Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2022

Both companies will work towards creating a Bolivian domestic lithium battery supply chain to develop the region’s electric mobility market. EnergyX is integrated into the lithium industry’s supply chains from brine to battery, and will provide MOBI work on developing a next-generation battery for MOBI’s fleet.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2021

The energy density of traditional lithium-ion batteries is approaching a saturation point that cannot meet the demands of the future—in electric vehicles, for example. Lithium metal batteries can provide double the energy per unit weight when compared to lithium-ion batteries. —Rajendran et al.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 22, 2024

The 2024 Model 3 / Source: Tesla Panasonic, makers of batteries for Tesla in the US, is delaying its plan to build a third battery plant in North America, according to Reuters. Panasonic now says that the Kansas plant will take its annual battery capacity to 88 GWh a year, with plans to raise that to 200 GWh by early 2031.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Corvus Energy will supply the battery-based ESS to Kawasaki Heavy Industries to integrate into the zero-emissions all-electric propulsion and electrical systems aboard the “e5 tanker” under construction for Asahi Tanker. The battery-powered vessel was designed by e5 Lab Inc., of Tokyo, Japan.

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All-Electric Energy Batteries Battery 337

Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2019

Scania, a member of the Volkswagen Group, has developed a new modular battery-electric self-driving urban concept vehicle–NXT—designed with the flexibility to shift from ferrying commuters to and from work in mornings and evenings, delivering goods during the day and collecting refuse at night. NXT with bus module.

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CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

A recent thread by World of Engineering on Twitter gives a lot of good, basic advice to anyone who owns a lithium-ion battery (or a few hundred/thousand). Sharing this information periodically is a great idea because many people have no idea that lithium batteries require any kind of care at all.

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Lithium Ion Batteries Battery IDEA 145

Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2022

Lithium-ion batteries function during charge and discharge cycles by moving charge from one electrode to another across an electrolyte material. Lithium-ion batteries function during charge and discharge cycles by moving charge from one electrode to another across an electrolyte material. 4.023019.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2021

Porsche and joint venture partner Customcells, a spin-off from Fraunhofer, also announced the launch of production of high-performance battery cells at Porsche’s Weissach Development Center. With this material, it now seems possible to increase the power density compared to current series batteries significantly.

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Porsche Batteries Battery Lithium Ion 284

Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2023

The deal includes an order for three of Wabtec’s FLXdrive battery locomotives and a collaboration to test ammonia as a potential clean, alternative fuel to replace diesel. The FLXdrive locomotive’s energy management system recharges the batteries along the route as the train brakes. The locomotives’ delivery is forecast for 2026.

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Fuel Batteries Battery Clean Alternative 195

CN EV Post

APRIL 8, 2024

Honestly some of them, such as ET5, BaaS and battery swap stations were really good ideas. Unfornately, once the funds were raised, NIO did not execute those ideas with full heart. Many of the NIO investments if not all of them were made to attract strategic investors.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2021

The overarching aim of the Current Direct project is to develop and demonstrate an innovative interchangeable waterborne transport battery system and Energy-as-a-Service (EaaS) Platform in an operational environment at the Port of Rotterdam at TRL7 that facilitates fast charging of vessels, fleet optimization and novel business models.

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Mariner Batteries Battery Lithium Ion 305

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Researchers from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, and the National Institute of Chemistry, Slovenia, have developed a new concept for an aluminum battery delivering twice the energy density as previous versions, made of abundant materials, and with the potential to reduce production costs and environmental impact.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2022

Battery researchers at the University of Eastern Finland have developed a self-standing mesoporous silicon (Si) film anode for lithium-ion batteries. This film electrode does not need carbon additives and binders to connect particles as do typical slurry-based electrodes, but it still exhibits excellent battery performance.

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Finland Li-ion Lithium Ion Batteries 195

Green Car Reports

JUNE 30, 2022

Any potential industry shift toward cylindrical battery cells in EVs is far from a foregone conclusion, let alone an actual trend. Case in point: The battery supplier CATL makes a strong argument for them with the latest version of its cell-to-pack battery technology, which skips the idea of battery modules entirely.

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Water Batteries Battery Design 155

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2023

Running these experiments on supercomputers instead of in the real world allows manufacturers to test new ideas while saving energy, time, and resources. One of the six awards goes to Ford, to support the development of a high-fidelity CFD model for solvent evaporation and transport in porous structures during battery electrode drying.

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Manufacturer Ford Batteries Battery 199

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Researchers from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), together with partners at the Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research Baden-Württemberg (ZSW) and the Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology (ICT) are developing an agile production system for batteries. —KIT President, Professor Holger Hanselka.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

GM has built a strong argument around the idea that one specific battery cell format, co-developed with LG, is a key for the company realizing certain economies of scale as it ramps up EV production.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Voltabox AG secured a long-term framework contract with e-troFit GmbH as the preferred supplier of high-performance battery systems for e-troFit’s conversion solutions for diesel buses. In the past fiscal year, e-troFit nominated Voltabox AG as the supplier of the battery unit for conversion kits for buses and trucks.

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Teslarati

MARCH 27, 2023

New data from Recurrent Auto show that used EV batteries are lasting far longer than critics claim. Talk to anyone even remotely on the fence about buying an electric vehicle, and you will surely hear one worry above all others ; “What happens when the battery dies? Those things are expensive,” they will exclaim.

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Batteries Battery Hyundai Miles 140

Green Car Reports

JUNE 9, 2020

The battery field is moving so quickly that the idea of the million-mile battery seemed far out just a year ago. Now it's within sigh—likely in the next few years—for Tesla and General Motors, among others, and supplier CATL has revealed that it's not exclusive to a particular automaker's R&D department.

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Miles Batteries Battery General Motors 157

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

New research conducted by the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) has identified a specific building block that improves the anode in lithium-ion batteries. Traditionally, graphite is used for the anode of a lithium-ion battery, but this carbon material has major limitations.

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Li-ion Lithium Ion Batteries Battery 243

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced the 15 winners of Phase 1 of the Battery Recycling Prize, a prize that aims to reclaim and recycle critical materials (e.g., cobalt and lithium) from lithium-based battery technology. Only five percent of spent lithium-ion batteries in the United States are recycled. Smartville.

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Lithium Ion Li-ion Batteries Battery 210

Green Car Reports

MARCH 29, 2020

Battery-electric, that is. While electrical propulsion has been the preferred way to move trains for most of a century, the idea of moving them longer distances via battery is one that’s just now being realized. Trains are about to go electric.

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Cleaner Battery Powered Batteries Battery 216

Electrek

JUNE 14, 2023

Ford filed a patent last week for a roof-mounted backup EV battery system designed to give you the extra juice while off the grid. The idea is likely a pipe dream, but it shows you how automakers are getting creative in the electric era.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 3, 2020

Tesla once promised battery swaps for its electric cars as a quicker alternative to charging, before abandoning the idea. Now Chinese automaker Nio has succeeded where Tesla could not, completing 500,000 battery swaps in its home market as of May 26, just over two years after the first battery-swap station opened.

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Batteries Battery Tesla China 164

Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2021

Interest in higher energy-density batteries that pair alkali metal electrodes with solid electrolytes is high; however, such batteries have been plagued by a tendency for dendrites to form on one of the electrodes, eventually bridging the electrolyte and shorting out the battery cell. Eschler, C.M., Fincher, C.D.

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Batteries Battery MIT Lithium Ion 199

Teslarati

JUNE 13, 2023

Toyota is one of the world’s most respected carmakers, but there is little doubt that the Japanese auto giant has been lagging in the battery-electric vehicle segment. As per Toyota’s technology roadmap, the company will produce high-performance, solid-state batteries to improve vehicles’ driving range.

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CN EV Post

JULY 20, 2022

The battery swap station is the first to be built since NIO entered into a partnership with the Shangri-La Group and is located in the parking lot of a Shangri-La hotel in Beijing. The post NIO completes first swap station featuring users' painting ideas appeared first on CnEVPost. For more articles, please visit CnEVPost.

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IDEA Batteries Battery 88

Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2020

When searching through theoretical lists of possible new materials for particular applications, such as batteries or other energy-related devices, there are often millions of potential materials that could be considered, and multiple criteria that need to be met and optimized at once. —Heather Kulik. —Heather Kulik.

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MIT Design Concept Batteries 380

Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2022

Bosch and the Mitsubishi Corporation, with Blue Park Smart Energy (BPSE), are partnering to create Battery as a Service (BaaS) innovations. The main idea here is that fleet operators will no longer have to purchase the batteries; they will simply pay to use them. This, in turn, improves battery performance and service life.

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Mitsubishi China Batteries Battery 150

Teslarati

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Polestar and StoreDot are partnering to demonstrate the fastest-charging electric vehicle battery prototype, which the battery company has been working on for several years. StoreDot’s “100in5” battery prototype is set to be demonstrated in a Polestar 5 prototype vehicle sometime next year.

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Charging Batteries Battery Los Angeles 94

CN EV Post

JANUARY 19, 2024

Wow, build a truck factory in only 3 years and sell trucks for a price of new car in US, the swap out idea is great since you could carry a spare charged battery with you, doubles the range.

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CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 27, 2022

In another recent article, our friend Barry discussed the need for standards in battery longevity if consumers are going to adopt EVs. I’d like to add some of my thoughts to the conversation and provide some ideas on how we […]. I agree that there needs to be not just a standard, but a good standard.

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Baua Electric

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

MAY 8, 2019

The FOA requests proposals in three areas: Topic 1 - Innovations for the Manufacture of Advanced Materials: Focuses on employing machine learning to develop better batteries, phase change storage materials for heating and cooling applications, and new semiconductors that convert temperature differences into electricity.

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Manufacturer Batteries Battery Energy Storage 304

Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2019

The contest is open for entry until 30 September in 4 categories: Petrochemicals, Batteries, Advanced Materials, and Bio technologies. Being the first of its kind in Korean chemical industry, Global Innovation Contest invites organizations around the world to discover innovative ideas and technologies. trillion (around $1.1

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Baua Electric

APRIL 25, 2024

Lotus Technology and NIO detailed plans to co-develop EV charging and battery swap technologies alongside wishes to create a unified battery standard system. Both have already proven they have the design and manufacturing prowess to make good on their promises, too – these companies aren’t just idea people. NIO Inc. ($NIO)

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