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VW Lithium-Air Battery, Audi Plug-Ins, Mass Transit Popularity: Today's Car News

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Today on Green Car Reports: Volkswagen promises more-efficient lithium-air batteries, Audi plans more plug-in hybrids, and mass-transit usage grows. Volkswagen says it can triple battery capacity with lithium-air technology. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Cornell study examines trade-off between critical metals requirement and transportation decarbonization

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b) Region-specific/vehicle-specific/battery-specific cumulative (from 2010 to 2050) demand for critical metals and the cumulative potential secondary production from recycling. (c) c) Sensitivity of cumulative requirement under different battery scenarios. Recycling w/2nd” denotes retired batteries reused as ESSs before recycling.

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AIST team developing Li-air capacitor-battery targeted for EVs

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A team from Japan’s AIST (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology) reports on the development of a “lithiumair capacitor–battery based on a hybrid electrolyte” in a paper in the RSC journal Energy & Environmental Science. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). —Wang et al. Energy Environ.

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UK report sees step-change improvements in performance of EV batteries as “highly unlikely” through 2020

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Peter Bruce of EastChem to investigate the future trajectory of batteries cost and performance. The report— Cost and performance of EV batteries —describes the current state of development and cost of batteries, before mapping the future cost and performance of lithium-ion batteries out to 2030.

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Mercedes-Benz F125!: fuel cell plug-in hybrid with Li-sulfur battery and structure integrated hydrogen storage with MOFs

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research vehicle (the “125” marking 125 years of the automobile), a fuel-cell plug-in hybrid with a range of more than 1,000 km (621 miles) that anticipates more than two generations of vehicles to 2025 and beyond. Lithium-sulphur batteries (e.g., The lithium-sulphur battery for the F 125!

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Toyota outlines eco-car plans, battery research progress

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Hybrid Vehicles. Plug-in Hybrid Vehicles. TMC is continuing development of a sedan-type fuel-cell hybrid vehicle (FCHV), with sales aimed to start in around 2015 in Japan, theUS and Europe—markets in which hydrogen supply infrastructure is expected to develop. Next-generation Secondary Batteries. Fuel Cell Vehicles.

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Nanocomposite of bio-templated manganese oxide and Pd as high-performance cathode for Li-air batteries

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Synthesis step of the metal nanoparticle/M13 virus-templated manganese oxide nanowires (bio MO nanowires) and the operational reaction inside Li-O 2 battery cells. The increase in surface area produced by this method can provide a big advantage in lithium-air batteries’ rate of charging and discharging. Click to enlarge.

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