Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 12, 2013
The traction motor features frameless construction to reduce overall weight, a waterproof design to withstand wet conditions and an easy-access connection cavity. The Durathon Battery energy storage system replaces lead-acid battery systems with non-toxic sodium-nickel chemistry.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 28, 2016
One of the existing Lead Acid or AGM Group 31 batteries can be replaced by the uSTART via simple drop-in and reconnect terminals. This replacement of a battery also reduces weight over an AGM battery by up to 50 pounds (22.7 Additionally, the ultracapacitor supports hotel loads for short periods.
Green Car Congress
MAY 1, 2013
The P40-24 enables Valence to offer a “right-sized” battery pack for applications that require high discharge currents for short durations of time, as often seen in stationary requirements such as uninterruptible power systems (UPS) for data centers.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 27, 2017
Volkswagen is also highlighting its spectrum of efficiency and electrification solutions all the way to further optimized battery-powered propulsion as in the new e-Golf and the coming new MEB-based electric vehicles exemplified by its series of I.D. New e-Golf. The BUDD-e5, I.D.6
Cars That Think
JULY 15, 2021
And, most crushingly, the unit weighed more than 7 kilograms (16 pounds)—much of that weight from a lead-acid battery. Thirty-two years later, our laptops are powered by much, much lighter lithium-ion or lithium-polymer batteries. We're living in battery-powered times. The thing cost US $7,300.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 25, 2012
In April, Axion Power International Inc received an order from Norfolk Southern Corp (NS) for PbC lead-carbon batteries for use in an all-battery-powered switcher locomotive. The contract is also a milestone in NS’ quest for a battery/hybrid locomotive, which reaches back a number of years to the Green Goat effort.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 9, 2010
The ability to run locomotives on electricity is well-established, although the standard means of doing so to date has either been a third rail or an overhead connection—both of which require extensive and expensive infrastructure apparatus. Axion Power Chairman & CEO Thomas Granville.
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