Green Car Reports

APRIL 6, 2015

As with most industries, that occasionally means big lawsuits, as companies try to protect valuable intellectual property they''ve spent years or decades refining. RELATED: Nickel-Metal-Hydride. Green Argonne National Laboratory Batteries lawsuit plug-in cars research research and development'

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2011

PowerGenix, the manufacturer of high performance, rechargeable Nickel-Zinc (NiZn) batteries ( earlier post ), has entered an exclusive agreement with PSI Acquisition, LLC to supply battery cells for UP-Stealth, an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) for the traffic industry.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Nickel-metal hydride. Development and demonstration tests of the Toyota FC Bus were conducted under the Next-Generation Energy and Social Systems Demonstration Project of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) and the Low Carbon Technology Research and Development Program7 under the Ministry of Environment.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2013

This is sorely needed, and no one else in the auto industry has anything like it. Ford and other potential industrial partners have both a defined short-term need as well as the longer term research need for energy storage materials and systems. —Ted Miller, Ford’s manager of battery research.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2011

They compiled a transparent life cycle inventory (LCI) in a component-wise manner for nickel metal hydride (NiMH), nickel cobalt manganese lithium-ion (NCM), and iron phosphate lithium-ion (LFP) batteries. This inventory and LCA provide a basis for further benchmarking and focused development policies for the industry.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Umicore will build an industrial scale recycling facility for end-of-life rechargeable batteries in Hoboken, Belgium. The investment will enable Umicore to deal with the expected growth in the availability of end-of-life Lithium-ion, Lithium-Polymer and Nickel Metal Hydride rechargeable batteries.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

As these vehicle segments grow to hundreds of thousands and then millions of vehicles sold per year, Li-ion production will enter volume production, lowering their cost and making the technology cost-competitive with alternative technologies such as Nickel Metal Hydride (NiMH) batteries. Pike’s Top 10. Johnson Controls.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2011

The team achieved rates of up to 400C and 1,000C for lithium-ion and nickel-metal hydride chemistries, respectively (where a 1C rate represents a one-hour complete charge or discharge), enabling fabrication of a lithium-ion battery that can be 90% charged in 2 minutes. The benefits to each sector are obvious.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2011

The use of these electrolytes suggests the potential for new types of rechargeable systems, such as replacement electrolytes in nickel-metal hydride (NiMH) batteries, or even the standard lead-acid battery. Experimental work is currently underway to develop such a rechargeable ionic liquid power source.

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Blink Charging

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The report also says Toyota in collaboration with Japanese utility JERA, have commissioned the Sweep Energy Storage System, comprising lithium-ion, nickel metal-hydride and lead acid cells. The Sweep Energy System aims to provide around 100,000 kWh of electricity to Japan’s grid by the mid 2020s.

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Energy Storage Energy Batteries Battery 102

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) such as the Toyota Prius have been an important market for nickel metal hydride (NiMH) batteries. However, the best current technology to store the energy required by electric motors is the lithium-ion battery, and most (although not all) types of such batteries contain nickel.

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Indonesia Batteries Battery Nickel Metal Hydride 170

Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2011

The team achieved rates of up to 400C and 1,000C for lithium-ion and nickel-metal hydride chemistries, respectively (where a 1C rate represents a one-hour complete charge or discharge), enabling fabrication of a lithium-ion battery that can be 90% charged in 2 minutes. You would just pull up to a charging station and fill up.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

The market intelligence firm expects that the use of nickel metal hydride (NiMH) batteries will peak in 2016, as vehicle manufacturers move their remaining systems toward Li-ion. For example, as the retail industry rebounds, pick-up and delivery vehicle sales will rebound with it. The Li-ion market is expected to reach 3.6

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

LithoRec aims for high recycling efficiency of large-scale automotive batteries for the automotive industry in Germany and Europe. The Lancaster, Ohio facility currently processes large format lead acid batteries, as well as nickel metal hydride batteries used in the current population of hybrid and electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 3, 2009

According to a new report from Pike Research, a rapidly growing global market for electrified vehicles—particularly plug-in hybrid and battery-electric vehicles—will create a Li-ion transportation battery industry with nearly $8 billion in sales worldwide by 2015, up from $878 million in 2010.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2009

The first results will be seen later in 2009, when Saft’s US manufacturing facility in Valdosta, GA begins production of a new generation of asymmetric nickel supercapacitors that will work in combination with batteries on heavy vehicles in a large variety of markets including, but not limited to, industry or public transportation.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2013

They suggest that a low cost, non-flammable and heavy-metal-free aqueous cathode can contribute to the feasibility of scale-up of lithium-iodine batteries for practical energy storage. kWh kg -1 ) is fairly promising in comparison to the conventional lead-acid, nickel-metal hydride and Li-ion batteries, and can be further improved to be ~0.4

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2010

In North America, a high-profile hybrid locomotive product (Railpower’s Green Goat, earlier post ) faced a serious setback in the mid-2000s that still haunts the industry today. In Europe, track electrification will eliminate the need for either diesel or battery storage in many areas.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

All four produce prismatic cells with nickel-based cathodes, a design favored by the HEV industry leaders Toyota, Ford, and Honda. The automotive industry is being forced to develop multiple technologies to address these governmental initiatives [to reduce fuel consumption], but faces significant challenges.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2022

This includes lithium-based, nickel-metal hydride, and other battery chemistries, as well as all battery types, such as small consumer batteries, large format batteries (including electric vehicles and grid energy storage), and industrial batteries used in manufacturing, commercial businesses, and healthcare operations.

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Nickel Metal Hydride EPA District of Columbia Batteries 225

Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2013

The hybrid has also achieved comparable MPG performance with that of the same model powered by Nickel-Metal Hydride (NiMH) batteries but at a significantly lower cost, ALABC said. The UltraBattery Retrofit Project DP1.8 The original 2010 Civic Hybrid carried an EPA fuel economy rating of 42 mpg combined (40 city, 45 highway).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2009

For the sake of our environment and the air quality in our towns and cities it’s important to encourage the industry to move towards low carbon models.Over the next two years we expect this fund to support the purchase of several hundred low carbon buses. CO 2 emissions from buses have increased significantly over the last 10 years.

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Green Cars News

DECEMBER 3, 2009

Though only $878million of lithium-ion batteries are expected to be sold next year, by 2015 the industry could be worth nearly $8billion a year. The report suggests that hybrid cars will be slow to move away from nickel-metal hydride batteries which have served them well so far.

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Plug In Partners

JUNE 11, 2008

Lithium-ion batteries , now common in laptops, produce more power and are smaller than nickel-metal hydride batteries used in hybrids now. The joint venture that Toyota set up with Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Such plug-in hybrids can run longer as an electric vehicle than regular hybrids, and are cleaner.

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Plugs and Cars

JULY 14, 2007

Usually devoted to crass boosterism of America's largest manufacturing industry, these articles still contain a lot of that. Nickel Metal Hydride which successfully powered the great electrics of the decade past and work fine in every hybrid on the road just won't cut it. Especially as displayed in Adam B.

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Clean Fleet Report

AUGUST 25, 2022

MG 1 starts the gasoline engine and charges the nickel-metal hydride (NiMH) battery, while MG2 drives the front wheels and regenerates the battery during braking and coasting, and MGR drives the rear wheels and also regenerates the battery. The system comprises a 3.5-liter A bit about that Lexus dealer.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 20, 2010

Toyota uses nickel-metal-hydride batteries for the current Prius hybrid but has decided on lithium-ion batteries for future plug-in models. . “As environmentally friendly electric car demand continues to grow, Toyota Motor will have the opportunity to become a cornerstone offtake customer,&# Orocobre said in a statement.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2009

The company has since expanded to develop and produce numerous implantable medical devices, and has expanded to provide technology solutions for critical industrial applications, including customized battery power and wireless sensing systems. Wilson Greatbatch, co-inventor of the first successful implanted pacemaker, founded Greatbatch, Inc.

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Plugs and Cars

APRIL 16, 2007

Simply the latest industry stalling tactic. Asked why not Nickel Metal Hydride batteries in the Volt, at least to start, he says "NiMH just doesn't do it." And nickel mining is such dirty business we ought move right to benign lithium. Or is lithium the new hydrogen?

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Plug In Partners

JANUARY 24, 2006

The vans, which have a 20-mile all-electric range, will be outfitted with either nickel-metal hydride (NiMH) batteries or lithium ion (Li-Ion) batteries. The cost, reliability and weight of batteries are often cited by automotive industry experts as one of the stumbling blocks to the mass production of plug-ins. “We

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Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

By not employing the gasoline engine to recharge the lead-acid pack, the “electric-only” range of the Nickel-Metal Hydride battery pack is extended from one mile to about 10 miles. The Computer Area Network (CAN) standard communication protocol is widely used in the automotive electronics industry.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

We will have similar solutions available for better (but more expensive) nickel-metal hydride or lithium-ion batteries.) And the company donates 5% of sales to CalCars.org in recognition of its role in promoting PHEVs and the conversions industry. In 2006, CalCars worked on a project with Electro Energy, Inc.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

We now have three working converted prototypes (both described in Fact Sheet above, shown in photos and here ): The Calcars first proof-of-concept: (100+ mpg plus electricity, 10-mile electric range, now with temporary lead-acid battery pack, soon to be replaced by nickel metal-hydride batteries).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

SB LiMotive recently purchased Cobasys, a nickel metal hydride battery firm based in Orion. Granholm is also meeting with executives from W-Scope, a firm that provides separator material for the battery industry.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

The effects of Simon’s “profound changes” are readily apparent, forcing a 120-year-old industry to fundamentally reinvent itself. Volvo’s CEO Jim Rowan stated earlier this year that increasing the computing power in EVs will be harder and more altering of the automotive industry than switching from ICE vehicles to EVs. Herb Simon.

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Charged EVs

MARCH 11, 2024

Permanent magnet motors are dominant in the EV industry, due to their superior efficiency. There are three stages in the rare earth magnet production process: mining; separating and purifying the elements; and transforming the elements into metal alloys and magnets. The majority of EV traction motors use rare earth magnets.

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Get Electric Vehicle

MAY 21, 2023

Alternative combinations, such as Nickel-Metal Hydride (NiMH), which has a little better lifetime, are occasionally used. These questions are based on industry experience with current lithium-ion batteries. Depending on the application, other variations can offer the ideal trade-off.

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