Green Car Reports

MARCH 13, 2014

Today on Green Car Reports: Volkswagen promises more-efficient lithium-air batteries, Audi plans more plug-in hybrids, and mass-transit usage grows. Volkswagen says it can triple battery capacity with lithium-air technology. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Lithium Air Audi Plug-in Plug 113

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APRIL 17, 2023

A team from Cornell, with a colleague from Paul Scherrer Institute, has analyzed the trade-off between the decarbonization potential of the road transportation sector and its critical metal requirement from the demand-side perspective in 48 major countries committing to decarbonize their road transportation sectors aided by electric vehicles (EVs).

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Transportation South Africa Lithium Sulfur Congo 418

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AUGUST 28, 2013

Ogiso—who earlier in his career had been the chief engineer for the Prius, chief engineer for the Prius family, and chief engineer, product planning—made the remarks at the “2013 Toyota Hybrid World Tour” event the company staged in Ypsilanti, Michigan. The next Prius will also feature electric motors that will be smaller in size.

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Prius Hydrogen Toyota Plug-in 277

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

research vehicle (the “125” marking 125 years of the automobile), a fuel-cell plug-in hybrid with a range of more than 1,000 km (621 miles) that anticipates more than two generations of vehicles to 2025 and beyond. Lithium-sulphur batteries (e.g., research vehicle. Click to enlarge. Fuel cell system.

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Mercedes Hydrogen Plug-in Plug 334

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APRIL 17, 2012

These developments could take the energy density of lithium-ion cells close to 300 Wh/kg. The report— Cost and performance of EV batteries —describes the current state of development and cost of batteries, before mapping the future cost and performance of lithium-ion batteries out to 2030. Click to enlarge.

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Li-ion 2020 Lithium Ion Lithium Air 225

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NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Hybrid Vehicles. Plug-in Hybrid Vehicles. TMC is continuing development of a sedan-type fuel-cell hybrid vehicle (FCHV), with sales aimed to start in around 2015 in Japan, theUS and Europe—markets in which hydrogen supply infrastructure is expected to develop. L/100km) under the 10-15 Japanese test cycle.

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Toyota Batteries Battery Japan 231

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JULY 20, 2013

Its goal was to collect the information on all on-going or recently concluded RD&D projects on electric and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, which received EU or national public funding with a budget of more than €1 million (US$1.3 Distribution of total investments and public co-funding in publicly co-funded R&D projects. Source: JRC.

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Energy Storage Energy Vehicles Li-ion 210