Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

SES (formerly known as SolidEnergy Systems), a developer of high-performance hybrid lithium-metal rechargeable batteries for electric vehicles (EVs) and other applications ( earlier post ), unveiled Apollo, a 107 Ah Li-Metal battery that is the largest in the world and is targeted at the automotive industry.

Li-ion 418

Li-ion Hybrid Batteries Battery 418

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

Top: The stress of repeated swelling and shrinking shatters a conventional silicon electrode and its polymer binding. Bottom: An electrode coated with stretchy, self-healing polymer remains intact. (C. 1 for Li 15 Si 4 at room temperature)—almost ten times that of commercialized graphite anodes. Wang et al.,

Li-ion 230

Li-ion Polymer Batteries Battery 230

Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2016

Prieto Battery, a company commercializing a 3D Lithium-ion battery technology ( earlier post ), announced a strategic investment from Stanley Ventures, the newly-formed venture arm of Stanley Black & Decker, a world-leading provider of tools and storage, commercial electronic security and engineered fastening systems.

Li-ion 199

Li-ion Commercial Batteries Battery 199

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

Balsara at UC Berkeley, have identified a new class of nonflammable electrolytes based on functionalized perfluoropolyethers (PFPEs) for lithium-ion batteries. In addition to being nonflammable, PFPE exhibits very interesting properties such as its ion transport. That makes this electrolyte stand apart from previous discoveries.

Li-ion 261

Li-ion Dominica Lithium Ion Batteries 261

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

A team at Penn State has developed a three-dimensional, cross-linked polyethylenimine lithium-ion-affinity sponge as the lithium metal anode host to mitigate the problem of dendritic growth of the metal anode. —Li et al. at a commercial-level areal capacity.

Polymer 230

Polymer Li-ion Sodium Lead Acid 230

Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2018

Researchers at the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology & Engineering in China have developed new hybrid electrolytes to support high-voltage Li-ion batteries (e.g., ~5 O 4 /Li batteries are improved by using the hybrid electrolytes. The result combines the merits of both solid and liquid electrolytes. —Xu et al.

Li-ion 199

Li-ion Hybrid Batteries Battery 199

Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2022

The selected projects are: Advanced Manufacturing Process Innovations – Flex-Ion Battery Innovation Center. The Flex-Ion Battery Innovation Center, a division of Ventra Group Co., will establish a center of excellence for advanced Li-Ion battery manufacturing, in collaboration with partner eCAMION. Lead: Ventra Group Co.;

Canada 304

Canada Li-ion Emissions Vehicles 304

Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2021

The report puts a special focus is placed on winning chemistries, with a full analysis of eight inorganic solid electrolytes and of organic polymer electrolytes. In addition, high-energy-density lithium metal anode can further push the energy density beyond 1,000 Wh/L. Major solid-state battery players globally. Source: IDTechEx.

Market 418

Market Batteries Battery Li-ion 418

Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2021

Kynar CTO PVDF grades using the mass balance approach under the ISCC+ certification process will be produced first in Arkema’s Pierre-Bénite plant in France for its European customers, focusing initially on grades specifically targeted for the lithium-ion battery market. These grades are expected to be commercialized by mid-2022.

Li-ion 186

Li-ion Oil Renewable Range 186

Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2017

The US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has entered into an exclusive license agreement with Forge Nano to commercialize NREL’s patented battery materials and systems capable of operating safely in high-stress environments. —Paul Lichty, CEO of Forge Nano. Debasish Mohanty, Kevin Dahlberg, David M.

Li-ion 170

Li-ion Lithium Ion Ni-Li Batteries 170

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Anovion, with its partners, collaborators and stakeholders, will build 35,000 tons per annum of new synthetic graphite anode material capacity for lithium-ion batteries used in electric vehicles and critical energy storage applications. Albemarle US , Kings Mountain Lithium Materials Processing Plant, $149,658,312.

Parts 459

Parts Batteries Battery Lithium Ion 459

Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2014

As part of a four-year DOE-funded project, researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory, working with FMC Corporation, have developed a novel polymer binder and solvent system facilitating the use of FMC’s unique Stabilized Lithium Metal Powder (SLMP) as a performance-enhancing additive in Li-ion battery electrodes.

Li-ion 240

Li-ion Lithium Ion Energy Polymer 240

Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2010

Sketch of the Sn/C/CGPE/ Li 2 S/C polymer battery. The battery is formed by a Sn/C composite anode, a PEO-based gel polymer electrolyte, and a Li 2 S/C cathode. Lithium-sulfur cells are based on the electrochemical reaction: 16Li + S 8 8Li 2 S. PEO=poly(ethylene oxide). Credit: Hassoun and Scrosati.

Lithium Ion 220

Lithium Ion Polymer Lithium Sulfur Li-ion 220

Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2021

SVOLT Energy Technology, a global advanced technology company and spin-off of Chinese automobile manufacturer Great Wall Motors, is the first to begin commercialization of lithium-ion batteries (LIB) utilizing metallic thin-film separator technology from Soteria Battery Innovation Group (BIG).

Li-ion 221

Li-ion Energy Lithium Ion Production 221

Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2021

A new fabrication technique could allow all-solid-state automotive lithium-ion batteries (ASSLBs) to adopt nonflammable ceramic electrolytes using the same production processes as in batteries made with conventional liquid electrolytes. O 2 cathodes and both Li 4 Ti 5 O 12 and graphite anodes. —Gleb Yushin.

Georgia 312

Georgia Li-ion Batteries Battery 312

Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2015

Stanford researchers led by Professor Yi Cui have used ceramic nanowire fillers to enhance the ionic conductivity of polymer-based solid electrolyte by three orders of magnitude. The ceramic-nanowire filled composite polymer electrolyte also shows an enlarged electrochemical stability window. Li 3 N and Li 1.3

Li-ion 150

Li-ion Lithium Ion Polymer Batteries 150

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2018

a leading provider of sensing, modeling/simulation, and control products, has introduced CellMod , the first Li-Ion battery simulation tool that can predict cell and pack behavior with a percentage of error of less than 5% under a wide range of test conditions. Sendyne Corp., Resources. Electrochem.

Li-ion 186

Li-ion Batteries Battery Lithium Ion 186

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

Solvay Ventures, the venture capital fund of Solvay, invested in Sepion, a California-based start-up that specializes in advanced membranes for batteries with Li-metal anodes and liquid electrolytes. Sepion raised funds to accelerate commercialization of lithium metal batteries for long-range and low-cost electric vehicles.

Li-ion 259

Li-ion Batteries Battery Companies 259

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

At left, a traditional approach combines Si (blue spheres) with a polymer binder (light brown) plus carbon (dark brown spheres). At right, the new conductive polymer (purple) continues to bind tightly to the Si particles despite repeated swelling and shrinking. 1 in Si after 650 cycles without any conductive additive. —Gao Liu.

Polymer 199

Polymer Li-ion Lithium Ion Batteries 199

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) battery scientist Nitash Balsara and co-inventor Joseph DeSimone of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, have launched Blue Current , a startup company backed by investment firm Faster LLC, to commercialize their non-flammable electrolytes for Li-ion batteries.

Li-ion 150

Li-ion Commercial Lithium Ion Batteries 150

Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2016

Silatronix, a developer of unique organosilicon (OS) electrolytes for use in lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) ( earlier post ), has raised US$8 million in new equity capital, and secured partnerships for distribution and joint technological development. Current Li-ion electrolytes are unstable above 60 °C and at charge voltages above 4.3

Li-ion 150

Li-ion Batteries Battery Wisconsin 150

Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2021

Hercules recently completed an agreement with Prieto Battery ( earlier post )—developer of a 3D solid-state Li-ion rechargeable battery—to co-develop and commercialize solid-state batteries for production in North America. This layer is pin-hole free, which is critical for the overall performance of the battery.

Li-ion 365

Li-ion Batteries Battery Lithium Ion 365

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2014

EnerG2, a company manufacturing advanced nano-structured materials for next-generation energy storage, has introduced a carbon and silicon composite to boost lithium-ion battery capacity and power performance. Earlier post.). The company says that it is working both with battery customers and silicon manufacturers.

Li-ion 236

Li-ion Carbon Lithium Ion Energy Storage 236

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

The company says that the energy version of technology (MN-eHP) exceeds 200 Wh/kg—one of the highest energy densities for a commercial Li-ion cell in a large prismatic design, according to the company. Typical MN-HP cells are available in 30Ah to 40Ah format (110 - 150Wh) and housed in a flat polymer pouch.

Li-ion 257

Li-ion Lithium Titanate Energy Lithium Ion 257

Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2013

Schematic illustration of 3D porous SiNP/conductive polymer hydrogel composite electrodes. Each SiNP is encapsulated in a conductive polymer surface. A team at Stanford University has developed stable silicon Li-ion battery anodes by incorporating a conducting polymer hydrogel into the Si-based material.

Li-ion 236

Li-ion Manufacturer Polymer Deep Cycle 236

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2016

A team from Stanford University and the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has developed a new practical, high-energy-capacity lithium-ion battery anode out of silicon by encapsulating Si microparticles (∼1–3 µm) using conformally synthesized cages of multilayered graphene. —Li et al.

Li-ion 150

Li-ion Lithium Ion Energy Batteries 150

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2021

The goal of the program is to translate the performance achieved at the lab- and bench-scale by previously funded ARPA-E technologies to commercial viability, supporting promising energy technologies that require scaling-up or pre-pilot projects to enable a path to market and ultimately lead to realized commercial impact.

Li-ion 199

Li-ion Batteries Battery Polymer 199

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2009

Li-ion batteries) as 3D structures to enable the powering of smart dust mote devices, and outlined several theoretical 3D structures for the batteries, which would have to have very high capacities to be able to fit on the device but still provide sufficient power. Credit: ACS. Click to enlarge. Source: CSU. Click to enlarge.

Li-ion 319

Li-ion Colorado Commercial Universal 319

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Corvus Energy is designing and manufacturing more than two megawatts of Li-ion batteries to be at the heart of four new 542 kWh hybrid tugboats now being. Corvus is thrilled to be part of this major project and have our industrial lithium-polymer battery technology featured in the hybrid tugs.

Li-ion 236

Li-ion Hybrid Energy Mariner 236

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

In … solid-state LIBs [lithium-ion batteries], one important component that needs to be improved to make it more suitable for high performance applications is the electrolyte material. Such solid composite electrolytes also have been previously shown to reduce lithium dendrite formation and proliferation in lithium metal batteries.

Li-ion 150

Li-ion Ni-Li Batteries Battery 150

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 3, 2013

Researchers at North Carolina State University (NCSU) have combined carbon coating and a carbon nanotube (CNT) framework to improve the cycling stability of Si (silicon) anodes for Li-ion batteries. As a promising anode material for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs), Si provides the highest known lithium storage capacity (4200 mA h g ?1

Li-ion 240

Li-ion Carbon Lithium Ion Polymer 240

Green Car Congress

APRIL 26, 2018

Researchers at Zhejiang University of Technology in China have fabricated magnesium borate (of the form Mg 2 B 2 O 5 ) nanowire-enabled poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO)-based solid-state electrolytes (SSEs) for solid-state lithium-ion batteries (SSLIBs). Polymer electrolytes such as PEO may show low conductivity near 10 ?6

Li-ion 207

Li-ion Polymer Lithium Ion Cheap 207

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2016

Stanford researchers have developed a fast and reversible thermoresponsive polymer switching (TRPS) material that can be incorporated inside batteries to prevent thermal runaway. This material consists of electrochemically stable graphene-coated spiky nickel nanoparticles mixed in a polymer matrix with a high thermal expansion coefficient.

Li-ion 150

Li-ion Polymer Batteries Battery 150

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2019

BDS produces and commercializes MOLECULAR REBAR, a proprietary technology of modified carbon nanotubes that offers potential for enhancing the performance of energy storage applications using lead-acid and lithium-ion batteries. BDS was founded in 2014 as a joint venture between SABIC Ventures US LLC and Molecular Rebar Design.

Energy Storage 268

Energy Storage Carbon Saudi Arabia Lead Acid 268

Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2015

Spurred by desperate demands for safe LIBs, all-solid-state lithium batteries (ASLBs) using noninflammable inorganic solid electrolytes (SEs) have attracted significant attention as ultimately safe energy storage device. LiPON (Li 3.3 N 0.17 ) is a well-known commercialized SE material and is used to fabricate thin-film-type ASLBs.

Li-ion 150

Li-ion Batteries Battery South Korea 150

Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2014

have developed an analysis method that enables direct observation of electron activity in the cathode material of lithium-ion batteries during charging and discharging. Nissan Motor Company and its affiliate Nissan Arc Ltd. Earlier post.). Nissan was established in December 1990, with capital provided by Nissan Motor Co.,

Li-ion 244

Li-ion Nissan Lithium Ion Ni-Li 244

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Finland-based Ahlstrom, a global high-performance materials company, has signed an agreement to invest in Porous Power Technologies, LLC, a US-based developer of highly porous, laminable separator membranes for Li-ion batteries. Earlier post.) The rest is trapped in the cell or lost to heat.

Li-ion 218

Li-ion Companies Power Powered 218