Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2022

Argonne National Laboratory will host a public webinar on the challenges of recycling Li-ion batteries and possible solutions. Qiang Dai, sustainability analyst at Argonne, will show how anyone can measure the costs of recycling lithium-ion batteries and how the process affects the environment with Argonne’s free EverBatt tool.

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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.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2017

These lithium-ion batteries feature a hybrid solid-liquid electrolyte system, in which the electrodes are coated with a solid electrolyte layer. Forge Nano presented its technology at the 2013 and 2017 NREL Industry Growth Forum, the nation’s premier clean energy investment event. —Paul Lichty, CEO of Forge Nano.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Today’s announcement is further proof that we are deploying our aggressive electrification road map and are following through on the commitments we made during our EV Day event in July. With this announcement, the two companies look to solidify their partnership even further and continue leveraging each other’s strengths.

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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). Only a tiny amount of heat is generated.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 29, 2022

Enovix Corporation, the developer of 3D Silicon Lithium-ion batteries ( earlier post ), announced BrakeFlow technology, an intra-cell system that significantly increases tolerance against thermal runaway from internal shorts, without compromising high energy density. —Harrold Rust, Co-Founder, President and CEO of Enovix.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2022

A team from MIT has developed a new approach to fabricating oxide-based solid-state electrolytes that are comparable in thickness to the polymer separators found in current Li-ion batteries without sintering: sequential decomposition synthesis (SDS). Recent progress in solid-state battery (SSB) electrolytes such as Li garnets (e.g.,

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2019

Supported by a new five-year, $500,000- grant from the National Science Foundation, a researcher from the University of Kansas is developing machine learning technology to monitor and prevent overheating in lithium-ion batteries. Nowadays these lithium-ion batteries are everyplace in our society. —Huazhen Fang.

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Electric Vehicles India

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Fire risks associated with li-ion batteries & safety. The demand for lithium-ion battery-powered road vehicles continues to increase around the world day by day. As the technological advances in energy storage systems, specifically those that are part of the lithium-ion family.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2014

In an event in San Francisco, Ford Motor Company and Samsung SDI, an affiliate of Samsung Group, outlined several collaborative research efforts on next-generation battery technology for non-hybrid vehicles. The research advances lithium-ion battery technology currently available on Ford’s electrified vehicles. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Next-Battery , a start-up developing high energy-density Li-ion battery technology, has secured a strategic relationship with Lvchi Automobile Technology (Shanghai) Co Ltd. The technology uses lithium-ion chemistries with novel nano-structuring effectively to “upgrade” a battery electrode’s functional properties.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 12, 2024

Given India’s dependence on 100% imported lithium-ion cells for electric vehicle batteries, there exists a compelling drive to cultivate indigenous cell and battery manufacturing capacities to meet the burgeoning demands. The partnership is set to commence on April 21, during Log9’s annual Day Zero anniversary event.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2013

TIAX LLC introduced its lithium-ion battery safety sensor system for detecting and pre-empting short circuits inside a lithium-ion cell. Short circuits can lead to safety events such as explosions and fires. It works for any lithium-ion battery chemistry. Brian Barnett, vice-president at TIAX.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2013

The AD was prompted by this second incident involving a lithium-ion battery. Boeing selected Thales , a leading provider of onboard and ground systems for the civil aerospace market, to provide the lithium-ion battery technology, along with other systems and components for the 787. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2018

Germany-based Akasol is manufacturing lithium-ion battery systems for Daimler subsidiary EvoBus. The leading European bus manufacturer plans to launch its new electric Citaro bus ( earlier post ) at the IAA Commercial Vehicles event in September. The facility has a yearly capacity of up to 300 megawatt hours.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 31, 2014

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) recently issued a series of recommendations related to the evaluation and certification of lithium-ion batteries for use in aircraft systems, as well as the certification of new technology. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

The SEI plays a crucial role in the stability and capability of a lithium-ion battery. They considered Li + in EC solvent only (EC system) as well as in EC solvent with a VC additive (EC/VC system) to elucidate the additive effects. A paper on their work is published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

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Li-ion Lithium Ion Batteries Battery 186

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 31, 2019

West Mira will be the world’s first drilling rig to operate a low-emission hybrid power plant using Siemens’ lithium-ion energy storage solution. BlueVault, Siemens’ advanced lithium-ion battery-based solution, will be installed on Northern Drilling Ltd.’s Copyright: Neil Robertson. Seadrill Norway Operations Ltd.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Honeywell announced it has landed a new partnership with Nexceris, the company that developed Li-ion Tamer lithium-ion gas detection solutions, in an attempt to increase electric vehicle safety. The sensors will detect gases produced from excessive temperatures in lithium-ion batteries.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2021

In a paper published in the journal Applied Energy , they report devising a methodology to estimate the levelized cost of energy (LCOE) of meeting the seasonal nature of variable renewable energy (VRE) resources with either a hydrogen-fired gas turbine (HFGT) or lithium-ion battery system (LI). —Emre Gençer, co-author.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2012

AES Gener and AES Energy Storage have begun commercial operation of the second energy storage project in Northern Chile, integrating 20MW of Li-ion battery-based energy storage (BESS) with a 544MW thermal power plant. A123 Systems supplied the energy storage systems for the project.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

AES Gener has ordered 20MW of A123’s advanced Li-ion energy storage solutions for a spinning reserve project in Northern Chile. This output is designed to be maintained for 15 minutes at full power, allowing the system operator to resolve the event or bring other standby units online.

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Teslarati

MAY 4, 2021

Interestingly, Tesla purchased the patents just two weeks before the Battery Day event that was held in September 2020, TechCrunch reports. He made the switch to Tesla in September when the Battery Day event took place. Tesla has previously used Canadian battery companies to advance its lithium-ion cell technology.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2015

Daimler AG has selected LG Chem as the supplier of lithium-ion batteries for the smart EV that will be newly launched in 2016. In November 2014, Daimler announced that it would cease production of Li-ion battery cells at its Li-Tec subsidiary in December 2015. The current smart fortwo electric drive uses a 17.6

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2013

Mitsubishi Motors reported two separate incidents with Li-ion battery packs: one, a fire in a i-MiEV battery pack at the Mizushima battery pack assembly plant; the other, heating and melting in a pack installed in an Outlander plug-in hybrid electric vehicle. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2012

Powered by a high performance, long-life lithium-ion battery, it is self-charging, constantly monitoring its battery level and returning to its docking station when it needs to recharge. It works within a boundary wire, installed under the ground or in the grass around the perimeter of the garden.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Lux Research’s new report—“ The Tesla-Panasonic Battery Gigafactory: Analysis of Li-ion Cost Trends, EV Price Reduction, and Capacity Utilization ”—projects sales of some 240,000 Tesla cars in 2020, leading to razor-thin margins to Panasonic and 57% overcapacity. billion, with questionable margins.

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AUGUST 20, 2010

Ford Motor Company is leveraging the Internet and wireless technology to accelerate testing and refinement of the advanced lithium-ion battery systems that will power its upcoming plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2013

Using X-ray and electron microscopy, researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have confirmed the particle-by-particle mechanism by which lithium ions move in and out of electrodes made of lithium iron phosphate (LiFePO 4 , or LFP). The research is reported in a paper in the ACS journal Nano Letters.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2013

Working with internal and external experts in battery technology, we have proposed a comprehensive set of solutions designed to significantly minimize the potential for battery failure while ensuring that no battery event affects the continued safe operation of the airplane. Our proposal includes three layers of improvements.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2021

Location of known lithium deposits and showing and Bourier (in gold) Showing in the James Bay area of Québec. Recent consumer interest in electric vehicles has increased investor interest in Lithium and Graphite, two of the major components of a lithium-ion battery. Lithium marketing rights. Paul Gill, Lomiko CEO.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

In a presentation at the 2011 Advanced Automotive Battery Conference (AABC) in Pasadena, California last week, Daniel Andree, a battery development engineer at Audi AG, outlined the implementation of a Sanyo lithium-ion battery pack in the upcoming 2012 Audi Q5 compact crossover hybrid. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

The LMP1 race car that will compete in the Le Mans 24 Hours and in the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) in 2016 features innovative aerodynamics; represents the next stage in lightweight design; and has a modified hybrid system with lithium-ion batteries for energy storage, plus an efficiency-optimized TDI engine. Other series.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2011

million) to add third and fourth production lines manufacturing carbon anode materials for lithium-ion automotive batteries at Yamazaki Works. Thus, not only the production capacity will double but also any recovery period can be shortened in the event of a massive earthquake. Hitachi Chemical Co., will invest some ¥3.5

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2012

Powered by a high performance, long-life lithium-ion battery, it is self-charging, constantly monitoring its battery level and returning to its docking station when it needs to recharge. It works within a boundary wire, installed under the ground or in the grass around the perimeter of the garden.

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Teslarati

MAY 11, 2021

Currently being produced at Tesla’s Kato Road facility in Northern California, the 4680 cells were unveiled by Tesla last year at the company’s Battery Day event in September. Li-ion, or Lion, may have been the inspiration for Tesla’s Project Tiger, which ultimately culminated in the Gigafactory in Sparks, Nevada.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

The 12 kWh, 300V Li-ion battery pack that supplies the electricity for the motors consists of 80 cells configured in a series. During deceleration (braking), the front and rear electric motors function as generators so that electricity can be generated and fed back into the lithium-ion drive battery pack.

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