Green Car Congress
MARCH 15, 2018
Lithium and cobalt are fundamental components of present lithium-ion batteries. Analysis by researchers at the Helmholtz Institute Ulm (HIU) of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) suggests that, given the foreseen scaling of battery demand up to 2050, each may face supply risks, albeit for different reasons.
Green Car Congress
JULY 6, 2016
Materials researchers at the Swiss Paul Scherrer Institute PSI in Villigen and the ETH Zurich have developed a very simple and cost-effective procedure for significantly enhancing the performance of conventional Li-ion rechargeable batteries by improving only the design of the electrodes without changing the underlying materials chemistry.
Cars That Think
AUGUST 27, 2021
Faraday was an interesting choice for this task, as Nancy Forbes and Basil Mahon recount in their 2014 book. He read many of the books he bound and continued to look for opportunities to learn more. He had discovered sodium, potassium, and several compounds and invented the. Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field.
Cars That Think
MAY 23, 2023
I’m senior editor Stephen Cass, and today I’m talking with a former Spectrum editor, Sally Adee, about her new book, We Are Electric: The New Science of Our Body’s Electrome. But before that, a number of the researchers I spoke to for this book told me that they had started to see it in papers that they were reviewing.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 28, 2009
The MiEV runs on a lithium-ion battery pack that can be charged in seven or so hours on a 240-volt line. with battery suppliers A123Systems and EnerDel Inc. The modular, front-wheel-drive battery electric car has dent-resistant polymer-plastic body panels mounted on an aluminum frame and a steel chassis.
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