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APRIL 16, 2010

will introduce a new Prius minivan equipped with Li-ion batteries early next year—the first of a coming rollout of hybrids equipped with Li-ion packs. Toyota reportedly will initially manufacture the Li-ion batteries at its Teiho factory in Aichi Prefecture, with production at Panasonic EV Energy Co.,

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JUNE 20, 2012

which has been extracting rare earth metals from used nickel-metal hydride batteries at the plant of Japan Metals & Chemicals Co., from April of this year, plans to begin reusing the extracted metals before the end of 2012. Honda Motor Co.,

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FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Ford Motor Company and Volvo Cars are the first automakers to support the program directly, but Redwood will accept all lithium-ion (Li-ion) and nickel metal hydride (NiMH) batteries in the state.

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JULY 8, 2013

The working concept of I3 – /I – redox reaction in the aqueous Li-I 2 battery. 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. Zhao et al. Click to enlarge.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2012

Pike Pulse grid for automotive Li-ion manufacturers. Lithium ion batteries currently dominate the nascent market for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) and battery electric vehicles (BEVs) and are slowly becoming selected for use in hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) and stop-start vehicles (SSVs), the report notes.

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JANUARY 26, 2017

The chemistries that are included in the report are all lithium ion (Li-ion) chemistries, flow battery chemistries, sodium-metal halide, and advanced lead-acid. The report does not include experimental batteries that have not yet reached mass production. Source: Navigant Research. Click to enlarge.

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JULY 2, 2009

will spend an estimated ¥20-30 billion (US$207-310 million) to boost production capacity for lithium-ion batteries for hybrid light-duty vehicles, targeting a 70-fold increase by 2015. Hitachi has already received orders for enough lithium ion batteries for 100,000 hybrid autos that General Motors Corp. Earlier post.).

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AUGUST 18, 2009

Toyota plans to receive supplies of lithium ion batteries, which have higher output and capacity than the nickel-metal hydride batteries now used in the Prius and other hybrids. Performance evaluations for the lithium ion batteries have already been conducted. Earlier post.).

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NOVEMBER 22, 2013

Although NiMH is still the dominant battery in the high-voltage hybrid market, Li-ion technology started to take market share around 2009 and is expected to continually increase its share with time. According to the report’s baseline estimate, the global Li-ion xEV business will reach $3.8 billion in 2015 and $9.2

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JULY 31, 2010

has completed its new factory for automotive lithium-ion batteries in its Kasai Plant (Kasai city, Hyogo prefecture, Japan.) Sanyo has already been supplying nickel-metal hydride (NiMH) batteries for hybrid electric vehicles (HEV) to Ford, Honda and Volkswagen, and co-developing NiMH batteries with PSA Peugeot Citroën.

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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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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. As an approximate indicator, if we assume a vehicle powertrain efficiency of 0.5

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

million) to Chemetall Lithium, a unit of Rockwood Holdings Inc., to set up a pilot plant for the recycling of lithium-ion batteries. Chemetall is part of a consortium of companies participating in “ LithoRec ”, a research and development project related to the recycling of lithium-ion batteries. million (US$8.4

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MARCH 21, 2011

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a self-assembling three-dimensional nanostructure for battery cathodes (Li-ion and NiMH) that allows for faster charging and discharging without sacrificing energy storage capacity. Their findings are published in the journal Nature Nanotechnology.

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MARCH 10, 2011

PowerGenix has developed and patented a high-power and low-cost Nickel-Zinc battery for power intensive industrial products, hybrid electric vehicles (HEV), and stationary storage applications.

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MAY 14, 2009

Based on Toyota’s full hybrid technology, the new PHV will come equipped with a lithium-ion battery, extending the vehicle’s range in electric vehicle mode. In partnership with EDF, Toyota has been road-testing a PHV (equipped with a Nickel Metal Hydride battery) in Europe since 2007. Earlier post.).

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JULY 20, 2011

In a paper published in Nature Nanotechnology in March, Braun and his group reported on the development of a self-assembling three-dimensional nanostructure for battery cathodes (supporting both Li-ion and NiMH chemistries) that allows for faster charging and discharging without sacrificing energy storage capacity. Earlier post.).

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OCTOBER 21, 2013

High-rate, high-power capabilities are critical to the performance of 48-volt systems, but cost and complexity of Li-ion battery technologies capable of meeting such requirements pose the biggest challenge to their widespread adoption. Marc Nalbach of HELLA. Source: PowerGenix. Click to enlarge.

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MARCH 31, 2010

Li-poly battery pack. Sonata’s hybrid system stores its electrical charge in a 34 kW lithium polymer rechargeable battery (5.3Ah/270V) from LG Chem. Lithium polymer batteries offer 1.7 times more energy density than nickel-metal hydride batteries, allowing Hyundai engineers to devote less space and weight to the battery pack.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Pike Research’s analysis further indicates that most HEV, PHEV, and BEV trucks will utilize different chemistries of lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries. The Li-ion market is expected to reach 3.6 million kilowatt hours (kWh) globally in the medium- and heavy-duty truck market by 2017.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2013

Areas of particular interest are approaches to novel high specific energy cathode/anode redox couples; materials and device designs for long life metal-air systems; ultrahigh capacity negative electrode materials to replace La-Ni alloys in nickel metal hydride batteries; and organic and inorganic redox couples, including their hybrids.

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MAY 11, 2009

Saft manufacturers a range of advanced batteries for a large range of applications using lithium and nickel chemistries, including lithium-ion, lithium-thionyl chloride (Li-SOCl 2 ), lithium-sulfur dioxide (Li-SO 2 ), lithium-manganese dioxide (Li-MnO 2 ), nickel-cadmium (Ni-Cd), nickel-hydrogen (Ni-H 2 ), and nickel-metal hydride (NiMH).

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Green Cars News

APRIL 21, 2009

One of the hurdles in the race to develop automotive Li-ion battery systems for high volume hybrid, plug-in hybrid and battery electric vehicle programs is improving the technology’s durability. Unlike NiMH batteries, Li-ion can be tuned to increase power to boost acceleration, or to increase energy to extend driving distance.

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OCTOBER 31, 2010

The passenger locomotives that have less space available than a traditional switcher or road locomotive are more likely to take advantage of lithium ion (Li-ion) batteries’ size and storage capacity. Advanced lead acid batteries will make inroads as well.

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MAY 26, 2009

Takeuchi briefly touched briefly on critical applications for Li-ion energy storage, including energy storage for renewable power generation; hybrid, plug-in-hybrid, and electric vehicles; and micro power coupled with sensor technology. Electrode failure can occur as a result of localized stress and strain energy.

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DECEMBER 12, 2012

Leveraging some 20 years of experience and data reaching back to its early work with hybrids and the Ranger EV, Ford has developed a battery model and life validation protocol it now uses to predict how lithium-ion batteries are likely to perform under 10 years and 150,000 miles of use (40-season equivalent key life tests).

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APRIL 28, 2017

With 3-D Zn, the battery provides an energy content and rechargeability that rival lithium-ion batteries while avoiding the safety issues that continue to plague lithium. For example, at ≥40% DOD Zn (percentage of theoretical utilization), Ni–Zn becomes competitive with Li-ion at the single-cell level.

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JUNE 22, 2017

The 2018 Camry Hybrid is equipped with a Lithium-ion (Li-Ion) battery pack on the LE grade and Nickel-Metal Hydride (Ni-MH) battery pack on the SE and XLE.

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MARCH 20, 2009

Despite poor battery performance, many participants believed that the next generation of fuel cell vehicles will need some form of hybridization to increase range and fuel efficiency and several indicated that the next generation of fuel cell buses likely will use either lithium-ion (Li-ion) or nickel-metal hydride (NiMH) batteries.

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MAY 21, 2023

The lithium-ion cell (li-ion cell) is the most popular chemical in the EV sector. Alternative combinations, such as Nickel-Metal Hydride (NiMH), which has a little better lifetime, are occasionally used. The inadequacy of lithium-ion batteries for usage in automobiles is another issue.

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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.

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APRIL 21, 2009

We will have similar solutions available for better (but more expensive) nickel-metal hydride or lithium-ion batteries.) to demonstrate its PRIUS+ approach using nickel-metal hydride batteries, in response to automakers continuing comments that "the batteries arent ready."

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OCTOBER 13, 2015

New Lithium-Ion or Nickel-Metal Hydride Hybrid Batteries. The new Prius will be available with either a new lithium-ion or a new nickel-metal hydride hybrid battery. Click to enlarge.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

The Prius Plug-in Concept’s powertrain is similar in format to the Hybrid Synergy Drive used in the new Prius ( earlier post ), but with the nickel-metal hydride battery pack replaced by a new, high-output lithium-ion battery—a first for a Toyota hybrid vehicle.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2015

The lithium-ion battery comprises 168 prismatic cells and is liquid-cooled. Its emphasis is on lithium-ion battery systems, which are put together using a flexible, modular concept. kWh lithium-ion battery taken from the Audi A3 Sportback e-tron. With a capacity of 17.3 kWh, it allows a 56 kilometer (34.8

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Toyotas Nickel-Metal Hydride batteries are considered "non-hazardous waste" [See "high voltage electrical systems" ]. Lithium-Ion batteries share many characteristics with NiMH. Lithium-Ion batteries share many characteristics with NiMH. The EPRI says lithium-ion batteries are ready now.

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APRIL 28, 2009

The MiEV runs on a lithium-ion battery pack that can be charged in seven or so hours on a 240-volt line. The electric car features three different battery options, two different Lithium-based (LI) systems – A123Systems and Enerdel as well as a Sodium-Nickel battery Zebra (Mes-Dea).

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