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Australia Goes All-in on Green Hydrogen

Cars That Think

They’ve been studying up on renewable energy, hydrogen power, and electric vehicles, preparing for the big day in April when their remote-controlled vehicles will rumble for 4 hours in Gladstone, a port city in Queensland. Time is money, says Kim, because occupying a berth in port can cost a whopping AUS $22,000 (US $13,800) a day.

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Mitsubishi Motors Using Analog Devices’ Low-Power Isolation Technology For i-MiEV

Green Car Congress

Mitsubishi Motors Corporation has adopted Analog Devices, Inc.’s s iCoupler digital isolators to develop a safe, reliable and efficient Li-ion battery power system for the i-MiEV electric vehicle. The i-MiEV will be introduced in Japan during calendar year 2010.

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All you need to know about lithium miners & battery producers 

Electric Vehicles India

The electric vehicle (EV) supply chain is reaching an inflexion point as consumers, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and governments accelerate the shift away from internal combustion engines (ICEs) and towards battery-powered vehicles. billion) and will start making batteries in two new plants by 2024.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The F6 DM uses ferrous batteries, with no lithium content, that BYD says are high-energy density and low cost. The advanced technology vehicle would have an extended driving range on battery power alone and would also have a diesel or gasoline engine that could power the car when the battery was low.

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Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

BYD makes about 80% of Motorolas RAZR handsets, as well as batteries for iPods and iPhones and low-cost computers, including the model distributed by Nicholas Negropontes One Laptop per Child nonprofit based in Cambridge, Mass. He started BYD with a modest goal: to edge in on the Japanese-dominated battery business.

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