Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

New research conducted by the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) has identified a specific building block that improves the anode in lithium-ion batteries. Traditionally, graphite is used for the anode of a lithium-ion battery, but this carbon material has major limitations.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2021

The energy density of traditional lithium-ion batteries is approaching a saturation point that cannot meet the demands of the future—in electric vehicles, for example. Lithium metal batteries can provide double the energy per unit weight when compared to lithium-ion batteries. —Rajendran et al.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

DRX cathodes could provide batteries with higher energy density than conventional lithium-ion battery cathodes made of nickel and cobalt, two metals that are in critically short supply. In a rock salt structure, cations (positively charged ions) and anions (negatively charged ions) are arranged in a specific pattern.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2022

Lithium-ion batteries function during charge and discharge cycles by moving charge from one electrode to another across an electrolyte material. These breakthroughs mark a significant advancement towards the goal of efficient chemistry simulations on a quantum computer.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

For a total of $1 million in prizes, these projects focus on cost-effective recycling processes to recover as much economic value as possible from spent lithium-ion batteries. Only five percent of spent lithium-ion batteries in the United States are recycled. Powering the Future. Store Packs Umicore. Smartville.

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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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Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2022

ecovolta has equipped the utility terrain vehicle (UTV) with an electric powertrain and a 30 kWh lithium-ion traction battery. With a charging time of six hours, the lithium-ion battery from ecovolta offers a range of up to 120 kilometers. The new electric motor delivers 150 N·m of torque and peak power of 38 kW.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2021

Nissan was exploring new ways to reuse its Nissan LEAF batteries, and hit upon the idea of using them in AGVs. Last year, they took this idea to a new level by using repurposed battery modules, instead of new ones, to power AGVs. AGVs with the lithium-ion batteries, new or repurposed, charge faster.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

The “Recycling Li-ion batteries for electric Vehicle” (ReLieVe) project, founded by Eramet, BASF and SUEZ, will receive a €4.7 The objective is to develop an innovative closed-loop process to recycle lithium-ion batteries from electric vehicles and to enable the production of new lithium-ion batteries in Europe.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2019

The idea, reported in a paper in the journal Energy Storage Materials has potential for large scale applications, including storage of solar and wind energy. The question is if aluminum batteries could eventually replace lithium-ion batteries. Of course, we hope that they can.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2021

BASF has been chosen as a cell development partner for the next generation of lithium-ion batteries. The idea for a manufacturing plant for high-performance battery cells came from an initiative of the P3 Group. The goal for the planned production plant is to reach a minimum annual capacity of 100 MWh.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Researchers in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a new family of anode materials that can double the charge capacity of lithium-ion battery anodes. It is a simple, low-cost approach that can be applied to a broad range of alloy systems with various working ions such as Li, Na, or Mg.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 12, 2016

In theory, it's a wonderful concept: once their tenure in an electric car is over, lithium-ion battery packs with as much as 70 percent of their energy capacity remaining can be sold and reused. In practice, however—especially at scale—the idea turns out to have some practical challenges that must be overcome.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2021

Current Direct , a new €12-million research and innovation project funded by the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 program, is proposing an innovative lithium-ion cell optimized for waterborne transport, using novel manufacturing techniques allowing for a consistent cost reduction compared to the current market prices.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2018

The researchers, led by Professor Clare Grey, found that lithium ions move through the materials at rates that far exceed those of typical electrode materials, which equates to a much faster-charging battery. The maximum power output and minimum charging time of a lithium-ion battery depend on both ionic and electronic transport.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2018

Researchers led by a team from MIT, with colleagues from Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), BMW Group, and Tokyo Institute of Technology have developed a fundamentally new approach to alter ion mobility and stability against oxidation of lithium ion conductors—a key component of rechargeable batteries—using lattice dynamics.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2021

Russian Railways, RUSNANO and the Sinara Group signed an agreement to cooperate on the development of mainline locomotives using a power plant based on hydrogen fuel cells together with lithium-ion batteries. Green hydrogen production. During the St.

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Discover EV

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Spent' lithium-ion batteries from Renault EVs are being given a new lease of life powering boats on the River Sein in Paris.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Recycling technologies for end-of-life lithium ion batteries (LIBs) are not keeping pace with the rapid rise of electric vehicles, setting up a potentially huge waste management problem for the future, according to a new study led by researchers at the University of Birmingham. Sommerville, R., Kendrick, E., Driscoll, L., Stolkin, R.,

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Now that the framework contract has been concluded, the two companies have formally established a long-term cooperation for a continuous supply of lithium-ion battery systems. Since 2013, the Group has equipped several hundred trolleybuses worldwide with lithium-ion battery systems.

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Teslarati

APRIL 21, 2022

During the Q1 2022 earnings call, Elon Musk explained that Tesla believes mining and refining lithium might be a limiting factor to producing more electric vehicles in the future. Tesla has secured lithium supply deals with companies in Australia and Ganfeng Lithium Co Ltd in China.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2022

Innovative ideas like this could provide renewed impetus for the critical buildup of fast-charging infrastructure. The container cubes consist of used lithium-ion batteries from disassembled Audi test vehicles that are used as buffer storage for direct-current (DC) electricity.

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Teslarati

MAY 10, 2022

Longtime Tesla battery partner Panasonic is reportedly weighing the idea of building a new battery plant in the United States. As per a recent report from Nikkei Asia , Panasonic’s decision to build a new plant in the United States would depend on the profitability of new lithium-ion batteries that would be made at the Wakayama plant.

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Teslarati

JUNE 13, 2023

Over the past years, the company has reiterated its support for hybrid solutions and shunned the idea of a shift to all-electric vehicles, a sentiment that’s been expressed by several Toyota executives across the globe.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

In a paper in the journal Angewandte Chemie the team shows that the indium (In) coatings stabilize the Li metal via multiple processes, including exceptionally fast surface diffusion of lithium ions and high chemical resistance to liquid electrolytes. Dendrites are also eliminated, leaving the surface smooth and compact.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2019

They also increase unwanted reactions between the electrolyte and the lithium, speeding up battery failure. Dendrites and whiskers are holding back the widespread use of lithium metal batteries, which have higher energy density than their commonly used lithium-ion counterparts. Then, suddenly, a whisker shoots forth.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 10, 2024

Just to give you an idea – it is not just the electric vehicle penetration in India, we will take EVs to the global arena, this year itself. With an eye on localisation, the company is already exporting advanced lithium-ion cell batteries and packs to developed markets around the world for hybrid vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2021

But the promise is worth pursuing, says MIT Professor Yet-Ming Chiang, because the amount of energy that can be stored in experimental versions of such cells is already nearly double that of conventional lithium-ion batteries. We think we can translate this approach to really any solid-state lithium-ion battery.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2016

University of Maryland (UMD) and US Army Research Lab (ARL) researchers are spearheading a public-private sector collaboration to further develop a lithium-ion battery that would be safer to operate and less costly to dispose of than those currently available on the market. A full lithium-ion battery of 2.3

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2014

Lithium-ion batteries could benefit from a theoretical model created at Rice University and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory that predicts how carbon-based anodes will perform. It doesn’t exactly tell you how strong the person will be, but it gives you some idea. —Boris Yakobson. Yuanyue Liu, Y. Morris Wang, Boris I.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Historical prices and future cost predictions for lithium-ion batteries. They noted that due to current sales trends, three lithium-ion chemistries account for nearly all of the storage capacity, and half of the cells are cylindrical. NCA cells are $206 kWh -1 and NMC cells are $180 kWh -1. —Ciez and Whitacre.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2019

Honda said that because powertrain requirements differ from region to region and are becoming further diversified depending on infrastructure, regulations and customer needs in each region, it will deliver the most appropriate products to customers based on the idea of placing the right products, in the right places at the right time.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2018

The DLR spin-off project FCPP is one of the six innovative business ideas selected in the current competition round for the Helmholtz Enterprise support program organized by the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centers. The Fuel Cell Power Pack combines a fuel cell with a small lithium-ion battery.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 17, 2024

Propulsion was reportedly provided by a 268-hp rear-mounted electric motor, drawing power from a lithium-ion battery pack roughly half the size of a production EQS pack. BMW used a range extender with its i3 REx, and at the end of the life cycle essentially said that the batteries had improved enough to push the idea to extinction.

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CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The idea of swapping power in little boxes is not new to the Japanese. It is the stuff that makes their anime robot Kuromukuro alive, how spirits are trapped and harnessed, and how food is delivered to the table. Americans are familiar with the bento box — that Japanese lacquered lunchbox — filled with rice, […]

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

“To contribute to the rapid adoption of EVs, Panasonic has been working to enhance its line-up of automotive lithium-ion batteries. Currently, Panasonic is developing a new high-capacity lithium-ion battery, the “4680”, in multiple locations within Japan.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2017

The Army is working to replace all alkaline and nickel metal hydride field batteries with Li-ion batteries. “ The Army is developing hybrid vehicles for use on the battlefield, and that means they will also use Li-ion batteries.

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