Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 21, 2018

Researchers from around the world are looking for the successor to the lithium-ion battery for electric cars, power tools, and electronics—one that will store more energy with less size and weight, charge more quickly, and have improved safety. All battery chemistries come with tradeoffs.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2023

The process, which uses citric acid as the leaching agent to separate and recover the individual components, is presented in an open-access paper in the journal ChemSusChem. Especially for all-solid-state lithium-ion batteries (lithium ASSBs), aspects of waste management and circular economy have not been addressed so far.

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Teslarati

JULY 26, 2021

According to the CEO, Tesla would be looking into the idea of equipping older vehicles with a 12-volt lithium-ion battery, similar to the Model S Plaid. Model S Li-Ion battery pic.twitter.com/QvFLPpDXI5 — Tesla Raj (@tesla_raj) June 11, 2021. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 26, 2021. until the Model Y. .

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Cars That Think

JULY 30, 2023

Fifty years after the birth of the rechargeable lithium-ion battery, it’s easy to see its value. By Christmas, he had developed a battery with a titanium-disulfide cathode and a liquid electrolyte that used lithium ions. To them, the battery that Kuribayashi presented seemed like a gift from the heavens.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2023

The Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Vehicle Technologies Office estimates the cost of an electric vehicle lithium-ion battery pack declined 89% between 2008 and 2022 (using 2022 constant dollars). The 2022 estimate is $153/kWh on a usable-energy basis for production at scale of at least 100,000 units per year.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Cirba Solutions (previously Retriev Solutions, LLC), will receive $74,999,925 to support the expansion and upgrading of Cirba Solutions’ existing lithium-ion recycling facility in Lancaster, Ohio. The Eloy facility is expected to process enough battery material to power 50,000 EVs annually.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2019

technotrans SE will be presenting their e-battery battery coolers at this year’s Busworld Europe in Brussels from 18 to 23 October. The temperature of the lithium-ion batteries installed in e-vehicles is crucial for their performance and service life.

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Electric Vehicles India

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Climate impact of lithium-ion batteries & how to measure it . Lithium-ion batteries are something which everyone prefers over lead-acid batteries, since the last ten years its been seen used mostly mobiles to every electronic appliance. Read further to know more about the climate impact of lithium-ion batteries. .

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2022

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. Eventually, millions of tons of lithium-ion batteries that power those cars will reach their end of life.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Amprius Technologies, a developer of ultra-high energy density lithium-ion batteries with its Silicon Nanowire Anode Platform, was awarded a $1-million grant from the US Department of Energy (DOE)’s Advanced Manufacturing Office (“AMO”) to be used to mature further its process for manufacturing nanowire-based silicon anodes.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 16, 2024

This collaboration centers around leveraging noco-noco’s X-SEPA separator technology, renowned for its capability to extend the lifespan of traditional lithium-ion batteries by fivefold when paired with a proprietary electrolyte. It evidences our business strategy to bring clean electrification solutions to the Indian market.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Sample of the film-type Li-ion battery developed by Sekisui Chemical. The new cells feature high lithium-ion conductivity (approximately ten times compared to other Sekisui products) with enhanced safety through the use of a high-performance gel-type electrolyte. Click to enlarge. Sekisui Chemical Co., Sekisui Chemical Co.,

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Electric Vehicles India

JANUARY 23, 2023

A lithium battery includes an anode, a cathode, a separator, an electrolyte, and a current collector. When the battery is charged, the positive electrode releases some of the lithium ions, which migrate through the electrolyte to the negative electrode. The battery absorbs and stores this energy.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Researchers from The University of Birmingham in the UK have demonstrated that the direct reuse of aluminum and copper current collectors from spent lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) is possible. The ever-increasing number of spent lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) has presented a serious waste-management challenge.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2014

National Electric Vehicle Sweden (NEVS), the company working to resurrect the Saab brand, presented the Saab 9-3 Electric Vehicle as designed and produced as part of a prototype series in Trollhättan. We are happy to present the result of NEVS engineering into a real Saab EV product. Under the hood. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).

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Innovation News Network

JUNE 30, 2022

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is developing a 3D printing method that facilitates high-energy-density and fast charging lithium-ion batteries. The next generation lithium-ion batteries require greater energy and power density at economical prices. In order to address this issue, Lawrence Livermore […].

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 1, 2023

Nonfluorinated, nonflammable electrolytes present a viable route to achieving thermally stable high-performance batteries. Tailoring the molecular structure of organic carbonates in commercial electrolytes reduces the fire hazard of batteries.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

At the IAA 2018, MAN Truck & Bus is presenting the MAN CitE 15-tonne electric truck concept, designed specifically for city cargo traffic. Using this agile approach, the MAN CitE could thus be implemented in a period of only 18 months and finally presented ready to drive at the IAA 2018.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

With the rapidly growing demand for lithium-ion batteries required to support the global electrification trend, optimizing battery performance and cycle life on a timely basis is critical to enhance performance and reduce battery costs.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2023

A team from the Korean government-funded research institute The Institute for Basic Science has developed a one-pot liquid extraction process that uses rotating, concentric-liquid reactors to stir, separate, and capture metal ions from spent lithium-ion batteries. A paper on their work appears in the journal Advanced Materials.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

At the upcoming WCX 17: SAE World Congress Experience (the re-imagined SAE World Congress) in April, Xiao Yang and Ted Miller from Ford will present a paper on the fast recharge capability of Li-ion batteries and its effect on capacity degradation. Xiao Yang, Ted Miller (2017) “Fast Charging Lithium-Ion Batteries” SAE 2017-01-1204.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

The jury of representatives from BASF, Volkswagen and from academia selected Dr. Wood for her outstanding research results in the area of lithium-ion batteries. The award was presented in a ceremony at Stanford University by Dr. Kurt Bock, Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of BASF SE, and Prof. Ebner et al.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2022

The researchers presented their results at the fall meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS). When a lithium-ion battery is being charged, lithium ions migrate from one side of the device, the cathode, to the other, the anode.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2022

A team from Central South University in China has developed a new type of deep eutectic solvent (DES) that can efficiently leach metal elements from spent Ni-Co-Mn lithium-ion batteries (LNCM). In reality, the production of nickel–cobalt–manganese (NCM) lithium-ion (LNCM) batteries is much larger than that of LCO batteries.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

The 48-volt mild hybrid system (MHEV) integrates a belt alternator starter (BAS), a lithium-ion battery that provides buffer storage, and a 48/12-volt voltage converter. TDI brings two technologies that reduce consumption and improve the engine response. When the car decelerates, the MHEV system recovers up to 8 kW of power.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 11, 2023

MAHLE will present its new bionic battery cooling plate to the public for the first time at the IAA Mobility. —Dr Uli Christian Blessing, head of global development thermal management at MAHLE Lithium-ion batteries are very temperature-sensitive. It thus becomes more efficient and can be charged more quickly.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2022

The collaboration advances Volkswagen Group of America’s strategy to localize all major competencies for its electric transformation, as well as Redwood’s goal of creating the nation’s only closed-loop supply chain for lithium-ion batteries.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2011

The German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung or BMBF) intends to fund a new pilot plant for the development and optimization of lithium-ion cells in Ulm.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Now, in a paper published in the journal Nature Nanotechnology, an international team of researchers present a dynamic picture of the SEI formation in lithium-ion batteries using in operando liquid secondary ion mass spectrometry in combination with molecular dynamics simulations. —Zhou et al. Nanotechnol.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2022

Now, researchers at Sandia National Laboratories and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have presented the first thermodynamic models to evaluate solid-state and Li-ion battery heat release quantitatively under several failure scenarios. 2022) “Are solid-state batteries safer than lithium-ion batteries?” Bates et al.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2019

Opel presented the new all-wheel drive PHEV (plug-in hybrid electric vehicle) version of the Grandland X. kWh lithium-ion battery. Topping Opel’s SUV offer (that also comprises the Crossland X and the Mokka X), the Grandland X Hybrid4 combines the power of a 1.6 Preliminary WLTP/NEDC fuel consumption (weighted, combined) is 2.2

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2021

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have developed a nanometric graphite-like anode for sodium ion (Na + storage), formed by stacked graphene sheets functionalized only on one side, termed Janus graphene. Na is comparable to graphite for standard lithium ion batteries. —Jinhua Sun, first author.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

In addition, Genesis will devote itself to building next-generation technology that draws better performance and efficiency from lithium-ion batteries. Genesis presented various concepts for the future vehicles within the video including Stage Doors, which open the front and rear doors in the opposite direction without a B-pillar.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2021

the leading lithium-ion battery recycler in North America, and micro-mobility company Helbiz are partnering to create a safe and sustainable recycling solution for end-of-life lithium-ion batteries used in e-scooters and e-bikes. Li-Cycle Corp.,

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Baua Electric

JUNE 15, 2023

TOKYO – Japan will give Toyota round 120 billion yen ($854 million) backup in opposition to the automaker’s plan to put money into home manufacturing of the lithium ion batteries for its electrical automobiles, the Nikkei newspaper mentioned.

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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

JULY 18, 2022

Battery performance has continually presented challenges in EV efficiency, as the heavier weight of EVs—caused by heavy battery systems—means more frequent charging and shorter drive times. The UL Solutions testing methodology evaluates material performance by simulating a thermal runaway scenario.

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