article thumbnail

Tier 1 HELLA evaluating PowerGenix NiZn batteries for 48V mild hybrid vehicles

Green Car Congress

Micro hybrid vehicles are traditional gasoline- or diesel-powered cars with automatic, battery-powered stop-start systems that shut off the engine while the vehicle is at rest and restart it upon re-engaging the gas pedal. Nickel-zinc batteries are chemically very similar to nickel-cadmium, NiCd. Earlier post.)

article thumbnail

Electric bicycles classifications, history & development 

Electric Vehicles India

The ICE vehicles are one of the main causes of polluting the environment, the exhaust emissions of internal combustion engines such as hydrocarbons (HC), nitrogen oxides (NOx), carbon monoxide (CO), and particulate matter (PM), the need for alternate energy methods is greater than ever. Nickel-cadmium battery(NiCd).

article thumbnail

Who Really Invented the Rechargeable Lithium-Ion Battery?

Cars That Think

Whittingham, a young British chemist, joined the quest at Exxon Research and Engineering in New Jersey in the fall of 1972. Up to that time, the best rechargeable battery had been nickel cadmium, which put out a maximum of 1.3 Whittingham’s battery was unlike anything that had preceded it. And the timing was perfect.

article thumbnail

Kangoo be bop Z.E. electric vehicle available for test drive

Green Cars News

This commitment is founded on the underlying principle that electric vehicles – unlike all other technologies (internal combustion engines, hybrids) – are zero-emission vehicles during their use on the road. That said, electric vehicles generally tend to emit less greenhouse gases than equivalent internal combustion-engined vehicles.