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JANUARY 30, 2024

Nissan plans to produce lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries as it looks to lower EV prices. With cheaper materials, the batteries are about 20% to 30% cheaper to build than lithium-ion batteries with NCM. The move will put it in direct competition with BYD , the leading LFP battery maker. of the share.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2013

Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear announced that start-up lithium-sulfur battery company NOHMs (Nano Organic Hybrid Materials) Technologies Inc. has selected to locate its research, manufacturing and product development facility for military, cell phone and electric vehicle lithium-ion batteries in Lexington. Batteries'

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FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Haldor Topsøe A/S, a global market leader in catalysis and related process technologies, recently acquired 18% of the shares in sodium-ion battery technology company Faradion Ltd, based in Sheffield, UK. Other partners in the investment included Finance Yorkshire’s Seedcorn Fund and Rising Stars Growth Fund II LP.

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JANUARY 23, 2012

Sectioned Mg||Sb liquid metal battery operated at 700 °C showing the three stratified liquid phases upon cooling to room temperature. Antimony is less costly and more earth-abundant than Bi and Te, but until now had not been demonstrated in a liquid metal battery. The cell was filled with epoxy prior to sectioning. Click to enlarge.

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MAY 14, 2014

Start-up Power Japan Plus announced plans to commercialize a dual-carbon battery technology, which it calls the Ryden dual carbon battery. Dual-carbon (also called dual-graphite) batteries were first introduced by McCullough and his colleagues at Dow Chemical in a 1989 patent, and were subsequently studied by Carlin et al.

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MARCH 12, 2023

Electric cars barely existed in 2010, when the Tesla Model S was still a glint in Elon Musk’s eye. A battery will be the high-voltage heart of each of those 77 million electric vehicles, and by far their most expensive component, setting off a worldwide race to ethically source their materials and crank up production to meet exploding demand.

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JULY 31, 2019

The total demand for batteries from the stationary storage and electric transport sectors is forecast to be 4,584GWh combined by 2040, providing a major opportunity for battery makers and miners of component metals such as lithium, cobalt and nickel. Global cumulative energy storage installations.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Not only is the EV market growing extremely rapidly, the modern EV itself is also undergoing a rapid technological evolution, from model to battery pack to cell and cell chemistry, Adamas says. Overall, the global sales-weighted average EV battery capacity has increased by a factor of 18x in nine years, from 1.4 kWh in December 2018.

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DECEMBER 13, 2010

The Batteries for Advanced Transportation Technologies (BATT) program has issued its fourth quarterly report for FY2010. Richardson and Doeff Groups develop a low-cost synthesis process for high-rate LiFePO 4. BATT November 2010 Quarterly Report. Featured highlights for this quarter include: Cell Analysis and Cathodes.

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AUGUST 4, 2014

CD-adapco announced the successful completion of a project to develop advanced Li-ion battery stimulation tools to enable faster design and development of advanced electric drive vehicle power systems. CD-adapco, Battery Design LLC, A123 Systems, and Johnson Controls Inc. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). Click to enlarge.

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APRIL 6, 2015

As part of the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) CAEBAT (Computer Aided Engineering for Batteries) activities ( earlier post ), scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have developed a flexible, robust, and computationally scalable open-architecture framework that integrates multi-physics and multi-scale battery models.

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APRIL 9, 2010

SK Energy will participate in a one-year technology assessment program of its batteries for electric vehicles with the US Advanced Battery Consortium ( USABC ). USABC has carried out a number of battery development programs, focusing on low-cost and long-life batteries with varying power-to-energy ratios.

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AUGUST 17, 2009

BYD, the China-based battery and automaker, will supply lithium-ion batteries to one of China’s top three auto groups for applications in hybrid vehicles. In May, BYD and Volkswagen signed a memorandum of understanding to explore the options for partnership in the area of hybrids and electric vehicles powered by lithium batteries.

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JULY 7, 2011

Liquid Metal Battery Corporation (LMBC), a Cambridge, Massachusetts company founded in 2010 to develop new forms of electric storage batteries that work in large, grid-scale applications, has secured the rights to key patent technology from MIT. Patents for all liquid metal battery inventions were licensed from MIT.

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JULY 8, 2013

The working concept of I3 – /I – redox reaction in the aqueous Li-I 2 battery. A team from Japan’s RIKEN, led by Hye Ryung Byon, has developed a lithium-iodine (Li-I 2 ) battery system with a significantly higher energy density than conventional lithium-ion batteries. Zhao et al. Click to enlarge. kWh kg -1 cell (1.0

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DECEMBER 15, 2016

million, subject to appropriations, to support research and development of advanced vehicle technologies, including batteries, lightweight materials, and advanced combustion engines, as well as innovative technologies for energy efficient mobility. Battery500 Seedling Projects. Strain of greater than or equal to 1%.

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JULY 8, 2011

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) recently awarded three industry teams, following a competitive procurement process, a total of $7 million for the development of computer-aided software design tools to help produce the next generation of electric drive vehicle (EDV) batteries. Earlier post.).

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JANUARY 18, 2014

VTO is seeking projects that address the major challenges to developing and commercializing batteries for plug?in As described in multiple DOE reports, the main barriers to widespread PEV commercialization are the cost; performance and life; and abuse tolerance of high?energy energy batteries. cost titanium structures; polymer?metal

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JUNE 4, 2012

The V2H system is to start testing, using Prius PHVs, at the end of 2012 in approximately ten households as part of the Toyota City Low-Carbon Verification Project (Toyota City Project) that began in April 2010. Earlier post.). This kind of optimal energy flow can be automatically controlled by a home energy management system (HEMS).

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AUGUST 10, 2011

Hybrid electric locomotive sales by region, baseline scenario, World Markets: 2010-2020. In Europe, track electrification will eliminate the need for either diesel or battery storage in many areas. Hybrid locomotives are an emerging alternative to these approaches that utilized stored energy from batteries. Click to enlarge.

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DECEMBER 24, 2009

Based in Joplin, MO, EaglePicher is a designer and manufacturer of batteries, battery management systems and energetic devices for the defense, aerospace and medical industries. million to develop a new generation of high energy, low cost planar liquid sodium beta batteries for grid scale electrical power storage applications.

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JUNE 12, 2012

The top two awards, one of $9 million to a project led by Dow Chemical, and one of $8.999 million to a project led by PolyPlus, will fund projects tackling, respectively, the manufacturing of low-cost carbon fibers and the manufacturing of electrodes for ultra-high-energy-density lithium-sulfur, lithium-seawater and lithium-air batteries.

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MAY 26, 2011

Yet-Ming Chiang (co-founder of A123 Systems), report on their development of a new energy storage concept—a semi-solid flow cell (SSFC) combining the high energy density of rechargeable batteries with the flexible and scalable architecture of fuel cells and flow batteries—in a paper published in the journal Advanced Energy Materials.

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AUGUST 25, 2010

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is seeking proposals ( RFP RCI-0-40497 ) to develop computer-aided design tools for batteries for Electric Drive Vehicles (EDV). The Statement of Work (SOW) is broken down into three major tasks: Battery Cell Level Model Development.

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DECEMBER 7, 2009

The second round is focused specifically on three areas of technology representing new approaches for advanced microbial biofuels, carbon capture, and batteries for electric vehicles. Batteries for Electrical Energy Storage in Transportation (BEEST). Earlier post.)

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NOVEMBER 25, 2012

The project aims at demonstrating power supply stabilization in the region by introducing cargo container-type large capacity energy storage system using a lithium-ion rechargeable battery, which has a maximum power output capacity of 2MW. Each battery container houses more than 2,000 units of lithium-ion rechargeable batteries.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 13, 2024

Sources at Nissan said the automaker may discuss joint battery and vehicle development with Honda. The aim is to reduce EV prices as the automakers look to Chinese automakers with low-cost models like BYD. BYD, which started as a battery maker, has a significant advantage by building nearly all vehicle parts in-house.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Value of life-cycle emissions externality damages and oil premium costs from vehicles in 2010 $. Strategies to promote adoption of hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) with small battery packs offer more social benefits (i.e., Michalek et al. Click to enlarge. Michalek and colleagues.

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JUNE 6, 2010

As one of the many approaches under investigation to increase the power density, specific capacity, and cyclic efficiency of rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, researchers are seeking to develop higher-capacity anode materials (such as silicon- or tin-based materials). Tags: Batteries. Credit: ACS, Lin et al. Click to enlarge.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 25, 2024

Despite kicking off a new era with the launch of its LEAF in 2010, Nissan has quickly fallen behind with longer-range, more advanced EVs rolling out. “We The 90-year-old automaker announced its new “The Arc” business plan Monday as it looks to compete with Tesla and low-cost automakers from China.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 26, 2024

Although BYD is best known for its low-cost electric cars, like the Dolphin, Seagull, and Atto 3, the EV giant is expanding into new segments. BYD said at the launch that the Ocean-M will be powered by a new EV platform with its latest-gen C2B batteries. What do you guys think of BYDs new EVs? Let us know in the comments below.

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MARCH 3, 2011

The United States Advanced Battery Consortium LLC (USABC) has awarded Maxwell Technologies, Inc. million cost-shared technology development contract to develop an advanced energy storage system for power-assist hybrid electric vehicles (PAHEVs). USABC will provide more than $2.8 million directly to Maxwell and approximately $3.5

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APRIL 10, 2016

In particular, they did not offer the same data resolution as slip rings; they lacked sufficient battery life for long-term, real-world testing applications; and they suffered from data drop-outs. TECAT Performance Systems was founded in 2010 by Dr. Douglas Baker, CTO and inventor of its torque telemetry system.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Li-ion battery manufacturer A123 Systems reported. million in the third quarter of 2010, the results reflected an improving gross margin: -30.4% million in the third quarter of 2010, the results reflected an improving gross margin: -30.4% million in the first nine months of 2010. million in the first nine months of 2010.

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JANUARY 20, 2010

Toyota Tsusho’s interest in the project stems from the desire to increase its exposure to reliable and diversified lithium supplies as global demand for lithium batteries in the automotive sector continues to grow. Toyota Motor Corporation and Panasonic are partners in the development and productions of lithium-ion battery packs.

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JANUARY 26, 2011

based Envia Systems to provide GM’s battery engineering team with access to advanced lithium-ion cathode technology that delivers higher cell energy density and lower cost. Envia’s cathode technology also will offer benefits for other devices and applications where low-cost, high-energy density storage solutions are needed.

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JANUARY 22, 2010

The small size, multi-fuel capability and potential low cost of the ULRE could also help speed adoption of electric vehicles. Development of high energy Li-S prototype battery cells. These battery cells are expected to have improved cycle life stability and safety features superior to those of Li-ion batteries.

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