article thumbnail

Tesla signs 2-year, $2.9B order with South Korea’s L&F for high-nickel cathode materials

Green Car Congress

L&F was founded in July 2000 to produce LCD back lighting units. In August 2005, L&F Materials, a subsidiary of L&F, started the cathode active material business for lithium-ion rechargeable batteries. L&F also supplies LG Energy Solutions among other battery makers.

article thumbnail

Who Really Invented the Rechargeable Lithium-Ion Battery?

Cars That Think

Fifty years after the birth of the rechargeable lithium-ion battery, it’s easy to see its value. Did Exxon invent the rechargeable lithium battery? Jonas Ekstromer/AFP/Getty Images In the early 1970s, Exxon scientists predicted that global oil production would peak in the year 2000 and then fall into a steady decline.

article thumbnail

Kyoto team develops new cathode material for high-energy-density rechargeable magnesium batteries

Green Car Congress

A team of researchers from Kyoto University has demonstrated ion-exchanged MgFeSiO 4 as a feasible cathode material for use in high-energy-density rechargeable magnesium batteries. These advantages of magnesium metal anodes have been previously recognized and a rechargeable magnesium battery cell was first proposed in 2000.

Recharge 252
article thumbnail

Volvo Cars global sales drop 28.3% in May y-o-y; full electric share climbs to 7.9% up from 3.7%

Green Car Congress

Sales of Recharge models (plug-in hybrid and fully electric) represented 33.6% Sales of Recharge cars accounted for 47% of the total sales in the region during the month. compared with May last year, with Recharge models making up 35.7% January-May. Plug-in hybrid. Fully electric. Fully electric. Plug-in hybrid. Fully electric.

Volvo 186
article thumbnail

Tech: How do Hybrid & Plug-in Hybrid Batteries Recharge? Do I Need to Plug a Hybrid In?

Clean Fleet Report

When the first gasoline-electric hybrids vehicles began arriving in 1999 and 2000, early adopters did their research and were quite knowledgeable about the then-new and revolutionary transportation mode. A Primer on Hybrid Battery Care This article may contain affiliate links. Here’s a brief overview. Do I Need to Plug a Hybrid In?

article thumbnail

BMW’s GM of battery cell technology joins Wildcat Discovery’s board

Green Car Congress

Between 1994 and 2000 he was group leader at the Department of Energy Conversion and Storage of the Bayerischen Zentrum für angewandte Energieforschung (ZAE) in Garching. In 1993, he obtained his PhD in general physics. Wildcat has developed a unique high throughput workflow for the discovery of new electrode materials.

Batteries 365
article thumbnail

Tsinghua team develops bio-inspired self-healing sulfur electrodes; almost no capacity decay after 2000 cycles

Green Car Congress

The researchers suggest that a comprehensive understanding of this healing process could further guide the design of novel healing agents toward high-performance rechargeable batteries. In a paper in the Journal of the American Chemical Society , the researchers report that the SMiP cathode attained an optimized capacity (∼3.7 mg (S) cm −2.

2000 170