Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2022

GILLIG announced that it received the highest-ever score for a battery-electric bus tested at Altoona, with a total score of 89.5. GILLIG Battery Electric Bus by Charlotte Area Transit System (CATS), Charlotte, North Carolina. During more than 15,000 miles of testing, the GILLIG Battery Electric Bus required only 15.2

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2021

Heritage Environmental Services, a provider of environmental and recycling services, and battery-maker Romeo Power launched a program to select fleet electrification partners to execute on HES’ fleet electrification strategy. The company has a 7 GWh-capable manufacturing facility in Los Angeles, California.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Empire State Development (ESD) announced that Canada-based Li-Cycle Corporation will establish its first US-based Li-ion battery recycling facility in New York State. Li-Cycle Technology uses a combination of mechanical size reduction and hydrometallurgical resource recovery specifically designed for lithium-ion battery recycling.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2021

Battery-electric AMG derivatives based on the new Mercedes Electric Vehicle Architecture (EVA) for luxury and premium-class vehicles. Added to this is the High Performance Battery we developed, which boasts twice the power density of conventional drive batteries and, like many other components, is inspired by technology from Formula 1.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2023

Muldoon has earned the prestigious Battery Division Technology Award for 2023, the first time in the award’s 30-year history that a representative of an automotive original equipment manufacturer (OEM) has received it. I am deeply honored to receive the Battery Technology Award, and to be named a Fellow of the ECS, Class of 2023.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Romeo Power and Dynexus Technology, a provider of battery sensing solutions and data-driven battery intelligence, will collaborate to integrate Dynexus Technology’s actionable battery performance and health sensors into Romeo Power’s battery ecosystem. Traditional measurement methods treat the battery as a blackbox.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Under the agreement, CATL will become Honda’s partner in the field of lithium-ion EV batteries. CATL will guarantee the supply to Honda of about 56 GWh of lithium-ion EV batteries before 2027. Honda and CATL have been worked closely on advanced and reliable battery solutions for Honda’s future electric vehicle applications.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 26, 2017

According to a new report from Navigant Research, the shipment volume of advanced batteries for the first three quarters of 2016 equates to more than 323.5 million individual battery cells, 16.1 The majority of the advanced batteries in 2016 have been manufactured in Asia Pacific and shipped around the world.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2022

million) with the waste battery recycling company, Jae Young Tech. Based on this equity investment, the two companies plan to establish a battery recycling joint venture in North America by the end of 2023. Jae Young Tech was founded in 2016 and specializes in battery recycling.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Chevrolet is voluntarily recalling 68,667 MY 2017-2019 Bolt EVs worldwide over the risk of battery fires; the majority of the cars affected—50,925—are in the US. The action is in response to five confirmed instances of vehicle fires that could relate to the high voltage battery in the Bolt. 2018 Chevrolet Bolt EV.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2020

Energy major Total, through its wholly-owned subsidiary Saft, and Groupe PSA with Opel, intend to establish a joint venture named Automotive Cell Company (ACC) to develop EV battery manufacturing in Europe. The project will leverage cutting-edge R&D, notably provided by Saft, in order to produce EV batteries starting in 2023.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

CAGR between 2010 and 2019, accelerating since 2016, according to Roskill Information Services. Niobium and batteries. As one of the indications of industry interest in the potential for niobium and batteries, the topic of the Charles Hatchett Award Seminar 2019 was the opportunity for niobium in batteries.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2022

The cobalt, manganese and nickel found in battery cathodes are expensive to mine; scientists have for years sought a way to create new batteries from spent ones. When a car battery reaches the end of its service life, it is collected, dismantled and shredded. Building a battery is like building a tower out of Legos.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2023

Saudi Arabia’s ambitions for an EV supply chain are part of the diversification of the national economy away from oil, a project guided by the government’s Vision 2030 reform plan announced in 2016. It will supply EV and energy storage systems (ESS) markets in the Middle East and North Africa region. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2019

In China, the recently opened Airbus China Innovation Center (ACIC) battery lab is looking to power a new generation of electric-powered aerial vehicles. Asia is the global epicenter of battery development and production, with Japan and Korea as the worldwide leaders. One challenge is thermal runaway.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 29, 2016

Volkswagen of America is recalling 5,561 MY 2015-2016 e-Golfs to update the high voltage battery management software. Under certain conditions, oversensitive diagnostics in the high-voltage battery management system may inadvertently classify a brief internal electrical current surge/peak as a critical battery condition.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Korea-based SK Innovation said it will start the first commercial production of mid-and large-size pouch-type NCM-811 batteries. The batteries will help extend a driving range of electric vehicles up to 500 km, and we will also develop new batteries by 2020 that can provide a range of more than 700 km. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2021

Proterra has concluded negotiations with LG Energy Solution on a new agreement that will provide Proterra with a long-term supply of cylindrical cells produced at an LG Energy Solution battery cell manufacturing plant in the United States. manufactured battery cell capacity on an annual basis.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2020

The BMW Group has signed a long-term supply contract worth €2 billion for battery cells with the Swedish company Northvolt. The battery cells will be produced in Europe at the Northvolt gigafactory currently under construction in Skellefteå in northern Sweden (series plant Northvolt Ett) from 2024.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2018

Lithium and cobalt are fundamental components of present lithium-ion batteries. Analysis by researchers at the Helmholtz Institute Ulm (HIU) of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) suggests that, given the foreseen scaling of battery demand up to 2050, each may face supply risks, albeit for different reasons.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

NGK Spark Plug and HAKUTO-R have also agreed to transport a trial design of NGK Spark Plug’s solid-state battery technology to the moon in 2021. Through this technological cooperation, the two organizations will conduct the world’s first test of solid-state battery technology on the Moon. Prototype of NTK solid-state battery.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2021

This strategic partnership is the beginning of a long-term collaboration involving the co-design, co-development, production, marketing, and sales of integrated fuel cell-battery solutions. The parties will jointly develop the EMS to optimize the hybrid fuel cell and battery system architecture.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2012

BASF SE will invest more than €100 million ($122 million) in the development and distribution of battery materials through 2016. Japanese companies are at the forefront of battery material production but their market is fragmented, according to Meixner.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2019

Volkswagen AG is investing some €900 million (US$1.019 billion) in joint battery activities with Northvolt AB. Part of the sum is intended for a joint venture with the Swedish battery cell producer, a further share will go directly to Northvolt AB. Northvolt is a European supplier of sustainable, high-quality battery cells and systems.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 8, 2019

Together, Mercedes-Benz Energy and Beijing Electric Vehicle plan to set up the first 2nd-life energy storage unit in Beijing, making use of retired BJEV electric car batteries. BJEV is an expert in areas such as charging and battery swap infrastructure and battery 2nd-life usage.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2022

Mercedes-Benz and ProLogium , a developer of solid-state batteries ( earlier post ), have signed a technology cooperation agreement to develop next-generation battery cells. The first Mercedes-Benz test vehicles equipped with solid-state batteries co-developed with ProLogium are expected to be introduced in the coming years.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2015

Solar Impulse, the solar-powered electric aircraft attempting to fly around the world, will be grounded in Hawaii until early spring 2016 due to damage to the batteries which overheated in the record-breaking oceanic flight from Nagoya to Hawaii. Overall the airplane performed very well during the flight, the team said.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2021

Ford and SK Innovation signed an MoU to create a joint venture—to be called BlueOvalSK—to produce approximately 60 GWh annually in traction battery cells and array modules, starting mid-decade, with potential to expand. Next-gen cells and arrays will be used to power several future Ford battery electric vehicles.

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Baua Electric

MAY 2, 2024

Not to be confused with Costco , COSCO Shipping was founded as a subsidiary in 2016 following an approved merger between COSCO and China Shipping. Speaking of batteries, the electric container ship is powered by a large-capacity battery combining for over 50,000 kWh. FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links.

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Green Car Congress

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 Changes of subsidy policy to help increase demand of ternary power Li-ion power batteries. million (RMB1.0

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MARCH 28, 2024

Ferrari on Tuesday signed a memorandum of understanding with battery supplier SK On for future battery development. This is in addition to an existing battery-supply arrangement in place since 2019, which has seen SK On supply batteries for Ferrari plug-in hybrids.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2018

The first serially-produced container transporter powered by Li-ion batteries was delivered to HHLA (Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG) Container Terminal Altenwerder (CTA). A pilot project to test a lithium-ion AGV prototype coupled with an automatic electric charging station has been under way at CTA since autumn 2016.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 31, 2015

SolidEnergy , an MIT spin-out commercializing solid electrolyte technology enabling the use of lithium metal anodes for high energy density rechargeable batteries ( earlier post ), says that in 2016, it and its battery manufacturing partners will release a 2 Ah commercial battery for the smartphone and wearable market.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Nissan first introduced a Serena e-POWER model in 2018 ( earlier post )—the second second model with the e-POWER system, which was first introduced in the Nissan Note in Japan in 2016. e-POWER comprises a high-output battery, gasoline engine power generator, inverter and a motor. Serena e-POWER Engine / Battery.

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JANUARY 24, 2019

Safran acquired an equity interest in Li-Sulfur battery manufacturer OXIS Energy ( earlier post ) through its Safran Corporate Ventures subsidiary, which invests in disruptive technology businesses. million) and include Samsung Ventures which contributed to the fund in December 2016.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JANUARY 19, 2022

Shaun Maidment’s 2016 BMW i3 has just reached 300,000 kilometers on its odometer! Shaun bought his BMW i3 in August of 2016. This 60 Ah i3 has been driven for over 300,000 kilometers in those 5 and a half years on its original battery! […]. Shaun’s car has the highest mileage of any i3 in Africa.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2018

The Nikkei reports that Leading Japanese manufacturers have teamed up with the government in a program to develop solid-state batteries. The new program teams the Consortium for Lithium Ion Battery Technology and Evaluation Center ( Libtec ) with companies such as Toyota Motor and Panasonic.

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