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While the lithium-ion battery is dominant in battery-electric vehicles, NiMH batteries are still the most common in full hybrid vehicles (HEVs), according to a new report—“ Full Hybrid Electric Vehicle Markets 2021-2041 ”—from IDTechEx. It is also much more technologically mature and lower cost than Li-ion.

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DECEMBER 20, 2016

Huawei researchers recently unveiled what they said was the first long-lifespan graphene-assisted Li-ion battery able to withstand high temperatures. The lifespan of the graphene-assisted Li-ion batteries will also be twice as long as ordinary Li-ion batteries.

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OCTOBER 5, 2016

Market analyst CCM believes that the adjustment will change the market structure and that ternary Li-ion power batteries—i.e., Li-ion batteries with ternary cathode materials such as LMO, NCM/NCA, LFP, etc.—will billion (US$5 billion) as of the end of 2015. —will be the biggest gainers.

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MARCH 27, 2017

a Canadian graphene R&D, investment and technology licensing company ( earlier post ) introduced its GPURE Graphene Polymer nano-porous membrane intended for next generation Li-Ion battery applications. Ion selectivity is a key requirement for a semi-permeable membrane in a Li-ion battery structure. Grafoid Inc.,

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AUGUST 5, 2013

German Li-ion battery systems specialist AKASOL is supplying Li-ion battery systems for Bombardier’s PRIMOVE system. AKASOL’s water-cooled PRIMOVE Li-ion battery systems feature an extremely compact size and low weight. Starting in 2015, volume should rise to a middle to high double-digit MWh range.

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MARCH 21, 2016

In 2015, China’s total output of Li-ion batteries increased by 3.13% year-on-year (YoY)—a significant slowdown in the output growth rate from the prior 5 years, according to the National Bureau of Statistics of the People’s Republic of China. Output and YoY growth rate of Li-ion batteries in China, 2010-2015.

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MARCH 11, 2016

Li-ion battery maker LG Chem was named a GM Supplier of the Year by General Motors during the automaker’s 24 th annual Supplier of the Year awards ceremony at Cobo Center in Detroit, Mich. GM’s 2015 supplier recognition represents a nearly 40% increase in the number of suppliers honored compared to 79% in 2014.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2015

Saft was selected by Thales Australia to deliver Li-ion battery systems that have the potential to power up to 1,300 Hawkei military tactical vehicles. The Saft Li-ion battery system features an advanced, lightweight design within the dimensions of a traditional lead-acid battery, enabling easy integration into the vehicle.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2012

China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) posted its New Material Industry Development Program 2011-2015 on its website. 150 mAh/g), long life (>2000 cycles), high safety performance cathode materials, including the Li-ion phosphate system, NMC, and LMO series.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2015

Researchers in Germany are providing some insight into the low-temperature performance issues of Li-ion batteries. Safety issues along with the substantially reduced energy and power capabilities of Li-ion cells, operated at low temperatures, pose a technical barrier limiting their use in electric vehicles and aerospace applications.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Canada-based Li-ion battery maker Electrovaya Inc. All the Electrovaya IESS units are expected to be installed by mid-2015. Walmart had tested the Electrovaya lithium-ion 2.0 has received a $1.3-million This project is supported by the Ontario Ministry of Energy’s Smart Grid Fund.

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OCTOBER 18, 2014

Malaysia-based Graphene NanoChem’s wholly-owned subsidiary Platinum Nanochem Sdn Bhd has entered into a product development and collaboration agreement with Sync R&D Sdn Bhd jointly to develop a graphene-enhanced lithium-ion battery solution for electric buses under the Electric Bus 1 Malaysia program (EB1M Program).

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NOVEMBER 25, 2015

In its latest Leaderboard report on what it sees as the top 8 automotive Li-ion battery companies, Navigant research has put LG Chem in first place, followed closely by Panasonic and Samsung SDI in the “Leaders” segment. —“Navigant Research Leaderboard Report: Lithium Ion Batteries for Transportation”.

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MARCH 20, 2015

EaglePicher Technologies, LLC broke ground on its new Lithium Ion Center of Excellence. The 100,000-plus square-foot facility will be built adjacent to its current Li-ion facility at the Crossroads Industrial Park in Joplin, Missouri and will expand the EaglePicher cell and battery portfolio.

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JULY 7, 2016

Silatronix, a developer of unique organosilicon (OS) electrolytes for use in lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) ( earlier post ), has raised US$8 million in new equity capital, and secured partnerships for distribution and joint technological development. Current Li-ion electrolytes are unstable above 60 °C and at charge voltages above 4.3

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APRIL 26, 2017

BASF and Argonne National Laboratory have reached a business resolution of their pending Li-ion battery patent disputes with Umicore. In 2015, BASF and Argonne National Laboratory sued Umicore for what they said was infringement of the Argonne patents for nickel-cobalt-manganese (NCM) cathode raw materials. Patent Nos.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Researchers from Singapore’s Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) of A*STAR and Québec’s IREQ (Hydro-Québec’s research institute) have synthesized silicate-based nanoboxes that could more than double the energy capacity of lithium-ion batteries as compared to conventional phosphate-based cathodes. Trudeau, Jackie Y.

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MARCH 12, 2012

According to a recent report examining batteries for electric vehicles from Pike Research, as manufacturing efficiencies improve and access to lithium expands, the installed cost of Li-ion batteries will fall by more than one-third by the end of 2017. global Li-ion battery production by the turn of the decade, Pike suggests.

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OCTOBER 30, 2014

A team from Zentrum für Sonnenenergie- und Wasserstoff-Forschung (ZSW) in Germany reports in a paper in the Journal of Power Sources that the interaction of high-rate and low-temperature cycling increases the safety hazard for Li-ion batteries. In that that study, they cycled the cells at temperatures ranging from -20 °C to +70 ?

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JULY 3, 2015

A team of researchers in Japan, including colleagues from the R&D Center at batter-maker GS Yuasa, are exploring Li 3 NbO 4 -based (trilithium niobate) materials as new and promising electrode materials for high-energy rechargeable lithium batteries. A paper on their work is published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

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JUNE 9, 2015

According to a new Leaderboard report from Navigant Research, LG Chem and Samsung SDI lead the Li-ion grid storage market in terms of strategy and execution. Navigant Research expects the Li-ion stationary storage market to grow from $775.4 million in 2015 to more than $15.8 Source: Navigant Research.

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MAY 26, 2014

According to a new forecast by Lux Research, the likely 48 V micro-hybrid market will exceed 7 million vehicles in 2024, with the first adoption year beginning in 2015 and more focused on premium vehicles, in which cost sensitivity in order to reach regulation targets without sacrificing performance is lower. Noting a predicted 3.7

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DECEMBER 18, 2012

Global automotive Li-Ion battery production capacity is outstripping demand five-to-one as automakers refocus on hybrids and away from full electric vehicles, according to Dr. Menahem Anderman’s recently released xEV Industry Insider Report. The associated Li-Ion automotive battery business will expand from $1.4

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JUNE 22, 2015

Saft has won a contract to supply Li-ion battery systems to Imtech Marine, a leading maritime technology supplier. The compact modules integrate the Fe Li-ion cells, module supervision and cell balancing. —Jayesh Vir, Saft’s Key Account Manager for the Marine Segment.

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MARCH 5, 2015

Lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries have become the dominant new technology in grid storage, capturing a 90% share of systems proposed last year, according to analysts at Lux Research. Li-ion accounted for 419 MW and 1,555 MWh of proposed storage systems in 2014. LFP, NMC are the leading Li-ion cathodes.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2014

for the delivery of the first Intensium Flex Li-ion battery system to power and store energy for the ECO-H System. Through its ability to provide power and store energy using Saft Li-ion batteries, the system allows for immediate on-demand power and the leveling of power usage peaks for rigs.

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JUNE 2, 2015

Researchers at Zhejiang University have fabricated SiC@Si core–shell nanowires on carbon paper for use as high-capacity anodes for Li-ion batteries. 2015.05.103.

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MARCH 31, 2014

Liberty Coach, a company that converts Prevost luxury motor coaches to RVs, has introduced a new communication link that facilitates monitoring of a coach’s lithium-ion battery systems from both inside and outside the vehicle. Expanding those to include lithium ion battery monitoring was just the next logical step. —company V.P.

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JANUARY 2, 2016

Researchers at Tsinghua University, with colleagues from the University of Science and Technology Beijing, have discovered that the multi-reversible magnetization of ferromagnetic material can be controlled via the lithiation/delithiation reaction in a Li-ion battery by varying the discharge–charge potential at room temperature.

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AUGUST 27, 2015

Quartz today reported that Bosch has agreed to acquire Berkeley Lab solid-state Li-ion battery spinoff Seeo. In January 2015, Seeo was awarded a contract for technology assessment from the United States Advanced Battery Consortium LLC (USABC), a collaborative organization of FCA US LLC, Ford Motor Company and General Motors.

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JULY 5, 2015

The team prepared the solid lithium-ion conducting electrolyte by incorporating Li + ions into a cucurbit[6]uril (CB[6])-based organic molecular porous solid. The team prepared the solid lithium-ion conducting electrolyte by incorporating Li + ions into a cucurbit[6]uril (CB[6])-based organic molecular porous solid.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2015

A team at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) reports a new method for the synthesis of polycrystalline silicon nanoparticles for use as anode materials in Li-ion batteries in a paper in the journal Angewandte Chemie. 2015) “Preparation of Nanocrystalline Silicon from SiCl 4 at 200?°C —Lin et al.

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JUNE 22, 2016

SiiLion had received a $150,000 SBIR Phase I award in 2015. The company is focused on developing highly compatible electrode-electrolyte sets to address the challenge of next-generation Li-ion batteries. SiiLion is a recent spin-out of CU-Boulder with exclusive rights to its technology developed at the University.

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JANUARY 7, 2015

A team from the University of Rome Sapienza has developed a rechargeable lithium-ion polymer battery based on the combination of a high capacity sulfur-carbon cathode, nanostructured Li x Sn-C anode and polysulfide-added PEO-based gel membrane. —Agostini & Hassoun (2015).

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MARCH 31, 2016

Saft won a major contract from Rolls Royce Marine to supply the specialized marine lithium-ion (Seanergy) battery system for an innovative hybrid multi-application vessel under construction in Denmark for Kystverket, the Norwegian Coastal Administration (NCA).

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NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Honda’s 2015 Civic Hybrid and Civic Natural Gas vehicles are joining the already released 2015 Civic Sedan, Civic Coupe and Civic Si in showrooms in the US. The 2015 Civic Hybrid launches at Honda dealers nationwide on November 5 with a manufacturer’s suggested retail price (MSRP) starting at $24,735.

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OCTOBER 19, 2015

USA Today has confirmed an earlier unconfirmed report by Quartz that UK-based Dyson will acquire solid-state Li-ion battery startup Sakti3 ( earlier post ) for $90 million. Dr. Ann Marie Sastry with President Obama at White House Demo Day, August 2015 Click to enlarge. Dyson invested $15 million in Sakti3 earlier this year.

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