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208 Articles match "NiMH"

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Toyota Introduces Hybrid Version of the Auris 2010, Optimal Drive for Gasoline and Diesel Units
Powered by the NiMH battery, the electric motor works in tandem with the gasoline engine to boost acceleration during normal driving. The Auris HSD hybrid. Click to enlarge. Toyota introduced the Auris Hybrid Synergy Drive (HSD) at the 2010 Geneva motor show, marking a significant milestone in Toyota’s planned deployment of the Hybrid Synergy Drive powertrain across Toyota’s entire model range by early 2020s. In addition
Green Car Congress - Wednesday, March 3, 2010
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UC Davis Researchers Suggest the Battery Problem Seen to Be Slowing Electric Drive Commercialization Is Perceptual as Well as Technological
They found that the requirements derived from prospective consumers are within the capabilities of several lithium-based battery chemistries, and even that some NiMH batteries can meet energy density, ir not peak power density, requirements of most PHEV designs created by new car-buying households interested in PHEVs. They note that other requirements may make NiMH unsuitable for PHEV applications. Distribution of battery requirements for consumer-selected PHEV designs (shaded circles) compared to USABC, MIT and EPRI performance requirements. Source: Axsen et al.
Green Car Congress - Tuesday, March 2, 2010
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More Details on the Lexus CT 200h
The new Lexus premium compact hybrid CT 200h ( earlier post ) to be introduced next week at the Geneva Motor Show combines a 1.8-liter VVT-i gasoline, permanent magnet synchronous motor, electrically controlled continuously variable transmission (E-CVT) and NiMH battery pack. The CT 200h. Click to enlarge. Lexus’s first premium compact model, designed and developed with the European market in mind, offers a selectable electric mode, as well as Eco, Normal and Sport driving modes.
Green Car Congress - Sunday, February 28, 2010
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  • After Extensive, Secretive Testing, Toyota Chooses NiMH Over Li-Ion
    Behind our backs, Toyota has conducted studies on the Prius hybrid .  Three years ago, they stuffed lithium-ion packs in the Prius and put these vehicles through the rigors.  Tests likely included durability evaluation, costs, maintenance issues, and so on.  The results of the testing are in, and Toyota has decided in favor of keeping
    All Cars Electric - Monday, September 14, 2009
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  • Toyota Hybrid Breakthrough! One-mile EV Range Highlander Hybrid!
    Mistakenly blaming the battery type (NiMH) for the meager all-electric performance, AutoBlogGreen remains as confused as most auto journalists about plugs and cars, plug-in hybrids, electric cars, and batteries. The 24 NiMH batteries in my Toyota RAV4 EV take the car 120 miles without gasoline. Toyota could deliver a plug-in hybrid highlander, get 20 miles all-electric AutoBlogGreen has the details on the '08 Highlander, and it includes an EV mode! Now you will be able to move the car across the street for street cleaning days without using gasoline.
    Plugs and Cars - Wednesday, February 7, 2007
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  • Toyota Seeks to Boost NiMH Battery Production Capacity 10%
    wants to expand the production capacity for the NiMH battery packs it uses in hybrids by 10%. The automaker is now seeking access to enough NiMH batteries to equip 1.1 Panasonic EV Energy is capable of churning out roughly 700,000 NiMH battery packs a year. Nikkei . Toyota Motor Corp.
    Green Car Congress - Sunday, June 14, 2009
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  • Toyota Sticking With NiMH for Strong Hybrids in Near Term
    In a presentation on Toyota’s development of Li-ion batteries and plug-in hybrids at the Advanced Automotive Battery Conference 2009 (AABC), Akira Kuroda from the Hybrid Vehicle Material Engineering Division said that the company will stick with NiMH packs for its strong hybrids for the near term, although the plug-in hybrid and electric vehicle under development will use Li-ion packs. Although Toyota has been working on Li-ion batteries for strong hybrids, and has had 126 Priuses equipped with Li-ion packs on the road for the past three years, NiMH cost performance wins compared
    Green Car Congress - Thursday, June 11, 2009
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  • Sanyo To Hike NiMH Battery Output 3.5x in FY09 Due to Hybrid Car Demand
    will more than triple its production of NiMH batteries for hybrids, citing growing demand for these vehicles. It said it will invest several billion yen to expand production lines at its Sumoto plant, in Hyogo Prefecture, which is the only plant where it makes NiMH batteries for hybrid cars. Sanyo supplies NiMH batteries to Honda and Ford, and is looking for more customers. ...Tags: Nikkei . Sanyo Electric Co.
    Green Car Congress - Monday, June 29, 2009
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  • Software Upgrade to Prius PHEV NiMH Conversion Kit Enables All-Electric Driving At Up to 70mph
    kWh NiMH plug-in hybrid (PHEV) conversion kit that enables all-electric mode driving at speeds of up to 70 miles per hour (until the battery pack is depleted) in a converted Prius. PICC’s conversion kit, which replaces Toyota’s 1.3-kilowatt hour NiMH battery pack with the 6.1kWh pack, retails for $12,500. Prius equipped with PICC’s third-generation NiMH conversion kit is on display at the 2009 Advanced Poway, California-based Plug In Conversions Corp. (PICC) PICC) has completed a software upgrade to its 6.1
    Green Car Congress - Wednesday, June 10, 2009
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  • NREL/GM Project Finds Ultracaps Perform as Well or Better Than NiMH Pack for Energy Storage in Mild Hybrid Vehicle
    National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) project, funded by GM, found that an ultracapacitor-based energy storage system (ESS) in a Saturn VUE BAS (belt alternator starter) mild hybrid performed at least as well or better than the NiMH battery system in the production hybrid. The ultracap modules were paired with a spare Energy Storage Control Module (ESCM); the stock NiMH pack remained in the vehicle, and the testers could toggle between it and the ultracaps. NREL simulation results showed similar fuel consumption vs. vs.
    Green Car Congress - Wednesday, February 10, 2010
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  • NiMH hybrids a long way from dead
    Still the battery of choice for hybrids Over the weekend it was reported that Sanyo will supply enough NiMH batteries for several tens of thousands of Peugeot hybrid vehicles per year beginning in 2011. For years, Ford has complained about a shortage of NiMH batteries. Combined with Ford and now Peugeot, its seems that Sanyo must be preparing for a serious uptick in While its not necessarily breaking news that Peugeot is going to develop hybrids - we've known that for some time - Peugeot's choice of battery is interesting. Yet, Ford is also supplied by Sanyo, as is Honda, and
    Hybrid Car Blog - Monday, November 2, 2009
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  • AC Motors, NiMH batteries, and Wheel Motors
    NiM AC motor question: I'm looking for a less expensive, probably US-made AC motor. I'm aiming my design at 1400 lbs maximum. Ideas?
    Electric Cars are for Girls - Saturday, December 20, 2008
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  • Toyota: NiMH more cost-effective than lithium
    Over the years Toyota has been able to bring down the cost of its NiMH battery packs "dramatically" and cost reductions, notes Kuroda, are the key to the continued success of the Prius. It could have been lithium powered? There was a time when it seemed that the third generation Toyota Prius was going to be powered by lithium-ion batteries. Then some cell
    Hybrid Car Blog - Friday, June 12, 2009
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