Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2009

A collaboration led by the UK’s Cranfield University has developed a retrofit plug-in hybrid conversion system for a conventional internal combustion engine vehicle. This transformed the van into a hybrid vehicle capable of achieving an all-electric range of more than 20 km (12 miles) on one charge. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

The ADEPT project was launched in 2013 to demonstrate the potential for 48V-based intelligent electrification to deliver full hybrid-scale fuel efficiency from a highly cost-effective package. The supporting systems for electrical and vehicle integration include a 12V-48V DC-DC converter and a Ricardo hybrid supervisory controller.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2013

Axion Power International, Inc, the developer of advanced lead-carbon PbC batteries and energy storage systems ( earlier post ), has entered a strategic relationship with ePower Engine Systems LLC. ePower showed its first converted truck—a Peterbilt 387—at the 2011 Mid-America Truck Show.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

The new system supplements the traditional 12V electrical network with a 48V electrical system and components, bridging the gap between low-end hybridization based on present-day 12V start/stop systems and more sophisticated high-voltage hybrid solutions. Its dimensions are virtually identical to those of a 12V lead-acid battery.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2022

IDTechEx calculates that non-automotive EV sectors in 2021 demanded approximately 31 GWh globally in 2021; for reference, battery-electric and plug-in hybrid cars demanded approximately 280 GWh globally in 2021. Battery Demand From Non-automotive EV Sectors in 2021. Source: IDTechEx - “Electric Vehicles: Land, Sea & Air 2022-2042”.

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Charged EVs

APRIL 1, 2024

In contrast, lead-acid batteries have a 99% recycling rate in the US. Charged : Do different companies handle different steps of the process that converts spent battery packs to minerals? But right now, used lead-acid batteries are a commodity. Each has its own set of environmental issues.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

an $800,000 grant to demonstrate Axion’s proprietary PbC battery technology ( earlier post ) in a variety of electric vehicle types including: hybrids (HEVs); plug-in hybrid electric (PHEVs) used in commuter, delivery and other vehicles; and EVs , including converted (from combustion engine operation) EVs. US Airways Inc.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2009

During the Work Truck Show in Chicago, California-based Electric Vehicles International (EVI) has introduced a line of electric and hybrid Class 3-6 commercial vehicles to the US market. use Valence lithium phosphate or Trojan lead acid battery packs for power. eviLightTrucks.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2009

has signed a definitive Memorandum of Understanding for a multi-year, global supply relationship with Alpharetta, GA-based Exide Technologies for the purchase of Axion PbC batteries—multi-celled asymmetrically supercapacitive lead-acid-carbon hybrid batteries ( earlier post )—and other Axion technologies. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2013

This can be a big problem for users of an ultracapacitor since DC-DC converters necessary to most ultracap applications require cell voltage be maintained above 1/2 full cell voltage. While emerging new converters. facilities used for electrolytic capacitors as well as lead/acid and alkaline. batteries to be leveraged.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 1, 2024

In contrast, lead-acid batteries have a 99% recycling rate in the US. Charged : Do different companies handle different steps of the process that converts spent battery packs to minerals? But right now, used lead-acid batteries are a commodity. Each has its own set of environmental issues.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2013

This can be a big problem for users of an ultracapacitor since DC-DC converters necessary to most ultracap applications require cell voltage be maintained above 1/2 full cell voltage. While emerging new converters. facilities used for electrolytic capacitors as well as lead/acid and alkaline. batteries to be leveraged.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2019

With its new Dual Voltage Battery Management System and PowerPack 48 Volt products, the company is now one of the first on the market to offer innovative battery module solutions for mild-hybrid vehicles. The system allows vehicles with internal combustion engines to be converted to a mild hybrid. Picture: HELLA).

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Electric Vehicles India

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The power-assisted bicycle is a human-electric hybrid bicycle that assists the rider. 1896, Charles Theryc invented the wheel with an electric motor hub that can be applied to vehicles and bicycles that helps to convert the self-moving bicycle into an ordinary bicycle. Lead-acid battery. Power-assisted bicycles.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

About CalCars Plug-In Hybrids FAQ How to Get a PHEV Where PHEVs are Carmakers Say. Conversions are mostly for the Prius, with a few for the Ford Escape/Mercury Mariner hybrid SUVs. See How Carmakers are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity. So far, most start as hybrids.

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Green Cars News

APRIL 29, 2009

A collaboration between the UK’s leading automotive engineering facilities has resulted in the development of the first plug-in retro-fit hybrid conversion of a combustion engine vehicle. This transformed the van into a hybrid vehicle, capable of achieving an all electric range of over 20 km, from one charge.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

About CalCars Plug-In Hybrids FAQ How to Get a PHEV Where PHEVs are Car-Makers Say. Our PRIUS+ Project Photos PHEV Resources Global Warming Take Action News and Events Contact Us Latest from CalCars-News: [ see all latest ] How CalCars Green-Tuned an 04 Prius into a PRIUS+ Plug-In Hybrid! Were making PRIUS+ happen.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Freescale Semiconductor introduced the MM912J637 intelligent battery sensor (IBS), which accurately measures the voltage, current and temperature of lead-acid batteries and calculates the battery state, all while operating in harsh automotive conditions.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2011

That car, Leohold noted, had a lead-acid battery pack with about 24 kWh of energy, was propelled by wheel hub motors and had a range of about 50 km—“ not that much different than today. Since the ideal battery is not around yet, we have to introduce hybrids. “ But nevertheless, that’s something.

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Charged EVs

MAY 2, 2024

The most common choices of battery type are lithium iron phosphate (aka LFP or LiFePO 4 ), all of the other lithium-ion chemistries (including recycled batteries from junked EVs), and, finally, lead-acid. The last option is venerable old lead-acid, though perhaps it’s best to relegate it to the proverbial dustbin of history.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2015

According to a new technology briefing paper on hybrid system technologies by John German at the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT), the costs of full-function hybrid systems are likely to drop to half the cost of their 2010 counterparts before 2025. Historical and projected hybrid system direct manufacturing cost.

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Baua Electric

MAY 2, 2024

The most common choices of battery type are lithium iron phosphate (aka LFP or LiFePO 4 ), all of the other lithium-ion chemistries (including recycled batteries from junked EVs), and, finally, lead-acid. The last option is venerable old lead-acid, though perhaps it’s best to relegate it to the proverbial dustbin of history.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2011

electricity) to hybrid and electrical vehicles, although the cost of implementing EES is of great concern. The most commonly used systems today work by converting electricity to kinetic (e.g., Lead-carbon battery. —Yang et al. Issues for potential ESS systems include: Performance requirements.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

both electrodes are carbon, as opposed to the hybrid (asymmetric) ultracapacitors in which in one of the electrodes is carbon and the other electrode utilizes a different material. Energy densities of hybrid ultracapacitors can be significantly greater than that of carbon-carbon ultracapacitors, but power densities are lower.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2009

For reference, a typical lead acid battery can survive 500-800 cycles while 2,800 cycles is almost 8 years of use assuming one cycle a day. In 2007 they sold 260 vehicles worth approximately £26 million and were expanding their capacity in the UK to be able to convert 3,000 vehicles in 2008.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Compared to systems utilized in hybrid vehicles, i-ELOOP avoids the need for a dedicated electrical motor and battery, making the system more efficient, compact, and lighter than traditional systems. If the electricity available exceeds what the car is actually using, the excess electricity is used to charge the lead-acid battery.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2013

PbC batteries use lead-acid technology enhanced by the complete replacement of the typical lead in the negative anode with Axion Power’s proprietary activated carbon material. Axion Power International, Inc. Earlier post.). This allows for simple manufacturing processes and smooth end-of-life recycling.

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Plug In India

APRIL 6, 2021

To provide a context, even the much older lead acid chemistry lasts for 300 to 500 cycles.) So LTO is good for petrol-battery hybrid cars, which end up having relatively small batteries. The difference between BLDC and PMS is simply in the way the switches convert DC to AC. So what went wrong?

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 22, 2009

3Prong Power converts existing Toyota Priuses into plug-in hybrids that can run entirely on electricity. Who’s Killing the Plug-In Hybrid? East Bay Express Who’s Killing the Plug-In Hybrid? They convert Toyota Prius hybrids into mostly electric vehicles that get 100 to 150 miles per gallon.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

The study by researchers at the University of Wisconsin—Madison and the University of Minnesota is an early signal that the growing use of the new nanoscale materials used in the rechargeable batteries that power portable electronics and electric and hybrid vehicles may have unforeseen environmental consequences.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2009

This CO 2 level is comparable to that emitted by equivalent sized full hybrid vehicles, yet avoids their need for high voltage and the significant impact a hybrid’s large batteries and traction motors have on overall vehicle cost, mass and packaging. L/100km) plug-in hybrid scheduled for production in 2011.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Sales of plug-in vehicles (PEVs) in 2013 will continue to outpace the first years of hybrid vehicle sales as more than 210,000 PEVs will be sold globally and more than three dozen PEV models will debut, according to a year-end free whitepaper published by Pike Research, that makes 10 specific predictions about electric vehicles in 2013.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

Think has even shown a convertible prototype. If you just set aside the fantasy goal of an electric car with the same or better performance than an ICE powered car then we could build utilitarian short range EVs now, and could have been doing this coninually since 1900 with lead-acid batteries.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Last year Oregon had also aggressively negotiated with the Chinese carmaker, BYD , to manufacture its line of plug-in hybrids in the state for sale in the U.S.) at least, the recycling infrastructure for the well-established lead-acid batteries is robust. Lead batts are around 98% recycled. In the U.S. In the U.S.

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