Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Solid Power Inc. have signed an exclusive agreement licensing lithium-sulfur materials for next-generation batteries. Solid Power licensed a portfolio of ORNL patents relating to lithium-sulfur compositions that will enable development of more energy-dense batteries.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JULY 6, 2023

She’s excited about bringing lithium-sulfur batteries into a new era at Lyten, one in which […] Previously, she worked with Tesla for more than 6 years as a top battery engineer and manager. She’s also spent time at Panasonic, Uber, and Quantumscape.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2022

Lithium-sulfur batteries are prospects for future batteries as they are made from cheaper and more environmentally friendly materials than lithium-ion batteries. They also have higher energy storage capacity and work well at much lower temperatures. However, they suffer from short lifetimes and energy loss.

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CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Lithium sulfur and lithium carbon batteries are almost ready for prime time.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

To develop higher capacity batteries, researchers have looked to lithium-sulfur batteries because of sulfur’s high theoretical capacity and energy density. It also consumes fresh lithium and electrolytes, and reduces battery performance. —author Siwu Li.

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Spark Powered

JANUARY 9, 2023

With a new design, lithium-sulfur batteries could reach their full potential. Most of these devices use well-known batteries”>lithium-ion battery technology. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory are researching solutions to these issues by testing new materials in battery construction.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2017

Ford is exploring a variety of “beyond Li-ion” solutions, including Lithium-sulfur, Lithium-air and solid-state lithium-ion batteries. It also offers a high theoretical specific energy density. All of the advanced battery systems use Li metal anodes to provide high energy density, Anandan noted.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

BioSolar, a developer of energy storage technology and materials, has begun development of a high energy anode for current- and next-generation lithium batteries. In contrast, BioSolar’s new anode technology is compatible with existing lithium-ion intercalation chemistries. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2018

The “classic” high-energy capacity Lithium-sulfur battery is predicated on the use of a sulfur-based cathode and a Lithium-metal anode. Among the issues hampering the commercialization of this attractive technology are the safety and performance issues associated with the use of the lithium-metal anode.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2014

Consultancy Frost &Sullivan has selected UK-based lithium-sulfur battery developer OXIS Energy to receive the 2014 European Frost & Sullivan Award for Technology Innovation. For specific military applications, OXIS Energy is confident of achieving a significant weight reduction in excess of 50% in the near future.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2015

Stanford University scientists have created a new ultrahigh surface area three-dimensional porous graphitic carbon material that significantly boosts the performance of energy-storage technologies. Tests were also conducted on lithium-sulfur batteries. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2021

Although mass manufacture has made lithium-ion batteries cheaper, cost and durability remain obstacles to the widespread adoption of battery electrical vehicles. Degradation mechanisms can occur on length-scales from the nano to the macroscopic, and timescales from seconds up to years.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Vehicle Technologies Office (VTO) announced up to $60 million in new and innovative advanced vehicle technologies research. ( Advances in connectivity and automation have the potential to improve transportation system-level energy efficiency, energy productivity, and affordability.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have demonstrated in the laboratory a lithium-sulfur (Li/S) battery that has more than twice the specific energy of lithium-ion batteries, and that lasts for more than 1,500 cycles of charge-discharge with minimal decay of the battery’s capacity.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2013

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) will award approximately $36 million to 22 projects to develop transformational electric vehicle (EV) energy storage systems using innovative chemistries, architectures and designs. Advanced Aqueous Lithium-Ion Batteries.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2017

Materials researchers of the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI in Switzerland have, in collaboration with the Université Grenoble Alpes (France), developed a simple method that can improve the performance of lithium-sulfur batteries by 25-30%. For example, the lithium-sulfur battery rapidly loses capacity with repeated charging.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Pyrrolidinium-based ionic liquids have been identified by researchers worldwide as promising next-generation electrolytes for lithium-ion batteries. Boulder Ionics Corp., Boulder Ionics will use its high-throughput synthesis platform to produce high purity electrolytes in commercial volumes at competitive prices.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2015

million contract to NOHMs (Nano Organic Hybrid Materials) Technologies in Rochester, New York, for the development of electrolytes for automotive lithium-ion battery applications. volt lithium-ion batteries, consistent with USABC goals. LCO, NCA, LMNO, NMC and others).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

OXIS Energy will develop a low temperature electrolyte for Lithium Sulfur (Li-S) rechargeable battery chemistry and Hyperdrive Innovation Ltd will develop a chemistry-agnostic battery management system and packaging that will withstand and outperform the current lead-acid battery solutions.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2016

The researchers said that their work, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), represents a significant breakthrough to enable high performance lithium batteries. The 3D ion-conducting network is based on percolative garnet-type Li 6.4 La 3 Zr 2 Al 0.2 —Fu et al.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2014

CALEB Technology and California Lithium Battery ( CalBattery )—both based in California— signed an MOU to establish a joint venture to produce a new line of safe, high performance lithium ion batteries for consumer electronic devices, power tools, and electric vehicles (EVs). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2015

A team from the University of Rome Sapienza has developed a rechargeable lithium-ion polymer battery based on the combination of a high capacity sulfur-carbon cathode, nanostructured Li x Sn-C anode and polysulfide-added PEO-based gel membrane. V, hence with a theoretical energy density ranging from 2700 to 750?Wh

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My Electric Car

JANUARY 29, 2023

For example the volumetric energy density of lithium-ion batteries has increased eightfold since 2008, from around 55 watt-hours/litre to 450 watt-hours/litre in 2020. At the same time the cost of lithium-ion battery packs declined 87% between 2008 and 2021.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2014

As such, it functions as an artificial SEI layer of Li metal that supplies Li + ions on demand, while minimizing direct contact between soluble polysulfides and the metal surface. Lithium–sulfur cells incorporating such hybrid anodes deliver capacities of >800?mAh?g Huang et al. Click to enlarge. —Huang et al.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2014

beyond Li-ion), will grow from $182 million in 2014 to more than $9.4 The technologies covered in the report include Lithium sulfur (LiS); Magnesium-ion (Mg-ion); solid electrolyte; next-generation flow batteries; and metal-air batteries. billion in 2023. GWh in 2014 to greater than 225.3 GWh in 2023.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

UK-based materials company Ilika, also a developer of solid-state batteries, is taking part in a three-year project to develop protected anodes for lithium sulfur batteries, led by Johnson Matthey Plc and supported by Innovate UK and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). Stereax Battery Technology.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2015

They begin by observing that the EU’s goal of 95 gCO 2 /km fleet average emissions by 2020 can only be met by means of extended range electric vehicles or all-electric vehicles in combination with the integration of renewable energy (e.g., wind and solar). kWh name-plate /kg battery-system are not yet on the horizon.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2017

One of the most significant impediments to an increased market share for plug-in vehicles is the high cost of rechargeable energy storage. The new cell and BMS are intended to achieve 400Wh/kg cell energy density with practical cycle life and performance metrics. This project was led by OXIS and part-funded by Innovate UK.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

nm, average) of iron pyrite (FeS 2 ) nanoparticles are advantageous to sustain reversible conversion reactions in sodium ion and lithium ion batteries. FeS 2 is particularly attractive for energy storage technology due to its earth abundance, low toxicity, and low raw material cost. …

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 14, 2015

Lithium–sulfur batteries are one of the most promising candidates to satisfy emerging market demands, as they possess a theoretical capacity and energy density of 1,675 mAh g -1 and 2,500 kW kg -1 , respectively, superior to current lithium-ion batteries. Resources. Garsuch, T. Weiss, and L.F. Batteries'

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 31, 2012

Li-sulfur batteries—which conventionally use elemental sulfur (with conductive additives) as the cathode, an aprotic liquid electrolyte, and lithium metal as the anode—are under intensive investigation by research groups worldwide because of the promise for low-cost, high-energy storage. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2013

A team from Japan’s RIKEN, led by Hye Ryung Byon, has developed a lithium-iodine (Li-I 2 ) battery system with a significantly higher energy density than conventional lithium-ion batteries. The high solubility of triiodide/iodide redox couples results in an energy density of ~ 0.33?kWh?kg Zhao et al.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2015

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 162 projects to receive about $26.6 It is cleaner, quieter, and friendlier to operate with a fuel cell power plant enabling mobility via renewable energy. American Lithium Energy Corporation. Ballast Energy, Inc. Earlier post.) 148,393.82. 149,999.70. 149,975.00.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2012

US Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced three winning startup companies—based on a public vote and an expert review—out of the 14 participating in the US Department of Energy (DOE) “ America’s Next Top Energy Innovator ” challenge. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 1, 2015

A team at the Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics (SINANO) has demonstrated that the electrochemical performance of sulfur nanoparticles (NPs) in the cathode of a Lithium-sulfur battery is critically dependent on the sulfur particle size. When paired with lithium metal anode to form rechargeable lithium?sulfur

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Lithium-sulfur and lithium air batteries have the potential to store 10 times more energy in the same space as the current state-of-the-art lithium-ion batteries. Using this insight, the team discovered a way to significantly extend the lifetime of lithium electrodes, to be revealed in a future publication.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2015

The Bosch-Seeo link up highlights the strategic importance of advanced energy storage for the automotive value chain. Seeo has been trying to pivot from lower-energy LFP (lithium iron phosphate) cathodes towards higher-energy NCA (nickel cobalt aluminum) cathodes to keep ahead of the competition.

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