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SolarEdge, Kokam open 2GWh cell plant in South Korea

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SolarEdge Technologies and SolarEdge’s subsidiary, Kokam Limited Company, a provider of lithium-ion batteries and integrated energy storage solutions, announced the opening of “Sella 2”, a two gigawatt-hour (GWh) battery cell manufacturing facility.

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Berkeley Lab and Hydro-Québec partner on transportation electrification and energy storage

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Hydro-Québec and the US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have agreed to explore collaborations toward the research and development of manufacturing and scale-up technology to advance transportation electrification and energy storage. of sales in 2018, climbing to 15.5%

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Octillion marks 100,000 EVs on the road with its batteries, 2 billion km driven

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Octillion Power Systems, a provider of advanced lithium-ion storage systems for electric mobility, announced it has reached two milestones: 100,000 electric vehicles worldwide powered by its batteries and 2 billion kilometers driven. After graduation from Stanford University with a Ph.D

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IBM Almaden Lab Exploring Lithium-Air Batteries for Next-Generation Energy Storage

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Leveraging expertise in materials science, nanotechnology, green chemistry and supercomputing, scientists at IBM Research’s Almaden lab in San Jose, California, are undertaking a multi-year research initiative around a grid-scale, efficient, affordable electrical energy storage network. Almaden Institute. Takeshi Ogasawara et al.

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USABC awards $8M advanced battery technology contract to A123 Systems

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USABC awarded the 24-month contract to A123 to continue developing its Nanophosphate lithium-ion battery systems to meet USABC’s target application for a Power-Assist Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PAHEV) Low-Energy Energy Storage System (LEESS). USABC Requirements at End of Life for LEESS PAHEV. Click to enlarge.

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Panasonic Starts Mass-Production of High-Capacity 3.1 Ah 18650 Li-ion Cells

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Ah lithium-ion battery and began mass production of the battery this December. Ah cell has a nickel cathode and an energy density of 675 Wh/L. Ah lithium-ion battery with a nickel positive electrode (energy density: 620 Wh/L) in 2006. Volumetric energy density. The new 3.1 Earlier post.).

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Johnson Controls files petition to dissolve Li-ion battery JV with Saft

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The filing is under the Dispute Resolution Provisions set forth in the Johnson Controls-Saft LLC Operating Agreement signed in January 2006. JCI has advised Saft that the dispute is based on a wish to expand the scope of JCS beyond the limits set within the 2006 Agreement.

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