Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2016

Axion Power International, a leader in carbon battery technology and energy storage, has resumed negotiations with LCB International, Inc. a BVI investment company, towards a refined and simplified technology licensing agreement to take Axion Power’s patented PbC (lead-carbon) technology ( earlier post ) to China.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2010

Hybrid electric locomotive sales will have an increasing presence in global rail markets between 2015 and 2020, according to a new report from Pike Research. In Europe, track electrification will eliminate the need for either diesel or battery storage in many areas. Advanced lead acid batteries will make inroads as well.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2014

million to develop a next-generation lithium ion “6T” battery system for use in military applications, with a focus on ground combat vehicle applications. Currently, there are three companies funded by Alion to develop a first-generation lithium 6T Battery: Navitas Systems, Saft ( earlier post ), and Eagle Picher. Earlier post.).

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Blink Charging

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

As dealerships embrace electrification to maintain competitiveness , it’s crucial to also explore the benefits of integrating battery energy storage systems (BESS). Discover key insights into incorporating battery storage for your dealership’s sustainable energy storage. What are battery energy storage systems?

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

Saft was selected by Thales Australia to deliver Li-ion battery systems that have the potential to power up to 1,300 Hawkei military tactical vehicles. The Saft Li-ion battery system features an advanced, lightweight design within the dimensions of a traditional lead-acid battery, enabling easy integration into the vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

electric utility company, battery manufacturers Exide and beta-motion and inverter manufacturer SMA Solar Technology AG (SMA) have joined forces to build the first multi-technology, modular large-scale 5MW battery storage system. Beta-motion GmbH’s high-output lithium-ion batteries will be used for efficient load management.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 27, 2013

PowerGenix, developer of high performance Nickel-Zinc (NiZn) batteries, announced that its batteries have achieved certification for start-stop applications by China National Laboratory’s Tianjin Automotive Test Center. l/100 km) by 2015, and 47 mpg (5.0 l/100 km)by 2020.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2014

Ballard will also provide M-Field with engineering services support into early-2015 through Dantherm Power A/S, the company’s subsidiary in Denmark, to assist in optimizing system integration activities utilizing Ballard fuel cell stacks. The agreement has a value of approximately $1 million.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Asahi Kasei projects significant growth in demand for Li-ion battery separators in the automotive segment. Polypore’s energy storage business comprises two main elements: Celgard Li-ion battery separators and Daramic lead-acid battery separators. Batteries' Source: Asahi Kasei. growth in Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2012

will build a $200-million automotive battery plant in Tianjin, China, pending final approval. The facility will supply automakers and the aftermarket in China with high quality maintenance-free lead-acid starter batteries and advanced batteries for start-stop vehicles. Johnson Controls, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2013

Saft has been awarded a contract from Lockheed Martin for delivery of e6T Li-ion battery systems for the engineering and manufacturing development (EMD) phase of the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) Program. The e6T battery system includes electronic devices for performance, thermal, and safety management specific to the application.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2011

The market will receive a boost from new diesel locomotive emissions regulations scheduled to go into effect in the European Union in 2014 and in North America in 2015, which will require diesel locomotives to receive substantial changes or exhaust treatments. during the same period, with annual unit sales exceeding 170. —Dave Hurst.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

Such a battery would allow British Antarctic Survey (BAS) to increase autonomous scientific measurements made in the Antarctic significantly without increasing transport costs or emissions. It is very difficult to secure the effective utilization of battery systems in extreme temperatures, whether hot or cold.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2009

Panasonic Storage Battery Co. is providing the new lead-acid battery (the N55) used in conjunction with Mazda’s i-stop stop-start system deployed on the Axela and Biante. According to a report in the Nikkei, Panasonic aims to produce enough batteries for 1 million stop-start vehicles a year by fiscal 2015.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2012

Pike finds that lead-acid batteries will be the primary storage technology used in the Asia Pacific electric two-wheel vehicle markets; Li-ion batteries will account for a smaller (but growing) share of the technology used in e-scooters and e-motorcycles. In Asia Pacific overall, the use of Li-ion batteries in.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2015

On the technology side, although upgraded lead-acid batteries currently represent the majority of production, Li-ion is beginning to make inroads, and ultracapacitors are establishing a niche in a supporting role. —“ Start-Stop Vehicles ”.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

But in the 1980s, they were conversions with lead-acid batteries that were both expensive and impractical. Sometimes my liberal environmentalist side fights with my fiscally conservative side, and my decision-making suffers as a result. I’ve wanted an electric car for the past 30 years.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 27, 2015

Advanced Batteries for Transportation and Renewable Energy Storage. Radically new battery systems or breakthroughs based on existing systems can move the US more rapidly toward a more sustainable transportation future. Closing date for applications is 20 October 2015. The duration of unsolicited awards is typically three years.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2013

The Advanced Lead-Acid Battery Consortium (ALABC) and Controlled Power Technologies (CPT) will introduce a low-carbon 48 volt LC Super Hybrid technology demonstrator at the International Vienna Motor Symposium this week. It combines advanced lead-carbon batteries with CPT’s production-ready SpeedStart motor-generator system.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

Although NiMH is still the dominant battery in the high-voltage hybrid market, Li-ion technology started to take market share around 2009 and is expected to continually increase its share with time. billion in 2015 and $9.2 Li-Ion batteries for strong hybrids are in short supply. billion in 2020. Source: AAB. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Global automotive Li-Ion battery production capacity is outstripping demand five-to-one as automakers refocus on hybrids and away from full electric vehicles, according to Dr. Menahem Anderman’s recently released xEV Industry Insider Report. The associated Li-Ion automotive battery business will expand from $1.4 million in 2020; and.

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Get Electric Vehicle

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The cars were powered by a 72-volt lead-acid battery. It had an AC induction motor and a 96V lead-acid battery pack as its power source. The main issue with these vehicles was their lack of consistency, short battery life, and extremely high battery costs. The Future.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 15, 2015

Fuel cell systems using the 3M MEA’s and Plug Power stack design will begin shipments in the fourth quarter of 2015. GenDrive, a lead-acid battery replacement, is used in electric lift trucks in high-throughput material handling applications.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2012

The system generally relies on an advanced lead-acid battery—such as those provided by Johnson Controls—that can handle the deep cycling requirements of more frequent starts throughout the course of a trip. Start-stop vehicles could achieve 40% of the new vehicle market in the United States in that same time frame.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2015

Stealth-mode battery start-up 24M has introduced its new semi-solid lithium-ion cell. By 2020 our battery costs will be less than $100 a kilowatt-hour (kWh). The lithium-ion battery is a brilliant, enabling technology, but its economics are flawed. A battery having a first charge capacity at first C-rate, for example, 0.5

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2010

the largest supplier of automotive batteries, is investing $118 million to build a third automotive lead-acid battery plant in China, to be located in Chongqing. The company will later this year begin locating its fourth plant, with a capacity of 6 million batteries, in the northern region of China.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 21, 2021

In a 2015 interview with the WGBH Forum Network , Dudley Foster , an engineer who worked on Alvin , described the previous submersibles as “blimps.” Propulsion equipment was housed in the back of the vehicle along with three lead-acid batteries and five buoyancy spheres, which controlled its vertical movement.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

The use of a carbon-enhanced valve-regulated lead-acid (VRLA) battery will help maximize energy recuperation during deceleration, fully realizing SpeedStart’s potential for high power generation and hence electrical energy recovery. This compares with €6,000 to more than €18,000 for a full hybrid or electric vehicle.

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Qnovo

DECEMBER 30, 2019

So what battery trends should we expect for the upcoming 2020-2030 decade? Lithium-ion batteries will power more applications — electrification of everything: The 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry highlights the progress lithium-ion batteries achieved in the past four decades.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

The Advanced Lead Acid Battery Consortium (ALABC) last month showcased three hybrid electric concept vehicles resulting from its R&D program that demonstrate the real-world potential of lead-carbon batteries in 48V architectures. their high recyclability rate. their high recyclability rate.

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Green Cars News

JULY 15, 2009

However, now we can think of green cars - because Panasonic Storage Battery Company will be providing the new lead-acid battery that will be used in conjunction with Mazda’s i-stop stop-start system. The system produced for Mazda will be deployed on the Axela and Biante.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2015

At Eurobike 2015, Samsung SDI unveiled a 500Wh e-bike Li-ion battery pack that can run for 100 km on a single battery charge. Samsung SDI is exhibiting six types of standardized battery packs that can either be built inside or installed on the outside for immediate use. follow up its past record of being No.1

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2015

Saft has signed an on-board battery system replacement contract valued at around €4 million with SNCF, France’s national state-owned railway operator. The on-board batteries play a critical role for SNCF by providing the backup power to support control, safety and communications functions should the main power supply be interrupted.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2015

Freescale Semiconductor introduced the MC33772 3- to 6-cell lithium-ion battery cell controller, expanding its portfolio of highly integrated and connected solutions for reducing bill of materials (BOM) cost, increasing operating robustness and meeting stringent functional safety requirements for automotive and industrial battery systems.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2011

The study found that in the near term, compressed air energy storage (CAES) systems, currently the most cost-effective bulk storage technology for long discharge durations; advanced lead-acid batteries; and Zn/Br flow batteries generally had the smallest gap to support the business case based on regional benefits.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

April 10, 2009 10:09 am Link It amazes me that in the vast debate about electric cars world wide including here in Norway, no one ever mention the fact that the batteries in such cars need replacement in no more than five years. So imagine a million electric cars on US roads which all need to change these batteries in say 2015.

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