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NEC develops prototype 4.5V, long-life manganese Li-ion battery; 30% more energy density, high capacity and light weight

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High voltage lithium-ion battery prototype. NEC Corporation has developed a prototype next-generation manganese lithium-ion battery featuring cathodes that support higher voltage operations (4.5V These developments could help increase the range of electric vehicles in the future while reducing the weight of the batteries.

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Alcoa and Phinergy enter joint development agreement for high energy-density aluminum-air batteries

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Alcoa and Israel-based Phinergy have entered into a joint development agreement to develop further Phinergy ’s aluminum-air batteries. Aluminium–air cells are high-energy density primary (non-rechargeable) batteries originally developed in the 1960s. kWh/kg of Al—second only to the Li-air battery (13.0

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