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Moscow adding another 115 ultra-fast charging stations for electric buses

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Modern lithium-titanate batteries are used as energy storage devices in the electric buses. 2021 the city Government refused to purchase diesel buses. The electric buses can be fully charged in 6-10 minutes—enough to ride 40-50 km. The temperature range of its work is from -40 to +40 degrees Celsius.

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KAMAZ opens center in Moscow to make electric buses

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The city plans to purchase another 1600 electric buses over next few years, with the goal of replacing the diesel fleet. The KAMAZ 6282 electric bus is driven by two 125 kW ZF motors powered by 80 kWh lithium titanate (LTO) battery packs charged by ultra-fast charging stations using a pantograph.

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Hydro-Québec and Technifin form partnership to license lithium titanate spinel oxide (LTO) technologies for Li-ion battery applications

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Hydro-Québec (Canada) and Technifin (South Africa) have entered into an intellectual property collaboration agreement relating to the licensing of their respective intellectual property (IP) in lithium titanate spinel oxide (LTO) technologies, notably for lithium-ion battery applications. It operates at 1.5

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China-Based Holding Company to Invest $48.9M in Altair Nanotechnologies for 51%; China Battery Deals

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recently reached a definitive agreement whereby China-based Canon Investment Holdings Limited would purchase newly issued common shares of Altair Nanotechnologies, Inc. YTE), which is a manufacturer of high-capacity and high-power lithium battery products. Purchases of $4.6 Altair Nanotechnologies, Inc.

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Foothill Transit launching fully fast-charging electric bus line

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This Ecoliner was the first of its kind in the US and now, with to the purchase of 12 more buses from Proterra LLC, the agency’s Line 291, which travels between the cities of Pomona and La Verne, will carry passengers exclusively with these vehicles. Foothill Transit became the first public transit agency in the nation to purchase the new V2.

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Kokam deploys new 24MW and 16MW Lithium NMC energy storage systems for frequency regulation

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Operational since January 2016, the two new systems, along with a Kokam 16MW / 5MWh Lithium Titanate Oxide (LTO) ESS system deployed in August 2015, provide South Korea’s largest utility, Korea Electric Power Corporation, with 56 MW of energy storage capacity for frequency regulation.

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Testing the Rowwet electric scooter : Eleq

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The company has also purchased the dies for some of the models, so that they can start panel moulding here itself. The battery pack of Eleq The high point of Rowwett is the Click battery, which can do a full charge in 12 minutes. I thought initially that it was a supercapacitor based battery. More than Rs.