpg (diesel equivalent) in service, a more than 600% improvement over a typical diesel bus. was founded in 2004 and is currently manufacturing buses in a temporary plant in Greenville, S.C.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2020

The unique mineral— jadarite —was discovered by Rio Tinto geologists in 2004 near the city of Loznica in Western Serbia. The project has the potential to supply the world with a significant amount of end-industrial products for lithium batteries for electric vehicles and energy storage facilities.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2013

Saft is developing advanced Li-ion battery technology for Lockheed Martin’s 5 th Gen F-35 Lightning II. Saft will produce an advanced high power battery that provides the back-up power for electro-mechanical actuation for the flight control surfaces. The 28V battery has a capacity of 900 Wh, and power of 5.0

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Graphene is a graphite-like substance first isolated in 2004. Some analysts view it as useful in improving the efficiency of batteries, but now it appears.'

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Teslarati

APRIL 6, 2023

The company explained that JB Straubel’s experience both in Tesla and as the head of battery recycling firm Redwood Materials would be invaluable. Mr. Straubel joined Tesla in 2004, and spent 14 years as our Chief Technology Officer, where he played a key role in our battery cell design, and engineering and production.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 31, 2017

Ford launched hybrids in 2004, before any other maker, but its battery-electric efforts thus far have been strictly compliance cars. Among the Detroit Three automakers, General Motors has a quarter of a century of electric-car experience, from the legendary EV1 to the 238-mile Chevrolet Bolt EV.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 17, 2010

in lithium-ion and other advanced battery technologies. Hitachi hopes to boost worldwide sales of its lithium-ion and other batteries for use in electric vehicles and smart grids.If Johnson Controls has already formed a Li-ion joint venture with Saft—Johnson Controls Saft—for Li-ion batteries. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 18, 2009

As part of a reorganization effort designed to optimize its lithium-ion battery businesses, Hitachi will consolidate all its automotive battery work to Hitachi Vehicle Energy Ltd, its joint venture formed in 2004 with Shin-Kobe Electric Machinery Co. Automotive batteries will be consolidated to Hitachi Vehicle Energy Ltd.,

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JUNE 21, 2010

has established a new in-house company—the Battery Systems Company—to strengthen its battery business with a focus on the steadily growing lithium-ion battery market. The Battery Systems Company comprises two existing Hitachi companies: Hitachi Maxell, Ltd. Tags: Batteries. Hitachi, Ltd. Hitachi Vehicle Energy Ltd.

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