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Johnson Controls begins production of batteries for Start-Stop vehicles in China

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Johnson Controls is expanding its manufacturing operations in China by beginning production of advanced lead-acid batteries for Start-Stop vehicles to help automakers meet increasingly strict fuel economy and emission regulations. The global Start-Stop market for new vehicles could reach 49 million annually by 2020.

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Johnson Controls to supply AGM batteries to Chery Jaguar Land Rover in China; introducing 48V micro hybrid system

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Johnson Controls will provide its Absorbent Glass Mat (AGM) advanced lead-acid battery technology to power the Chery Jaguar Land Rover Start-Stop and other vehicles made in China to serve the China market. The battery restarts the engine when the driver’s foot releases the brake pedal or engages the clutch. AGM for Start-Stop.

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Pike Research forecasts global stop-start vehicle sales to reach 37M units annually by 2020; 16:1 ratio over HEVs

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Annual sales of SSVs and hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs), world markets, 2011-2017. At that level, SSVs will represent more than one-third of all light-duty vehicle sales, Pike notes. That gap will widen to a 16 to 1 ratio by 2017 because of the lower cost of SSVs compared to HEVs, Pike projects. Source: Pike Research.

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Calls for an international 48V electrical standard for vehicles; looming WLTP implementation

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the Worldwide harmonized Light vehicles Test Procedures (WLTP). The EU goal is to introduce the WLTP by 2017 if possible and no later than 2020 to coincide with the 95 g/km requirement. This means that in addition the power demand is more difficult to achieve with engine downsizing and transmission down-speeding alone.

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Most of the members were much more interested in building one,” Garver said, explaining that some of the early members worked as engineers for McDonnell Douglas and NASA. I’d done a conversion with lead acid batteries in 1982 on a 1971 VW Beetle,” Garver continued. “My These are guys who were doing solar back in the Eighties.”

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Anderman: Li-ion capacity far outstripping demand as automakers focus more on hybrids, less on full EVs

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In October, strategy consultancy Roland Berger updated its 2010 report on the Li-ion battery business in which it warned that only six to eight global players in rechargeable battery business would survive through to 2017. The tremendous hype around Li-Ion batteries has left us with a bubble.

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Most of the members were much more interested in building one,” Garver said, explaining that some of the early members worked as engineers for McDonnell Douglas and NASA. I’d done a conversion with lead acid batteries in 1982 on a 1971 VW Beetle,” Garver continued. “My These are guys who were doing solar back in the Eighties.”