Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2023

Tests conducted by Titirici Group , a multidisciplinary research team based at Imperial College London, have found that a novel carbon nanotube electrode material derived from CO 2 —produced by Estonian nanotech company UP Catalyst ( earlier post )—enhances the cyclability of sodium-ion batteries.

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APRIL 16, 2023

In the passenger car segment, sodium-ion batteries can generally meet the needs of models with a range of up to 400 kilometers, a CATL executive previously said. CATL's sodium-ion batteries are not far from starting to be installed in vehicles, after the Chinese power battery giant unveiled the new batteries in July 2021.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JANUARY 7, 2024

For all the hype around non-lithium-ion battery chemistries in the past decade, nothing has really been competitive with the king. continued] The post BYD Constructing Sodium-Ion Battery Gigafactory (30 GWh) appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2023

At Auto Shanghai, Chinese battery giant CATL launched what it calls a “condensed battery”—a type of semi-solid state cell with an energy density of up to 500 Wh/kg. CATL says the cell can achieve high energy density and high level of safety at the same time, opening up a new electrification scenario for passenger aircraft.

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Baua Electric

MAY 17, 2024

Photo: China Southern Power Grid Energy Storage China’s first major sodium-ion battery energy storage station is now online, according to state-owned utility China Southern Power Grid Energy Storage. Once the project reaches 100 MWh, it could release 73,000 MWh of clean energy each year.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 5, 2024

Sodium-ion batteries have long been touted as a possible successor to the lithium-ion kind—they may have lower energy density, but they rely on more abundant sodium rather than lithium, perform better in cold temperatures, and above all, tend to be cheaper. Many Chinese automakers are developing sodium-ion batteries.

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CN EV Post

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The unveiling of the Sehol E10X test vehicle means that sodium-ion batteries are starting to be used in passenger cars, after the new batteries were mainly used in electric two-wheelers and for energy storage.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2022

Sodium-ion battery cathode producer Altris AB ( earlier post ) signed a deal with AB Sandvik Materials Technology to house the company’s first industrial-scale manufacturing facility in Sandviken. V vs sodium. This expertise derives from the Sandvik AB’s long industrial experience in Sweden.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Building on earlier work, researchers in China have fabricated a hierarchical metal-organic nanocomposite for use as a cathode in sodium-ion batteries (SIBs). They obtained a high specific energy of 762 Wh kg -1 with high average potential of 3.2 —Huang et al. and Huang, Y. 201701484.

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Reports from China suggest BYD may be the first manufacturer to bring electric cars with sodium-ion batteries to market.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The partnership will begin with a project in the battery anode space with the development of a novel process for the production of hard carbon from bio-waste. We will be targeting the production of materials for the high growth market of sodium-ion batteries which is displaying significant promise as an alternative to lithium-ion batteries.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

A team from the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart and the University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, has developed a high-power, high-capacity sodium battery with 96% capacity retention after 2,000 cycles. A paper on their work is published in the journal Advanced Materials. —Zhu et al.

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EV Central

JANUARY 22, 2024

The global auto giant Stellantis has done a deal with a French battery-maker to secure fresh sodium-ion battery technology for its future EVs that could see electric cars finally undercut petrol cars on purchase price. Not that sodium-ion batteries are perfect, not just yet at least.

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Following closely on the heels of rumors about sodium-ion batteries, BYD announced a new 20 GWh battery factory in China.

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Get Electric Vehicle

JANUARY 24, 2024

The first mass-produced electric vehicle (EV) using a sodium-ion battery has been introduced by JAC Motors. While lithium-ion batteries are more developed and have a higher density than sodium-ion batteries, sodium-ion batteries are cheaper, dependable, and have better cold-weather performance.

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 22, 2023

Lithium is abundant, but difficult to extract and purify for use in batteries. Last year, the price of lithium carbonate peaked at over $80,000 per ton, although it has come down considerably since then. Oddly enough, people who don’t bat an eye about oil and gas wells within a few feet of homes and schools […]

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2018

A team of researchers from institutions in China and the US report the design of a negatively charged graphene composite separator for the effective suppression of the polysulfide shuttling effect in Li-sulfur batteries. Alternatively, “adsorption coatings” (e.g., 2018.07.022.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 13, 2021

Tesla’s battery supply for its cars made in China is set to expand. The electric automaker’s battery cell supplier in China, Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Credit: Tesla Greater China/Twitter. China is quickly becoming one of the most prominent locations for electric vehicles.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JULY 15, 2023

BYD is expanding its operations worldwide beginning with a new factory in India. How much longer before it targets the US market?

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2014

MWh) of global advanced battery shipments of about 47,400 MWh, according to the most recent Advanced Battery Tracker from Navigant Research. The majority of advanced batteries (87%) went to the consumer electronics segment. GWh of advanced batteries represented more than 6 billion individual battery cells, 40.1

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Researchers in China have designed a 3D-crosslinked binder with ultralow-content (1 wt%) that not only endures the huge volume variation of silicon anodes under charge/discharge cycles but also enhance electrochemical performance. Density Functional Theory simulations indicate that the main hydrogen bonds energies changed from −4.11

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Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2019

A team of researchers from China and Germany have used azulene—a benzene-free and vinyl-free molecule—to polymerize with sulfur to create a cathode material for Li-S batteries. Hence, it is urgent to develop new organosulfur polymers with high sulfur content as candidates for Li-S batteries. Chen et al.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2023

While beneficial to consumers, especially battery manufacturers, the use of such nickel in the battery industry is not sustainable as it has an extremely high carbon footprint and other significant environmental impact. Nickel use remains very robust in the long run, driven by higher demand in the battery sector and renewable energy.

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Driivz

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

From how much they cost and weigh to the amount of power they store and how long they take to charge, electric vehicle (EV) batteries have a significant impact on EVs themselves, the EV industry as a whole, and ultimately EV buyers. Anodes are most commonly made of graphite.

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My Electric Car

JANUARY 29, 2023

Electric car batteries are a crucial component in the development of electric vehicles (EVs) and have seen significant advancements in recent years. For example the volumetric energy density of lithium-ion batteries has increased eightfold since 2008, from around 55 watt-hours/litre to 450 watt-hours/litre in 2020.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2015

According to a new report from Navigant Research, the advanced batteries industry shipped 53.3 GWh of batteries in 2014, representing more than seven billion individual battery cells and more than $14 billion in sales. in terms of energy capacity and 7.1% Between 2013 and 2014, the industry’s growth rate increased 12.8%

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2015

Researchers at the Beijing Institute of Technology have found a way to process biomass-derived natural silk to create carbon-based nanosheets that could potentially be used in Li-ion batteries and other energy storage devices. Electrochemical performances of HPNC-NS as a Li-ion battery anode. (a) Credit: ACS, Hou et al.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 5, 2023

One in every of China’s govern battery-makers reckons it has cracked a era to handover even inexpensive and extra tough packs for electrical automobiles. just lately unveiled a lithium-iron-manganese-phosphate battery — LMFP for shorten — which it says will energy an EV for 1,000 kilometers (621 miles) on every price.

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Push EVs

DECEMBER 21, 2022

World’s biggest battery maker, CATL, has finally started producing battery cells in Europe. The first batch of lithium-ion battery cells rolled off the newly installed production line under series condition in CATT’s G2 building. Let’s see the press release. With a total investment of up to 1.8 PushEVs.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 5, 2023

The innovation highlights how battery era and uncooked subject material wishes are nonetheless evolving and unpredictable as the arena’s automakers search to slash prices hour boosting EV efficiency. Gotion, indexed in Shenzhen and with Volkswagen Team as its greatest shareholder, expects its LMFP battery to price 5 p.c

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

The Salton Sea geothermal field in California potentially holds enough lithium to meet all of the US’ domestic battery needs, with even enough left over to export some of it. Using various extraction techniques, lithium chloride can be extracted from the brine, then processed into other forms for battery production. Earlier post.).

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Electric Vehicles India

APRIL 6, 2021

Low-cost 5V dual carbon battery development for EV . A 5V Dual Carbon Battery that uses self-standing carbon fibre mats as both electrodes such as cathode and anode has been developed by the Electrochemical Energy Storage Lab at the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (IITH). A research group led by Surendra K.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2019

Researchers at Wuhan University in China have developed a new electrochemical cell, PANI/Li x Mn 2 O 4 , for selective recovery of Li + ions from brine water with high impurity cations (K + , Na + , Mg 2+ , etc). A paper on their work is published in the journal ChemSusChem. Lithium is now obtained mostly from lithium ores and brine lakes.

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Teslarati

JULY 29, 2021

Tesla China battery cell supplier Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. CATL) unveiled its sodium-ion battery earlier today, along with a solution that could integrate the cells with lithium-ion batteries in a single pack. Moreover, they’re compatible and complementary with lithium-ion batteries. CATL sold 34.1

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2011

In addition, railroad infrastructure is growing rapidly in India and China, and emissions concerns will drive hybrid demand in those markets as well. In Europe, track electrification will eliminate the need for either diesel or battery storage in many areas. —senior analyst Dave Hurst. —Dave Hurst.

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Plug In India

MARCH 15, 2023

The reality is these mines are not even in use by the battery industry and they are not Lithium Mines. Using low-carbon fuels or biofuels as the source of heat energy to process lithium and manufacture li-ion batteries would cut carbon emissions by half as per world banks study. [4] Graphite and Silicon are used in the Anode.

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Get Electric Vehicle

AUGUST 22, 2021

The one-word answer is the battery or, if you are looking for an essay, I am afraid because the answer is still the battery there is nothing else. The price of the lithium-ion batteries used in the EVs is the main culprit for the high initial cost of any electric vehicle in any part of the world. Taking a Closer Look.

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