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Hitachi Develops Lithium-ion Batteries for Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles

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In 2000, the Hitachi Group became the first in the world to begin volume production of safe, high-performance, long-lasting automotive lithium-ion batteries. Since then, it has brought a cumulative total of 900,000 cells to the market, mainly for commercial hybrid buses and trucks, as well as for railway cars and other applications.

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DOE Awarding $620M for Smart Grid Demonstration and Energy Storage Projects

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Notrees Wind Storage. Deploy a wind energy storage demonstration project at the Notrees Windpower Project in western Texas. 21,806,232. 43,612,464. Demonstrate competitively-priced, multi-megawatt, long-duration advanced flow batteries for utility grid applications. 16,080,554. Seeo, Inc (CA).

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The difference between lithium iron phosphate and lithium battery

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Lithium iron phosphate batteries have a long life and cycle life of more than 2000 times. Lithium iron phosphate battery single cell life is long, about 2000 times, but the lithium iron phosphate battery group life is generally short about 500 times. Transportation power supply. Power storage power.

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A More Detailed Look at a Prismatic Li-ion Cell and Pack Manufacturing Process

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Range in prices = $2000 - $2500. EnerDel expects the pack to depreciate more slowly than the rest of the vehicle and to have a secondary life in fork lift trucks or residential power storage once the car has been recycled. Sub-Pack prices. 800/kWh system cost; 3 kWh * 800 = $2,400. Sub-pack share of system cost = 90%; 0.9*

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