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Idemitsu Kosan Developing Phosphorous Sulfide Solid Electrolyte for Lithium-ion Batteries; Commercialization of Solid-State Battery Targeted for 2012

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Idemitsu is a petroleum and petrochemical company, and identified the potential of lithium sulfide as an electrolyte material for rechargeable Li-ion batteries (secondary batteries) when evaluating the uses of high-purity lithium sulfide produced for the PPS resin process. MRS 2010 Spring Meeting. Resources.

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Car Companies Standardize Plug for Electric Vehicles : Gas 2.0

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“A car must be able to be recharged in Italy in exactly the same way as in Denmark, Germany or France,&# she was quoted saying in an edition of Die Welt to appear Monday. » See also: 9 Electric Cars 100 Years Old or More » Get Gas 2.0 by RSS or sign up by email. Sorry for any confusion. More on Electric Cars: It’s On!

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US DOE Awards More than $47M in Recovery Act Funding to Advance Smart Grid Development; New Smart Grid Report and Smart Grid Clearinghouse

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This investment will add to the $17 million in funds the Department had awarded these projects in 2008 following a competitive award process. Real-time pricing would enable customers to recharge vehicles during off-peak hours at reduced cost. Zenergy Power Inc.

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Broad-Based Challenges in Battery Implementation

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In work presented in 2008, Verbrugge and Cheng noted that with decreasing particle size, the effect of the surface becomes significant, since the ratio of surface to volume quantities scales as the inverse of the particle size. Electrode failure can occur as a result of localized stress and strain energy.

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MIT Battery Breakthrough Could Revolutionize Electric Cars : Gas 2.0

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3 David Herron said on March 16th, 2009 at 12:31 am Fast recharge will require huge power levels. To recharge 20 kilowatt-hours of capacity in 5 minutes requires 240 kilowatts of electricity. But besides that, the only electronics potentially benefiting from THIS breakthrough are RCs and household rechargeable batteries.

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Where Plug-In Hybrid Conversions (mostly Priuses) Are

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Pacific Gas & Electric/Bay Area Air Quality Management District, "Sparky," by EnergyCS, July 2006 (San Francisco County, CA) Contact sxtg@. Basin Electric Power Cooperative , 2008 Ford Escape by Hymotion, Oct 2007 (Bismark, ND), contact Chris VandeVenter. NREL, June 2006 Toyota Prius by EnergyCS Golden, CO Terry_Penney@.

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More Electric Cars in Las Vegas with Stan Hanel's Story on the RAR'ster. with EVJerr Back to Webblogging, Sunday, 13 September 2009

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EVJerry" Asher In January 2009, Michael Craner and Madushini “Maddy” Gunawardana started planning a cross-country roadtrip from New York City to San Francisco. Mr. Moore made available his Papillion home’s historic dryer outlet as a recharging site when the roadtrip reached the vicinity of Omaha, Nebraska.