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JUNE 26, 2011

JR West), plans to have a practical version of its hybrid train ready for operation as early as 2015 on its routes in the Sanin and Hokuriku regions. The batteries are recharged by generators that tap the energy released when the train decelerates. The Nikkei reports that West Japan Railway Co. (JR

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MAY 22, 2015

Ezhiylmurugan Rangasamy, Zengcai Liu, Mallory Gobet, Kartik Pilar, Gayatri Sahu, Wei Zhou, Hui Wu, Steve Greenbaum, and Chengdu Liang (2015) “An Iodide-Based Li 7 P 2 S 8 I Superionic Conductor” Journal of the American Chemical Society 137 (4), 1384-1387 doi: 10.1021/ja508723m. Credit: ACS, Rangasamy et al. Click to enlarge.

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OCTOBER 7, 2011

CNR has created the Move in Pure package that has the threefold advantage of providing remote recharging of electric vehicle batteries, guaranteeing the consumer that the energy used comes from the company’s hydroelectricity, wind power or solar production, and ensuring that the French national electricity grid (RTE) remains balanced.

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JULY 26, 2021

Today, fossil-based carbon is used in the anodes of rechargeable batteries. The pilot plant for bio-based carbon materials is located at Stora Enso’s Sunila production site in Finland, where lignin has been industrially produced since 2015. —Markus Mannström, Executive Vice President of Stora Enso’s Biomaterials division.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2019

This collaboration represents a milestone in the emergence of a hydrogen-based society in France and in the development of Hype, the world’s first fleet of zero-emission hydrogen-powered taxis, launched in 2015 during the COP21 and operated in Paris and throughout the Île-de-France region.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2011

A new study sponsored by Indiana University concludes that President Obama’s vision of one million plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) on US roads by 2015 will require concentrated efforts action from all stakeholders— the auto industry, federal government, the scientific community, and consumers—to be realized.

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AUGUST 27, 2010

ReVolt Technology, LLC, a company that is developing rechargeable zinc-air batteries ( earlier post ), has been approved to receive a package of loans and tax credits from Oregon and Portland authorities totaling approximately $6.8 ReVolt says that the $6.8

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NOVEMBER 16, 2010

million by 2015 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 28% (2010-2015), according to the report. China alone will experience a CAGR of 76% to reach 554,114 unit sales of all electrified vehicles by 2015, and will represent 53% of total regional sales. billion in 2015. By 2015, Bae expects that a total of 2.6

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AUGUST 12, 2015

Researchers at Nankai University in China report their latest advance in developing a rechargeable Li-CO 2 battery with the use of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) with high electrical conductivity and porous three-dimensional networks as air cathodes for the rechargeable metal-CO 2 batteries. Zhang Zhang et al. Xin Zhang et al. CNTs and 10 wt.%

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NOVEMBER 29, 2009

The new system, which will reportedly offer almost double the capacity of Nissan/AESC’s current manganese spinel cell, is supposedly slated for deployment in electric vehicles in 2015. and a rechargeable capacity of up to 250 mAh g -1 over the same window.

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JULY 13, 2015

Researchers at the Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden (IFW Dresden) have prepared new curly manganese oxide (MnO x ) nanomembranes for use as cathode materials for rechargeable Li-air systems. Xueyi Lu, Wenping Si, Xiaolei Sun, Junwen Deng, Lixia Xi, Bo Liu, Chenglin Yan, Oliver G. 2015.07.018. 5b00056.

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JANUARY 10, 2018

Though generally mum on details, Porsche has been trickling out tidbits on its forthcoming MIssion E electric sedan since it first unveiled the concept at the 2015 Frankfurt Motor Show. It had already revealed a claimed 200-mile recharge within 15 minutes, a starting price that'll place it below.

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JULY 9, 2012

The central government’s plan, posted on its website, is targeting the production of 500,000 plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles by 2015, with output to grow to 2 million units of those types by 2020. Under the plan, by 2015 average passenger car fuel consumption is targeted to drop to 6.9 L/100km (40 mpg US) or less.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

It features a 30-mile (48 km) range without charging; it can recharge, hands free and in-route, in 10 minutes. Foothill Transit’s Line 291 travels 17 miles (27 km) between La Verne and Pomona and recharges its buses in route at the Pomona Transit Center at a drive-in docking station. Delivery is expected in early 2015.

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MARCH 24, 2015

Ltd to supply its fast charging lithium-ion batteries for Jiangsu Duke’s 20,000 electronic sports cars in 2015. It expects to produce 20,000 electric sports cars in 2015 and Advanced Battery Technologies will provide the fast charging lithium batteries for all these vehicles.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2016

This follows on the successful pilot testing of a similar 40t electric truck in Munich that began in 2015. The electric truck is recharged exclusively with electricity from renewable sources. The electric truck is recharged exclusively with electricity from renewable sources. Earlier post.).

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JANUARY 24, 2019

The capital raised will be used to commercialize and to automate the process of mass production of rechargeable Lithium-Sulfur cells/modules, using state of the art digital manufacturing machinery for worldwide distribution to manufacturers of vehicles. million) and include Samsung Ventures which contributed to the fund in December 2016.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2013

The field test in Gothenburg began in June 2013 and includes three plug-in hybrid buses, the batteries of which are rapidly recharged at the terminals. The plug-in hybrids have been further developed, and enable rapid recharging from electricity grids via the Opbrid B?

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JUNE 21, 2019

Today’s rechargeable Li-ion battery technology still has room for improvement, but not enough to significantly improve e.g. the range and autonomy of electrical vehicles. With its engineering roadmap for solid-state batteries, imec aims to surpass wet Li-ion battery performance and reach 1000 Wh/L at 2-3C by 2024.

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Photo: Alsym Energy Boston-based Alsym Energy, which is developing a nonflammable rechargeable battery that’s cobalt and lithium-free, has announced a $78 million funding round. Alsym Energy, which was founded in April 2015, has developed a non-flammable, high-performance rechargeable battery chemistry that’s lithium- and cobalt-free.

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JULY 29, 2014

Cadillac will add wireless charging of smartphones in the 2015 model ATS sport sedan and coupe launching this fall, to the CTS sport sedan this fall and to the Escalade SUV at the end of 2014.Compatible Powermat enables the phone to simply sit on a rubberized pad while the battery is recharged by means of an electromagnetic field.

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JANUARY 11, 2013

From 2015 onward, it will serve the E39 route between Lavik and Oppedal, across the Sognefjord. The ship’s batteries will be recharged in the breaks between crossings, a procedure which only takes 10 minutes. These serve to recharge the ferry’s battery during turnaround and are then themselves slowly recharged from the local grid.

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APRIL 21, 2015

For the first time in China, Johnson Controls unveiled its Lithium-ion automotive battery for Advanced Start-Stop vehicles at Auto Shanghai 2015. liters per 100 km in 2015—a 27% improvement. Johnson Controls says the new technology can increase fuel efficiency by up to 8%. Earlier post.).

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FEBRUARY 11, 2015

The taxi is driven by two 50 kW (peak) electric motors, range-extended with a Euro-5 1-liter gasoline engine coupled with a generator to recharge the 12.2 The Metrocab has also been shortlisted for the London Transport Awards 2015, in the Taxi & Private Hire Innovator of the Year category. An on-board 3.3

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MAY 5, 2016

At the Beijing Motor Show, Dongfeng Citroën unveiled an electric version of the C-Elysée—its best-selling vehicle in China, with 90,000 sales in 2015. Full battery recharge takes 8 hours at a dedicated 16 A charging station (home station or public station such as Autolib) or 13 hours from a standard 10 A domestic power outlet.

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MAY 9, 2016

Axion Power’s patented PbC Battery features faster recharge, longer cycle life and a wide operating voltage window compared to traditional lead-acid batteries.

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MAY 8, 2017

Umicore will invest €300 million (US$328 million) between 2017 and 2019 to further increase its production of NMC (nickel-manganese-cobalt) cathode materials for lithium-ion rechargeable batteries. NMC is a preferred cathode material technology for rechargeable batteries used in vehicle electrification and global demand is increasing fast.

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MAY 3, 2010

The Nikkei reports that Sanyo Electric plans to launch mass production of lithium ion batteries for plug-in hybrids and electric vehicles by fiscal 2012 as part of a ¥200-billion investment (US$2.126 billion) over the next three years in rechargeable batteries and solar cells.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2015

A team of researchers from Kongju University in Korea, with colleagues from Samsung SDI, Sapphire Technology and MK Electronics have synthesized a novel nanocomposite—Si 80 Fe 16 Cr 4 —to alleviate the severe volume changes and associated performance impacts of silicon anode materials for rechargeable Li-ion batteries.

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APRIL 6, 2014

ABB and Solar Impulse have formed a technology alliance under which ABB will support Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg in their attempt to fly around the world in a solar-powered airplane in 2015. By day the solar cells recharge the 400kg / 881 lb lithium batteries which allow the plane to fly at night. Earlier post.).

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MARCH 18, 2013

Evatran, the developer of the Plugless Power electric vehicle (EV) inductive recharging system ( earlier post ), will focus on vehicle integration and supply production designs for the project team.

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JANUARY 20, 2016

US Patent Nº 8,951,680 : “Rechargeable magnesium ion cell components and assembly ” (Assignee: Pellion, published 10 Feb 2015). Gmitter, Ivgeni Shterenberg, Hyun Deog Yoo, Nir Pour and Doron Aurbach (2014) “Novel, electrolyte solutions comprising fully inorganic salts with high anodic stability for rechargeable magnesium batteries”.

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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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OCTOBER 13, 2015

Researchers in South Korea have demonstrated new type of room-temperature and high-energy density sodium rechargeable battery using a sulfur dioxide (SO 2 )-based inorganic molten complex catholyte that serves as both a Na + -conducting medium and cathode material (i.e. catholyte). mA cm −2 ). The cutoff voltage for charge is 4.05 V.

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DECEMBER 20, 2016

Over 70% of the graphene-assisted battery's capacity is left after it is recharged 2,000 times at a temperature of 60°C. At the 56 th Battery Symposium also held in Japan in 2015, Huawei’s Watt Laboratory revealed its quick charging technology, which recharges 48% of a 3000mAh battery in just 5 minutes.

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JANUARY 15, 2014

European availability of a similar but probably renamed model is planned for early 2015. The Qin can be recharged at any normal household socket. The Qin also generates electric recharging power during deceleration—either by means of engine braking or via the foot brake—typically contributing 2.5 Hybrids Plug-ins'

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FEBRUARY 25, 2016

To meet earlier demand for batteries for the Model S, in 2014, SMM ramped up production of lithium nickel oxide from 300 tons per month to 850 tons; that subsequently expanded in 2015 to the current 1,850 tons per month. SMM is the only refiner of E-nickel and cobalt in Japan.

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